July 1, 2014

Another dime another dollar I guess.  Today we went to Shoprite to get some steak for the 4th of July.  Ran into a huge group of white girls from Europe.  Don't worry we kept our distance.  

This week was really good.  I went on exchanges with my boy from Burley.  He was in Oda with me.  I interviewed one of his candidates for this Saturday’s baptism.  We had a really cool day.  We were about to do the interview and a woman walked up with a boy and said he wanted us to meet his father.  The boy took us to his family and we were able to sit down in a nice lesson with them.  It was very spiritual..  The Dad is a less active member and the wife was super interested.  Wonderful family.  That was really a miracle and an answer to prayers.  Hoping that happens in my area too now.

Sunday we were asked to teach the 3rd hour class.  It was on the talk following up by Elder Ballard.  We kind of took it a different way.  We talked about how we need members to follow up with us and teach referrals and investigators with us.  We have 8 so we planned it really well and had each of us talking about different points.  It was really good.  We opened it with a brainstorming session about activities we can do in the Ward.  Then I took it into the follow up and how they need to bring friends to a fun activity and then we can teach them and why we need their help to teach them.  We had our fantastic investigator get up and help us.  We did a little role play where he only spoke twi.  Then we had him bear his testimony about how important members are.  Man, that was cool.  That was the best part of my week and it really touched the members.  I think that the lesson went really well.

Baptisms should be on Saturday.  Both are really cool.  Sunday we went to teach the man after church and he was so happy that he got to bear his testimony like that.  It really strengthened his testimony so much.  It’s so true when they say we find our testimony by bearing it.  It was a great experience.  

Tomorrow marks our one year as a mission.  That's pretty cool.  

Funny story for today.  We were walking to the cafe and a young girl held out some corn on the cob and said white man come and eat. So I went over there and took a big bite of that corn.  She looked pretty amazed at that. 

Love you all, Have a great week!

Love,

Elder Clark