Golf Trip to Moab & Monticello

Took Friday off and went on a golf trip to Moab.  We left early and was on the golf course by sbout 1:00 pm.

The Leaves in Spanish Fork Canyon were fabulous.  Better than I have ever seen.  Leaves probably better when you take the day off...:)

I brought a treat for the golf course.  My dad loved these.  This is a new one with Peanut Butter.  It as so great.  

That is my friend Sandra

Great time.  Moab was a beautiful course with a dumpy club house.  But they did have good food for lunch.

Saturday we played in Monticello at the Hide Out. 

That is Frank

Sandra and Ted

Montiello was a great course.  You would never think such a great course would be in such a small town as Monticello.  There was like 3 people on the course with us and it was a Saturday.  Great day.  I only lost two balls.  

Drove by the Monticello Temple.  It is a smaller temple but larger than I thought.  It is like in a neighborhood next to the school.  It is really beautiful.  It is hard to believe that they have enough people to work in the temple or even attend in such a low populated area.  

Jack played two LAX games while I was gone.  Brooke and Andrew went and watched.  

He took a pretty good hit to the head and got taken out.  He went back in and scored with a short stick.  He must have borrowed one from someone.  Video of him scoring

 

Conference week! - Nick's email from Omaha

 

Yo what's good everyone! Hope yall had a great conference weekend!! If you guys didn't get the chance to watch conference go rewatch it because it was so spiritually uplifting and built my up my testimony so much! 

This week because of conference we were on the grind because we wanted as many people as possible to watch so I litteraly invited everyone in our area book and talked about it during every lesson or street contact we had this week. 

I don't remember a lot of what happened so I'll just go through the highlights. 

We put Daniel and Wanda back on date for October 15th. Daniel has such a desire to be baptized and is finally sober 

Wednesday we contacted this person walking her dog. She said we could share a message if we walked with her. After about 2 miles of walking and answering questions she agreed to read the book of mormon! Small miracle! 

After that we drove up and had a lesson with Bill. Bill is a huge packers fan so I get all my updates about the packers from him. We talked for 1 hour about how he has been to Green Bay and watched a bunch of packers game. After that I compared Jordan love (packers quarterback) to president Nelson and he agreed to watch conference 

Thursday we were knocking this aparment complex and everyone was saying no or yelling at us. Then the very last door we knocked this guy named Brad and his friend Shawn said we could share a message. We shared the message and brad said he would read. Then he talked about Alabama football for 40 mins and man do I love football. Don't take watching it for granted. 

Saturday and Sunday was just us watching Conference and calling our friends to see if they watched. It was a great conference. I definitely got a lot of stuff I need to work on but I know it's all possible through the Atonement of Jesus christ. I love having a living Prophet on the earth today! 

Well this week was kinda lame. Not a lot happened besides conference. Hope yall had a good week. Remember I love you, God loves and especially remember what Jesus did for ya! 

Think celestial! 

-elder Clemons 

A Clean Drain

 

After my faucet success, I decided to tackle the drain in the shower. I have noticed that it isn't draining very well.  I'm in standing water while in there.  I am a boss at unclogging a sink 

This is my favorite tool.  It is something like this.  And it costs like 3.50.  

The problem with the Shower is that it has the drain that is screwed into the shower.  I can unscrew it but I wondered how hard it would be after all these years.  But I watched a video about how to do it so I didn't strip the screws.  I sprayed them with Lime Away first to get rid of the hard water if there was any.

THEN took off the cover without a problem!

This is what I pulled out

SERIOUSLY all that came out with ONE try.  No wonder the shower didn't drain.  I have never cleaned it out so it was at LEAST 15 years of yuck.

So satisfying and so embarassing too.

Here's Wonton in his shower :)

Here's his enrichment I saved for him.  Mostly empty bags of cheese he can tear the bag and get the rest of the cheese to eat.  He discovered this himself a few weeks ago when he grabbed it from the counter and ate it. I'll make it easier for him now and won't make him get it from the counter. 

Dog A Poolooza

 Wonton got to go to the Rec Center in Bountiful and swim.  It was called Dogapoolooza.  I think it was the last weekend the outdoor poor is open.  I was suppose to go and I forgot all about it and went to the Planet.  No wonder Wonton hates me.  

After the Dog swimming that Andrew remembered to go we went to Mick Riley and played on the Par 3.  It was a great course and I thought it was difficult.  If I went to the white Tees, it was just like a regular course for me.  

"Just gotta vibe and spread the gospel" - Nick's letter from Omaha

 What's up everyone! Hope you all had a great week! BYU lost but I still had a Supa fire week out here in the great state of Nebraska 

Monday: snagged some canes and then did our usual p day stuff. Now that elder Christensen is home from his mission I have become top dawg in tip in. We play like 15 games every p day and I won 10 of them so yeahhh I'm pretty great.(tip is just a basketball shooting game) 

 Tuesday: we had district council and elder Olivares got transferred into our district and he's so chill. We just made jokes the entire time and it's just so much fun to have someone to relate to now. Then we had game night and our now recent convert makenzy came and guess what I won all the games of lagretto. Still #1 baby 💪

 Wednesday: we did some service for our guy Kerry. I dug a few posts out of the ground for him. We've done so much service for this dude it's basically slave labor but hey he feeds us some nice burgers. After that we did some more service for our guy jeremy and then we taught him after and had a member there to help us. 

 Thursday: was a lot of rejection but we did have a really good lesson with Ethan. He's still considering baptism but it's not looking too good right now. 

 Friday: we were just driving and saw this homie named Marcos and asked him if he would like to learn about Jesus and he said yes. We then learned he was a ex Jehovas witness but he still listened and he is just the Nicest guy ever and is so cool. Then we talked to this girl named Jada and she plays basketball for the college in the town we were in so her and I talked about basketball for like 30 mins then we taught about the book of mormon for a lil bit 

 Saturday: we met with our guy Marcos again and brought a member with us. We read a little bit with Marcos and he said that he felt really good about what we've talked to him about. So we invited him to be baptized and he said he was gonna think about it so plz pray for him. Night didn't end so well the transmission on our car broke on the highway so we had to cruise home going 5 mph 

 Sunday: baller Sunday our recent convert Denise brought 3 ppl to church and one of them we were able to share a message with. Then it was one of our members birthday so we had a Fiesta after church and his wife brought homemade tamales and tres leches cake. They were sooo bomb!! Then we walked around the rest of the day and ended the night with a nice lesson with our guy Dustin. Dusting and I are basically the same person. We talked about river masters and he updated me on the football scores. He's progressing really well and is still thinking about baptism. 

 That was my week! Feel free to reach out! Love yall and hope you guys know that God has a plan for each and every one of you so don't give up and have faith!!! 

 

-Elder Clemons 

Leaf Hunt 2023

 The Annual Lewis Family Leaf Hunt is now in the books.  We have decided the week before General Conference is the date.  Anyway, I had to go get the spot.  It was a total pain.  I couldn't decide where and walked and drove around and moved my car a million times looking.  I was sweating and driving down to get cell service so people would know where to go.  There is no cell service at Mueller Park Canyon.  

Roasting Hot dogs were on the menu.  We thought we would be original. I was assigned the hot dogs Seriously I have no idea what people will eat. So I always bring a million.  I think I took home about 4 pkgs.  

Blake and Mitchell 

Honey Ty sporting his freedom shirt and his Fenway Park Hat from Boston.  

The dude in the blue shirt asked if he could use our fire because he came to the canyon with his kids and didn't have firewood.  They stayed and had hot dogs with us and potato salad and cookies.  I am certain it was his visitation weekend and he just didn't know how to picnic.  :)  

Look at those submissions for the leaves.  Michelle and I collected leaves together.  Funny she was the judge, and she got the gift card to McDonalds.  

These people were trying to get the kids to smile.  

Such a great time.  I was so tired after.  You wouldn't think that walking around the canyon and roasting some hot dogs, cleaning up , and leaf hunting would make me tired.  But it did.  It was fun to make memories.  We missed Andrew and all of Mark's family.  Some of them were out of town and others live out of town and Stella was working.  Not sure why Mark didn't show but we missed them.