9.4.14 "When Upon Life's Billows you are Tempest Tossed"

Hey family and friends sorry for the very delayed e-mail. Lots of stuff to do not a lot of time:) so I will stick with the basic highlights of this past week. 

Last Monday

Sister Harvey and I were able to go and do some service for one of our investigators Mary. It's a really neat experience for us to be able to connect with them through service. We helped her clean out some old movies and had some good conversations with her. Later that week she took us out to McDonald's for some breakfast. She told us how much our service and just loving her really helped her. 

Tuesday

We had district meeting and for accountability we played some fruit ninja. Meaning if we kept the commitments we had a chance to try and slice some flying fruit. Or in this case some old onions.

Wednesday

We went over to one of our favorite members homes and got to hold and pet their pet squirrel.. that's right.. They now are the proud owners of a baby squirrel! We also went to teach one of our new investigators, his name is Alex. He is an Italian man with long slicked back hair. He is a lawyer and as my companion says everything about him screams mafia. He’s probably not but hey we are in Jersey anything could happen.

Then this week
Monday we had a beach volleyball tournament with another zone. It was good to get out and play a little. It ended with us going over to a member’s house to have a Labor Day bbq. It was neat we were able to sit in the candle light when it got dark and I was able to talk to some of her friends about the gospel, we talked a lot about the influence of righteous mothers. I was happy to talk about mom and how much I love her and appreciated everything that she has done for me. It’s interesting to meet these people who aren’t of our faith yet they do have good hearts and desire a lot of similar things. They are looking for something they just don't know what it is yet. 

Tuesday

Was the day of my endoscopy? Interesting experience. I’ll have to tell you about it another time. But the day consisted of lots of sleeping and juice:) and movies.
Sorry not an to eventful e-mail but the week has been good
oh crazy experience that happened yesterday

So we went out to go teach one of our investigators in West Orange. His name is Gordon he is an elderly man and he just has the best heart and wants to learn about the gospel. As we were sitting on his porch for about 15 minutes talking to him getting to know him then all the sudden when he is in the middle of telling us about how he never lies. He grabs his hip and screams out in pain.

Sister Harvey and I didn't know what to do. He asked us to try and move his leg and elevate it. Long story short we sat there in panic for a couple of minutes trying to help him then eventually called an ambulance and ran over to some of his neighbors to help him get out of his chair. The ambulance came. We had to go and search his house for a list of his medications etc. (keep in mind this is the 2nd time we've meet him

As he is driving away in the ambulance, an ice-cream truck pulls up behind the ambulance and his Italian neighbor wants to buy us ice cream... so we said why not. Sister Harvey got a ninja turtle Popsicle and I got a sponge bob one. It was a very interesting experience definitely one I’ll never forget. 

Well that has been my week thus far. I hope all is well! I’m praying for Em and the babies (having the twins via C-section at 5:00 today) hope all goes well. Love you all! Keep smiling life is good:)

Love,
Sister Clark