June 3

Hello! That's exciting for David and Rachel. Good to hear things are going well. It was a little cooler this weekend, but this week it's supposed to be up around the 80s. I probably won't call on Sunday, but I'll make sure to call Monday to wish Ammon a happy birthday. 

The family we teach on Mondays is doing really well. This last week we taught them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and it was a very spirit led lesson. We asked them if they would be baptised as they came to know that what we shared is true, and they said yes! We were able to set up a tour of the chapel for this next Sunday, so we're really excited. 

On Wednesday we planned in the morning to go to a park in our area and talk to people there. When we drove over in the evening we discovered that there was a high school graduation going on right next door and some of the roads were closed. We realized too late that the traffic in the area was an absolute disaster, so we spent the first hour of proselyting time in the evening trying to escape. It was a pretty wild experience. 

We had some other great teaching appointments and a lot of exchanges, but I am out of time to write, so I'll leave it at that. Remember to read the Book of Mormon every day! It makes a big difference, I promise!

-Elder Clark

May 27 2019

Oh, there's one other funny thing that happened this week that I forgot to say in the call. So we ran into a woman who was deaf and knew ASL, so we called the ASL sisters who work in our area. They didn't answer, but instead of their voicemail playing when the call ended like normal, it told us to enter our password like it does when we are checking or changing our voicemail. With the mission phones, the password for the voicemail is almost always the last four digits of our phone number, so I tried entering in the last four from their phone, and it let us in. So, Elder Vaivai and I decided it would be super funny to try changing the voicemail to something, so we changed it to say we were the missionaries in the branch instead of them. Then we called again and it actually worked! They were so confused, it was super funny. 

I got a paper today that's titled "Info Request for Travel Arrangements" 😓 It says my scheduled departure date is August 27th and I'm supposed to check with you to make sure there isn't a conflict with that day. It feels super weird how close that's getting. It doesn't feel like that long ago that I was one of the newer missionaries out here, and now basically everyone out here hasn't been here as long as I have. It's alright though, we'll just keep on working as hard as we can. 👍🏻 Here's the group email I'm sending:

Hello! We had a very good week this week! I'll go ahead and get to it. 

On Monday, we were able to teach Manny, and he told us that he had brought the Book of Mormon with him to the DMV to make sure that he had the chance to read it. It was super cool, he's such an awesome guy, we just need to get him and his family to come to church and things are going to be good. 

Tuesday I was in the next ward over for a little bit because one of the companions is still unable to go out. We were driving to a contact there and looking for a place to park, when suddenly a rooster walked out into the middle of the road. I hit the brakes so as not to hit him, and he kind of stared us down for a while. As we sat there we cast our eyes around and realized that there was not one, not two, but seven or eight roosters in the surrounding area. We couldn't believe it, normally there aren't any animals at all in our part of California, let alone 8 roosters in one place. 

We also met a bunch of new people who we were able to start teaching this week. Heavenly Father blessed us with a lot of opportunities to share this message, and we were able to find a few people who want to learn more. It's cool to see how He can put us in people's paths right at the time that they are ready to change, it's one of the many things that strengthens my testimony that He is there and that He is mindful of me. 

-Elder Clark

Pictures: 

Selfies after district council and out finding.

Elder Hart opened his fruit rollup, and there were two inside. That's what you call pure happiness.

Breakfast on the last day of the week before we go shopping on P-day when rations are scarce.

May 20

Hey everybody! This week was really busy for us. We have an Elder who's foot is in a boot in the zone, so he can't go out. So when we can we've been doing little exchanges with them so that his companion isn't stuck in the apartment all day. We went out with them on Wednesday, Friday, and a little bit on Sunday. Then in between we went on regular exchanges on Thursday and Saturday. So from the end of the day Tuesday until the evening on Sunday Elder Hart and I were never actually out working together, we were just working with all the other missionaries on exchanges. It was quite an adventure. There was some cool stuff that happened, I got to meet a really cool person they are teaching in the Euclid ward. She is working towards getting baptized, and she had a notebook out and was writing down all kinds of notes during the lesson. She's super solid. Then in the exchange on Thursday I was working in the Spanish area, so I got to talk to a lot of people in Spanish, which was pretty neat. We had one wild lesson where the person was just making jokes the whole time, and also met a lot of really cool people who we had the chance to teach a little bit. 

I'm out of time, so that'll be all this week. I love you guys, have a good week!

May 6 2019

Hello! We've been doing well, we had a very busy week, but it was pretty good. We had a great lesson on Monday, we were hoping to invite them to have a tour of the chapel and then they asked us if they could have one before we even invited them! It was pretty neat, they're an awesome family. Then we had a super cool miracle on Tuesday/Wednesday. We were leaving an apartment complex and there were two people on their way back in. Right away the first of them told us they didn't have time to talk, so we asked if we could come by at a different time. The first guy said no, but his friend behind him said we could come by tomorrow if we wanted. The next day we were driving down the same street and we saw him sitting outside by the sidewalk, so we parked the car and went over to talk to him. He seemed like he'd been having a rough day, so we talked to him for a while to figure out where he was coming from. He said he felt like he wasn't on the path God wanted him to be on and wanted to change, and we had an awesome conversation with him. It was a great day. 

That's all I've got for this week! Plus some pictures from service and some other stuff. I should be calling on Sunday for Mother's day, we'll let you know what time. I love you! Have a great week!

Elder Clark