Tuesday we went to an institute class where they talked about the Kirtland Temple. It was cool, i learned some interesting new stuff. Then we had a cool service project where they had us set up a spook alley for an elementary school. It was super fun, we had a blast. Then we knocked some doors in Anaheim Hills, but nothing too exciting happened.
Wednesday we helped Joe with some more hard work. We dug up a palm tree from one spot in his backyard and moved it to another spot in his backyard. Then we talked to some people at the institute and drove to Anaheim Hills, except we got stuck in traffic for over an hour on the way there, so we didn't get to talk to very many people.
Thursday was awesome, we had district meeting in the morning and some service in the afternoon, then we went to the college after dinner. We had so many miracles happen while we were at the college! First we met a girl who had talked to missionaries in the past and was going to get baptised before her mom told her she didn't support it. We talked to her for a while and she was super cool. Then we were walking towards a different part of the college and a less active member caught up to us and started talking to us. While we were talking to her another member who was going to an institute class came over and joined our conversation and bore his testimony about how he had recently come back to the church. It was so good, we talked to him later and he said he saw us and felt like he should come over, but was late to institute so he went into class instead. When he was in there he kept feeling like he should go over and talk with us, so he got up and came over, and now he's going to start giving her a ride to church and helping us with a new investigator we have. He's super awesome, I think he's studying the scriptures even more than we are as missionaries right now. After we finished talking with them we walked further into the college campus. Along the way we walked past this really rude guy who lived in our old area. He started yelling that Joseph Smith was racist and swearing at us so we just kep walking. Then when we got a little ways away from them two college kids walked up to us and asked what the guy was yelling about. We told him who we were and he asked a few questions about our message. We were able to have a pretty solid gospel conversation and got his phone number so we could tell him more later, it was pretty awesome. Then we talked to a few more people and walked back to the institute to talk to a few members as they left class. We got talking to one member when the institute teacher came up behind us and introduced us to a girl who was crying a little. He told us that she came up to him at the end of the lesson and told him that she really felt something during his class and wanted to learn more. So we went into a different classroom with her and her boyfriend who was a member from Los Angeles and taught her the restoration. She's our first real investigator in this area, so we were super pumped. It was such an awesome day, the Lord was just putting people who were prepared to hear the gospel in our path the entire evening and all we had to do was open our mouths and talk to them. It was so cool to be able to see the Lord work through us and reach out to those people.
Friday we did an end of transfer meeting for the new missionaries and their trainers, then studies and weekly planning. By the time we finished all that it was dinner time, so we ate dinner and went proselyting. We were able to teach a thirteen year old kid that we met last week, and he was such an awesome kid. He knew the bible super well and we were able to teach him the whole restoration and invite him to be baptized. It was so cool, he was a lot more prepared than I would've been when I was fourteen. After we taught the lesson we called up the sisters who are in charge of his area and gave them his contact information so they could take over teaching him since we're just over the YSA. That's about it.
Saturday we did exchanges with Elder Boss and Purnell, so Elder Mills went with Elder Purnell and Elder Boss went with us for the day. We knocked doors and talked to people on the street the whole day. We didn't find any people who wanted to talk to us, but Elder Boss and I both got a lot better at talking to people on door approaches, so it was good.
Sunday we went to church. I really liked the lesson in priesthood, we went over some teachings from President Hinkley about loving those who aren't of our faith. Then after church we got in the car and were driving to our area when we realized we were practically out of gas and only had 16 cruising miles left on the car, and the closest of the people we were going to talk to today was about eight miles away. Since we didn't want to buy gas on Sunday we decided to drive to that person, park the car, and walk around that area knocking doors for two or three hours. After a while we had run out of potential and previous investigators in that area, and we weren't having any success knocking doors, so we decided to go back to the leasing office at the apartment so we could try to contact people over the phone and through Facebook. When we got back to the apartment the car said we had enough gas to go zero miles, so it's a good thing there's a gas station right next to our apartment.
Today we got gas, we were able to make it to the station without running out, then went to this place called the Swap Meet. It was like a mall except more ghetto. It was kind of fun, definitely not like anything I've seen in Utah. And now we're at the church sending emails, so that's about it. We're finally starting to get the hang of this YSA ward, although transfers are next week, so they may end up moving us again. We'll just have to see what this next week brings. Bye, I love you all!
-Elder Clark
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