Oct 27, 2014

Welp, I'm really ready for November.  October was great but November is going to be better.  It was a pretty awesome and stressful week.

So this week was a really spiritual week for me.    We had a great week and met a lot of new people and extended some sweet baptismal dates and taught some powerful lessons and still, nobody came to Church.  I have a love/hate relationship with Sundays.  They either rock or they stink.  Mostly they are good but every now and then you get a few bummers.  I'm pretty excited for next week though.  We have some great investigators lined up.  We have this one guy named R.  I think I talked about him last week.  We taught him with a member on Saturday and had such a powerful lesson.  Very spiritual other than T. Swift playing in the background.  Seriously it was a fantastic lesson.  He is super smart and has been literally searching for the truth and studying and visiting churches and he just can't find it.  Basically a modern day Joseph Smith.  He accepted to be baptized by saying he knows it time for him to make a decision and stay with it because he isn't going to live forever.  I'm so excited for him.  

We went on exchanges on Thursday.  I stayed in the area with an Elder from Nigeria.   We had a normal day full of failed appointments but had a sweet lesson with a recent convert.  She’s 18 and has some troubles because her mom doesn't like the Church and doesn't want her to go anymore.  I felt prompted to call her and see her because normally we wait for her to call us every Thursday when she is free in the evening.  So I called and  we went over, she just opened up.  So we talked and she said she doesn't know if the Church is true so we basically told her how to know and everything, resolving the concerns, it was pretty spiritual.  Sunday we went back because she didn't come to Church and we sat down and she was quiet and stuff and then told us after Thursday night she sat and seriously thought and prayed about the Church and knows it is completely and 100% true.  Very cool.  Nice work Moroni, gets them every time!

We had a pretty awesome Primary Program on Sunday.  I LOVE primary programs.  Definitely different than back home but just as cool and just as spiritual.  Great hymns, a few that I hadn't heard before that I liked.  I realized just how important Primary is.  How from childhood it is teaching us basic doctrines that are so so critical.  Things like baptism, the Godhead, having modern prophets and so many other things.  Primary is so important.  

Love you all!

Elder Clark