3/12/12

okay well were do i start. well mom i got 2 packages and the small
package yesterday so like 3 at the same time, it was a overload of
awesomeness and love and that combined con your emails this week i
feel so loved by you guys. the reason i got them all at once is
because the sister that gets them moved , but her i think brother
still goes back and forth but doesn't go as often so i wont get them as
fast anymore and then in months he wont go at all so in i think 2
months just either send them to the mission offices or ill find a
another member. but i didn't the the latest on with the food and the
pictures of Jan's birthday. i loved all the stuff so much thank you so
much it meant more than you know.  I'm trying to write stuff i need to
first so i don't forget. happy birthday em and Brian. oh make sure you
tell me next week were Cade and Matt are going.
thanks so much for the emails. i loved hearing about chad Lewis´s
talk, i heard his cd right before i left and it was amazing, and that
was cool about Michelle and volleyball. anyway thanks so much for the
inspirations.

well this week was really interesting and hard. we are having a hard
with parts of stuff, we teach a lot and find a ton of people but not a
lot happens it seems like. but i am learning a ton from it and it is
making elder Cardenas and i be more humble and try to improve as much
as we can. my Spanish is getting there i think, i know that the lord
is helping me and will, i just have to keep working. well i had a lot
of ups and downs this week, i remember hearing about ups and downs from
Amanda and Jason's letters but i never knew how true it is. its the
highest highs and pretty low lows. but its the lows that make you
strong , so even the bad is good. its pretty amazing how it works. its
a win win situation. i am so grateful for this opportunity to grow and
learn, one really cool thing that happened this week was that we watched the
testaments with the Jesus , Claudia and Luz . ( a family we are
teaching) at the end of it all of them were crying. we bore our
testimonies and it was really cool . and  then later with some more
work latter this week we think they are going to get married, but its
not for sure.

also another thing from the week, i was reading the conference ensign
and i read elder... i forgot from who. but he quoted pres Hinckley and
said that our work knows no boundaries, we haven't even scraped the
surface. that combined with talk that you guys sent me from elder
Holland, i felt strongly how amazing this work is and this
dispensation.

i love this work and am so grateful to be here. there is nothing
cooler than feeling the spirit during lessons and being able to speak
Spanish better than i really can if that makes sense.
this week was just strait up hard but i know that all it does is just
make me stronger so i am grateful.
oh mom did i have chicken pox when i was younger ? and is it possible
to get it again? cause elder Sanchez had it the last 2 weeks and i
thought id ask. oh and i did send a camera card with elder brockbank,
but i bet he will send it to you if you don't get to meet his mom or
something cause it has your address and your number. i know that this
church is true, i know it. i don't care what happens i am going to
serve with all i have. thank you for your prayers, please keeping
praying for me if that's alright.

thanks again for all the stuff in the packages. love you all so much.
thanks so much for the emails everyone

elder Clark