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Hey President!

This week has been good, and somewhat difficult at the same time. So if you've noticed from our key indicators, we had a baptism planned this week for Saturday, but he is still struggling with tobacco, so unfortunately, we need to make that our focus. Well sort of our focus, I think we've failed a bit in explaining the importance of the Book of Mormon to him. I think once he starts studying that more effectively that he will be great and set to go to be baptized. He wants to know God, he just seems to be struggling a little with the surrounding things before baptism. I really want to help him get there, but I feel like I'm trying to rush it too much in some regards. I know he will get baptized. There is no doubt in my mind, but there are just some things that are in his way right now.
Elder Webber is still doing great as ever. Really his progression impresses me everyday. It's interesting, because he does so much better in the actual situations than he does in role play. One of those, the pressure makes him better sort of guys I suppose. Its been super awesome to see him progress like he has. Still a little of a struggle with Korean, but hey, who doesn't?
A super awesome miracle that happened this week came on Saturday. We have this investigator who we thought mostly just had foreigner interest, and he wanted to meet on Saturday. He wanted us to come have lunch and watch a soccer match with him. I keep on telling him we can't watch soccer or tv for that matter, but he still keeps asking. It's kind of funny, but anyways back to the story. So we decided to head over to his house (a little bit late so the game would be over) and we met his wife as well. We gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon a week or two ago, and just asked him to read it because it was kind of a strange setting (we were at his police station, he's a police officer). Turns out they had been reading it together, and both really enjoyed it. They are very nice people, and seem to love the Lord. I hope we can continue to bring them closer.

Have a great week, and thanks for the advice you always have to offer. I do my best to appreciate all that you do for us, and pray for you all the time!

Elder Clawson

Hey everyone!!!

The subject is in reference to how bad my fingers are going to hurt because of all the heat generated as a result of how fast I'm going to have to try to type to fit everything in to this email in the allotted time that we have to email as missionaries.  SOOO SHORT!!! 

I guess that's what we have mouths for because I can talk a lot faster than I can type.  Neither am I mighty in typing like unto speaking for when a man speaketh really fast then information comes out way quicker!  I guess it is more permanent though when you right it.  Oh well dilemna of being a missionary.

This week has been kinda  up and down, but was pretty fun.

Super fun experience contacting on Tuesday.  One of the Zone Leaders and myself decided to go to one of the other areas in our district to try and help find the missionaries there some investigators.  We ended up where we did, kind of by accident.  The Zone Leader had never been to this area before really, and thought we got off at a certain station which isn't where I had initially thought of, but is still part of their area.  We got off there, and it's this place that is just full of foreigners.  Mostly Chinese people, but a lot of others too.  Mostly not Americans or Canadians though, so not too much English gets used.  So we were there, and ended up talking to pretty much premierely Chinese people.  There were some fun experiences there.  There was this one guy who spoke not one word of Korean, and my companion at the time (the Zone Leader) took some chinese in college, but has forgotten a lot.  We spent a long time trying to talk to this guy.  My comp was asking me to help out, but I still have to work to speak Korean let alone CHinese!!!!  How am I supposed to do that?!?!  It was cool though.  Incredibly nice man.  There's some strange bond between foreigners.  Why don't I just speak all the languages!?!?!?!  Gosh dangit Babel!

We met this other guy this week at a screen golf place which was fun.  We didn't get to screen golf because it wasn't a valuable use of our time, but it did inspire us to go screen golfing on Pday!  Which is today!!!  Gonna go down!!

Fun experience this week, my permanent retainer on the bottom row of my teeth fell out.  I was super concerned for the well being of my orthodontia, and so called President and his wife and the powers that be, and got it put back in the next day.  Worked out just fine, but sent me for a bit of a scare.  I need to stop drinking soda!!!  Stuff totally acts counter dentistry/orthodontics.  

My previous companion Elder Lee went home this week.  He was in the north mission, but I guess no longer is.  I got to see him one time before he goes back to America which is fun.  We got to have dinner with the one, the only Murphy!!!  Super fun day.  Also the last 2 times that I've had Baskin Robbins, Elder Lee bought it for me!!!  Success!!!!!!

Ahhh, I'm out of time so we gotta go!  But yeah I guess this is like the week that I hit my year mark.  Cool, but I'm really bummed.  I feel like I'm just starting to kind of understand missionary work and how to do things, and then all the sudden, I'm over the hill!!!  I just gotta make an impact while I can I guess.

BAPTIZE ALL THE PEOPLE IN KOREA!!!!

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