Letter #12

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hey everyone! i miss you all. thanks mom and dad for your letters this week. mom im fine! our lights were cut because we didnt pay the bill. hahahah. but its back on now and its so convenient to have electricity. so we found out that the fast this last week was a bad idea. we made it to thursday but it was destroying our stomachs. we were hurting so bad! but its all good. so we had one baptism this week. her name is keila. we were supposed to have three but the mom and brother dropped out. but keila will be a great example for them. when we went to pick them up for there baptisms they all rejected it but we talked keila into getting baptised. and while we tried getting the mom and brother to come, keila began to bawl. it was so amazing! she was like "i just feel something so bonito". she says she wants to serve a mission(she is only 15). she is going to be a great example to her mom and brother. they will follow in the footsteps of her example. so this morning we went to make tortillas and the hermana was done! i was a little sad but she gave us hot ones as they came off the stove. they are amazing. we are going back tonight and she is going to teach us how to make masa. and we are going to go buy tortilla presses. and hopefully find a flour tortilla recipe. and we are going to make our own! it rained a lot this week and we got so soaked and on tuesday we were riding we saw testigos de jehova talking to keila(before she got baptised), so we rain over there and inturrupted them and started talking to her. i just think to myself "why do they even try, their church isnt true!" its so sad how so many people are so dedicated to satan. wednesday, we had a lot of food back to back to back. people kept feeding us and i got so sick and almost threw up at this ladys house. elder slade tried to do a front flip. i was riding my bike with one hand because i was eating bread and i hit a dip and my haddle bars turned sideways and i skid and turned into elder slade. but elder slade slammed on his breaks and only his front ones work so he flew over his handle bars and i rode off still eating bread while elder slad was on the ground. friday was a normal day. did normal stuff. saturday, keila was bawling before her baptism bc she knew it was true. and we tried for two hours to have the other two come but they wouldnt. sunday! we had 6 new people to church for the first time! we are going to try to baptise them all this next sunday. a lot of them loved it! that is the picture of what we went through to get to church. tons of mud. this next weekend is conference it conference!!!! i am so excited. but i will be working and wont be able to watch it and we dont have anything to watch it on so we will just be listening to it if we ever have a chance. but yeah just send me copies over email. 2 or 3 talks you liked and ill read those throw out the week. i can print them off if you send it throw email. i love this quote from howard w hunter "if you have troubles at home with children who stray, if you suffer financial reverses and emotional strain that threaten your home and your happiness, if you mus face the loss of life or health, may peace be unto your soul. we will not be tempted beyond our ability to withstand. our detours and disappointments are the straight and narrow path to him." i love that!!!! we are being shaped and molded by the refiners fire. when ever we have a disappointment or a trial, we should think, "what is the lord trying to teach me, what can i do a little better, or what is the one little sin i have in my life that i could give up." it is the only way we will learn and in the immortal words of gordon b hinckley: "things will work out." thanks everyone for everything! sunscreen would be awesome. im being the missionary i promised to be... Elder Clark --