Hi there! We had a really exciting week this week. I'll just jump right into it. on Tuesday we stopped by someone named Corbin, and he and his friend both let us teach them! It was really cool, they had a lot of great lessons. We taught about Jesus Christ and His church and were about to teach about the great apostasy, then Corbin asked, "Wait, so if you believe you're Jesus Christ's church, what happened to your church between Jesus Christ's time and now?" It was pretty perfect, we were excited.
Later, we were able to teach one of the people from the football team we met last week. He was really sincere and liked the message a lot. He opened up about some of the struggles he's been having with moving to the new school and everything, and we were able to read some scriptures from the Book of Mormon with him. It was so cool to see him finding peace from the Book of Mormon, he told us he's definitely going to be reading more on his own.
Then on Saturday I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Vaivai, and we met a lot of interesting people. We had one super cool guy who we met as he was getting off of the bus, and we were able to sit down with him on a nearby bench and talked to him about the Book of Mormon. It went really well, he's pretty cool. Then we went around the corner and started knocking on doors in a complex over there. The very first person we talked to let us in! We were excited... until we realized that he had been using a fair amount of Marajuana and was not in a state of mind to recieve the gospel. He beckoned to a table completely covered in stuff and said "Go ahead, sit down." We didn't sit down, but instead offered to share a scripture. He declined and offered to watch TV with us. We declined and began laboring to excuse ourselves from the situation as quickly as we could. It was quite an adventure.
Finally, we finished out the week by going to the baptism of someone in the ward who the sisters have been teaching named Daisy. The baptism service started with a really nice talk on baptism and the Holy Ghost, then they announced that they were going to proceed with the ordinance. Daisy went her way, the person performing the ordinance went the other way, and the two witnesses opened up the divider to the baptism font. It was completely empty. No water at all! The drain hadn't sealed properly, and all the water had emptied out. So, they started playing some interlude music and the bishop and his counselors discussed for a minute, then they decided that rather than waiting 2ish hours for the font to refill, we would drive 10 minutes to Bishop's house and do the baptism in the swimming pool. So we all hopped in our cars and drove over there to finish the baptismal service. It was a beautiful ordinance, and the spirit was very strong. After the baptism Daisy bore a beautiful testimony and we sang I Believe in Christ while we were all gathered around the pool. As we finished up, I thought about the scripture in Mosiah 18:30, after Alma's followers were baptized in the waters of Mormon. Mormon talks a little bit about the place where they were baptized, "Yea, the place of Mormon, the waters of Mormon, the forest of Mormon, how beautiful are they to the eyes of them who there came to the knowledge of their Redeemer; yea, and how blessed are they, for they shall sing to his praise forever." I don't think any of us are going to forget how we felt gathered around that little swimming pool in the bishop's backyard, and I am grateful that I had the chance come to a little greater knowledge of my Redeemer so that I can sing to His praise forever. This gospel is true. This work is the Savior's work. I know that as we follow Him we will always be blessed.
Have a great week this week!
Elder Clark
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