Grace

Hello! This week was good. The podiatrist appointment was pretty fast, they just took a 3D scan of my feet and told me the inserts would be ready in about two week.

Grace and her kids, the part member family we've been working with made a bunch of progress this week, Grace's teenage daughter Taylor hasn't been super into the church stuff since we started teaching the family. Then this week Grace called asking if we could give her a blessing. So we hopped on our bikes and rode over there to give her the blessing. I'm can't say for sure that it was the blessing that did it, but in the next lesson Taylor was a lot more involved then she had been before. Then the real miracle came on Sunday when the whole family came to church for the first time since Grace got baptized. And not only that, they stayed the whole time and really liked it! It made for a really great week. 

It's been a busy day, so that's all I've got to write. Love you!

-Elder Clark 

Pictures:

-This palm tree has a face

-We made some super yummy food. Ot was like a professional made it

-I also was making garlic toast and forgot about it. It was not so much like a professional made it

-There was a rooster cock-a-doodle-dooing in the bushes at the church before district council. He was just a little one

Even

Hello! The podiatrist called, so they're having me come in tomorrow. I'll let you know if there's any information they need that I don't have, but it should be good. This week was an adventure, it rained a bunch which was super cool. We had so many people asking us what we did instead of working on rainy days, or telling us we were crazy for being out there and the like, but we were loving it. It was pretty cool to actually have some weather for a change. 

We didn't have to much happen aside from the rain. We have some cool people we've met, but we're having a hard time helping them come to church. So, the real highlight of the week came today while we were shopping. We grabbed our groceries and took them to the front to be rung up, and it came out to exactly 20$ of groceries. That my friends, is true success. I took a picture of the receipt, and we're probably going to hang the receipt in a place of honor on our wall. 

That's pretty much it! Sorry I don't have more to share, but have a great week!

-Elder Clark

Growing testimonys 1/14/19

I don't actually know when our next trip is. It's every six months, but I haven't been keeping track that well. And yeah, I've been hearing a lot of good things about the new come follow me helping a lot with families, so we're excited for it. I'm glad it's working for you guys too! Keep at it, it's going to keep being a great thing.

We had a really busy week! With Rod's baptism on Saturday, Presidents interviews on Friday, and a handful if other random stuff, every day there was something different for us to get done. It was really good though. We found a really cool new person in the middle of the week, and Rod's baptism was super good. He has been so solid since we first met him with coming to church, reading the Book of Mormon, and everything else we invited him to do, he just kept saying he didn't quite feel ready for baptism. It's been cool to see him change little by little since then to be where he is today. It's a powerful thing when we are faithful to the little things in the Gospel. It's definitely built my testimony of what it says in Alma 37:6 about small and simple things. Rod was so happy to be baptized, it was great to see him sitting there with a big smile on his face. :)

I'm outta time, but I love you guys!

Elder Clark

No Snow here 1/7/2019

Wow, all that snow looks super weird hahaha. Now that Christmas is done there's no indication of the season at all, so it's weird to think it's so cold for you guys. This week was quite a good one. I don't have a ton of time left, so I'll be sort of brief. 

To start off, Julian moved back! He texted us and told us he had moved back into the same home as before because the one he moved to wasn't in as nice of a neighborhood and he didn't feel very safe. So we're teaching him again and he's working towards a new baptismal date on the 19th! We're pretty excited, he's really awesome.

We also are teaching Rod again, he was away for the holidays. He's currently on track to get baptized this Saturday, so we're really pumped for that. He was telling everyone he talked to about it yesterday at church, so it seems like he's really looking forward to it too, which is awesome. 

We almost helped a homeless guy dig a hole in a random person's garden. We were calling up a member to bring over a shovel and working on everything we needed to get this thing done. Then as we talked we realized that this guy didn't live in the house and wasn't all there, so we ended up withdrawing from the situation and letting the police know we had just talked to someone who was roaming the street trying to plant his bush in other people's gardens. We had an appointment that we left for before anyone got there, so I'm not really sure how it turned out.

And last, but certainly not least, we found a really cool person named Mario on Saturday. We had actually met him about a week and a half before that, but he cancelled the appointment we set up with him. We remembered him while we were working close to where he lived Saturday night, and we decided to drop by and pay him a visit. He was so prepared to hear our message! He was asking great questions, talked about how he had really been wanting to start going to church, and he accepted an invitation to be baptized! We are so excited to be able to work with him, and it seems like his family might be pretty interested in learning too! It was an awesome miracle, and it was in the middle of having a bunch of things we'd planned on doing fall through, so it was really special.

Well, that's our week. Keeping all you guys in my prayers, I love you!

Elder Clark

Also, here's the pictures of the Mexican lemon I told you about. It's quite large.