GUESS WHO'S STAYING IN TOMS RIVER WITH THE 2 BEST COMPANIONS EVER!!!!!!!! (Pointing to myself) this girl!!!!!!!! yes thats right. last night was the dreaded transfer texts to see who was going and who is staying, basically the fate of our mission in the hands of a sprint phone.. another reason why no to like sprint.. haha jk but we were informed last night that we would all be staying together!!! we tackeled each other in Joy. We know we have a lot of work to do and we are excited to get going and to get started! our work is not done! we get another transfer together (p.s. this usually doesn't happen.. you usually don't stay with your trainer after your done being trained) that brings me to my next point.. I"M A normal missionary!!! well... i'm not normal.. i'm still myself but i'm no longer a baby.. I'm in the big girl pants now! i'm so glad i get to stay with my companions. anyways we are verry excited. This week wasn't supper eventful so the letter might not be that long. plus I'm lacking on time.. plus.. I want to send pictures. so here we go.
First off just so you know.. it was really hot in Jersey.. at one point 110 with humitity.. you literally walk outside and feel like you stepped into a got tub. sticky hot humidity. It was 'haseh calor' (verry hot in broken spanish). but i'm getting a nifty tan line on my wrist from my watch. i'm becoming a true missionary hahahh.
Monday.
p-day was awesome. I don't remember if I talked about it. but we spent a lot of our day sitting on the edge of toms river writting letters to friends and family. it was very relaxing.
tuedsay.
Another incredible district meeting and awesomeness as always. we talked about the book of mormon yet again. as i'm sitting there reading it the spirit just confirmed to me again and again the truth of the words we read. It is true. it is powerful and it changes lives. we then taught the anwanders and wayne. which were good powerful lessons. they are another reason why i'm so happy we are staying in toms river. we need more time with them. then we had dinner with the Grovers.. yes the grovers. bringing me back to my roots. they were so nice and fed us so much food!!!! every meal we have here is eaither hot dogs or some sort of pasta. it's great, i'm not complaining it's always good. but it's so neat to hear peoples converstions stories. it gives me so much hope for the people we are working with. ok in sad news.. Kevin.. our rock start who we've been teaching since we came here. he disapeared. He ran away to california.. it broke our hearts. we have a chart with all our investigatros to track there progress and we had to move him to mists of darkness the other day. I understand what brian was saying about people breaking your heart. we love him a lot. I just hope and pray that missionaries will find him and he will accept it someday. I have faith he will be given another oporunity to learn again.
Wednesday.
3 month mark!! i've been out for 3 months! it may not seem like that long but it was a monumental day for me haha. and as always i got a package just when i needed it! oh man thank you so much for the darling pictures and letters! I love you all so much! on wednesday we took the higgins family (less active, and investigator and there 2 children) on a church tour. there little boy anikan (yes like star wars) just walked around like he owned the place. it was amazing to see Eric (investigators) light up as he watched his son just be completely at home and point to pictures of Jesus and smile. we sat in the chapel as i tried to play a hymn and the spirit is alway so strong in the chapel. we taught the gospel of jesus christ and it was an amazing lesson. He commiteed to cmoe to church! yes! and so did sister Higgins!. wow such an amazing family! we then ran over to angelics, we gave her hugs.. she was so stressed out. we set up a time to meet with her and told her that one of us might be transfered,she sunk as she told us she doesn't want us to leave. and she likes us the best. man we had a lot of moments like that just made me so happy and broke my heart at the same time.. not knowing what my fate was going to be.
thursday.
we rode our bikes. and did planning. it was fun. my companions are just silly hahah I love them so much. we set some killer goals for this coming week! LOOK OUT TOMS RIVER!
Friday
so I didn't tell you cause i didn't know until tuesday but i went to ELLIS ISLAND for real this time.. not only to ellis island but to LIBERTY ISLAND!! yes.. i went to the statue of liberety! we usually go to ellis island to help with geneology but becuase of sandy it is just completely abandoned. it's sad to see but we rode a ferry to liberty island. it was the weirdest feeling getting on a boat.. it was athorized but it was still crazy!!! i was on a boat.. on water. thats not allowed! but the statue of liberty was so neat! people from all over the world flock to the statue! I can't wait for the day when people flock to the church like that! the only bummer about our service is we are not allowed to prosolyeite.. so many people we wanted to talk to and we just had to be friendly and smile and hope they asked us questions. I had a lady come up to me and thank me for the service our church has done in geneology and how it has blessed her family. i was dying not be able to talk with her about the gospel... We stood outside and took peoples e-mail addresses to get a certificate for coming to the island.. it wasn't family history work at all but we were doing service non the less. it was so hot. all us sisters were hot sweety messes thats for sure. I'm so greatful for the freedoms we enjoy in this country and just to be here in America! I love the good U.s. of A. I've been reading in nephi and it just testifies over and over agian about how this is a promised land. of liberty. i'm verry greatful for it.
Saturday
was so busy. it was soo good. we saw a parrot drinking out of a bottle on a persons shoulder while they were
driving. we were just teaching and running from apointment to apointment.
Suday
Great as always! we walked into the chapel to see the higgins there!!! to see them all in church clothes and anikan (2) with all his toys like a champ! oh my goodness my heart was filled with so much joy to see them there. then AMIEE CAME! see's a recent convert and she is so coooool!! we love her. she hasn't been to church for like 5 months but she finally made it! we were so happy to see her there! oh my goodness. my heart... to much love.. can't take it!!! so cool to see them there. definatly a moment i'll never forget.
sad news. one of our investigators evelyn, she's 96 catholic lady who lets us come over and talk with her. we were informed she had a stroke.. so on sunday we went to go visit her. she was not doing well at all. there's nothing they can do for her. so we went and we sung for her and her family. he held our hands and just cried. We love her so much. I know heavnly father knows the goodness of her heart and even tho she didn't get a chance to be baptised in this life,, she will make it to the celestial kingdom. We love her a lot. we then went to sister garretsons. oh man she is a funny lady. we talked about Jesus Christ. and we took funny pictures with her just in case any of us leave. then we met 2 new investigators. this week was great but this coming week is going to be eppic. our district is getting 4 new elders and 1 new sister! i'm excited to see toms river grow and see some of the fruits of our labors.I love you all a lot! thanks for your love and prayers
THE CHURCH IS TRUE!
Love SISTER CLARK
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