Monday, September 23, 2013
Laoag Zone Sept.18,2013
Safe through the typhoon
Wow pops thanks for the great email I just
do'nt know where to start. I guess first with the questions you asked
me. So, the food here in the Philippines is delicious and let me tell
ya dad, you will love these philippino dishes! I will have to make ya a
lil somethin when i get back! I will start training on Friday so I
haven't received my new companion yet and we dropped off Elder M,
my companion at Laoag today because he is the new office elder. So right
now me, Elder G and Elder G are a 3 companionship and me and
Elder G leave tomorrow morning to Laoag for trainers training. I am
super excited for sure but I am a little nervous I guess. Elder G
is getting a follow up trainer and I guess he is just a big Samoan guy
so I get to come back to Bangui to see Elder G and his new huge
Samoan companion haha. Life is so great dad. I have received 2 packages
now total so no worries I know all the packages will get here. Thank you
mama for your diligence with that and sending off my medicine! Back to
the food, the weirdest thing i have eaten is probably boiled cow skin or
maybe dugo dugo which is meat cooked in pigs blood and only pigs blood.
Dugo in tagalog is blood.
This week has been really crazy, we went to Laoag on Wednesday
for a big zone conference with 5 zones and I was able to see Elder
T my MTC companion! That really made my day! I love that guy so
flippen much. Anyways, the zone conference was an all day thing really
and it was a big training with president and we had to do a bunch of
practice teaching, I actually was called up to do a practice teaching in
front of the Elders and Sisters and I was really nervous and then right
as I sat down the thought came to my head to just listen to the spirit
and so that is what I did, and not one time in the lesson do I remember
thinking about the elders and sisters who were watching and I just was
zoned in with my companion and the investigators and the spirit and it
was so strong and I don't know it, was just a really cool experience for
me. Monday, September 16, 2013
Sept. 15
SO coop had a big run huh? 76 yards is a workout and a half for sure
that is a great run. Coop your 2 and 0!! thats a great start little
brother! I will send Jackson a little email for sure I bet he is pretty
shaken up but good thing Jackson is the biggest stud on the Earth, i
know he will be alright.
Happy Days all is well here in Bangui still. I am little
nervous because Elder M is leaving and I gotta train but he has
trained me well so i know I will be fine for sure. This is our last week
together as companions and we have 1 baptism coming up this Saturday
and we just said we are going to try and make it a really great
successful fun week before he leaves Bangui. The work I feel like has
kind of taken a turn here in Bangui, we re-split the area so the other
Elders have more ground now to take and we are booted out to more of the
Jungle types of areas so we decided to start working in the Jungle type
of areas when I get my new companion because right now we are super
busy just in Central Bangui and in the bigger little city type areas. It
is really hard to explain how things work here in the Philippines with
like cities and towns and transportation and stuff haha. I am way
excited for this next transfer to train and just work more. It will be
fun to go to some areas where missionaries have never been before. There
are about 6 little barrangays (mini towns) haha that missionaries have
never gone to. There is probably 350 people in each one. I dunno for
sure but people just kinda live where ever here, i just have to go find
them!!! As a companion with Elder M we have been lucky and most of
the people we have taught have been through referrals so really
referrals are just way easier because finding can be really difficult
but it looks like i am about to do a lot of finding but thats okay
because i can finally speak the language alright so i will be able to
talk with people...
Anyways for some reason today i am just way hyper so
I am sorry if the email was really random but for real I know i say
this all the time but I love the mission and everything that comes with
it, even if it is washing my own clothes by hand haha. I was going to
share a really cool story that happened this week but I have no time, I
will share it next week, it was just with one of our investigators:)
Anyways I know that Jesus Christ lives and that because of him we are
able to feel not just any happiness but the happiness of God and for me
that is one of the greatest blessings in my life. I love being able to
feel true happiness.
Mahal ko kayo lahat at sana magkakaroon kayo ay na Mabuting Linggo! INgat Kayo
Happy days, all is well
Elder Clark
Sunday, September 15, 2013
September 8, 20143
Wow I really cant express how much I love my family.
For real, I love you all so flippin much and I just smile everytime I
read these emails. First off kayley and Tanner wrote me a great email
today and that really made me feel good:) and also of course Colbies
email was great because it always is! And mama you always send great
emails and you are great at keeping me up to date with everthing.
I am
happy for my family and all that is going on! Blessings come as we are
obedient. D&C 82 :10 I am bound when ye do what i say but when ye do
not what I say I have no promise. He wants to bless us everyday and all
we have to do is obey and if we do, he will bless us because he has
promised those blessings to us if we obey but if we dont, there is no
promise. That scriptue is Tanners favorite i am pretty sure ahah..
Hey i will send pics next week these computers wont let me send pictures!
So
para sa akin, buhay ko ay sobrang maganda at mahal ko and phillipnies
talaga and lahat ng tao dita rin. so this says haha so for me my life is
so wonderful and I really love the Philippines and all the people here
too. I have probably said that in every email but its true, for real, i
love it here and I love the people even more. Everyone says that Bangui is the hardest part
of the mission and that is why there wasn't missionaries here for a
long time because there was no progression. I am so happy i was able to
open this area up with Elder M. We truly have been so blessed by
the Lord and he wants his work to progress here in Bangui and it is
really showing. Bangui has not had a lot of baptisms for a really long
time and I dont know why Elder M and I are being so blessed but we
have had 5 baptisms and 1 this coming up Saturday and 6 more in the
next month. The hardest part about getting baptisms here is getting them
to church because they need to go to church 4 times before baptisms and
they have to be in a row haha. well 4 out of 5. You can miss one. IT is
really important here for them to gain a testimony of going to church. Anyways, I
love it here in bangui and the Lord is blessing us and the people here
are really warming up to us. Also a big project of ELder M and I
has been to reactivate the less actives and we decided on 3 to start
with that are men and priesthood holders and they used to be very active
and one actually was the old branch president. Anyways, we have gotten
with the Lords help, 2 out of 3 back and the 3rd is really close. You
have no idea how much this has helped our branch here, we went from like
40 members a sunday to now pushin 60 and A lot because of these 2 less
actives who have returned because now they are working with us and
helping us reactivate other less actives.
I dont
really know what to talk about becasue all i do is missionary work haha
but yeah I can tell you this, I truly feel Gods love for me everyday and
It feels so good and my life is really good and the spirit is strong
and present in all of our lessons
Mama, I have
recieved one of the packages so thank you so much i really appreciate
it:) The new white shirt was way needed and the Rittle Skittles are
really masarap (delicious) haha
So tagalog is great even though so hard. I can speak pretty well but i
am far from fluent but the Gift of Tounges is true that is for real and
very amazing.
Really quick i want to bear my testimony
that truly The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the true
Church of God. I am blessed to have been born in this Church and to
have a testimony in it. I also know that our message and this Gospel is
hard to believe and understand right at first because lets look at the
facts, Joesph Smith saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and through
Joesph Smith God restored his Church back on the Earth and most
importantly his Authority to baptise and much more. THis is a hard
message to believe 100 percent right off the get go, but the beauty of it
all is that we can pray to our Heavenly Father and ask if it is true
and he will tell us that it is true through beautiful feelings in our
hearts through the power of the Holy Ghost. I am a witness, that I know
that this Church is true and is Gods Church here today on the Earth
because I have prayed and I have read the Book of Mormon and I can't
deny the love the happiness the guidance that I have felt through the
Holy Ghost and i know for a surety in my heart mind and whole body that
this Church is the true Church of God.
Happy Days, All is Well
Elder Clark:)
Monday, September 2, 2013
Sept 2, 2013
Hey pops, man it is so good to hear from my dad! I sure do love you dad!. I am so happy to hear of all the blessings going on at home and I know that the Lord is blessing you all everyday. Life is so good! I am way pumped for coop and the team! I am glad they are looking good i know coop will have a bunch of fun this year. Honestly that is the biggest part about it is to just play hard and enjoy and love the game you are playing and if you do that, then success comes. I will be honest, I do miss sports and just being able to ball haha! they play a lot of ball here in the Pines but we haven't as an apartment yet but pinoys love playing bball for sure! I don't have a bunch of time to email this week because i had to do another thing online for the President but I am way happy to hear about my siblings, they are all so amazing and so talented. I am excited for Mac and J to be in a house, that is so exciting and they are probably gonna get that baby room all decorated cool haha mac is gonna love being a mama for sure. Tanner and Kayley i miss from time to time because i spent a lot of time with them this last year ahaha but I know they are missin me too. I love Bret & Chels and miss Nik Nak so much. Coop is just my little brother who i love so much and i am proud of him and my mama and pops, you two are awesome and even though it is a lil weird hearing you say you are just so so so in love with mama, it truly is amazing and a big example to all of us. One thing that has really been drilled into my head since the mission is just how much i have learned from home and from my family and how blessed i have been to be raised in a home that i was raised in and how blessed i am for being taught all that i was taught. You two prepared me so well for the mission and i am very grateful for that. There are a lot of missionaries who really struggle out here but i truly have been prepared and I am blessed for that.
So
i am still in Bangui and I still am loving it. The people here are just
great even though sometimes real stubborn. We have a bunch of great
potential investigators that we are going to visit this week and i am
way pumped. So last week our whole apartment got sick and we were out of
work for a day which really frustrated me because i just felt like a
waste of a missionary but its all good because i am healthy and back at
it now. So transfers are in 4 weeks and we had interviews with President
this week and he basically just layed out some of my future for me, and
he said that I will be training in 4 weeks and that I will also be the
district leader here and he said that he really likes missionaries like
me hahaha so yeah I am a little nervous to train and i was not expecting
to be a district leader either but I am excited, it will be fun and I
know that the Lord will give me the strength to do it. President
B is a very funny man and he loves his missionaries and he
really just lays out your future during the interview and he cracks a
lot of jokes and just makes you feel good inside. He is a great
President i am really blessed. Well I took some money out my account
from home, i think about 120 dollars but I am not totally sure! Just
letting you know:)
The language is seriously really coming
along and I can speak tagalog and I am really being blessed. Elder
M makes me lead the lessons and lead our area which I really like
because It gives me a good challenge. Anyways I have to go but I love
you all so much and Family: Missionary work is for everyone so please
try your best to do your missionary work there at home, and I know that
you will be blessed i can promise you that.
Elder Clark
Ingat Kayo
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