Jordan was short on time this week, so here is an excerpt from his letter to the family. His birthday is on the 27th if anyone wants to send a card.
Lisa
I can't beleive I've been out for 8 months and that I'm turning 20
soon. I'm an adult?
So that super awesome family I talked about last week, we decided
they're all super awesome, except the dad just doesn't want us to
teach them right now, so now we're praying for them. We just have the
oppurtunity to develope the Christ like attributes of patience and
humility.
So yeah, I really actually nobody to talk about, except one
investigator joven como nosotros, who we thought fell off the face of
the earth for a while. He finally called us today and wanted to talk
to us tonight, and we're not leaving his house untill he excepts a
baptismal date. :)
Today was also zone conference, and Elder Galveret of the First quorem
of the seventy was there. Super awesome zone conference. He talked
about how right now, our mission goal of 500 baptism this year is
nothing to the 100 a week we could be baptism according to our faith,
heed, and diligence, and the will of the Lord. He wasn't saying we
weren't good missionaries, but we should constantly strive for our
best.
Elder Clark
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
They went to the wrong church!
Como estamos?
Its true, they did go to the wrong church, but it worked out.
We found the most amazing family of 7 this week. Well, actually we talked to one of their 5 kids outside their apartment about 2 weeks ago, but we taught them for the first time on Saturday, and it was probably the most amazing lesson I've ever been in, and it was nothing that we did. Their sons had a friend that had passed away just the week before, so we were able to teach the Plan of Salvation. The father told us as a kid in Mexico, he would would always pass by an LDS church, and he wanted to go, but he never did. He also told us about how he knew there was a lot of bad happeing in the world, and he wanted a way to help his kids avoid it. We talked about how the Gospel of Jesus Christ will help their family. When we told what the Gospel was, he said he always wondered what "gospel" meant, and we were the first to tell him what it was. The family use to pray together, but hasn't been recently, and are looking for a church to go to. They understand the importance of baptism. This family is so amazing! The Lord has really done a lot to prepare them to receive Gospel. Their daughter even wrote us a note thanking for coming over.
So we taught them this last Saturday, and they said they would come to church on Sunday. So we're at church, and they don't show up. They text us and tell us they went to the wrong church! The other church was just down the street from ours, and I guess we didn't explain very well which one was our church. In Georgia, you can't just say the church on Spalding drive near the library, because there is litterally 5 or 6. Anyway, so they waited until that church finished, and then came over to our church, about 10 minutes late to sacrament meeting. They said they enjoyed it.
We've also had a quite a few other people appearing out of nowhere and others with some big changes in their lives, so things are going amazing now, not that they don't always go amazing.
Remember the Lord in all things.
Clark the Elder
Its true, they did go to the wrong church, but it worked out.
We found the most amazing family of 7 this week. Well, actually we talked to one of their 5 kids outside their apartment about 2 weeks ago, but we taught them for the first time on Saturday, and it was probably the most amazing lesson I've ever been in, and it was nothing that we did. Their sons had a friend that had passed away just the week before, so we were able to teach the Plan of Salvation. The father told us as a kid in Mexico, he would would always pass by an LDS church, and he wanted to go, but he never did. He also told us about how he knew there was a lot of bad happeing in the world, and he wanted a way to help his kids avoid it. We talked about how the Gospel of Jesus Christ will help their family. When we told what the Gospel was, he said he always wondered what "gospel" meant, and we were the first to tell him what it was. The family use to pray together, but hasn't been recently, and are looking for a church to go to. They understand the importance of baptism. This family is so amazing! The Lord has really done a lot to prepare them to receive Gospel. Their daughter even wrote us a note thanking for coming over.
So we taught them this last Saturday, and they said they would come to church on Sunday. So we're at church, and they don't show up. They text us and tell us they went to the wrong church! The other church was just down the street from ours, and I guess we didn't explain very well which one was our church. In Georgia, you can't just say the church on Spalding drive near the library, because there is litterally 5 or 6. Anyway, so they waited until that church finished, and then came over to our church, about 10 minutes late to sacrament meeting. They said they enjoyed it.
We've also had a quite a few other people appearing out of nowhere and others with some big changes in their lives, so things are going amazing now, not that they don't always go amazing.
Remember the Lord in all things.
Clark the Elder
Friday, February 10, 2012
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Yo no se manana
First amazing thing this week is our finding of an awesome new
investigator. He had been talked to by the missionareis before I came
here, and we had just never visited him. Turns out he used to do drugs
and drink a lot, but he realized that isn't what he wanted to do with
his life. He's had a hard journey leaving that stuff behind, but its
amazing that the Lord has prepared him so much to recieve the Gospel.
He really wants to make things right.
Second, another investigator that I've talked about before told us an awesome story, but to hear the good news, we had to go through a little bit of a struggle. First, she didn't really seem interested when we talked about the Plan of Salvation. Then next lesson we had, we had it all set up to bring a member with us, but then she canceled. The next week, we had it set up with the member again, but then the member canceled. We were just a slight bit saddened, and weren't quite sure what to teach because the lesson we had planned was going to use the members a lot. But that lesson ended up turning out amazingly well. At the end, I asked her if she had prayed about the Book of Mormon. She told us she hadn't, but that she had been praying about 2 months ago for God to guide her and show her to the way she should go. Right after that, the missionaries knocked on her door. She's still not sure if that was her answer, but we are. :) So she's not going to loose interest until she sees if really it was her answer. Yep, super awesome.
3rd exciting thing, I have pictures this time! We're going to call them the things you see in Georgia.(see next post)
Well, there are your typicall Georgia sights. Even I'm a typical sight here in Georgia now.
Have a good week!
Elder Clark
Second, another investigator that I've talked about before told us an awesome story, but to hear the good news, we had to go through a little bit of a struggle. First, she didn't really seem interested when we talked about the Plan of Salvation. Then next lesson we had, we had it all set up to bring a member with us, but then she canceled. The next week, we had it set up with the member again, but then the member canceled. We were just a slight bit saddened, and weren't quite sure what to teach because the lesson we had planned was going to use the members a lot. But that lesson ended up turning out amazingly well. At the end, I asked her if she had prayed about the Book of Mormon. She told us she hadn't, but that she had been praying about 2 months ago for God to guide her and show her to the way she should go. Right after that, the missionaries knocked on her door. She's still not sure if that was her answer, but we are. :) So she's not going to loose interest until she sees if really it was her answer. Yep, super awesome.
3rd exciting thing, I have pictures this time! We're going to call them the things you see in Georgia.(see next post)
Well, there are your typicall Georgia sights. Even I'm a typical sight here in Georgia now.
Have a good week!
Elder Clark
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
And then you just eat it off the floor
Buenos Dias!
Hey, speaking of food, this week I had some amazing hispanic food. Homemade tortillas smothered in baccon grease, layer of black beans, queso fresco, and beef. Yep, super healthy food. Appearantly they just buy bacon grease in a can. That's so awesome.
Anyways, exciting news about transfers! I'm not gonig anywhere, and neither is Elder May, except he's going district leader, which is something nobody expected, especially him. He's going to be an awesome district leader though. Our district is going to be a lot of the same missionaries, just trading places with others. We're also going to get a greeny! Wow, I wasn't a greeny that long ago.
Awesome thing #1: We had a lesson with somebody who's been investigating the church for over a year. That morning, we were thinking about what we were going to teach her, and we thought about the Book of Mormon and the important role it plays in the conversion process. We went to the lesson, and in the first 5 minutes, it seemed like we were going to drop her (tell her we couldn't teach her anymore,) because she wasn't keeping her commitments. But then she she starts talking about how she's still confused and believes the book of Mormon is true and reads it to find answers she can't find in the Bible. Needless to say, we didn't want to drop her anymore. So now we're focusing on getting her to understand the importance of the Book of Mormon.
Awesome thing #2: We had a regional stake conference, where we and about 50 other stakes in the South East watched a broadcast from Salt Lake. Elder Ballard spoke about missionary work, and rescuing Less active members. This was really cool because just the week before, our branch presented our branch mission plan and goal for this year, and it included a lot of things Elder Ballard talked about. Our branch is ahead of the game. :)
Nos vemos
Elder Clark
Hey, speaking of food, this week I had some amazing hispanic food. Homemade tortillas smothered in baccon grease, layer of black beans, queso fresco, and beef. Yep, super healthy food. Appearantly they just buy bacon grease in a can. That's so awesome.
Anyways, exciting news about transfers! I'm not gonig anywhere, and neither is Elder May, except he's going district leader, which is something nobody expected, especially him. He's going to be an awesome district leader though. Our district is going to be a lot of the same missionaries, just trading places with others. We're also going to get a greeny! Wow, I wasn't a greeny that long ago.
Awesome thing #1: We had a lesson with somebody who's been investigating the church for over a year. That morning, we were thinking about what we were going to teach her, and we thought about the Book of Mormon and the important role it plays in the conversion process. We went to the lesson, and in the first 5 minutes, it seemed like we were going to drop her (tell her we couldn't teach her anymore,) because she wasn't keeping her commitments. But then she she starts talking about how she's still confused and believes the book of Mormon is true and reads it to find answers she can't find in the Bible. Needless to say, we didn't want to drop her anymore. So now we're focusing on getting her to understand the importance of the Book of Mormon.
Awesome thing #2: We had a regional stake conference, where we and about 50 other stakes in the South East watched a broadcast from Salt Lake. Elder Ballard spoke about missionary work, and rescuing Less active members. This was really cool because just the week before, our branch presented our branch mission plan and goal for this year, and it included a lot of things Elder Ballard talked about. Our branch is ahead of the game. :)
Nos vemos
Elder Clark
Monday, January 23, 2012
Latter Stack
Bueno
Here in Georgia, things happen. It must mean we're doing something right.
A lot of cool little things have happened this week. We found out of of the investigators we dropped 4 weeks ago has just been searching and been a little confused with everything. She goes to a Catholic Chruch, had a Cristiano preacher come over and give her daughter a blessing, and she is being taught by us. Everybody had been telling her to pray, so even she doesn't want to pray becuase we asked her to, she's got other influences. She really is searching for the truth right now, so thats another plus.
We had another great first lesson with a former investigators from about 4 years ago. She was super attentative to the lesson, and her family has a lot of faith. In that same complex, we had a lesson with a less active who nobody had seen for a few years. Him and his wife have been praying to help him over come some problems that he has, and then we showed up.
I got to go on exchange with Elder Laney. (my last companion) He served here over a year ago, so we were able to meet with some super awesome investigators that he taught that never got baptized. One of them told us he got a bike, and wants to help us teach people Monday nights. So cool!
I know that you would all rather look at pictures then read my post, but I have again been lacking at takeing said pictures. :)
I hope everybody is having a wonderful time living life. I'm having a wonderful living the missionary life. =)
Elder Clark
Here in Georgia, things happen. It must mean we're doing something right.
A lot of cool little things have happened this week. We found out of of the investigators we dropped 4 weeks ago has just been searching and been a little confused with everything. She goes to a Catholic Chruch, had a Cristiano preacher come over and give her daughter a blessing, and she is being taught by us. Everybody had been telling her to pray, so even she doesn't want to pray becuase we asked her to, she's got other influences. She really is searching for the truth right now, so thats another plus.
We had another great first lesson with a former investigators from about 4 years ago. She was super attentative to the lesson, and her family has a lot of faith. In that same complex, we had a lesson with a less active who nobody had seen for a few years. Him and his wife have been praying to help him over come some problems that he has, and then we showed up.
I got to go on exchange with Elder Laney. (my last companion) He served here over a year ago, so we were able to meet with some super awesome investigators that he taught that never got baptized. One of them told us he got a bike, and wants to help us teach people Monday nights. So cool!
I know that you would all rather look at pictures then read my post, but I have again been lacking at takeing said pictures. :)
I hope everybody is having a wonderful time living life. I'm having a wonderful living the missionary life. =)
Elder Clark
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
What's 7 divided by Jueves?
Buenos Noches!
I love my mission so much. Sometimes I feel so incompetent and like I have know idea what I'm doing, yet we still see amazing miracles. :)
On Tuesday, we had a District meeting with President Wolfert, and he emphasized the importance of talking to everybody. He also told us that even though we are the Spanish missionaries, we need to talk to English speaking people too. It has beeb easy to use the "they don't speak Spanish" excuse, but not anymore. About an hour after that, we were in an apartment complex, and we were trying to visit a couple people, but nobody was home. We were then walking around outside looking for somebody to talk to, and of course there was absolutley nobody. We start walking back to the car, and we saw this man that didn't speak Spanish, but we went and talked to him like we were just told to in District meeting. Turns out he took the lessons from the missionaries over a year ago in California, had been to church a lot, and was still reading The Book of Mormon. He was going to call the missionaries in California that day so he could get the number of the missionaries here, but we went up and talked to him, so he didn't have to. Definitly a testimony that this is the Lord's work, and He is really the one that leads it.
In Norcross, the English and Spanish Elders help each other out a lot. They recently found somebody super awesome for us. This lady has so much faith in Christ, and she has told us she will do anything to follow him. She even accepted the invitation to be baptized before I finished saying it. I said "Seguira el ejemplo de" (Will you follow the example of) and she said yes. She also has a married son and a daughter that have listened to a bit of the lessons. The whole family is just a great family.
And then at the end of the week, our car broke down, our bikes were being slighlty problematic, and Elder May got sick, but that was all totally okay. We had such an amazing week, and even with those problems, the work continued. We could have found somebody else to be baptized in those few days. I say that pretty much makes up for any problem.
Yep, awesome week. Today, I'm actually back in Cumorah on exchange with Elder Spear, my companion from the MTC. This place is a like a second home almost.
Hasta luego
Elder Clark
I love my mission so much. Sometimes I feel so incompetent and like I have know idea what I'm doing, yet we still see amazing miracles. :)
On Tuesday, we had a District meeting with President Wolfert, and he emphasized the importance of talking to everybody. He also told us that even though we are the Spanish missionaries, we need to talk to English speaking people too. It has beeb easy to use the "they don't speak Spanish" excuse, but not anymore. About an hour after that, we were in an apartment complex, and we were trying to visit a couple people, but nobody was home. We were then walking around outside looking for somebody to talk to, and of course there was absolutley nobody. We start walking back to the car, and we saw this man that didn't speak Spanish, but we went and talked to him like we were just told to in District meeting. Turns out he took the lessons from the missionaries over a year ago in California, had been to church a lot, and was still reading The Book of Mormon. He was going to call the missionaries in California that day so he could get the number of the missionaries here, but we went up and talked to him, so he didn't have to. Definitly a testimony that this is the Lord's work, and He is really the one that leads it.
In Norcross, the English and Spanish Elders help each other out a lot. They recently found somebody super awesome for us. This lady has so much faith in Christ, and she has told us she will do anything to follow him. She even accepted the invitation to be baptized before I finished saying it. I said "Seguira el ejemplo de" (Will you follow the example of) and she said yes. She also has a married son and a daughter that have listened to a bit of the lessons. The whole family is just a great family.
And then at the end of the week, our car broke down, our bikes were being slighlty problematic, and Elder May got sick, but that was all totally okay. We had such an amazing week, and even with those problems, the work continued. We could have found somebody else to be baptized in those few days. I say that pretty much makes up for any problem.
Yep, awesome week. Today, I'm actually back in Cumorah on exchange with Elder Spear, my companion from the MTC. This place is a like a second home almost.
Hasta luego
Elder Clark
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