(Note: I'm leaving early today for a district P-Day up at Broken Bow Lake, so if I don't respond to all your emails today, don't panic! Just take deep breaths and carry on!)
Yes, it's me! You're friendly neighborhood Elder Fox...... Who is not actually in your neighborhood........
This week was defintely a fun one! From hitting my 100 days out mark on Friday, to trying out new kinds of lizard jewlery, you're in for a treat! Now, the question I know you all have on your minds is how on earth did I rob a Taco Bell?!? Why did I rob a Taco Bell? "I mean I've always thought that Clark guy was a bit off his rocker, but robbing a Taco Bell..... ON HIS MISSION!?!?!?!? COME ON MAN!!!" Perhaps an explanation is needed....... Let's start with a story.
When I first got out to my area (Idabel, Oklahoma) back on February 6th, we had a good sized bottle of hot sauce. I could go into detail, but let's just say we lived off this stuff. (We put it on almost EVERYTHING! I'm serious! Everything from eggs to tuna melts!) But then somethinng truly horrible happened......... It caught us completely off guard....... But sadly it turns out that when you put the same sauce on ALL of your food, that that sauce quickly runs out. It's a horrible fact of life.
So for the last three weeks we've been struggling to survive without hot sauce mostly because we are too broke/cheap to buy more. But that suffering came to an end this week when I had a brilliantly devilish idea! We. Will. Rob. Taco Bell. (The restaurant that foolishly decides to leave all their precious hot sauce out in the open........)
So one day, two inncocent looking missionaries strolled into Taco Bell, each ordered a cheap bean burrito (The cheapest burrito available!), carefully scanned the walls looking for a sign indicating how much hot sauce one is allowed to take, and upon seeing no such signs began stuffing their bags and pockets FULL of the precious hot sauce!! (Specifically when not many people were looking.......) So technically we didn't "rob" Taco Bell....... But we certainly got our moneys worth in hot sauce! And to end on a happy note, we now have more hot sauce than we know what to do with! :D
I'm really getting settled in out here in the field, and loving it! As noted earlier, Friday was my 100 day mark, and I'm still kicking, so I taking that as a good sign! Some other interesting things that happened this week! As I like to do I managed to find a few lizards this week, and upon seeing that one in particular was a biter, I decided to let him have it! (As you can see below he made an excellent ear ring....... I think we should make that new missionary style. Food for thought.)
Another fun thing this week! My land lord, Brother Hammond (A less active in the branch......) got married and he asked me to be the witness at his wedding! Woot woot! He re-married his crazy ex-wife who is thirty years younger than him, so we have mixed feelings about the wedding, but he seems happy so we'll be happy for him! This wedding was as close to a crazy Vegas wedding as I've ever seen, but either way, we got to eat out afterwards, so I'll take it as win win!
On Sunday I had the opportunity to confirm one of my dear friends, Jona Steffler. It was an incredible experience for me. The spirit I could feel was undeniable! I am truly so excited for him!
MINISTERING! :D I didn't get around to this in my last email, but I am SO SO SO excited for ministering!! Everyone, go for it! Go crazy! Minister to everyone you see! That homeless person at the gas station! Your neighbor, the random person on the street! Everyone, take this blessing and opportunity from the Lord and run with it! The Lord has prepared us with the "Mosaic" Home-Teaching and is now giving us the higher law of Ministering! Let's not waste this opportunity! IT'S GO TIME FOLKS! :D
Anyways, missions are awesome, you're awesome, everything is awesome! :D
Have a great week and a blessed day!
Elder Clark Fox
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