Miracles and Ward Parties

Hey everyone!

Well it’s been a crazy busy week. The pace has definitely changed from Quartzsite to Las Vegas - that’s for sure! I am always so tired and exhausted, but I am pushing through!

Not a whole lot of stories this week. But, lots of miracles.

On Tuesday I gave a district meeting which went well. I also went on exchanges with the zone leaders and I was able to work with one of them who happens to be one of my best friends here on the mission. So that was really cool. We had an awesome day!

One of the biggest miracles we saw was we when went to contact a referral we had received. When we arrived at the house a teenager answered the door. We asked for the referral and the guy didn’t even live there, but we brought up the gospel anyway and asked if he had a few minutes to talk to us. He invited us inside and while we were talking to him I saw his mom through the kitchen window out in the backyard. She was staring at us and so I waved to her and she hid! But then the kid brought in his mom and we started talking to her and teaching them and it was so amazing what happened. She talked about how she had waited 17 years for us to come by and when we had stopped by on Saturday, a few days before and left a card, it was the first contact she has had. She said she could feel she was ready for the gospel and that she was knew it was true and it was so, so awesome! She said she felt full of peace and joy; it was awesome! Sadly she didn’t come to church but we are still working with her so she’ll get there.

Another family we are teaching is super awesome also. They are from Cuba. A sad thing though,  we were teaching a mom, her son and daughter but her son just told us that he wasn’t interested. So that was really a bummer. He is a super cool and nice guy. I think he is just a little nervous to try something new, but the mom and the daughter are so awesome. The mom is super nice and she always says to us, “mi amor” (haha) which means “my love” but it’s like we’re her kids, in a way. She’s just awesome. Hopefully they are going to be baptized on May 30^th. The mom was able to change her work schedule so she can go to church which will be awesome!!

The work is progressing. We are starting to get to know more people. Even though my comp had been here for 6 weeks, he didn’t know many people so we have been trying to get to know them. We met a super awesome recent convert family and they are way cool! The ward is great. I love being back in Spanish. We had a big party on Saturday as a fundraiser for the young women. That was fun. I even got to see some people from my last Spanish ward in Desert Bloom. Our ward loves to party so we are having another part for Mother’s Day!! 

But that’s about it this week.

Elder Clark

Back in Las Vegas

Hey everyone,

Sorry for my short email last week. I didn’t have a lot of time.

I have left Quartzsite as the area has been closed down and I am back in Las Vegas.

It was a good last week in Quartzsite! We were able to baptize a Spanish girl that we have been teaching for a while now. But she has been back and forth from Quartzsite and Mexico. So it was a miracle to be able to have her move back to Quartzsite so she could be baptized there.

It was sad to leave Quartzsite, but I am glad to back in Vegas. My last Sunday there, they had us speak at the end of sacrament meeting and one comment I said was that now my grandparents seem really young!  Everyone thought that was really funny and they wouldn’t stop bugging me about it!

During these last two weeks we have had a couple a life-saving experiences - So that has been pretty cool!

The first was from Quartzsite. I was on exchanges and we were in my area walking around an RV park. We saw all of this smoke billowing up and so we walked over there to check it out. There were two young kids and a pile of rubble from an old trailer was on fire! So we ran over there and talked to them and then started helping them put it out. It took us an hour to extinguish it completely. It wasn't too bad, but if we wouldn’t have showed up it could have been a lot worse and spread to a lot of trailers that were really close nearby. So that was a pretty crazy experience!

And then in my new area, we were knocking on a door of an 2nd floor apartment but they never answered. It was a super windy day and as we were waiting, I saw a kid walking down below us. I called out to him and he turned around a walked back to where we were and started talking to us and as we started talking a giant Cottonwood tree cracked and fell to the ground right where he was going to be walking!!!! So that was crazy. The kid was freaking out. So that was a really cool experience because I felt prompted to talk to him.

Being back in a Spanish area is going really well. I love it! The Lord  has really blessed me. I am able to understand and speak better than I thought I would be able to. I can speak enough Spanish to accomplish the Lord’s work; which is amazing! We have so many people in this area who are ready to hear the gospel! It’s so refreshing! Compared to Quartzsite when we talked to people and everyone said no - here it feels like everyone says yes! 

We were walking down a street when a van pulled over and two girls got out and started talking to us. Their family is from the Congo and they went to church once in Utah and they really wanted to know where the church was and when they could go. They were super nice and very ready to hear the gospel. We referred them to the English elders. It is a family of five or six, I think and they all want to come to church and get baptized so that was a crazy cool miracle! 

We also met another girl and we went back and met her mom and brother and they are from Cuba. They are all super ready to come to church and were very excited. The mom asked what time it started and we told her and she said she worked, but that she was going to talk to her boss to get it switched. It was amazing!

So, I am really excited to be here! Our ward is made up of a lot of people from El Salvador and many of our investigators are from Cuba.  Oh man, they are hard to understand but I am getting by!

Take care!

Elderito Clark

Rattle Snake Snack!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brother Murphy. He is so, so awesome!

Our neighbor Bob. He likes the sun!

The Duffins

Brother Atwood. He still fished and hunts at 80 something!!!

The Lawters and Margaret.

The Fullmers

The wicked dog daisy She hates all young people, especially missionaries!

The Broadheads

The Thomas'

The Cunninghams. Our park managers.

Bien Rapido!

Hey everyone!

I don't have much time as it has been a crazy day. I am back in Las Vegas. I have been transferred to a Spanish Ward! I am so excited about that. It's the Paraiso Ward in Paradise Stake, so it's twice the paradise. 

Hope you all have a great week! 

 

Note from Mom: Logan was made a District Leader with this transfer. Since he is back in Las Vegas, use the mission office address for any mail/package correspondence.

 

 

Stephanie at her baptism.

Saying goodbye to the Mitchells

Frog??

Saying goodbye to Cal Tucker

Goodbye to the Duffins

 

Easter in the Desert

April 6, 2016

Happy Easter!

It has been a good week again! We always have good weeks! This week was a little hard for missionary work, but we had lots of meetings and General Conference and so it was a spiritual boost. 

So Monday night we had a really spiritual lesson with our investigator. We watched the movie 17 miracles and had a testimony meeting with some of the members who were with us and our investigator. She was crying and the spirit was very strong. She was going through some big trials in her life and it really showed her how God will help us in our trials. But so the sad part of the story was the next day, her grandma kicked her out of the lot and she had to leave. She has been having a lot of family troubles and I guess it hit its climax. We helped her load everything up and said goodbye. It was a pretty sad goodbye especially because there was no way we could refer her on because she wasn’t exactly sure where she was going to go. She was going to stay with a cousin for a short time. That was one of our last investigators to leave. 

On Thursday we had interviews with the mission president and that went really well. The funny story from that was the training our mission mom gave us. In our district meetings, my district leader assigned me to lead the music and so it has been sort of this joke with my district with my bad leading! So the Sister Training Leaders were dying laughing on Thursday as the training was on how to lead music and at one point Sister Snow said she was going to show us how to get off beat, and said, “I struggle getting off beat .” I retorted, “Oh, I can do that for you!” haha-it was a fun training. We had a really good training from President Snow. All the missions in the world were capped at 200 missionaries, but for five missions out of the world they gave an exception to have 220 missionaries and the Nevada Las Vegas mission was one of those. He talked about how proud he was of us and the members here and the work that the Lord needs done in our mission. He talked about 4^th Nephi and how fast they converted everyone in the area and we talked about how fast pride tore down the happiest people in the world. He also announced that our mission will be going electronic and getting iPads in May so that will be exciting to see how the missionary work will change. 

Friday we also had zone meeting and then we had conference so there were a lot of things that went on! It was exciting to see how, in all the meetings, the Lord is hastening his work and that we get to be a part of this glorious time in history. And conference was really great! It is always wonderful to hear from all the apostles and prophets. I love the humor and happiness they have! I loved when Elder Uchtdorf got up and started speaking German! It just shows that we can be a happy people and still feel the spirit! 

We are leaving our area in one week! I am going back to Vegas, but not sure where yet. I will find out this weekend and hopefully it will be to a Spanish area! It will be good to get a new area, but I will always miss this area! Easter was a bit of a different day for me. It didn’t feel like a normal Easter, but I was able to really feel the spirit. At dinner we had a big group of people, ten or more, and had a yummy dinner! Mexican!! We had requested it, but don’t worry mom we still had Christmas ham. After the dinner we sang Lead Kindly Light and we shared a scripture from John 8:12 which talks about Christ being the light, and then we opened it up for people to share their testimonies and it was a very spiritual moment. Great testimonies were shared and I am grateful for the chance I have to be a missionary and have these spiritual experiences! 

I hope you all have a great week and that Easter brought to your remembrance the knowledge we have that Christ truly does live and that He speaks to us today!

Elder Clark 

Diana and the Buchanan's. Diana bought us these jumpsuits because everyone in Quartzsite has one. We were working hard this day helping dig holes.

P-Day hike in Palm Canyon