Clint Mission 99 #36
Dear Lisha,
Word, thanks for the E-mail last week I received after preparation day so I was unable to answer back.
It was really good to hear a first hand report. Sounds like you are struggling a bit but it will be a good growing experience for you. No pain, no gain right? Elder Folsom my new companion is very great and very spiritual. I excel at the physical details, his strength is spirituality. Anyway we were talking one time and said it would be awkward to get married and never have been on a mission because we have learned from both good and bad times how to live with a companion. ( Reason # 1097 for why to serve a mission) I have had to learn to be a better communicator. I use to like to walk around the house and not say anything. As an assistant we are always planning or teaching together as a team and it requires constant open communication.
Elder Hoare is training Elder Kieng in the middle of the city. It is a tough area and Elder Kieng is having a hard time adopting to missionary life for lots of reasons but Elder Hoare is just what he needs.
I’ll share a secret with you. You asked about homesickness. After the first Mother’s day phone call, after I hung up the phone and let the tears flow a bit and in the MTC I was so worried about it I was righteous enough to be a missionary that I didn’t worry about home. I think it would be easier to go on a mission then to leave for school. The spirit helps us so much when we lose ourselves in the work that I don’t think much about home.
Also to answer your question I know Maron Christenson and remember her. I consider her a friend. We talked often back in the Middle School days.
I include you in my fast Lisha, to help you settle in. have you received any special help? I love you and know your doing great. keep it up. Here are some scriptures for you. Doctrine and Covenants 122:7 and 123:17
Say hi to Melanie, Megan and Ashley for me!
Love Clint.
Dear Family,
Hello to my dear family! How are all of you? Bood-funk-a-rama congrats on the big royal promotion. I never did hear who your date was. I’m sure you’ll tell me in the letter your going to write soon. Dad and Jon, I want to hear all about it. Mom Thanks for the good education week notes and good E-mail earlier in the weekend you probably had a busy one. I will try to have my collage stuff sent next week. Thanks again for all the support from home! Sounds like the Habans are a neat family. Ang and Ani, Wow I got some 1st day of school pictures. Nice new clothes, fashionable haircuts and works! 8th Grade. I would like to hear about your teachers and classes and other events. Good luck.
Well let me tell you a little about my week. As I think back there are the 2 major events. First it has been kind of a tradition that when a assistant leaves Pres. and Sister White take him out to dinner as a reward, appreciation, and Thank you. We went out this past week. Pres. and Sister White, Elder Hoare, Folsom and I. We had a great evening. Good company and good food. However the best part was at the end before we left the hotel we went outside down on the lawn where Pres. Hinkley dedicated the land of Cambodia. We just stood there and quietly enjoyed the peace and calm of the night and the significance of the spot. Then Sister and Pres. White began to tell about some of the blessings they have seen come as a result of that prayer. 2 blessings were the stabilizing of the political situation and out growing missionary and member force.
If I could, I would describe a little of how Pres. and Sister White are in a social situation. In the car or around the table Sister White is the person who creates conversation or leads out with a good question that gets a good conversation going. She is very good at it. Pres. stays quieter but he adds comments or answers questions. Sister White is an incredible hostess. She guides the conversation so that we learn more about the guest of honor and makes the guests feel good.
The 2nd event of the week was an opportunity to use the priesthood. I was on a split with Elder Hoare for the afternoon. Elder Hoare was asked by a woman in the 4th Branch to come and give her niece a blessing. I was Elder Hoare’s companion and was able to go. we went to the hospital that was built by the Russians. (Hospitals in Cambodia are a sad story and so many people are sick) we went right up to the 3rd floor and into the Intensive Care Unit. There we found the sister of the 4th Branch member who was standing at the bedside of her daughter who was in a coma. The daughter was a young 14-16 year old teen whose name is Meav Vichakar. To be honest, she looked scary she was so sick. I don’t think I ever seen someone in a coma. She was sick with a fever before, the tripped over or just collapsed one day and was in a coma ever since. Well needless to say the mother was almost with out hope and she had faith in the Priesthood. We talked to the mother who is not a member or Christian but explained that the blessing was dependent upon out faith in God. She desired the blessing and said she had faith. I had anointed the Elder Hoare scaled and confirmed the anointing and gave her a blessing. It was a special experience. Elder Hoare blessed her with a miracle and that she would be healed and she would have faith in God and always remember her miracle. Afterward we visited for a minute or 2 and gave the mother a Book Of Mormon and encouraged her to continue to talk to her daughter.
I didn’t realize that we were in the intensive care unit until after we walked out and I looked on the wall. I was surprised with the ease with how we just walked right in and it hit home again the severity of her condition. I included Meav Vichalkan in my prayers and also my fast after proselyting on a split Sunday I came home and got a call from Elder Hoare “Hey Elder Rogers she come out of the coma, she’s not all the way better but she came out of the coma” Wow what power there is in faith, prayers and the holy priesthood. The phone call made my whole day!
Well that’s about it for me. We made the decision to go to Ta Kaman so this week Elder Folsom and I will head down to find a house for the 4 missionaries who will serve down there. (south of Phnom Penh) Thanks again for the good letters and pictures. I got pictures of Home Sweet Home in Cedar City. It looks really nice! Have a good week and Much love from your son, brother and missionary,
Well that’s about it for me. We made the decision to go to Ta Kaman so this week Elder Folsom and I will head down to find a house for the 4 missionaries who will serve down there. (south of Phnom Penh) Thanks again for the good letters and pictures. I got pictures of Home Sweet Home in Cedar City. It looks really nice! Have a good week and Much love from your son, brother and missionary,
Clint
Thanks for the good missionary stories last week dad!
also mom, Elder Forsom and I really enjoyed the Tuna
Pasta this past week, which I was saving for a day
it didn’t rain. Thanks.