Spiders and transfers

Mission life is having things not go the way you planed.  No matter how hard you try or how many backup plans you have, things are not going to go the way you expected.  But if you're doing your best and listening to The Spirit things will go the way God has planned.  And that's better then anything I could come up with on my own.  

Most of this week we had Sister Leyba as our third companion.  She's serving in the Fayetteville ward but her companion is coming home early, so we have her until transfers on Wednesday.  In the mean time we are covering both wards.  Fortunately we didn't have any set plans at the same time, other than dinner appointments.  We both had plans to help with different parts of the stake women's conference, so we helped out a lot.  My favorite part was painting rocks that said "Seek Pray Come" and heart themed doodles on the side.  The lesson for that was about surviving life's changes.  

Seek the words of Christ,

Pray for help and guidance,

Come: to church, and serve in you callings.

It reminds me of what we tell our investigators, only we call it CPR (Church, Pray, Read the scriptures) and it does help us through life's changes and life in general.  

Another speaker talked about Temples and how we don't know how much we are blessed by attending the Temple.  She challenged everyone to do family history work for twenty days by the end of next month and visit the temple for our family.  I'd like to extend that challenge to everyone reading this and to pay attention to the blessings that come from it.  

In other news, the Flat Creek area is getting closed for sister missionaries so I will be heading to Peach Tree City while teaching a few people in Flat Creek that the elders would need team ups for. I also took a picture of a giant spider that was in one of our investigators yard.

Baptism!

Tiffany was baptized on Saturday!  It was so wonderful.  She couldn't stop jumping up and down with excitement:)   Unfortunately she's in my last area so I couldn't go to her confirmation, but it was great to see her get Baptized!  

On the down side of this week Sister Welch got an infection from her wisdom tooth surgery and had to get another surgery to get it cleaned out.  We've been eating a lot of smoothies, soup, ice cream and pudding.  I've been a little stir crazy but were back to full days and solid food (as long as its not hard).  

Exchanges and interviews were this week so I was back in Sharpsburg for a day and helped contact YSA members that have disappeared off the face of the earth.  Interviews is where we sit down with President Foote and talk about how things are going and how we're doing.  We also have district meeting while these are going on.  This was the same day as Sister Welch's surgery so while a member took her to that I went back for second helpings on district meeting.  I took second place in the scripture chase. Other than that, things have been as normal as they get on a mission.  

Sister Clark

Journals

Happy belated birthday Mom.  I did remember, and I got you a card at the beginning of the month and still haven't sent it. 
     I've been journaling better to.  I don't know if I told you, but I bought a journal with Angel  Moroni on the cover and scriptures at the bottom of each page.  When Calvin starts his mission, remember to get him a journal for his companions to write in.  I didn't know that was a thing until I got to the MTC.  

This week all the computers at Delta airlines crashed and stranded about 23 missionaries.  8 of them were heading home and just got their flights delayed. 15 were adopted by the mission and were in tros for a day or two.  We had Sister Ashenbaker who was on her way to the Brazil MTC.  She's awesome. When we were visiting people she was quick to share her testimony and eager to share the Gospel.  She helped us with our chalk Book of Mormon/ Bible chalk art and helped a less active that had lost her husband.  It down pored as we were dropping her and the other refugees who had flights that day.

     On Friday we were prompted to go back to Shamrock Park and draw another chalk art. This time we did a city on a hill and wrote the scripture that talks about a city set on a hill cannot be hid.  Partway through we noticed a girl watching us work.  I asked if she wanted to help us draw houses.  She eagerly joined us and after a little wile her brother started helping too.  He drew a red tornado in the sky.  There family comes every Friday so we plan to do more chalk art on Fridays.  If you have any suggestions for chalk art, let us know.  We could always use more Ideas.  

Love you 

Sister Britney Clark

Temple

I was able to go to the temple this week. It was wonderful.  There is nothing better then going to the temple and feeling the peace there.  

I took some pictures of the flowers there and some reference pictures for the chalk drawing we did later this week.  It kinda got whitewashed in the pictures, but I did a lot of shading in the drawing.  I'm glad Sister Welch thought of this. It's a good way to use my talents to share the gosple.   

The moth picture was at the Elders' apartment: we ran out of butter.

Our mourning schedule is wake up and do exercises, normally that's me teaching karate.  Then we get ready for the day, then do studies.  After that we go to appointments, do service, drop in on people, contact referrals, and go trackting. For service we're usually at a thrift store called Close less Travailed.  The person in charge of linens has a friend who's a member and we helper sort, fold, and label things while  answering any questions she has.  The other thing we've been doing for service is helping a member that just moved in unpack and get everything organized.  

This week and last week everyone has been out of town for the last week of summer vacation.  We have two backups for everyone we plan to see and we've still had to look at our roster to see who's close to where we're at.  School's starting again so this week should be better in that regard.  If we have a dinner appointment we eat around six.  If not we eat at eight. The elder who wrote the dinner calendar for this month has Monday at the beginning of the week instead of Sunday.  So far we've only found one person that signed up on the wrong day.  We call and remind people a couple days in advance, so it shouldn't be problematic.  

On Fridays we have district call, which  is when we get on a conference call with the district and talk about miracles we've had how everyone's doing.  Tuesdays we have district meeting (unless it's zone conference like this week) where the district meets up and we have someone give a training, witch is just like a lesson, but about missionary work. We talk about how things are doing in our area and pick a topic for next weeks training.  Fast Sundays we text in up to three names or families and have a mission call were Sister Foote reads the names and we have a mission fast for them.

Love, Sister Clark

Salvation and Chalk Art

August 1 2016

 

This email is going to be all over the place.  Sister Welch is from Kaysville Utah. She is the youngest of four, has a cocker spaniel (black and white), and likes baking.

  Neither of us brought a chocolate chip cookie recipes. Could you send me the Burgers? 
 

    Congrats on not killing the flowers :)
 

    The weather has been staying in the hundreds with 70-80% humidity, when it's not raining.  The rain likes to come down like a waterfall, so I have gotten drenched walking from someones porch to the car.  The next house we went to asked if we wanted a towel.  We're better at not leaving our umbrellas in the car now.  

      Normal school starts in Georgia this week.   One of the old schools is reopening as a charter school so for our service hours this week we helped set up the library.  It was fun. 
 

    Also this week we drew the plan of salvation in chalk as a way to contact people.  It was huge! I'll send pictures.  We're planing on making this a regular thing so if you want to send suggestions, that would be great.  This week we're drawing the Atlanta Temple. 
 

     Next time you send a package can you send my crochet hooks?  One of our investigators started crocheting an afghan and wants us to finish it.  We're borrowing one of her hooks, but I would like my own.  It's kinda like the one that Grandpa started, but without the texture and more rainbowie.  She has all the peaces made, but doesn't have the motivation to put them together.  Also some of them are longer and some of them are shorter. 
 

     The fudge was a big hit.  Elder Roberson hit his year mark and his companion's birthday is today so we sent them home with a chunk.  They called us and said they put some of the fudge on the cake and ate it that way.
 

     Thanks for the addresses, I will be sure to write them.  

Love 

Sister Britney Clark