Hello my peoples!
Yes it's me, still here, still alive, still kick'n, just this time coming to you from across the Texas state border!
I honestly had little idea what to expect coming in to my second area, especially since this area is actually in Texas. But now that I've been here for a week, I'm feeling ready to pump out some emails! (Which is much needed after the craziness of last Monday.........)
Speaking of last monday, lets start there! This day was probably the hardest day I've had on my mission. We drove EVERYWHERE. All the way from Valliant on the west side, to Broken Bow up north, down to Hayworth in the south-east. Why would we do so much driving? To say goodbye to some of my closest friends. That was tough. I had made so many special memories with these people. The Kedibars (Who gave me an incredible Marshallese shell necklace.....), Gene Lott, the Jennings, Brother Hammond, the Finney family, and Johnny and Debra Wilson. I'm really going to miss them. We finished packing that night and went to bed for the last time in Idabel, Oklahoma.
I could do a long detailed email of everything I did, but then I would have a very long, very boring email, and you would probably get bored and stop reading........ I agree, let's get to the good stuff!!!
Welcome to Texas everyone, land of the proud! (And no I'm not joking............) After telling our ward mission leader that I had been up in Oklahoma for the last three months, the first thing he said was quote, "You know why Oklahoma sucks?" "Because if it didn't Texas would float off into the Gulf of Mexico?" He then spent the next ten minutes explaing why Texas was superior to the rest of the nation. Texans........ You gotta love'm!
We had a BAPTISM this week for one of our investigators named Clarence Whytus!! That was pretty awesome! We went early to go clean out the baptismal font, so that was interesting! Lot's of awesome people progressing here! It's definitely different from Oklahoma, however. There are two story buildings here, and most people are not poor and broke unlike in Idabel! (That will make a big difference........)
Elder Hiatt, my new companion, is 23 months out and will be going home at the end of this transfer. So in missionary terms if you're the last companion of a missionary you "kill" them off......... So I guess I'm a murderer. You've done well mom, look at what I've amounted too!
Honestly besides that, this has been the most boring, normal week of my mission........... In Idabel you never had any idea what to expect, but here it's just kind of normal. I mean our apartment is pretty nice, and we have our own washer and dryer but that's about it! XD
Elder Hiatt is HUGE into working out, so by the end of the transfer I'll be pretty ripped, so I guess that's one thing to look forward too! But in the mean time it means I'm incredibly sore and can hardly move........ XD No, Elder Hiatt is actually a really cool guy! He came out on his mission essentially athiest, not believeing in God, but after much prayer and reading the scriptures he had a highly spiritual experience, and now he has one of the strongest testimonies of the gospel of anyone I've ever met......... I seriously feel blessed to be serving with such an experienced missionary!
Alright........ Let's get spiritual for minute. This weeks spirtual thought is coming at you from the Bible!!
Philippians 3
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus
This is great advice for everyone at all times, but when I read this this it hit me particularly hard...... Forgetting those things which are behind. Sins we may have comitted, things we may have done. Christ has paid the price for those things, and as we come unto Christ and strive for forgiveness and to repent we need not carry that emotional and spirtual baggage with us any more. In the words of my all time least favorite, most despised movie....... "Let it go, let it go, can't hold it back anymore" (I can't believe I just quoted Frozen......... What is my life coming too........ Someone help me.)
And I want to leave that with you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Love ya'll! Have a great week and a blessed day!
Elder Clark Fox (Who is now in the state of his mission......... Though he still considers himmself an "Okie")
1. Some green eggs a member made us to welcome us to Greenville!
2. Come on guys, it's a gecko....... I had to do something with it!
3. A gift from a close friend in Idabel.
4. Me cleaning the baptismal font.....
5. More geckos
6-7. People here sure like their Texas stickers!
8. Packing up.....
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