Lot's of pictures

Not a lot from Elder Clement today. Just answering a lot of questions. Prepare yourself... These answers are long and detailed. ;)

Q: HOW ARE YOU FEELING?
Feeling good

Q: ARE THEIR MANY AMERICANS IN YOUR DISTRICT?
Nope, only 1 other american in my city.

Q: HAVE YOU TRIED THE MILK I SENT? (Ty has become lactose intolerant so I sent him instant milk from my amazing company. :)

Tried the milk. Seems good.

Q: ARE YOU STILL GETTING THE BOILS?
Yes but its all good, got some really powerful medication from the doctor.

TODAY IS TWO YEARS SINCE GRANDMA SAVAGE PASSED AWAY.
I think of Grandma a lot and I actually sometimes pray for her to be with you and the family and me.

Q: I SEE YOUR OLD COMPANION IN A LOT OF PICTURES. IS HE STILL IN YOUR AREA?
Yes. In my area, just different companions.

YOU LOOK LIKE MAYBE YOU HAVE GAINED A COUPLE OF POUNDS BACK. YOU LOOK HEALTHIER
Yeah im doing good, and exercising.

Q: THAT'S CRAZY THAT PEOPLE LIVE UNDER THE STAIRS. DO THEY HAVE A KITCHEN OR BATHROOM?
Yeah and nope. They have kinda of a electric dutch oven thing that they boil water in, and cook their food in. No bathroom or even running water.

 

Waffles made with the waffle iron we sent him. Peanut butter & Syrup- A family Favorite

Bad sunburn from zone conference and being outside all day picking strawberries.

Zone Conference

Zone Conference

"Yours truly, looking like a stud"

The group, hanging out.

District

"Come Follow Me"

Members and Missionaries at Big Mongolian Celebration

Elder Clement eating his favorite Mongolian Food

Me holding a ceremonial ribbon in my mongolian shirt

A member of our branch that has an incredible voice and was chosen to participate in the national ceremony to sing a song.

Me just being silly and sticking my head out of the moving van

The mission doctor and his wife took us out to eat at a fancy pizza restaurant.

An old english student of mine, whos wife had a baby and came to church (she was an ala) for a blessing. He saw me and agreed to take the missionary discussions! One of those hidden blessings of teaching english.

I dont know if Ive made mention of it but there are some really poor people that live in the space under the stairs in apartment buildings. They clean the stairs and the places around it and for that they get a free place to live. One of our investigators lives here. We nicknamed them the Harry Potter Couple. Its about the same space as under our stairs.

The perfect Day

First off, I would like to share a scripture: Philippeans 4:3 in the
Bible. Read it as a family it's pretty cool.

Next I wanna talk about something cool I learned this week. In the
scriptures it often talks about prophets receiving revelation AFTER
they ponder on something. I was reading in the Book of Mormon and had
the impression that in order to improve my studies and get all I could
from them I needed to spend time just pondering. Nephi before getting
his own vision of the tree of life was pondering on it, then later was
caught up in a vision. After spending this week really taking time to
ponder the things Id been learning and also some of the large
questions of my soul. I have received an almost non-stop flow of
personal revelation.

Ok let me tell you about the best p-day of my mission! Today we went
with all the missionaries in our district to a mountain near-by our
area. Hiked up there (which was beautiful) then spent a few hours just
picking and eating wild strawberries! Then ended it by playing
Phase10! It was a perfect day! The strawberries were wild and packed
with flavor! It was incredible! I got completely sun-burned EVERYWHERE
though! The back or my arms, legs and neck, really really bad! I have
a super bad farmers tan now, haha.

Just a few funny stories

So I was doing some service at the church pulling out this HUGE weed, and I was pulling and pulling and finally this thing came out but I fell back because I was pulling so hard. Well just so happens I land on a bush of stinging nettle, on my backside, and for a while I was very very sore.

Story number two. I saw the video of Trent for the first time two days ago. The one where the people give him money and he buys silly string... Sister Hill showed it to my district and we had a really good laugh. Trent's a cute boy, especially when he waddles like a penguin with an arm full of silly string. "and look at this poor kid..." haha

I used to teach English to a class full of young twenty year old girls, all looking to get hitched to an American. Let me just say it was interesting. They were constantly flirting and it was really funny. Well they just graduated and what do you know, they got me a going away package. A really awesome looking pen with my name inscribed on the side, a little notebook, and a bag full of my favorite Mongolian food! Whoo hoo, this is what you get for being a good(looking) English teacher! (Note from mom.... I'm guessing he hasn't learned humility on his mission yet. lol)

I also got interviewed on TV! This week was the big Mongolian holiday Naadam. We celebrated for three days straight. It was awesome, but I didn't get any work done unfortunately. Basically for three full days you just watch sports (wrestling, archery, and horse racing) and eat lots of Huushuur (a really good deep-fried mongolian food)! And I rode a camel!!! Whoo hoo, it was so AWESOME!!

That is all, love you guys

** PICTURES DID NOT UPLOAD SO WE WILL TRY TO GET THEM AGAIN NEXT WEEK*