Scotts one year anniversary is coming up on August 8!  We cant believe how fast the time has gone by.  We love him.  We miss him.  But he sure sounds great.  I don't know WHO ever told him he looks like James Dean.  Sometimes he wears a white t shirt and jeans.  That must be it.

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From: Scott Clawson <clawson.scott@myldsmail.net>
Date: Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 8:28 PM
Subject: My grandson that was the same age as my son
To: Nancy Clawson <neclawson@gmail.com>

Hey President!

As always, this week has been a good one. The rain made it interesting to proselyte, but it was fun nonetheless.
Study has been good. I worked on my training a lot for District Meeting. I feel like every time I prepare for 3 days of study versus 2 days of study, it is far more effective than when I study for 2. I don't know if there's a logic behind that, or maybe it's just psychological but it is strange nonetheless. Trying to break that mode, and just always have good trainings, but that is easier said than done. 
Elder Webber is getting better every week. He really continues to open up more. It's kind of evident based on his character that he is apprehensive to go out of his way to talk to random strangers, but he's getting into the groove of things. He's so concerned about making mistakes with his Korean that it holds him back a lot. I've been trying to help him just be more and more comfortable with making mistakes, but he seems to still be a little apprehensive. He is going out of his way to stop the passerby's though.
We met this strange investigator yesterday. He would not let us pray during the lesson, which was a first in my experience, he said he was homeless, but was wearing expensive clothing and had a nice car, and committed to read the entirety of the Book of Mormon twice in the coming weeks. An interesting person to say the least. Not entirely sure that I understand his character, but we want to help him anyways! He also said he would try to come to church next week. Looking forward to that.
A miracle that we were fortunate to be a part of this week was the fact that we finally got to visit the Bishop in his home. He and his wife are so busy that often their children are just home with their Grandmother. This is my fifth transfer here in 안양 and that is first time I've been able to enter their household. Very nice people, just very busy. Helped build some good relationships in that visit.

I love hearing from you and pray for you all the time! Have a great week, and stay dry!

Elder Clawson

Hey Everyone!!!!

This week has been fun as always!  Only problem was that we ran out of food at one point and each meal has been a bit of a struggle, but that was just poor planning on our part.  Not much to do about that except wait until the next pday so that we can go and buy more food.  That's today!  Hello costco!  So apparently the myldsmail has this new set up and stuff and it seems like it's finally getting to be almost as functional as gmail.  Oh well, pretty lame thing to complain about.  I'll take President Uchtdorf's advice and stop it.  

So as always this week was pretty fun!  Sooooooooo wet.  So much rain and humidity.  I'm not one to sweat much to be honest, but I'm sweating like a dog over here!  Not as bad as my companion, and I just realized the falacy in the idiom I just tried to make up.  If I were sweating like a dog, I wouldn't sweat.  Some level of intelligence remains in my brain that does not relate to Korean!!! Yayy.  Not important though.  Anyways, yeah lots of sweat.  Pretty fun though.  People are always saying that we work so hard and stuff just for being out in the heat.

Also side note real quick, in movies and stuff where you see asian people walk around with umbrellas to function as shade and stuff, totally real.  Korean old women practically always have umbrellas for shade.  Not sure if they function as umbrellas with respect to the rain, but I imagine they wouldn't.  They look like they're made of silk or something.  Anyways, end tangent.

And what the heck!?!?  Both my mom and my sister don't think I look like James Dean.  Not to say that I do, but the sentiment therein isn't about actual similitude, just about self esteem and making myself feel good based on the fact that I look like a Rebel Without a Cause!  Oh well, my life will go on.

Fun news, Elder Mumford, my previous companion who is in the North mission, is training too!!!  how crazy is that?!?!  I'm less than half way through my mission, have prostrated 2 sons, and now a grandchild is in existence!!!  Interestingly enough, the grandson was the 2nd sons MTC companion so that is a little fun.

Man, we don't have much time today, I'm already down to like 10 minutes left!!!  I don't know what I'm going to do other than just keep typing.  Fortunately there is like nothing that comes to my head to write about to be honest.

This morning when I was getting up at the rapid pace that me and one of my zone leaders usually do, there was an accident.  I hit my foot on a chair, and then me and the zone leader ran into each other, and it was just this huge catastrophe and I couldn't even do my push ups.  I am however getting better at jumprope though.  I'm still incredibly bad by most standards, but it is getting better!

So that investigator I talked about to president in my letter, man that dude is weird.  So he's buddhist like everyone else and their grandma in Asia, but he likes to study about a bunch of different things and religions.  He did tell us he's homeless, but he also said that he studies a lot of different books and would just put the Book of Mormon on his shelf after he read it.  Also he said he would buy us lunch.  I'm not entirely sure he knows what homeless means.

The weather is still just as moody as ever.  I'm so sick of monsoon season. It's such a chore to try and talk to people when they have an umbrella covering their face and can use it as a shield.

Also we are out of contacting material and there's no way of knowing when it will come!!  It's a nightmare for a missionary.

It's all good though, it'll work itself out and maybe we'll just have to get everyone's phone number instead of just giving them ours.  A little harder, but we can do it!!!

Sorry it seems kinda shorter today, but such is life and then you go home.  I feel like I say that a lot...

Have a great week!!!

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