Family! Was conference not the greatest thing ever! I loved
conference, the focus on love, and standing for what you believe in. I love the
spirit that I feel when I listen to conference, and the revelation that can be
received as well. I would have to say some of my favorite talks, Elder Holland’s
"now be strong, live the gospel and defend your faith." Neil L.
Anderson "Changes in civil laws does not change God's laws." Loved
President Eyring's talk with the analogy of the tree as well. President
Uchdorf's about being grateful. Elder Bednar's about the enabling power of the
atonement.
I guess I just loved them all. I've decided that conference is
like the super bowl for Mormon's. We prepare snacks, questions expectation, but
the results of conference are far greater then any football game could ever
have.:) Ok so that's my mini spiel about conference.
All right so this week was transfer conference. So sister Houser
abandoned me.. It's ok I forgive her. My new companion is Sister Shearer! She
is from Hurricane Utah:) She is so cool. She’s 'almost' 5"4' ha-ha I love
her a lot. Sometimes I forget how ridiculously tall I am, then I get a shorter
companion and it's just all sorts of fun.
Any who we are very much
a-like, she is a hard worker but also just doesn't stress. She has been such a
great companion for me already and I'm excited to continue to learn from her.
This week we spent some time helping a new family move into the
ward. They are so solid and we are praying that they will be called as ward missionaries’
soon:). We had a really great experience where our Bishop invited our
Investigator over for dinner with us. Franklin is so awesome! He is getting
baptized this Sunday and he is so excited. He had an amazing experience with
watching conference. We invited him to write down his questions before he
watched or listened then listen for the answers he told us that all of his
questions were answered with one phrase. "Trust in the Lord, and it will
all work out". It was so fun to get texts from our recent converts and
investigators telling us how much they loved conference. Caldwell is on fire!
This week we also met the Goltsch family, the father is a less
active member and his wife and daughter are not members. But fun fact about
brother Goltsch, He is the inventor of the machine that makes all the blue
painters tape.. pretty cool stuff.. he's so great. He has a strong testimony he
just needs some motivation to go. We are excited to work with him.
Conference was fun! It was really neat because we got to watch
every session of conference in a different home, in a different setting.
Saturday morning we watched with a less active member on her
computer, she is slowly progressing on coming back to church but it was great
to hear some of the revelation she received from watching conference.
Saturday afternoon we watched with dear sweet Nanay. An 85-returning
member from the Philippines who is preparing to go to the temple. She was
grinning from ear to ear watching conference and doing her best to remember all
the speakers’ names. It's official I love Pilipino people, they are so sweet.
Sunday morning we watched
conference with our investigator Jean Michael and his son, at a member’s house.
The Titus family has 6 kids all under the age of 8 so to have them listen every
time someone said Jesus. We all got jellybeans. It worked! They were all so
quite and so attentive... I like the reward system. The jellybeans were good, but
the spirit tastes so much sweeter:) (Corny I know) anyways that was fun. Then
Sunday evening we watched it at the church. With some members. What a blessing!
So I want to tell you about an incredible miracle sister Shearer
and I saw last night. So for our Zone goal we have a goal to get a Key
Indicator score of 10 each week. Usually that is a very reachable goal for us,
but with transfers and with general conference we found ourselves on Saturday night
at a 7. So, Sister Shearer and I looked at our Sunday schedule and made goals,
we were going to get 1 investigator on date, Have 1 member present, and then
find a new investigator. We had a determination to reach this goal and we
counseled with the Lord in prayer that we would be able to see these miracles.
As Sunday went on we were
able to watch general conference at a members house with 2 of our
investigators, after conference we shared a message with them and invited our
investigators son to be baptized with his dad. His response, 'Yes, I would like
to be baptized'. The members who were there helped us teach the lesson and
helped him feel prepared and confident in his answer to be baptized. That was
miracle number 1 and 2:).
So as the night went on appointments fell through and our goal of
10 seemed to slowly slip away from us. But we were determined. We talked to
everyone within sight, striving to find someone to teach. At the end of the
night we ended up going to see a returning member who goes to Montclair state.
On our long walk back to our car we talked to 4 sorority girls who were waiting
for a bus. One of the girls (who appeared to be the leader) started to laugh at
us. Thinking of Elder Holland's talk earlier about the sister missionaries who
were yelled at and were 'mash-potato's'. I testified to these girls about the
importance of Jesus Christ and then thought 'Mashed potato's'. They weren't
interested.
So we continued our long
descent back to our car. It was 8 o'clock, all hope seemed lost, we were
Hungary tired missionaries but we were still determined to find someone to
teach. As we were walking we passed a young man named Arius. We started talking
to him and he told us that he had strayed quite a bit from the path but knows
he needs to get back on. We testified of the Book of Mormon and ended up
teaching him a lesson and setting up a return appointment with him. He's really
cool; he's an aspiring rapper and wants to learn more.
As we departed (when Arius
was out of sight) I jumped for joy. The Lord had seen our Righteous desires,
and we had done everything we could to achieve them, and then at the last
moment he blessed us with a miracle.
We ended contacting 2 other girls before we got into our car that
were interested as well. I know that the Lord is aware of our work. As we do
all we can to achieve righteous goals, he will bless us with results.
Well that was my week. It was great and I'm excited for more
blessings and miracles to come. I love this work. I love my Savior and I'm so
grateful for him. I love our Prophet; I know he has been called of God. The
Church is True. I know it, I love it, and I breathe it. Love you all! Have a
great week!
Love,
Sister Clark
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