Dog Attack and Celebrating Two Nations

July 6, 2020

So another week for the books!! (I didn't write in my journal a single time this week so I really can't remember anything.... I will catch up on it though) 

Funnies: 

We got stood up by someone we met on facebook because they were celebrating an early birthday lol...whatever that means. Sister greeenwood and I had a good laugh about that. People honestly can come up with the best excuses.

So this happened last week but I forgot to write about it! So we were over at this members house and she was telling us her conversion story, like it really was a beautiful and awesome story. But I was petting her dog that was on my lap and then all of the sudden it started going berserk. Like CRAZY. Trying to jump all over me and nip at me everytime I would try to touch it. This lady was not noticing AT ALL. Because she was so into her story LOL. So sister greenwood looks back at me struggling and then is trying so hard not to laugh. Like we are both fying of laughter on the inside because this woman had no clue what was going on.

An abandoned car from our hike today!

Just a beautiful view from a members house!

Comp study at the beach because why not!

Random Tidbits: 

Canada Day Shenanigans

Well Canada day!!! We went over to a members house and they had a big barbeque while social distancing it was so fun! 

Thai night! (I even wore the most thai dress I could find lol)

We celebrated the fourth of July with a thai night!! And I made papaya salad and it turned out super good!! We made a bunch of curries that I had brought back and we were with one of my favourite families in the area so it was super fun. 

The work: 

We have had some amazing lessons this week. So many of our friends are progressing and really have a strong desire to follow Jesus Christ and learn more about him. 

Spiritual thought: 

We were talking with a member the other day about how kind of at different stages of life you need to redefine who you are, and kind of re-center on the fact that you are a child of God. And the implications of that. The divine potential that gives us. For example, when I get home off of a mission I kind of have to get into a different groove, or someone who has had kids for 20 years and is now an empty nester. These stages can be hard but one thing always stays constant. The fact that our Heavenly father is with us every step of the way and that we are his child! We never have to do this alone, and we can get through any stage of life, and any hardship THROUGH Him! 

Love you all! 

Sister Clement 

Week 42- Still in Vernon, BC

June 29, 2020

Hello!! 

Funnies: 

The only downside about serving in a North American mission is that not TOO many funny crazy things happen. Like of course a lot of weird facebook finding moments and stuff but its just not the same so I'm sorry to disappoint!!

i fed a horse 

One thing was that our neighbor's crazy little squirrel dog got into our apartment and started running around like a crazy person so we had to chase him out. 

Me with the little squirrel dog 

         Doctor's office                                                          Unfortunate name of the dental clinic      

Random Tidbits:

I got my phone!!!! So now i can take nice photos..its awesome

We took a lot of long drives this week to visit members and the drives were so sick. We played good music and the views were so beautiful. Honestly its such a good time to just refresh!

We borrowed some members' bikes and went on a nice long bike ride today! Such a good trail only 10 min from our house!

the work: 

We have been able to find so many new people this week from the members! One in particular he is so amazing and wants to change his life around. He is super determined and I am so excited to start teaching him! We have been super busy which is a good problem! Its been really cool to teach in English! I can fully express myself. 

Spiritual thought: 

I want to speak about repentance. Because of Jesus Christ we all can move on from our mistakes. Satan wants us thinking we have to carry them throughout life and constantly feel that guilt but I know if we turn to the Savior, we can find peace. Sometimes it's really hard to accept the gift of forgiveness, but until we do that we are holding ourselves back! So accept the gift. Move forward, and love Jesus Christ even more. You can change, and He will help you. 

I love you all and Have a good week! 

Week 41

June 22, 2020

Hey Hey Hey!! 


Funnies: 


We offered to help an older man with his garden and he said "yeah! Just come in your bikinis and you can get a good tan! Don't worry, my backyard is very private" Uhhhh we laughed awkwardly and politely declined the bikinis idea but said we could come in our dresses and that our arms would get really tan!! Gotta love people. 


Random Tidbits: 


It was sister greenwoods birthday this week! We had an awesome day. We taught some people, went on a nice walk, and some awesome members had us over for dinner at their campsite and we had a fire and stuff! It was super fun. Although for some reason my allergies got super bad there. Like my eyes were red and puffy and I was sneezing SO MUCH! Good times. 

She's 23!!! So proud

Sister Greenwood and I!

The Vernon sisters :)

Sister greenwoods bday display in the apartment 

Sister murphy and I on our hike!

We see a ton of deer everywhere all the time which is fun. 

a random deer 

We also have started doing yoga on Sunday mornings in our beautiful backyard and it's been hard bc both of us are so not flexible and its hard for us to stay serious but its been a blast.


We had exchanges so i got to go to Kelowna for a day and it was so fun! We went on such a nice walk with a great view and read our scriptures up there. 


I love the members here so much. They are all so real. There is no show with anyone...I love it. The families are crazy and fun and quirky in all their own ways. Reminds me a lot of my family at home aha. 

The Hilsmanns! (they are such an awesome family)

Us with katie! (a member)

The view from one of the members houses!! 

The view from our house! You can actually see our house in this pic, its the one on the left

The work: 


We are teaching some really amazing people right now. And we are really focusing on the members and helping them as well. We have so much work to do this transfer and we are really excited. I am hoping sister greenwood doesn't get transferred next wednesday because we are on fire over here!! I want at least a full transfer with her lol.


Spiritual thought: 


This week has had its challenges for sure but I really want to say that anytime we are willing to come unto Christ, he will be there. he will meet us where we are at and begin to lift us up. No matter where we've been or who we were, he is there and we truly can change because of Him. 


I love you all!!


Sister Clement

From Thailand to home to Vernon, BC

June 15, 2020

Hey everyone! 

So I am back on my mission and back to business as usual. Honestly it so nice to see my family and friends while being home but I am happy to be out. It was pretty hard to leave again and was probably the hardest goodbye of my life but God has a plan for all of us and sometimes we just need to trust that we are doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. It's hard though haha. 

All the people we flew with

Subway Lunch with Sister Higham! (the other sister that came to vernon with me)

So I arrived in Vancouver at 9 in the morning on wednesday and got to meet the mission president who is super nice! I also got to meet a sister who served in Tahiti (Zachs mission) which was super cool, and I forgot my phone at home but I hope to get that back soon and they have loaned me one for now! We had some trainings, a meal and then they told us who our companions were and where we were going!. Because I was taking a plane to my area my companion was not there and I got to spend another night in Vancouver. We flew in the morning and let me tell you, coming over the Okanagan river was soooooo beautiful. It is gorgeous here! And a huge tender mercy is that Sydney murphy is here too!! So we've been seeing a lot of each other which is really nice.

We are in phase 1 of missionary service here which means we can go into homes if we are invited and social distancing!!!! It has been so nice to get some human interaction and meet some of the members here. They are so kind to us! 

My companion is Sister Greenwood and she is from Utah! Shes super energetic and outgoing and we are both pumped to do the work here. It'll be a good but tough transfer. We have already seen so many miracles which is awesome!

A super nice thing is that we go on hikes every day to just get out of the house and let some energy out! Like I said it's so beautiful here and so peaceful.

Hike!

Such a nice hike

Sister Murphy

beautiful

All the missionaries were talking about how small my apartment was going to be and I kept trying to tell them it couldn't have possibly been smaller than my apartment in thailand but they didn't believe me haha. When I first saw the place my first thought was "oh my gosh this is huge!". We actually have a separate room for sleeping and a bathroom that you can move around in! I'm living the dream up in here. We also drive too. Honestly it's a pretty cushy mission. 

Oh and I introduced myself to a family as Rachael by accident because I'm still not used to calling myself sister clement again lol. 

Well I'm still trying to adjust and keep a positive attitude, but I really am grateful to be here. I hope you all have an awesome week! 

Love you,

Sister Clement 

Transfers to Bang Kapi!!!....Wait.. No Transfers

Sister Noon's baptism !! Isn't she just the cutest?! 

March 18, 2020

Just out here livin' it up in Udorn.... Oh wait... Our apartment is Udorn!! It's been so fun though. this week à lot has happened!!

1. Hit my 6 month mark!! So crazy that it has gone my so fast! And sister jensen suprised me with all my favourite chocolate and ice cream! And we ordered a dairy queen ice cream cake to celebrate my 6 months and sister jensens 1 year! 

Love sister jensen

2. we only went à little bit crazy !

Again sister jensen and I the dream team

Jammie time!

Iconic duo 

Sister jensen is the cutest companion!

3. We made a singing video (sister jensen and I both hate singing so we don't really know why we did it) and it got so many views and we were able to talk to so many people from it!! So amazing

4. Sister Noon got baptized! It seemed like everything was against her but she has overcome everything and changed her entire life to follow Christ so it all worked out. We ended up having to fill up the font with buckets of water bc we were running out of time. It was perfectly imperfect! And she is so happy now and ahhh it was the best ever. I am so proud of her (I will write her conversion story in another email for those who want to read it) 

Sister noons baptism!! Sister Wan is soooo cute she's the one in the front who is like 4ft tall!!( mom wants to know where the social distancing is!!!) 

Sister Noon!

5. We got transfer calls last night and I was supposed to be moving to Bang Kapi! We were a little sad bc I love sister jensen so much and we are so tight but I was excited for the new adventure even in the quarantine aha. As I was packing we got a message saying transfers were postponed!! We jumped up and down bc we were so excited. This iconic duo isn't broken up quite yet  God really does answer prayers haha. Anyway I put everything back in like a minute and now it's back to business as usual!

when they thought it was their last day together

6. We also that night found a massive cockroach in our apartment and proceeded to spend the next hour and a half trying to get it. We went to bed veryyy late yesterday night oh myyy. 

Finally caught the cockroach ewwwww

7. We are also indefinitely quarantined... We will hit our month mark on Saturday!!! So wild. We've been able to still see a lot of miracles though and we really know God's work is not stopping.

Quarantine be like (we tried to separate ourselves for like 5 min but it didn't work lol)

I hope this time will help turn all of us to Christ. To the source of real joy and peace. Sometimes that's all we have, and I promise it's enough. The love of our Heavenly Parents and Brother Jesus Christ can carry us through anything.

I love you all and sorry this was a bit of a weird email today! It's been a bit of a weird day too!

Love, 

ซิสเตอร์​ เค็มเม็น

 

2nd Coronaversary!

Love my คู้

That's right we hit the 2 week mark!! With the news that they are extending it a week.... Yay! In all honesty it hasn't been horrible, we've had a pretty fun time and we are starting to get the hang of this whole quarantine thing. The first week was by far the hardest, now we are just slowly getting crazier every day, while still seeing miracles and being productive!

Funnies:

Sister jensen and I just have a problem with laughing... At everything.... Things that just really are not even funny... I've even started laughing in my sleep....

After dinner time is the time that just does not need to be remembered. That is our craziest time of day, weird things happen idek. 

Corona quarantine be like...

Sometimes we really feel like this

We tried peel off facemasks for the first time and it caused a lot of pain lol... Don't know if it was worth it

We've started scaring each other somehow in our tiny little apartment and it's really fun. I've gotten sister jensen so good 3 times.

Random tidbits:

The elders in ubon made a parody of the office called the apartment and it is the best thing ever. We've watched it 3 times.

We ate some really good food again this week

This is Thailand lol, idk why Thai people buy them but that's in the grocery store 

Our dance is coming along really really well 

We have come up with a theory called concentrated craziness that keeps the crazy at bay until at least after dinner! Every hour we have an alarm set with an exercise and we just go nuts doing that exercise for 2 minutes. It has helped us focus so so much. That's been our biggest problem so far is focusing long enough to get things done and be productive! So we are glad we have found this tactic.

It rained and poured for my first time in Thailand and we just stood on the balcony during the storm and had the deepest chat ever. It was sweet 

Most chill district council ever

First skirt ripped by the bike

The work:

We have really seen everyone come together these past two weeks to help the work move forward. We are learning how to work more efficiently and the things we are learning here will be soooo useful once we get out. By doing video calls we save so much time and are able to reach out to so many more people!! It's been awesome to get to know the members more and see how much more they are helping us teach and love the people that are learning. Our miracle board is on the second page now so nothing is stopping us!!

Spiritual Thought:

Everyone has a place. Everyone has talents to bring to the table and when we all work together we really do see miracles happen. God has promised everyone spiritual gifts that can be used to help others around us. God really is a God of love. Everything He does is to help us grow, in all areas but especially love for Him, and Love for our brothers and sisters. So I challenge you this week to pray about and find one gift or talent that you have and pray how to use and develop it in order to help others around you!

You are all so amazing and I love you all!

Love, 

Sister Clement