Hey Everyone,                                                                                                                      

What a crazy week! So I'm training now and I have my new companion. He is from good ol' Twin Falls, Idaho.  He is 19 not 18, thank goodness. He went to a year of college at CSI so he knows a little bit about life. He's a really cool guy. He's quiet but willing to work and try new things so we get along really well.

As for our companionship I have been transferred to another area, still in Oda. I am opening a new area again. This time we have even less to work with than the last area I opened. We had nobody to teach going in on Friday and we have been doing a TON of finding/contacting.  I think it’s really good because my companion gets to start his mission by doing that and not just be dropped in on a bunch of old investigators that I already had. The branch president said he's really amazed because everywhere he goes he sees people with pamphlets or he sees us teaching people which is pretty cool. We're working hard to really build this area. There's a far away town in our area that has a bunch of members and investigators, I'm hoping that we can start a unit there so they don't have to travel so much.

That's pretty much it for our area, we are just doing tons of finding. It's pretty fun because we are meeting lots of people. We had one really sweet lesson the other day. We contacted this woman and her brother then her father came out. We prayed like always then introduced ourselves then the father told us he was a pastor and I got really worried because I don't know lots of scriptures like they do. So I started looking for a way out but I was prompted to keep teaching and then I started acting like I was learning from him.  I started asking him questions and then I asked him why there are so many churches that use the bible, why there isn't just one church. Then I asked him about the different baptisms when the bible says only one. Then I asked him if we should do an eye for an eye or forgive like Jesus taught. Long story short I got him to tell me that I can follow the bible and not Jesus Christ. He was pretty much all confused so we introduced him to the Book of Mormon.  It was sweet. It really built my testimony that when we teach with faith we shall not be confounded before men.  I kind of felt like Alma and Amulek.

Other excitement for the week, we moved into a new apartment, 8 was too many for the old one so now we have 2 apartments each with 4 missionaries. Our is literally brand new. It's so new in fact that they haven't hooked up the water yet. So yet again I'm living without running water and have to go to the well every time I want to shower, use the toilet, cook, or wash anything. It's really amazing how weak I am now compared to last time I had to do this. Kind of a bummer. Hopefully they will bring the water this week for us.
That's pretty much my week. Just finding, finding, finding. Loving life!
Love,
Elder Clark