Semana Veinte (Of Possum Pancakes and Ferrets!) (Greenville, it's where it's at!)

ALRIGHT! Good to be back everyone, another week come and gone, it's weird that time tends to do that....... I swear missions are some sort of demented time machine. You put in your mission papers, and BAM all of a sudden time just gets freaky. (Yes I just used the word freaky........)

But as my parents have probably made you aware, yesterday was infact Mothers Day! Now normally Mothers Day is great and all, but as a missionary it is one of only two days a year that we get to call home and video chat with our families....... So yes, a big deal. Honestly it was awesome getting to talk with the fam! I'm glad they are all still alive, including my cat, named The Cat. We had just finished this awesome porkchop dinner at our ward mission leaders house when we did the call. Nothing better than being full and talking to family you haven't spoken to in five months!

So that was all fine and dandy, well more than that, but the rest of this week has been pretty action packed! Nothing like Idabel, but hey, let's talk about it!

To fully appreciate this next story you need a little bit of background........ Elder Hiatt, my new companion, is actually a pretty big animal activiest. He has indepth studied it in the scriptures, and feels pretty strongly about his opinions. This makes itself apparent when we're driving on the road. He has a tendancy to drastically swerve to avoid birds and critters on the road. I can't count the number of times he has literally stopped the car on the road because there is a stupid squirrel in the way that refuses to move. Well the other night we were driving back to our apartment after a late dinner apointment, it's pitch black, we're out in the middle of nowhere and all of a sudden this HUGE possum sprints out into the middle of the road. In classic Elder Hiatt fashion we almost swerve off said road to avoid it, but he's forced to the turn back to keep us from wrecking. In the process this unfortunate possum made a bee-line for our left tire....... Crunch. Possum pancakes anyone? (Trust me, you don't want pictures.......) I think that experience shook up Elder Hiatt a little bit. XD

In other rodent news, some of the investigators we're teaching got a pet ferret this week!?!? Who would'da thunk!? His name is Smokey, and it turns ferrets are actually quite entertaining........ Future wife, if you're reading this we may be getting a pet ferret. Prepare yourself!

What else did we do this week........ Oh ya! We had Zone Conference on Tuesday which was awesome! I guess that's one perk of living closer to Dallas........ We don't have to drive 4+ hours to get to zone conference!! It was awesome to catch up with friends, and be spirtually uplifted!

One of my chief joys everynight in coming back to our apartment is that the third floor of our apartment complex (Our floor!) is abundant and over flowing in geckos! It's like walking into heaven everynight! There's nothing like taking a broom and literally sweeping geckos off the wall! (I feel like there should be some kind of celestial music playing whenever I do that.......)

Anways, life is good. Elder Hiatt is definitely very different from Elder Frampton and he has some, shall we say, different views about the mission, but all in all we're getting along very well! He's told several times now that out of the 23 months he's been on his mission the last couple weeks have been the happiest of his mission. I'll do my best to keep it that way!

Let's end on a good note today......... 

I was reading an address on humor the other day in this old New Era article, and it made some points about humor that I really like-

A Years Supply of Humor (August 1983)
The article up until this point had been talking about the value of humor in our lives.......

"Humor is especially valuable whenever the minutiae of daily life threaten the harmony that should be present. Too often we apply tourniquets to these annoyances when a band-aid of humor would do."

I love that.......... A band-aid of humor. I think we could all use that a little more in our lives! And so in an effort to help I want to share with you a humorous scripture that talks about why I'm out here in Greenville serving a mission.......

Proverbs 21
19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

That about wraps it up folks! Have a great day and a fantabulous week!

Elder Clark Fox

Note: The aforementioned scripture contains no reference to any persons (Or Mothers.......) now living or deceased, and any similarities or conclusions are merely speculative and coincidence. I love you Mom! XD


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