Howdy Ya'll!
Just encase you didn't catch it in the title...... MISSIONS ARE THE BEST! Now that we've that out of the way we can continue...........
This week was honestly just a freaky blur of awesomeness! The transfer ends on May 1st, so Elder Frampton and I are scrambling to make the most of our time together! (Since I'm training, the odds of us staying together a third transfer are very slim....... Muy triste. We've honestly had so much fun up here! We've also had a ton of success for how little "action" goes on "Out East!" As of Aprill 29th, we'll have had five baptisms in the two transfers we've served in Idabel!)
Some crazy things ended up happening this week! This next part is copied and pasted straight out of my weekly email to my mission president because I'm feeling too lazy to write it all out again. (Yes, feel loved.......)
" Tuesday we "blitzed" the De Queen area with Idabel Elders, Hugo Elders, and De Queen Elders. It was the definition of awesome! I'm not sure how it happened, but I was paired to go around with Elder Grimes. (A non-Spanish speaking Elder..... IN DE QUEEN!) We were by far the under dog companionship I'm still technically training, can hardly speak Spanish, and I have only been in the area for one transfer. (Compared to some of the other experienced companionships.........) So essentially Elder Grimes and I sort of just got slumped together and told, "Good luck!" In De Queen it's almost all Spanish, and besides my role plays with Elder Frampton, I have not yet taught a real lesson in Spanish......... With Elder Grimes not being able to speak any Spanish, all the pressure was on me to deliver. (Besides the spirit of course......... The actual teacher!) Luckily the gift of tongues seriously kicked in, I taught several lessons entirely in Spanish, and by the end of the day Elder Grimes and I had found FOUR new investigators!!! (More than any of the other companionships!) What looked like a daunting task, turned into a huge miracle! Through out the day my Spanish just clicked! Elder Grimes had never been in the area and didn't really offer any direction. It was a pretty big change from simply being the greenie trainer........ That experience really helped me a lot, and I'm grateful the other faith and trust the other Elders had in me to go do my thing with out much help from Elder Grimes.
That experience made for a GREAT start to the week! Ever since Tuesday my Spanish has had a major boost and it's just on the up and up! The next day however we had an unexpected turn of events................ Elder Frampton got sick and was in no condition to go out or even be up, so he decided the most logical thing to do would be to sleep it off...... And he did. Nearly 12 additional hours of it........ It was nuts. Seeing that I had some time to kill at the apartment I went to town on reading the Book of Mormon and read over 130 pages that day, finishing it just before 10:30 PM! It was incredible to pound the Book of Mormon like that! I can't wait to get through it another time! I'm serious, it's like I'm an addict.......... Is that a bad thing?
Friday night we had a HUGE storm roll through, and we received some emergency phone calls to retreat to the apartment or risk getting sucked away in tornado and starting the first mission in munchkin land...... To which I would not be opposed. I mean munchkins need the gospel as well! XD
Saturday was a party! It started off with a visit from the mission vehicle coordinator....... Elder Wilson. Apparently our TIWI unit (That annoying little box in mission cars that screams at you when you're speeding or driving like a moron.......) was not working properly and needed to be replaced. This fact was shortly lamented by Elder Frampton and I who were now required to drive the speed limit and not ten over. (Joking!! Kind of........ XD)
That night we had a huge BBQ with several of the Marshallese families which we had literally been trying to plan for months!! It was AWESOME!!! Marshallese people do not know how to half party....... There was SO MUCH FOOD! We were stuffed afterwards........ Unfortunately the Marshallese people have one weakness. That weakness is the cold. They kind of just wither up and die in it. Entonces it started to get cold at the BBQ, so it didn't last super long, but it was a blast and much needed for fellowshipping! :D
There was so much extra soda that Elder Frampton and I went home with more soda than we could ever possibly hope to drink! We used some of that soda to build a shrine that night on our kitchen counter.......... Why would we build a soda shrine? We'll probably never know.......
Sunday was AWESOME!! (Yes I know I like that word too much.........) We had SEVEN investigators come to church (A record for us!), and after a very productive trip up to Broken Bow we had another party/BBQ with our investigators the Wilsons! They are awesome and pretty much my third set of grandparents! (Don't ask me how that works.......)
Okay, enough of parties and BBQ's....... Let's get spiritual. Here's another story straight out of my president email...........
Finally President, this week we set a baptismal date with an investigator on the FIRST LESSON! It was awesome, we were teaching him a somewhat boring lesson on the Plan of Salvation and all of a sudden I started getting these crazy promptings to talk about the holy ghost and baptism! It clicked, and we went for it! He said yes to the baptismal invitation right off the bate, and is now on date for May 20th! He keeps telling us how excited he is! His name is Keyeo Leaj.
Folks, promptings really do happen! Pay attention to them! If your testimony's struggling I have a solution for you......... First fast and pray, and POWER READ the Book of Mormon!!! Then get on your knees and pray, let it all out. Pray like you've never prayed before. Then wait. Listen. Wait some more, listen some more. Maybe continue praying. Wait some more. Continue in this until you have your answer. If need be repeat the whole process. (Yes that includes reading.......) If done with a sincere heart you WILL receive an answer. No question. This church is true.
Do good, be good, and have yourself a dang blessed week!
Elder Clark Fox
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