Hey everyone!
Happy Valentine's Day!
It's been a good last couple of weeks. I have really enjoyed being back with Elder Thorne and working with him. We have a lot of fun together. It's a lot different being in the office and I am still trying to get used to that. We are really separated from the mission. I mean we are in a zone, but not really. Everything we do is a little different and so it is a different point of view. I am really learning a lot and I know this will even help me more in the future.
The first week of the transfer we are busy with the old missionaries and then with the new ones coming in. We have new leadership training meeting right when transfers are over. And then from there we were just running. We had departing missionary testimony and dinner with
them. It's really weird to be part of all the going home stuff without actually going home. We also had to take everyone to the airport and then pick up the new missionaries. It's pretty cool to see the whole scale in one day, going home and coming in!
We still have a proselyting area we are responsible for. It's a YSA ward. And so that is pretty sweet! This transfer we will actually have quite a bit of time to proselyte. So, that is still cool all the normal missionary stuff we get to do. When zone conferences come up in April we will be very busy, but until then we just mostly have exchanges with the ZLs! It is fun to work closer with the office staff and with President and Sister Snow. You definitely get to know them a lot better!
We have had some pretty cool miracles happen in our area. And some cool stuff.
One night we were just out visiting people and we got this text. It was at 6:20 at night and the text had been sent like two hours earlier. But because our phones are dumb, we received it late. Which was a miracle in it of itself because the text was this random guy asking to meet us at 6pm and we had had a set lesson, but that fell through and so when we received the text we were open and able to meet. He met us at a park that was conveniently located by a church that was open due to mutual. And so everything fell into place to meet with him in the chapel. We had a super awesome spiritual lesson. The member we had with us was able to relate to him, and so we set him for baptism and he was super excited to change his life around. Sadly, we haven't seen him since but we keep praying he will return our calls.
Another one was with a member, the appointment had fallen through and we asked the member to pick any door in the complex, and she picked a door and as we walked over to it a lady was about to enter. We began talking to her and it turned out that our member and this ladies brother were like super good friends in North Dakota. It was just so cool out of all the doors to knock on that was the one and with that member! Man miracles happen!
We had another crazy lesson with a lady who is really caught up in her own church. When we went back to the return appointment she had two of her "friends" over from San Diego. My companion and I just felt a bad spirit. We knew that these two men were going to try to bash and argue with us. We talked a little bit about random stuff and the one guy opened us up with a prayer. The whole time he was praying, I was praying in my heart to know what to say. I began to think about my study that morning. I had just read in the Book of Mormon where Alma and Amulek contend with Zeezrom and how they discerned his bad intentions and were able to testify to him. The Lord gave us strength. After the prayer I said, “We are here to share with you what we believe and know to be true. We are not here to argue and if you want to argue we will leave. We will only share with you these things if you truly want to know about what we believe." My companion said that the girl we are teaching, she is in her early 20s freaked out. He said her expression was just priceless. I never saw it but I guess she was surprised that we were able to discern what these men were here for and that we didn't believe the story that they were just guests visiting her.
During the lesson, one of the guys who had been the most talkative at first, never talked for the remainder of the lesson and it actually seemed like he was sincerely thinking about what we said. But the other guy, of course, tried to argue with us throughout the lesson. It was amazing to see how the Lord blessed us to confound him at every turn. He didn't accept our message, but my testimony grew that day as I saw the Lord use his servants just as he had in the Book of Mormon. We are still working with the lady and we hope and pray she comes around. In our next lesson we will see if we keep teaching her or not.
Happy Valentine's Day!
It's been a good last couple of weeks. I have really enjoyed being back with Elder Thorne and working with him. We have a lot of fun together. It's a lot different being in the office and I am still trying to get used to that. We are really separated from the mission. I mean we are in a zone, but not really. Everything we do is a little different and so it is a different point of view. I am really learning a lot and I know this will even help me more in the future.
The first week of the transfer we are busy with the old missionaries and then with the new ones coming in. We have new leadership training meeting right when transfers are over. And then from there we were just running. We had departing missionary testimony and dinner with
them. It's really weird to be part of all the going home stuff without actually going home. We also had to take everyone to the airport and then pick up the new missionaries. It's pretty cool to see the whole scale in one day, going home and coming in!
We still have a proselyting area we are responsible for. It's a YSA ward. And so that is pretty sweet! This transfer we will actually have quite a bit of time to proselyte. So, that is still cool all the normal missionary stuff we get to do. When zone conferences come up in April we will be very busy, but until then we just mostly have exchanges with the ZLs! It is fun to work closer with the office staff and with President and Sister Snow. You definitely get to know them a lot better!
We have had some pretty cool miracles happen in our area. And some cool stuff.
One night we were just out visiting people and we got this text. It was at 6:20 at night and the text had been sent like two hours earlier. But because our phones are dumb, we received it late. Which was a miracle in it of itself because the text was this random guy asking to meet us at 6pm and we had had a set lesson, but that fell through and so when we received the text we were open and able to meet. He met us at a park that was conveniently located by a church that was open due to mutual. And so everything fell into place to meet with him in the chapel. We had a super awesome spiritual lesson. The member we had with us was able to relate to him, and so we set him for baptism and he was super excited to change his life around. Sadly, we haven't seen him since but we keep praying he will return our calls.
Another one was with a member, the appointment had fallen through and we asked the member to pick any door in the complex, and she picked a door and as we walked over to it a lady was about to enter. We began talking to her and it turned out that our member and this ladies brother were like super good friends in North Dakota. It was just so cool out of all the doors to knock on that was the one and with that member! Man miracles happen!
We had another crazy lesson with a lady who is really caught up in her own church. When we went back to the return appointment she had two of her "friends" over from San Diego. My companion and I just felt a bad spirit. We knew that these two men were going to try to bash and argue with us. We talked a little bit about random stuff and the one guy opened us up with a prayer. The whole time he was praying, I was praying in my heart to know what to say. I began to think about my study that morning. I had just read in the Book of Mormon where Alma and Amulek contend with Zeezrom and how they discerned his bad intentions and were able to testify to him. The Lord gave us strength. After the prayer I said, “We are here to share with you what we believe and know to be true. We are not here to argue and if you want to argue we will leave. We will only share with you these things if you truly want to know about what we believe." My companion said that the girl we are teaching, she is in her early 20s freaked out. He said her expression was just priceless. I never saw it but I guess she was surprised that we were able to discern what these men were here for and that we didn't believe the story that they were just guests visiting her.
During the lesson, one of the guys who had been the most talkative at first, never talked for the remainder of the lesson and it actually seemed like he was sincerely thinking about what we said. But the other guy, of course, tried to argue with us throughout the lesson. It was amazing to see how the Lord blessed us to confound him at every turn. He didn't accept our message, but my testimony grew that day as I saw the Lord use his servants just as he had in the Book of Mormon. We are still working with the lady and we hope and pray she comes around. In our next lesson we will see if we keep teaching her or not.
I hope you all have a great week! It's so crazy how fast the time really goes! I know these last 6 months will just fly by and I hope and pray that I can accomplish all that the Lord has for me to do!
Love Elder Clark
Photos - transferring from the Whitney Ranch Ward to the office.
 |
| Momma Bowers |
No comments:
Post a Comment