Wow what a week! First off let me say I'm soooooooooo happy to be back in the states! I love the whole English and order thing that beautiful America provides. The flight was fun, I left my passport on the plane and had to do some running to get it lol. My mission president is an amazing man! I've been here 1 week and he has already taught me soooooo much. I'm in a trio and its working really well. My trainer is Elder Smith and he's got a lot of experience with new missionaries (I'm his 3rd child) and I'm learning well. My other companion is Elder Hall and he's a great kid. We all get along really well, probably cuz we're all from The Motherland...Utah. Now regarding the heading name of this email...
We were biking to a member's house to talk about home teaching when I started having problems with my bike, the whole crank was starting to come loose. We made it to the member's house and talked and tried to fix my peddle but the right tools were not in supply. SO we left on our merry way to head home and when we were riding along we saw this car pull out on the road in front of us and stop, hazards going and lights flashing. We went around the car and pulled off onto a road to watch and see if we needed to go help. This lady screamed up to us in her car and yells at us "What are you looking at !?!?" and I was like "are you ok?" and she was like "ARE YOU OK!?!?!?" and then we decided it would be best to just leave cuz obviously we can't do anything. So with her screaming many words at us we rode away laughing at the whole thing latter down the road. 5 minuets later still biking (it's pitch black outside now) we hear this lady screaming "NOOO!NOOO!NOOO! NOT YOU AGAIN!!!" and we haven't even rounded the corner to where she was when she already started screaming. Sure enough it was the SAME LADY... and she starts screaming at us while shes on the ground and we don't say anything we just bike past and roughly 100 ft after we passed her Elder Hall says "I think she's chasing us" and Elder Smith and I were like nooooo she's not... sure enough she hops in her car and floors it after us as we take off for our lives. I've never gone so fast on a peddle bike in my life haha we had only been running for a minute when (remember my bike problems earlier that night?) my bike crank fell off! I yell at my comps. who are just barley ahead of me and I coast for a ways and run into this person's yard and ditch the bike and hide in the bushes with Elder Smith praying for invisibility. We had no idea where Elder Smith went and this lady start patrolling the streets looking for us, so we call El Presidente and tell him what's up. He didn't have much to say other than call 911 if it gets more dangerous lol. So Elder Smith and I start looking for Elder Hall stealthily cuz the lady is still looking for us. We find him...hiding under a truck! Anyway the lady finally leaves and we call a member and get a ride home.
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| Catching our breath while Elder Smith calls for a ride home |
Awesome way to get welcomed to the mission! Evidently there are a lot of issues with satanic possession in the Hispanic community, fun stuff! My apartment is real nice and my area is the safest in the mission, and I've already had crazy experiences! But I love the people here and the spirit is amazing. I love you all and thank you for everything!
Love,
Elder Clements
