As you all know, I was able to Skype
my family last night and that was great! It was so awesome-all the questions my
mom had prepared to ask me! haha She even took some ideas off the internet! But,
as always, it’s great to talk to them and the time just flies by!
Well this week was really good and
really busy!! As always we are teaching a ton of people! Not everyone is really
committed and nobody goes to church. But, hey, we are doing all we can! This
week was very, very busy! We had a district meeting on Tuesday and then I was
on exchanges with the zone leaders on Thursday and then the day after I was on
exchanges with the elders in my district. So I felt like I wasn’t even in my
area all week. But the exchanges were good and I really learned a lot! My zone
leader is a recent convert to the church and has an amazing testimony and
amazing story, so it was great to talk to him and see what I can do
better.
Then the weekend only got crazier
and I won’t really go into details, but I had to take care of some disobedience
issues in my district with one of the zone leaders. We ended up being out quite
late on Sunday night because of it!! We had a nice long meeting with the APs
and had to figure out a lot of stuff and have a lot of conversations that you don’t
ever want to have. Pretty much most my district was being disobedient. That was
really a bummer for me. I didn’t blame myself but it was not a fun night to
tell all of them how disappointed I was. I guess I know how parents feel when
their kids don’t do the right things. When we got back from the mission office
to my apartment around 12:30 at night I realized we didn’t have the keys
because me and my real comp had split up and he had them. So I climbed the balcony
hoping I could get in but the sliding glass door was locked! The zone leader
and I thought we were going to have to sleep in the car. Luckily though, we
were able to get a hold of some of the other elders and crashed at their place!
We didn’t get to bed until like 1:30-2:00 a.m. and then we had to get up at 5:30
a.m. to take some people to an interview with president. I am learning a lot
about what it means to be a leader. And it’s really hard as you do all you can
for people and they still don’t change. But that is why a mission is so, so
great. It’s been hard as it distracts me from my area and focusing on my
investigators. But hopefully I will be able to find the right balance.
I am not sure what other stories we
had for this week! My mind is blown. None of our investigators who have a date
for baptism are coming to church and that is so frustrating. So we will be
working on finding a way to get them the church
Hope you all had a great Mother’s Day!
Love you all!
Elder Clark
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| With Rodolfo, a RM who served his mission in Argentina. He works with the Elders all the time and helps them with their Spanish. |
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| With member, Luis. Working hard! (Pics taken while sitting in a parking lot.) |
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