You tremble little lion man...

So there was this one time when Scott was a small child & he was taking the standardized testing & scored in the 97th percentile. Mom explained that out of 100 kids he scored better than 96 of them! He, rather than being excited, was slightly put out at scoring poorer that 3. This is the child who is a trainer & District Leader in his 5th transfer. He is truly an example of what hard work can do for you. 


Hey President!
Well, I would like to start this letter the same way as the rest of my letters, but It would be somewhat of a fabrication, It's been pretty tough, but thats how we grow! So Thursday I started to get sick and my whole body was achey, but Elder Mumford wanted to get some proselyting done, so I just kinda bore through it and we made some contacts. That young man is the man as far as desire goes. I feel like I'm not training him so much as he is training me.
Study this week has pertained mostly to our investigators so that we could try and more effectively reach them. They aren't many, but with the desire that Elder Mumford has and is instilling upon me, that shouldn't be the case for very long.
This one investigator we have is a young man, about 15, and has had quite a tough life experience from what I understand. We meet him twice a week, and I think we made some headway with him this week, in talking about his potential for happiness and constant improvement. I think it really struck a chord with him, and that he may have more interest with us beyond just friendliness, well and the fact that I play guitar. He really likes that too haha.
Something cool that happened this week came up last night. We were out 전도ing, kinda just looking for a good cross walk, and I felt like we should go this way that had no one on the whole street. We never saw anyone in front of us, but this man that came up behind us was a super nice guy. Unfortunately he doesn't have a phone and is kinda busy, but he seemed interested and that he might want to meet! Super cool experience.
Have a great week and see you friday!
-Elder Clawson

Hey Everybody!!!
Does anyone get the joke with the subject line yet?!?!  First one to get it gets a cyber high five!  Well not really cause I am too stubborn to not acknolwedge the joke myself and it's funniness.  That is a lyric from a song written by a band whose name contains my companions last name!!!!  Yes, you guess it my companion's last name is "And".  Just kidding it's "Sons".  But really his last name is Mumford.  So seriously now, my new companion is Elder Mumford.  That is the second joke I have made about his last name, that no one will get and will probably blow over and make no sense whatsoever.  Such is life as a missionary trying to be funny and failing miserably.
Well, this week has been kinda hectic in all honesty.  So much going on, and yet nothing going on at the same time.  So I didn't mention this in my last email, but in addition to training a new missionary, I am also District Leader.  So in conjunction with becoming a senior companion and a trainer at the same time, I also became the district leader.  How stressful do you think that is?  To answer for you, the answer is very.  I've never really been stressed before though, so it should be good for me.  I haven't really done much lately, but it will all come in good time.  What the heck is president thinking putting someone whos in their 5th transfer in this kind of a position?  I'm sure he's right haha
Anyways, about my companion, he's from Bellingham Washington, which according to my previous companion, has nothing there.  Apparently it has something there, namely my companion, well I guess he used to be there, so now there could be nothing...  who knows...  He's 6'4, which continues the trend of all of my companions being taller than me -_-  I don't like this trend...  It upsets me.  I'm not even that short!!! What the heck is going on man.  He was a drummer and liked to snow ski a lot before his mission, so we have some things in common already!  Super fun
Well this week we had most all of our teaching appointments fall through which was wonderful, considering my slight sickness.  We had one appointment that went how I wanted it to.  It was this young man who likes to kinda just hang out with us, so we do that for 30 minutes, and then the gospel for 30  minutes or more.  This week he brought an electric guitar, and that was fun for me.  He wanted me to learn this song he wanted to play, I think I played it right, not 100% on that one, but fortunately he was impressed to my understanding.  That led to him taking us seriously for our lesson and I think we really left him with something that we enjoyed.
One bit of sad news from this week is that my recent convert from my last area, who has been begging me to put his name in my email cause he stalks my blog, is going to basic training for 군대 this week.  That's the mandatory miltary service that Korean young men have to do.  Well it's a stretch calling his service military because he'll be working at a zoo for two years, and not doing the typical military service haha.  Murphy, I hope I did a good enough job acknowledging your existence this week.  Have fun at training and the zoo, and I'll see you tommorow.
yesterday we went to this meal that was at a member from english class's house.  First off the house was super nice, and super clean, which isn't super common in Korea, and it was a baby's first birthday party too!  First birthdays are a huge thing in Korea, and this was no exception.  SOOOOOOO much food, and cake that actually tasted like cake and not just a pile of butter.  That was super cool, though not the best food I've had in Korea.  It was good though, no question abou that.
Well I'm running out of time, so I'll have to close this up.  Last week my parents sent me a letter with a spiritual thought from some big name in the church, can't remember exactly who it is, but it was awesome none the less.  It said that you are never given anything that you are not ready for.  Despite my best efforts, that seems to be true today too!  I'm learning that in spades!  Well have a good week, and hey, if you wish to email me, my email is clawson.scott@myldsmail.net   hint hint...
bye love you all!
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