tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9842270888158504012024-03-12T21:20:23.612-07:00~Elder Cory Clark ~ Philippines Laoag Mission My two years serving the people of the Philippines as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140468109409542750noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984227088815850401.post-80118713033339017642014-10-06T19:23:00.000-07:002014-10-06T19:23:39.814-07:00October 6<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Can we all just think about how much the family has changed since the time that I have left on my mission? Sometimes it is really overwhelming for me to think about because I dunno, i just have been so far away from the change and sometimes it just is hard to see that much change in the family and only see pictures. </div>
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Siblings...... look at our family? look where we are at and where we have came from. can you remember when we were all jumping on the trampoline outside of douglas road house and then I would start randomly crying because i lost or my feelings were hurt haha. Is it not one of the best feelings to just see eachother happy and growing and moving forward in life. I am so happy with all of you and I do for sure miss you all so much but I am grateful for your examples to me and I cant wait for the day where we all can be together again. When I talk about my family to investigators or whoever it may be I sometimes like to say that I have 6 bestfriends back at home and its my dad, mama, and my 4 siblings and they just happen to be my family as well. I miss my family and I love seeing the changes that I am seeing and I am happy. I hope you all miss me as well:) Chels, mac and tanner are all starting their families and that just means I cant be to far behind. Dont worry all be right there with ya before you know it. </div>
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Hey there are going to be some changes with TRANSFERS. Suprisngly, I will be staying in Bacarra still and Elder H will be transfered. But the thing is, Elder H will open up a new area here in baccara so we are going to just split the area that we have right now in half and he is going to train a brand new missionary and I am going to train a new zone leader. My new companion is Elder M!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:) Elder M was in my district a long time ago when I was in santa terresita haha and we have been on a lot of exchanges together. Elder M is a filipeno and very very filipeno. He doesnt really speak english but that is so okay because I dont want to speak english at all. he is serioously one of the most humble missionaries I have met and I am so excited to work with him. We already know eachother really well so that Is why I am excited. It will be a great transfer. Also Elder E just got moved to my zone as well and he will be the district leader so we will be able to do exhanges which is way great. Elder E was my first companion here in Bacarra if you dont rememeber. Anyways we are super excited for the change and it will be a great transfer.</div>
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I got one story for ya:) haha so our curfew as missionaries is 8. BUT, if you are in a teaching appointment at 8 then your curfew can be 9. But if you arent teaching anybody at 8 you should be home. WEll we were in a far area and we started the lesson at like 7;50nd it went untill about <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">8:40</a> and we were hoping it would have ender earlier but it didnt but we were about a 30 minute walk away home and we had 20 minutes to do so . We tried to call a tricee drive which is a motorbike with a side cart. and we tried to call some but all the ones around were drunk. Anyways, it was about 8;45 at the time and then we finally got one and on our way home about half way home the bike gets a flat tire so we didnt continue and there was no other vehicles around. Our felowshipper told us to just go home cause he knew we hada curfew but we were still like a 15 minute walk away with like 8 minutes to do so haha so we ran. WE SPRINTED! haha let me tell ya....... I am super out of shape, my pushups and situps in the morning dont really do much for the good ol body. We sprinted and while we are running to make it home on time Elder H is like crying cause he is so out of shape and I was breathing super hard and looking at my watch while sprinting haha and we got home right <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">at 9:01</a>!!!!!!!!! we were one minute late... ano ba iyon paano iyon!? but we repented so it is okay now. Then in our weekly goals we decided we are going to do workouts that get us back in shape haha.</div>
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I wish I could share all my expieriances and things that I learned from my mission with you but it just cant be done haha. Life is great though and we are teaching some amazing investigators at the moment and they really are starting to progress and it is always the best feeling to see the change in others. </div>
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I love you all and I am happy that you had a great week and were able to be together as a family. Mama, I love what you said the other week that I make your heart smile, that has really stuck with me and those words made my week.</div>
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Mama, thanks for some of the things that you have shared it really brought me some peace. I love you all and I miss my family that is for sure. I have had a pretty crazy week but it has been really good as well. Elder H and I are doing great and just loving the work and we are really building a great friendship.<br />
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I want to reply to some things that you have shared though first before I talk about my week. I am way excited for tanner and kayley and their adventures ahead, I love them so much. hey big brother if you you could try to sell that scooter for me but hey it probably wouldn't sell in this type of season right now so maybe we can just wait until I get home. Its up to you:) I have a new niece!! i was so shocked when i saw the picture of nikelle holding her baby sister, so many things have changed and i just got a lil emotional with seeing those pictures. I really am proud of my siblings. I am proud of Chelsie and Bret and of all my siblings really. I haven't read coopers email yet but I am excited to. I know he is way excited to get out of the MTC haha i remember i was really excited thats for sure. The mission goes by so fast and it is good but it is sad because i don't want to come home. I love the mission more then you think you know, it is the best talaga.<br />
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For your question with the package mama, Maybe just some like chocolate or letters and pictures. Deodorant would be nice as well. I love the package you sent me and I really appreciate it. The jerky was amazing and we ate that in like 2 days but we appreciated it. haha. thank you for the letters as well. I sent you a letter last Monday so you should be getting it in about 4 weeks or so:) it is to you and dad.<br />
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Brother and Sister M were baptized and I just am so happy for them. I am so happy because I was the missionary that found them with Elder Erickson and I also was the missionary that witnessed the baptism so I was able to see all the changes with them and their family from the beginning and that really is the biggest blessing of it all. I cant describe the feeling when you meet somebody and then they just have no testimony yet and then you teach them and teach them and little by little they grow their own testimony and they come to church and the finally get baptized. I wish you could hear their testimonies that they shared after their baptism they were amazing and so powerful and just full of gratitude and love. I love being a missionary and their is no more compelling work than this, or any other work that brings greater satisfaction and I know this work is real.<br />
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Mama and pops, how are you two? happy:)? you seem that you are happy and I love that. you two are both very great examples to me.<br />
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Today we cleaned the house really good and I washed my laundry.... (by hand) of course haha.<br />
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OH YEAH, we didn't have work yesterday, we were told to go back into our homes because of the typhoon but we just didn't have power all last night so we cooked in the dark and did everything in the dark haha but those are memorable moments in the mission. The typhoon hit pretty hard but it didn't do to much damage and missionaries are safe and we are okay.<br />
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Happy Days, All is Well<br />
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Elder Clark Sr.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140468109409542750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984227088815850401.post-34047006984633108602014-08-28T10:00:00.001-07:002014-08-28T10:00:49.368-07:00August 24, 2014Hey mama and family:) so transfer week has happened and I will no longer be companions with Elder E which is really sad because he has been a great companion and our work together has been very blessed by the Lord but he that is how life goes in the mission field. I am still here in Bacarra which is a big blessing and Elder E is going to Cagayan to the farthest point of the mission just like we guessed haha. My new companion is Elder H he is a Hawaiian and I have met him before, we actually are already really great friends. He is older then me in the mission so it is going to be another really good transfer of missionary work. he is from Hawaii and he really is a kind Elder, i am excited to work with him and yes we are still Zone Leaders.<br />
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My week was really great though and it was a a good last week with Elder E. He is pretty sad to leave though because we have 3 baptisms in 2 weeks so he s a lil bummed that he has to miss those but its all good, at least they are getting baptized cause that is all that really matters. Lat night was Sunday night and we went on splits with the members and 3 members went with me and 3 members went with Elder E and all the fellow shippers were young men and return missionaries. How fun is that? gosh bacarra really is the best and the ward here is so great and they just want to work and work and help us and we take it to our advantage and we just teach and involve the members in every way that we can in our missionary work. I cant explain the love that i have for my investigators but also the love i have for the members is so great as well. I love walking in to the church and just making members laugh and having fun with them and then also showing the side of " i am missionary so lets go to work" and they come with us and the testify and teach as well and we help them and they help us and because of that, our ward had four baptisms on Saturday and we will be having 3 more in two weeks. Working with the members is the key to missionary work. I love the ward that i am with and my heart is here in Bacarra ward for now, they are who i am trying to build up and help grow. We are helping 4 young men go on missions right now and we are having them come work with us and we are teaching them before we teach the investigators and we are giving them parts to teach and they just do a great job. The best part about it is that they WANT to do missionary work and they want to come with us and it has been such a blessing for me while i have been here in bacarra, This morning at 6 am about 10 of us all played bball at the church. Two tall white guys and 8 small Filipinos who can ball super well. And while we play basketball we just laugh and make jokes but play hard and it is all in Tagalog and I just cant get enough of it. The feelings I feel as a missionary are indescribable and I love missionary work. Just imagine having an investigator who has a concern and then you are teaching the and asking them questions and then you find their real concern and you help them overcome it by using a story from the scriptures or an experience but you feel the spirit and they feel the spirit and they follow their commitment and they read the Book of Mormon and they come to church and fall in love with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and they are baptised. <b>It is the best work known to man and that is because it is the work of God. He is my boss and this is his business and I know that I am entitled to his help and I know he is helping me and leading me in the work. </b>Don't worry about me because I am happier then i have ever been in my life and I know I am a missionary of God. I know that the Church of Jesus Christ is the true Church and I know that a man will get closer to God as he reads the Book of Mormon. I know that the work I am doing is the work of salvation to the children of men and I love being a missionary. I am grateful for the examples i have had in my life, especially with kuya (means brother) for serving before I did and helping me understand the importance of missionary work. I am grateful for you mama and pops and letting me and supporting me in the mission because this is the greatest thing that i have done and I am love it truly.<br />
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Well hey just keep me informed with the family and with what is all going on with you. But hey i am good and life is good.<br />
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AY one last thing! do you know how we buy fish in the Philippines? well one way, there is guy that goes around on his motor bike with a cooler on the back and he honks his horn and we go outside and he whips out a big ol fish and puts it on the scale and tells us how much and then he puts it on the ground and chops it up puts it in a bag and then we pay him and then we eat fish and we are full and happy:) ahahaha oh how great the Philippines is. the culture here is the best talaga.<br />
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My week was really great though and it was a a good last week with Elder E. He is pretty sad to leave though because we have 3 baptisms in 2 weeks so he s a lil bummed that he has to miss those but its all good, at least they are getting baptized cause that is all that really matters. Lat night was S<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_72216727" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">unday</span></span> night and we went on splits with the members and 3 members went with me and 3 members went with Elder E and all the fellowshippers were young men and return missionaries. How fun is that? gosh Bacarra really is the best and the ward here is so great and they just want to work and work and help us and we take it to our advantage and we just teach and involve the members in every way that we can in our missionary work. I cant explain the love that i have for my investigators but also the love i have for the members is so great as well. I love walking in to the church and just making members laugh and having fun with them and then also showing the side of " i am missionary so lets go to work" and they come with us and the testify and teach as well and we help them and they help us and because of that, our ward had four baptisms <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_72216728" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> and we will be having 3 more in two weeks. Working with the members is the key to missionary work. I love the ward that i am with and my heart is here in Bacarra ward for now, they are who i am trying to build up and help grow. We are helping 4 young men go on missions right now and we are having them come work with us and we are teaching them before we teach the investigators and we are giving them parts to teach and they just do a great job. The best part about it is that they WANT to do missionary work and they want to come with us and it has been such a blessing for me while i have been here in Bacarra, This morning at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_72216729" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6 am</span></span> about 10 of us all played bball at the church. Two tall white guys and 8 small Filipinos who can ball super well. And while we play basketball we just laugh and make jokes but play hard and it is all in Tagalog and I just cant get enough of it. The feelings I feel as a missionary are indescribeable and I love missionary work. Just imagine having an investigator who has a concern and then you are teaching the and asking them questions and then you find their real concern and you help them overcome it by using a story from the scriptures or an experience but you feel the spirit and they feel the spirit and they follow their commitment and they read the Book of Mormon and they come to church and fall in love with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and they are baptized. It is the best work known to man and that is because it is the work of God. He is my boss and this is his business and I know that I am entitled to his help and I know he is helping me and leading me in the work. Dont worry about me because I am happier then i have ever been in my life and I know I am a missionary of God. I know that the Church of Jesus Christ is the true Church and I know that a man will get closer to God as he reads the Book of Mormon. I know that the work I am doing is the work of salvation to the children of men and I love being a missionary. I am grateful for the examples i have had in my life, especially with kuya for serving before I did and helping me understand the importance of missionary work. I am grateful for you mama and pops and letting me and supporting me in the mission because this is the greatest thing that i have done and I am love it truly.</div>
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Well hey just keep me informed with the family and with what is all going on with you. But hey i am good and life is good.</div>
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AY one last thing! do you know how we buy fish in the Philippines? well one way, there is guy that goes around on his motor bike with a cooler on the back and he honks his horn and we go outside and he whips out a big ol fish and puts it on the scale and tells us how much and then he puts it on the ground and chops it up puts it in a bag and then we pay him and then we eat fish and we are full and happy:) ahahaha oh how great the Philippines is. the culture here is the best talaga.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140468109409542750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984227088815850401.post-55760776624796469922014-08-19T22:40:00.000-07:002014-08-19T22:40:05.482-07:00August 19,2014<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">Hey mama:) I sure do love you all so much and I am very grateful for the emails that you send and the detail and time that you put into them. It really makes a difference in my day when I recieve an email from my mama and when i can just feel her love from the words that she sent. I am grateful for my family and I am proud of my siblings and of course i am so proud of my mama and pops and I am so happy that you two are in love and enjoy and want to be together. I will have a relationship like that someday with my wife too, I am going to be a good husband and a good father and I am going to be loving, humble and a worthy preisthood holder. I know that this Gospel blesses families because I have experienced it with our family and also i see the changes in the familes that i teach because of this Gospel. I love being a missionary and I know that this Church is the true Church of Jesus Christ and I know that as we follow the principles taught by Jesus Christ then we will find happiness and peace and love and forgivness in our lives. The Atonement is real, it is not a joke, it is real and it works as long as we humble ourselves and use it everyday. Sometimes I feel like we just want happinesss or peace or a happy family to come into our lives right away after we have said a prayer or something but it does not always work like that. I have really came to know that it is by small and simple things in where we will recieve those blessings. Everyday if we pray for opportunities to serve our nieghbor then the Lord will bless with opportunities to serve and through that, we will feel good that we were able to help somebody else. Everday, we need to read the scriptures because they are so powerful and true and will make a difference in our lives. We need to go to church as a family and read the scriptures as a family everyday and pray as a family everyday and have family home evening because through those things, change comes and it is always a change for better and a change in where we become more like our savior Jesus Christ. I know that in order to have a strong happy family, we need to ACT and work for it and repent. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140468109409542750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984227088815850401.post-39309193863300262862014-06-09T08:21:00.000-07:002014-06-09T08:21:16.220-07:00June 8, 2014<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.571428298950195px;">Hey mama:) I didnt know that coops graduation was this week. It is way weird to see my lil brother and his friends in the graduation uniform! It is weird to think about them all as graduated. Coop is about to become a man real quick in a couple months when he hits the mission. I am so excited for that kid to step in the mission field and just get to work in the Lords work. Mama, you have no more kids in highschool! how great is that? that probably is a masarap feeling for sure, but hey mama and pops i sure am proud and grateful for you both and your amazing examples to me and us kids. I cant even express how many times i realize things throughout my day and just say...... i learned that from my parents. Everyday you two especially are in my mind helping me with the Lords work as well. </span><br />
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I bet it was so great to just be wit the whole family:) well not the whole family but hey there was still alot of the family and that is always way fun. I miss my cousins and i am really excited to see them all big and grown up and I hope i can still help them all laugh from time to time.:) HEY CLARK FAMILY............. I LOVE YOU ALL AND MISS YOU ALL:) </div>
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Hey so transfers happened and I thought i was really going to miss claveria because the people there were seriously my family and i just didnt want to leave yet....... BUT, my new companion is Elder E and he is the man. I have been blessed and blessed and blessed with the best companions. Elder A who was my last companion, i really thought that it was going to be a struggle but he became one of my best friends and we had the best time. And now, I am with such a stud missionary. he has been in the mission for about 4 months longer then me and he is just a stud missionary. Lets just say we work so good together and I have never worked so well with another missionary. Elder E tagalog is amazing and i am okay in tagalog but our teaching is bomb and the Lord has blessed us a lot this week. Elder E is from Utah and he loves to sing so hopefully we get the chance to sing together haha. Like i said in my last email.... i am really close to Laoag and the mission work is just a lil different out here... its " alot more difficult" but i dont agree haha. When i got here to Bacarra " my area" Elder E said that the area was struggling and we had to pick it up alot. we had 2 baptismal dates in the beginning of this week and no investigators had been coming to church and being zone leaders our area really has to be the example area. Anyways, this week before we started working Elder E looked at the area and talked about what he had to do and get done so ya that is what we did through the help of the Lord completely, and because my companion is way talented. Well we found 7 new baptismal dates this week and 5 of those is this family who literally was so prepared for us missionaries they were just sitting in their house like they were just waiting for us. We walked in and we taught them the restoration and the excepted baptismal dates and it was one of the coolest experiences in my mission because our area was struggling a lot and then in one week the Lord just flipped around our area and we are just was excited to work.</div>
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I really love my new area and my new companion and I feel great. I am gaining my weight back and I am super super excited to just work hard and get done what needs to get done. I seriously love being a missionary, it is the greatest privledge that i have ever been given in my life. I wish the mission was 3 years cause there just is not a greater work then this in this day of time. People are crying for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it is the best feeling when you find them and help them and teach them and just see their progression and see the big change in their life. </div>
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I do have a funny story for you though. the first night in baccara we got fed by the bishop and the next day our stomachs were way jacked up..... anyways we worked in the morning and it hit elder E before it hit me haha and again this is really the first day we were companions...... so we went and worked and at the end of the work in the morning elder e just looks at me and says....... " hey, i gotta poo dude we gotta go" and we walked like a mile as fast as we could to our apartment and right before we reached the apartment he just pooed in the pants haha and then that night at work is when it hit me.......... we were in our last lesson of the night and it hit me so bad. my stomach was upside down and just screaming the bathroom and i just whispered to elder erickson in like slang english so they would not understand haha i said " i gotta take a duece." and we tried to end the lesson but it just kept going and in the middle of our investigator talking and explaining something i just kinda yelled and said.... brother do you have a bathroom I need to use and i ran to his bathroom and yep thats the end of the story for now hahaha......... but it is all okay and our stomachs feel good now we are happy haha:) </div>
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HEY !!! I just saw ELDER T:) i have not seen him since we were last companions. he was the companion that was with me in the first skype session haha the big samoan. gosh is was so good to see him!:)</div>
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My life is so good and I
cant explain how and why it is so good. I love being a missionary and I
love talking with people in Tagalog and Hilikano and I love sharing this
message that we hold as members of this Church. The happiness i feel as
a missionary of God is real and true. To be able to wake up and feel
happiness and also go to sleep and feel happinesss is such a big
blessing. Of course there are times where i struggle and I am
firusturated or sad but the best part about it is that I can pray and
literally everytime I am sad and then I pray, i feel happiness right
away and I know that is because Jesus Christ died for me and not just
for my sins but for everysingle expieriance and feelings that i have
felt and will every feel. This Gospel is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and
every ear will hear this message and I hope that when people get the
chance to listen to the Missionaries that their heart is open because I
know that if the have an open heart and an open mind to this message
then they will come to know for themselves of the truthfulness of this
Church and then their life will change for the better and they will feel
true happiness everyday and they will feel closer to their heavenly
father and they will no of a surety that they are a child of God and he
has a plan for them. This Gospel is a amazing and I love being a
missionary for the Lord. This is the biggest and best responsibility
that I will ever have in my life i think:)</div>
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So we got transfer calls this week
and I was really hoping that I wouldnt recieve a call but I am and I
did! I am transfering out of Santa Teressita and I will be going to
CLaveria and I will be opening a new area! President called me on friday
and told me that i was transfered and then he asked me of I am ready to
open up a brand new area and of course i said i was ready haha. I am
really excfited and I will be the District Leader down there and my new
companion is Elder A:) he is an american and he is still super new. I
think this is his second area and he just got finished being trained so
he is only 12 weeks in the Philippines. I am really excited because I
know i have a bunch of work ahead of me and I know that the Lord wants
me here in Claveria. I actually have a chapel again though which is cool
but the only thing is that my area is pretty far away from the chapel
but its all good because faith brings miralces:) </div>
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I sent a lot of pictures to you so
you can see what has happened over the last week! TY got
baptized on saturday and he is the man who has been taught for many
years by a bunch of missionaries and we were just the ones to finally
see him be baptised. It was pretty difficult to teach him at first but
then with a couple good lessons with the Spirit, he desired to be
baptised and come to church. I paid for his fix in his motor because he
had no other way to go to church but the thing is that not that is motor
is fixed , he is taking other people to church now too so thats super
sick. Also i just paid for a wedding for out coule ivestigaotrs here and
I have a picture with them so you will see them but they will be
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Elder V will be trainging and so he is way
pumped and i am too because Elder V is such a G and is a great
missionary for sure and he will train great. HIs companion is super
lucky though because he is about to have like 10 baptisms here in the
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LIfe is great and I get to go work with Elder T tonight for just tonight because i will be sleeping at his
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I
dont really know what to say except i got a good haircut today by a
bunch of gays that dress literally like woman and they try to have women
body parts and they called me handsome and perfect like 100 times haha
but for real even though they are cross dressers and it freaks me out,
bottom line is that they give good haircuts and thats why i was there
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I hope you enjoy the pictures and I love you all so
very much and I am grateful for the Family that I have. I will proabably
have a bunch of news next week, sorry for the pangit email!</div>
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Mahal na mahal kita at ingat kayo lagi at excited ako para sa yung
susunod emailing session natin! Dad, magaling talaga kayo at maraming
salamat para sa inyong halimbawa ng kasipagan. Alam ko na yunf dahilan
ne bakit talaga masipag ako ay dahil ang mga magulang ko:) Mahal Kita:)<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So first we have been preparing all week for our 3 baptisms on saturday and it just couldnt have all gone better and more smoothly. Brother C is a man i found with elder T and we found him on the street and he was just so prepared and he was a hardcore iglesia ni cristo but he let us teach him and he just fell in love with the Gospel! WE have been teaching his whole family and him and his daughter got baptised on saturday and his wife will be baptised this <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">coming saturday</a>. Anyways, I seriosly love this family with all my heart and i cant explain it. I loved my investigators in bangui but gosh it is just different here in Santa Ter. I seriously just want to help these people so badly and I would do anything to help them understand this gospel. When we first met this family they were not that exceptive and they had a lot of problems in their family but now we see them and they are just happy happy happy and they have such strong testimonies of this gospel. We are going to have a FHE over there mamaya:) I had the oppurtunity to baptize brother C and Nanay A and really can't explain what happened but it just was perfect. When Brother C got baptized he came out of the water with just the biggest smile on his face and he just said like 5 times " i am happy" with a huge smile on his face. Then with Nanay i cant explain either haha she is probably my favorite person in the whole world haha i love her so flippen much. First of all she is an old nanay who just lives by herself and just is so so so funny but she was so excited for baptism and she loved it so much and she cried when she came out of the water and she was just smiling so big and gosh i just cant explain how happy i was and am!!!!! haha</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140468109409542750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984227088815850401.post-41396837785267109942014-02-25T12:31:00.003-08:002014-02-25T12:31:43.233-08:00February 23<div class="MsoNormal">
Hello Family:) so I am glad coop dawg is playing Rugby, he will like that a lot better for sure and it makes sense.</div>
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I am super happy right now as for missionary work
because everything here is really just starting to fall together and the
Lord is blessing us so much. The pictures of the family are so good and
I love seeing pictures of everybody, everyone
looks so big and old now it is kinda weird. Like the pictures of the
cousins kinda trip me out to be honest but i love the picture of nik nak
and Chelsie:) they both are so beautiful and i love them so much. Here
in the philippines is is a big deal to respect
your older siblings and honestly my respect and love for all my
siblings and just family in general has grown so much since i have been
in the Philippines. I wish that i could serve a mission for like 3 years
and not just 2. two years is not long enough and
it goes by so fast and I just want to be an outstanding missionary in
teaching and just in everything and i know that 2 years just isnt enough
time hahahaha i just have so much still to learn and I love being a
missionary. For example, I get the chance to
plan for these investigators in my studies and just have all my studies
be specifically for my investigators and i think about what they need
to understand and what they need to do and then i make a lesson plan
with them and think about what questions i could
ask and how i want to use this scripture to help this person and then
in companionship study we talk about the lesson plans we have made
because he plans for half and i plan for half and then we talk about how
we really want to do this lesson and we come up
with this amazing lesson plan for this investigator and then we go to
work and we teach that person that we pray for and plan for and we just
feel this crazy amount of love for this one person and we feel the
spirit and we give the message and we commit them
to whatever and then they just cant wait for us to come back and it
just is amazing. This last sunday 3 of our investigators got interviewed
for baptism and they all passed, so we are going to have 3 baptisms <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_144340543" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span> and we cant wait. </div>
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One of the 3 is the lady that hadnt been visited by
missionaries for 8 years but before her husband died he said that she
should not join any church except mormons and then she had never been
visited for 8 years! until us:) I met her with
Elder T and we just fell in love with this lady, she seriously is
the most amazing lady i have ever met and she is so flippin funny and so
kind. She has had a lot of issues but we have solved all her problems
with the help of the Lord of course and now
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Coop:) happy birthday big boy i love you:) guess
whos birthday it is too! its elder V my companions birthday haha
they have the same birthday so i celebrated coops bday too but just for
my companion haha. Me and ELder V are way
close now and we finally fell in love with each other and now there
just is no wrong haha it is just like living with a brother which is
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testimony of priesthood power. so we have this recent convert and her
name is ____ and she is 15 years old and she is probably one of the
most humble girls i have met and she is so kind
and super active in the church and cant wait to go on a mission.
Anyways, she has this disease that she faints randomly and will have
seizures and then when she wakes up she wont know her name or really
anything but she faints about once a week and then she
just randomly seizures. ya can you imagine having a problem like that
every week? Anyways I have never had the chance to give her a blessing
but other missionaries have and members have before and it always helps
her feel better for sure. But, about 4 weeks
ago she had a pretty bad seizure and she fainted as well and she woke
up was very very confused and she couldnt really speak but this was the
first time i was around when she had fainted and i was the closest
priesthood holder around, well me and ELder V
but anyways she needed a blessing and her brother who is 14 said, hey
will you give her a blessing and so we did and Elder V anointed her
with oil and I gave the blessing and in the blessing i felt a big
prompting to tell her that she will not faint again
and that she will not have a seizure again and that she will be healed
but i didnt listen and then i felt it again and i didnt say it still and
then i felt it again and then i said it and told her that she will be
healed and she will not faint or seizure again
as long as she stays obedient to Gods commandments, she will not ever
have this problem again. Well after the blessing she smiled and i didnt
think much of it but i saw her and talked to her yesterday and I asked
her how she was doing and she told me she hadnt
fainted or seizured since i gave her a blessing and also she said that
her body and mind feel different that it has ever felt before and she
said that she feels healed......... She has been having the faints and
seizures for about 10 years now and now she
says that she is healed. The priesthood is real and I know that if the
priesthood Holder is worthy to use the power of God, then he can heal
people. The power of God is real and we are so blessed to have the
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the house the other day it was super cool, the whole house shook for
about 15 seconds but then it stopped but it was the first time i had
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Family:) Gosh I miss and love you all so much! Dad thank you for writing
me this email and taking the time to do it from your heart. I feel the
Saviors love for me as I read my emails from my family and friends. I
love this Gospel so much and the feelings that I feel right now are of
great joy because I know the Atonement of Jesus Christ has healed us as a
family. If you think about it and the things we have gone through as a
family, the decisions that we have made that have really effected each
other and the things that have happened to us that really effected us as
a family just seems so simple now. I was reading Preach my Gospel the
other day and there is one sentence in there that says something like
this,, every family needs the the Gospel of Jesus Christ because the
Gospel of Jesus Christ is his atonement and the atonement heals us and
our families. When I read this I really started tearing up and it hit me
super hard because I have a strong testimony of the Atonement and I
know that it healed my family. If we had no Atonement of Jesus Christ in
our lives I do not know where our family would be and all I do know is
that we would be unhappy and lost and we would be wandering looking
where to go. But, if we think about what we have been through as a
family over really the last 10 years............... how is it that I am
on a mission serving the Lord and happy as can be? How is it that Tanner
served a faithful mission and now is married in the temple to Kayley
who is such an amazing girl. How is it that Chelsie and Bret are sealed
in the Temple and they have beautiful Nikelle and a baby on the way? How
is it that Mac and Jordan found each other when they did and got sealed
in the temple and now have a baby girl? How is it that Mom and Dad are
closer then ever and so in love and best friends. How is it that Cooper
is finally the one Clark boy who didn't hurt himself in high school so
he could actually play college ball? hahaha jk but for real Cooper is
obedient and such an amazing young man. But really how is it that our
family is so close and happier then ever? Our family was pretty close to
losing itself and breaking but the best thing about it is when we were
at our lowest point we were lifted up and we all changed........... and
the change that happened in all of our lives was the Atonement of Jesus
Christ and I know that the feelings and love we feel right now as a
family can last forever as we all try every day to use and understand
the Atonement of Jesus Christ in our lives. I am so grateful for my
family and it blows my mind to know all the blessings are family is
receiveing right now in our lives. I am so so so very grateful for this
Gospel and I am blessed to have a family that I am sealed to for time
and all eternity. I love my family truly with all my heart and I am
proud of everyone of you . Thank you for everything that you do for me
and I love you all and I know you are all doing great things right now
in your lives and I really miss you too!!!<br />
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Coop...... Coop dawg you are awesome and I am jealous that you get to go
play college ball, that is so dope and I will for sure be watching you
play when i get the chance:) I love you lil brother and I know that you
are making a great decision with the team you picked and also with
serving the Lord first. You are going to love the mission so much more
the playing college ball I can promise you that and I am sure college
ball is so fun but gosh coop, the mission is the best life you can live
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wanted to get married pretty quick after he got home and I don't blame
him because the mission prepares you really for your whole life ahead
and I agree with him and feel the same way. The only difference between
me and Tanner is that he still had to find his baby girl after he
returned home..... for me on the other hand I wont have to find my baby
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you....... we taught this family a long time ago with elder T and
me and our lesson about 2 months ago was really really good and super
powerful and we tried for about 4 weeks to teach them again but we could
never find the right time to meet with them which was really to bad
because they are so awesome and it is a family of 7 like ours! Anyways, I
felt the impression to go there again the other night with Elder V
and we went there and the whole family was there but there was no dad
so we couldn't teach because we didn't have a male with us either so it
wasn't allowed for us to teach them. But the cool thing is that the mom
was like listen we prayed about the message and we love listening to you
elders will you please share with my family and I asked well where is
your husband and she said that he is out drinking and she said that he
is always out drinking. And then I looked at these five kids and they
all just had this sadness to them that there dad was out drinking but
they really wanted us to share with them. We really wanted to share with
them but it just wasn't allowed and the mama said again, okay if you
cant share with us please just pray with us, please just pray right now
here in my home with my kids. This mama was like begging for hope and
happiness and she just knew in her heart that the message we held was
true and would give her happiness. SO, we said yes of course we will say
a prayer here with your family and I was given the great opportunity to
say the prayer and by the end of the prayer when it was over the spirit
was so strong in the room and the kids had smiles on their faces and
the mama had water in her eyes and they just were very happy. Later that
week we shared with them again and they loved it and the committed to
come to Church this Sunday so we are really excited for them all and we
love them, they all have baptismal dates except the dad but we will get
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Oh ya mama and dad i have been meaning to tell you this
for a lot of emails now....... I sing a lot in the mission. I sing at
zone meetings or zone confrences and me and Elder Taivia did a lot of
singing together and i sing at baptisms or at church and it has been a
huge blessing to be able to use my voice here in the mission. I am
grateful to be able to sing here and the people love it and the mission
loves it. I just thought you would like me to share that with you :)</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hi mom:):):):):):):):) hahah of course mama i am feeling great, i told you i was a missionary of God right? </span><div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We went hiking to the caves today and it was so sick! We literally went walking in the middle of the rain forest forever with this tour guide and found these huge caves that had like the smallest entrance that only little filipenos can fit inside of but somehow i fit inside of the entrance as well. IF i was still with Elder T haha i would have been waiting outside with him because he is huge and for sure could not have fit. But anyways, the caves were super cool, i have never relly been insde a cave like what i was in today. The entrance was super dooper small but then after the 10 ft entrance of crawling it just led into this huge chambers of crystals and just caves and a bunch of bats were flying around. It was a really cool P-day for sure. I took a lot of pictures so i hope you like them! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is one picture of me hanging on some branches and i just want to explain to you that those are branches like in the movie tarzan haha so that was cool too. The phillipines is probably the most beautiful place on earth. The people here have like no money or really anything but they do have a beautiful place to live. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My week has been really great but i have no time to email so i am gonna go short with it. One cool story would probably be that I was able to go down to laoag like i said in the last email and i was able to spend 2 and 1/2 days as Elder T as my companion again. I seriously love Elder T so much and we were able to just get super close over the last two days with each other and he has changed so much since the MTC in a really good way and we taught together and that was so flippen cool because in the MTC we knew like no tagalog and couldn't teach at all but now we just taught together all in taglalog and just taught a great lesson so it was a really speacial experience honestly for me. Elder T is a great friend and I cant wait for you all to meet him because he is crazy haha. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am super happy the family is together for the weekend and i know you will really enjoy that time with each other. I am super happy as well that colbie is apart of that because she is awesome haha. as much as i love the mission work and love the feelings i get to feel every day as a missionary, i also miss my family and my beautiful girl there at home, but dont worry haha i am far from homesick, the last thing i wanna do is go home. I honestly wish the philippines could just be America because it is so great here. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140468109409542750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984227088815850401.post-54034847120383371222014-01-26T21:16:00.002-08:002014-01-26T21:16:47.402-08:00Santa Terisita<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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this was a great email:) Thanks mama for all the things you wrote, you
are awesome. So I am way sad right now because transfers are tomorrow
and the best companion that i will probably ever have in the whole
mission is leaving me!!! Elder T is getting transferred to Laoag so
he is going from like really hard life out here and back to the city
life in Laoag. I am going to miss this guy so flippen much. Elder T
is the man and seriously we are so close, we have never even had a
feeling of contention in our companionship and we have lived together
for 6 weeks. Elder T is probably one of my best friends and for
real I have been so happy as his companion and we work super hard, are
exactly obedient but at the same time just laugh and have such a great
time and we just work super well together. We both told President for
the past like 4 emails to him that we wanted to stay companions but I
guess the Lord has a different idea. So i am staying here In this area
of course and I got called as a district leader here and that will be
fun, I am excited to just work hard and do what the Lord wants to me to
do. My new companion is a Filipino and his name is Elder V and I
have heard pretty good things about him so I will be picking him up
tomorrow and I am going to make him suffer by first thing walking to our
farthest area and just getting to work. I figured it would be a great
way to start things off:) I am excited for my new companion too and i
know i will love him like crazy but i am gonna miss Elder T haha he
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So we went back to all the people in the new area and we had
another big lesson and we also have a lot of new baptismal dates. It is
about an hour and 30 minute walk from their area to the chapel but we
said if they committed to church and they don't have rides then we will
walk there in the morning before church and then walk as a huge group to
church so we will see what happens. And when i say ride, don't think of
a car haha what the have here is a motorbike with a big cart type thing
attached to the back to fit a bunch of people in haha. THE PHILIPPINES
IS SO COOL!!!!!! i am really in the coolest place on earth!<br />
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I am pumped to hear about what happens for the super bowl, the
Seahawks better win! but I am way more pumped that coop dawg will be
sending his papers in soon and he will be getting those back pretty
soon. I really really hope he comes over here in the Philippines because
they could use him over here hahah I hope he comes to this mission and
then i will be his trainer and that would seriously be the coolest thing
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thought that always comes to my mind when I am a little bit sad or down
is that I have 100 million more reasons to be happy then I do reasons
for being sad and then I just find one of the million reasons of
happiness to my life and I just change my attitude and I pray and it
works every time. I am a super happy missionary just to let you know
mama. MA, I love the Lords work and I am going to be a strong member of
this church forever and I am going to marry in the Temple and I am going
to be worthy priesthood holder forever. The mission is the biggest
learning moment that I have had in my life and I have learned ridiculous
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Thank you mama for you testimony and I know you are going to
be a great missionary someday and I know you are a great missionary now
as well. Mama, thank you for supporting Colbie in everything she is
doing right now as well in her life, I know sometimes it is really hard
for her and just try to understand how hard Satan is trying to get her
to stay home. It is really stressful for a person right before they
leave on their mission but just thank you family for your love and
support for her because I know it means a lot to her and it makes me
super happy too! Colbie is a really special girl and she has a good
heart and her desires to serve the Lord are strong ! So thank you family
for all that you do for me and the support you have for me as well.
This week has been pretty good but elder T was sick two days this
week so it was a lil difficult to get a bunch of work done but its all
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HAPPY DAYS ALL IS WELL<br /></div>
Elder ClarkAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140468109409542750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984227088815850401.post-29296048734359114432014-01-21T18:27:00.005-08:002014-01-21T18:27:54.193-08:00January 19 Hey mama:) do you know how much i love you? I hope you know that i love
you a lot and miss you a lot as well! The mission is so weird haha I am
literally living in the Philippines and you are over there in Ferndale
Washington haha and we are just in two total different places. It is
weird to think about the life I am living right now and comparing it to
the life that i lived before i left. It is a whole 180 degree turn and
just living not even close to the way i lived before haha. But, life is
so good here and I just wish that you all could do a day with me here to
just know what it is like because I have to say haha I am probably in
the best place of the world right now. The Philippines is so dope and i
truly love it so much here, for example, the main two pets for people
here are dogs, and monkeys. I at least see one monkey a day haha I will
take a picture with one soon so you can see too:) I want to send you
pics right now but this computer is way slow to send pics so i dont
really have time but I will try really hard to send them still and
hopefully i can because i know it has been awhile with no pictures so i
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> I am happy to hear about the family and I just how good you are all
doing, i really love and miss every single one of you! I have a cool
story for you all that I cant wait to tell you!!!! So there is this area
called bangaloa in our area here in Santa Terresita and Bangaloa is the
farthest area for us to go to but there is a lot of people there and
huge potential. Other Elders went out there before but they said they
stopped because the church was to far from them, which isnt true but i
mean it is pretty far but I know Heavenly Father has a way for all his
children. Anyways Elder T and I decided to go out there and see
what the Lord wanted us to get done out there and the first person we
talked to accepted baptismal date after literally 4 minutes of talking
with him and teaching him. The guy was really humble and he said he has
been looking for a true religion and we just extended the Bdate and he
took it and ya but that isnt the really cool part of the story...... So
we walked into the main part of bangaloa but dont think of city when you
think of this place haha think of the Jungle and just a bunch of little
houses and we were at the part where there was a lot of little houses
and by houses i mean tin roofs and tin walls or cement walls and tin
roof and then we also were just surronded by rice fields. Anyways, all
the kids just got out of school so they pretty much came home at the
same time and they saw us and just the expressions on their face was
like......" wow who is this fat filipeno and americano" because usually
people think Elder T is a fat filipeno but he is just Samoan so i
know you understand hahaha. Anyways we start talking with these kids in
Tagalog and Hilikano "the other language" and there is about 12 kids
from the age of 9 untill 18 and then once they invited us to sit down
just outside on a porch type thing there was about 20 more kids that ran
over to meet us and there was about 10 teenagers from the age of 15 to
18 and then just a bunch of little kids and we were getting to know all
of them and just laughing and having a great time and then as soon as
we noticed the whole little town was outside of their huts wondering
what was going on and then a lot of them came over to get to know us and
then there was about 10 adults in the group as well and even more kids
came. We got to know them and laughed and then we shared our purpose to
them and being missionaries and the spirit was so strong. We literally
went from laughing and just getting to know each other to this silence of
peace and quiet and we just shared our purpose as missionaries and they
were all so excited to listen to us. We asked them if we could say a
prayer to start so we did and then we just taught about Heavenly Father
and his love for his children and tied it all into families and it was
probably the coolest experience that I have ever had in the mission. We
shared to about 40 people and they all said to come back and we also had
3 adults come up to us and ask if we could come and share to them. The
spirit was so strong and everybody was so attentive and they loved
listening and it was truly super super powerful and i really cant even
express so amazing it was. I am so blessed to be here in the Philippines
and i love the work here so much and i am super happy.:)<br />
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happen to us elders here in Sta. Terresita but I just am hoping that
Elder T isnt leaving here because he is the man. I have had some
great companions but Elder T is for sure my favorite that i have
had haha we have a bunch in common so it is so easy to just click with
him and get along. We have not had one feeling of contention in our
companionship and that is a huge blessing and for real our teaching is
super good because we just know eachother really well so we just teach
with each other really well too. And of course we have the help from the
Lord and he is the real reason why we feel confident in our teaching.<br />
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and i hope you all have an amazing week and i hope you enjoyed the
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Guess what Family....... I received my package:):)!!! I can't appreciate it enough with all the things you put in there and everything was just a good surprise, i think it was better then christmas morning haha. Anyways, there was so many things in there that i just felt like giving it away to my investigators and members so i handed out a lot of the snacks to investigators and members and they were way happy to have some chocolates from america ahaha but dont worry i kept some for myself as well and i still have stuff left as well. There was a bunch of things in the boxes and a lot of things that i needed so thank you so much truly for the package, it really means a lot that you did that.<br />>><br />>> I want to share one experience just about how my testimony of family grew over this week:) So President B came to our apartment and dropped the package off as well and so later that night i opened up my package and i was so excited to see everythiing that you sent me. I was way glad you sent me the clothes and the snacks and the neck ties and just all the things i needed that i asked for but there was one thing i didnt ask for but you sent me just because you love me. The big envelope with the big picture of our family and then all the personal letters that you all wrote me changed my feelings and day. The happiness that i felt from receiving the snacks and clothes and soaps and stuff i needed would only last so long but then when i saw the pictures you sent me and read the letters that each of you personally wrote to me by hand is when i felt true happiness and true joy in my day and my heart and that kind of joy lasts forever. Thank you for sending me those pictures and those letters with all the amazing kind words that you wrote to me. I will always rmember the feelings that i felt just change from happiness that lasts 10 minutes to just true joy and true happiness because my family loves me. When i was done reading the letters i said to my companion...... Elder T, i have the best family in the world and he just said...... yeah you do because they sent you all these snacks for me hahahah! he ate a lot of my stuff but its all good that is just how polynesians are haha. But for real, i love my family and i am grateful for all that you do for me and are doing for me everyday. I was looking at the picture and obviously i didn't see myself in it but goodness my family is so beautiful and coop looks so darn lonely haha he doesnt have his other unmarried brother to stand by him. Anyways i just was thinking as well when i was looking at the picture of just first, Chelsie and Bret and Nikelle are the best and Tanner and Kayley are just crazy about each other and Mac and J are pregnant and are about to have a baby and then there is Coop who is just fly as fly can get lookin like a stud and then there is my beautiful mama who i love so much who shows christlike love to her children everyday and then there is my idol or in other words my dad who is just the man i look up to and want to be like. SO after thinking about all that when i was looking at the picture i just am way excited for the day when i get stand in that picture again with my family and hopefully i am married to the beautiful blonde haired girl that is probablly the most humble girl on earth who is about to serve a mission for a year and a half and is just amazing. Anyways, i miss you all alot but dont worry i am not home sick, i am still working my butt off and trying my best for the Lord. The work here in this new area is way different and so much better, i love my area and i love my investgators.<br />>><br />>><br />>> Life is really really great and i am happy.Thank you for all the things you informed with in the email as well, i just dont have time to reply to all of that except that i laughed hard when you said tanner and kayley are getting a puppy because i rememebr when they said they were going to name there puppy pancake and i rememebr tanner saying he will call it panqueque hahah<br />>><br />>> I love you all and thank you dad for the time you took to write me this wonderful email. I appreciate everything you all do for me everyday:)<br />>><br />>> Happy Days, All is Well<br />>><br />>> Elder Cory Austin Clark:)</span></div>
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