9/7/15
Hey everyone!!
This was an awesome week! There is
so much we have going on! There is never a moment for a breath and I love it.
It just makes you happy and the time flies. I can't believe I have already been
in Kingman for two months. It feels like I just got here yesterday. I really
hope to have two more months here, at least. It is one of my favorite areas on
my mission.
This week I have so many miracles to
share!
We have had this really awesome
couple we have been teaching, but she recently has had surgery and they have
canceled on all our appointments during the last few weeks. We have been really
trying to get back with them, and so one day during our weekly planning session
we were praying that we could make contact with them. Right after we finished
praying, and I mean immediately after, we got a text from them and they set up
an appointment with us! It was so cool to see Heavenly Father answer our prayer
that fast!
Also, we had one of our awesome
investigators baptism this last Saturday! It was so amazing! We found her a
couple months ago by knocking on her door. We had decided real quickly before
lunch to knock one more door and it was amazing that it was Cheryl! She is
related to Joseph Smith III and lived in Utah for 20 years. She had never
stepped into a chapel of ours before and now she’s a member of our church. Our
first few meetings she told us that she didn’t want to be baptized and that she
would never go to church! What a change! Heavenly Father really did work a
miracle. She had to change her life, and give up some things. It was just
amazing! She knew so much already about the church that as we were teaching
here we just started calling her the "grand-master" haha! It was just
our joke the whole time-it was great! She called us, her sons! I had the privilege
to baptize her, and as that was occurring, I realized that we are all
imperfect. But at our baptism were are doing something perfect and for a little
while at least, we are perfect. We are baptized exactly as our Savior was. That
is pretty neat!
Another miracle that we had was we
have been working with an investigator who is 19. Her parents haven’t let her
come to church and her dad is very anti. Well, just this last week they finally
let her come! She has one of the strongest testimonies ever! She bore her
testimony in front of the whole congregation. She is very intelligent, but just
very innocent. Her testimony was awesome! She blew away all of our members. She
was so excited to be at church-she was just so bubbly! In her testimony, she
said “I know Joseph Smith is a prophet of God just as much as I know that the
sky is blue and the grass is green.” She also bore powerful witness of the Book
of Mormon. She loves the English language, so she uses big words too. It was
one of the best Sundays, ever! I realized we all need to be a little more like
her, and really appreciate the opportunity he have to go to church every Sunday!
Don’t worry, there are more miracles
still! Another lady who we have been teaching is from the Indian reservation
and she has moved to Kingman. I was on exchanges with an elder that taught her
back when she was on the reservation and in the lesson which we taught her
together, she accepted a baptism invitation for October 10th! It was
amazing! Then last night, my comp and I were on splits with some members and he
contacted a referral. They had already attended church twice and want to be
baptized, and so they are going to get baptized too! And then…it just keeps on
going -- We had a lesson with a very intelligent man. He was understanding
things logically, but not feeling it by the Holy Ghost quite yet. We then testified
to him about Jesus Christ and the love He had for us. The man teared up and
said he had goose bumps. Then he said, "That inspired me to sing you guys
a song." He went and grabbed his guitar and started singing to us!
haha!
The Lord is just blessing us, and I
know it is because of faith and gratitude. As we are grateful, no matter what
circumstance we are in, and we look up, then our faith will grow and miracles
will happen. We had a meeting as missionaries this past week and I quoted
grandma great, "it’s a great day for up" and we had an entire
training based on faith and prayer with the theme, to GET OUT OF THE BOAT, referencing
when Peter got out of the boat to walk on water and what kind of faith he must
have had!
I know this gospel is true, and the Lord
just keeps confirming it to me. He will bless you! I know He will! Just believe.
Elder Clark
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