This week has been great as always. Certainly a good ending to a week or two long period of what seemed to be struggles.
For study I have been reading Jesus the Christ and making preparations for my trainings that take place at district meetings. I used to really stress over these things, and worry about how it would be received but lately they have been much more of a pleasure to prepare and there seems to be increasingly more things that I am able to learn from them.
Elder Webber is getting better everyday still. I think he's really starting to notice the particular joys of contacting that we get to be a part of. There seemed to have been a week or two which for some reason or another, people were less receptive when we tried to talk to them, but it's getting better, and we're growing from it.
One of our investigators is well on his way to being baptized, which I am incredibly excited for. Ever since the first time that I met this man, I knew that he was going to be baptized. He has continuously had impressive desire, and continuously seeks to learn, as well as apply things to his life. My only concern is that he seems to have difficulty with smoking and drinking, as well as understanding how black and white the word of wisdom is, if he really wants to get baptized. We tried to explain to him, that he needs to be done when he gets baptized pretty much, and I think he got it, but I'm still a little concerned. He is awesome though and I look forward to seeing him in white!!
Our miracle this week was awesome. If you want, you could share this with Sister 마. Actually you can share my whole email, and typically all of my emails, I'm not too secretive really.
So Saturday, we had initially had 4 appointments lined up. A pretty good day by any standard I'd say, and we had hoped to get some good contacting time in around it, but in the time leading up to those appointments, each and every one of them ended up cancelling. I was so upset at first, but we set out to just go through the day and do what we could to brighten it. We started to make calls at the beginning of the day because saturdays are usually pretty good for that, and within 20 minutes, we called a man who we had met before a couple times, and he decided he wanted to meet with us right then. So exciting. After that, we decided to do some more calls, because we hadn't done as much as we would have liked, so we started up again. True to form with the first occasion, within about 20 minutes, we talked to another man who wanted to meet right then! So amazing and this man was legitimately one of the kindest men I have ever met. He bought us dinner and some 떡and then wanted to take us to meet his pastor, but we had somewhere else to be, so we had to leave. It was truly incredible! I don't think I've had any experiences like that before.
Along with that, I was wondering if it's okay to meet with the pastors of other churches in their houses of worship? I feel like it's fine if we are invited, but I'm not 100%.
I'm so excited to get to see you on Wednesday for interviews and look forward to getting to know you and your wife a little bit more this week!
Elder Clawson
Hey everyone!!!
So like I said in my email to president, this week has been awesome, and at this point, I think my time is running a little bit low, so I'm just gonna go full tilt on the emailing which means that this email may be full of mistakes and problems and run on sentences and particularly lacks of punctuation especially in this sentence right here. There's a period for your convenience though.
On monday last week, nothing too special went down, just your normal p-day really, we got my companion's foreigner card, and on the way back we ran into Elder Hunter and Elder Woodford. Elder Hunter was my trainer, and Elder Woodford is my good buddy who I lived with for 3 transfers. He's my homie as I would say it. Fun conversations with them on the way home. Elder Hunter, what a goof ball. His explanations of how his family is doing are hilarious. What a character. Still plays chess and gloats with the best of em. I mean the gloating, he's pretty good at chess, but I wouldn't call him among the best.
Nothing really special that day though.
Tuesday, I was sitting there playing my guitar during a meal time, just for fun, and then bam a string breaks. This wouldn't be very significant if it weren't for the fact that every time after that I walked by the guitar, it seemed like said broken string would get caught on my foot and make the guitar fall over. Kinda irritating to say the least. Not that significant in the real scheme of things though.
This week's district meeting was fun. I had a good time delivering my training and stuff, and I think I'm getting better. Honestly though, I hope that my forever long stint as being district leader and training somebody at the same time is almost over. I would kind of enjoy just a transfer to mellow out or something, and by mellow out, I mean just be able to work harder for the investigators and not for a greenie. There's no mellowing out in missionary work, just a refocusing of ridiculous amounts of efforts. At least that's the way it should be.
This upcoming week is jam packed with fun stuff! So Wednesday we get president interviews which I'm stoked for. Finally get to meet my President a little more in person. Gotta start sucking up to him and his wife. They both seem so awesome, and I'm sooooo happy to be able to serve with them. Also, I'm mostly sure since wednesday we also have district meetings that they will be in attendence of my district meeting. That'll be fun and not remotely stressful at all... Then thursday we get to go to the temple even though it is outside of our mission boundaries! How cool is that ?!?! Really cool to answer your question.
Back to this past week. So Friday, we met with our most progressing investigator, and he took us to get subway at this department store that was close by. Department stores are really weird in Korea. Just saying. Anyways, the subway was just kinda awkward. Same sandwiches and stuff, but they were obviously way more expensive, and no toasting potential, and then they also had like a 14 year old put their menus together. It seriously looks like something that was made in a high school design class. It was pretty lame. Got the job done, but was lame. Tasted good though.
Anyways the investigator, so yeah we met him and we're at the point where we're just doing commandments now, and it was interesting. He accepted everything and wait for it.... accepted a baptismal date!!!! I know he can do it on that day, but he still has a problem with smoking and drinking, but I think he can quit. I'm super excited because he's one of the first people that I think will let me dunk him! I've never been in the baptismal font before so that's pretty exciting to me!!!
The next day is when we had that crazy miracle that I mentioned in my email to president. So awesome!!!! One thing I failed to mension there is that the place we ate food at, was owned by this lady that me and Elder Mumford contacted like 2 or 3 or 4 months ago. I can't really remember how long ago, but everyone we met that day was so nice.
That man, it was crazy how much everybody knew that he was a crazy good person. So the place we went to eat tried to kick us out when he wanted to pay. Not like angriness, but they just didn't want him to pay. He did get away with leaving them at least 10 dollars or so. After that it was raining super hard and we didn't have any umbrellas so he went around looking for one, and this lady that was working at a store just gave him hers. It was so cool. Obviously just such a good person. Oh yeah, he runs more or less the equivalent of a senior soup kitchen too.
Along with the lines of soup kitchens, on friday we got to go to this place that was like that too. Super fun! Even though we were just washing dishes the whole time and I'm mostly sure that this lady was trying to burn my hands off, it was super fun. Next time me and one of the zone leaders are gonna start rapping about missionary work and rapping dishes or something. That was a really fun service project.
I guess I'll teach you some Korean now
미남 (mi-nam) pretty simple, but it's fun for me. It literally translates to beautiful man. I have speculated telling people that it's my name, just for funsies. Pretty enjoyable for me. haha
I think I'm just about out of things to say and time to say it so, I'll give you a good old sign off I suppose. Have a great week, and don't let the acid rain get you. That stuff's the worst!
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