2/6/12

alright well not sure how long this letter will be, lots of things to say. this week has been a roller coaster. but i will first say how awesome your emails were!!! very spiritually uplifting. thanks so much for all the encouragement, it really does help so don't think its pointless. and then next thing i will say is how jealous i am that you saw Blake griffin that close and that you saw top 10 dunks, and since when was Chris Paul on the clippers..
and i got your package yesterday mom thanks soooo much for the pictures, you all look older..haha especially breya aka Rapunzel. thanks again mom. and mom i can print but it cost money, so usually i don't.

also i want to give a shot out to Danny cowser on his call that he got 2 weeks ago, sooo legit.
answers from your last email:
 its actually freezing cold right now, the last 3 days. and when its rainy the streets get like flooded and pure muddy cause the draining is tough nouckles here
the language is getting easier to understand actually, but i cant speak very well, its really hard. i have had a hard time all week with my language but i have felt conforted , especially this morning.
we walk a ton, always running late. take crazy buses that drive up curbs and go like 40 in residential areas got sick this week, nothing bad , just Mexican sickness. its impossible not to get a little sick but i have been supper blessed and have been able do everything this week. so don't worry about that

okay so a summery of this week, oh man where do i start. well so Tuesday was zone conference with president walker and sister walker. they seriously are so good.
pres walker just has that presence about him, but its not that scary presence with spiritually people. anyway so sister walker talked to us about talking with everyone, at least i know she said at least that in her Spanish. and pres walker talked about using fam history. so later that day we had a appointment fall through, and we decided to talk with everyone. we only talked to 2 people before we had to go and they were both super interested, one of them said she wanted to change her religion and had heard how good our church is. so yeah and elder brockbank and elder sanchez both had similar things happen when they talked with everyone. president and hermana walker are for sure inspired.
so yeah we talked to a lot of people this week, it is so frustrating how people are like oh i have my religion and they shut us out and even with new investigators, we will talk about how a 14 year old boy said he saw god and Christ, either kick us out or take this a little more serious haha. i was so happy when i contacted this one guy and he said, you say your the church of Christ.. and got mad and said that there will be false prophets and wanted to bible bash us. at least he understood what our message was. anyway haha that's not how all people are just a few and it kinda bugs me.   mom will you send me the restoration video in Spanish if that's possible, they should have it at the dis center. the one with focus on the first vision, not the long movie one. we want to show it but ours is broken.
this week i learned the importance of prayer. i have felt and learned that heavenly father hears every one of our prayers, and is always listening, this gave me so much comfort this week. there have been times when i have felt so alone then i pray and know he is there. i also am learning about faith!!!! faith could sum up my 3-4 weeks here. it seriously has been a GMAT test of my faith.. right Brian.. heavenly father want us to become strong and knows that we learn by faith. when so many people don't know the truth and treat you badly it is not easy. but i am so gratefully that heavenly father tries or tries or triales our father .. how every you say that.

i am so gratefully for the book of Mormon, it is like my Gatorade that i would drink at home. after a hard day or just to feel good i would drive to club chev or 7 11 to get a 32 ounce AM tropical mango Gatorade. here it is the book of Mormon, i drink up every word and i feel re-hydrated and stress free. i feel how real our salvation is and how real heavenly father is and especially the savior. i know from it that i really am teaching salvation.

we are teaching a lot and trying really hard. we meet a lot of people this week which was great. we have some good prospects. we teach a lot of people. i try and help them understand how important this is, in my Spanish, but its hard.

thanks so much mom and dad for being such good parents, i realized why, cause how important the gospel is to you too.

that testimony meeting sounded so amazing, it was fitting that dad was in that company to bear his testimony, i cant think of two better parents and a better family i could be in.
don't think that the ward is not one of a kind, it is so amazing. haha yesterday it was really cold so there were about half the normal turnout for church, just cause it was cold haha, we got 1 investigator and she always comes so almost none. that's why i hate the cold, yeah its really cold here right now, but it will be like 80 tomorrow i think, I'm already getting a tan line.
alright well I'm out of time.
love you all and thanks for everything

elder clark