Through the fire again.

Last district picture before transfers

March 26, 2018
If you can make sense of the title and emoji sequence then I have no need to write anymore... I doubt anyone will get that lolz so I will write some más. Well, it's been a great week to grow and one of those weeks in which nothing went to plan. J*** unfortunately did not get baptized this week and has been taken off any future date until we can re-asses the whole situation. It's been a roller-coaster of emotions as we've been trying to figure it all out, but now we are settled and have a path to follow.  We are still going to teach him but it's going to take some time, which is fine. Other than that, we didn't see much progress from our other investigators this week. Transfer news came and Elder Sibaja and I are together still, thank heavens! I'm looking forward to this coming transfer and the last few months of my mission, I don't want it to end but it's slipping away.  I've been working and wrestling with the Lord to know what kind of weapons of rebellion I'm still holding onto, and it's been tough to know what more I need to change. I'm working really hard on dropping away my own desires so that I can more purely follow the will of the Lord. It's tough gents! I love this work and wouldn't change it for anything in the world! I love our Savior and wish I could declare it from the rooftops and everyone actually listen!!
Love,
Elder Clements

Dangerous city, safe haven

March 19, 2018
     Welcome back ladies and gentlemen for another session of, "dangerous city, safe haven". Today we will be discussing the importance of the Spirit in this work and how we can follow more closely the guidance it brings.**classic talk show voice w/ a listhp**
      It's been a great week again in Houston! Elder Sibaja and I have found some great new people to teach and are looking forward to J*** baptism this Saturday! We just recently found out how dangerous our area actually is. To keep it short, people like guns here but they don't like using them in nice ways. They also like knives. Don't worry, we haven't been robbed or threatened.
      Moving forward, it's been a great week for missionary work. I've been focusing on following the Lord's will and leaving behind my own, and it is really hard but really rewarding. We had a great lesson with a family who speak Arabic so it was kind of hard to communicate but at the end we asked what the husband thought and he said "this is awesome!", it's pretty rare to see such enthusiasm here so that was really refreshing. The Spirit was so strong and testified of our words even though they couldn't understand to well. OK, I'm gonna go play some sports in the hot Houston sun. 

Love, 

Elder Clements

Progression and now a 6 month count down

Exchanges with Elder Cass

Yes! J*** is doing super well. He is looking great for his date of the 24th to be baptized. M*** and her family couldn't make it to church yesterday so we had to drop their date for now. But with the great progression we are seeing from most of our investigators, it's been a great week! On Saturday we went and helped a member organize a storage unit... that was intense. There was a lot of stuff but it was a fun experience, they also gave us some cool backpacks, hats, and other random items lol. I officially have 6 months left so prepare for some insane step up! Nothing to crazy happened this week so sorry no crazy stories.

Love, 

Elder Clements

All that yellow/green stuff is pollen and it's killing us down here, there is so much! 

Really good week

Me with a father and son we are teaching :)

March 5,2018
It's been a really good week, both spiritually and physically. The Lord blessed us with some good new people to teach this week so we will see what happens with them. Unfortunately one of our investigators has been really sick this week so we haven't seen her, but she has been reading in the Book of Mormon so that's really good, please keep her in your prayers. But another one is doing awesome and still getting ready for baptism, pray that he will be able to remember what we teach him haha.

Love, 

Elder Clements 

Getting trained part 2: Let the Spirit guide

Elder Sibaja, Me, and Elder Jerónimo 

February 26,2018
Another great week has past here in crazy ol' Texas. We have seen many miracles and learned a lot. It started out with Elder Jerónimo joining us to give us some feedback and train us a little more for a few days. That was way fun and a good help. On Tuesday we found this amazing family,  who are doing so well! The mom and daughter have agreed to be baptized on and are very excited about it! We have another investigator that is doing amazing still and is looking forward to being baptized also. I love this area and I love the people that live here! I rough part hit when I fell ill with la gripa (basically a terrible cold and then fever mixed into a lengthy recovery) and Elder Sibaja is still recovering from it. Spanish is coming back slowly but it's a huge help to have a Mexican as a companion . Let's see...what else? I am still trying to more fully apply my WHY. Boy it's so important to have a true and sure understanding of WHAT we are doing so that we can continue for a long period of time. It's something that President Hall wrote about in his weekly email and it's spurred some deep thinking on my side. #hazlojusto

Les amo mucho, 

Elder Clements