hey!
i love you guys so much!!!
so first of all we had a fun week.
so OBEDIENCE there are no exceptions! it feels so good to be a hundred percent obedient always. im always in my room praying by 1030 i never get up past 630 never late to studies and always walk out the door at 1000 we are never in a comida past 45 minutes.
we had one baptism this month... the lowest elder juergens has ever had. but we have been so obedient and working so hard always. i dont worry about that number it will grow, but i learned more this month about obedience and hard work and sacrifice that i can carry through my mission and life. the lord blesses the obedient.
we have a cool story to tell this week. we were in the mexican bodega (walmart) and we were in line and i forgot something and so i told juergens i would just run and get it really quick and we thought for a second and he decided to come with me. the lines were so long but we were obedient he came with me and we we got back to the line it was even longer but we kept our spirits high and not even two minutes later a new line opened and we were second and third in line. just a super simple thing like that the lord loves and blessed us. the smallest things are so important and its not worth chancing. i would have been gone 10 seconds and just down the next isle but the lord showed his approval of obedience
so on tuesday night we left to got to zitacuaro and we stayed with the zone leaders so we could catch a bus to toluca in the morning so we could get to the zone conference on time. well tuesday night we slept on a freezing cold tile floor and didnt sleep but i was a on the ground before 1030. but we "woke up" at 4 but we never really slept then i tried to take a shower in FREEZING COLD WATER. it was terrible but the conference was amazing.
friday i got so sick again. we think it was the water we ate with the same hermana both the pst two thursdays. the water sucks... bc i get sick. i threw up again and my stomach still hasnt been the same. my comp and i are on powerful meds for the bacteria. and i still have diaria ;)
i can feel the gift of tounges every time i speak. especially in lessons. there is no way that i could be teaching without it. thats why we are allways obedient so we can have the spirit with us!
changes are next week so i dont know if im going or staying.
can i get a voting ballot. and calle ball and cd player and a whole bunch of hymns and motab on cd. i would love that!! and speakers hahah all packages with tons of virgin stuff!!!
i have avenger plates i love them.
how its glennnnnnn? i want to know everything adn stefan and dave and michael christensen
hows all the fam? i havent heard from anyone since the mtc. thanks for filling me in tho mom and dad!
cows in the street all the time and people riding horses. and the stories of dogs chasing missionaries is true!!! but they train their dogs to fight
we just had chinese food before here again!!! so good.
i have been studying in matthew and i love it. i love the savior!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love you all keep me posted send me pictures please!
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Letter # 6
HOLA,
so the highlight of this week was i got super sick. i woke up at 1:30 and had diaria 7 times before six thirty. each time i just sat on the toilet for twenty minutes or more. and i cant remember how many times i shoved a toothbrush down my throat. but everytime my body would cringe but nothing would come out. i couldnt sleep that morning. but i woke up on time. my comp gave me a blessing and i finally threw up at 7 then i got ready and made it to both of my studies on time. then we left the house to work. but after two hours i returned to the house and super dead and dissy. i fell asleep till four thirty and then talked with my comp then i crashed again at woke up alittle before eight and went back to work. and i stayed out till nine. i was so dead and we planned and i fell asleep at nine thirty. woke up the next day fine.
i still have a little diaria and my stomach aches but the work goes on.
i forgot to tell you. on obedience, we have to have our shoes polished and shirts planched but the iron broke and we got one today. also we only have 45 minutes for food nothing more.
these past two weeks we havent had any baptisms. its so sad but we have two weeks left in this change.
my comp has been out for almost exactly a year. i feel like we will get split up in two weeks. its rare to have a trainer two changes. and when i was in the mtc there were so many guys going to mexico city west. so this change they are all coming.
this week in my studies i have been reading the new testiment in matthew. the savior is awesome. i love reading about him. i going to try to read the entire new testiment and i invite all to do the same.
so dad and everyone else. yesterday i started testifying of the savior and atonement during my street contacts. i love it. together with my comp we have had over or just under 200 contacts each of the past two weeks. we teach so many lessons every week over 40. i can teach every part of faith repentance baptism holy ghost and enduring to the end. bc we teach that lesson so much. jesus taught one way of baptism, dont you think it is important to follow his example? i can also teach the four fundamentals of the church. prophet 12 apostles revelation and the power. also the fall of the church, apostasy, and restoration. this week we are working on inpired questions to help invovle the people.
i can speak in lessons and contacts and others but im not the best in conversational spanish. but thats not the important part yet.
last monday we played a little bit of soccer. but this monday we went to ciudad hildalgo and played soccer as a zone! it was so fun it was a little turf field and it had a fence so we didnt have to chase the ball. it was so funnnnnnn. i loved it.
SEND ALL LETTERS TO THE MTC WITH MY DEPARTURE DATE!!!! AND THE CHURCH SENDS AN ENVELOPE TO THE MISSION HOME. its so much better that way. ill get it faster and safer. plus ill get dear elders in the same envelope.
i made french toast so many times this week and made my own syrup. elder juergens loves the syrup, its funny he said it some of the best he has ever had. and we have an amazing chinese restaurant that we eat at every monday. its like 3 dollars for a huge plate.
i hope you like the picts. no closet, we have strings hanging from the wall. my desk is the messy one... i didnt have time to clean it and everything has been crazy from the sickness. and we have a little hot coil that has one setting... super hot. but its one of the nicest apartments/houses in the mission.
i love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elder Clark
so the highlight of this week was i got super sick. i woke up at 1:30 and had diaria 7 times before six thirty. each time i just sat on the toilet for twenty minutes or more. and i cant remember how many times i shoved a toothbrush down my throat. but everytime my body would cringe but nothing would come out. i couldnt sleep that morning. but i woke up on time. my comp gave me a blessing and i finally threw up at 7 then i got ready and made it to both of my studies on time. then we left the house to work. but after two hours i returned to the house and super dead and dissy. i fell asleep till four thirty and then talked with my comp then i crashed again at woke up alittle before eight and went back to work. and i stayed out till nine. i was so dead and we planned and i fell asleep at nine thirty. woke up the next day fine.
i still have a little diaria and my stomach aches but the work goes on.
i forgot to tell you. on obedience, we have to have our shoes polished and shirts planched but the iron broke and we got one today. also we only have 45 minutes for food nothing more.
these past two weeks we havent had any baptisms. its so sad but we have two weeks left in this change.
my comp has been out for almost exactly a year. i feel like we will get split up in two weeks. its rare to have a trainer two changes. and when i was in the mtc there were so many guys going to mexico city west. so this change they are all coming.
this week in my studies i have been reading the new testiment in matthew. the savior is awesome. i love reading about him. i going to try to read the entire new testiment and i invite all to do the same.
so dad and everyone else. yesterday i started testifying of the savior and atonement during my street contacts. i love it. together with my comp we have had over or just under 200 contacts each of the past two weeks. we teach so many lessons every week over 40. i can teach every part of faith repentance baptism holy ghost and enduring to the end. bc we teach that lesson so much. jesus taught one way of baptism, dont you think it is important to follow his example? i can also teach the four fundamentals of the church. prophet 12 apostles revelation and the power. also the fall of the church, apostasy, and restoration. this week we are working on inpired questions to help invovle the people.
i can speak in lessons and contacts and others but im not the best in conversational spanish. but thats not the important part yet.
last monday we played a little bit of soccer. but this monday we went to ciudad hildalgo and played soccer as a zone! it was so fun it was a little turf field and it had a fence so we didnt have to chase the ball. it was so funnnnnnn. i loved it.
SEND ALL LETTERS TO THE MTC WITH MY DEPARTURE DATE!!!! AND THE CHURCH SENDS AN ENVELOPE TO THE MISSION HOME. its so much better that way. ill get it faster and safer. plus ill get dear elders in the same envelope.
i made french toast so many times this week and made my own syrup. elder juergens loves the syrup, its funny he said it some of the best he has ever had. and we have an amazing chinese restaurant that we eat at every monday. its like 3 dollars for a huge plate.
i hope you like the picts. no closet, we have strings hanging from the wall. my desk is the messy one... i didnt have time to clean it and everything has been crazy from the sickness. and we have a little hot coil that has one setting... super hot. but its one of the nicest apartments/houses in the mission.
i love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elder Clark
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Letter # 5
I love you all!
First week was a blast! I didnt get to Maravatio(my first area) until Tuesday after noon. Little Maravatio is split into to areas. We have some town then we visit the surrounding villages all the time. We have bikes!!!!!!!! So fun.
My first comp... Elder Juergens from Houston TX. Him and his twin brother played football at BYU... he was wide receiver and his brother is a running back. He is super obedient and a hard worker and loves to have fun. The other day we were contacting like crazy(because its the only thing you can do here) and we played this game: We would switch off every time... when we would approach someone we would start the conversation and before we started teaching the person who wasnt doing the contact would say a word in spanish and you would have to use it during the contact. one time he said platanas(bananas) and I used it... we used other words like mountain, rock, mud, tree, car. it made it a lot more enjoyable. He is good at singing and is reading about the miracles in the bible. I think i'm going to do that soon or later.
So the bike gave me mad blisters on the inside of my thumbs. but they broke and scabbed and now they just crack now and then.
We baptized 2 on Sunday and I did one of them. We have a mission rule that every companionship has to baptize at least once a week. My comp has sixty or something. we are the highest baptising mission in the world. We get over three hundred a month.
This place is so poor! Our house has two beds, two plastic tables and two chairs(thats our desk). we also have a refridgerator, shower, toilet, sink in the bathroom and "kitchen". there is some string in a seperate room where we hang our close and live out of our bags.
Maravatio... its in Machuican. It's so far west in our mission. There are things called combi's idk look them up online. They are like volts wagon vans but they are taxis. Lots of dirt roads and yeah super poor houses. Some are one room. Lots of cement.
My president is super strict on obedience thats why I can only be on for one hour and only email one person. he is all about baptizing and giving the people the holy ghost then teaching them... kind of wierd but what ev. It's Mexico... it's not like any mission in the United States at all!!!
I got a blue book of mormon and wrote a question in the front... how can i be a better missionary? Then I have underline everything in green and wrote comentary. I'm only in chapter 12 but it is so more interesting
This is actually the second week letter because I guess you didnt get the one above.
But Yesterday I saw two drunks (I contacted the one before) one punched the other guy and he was knocked out on the ground and started kicking him in the side of the head so hard like 3 times. But we ended helping the guy out of the middle of the street. They were soooooo drunk and so stupid. Qe were fine and not in any trouble we weren't in any danger.
But we had our second baptism with Nancy. she was a miracle. We found her late last Saturday night and we invited her to church and she came and told us she wanted to get baptized the following week. So I baptized her yesterday and it was a cool experience. there was a hole in the pila so the water was way low. she sat down and I got on my knees and then she layed down to get all the way under.
We hopefully have 4 baptisms next week we should have three this week but two teenagers didnt show. The food is pretty good here we eat at a members house every day but monday.
We went to the pyramids today. It was so fun. we went as a zone and it took up all our day. I love it here and i'm learning a little more every day. Conaculta Inah I think thats the place. it was pretty cool and had a great view.
If you are doing a mission prep class add the book of mormon to your list. and even some scriptures from the bible. the bible is the only thing we use here and so many peoples beliefs contradict the bible so its funny.
in the next email i want the whole story of the virgin guadelupe. the entire thing. then i want the whole story of how it was made up, all the evidence every thing, how it was made up, why it was made up how it was started. everyone here idols her and prays to her. we told this one guy that no one in america idolises her and no one knows who she is in any other country. i heard someone made up the story to control the indians when the first spanards came in. the catholic religion is different in everypart of the world. there is no ORGANIZATION.
well thats all i got for this week i hope these pics go through
love you all,
Elder Clark
First week was a blast! I didnt get to Maravatio(my first area) until Tuesday after noon. Little Maravatio is split into to areas. We have some town then we visit the surrounding villages all the time. We have bikes!!!!!!!! So fun.
My first comp... Elder Juergens from Houston TX. Him and his twin brother played football at BYU... he was wide receiver and his brother is a running back. He is super obedient and a hard worker and loves to have fun. The other day we were contacting like crazy(because its the only thing you can do here) and we played this game: We would switch off every time... when we would approach someone we would start the conversation and before we started teaching the person who wasnt doing the contact would say a word in spanish and you would have to use it during the contact. one time he said platanas(bananas) and I used it... we used other words like mountain, rock, mud, tree, car. it made it a lot more enjoyable. He is good at singing and is reading about the miracles in the bible. I think i'm going to do that soon or later.
So the bike gave me mad blisters on the inside of my thumbs. but they broke and scabbed and now they just crack now and then.
We baptized 2 on Sunday and I did one of them. We have a mission rule that every companionship has to baptize at least once a week. My comp has sixty or something. we are the highest baptising mission in the world. We get over three hundred a month.
This place is so poor! Our house has two beds, two plastic tables and two chairs(thats our desk). we also have a refridgerator, shower, toilet, sink in the bathroom and "kitchen". there is some string in a seperate room where we hang our close and live out of our bags.
Maravatio... its in Machuican. It's so far west in our mission. There are things called combi's idk look them up online. They are like volts wagon vans but they are taxis. Lots of dirt roads and yeah super poor houses. Some are one room. Lots of cement.
My president is super strict on obedience thats why I can only be on for one hour and only email one person. he is all about baptizing and giving the people the holy ghost then teaching them... kind of wierd but what ev. It's Mexico... it's not like any mission in the United States at all!!!
I got a blue book of mormon and wrote a question in the front... how can i be a better missionary? Then I have underline everything in green and wrote comentary. I'm only in chapter 12 but it is so more interesting
This is actually the second week letter because I guess you didnt get the one above.
But Yesterday I saw two drunks (I contacted the one before) one punched the other guy and he was knocked out on the ground and started kicking him in the side of the head so hard like 3 times. But we ended helping the guy out of the middle of the street. They were soooooo drunk and so stupid. Qe were fine and not in any trouble we weren't in any danger.
But we had our second baptism with Nancy. she was a miracle. We found her late last Saturday night and we invited her to church and she came and told us she wanted to get baptized the following week. So I baptized her yesterday and it was a cool experience. there was a hole in the pila so the water was way low. she sat down and I got on my knees and then she layed down to get all the way under.
We hopefully have 4 baptisms next week we should have three this week but two teenagers didnt show. The food is pretty good here we eat at a members house every day but monday.
We went to the pyramids today. It was so fun. we went as a zone and it took up all our day. I love it here and i'm learning a little more every day. Conaculta Inah I think thats the place. it was pretty cool and had a great view.
If you are doing a mission prep class add the book of mormon to your list. and even some scriptures from the bible. the bible is the only thing we use here and so many peoples beliefs contradict the bible so its funny.
in the next email i want the whole story of the virgin guadelupe. the entire thing. then i want the whole story of how it was made up, all the evidence every thing, how it was made up, why it was made up how it was started. everyone here idols her and prays to her. we told this one guy that no one in america idolises her and no one knows who she is in any other country. i heard someone made up the story to control the indians when the first spanards came in. the catholic religion is different in everypart of the world. there is no ORGANIZATION.
well thats all i got for this week i hope these pics go through
love you all,
Elder Clark
Letter # 4
Hola here from Mexico!
I'm am doing swell. The Spanish is coming pretty good but I have a hilarious story...
In one day three separate times with three different people I was told I can't understand what your saying. It was either I cant understand you americans or It's hard to understand you or what did you say? It was so funny and kind of disheartening but all good.
Elder Juergens and I are so obedient, get up before six thirty, study at eight, study at nine, leave at ten and return before nine thirty, and get to bed before ten thirty and we shine our shoes. It's so fun. We had two baptisms drop this week but hopefully we will have four more this Sunday, and even more after that.
We are always so busy either tracting or teaching lessions or doing what ever. We have had a lot of cool people but a lot of people drop because of the virgin. we finally had to drop the girl that was going to get baptized. They believe inthe virgin more than anything, more than God. They pray to her, worship her and all. We told them, listen... Mexico is the only place in the world were they worship the virgin, Catholics In united states don't worship her, no one in europe worships her. she is mentioned three times in the bible and Jesus is on almost every page. It's difficult.
We ride our bikes everywhere it so much riding everyday. They have amazing tacos here! Tacos de pastor are the best hands down. We also had home made tortas... they were amazing, one of the best things i have ever tasted. We killed 4 mice this week and we did more cleaning. Especially the kitchen.
I started to read Jesus the Christ! It's super hard to understand, and really deep. but it has a lot of interesting things to say.
If anyone ever wants to write me send it to the MTC and write the departure date not mail box number. the church sends a package to the mission home. Dear Elders still work that way to. You can still write them but it just takes a little longer to get here. Everyone can write me but I can only send one email home every week. Packages you have to send it to my mission home and it and wrap it in the virgin!
I love you all so much!!!!!
Elder Clark
I'm am doing swell. The Spanish is coming pretty good but I have a hilarious story...
In one day three separate times with three different people I was told I can't understand what your saying. It was either I cant understand you americans or It's hard to understand you or what did you say? It was so funny and kind of disheartening but all good.
Elder Juergens and I are so obedient, get up before six thirty, study at eight, study at nine, leave at ten and return before nine thirty, and get to bed before ten thirty and we shine our shoes. It's so fun. We had two baptisms drop this week but hopefully we will have four more this Sunday, and even more after that.
We are always so busy either tracting or teaching lessions or doing what ever. We have had a lot of cool people but a lot of people drop because of the virgin. we finally had to drop the girl that was going to get baptized. They believe inthe virgin more than anything, more than God. They pray to her, worship her and all. We told them, listen... Mexico is the only place in the world were they worship the virgin, Catholics In united states don't worship her, no one in europe worships her. she is mentioned three times in the bible and Jesus is on almost every page. It's difficult.
We ride our bikes everywhere it so much riding everyday. They have amazing tacos here! Tacos de pastor are the best hands down. We also had home made tortas... they were amazing, one of the best things i have ever tasted. We killed 4 mice this week and we did more cleaning. Especially the kitchen.
I started to read Jesus the Christ! It's super hard to understand, and really deep. but it has a lot of interesting things to say.
If anyone ever wants to write me send it to the MTC and write the departure date not mail box number. the church sends a package to the mission home. Dear Elders still work that way to. You can still write them but it just takes a little longer to get here. Everyone can write me but I can only send one email home every week. Packages you have to send it to my mission home and it and wrap it in the virgin!
I love you all so much!!!!!
Elder Clark
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