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From: Scott Clawson <clawson.scott@myldsmail.net>
To: clegmaker <clegmaker@aol.com>
Sent: Sun, May 26, 2013 04:55 PM
Subject: I'm really sleepy and did not even get to fly...

Hey President!
I hope you've had a good week, and it was great to attend the temple with you.
This past week has an interesting place with me because I can't really pick out why it was a good one, but I feel fulfilled nonetheless. Study has been pretty great. I've made it a goal to make it through the whole standard works on my mission. I'm not sure how that will go with the old testament, but I think it's a good goal. I have come to notice that the Bible, specifically the old testament, just seems to have so many spots where it is obvious that it is devoid of the truths that have been taken out as a result of translation and adjustment by those who were in possession of it at the time. Makes you appreciate the Book of Mormon a whole lot more.
Elder Mumford is doing great as always. He decided this week that he wanted to step up for pass off a little more. His words were that he wants to be in a position to do whatever you need him to do, and not let pass off be in the way. Far be it from me to stand in his way. I'm really excited he made this decision since he has such a golden opportunity to pass off what with his living situation, being in the same house as the Zone Leaders, and the District leader. Very convenient in my opinion haha.
We got to meet with an interesting investigator this week, and he always has such in depth questions. It's about the image of God and why would we look like him if we kind of look like monkeys. I don't know exactly what the concern is there, it doesn't seem important to me, but it certainly does to him, so we just do our best to help him out. He has a great deal of genuine hope and desire so we think it's good to answer his questions at this point.
An increible thing that I got to see this week happened over the course of two days. On Saturday, we were in exchanges and Elder Cho and myself met a man and invited him to church. He actually came to church the next day after a 15 minute conversation. Prior he didn't even really have church interest, but he obviously felt something. It was great to see that.
Have a great week and I think I will see you Thursday at the conference.
Elder Clawson
Hi everybody!!!
I'm not really entirely sure where to start this week, I'm kinda at a loss of memory at the moment, so I apologize for that.  I usually remember things, but not today.  Oh well, that'll be just fine, I guess I'll just start with what I did this morning, okay? cool. party.  So today we woke up early and went on this hike with an investigator that the zone leaders have been teaching (we live in the same house as the zone leaders).  They call it climbing a mountain, but I would more accurately describe them as hills.  Nothing too crazy about them.  Just some hiking trails, and apparently people like to meditate on the mountains, but it rained so we didn't.  If that opportunity did present itself, I was going to make an effort to fly.  Not like jump off of things, but I was just going to sit there, and focus really hard on flying for a while.  I know if it was possibly requisite, it could have happened.  It could have happened...  But alas we did not meditate so the opportunity did not present itself.  Maybe another day.
So like I said in my section to president, there was that crazy miracle we saw where this dude that me and one of the zone leaders met on friday, and talked with for just a little bit, showed up at church the next day, and accepted a baptismal date.  Super awesome to see that happen!  Also the guy said when we met him first that he didn't really want to have a church yet.  He believed there was a God, but didn't really care yet.  Apparently something helped him change and he is willing to consider baptism now.  If any of you readers happen to be missionaries in South America, or Mexico, or other places where people get baptized ridiculously often, or the family of said missionaries, I submit to you that those sort of situations don't really come along very often here in Korea.  The fact that this one did is pretty crazy in my opinion, so it is a miracle!!!!!  Well it's a miracle everywhere, it's just more recognizable when these things are few and far between like they are here.
Another fun experience this week came with regards to that other investigator that I addressed in my email to president.  He called us on saturday night (i was on exchanges so by us I mean my companion) and said he wanted to meet on Sunday, but would call us before.  He was very intoxicated at the time so we were taking this with a grain of salt.  BUT! he did end up calling yesterday, and decided that we needed to buy him dinner.  since it was sunday we decided that was not okay, and offered to cook him dinner.  He accepted, and myself being the fantastic cook that I am, made him dinner.  Everything I make is spicy.  Bet you didn't see that one coming.  The only thing that I ate in America that was not spicy was like In'n'out, and pancakes, but I always ate pancakes with eggs or something that was spicy.  I made one of the zone leaders faces sweat like crazy cause it was so spicy.  My companion made the comparison that my cooking is like fire on fire.  I like it though!  And I toned it down for the investigator so his face wouldn't fall off.
Anyways, that lesson was a fun one.  He asks really interesting questions.  The monkey thing was obviously one, and then the other one he asked was how could Christ's atonement be infinite if it was in the past?  How could it cover sins that have not already occurred?  It's really tough sometimes because he looks at things from such a logical perspective, and it gets in the way of his understanding.  I usually do too, but I fell like my testimony of Christ and his Atonement have never really been a problem.  There have been other things that bothered me, but I feel like that has always kind of just been an understood fact.  Not something that we have to learn, so I guess that is a great blessing that I have.
This week at district meeting we had this really fun experience.  The carpets were being cleaned at the church, so we weren't going to be able to have district meeting at the pre-determined location until I, the all-wise and all-knowing district leader (can you taste the narcissism?) proposed that we hold it in the basement!  There was no carpet there, yet there still was a classroom.  It was a warm day on wednesday so that facilitated a wonderful cool environment for a wonderful district meeting.  It was a good experience.
It's starting to get pretty toasty over here.  It's raining today, but that just makes it unpleasant enough to need an umbrella.  I don't think I ever used an umbrella in America, but they are a common place thing here in Korea.  Probably has something to do with the acid rain that we get to experience in all its glory.  If you don't use one people start giving you funny looks.  It's kind of entertaining minus the fact that it solicits balding.  The rain I mean, not the stares from other people.
Here's some fun Korean!
비 (bi)   and   피  (pi)   These are both more accurately pronounced with a long "e" sound than an "i" but that's how it's romanized.  Also they are pronounced super similarly.  Ask your Korean friends to say them and see if you can tell the difference.
The first means rain, and the second means blood.  Kinda fun how things are always like that in Korean.
Sorry this weeks email isn't super fun, but having arisen early in the morning I'm kind of tired, and my memory isn't super great right now for some reason or another.  If you want to get a personal email, go ahead and email me.  Keep things withing the realm of reason though please!  ^^
Love you all!
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