You know those times when you say "this couldn't get any worse" and then it starts raining?
Hey President!!!!
This week has been incredible! So many cool miracles to have seen!
In study this week, I continued to work on my trainings, as well as my investigators. One thing that was really cool, was when I was preparing my training about the things that water typically does in the scriptures, all of them appeared in a literal fulfillment one morning! It was really interesting because our water got shut off for a day, and then it was raining outside at the same time! Really interesting story to tell the truth haha.
One of our investigators is really interesting. He's about 50 and he is divorced, has lots of gospel interest, but has some things that I would call misunderstandings. He has a real problem with stopping drinking or smoking, because he thinks that he will just get punished for it a little, and then be totally fine at judgement day. It's been something we're striving for to try and convince him otherwise so to speak.
Training has been really good this week. I still think Elder Mumford came to train me after all, but there's still somethings I can help him with. He's teaching skills especially have been taking strides this week. Whenever he leads lessons, the spirit is so present. The Korean may not be perfect, but then neither is mine so it doesn't matter.
This crazy miracle we saw last night happened when we came home from visiting a member, and they had given us some food, so we went to drop it off at the house. It was about 8:20, and we weren't sure if we were to go out and 전도 or just make some calls. We prayed about it and Elder Mumford felt impressed to go to a near by subway station, and we found this awesome guy there! Totally out of the way, and not very efficient based on statistics, but this young man was open to us, and needs the gospel. A truly amazing miracle!
Have a great week president!!
-Elder Clawson
Hello Everybody!!!!!
This week has been super fun, and kinda eventful! Well let's be real, everything is eventful in missionary work, provided that you're actually making an effort to make things happen! Regardless it was fun! That's so cool about the bike ride! I miss that thing, it was so fun! I'm sure it was still lots of fun. I will not let it be forgotten that the last time I participated in it, I was the first one done, amongst Craig, Brother Evans, and all the other athletes that our ward possesses! Granted, Brother Evans had to go find a lost cyclist, Craig got a crazy cramp, and was lying down like a turtle on the side of the trail, and who knows why everyone else didn't finish before me, but it was way fun all the same! I do recall wearing really short running shorts and a tie-dye tank top though. That was super fun! I miss those days every now and then...
Again, back to this week. So remember that one time I talked about how I saw a Mom changing her childs diaper, in the middle of a food court area? Well someone felt it necessary to one up her, and it totally happened in Church yesterday! I was sitting in Sacrament meeting, and then all the sudden I look back behind me and there's a whole lot of baby leg barren to the world! T'was a little creepy to say the least, but it made for a good story! Oh yeah, not to mention the fact that we had an investigator at church for the first time, but I don't think he noticed so that's alright.
I think I talked about him last week, but we still have the investigator who I think has somewhat of a love interest with me. This is a he by the way. If it was a woman, I would just drop it or refer her to someone else, but I don't think that's in the cards when a situation like this occurs. So yeah, that's a thing, still have the investigator who has a man crush on me. Fun stuff.
Other interesting news, so there's this kid that we have as an investigator, and he comes to English class, but he never pays attention at all. This week he was playing games on his phone, and he this one game called Stop Kim. It had the north Korea dude, and he had a missile he was going to shoot. You have to disarm the missile before he fires it. Every now and then Dennis Rodman would come in and distract the Kim guy for a while when you were disarming. Kinda ridiculous that this sort of thing is being comercialized, but hey, why not?
This week, I think I prepared the coolest training/talk I will have ever prepared. It was super fun to prepare, though I felt bad giving it, because one, i was a lot like a talk, and two it was super hard to translate for the Koreans in my district. It's what I talked about in the Email to president. I called it the Trichotemy of Water, and it was about how water in the Bible, refers to 3 things. Cleansing, quenching, and destruction. It was really interesting to relate to missionary work. Especially since I came up with it on a day, where we had no water to our house to clean ourselves (or the dishes for that matter) with, or to drink. Ridiculous, and to top it all off, it was raining outside. So absurd...
Oh yeah, other thing, there's this guy in my ward right now, he's the first counselor in the Bishopric, and I'm mostly sure he served in the DaeJeon mission at the same time as Brother Lanier. Someone hit me up so we can figure this out!!!!
We finally get to go to the temple tomorrow so I'm super excited! It's been 3 months or so, so I'm pumped right now. I don't know what I will do if I end up in the south mission and we can't go to the temple every transfer! I might have to fight somebody! But really though...
I love you all and have a great week!
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