HAPPY BIRTHDAY MITTERS!!! I love you!!! Wow this week was incredible. Every week is but this one was exceptionaly great! oh man I just never want to leave Toms River. I'm loving the mission. I'm seeing a change in myself, i'm still the same person but i'm becoming a better version of myself, a more magnified in who I am and what I believe. Missions change people, who knew? haha ok but i'll just jump into the week.
Monday
Well as I've told you and sent pictures we went Crabbing. It was actually a lot more fun than I even thought. what you do is you tie chicken wings (uncooked) to a string and put it in the water and the crabs just grab on. we caught so many crabs! it was so fun. I will admit it's nothing like fishing with some willow and string. But i did think about that a lot as we sat on the dock. I was a pro dad and grandpa you'd be impressed. Who knew I would be in Jersey catching crabs. I didn't know I would be doing that and being a fisher of men as well. We had full intentions of cooking them and eating them but then there was a tragic 'Krusty Krab' (spongebob) epidemic and they all died the next morning... ya we don't know how to take care of crabs but we caught around 30 but kept only like 14 to feed our whole district. but after crabbing we went out to find some less actives. sister kimball got another rock stuck in her eye and then we decided to knock this one door of a beutiful. big beach house. we shared who we were and she was like "i appreciate that because i'm a jehova's witness"........ she let us in and we talked with her and her family. they were really nice but man it's just not the same beliefs at all.. at one point in our meeting their little 4 year old boy was pretending to be a dog and we was walking around on his hands and feet. he came up next to me while i was sitting at the table. everyone else was distracted so he came up and barked at me. i looked down and silently barked back. then he started putting his little hand on my leg like sammy does when she wants attention. so i just kinda ignored him then this little Jehovah's witness boy bit me in the bum... yes it was a weird experience one i will never forget hahahah so I never would have thought i would be bit by a little Jehova's witness.... back to spiritual stuff. we taught the higgins. the less active family who just had the baby her husband has been taking the lessons. and as we came in there was a total difference about him. when we came in he sat down and was holding his book of mormon completely ingaded. do you want to know what caused the change? THE BOOK OF MORMON! we've seen this pattern all week of our investigators who are improving because they read the book of mormon. there is a strong power in that book. it has been our montly focus as a mission and i've learned so much. I know without a doubt that it is true and it changes lives. it is our biggest and greatest tool in the work. wow it's so cool. anyways we talked to Eric higgins and asked him if he wanted to continuely learn more and he said. of course! wahooo! new investigator (we got 5 this week. we are so bussy we are going crazy!)
Tuesday
ok brace yourself for the best district meeting that every exsisted in missionary work. Words can not describe how incredible it was. We started off practicing contacting using the book of mormon then we came back in the room and there were questions on the board asking us why we came on a mission. what's keeping us here and stuff like that. as we silently wrote down our answers Elder Mageliby started testifying of our calling. and our promise we made to give it everything we have and to leave everything else behind. We talked about the title of liberty and as he spoke it was like elder holland power status. it was incredible. he even at one point tore off his shirt (he was wearing 2 no worries) and he held it up in the air and on it was written the title of liberty and he had us all pray and recommit ourselfes to be here and we all signed it and got supper pumped! it was incredible!! wow i get chills just remembering it. we then headed to do some service for a less active laddy. the whole time in my head i was singing pocahauntas "dig a dig a dig a digity dig" we were shoveling and raking rocks in his driveway for 3 hours. I was named rake lady as I evened out the rocks and leveled them. it reminded me of our yard work where we named christopher steer manure man. but it was really fun. we had the elders with us and we work verry hard. It's nothing like pickin rocks in idaho but it was pretty close to that. so we worked then they fed us one of her friends came over and was so curious about our beliefs she was so cool. we got her phone number and we are planning on going to talk to her more!
Wednesday
I woke up with a new zeal after the awesome district meeting. I woke up and made as many phone calls as I could while sister kimball was doing her language study. we taught some of our investigators and we contacted and testified of the book of mormon. we saw an albino squirl and then we did some church tours with 2 of our investigators and 2 members came to help. we took the tour and ended in the chapel where we sat in silence for a 7 minutes as i played the piano.. i'm abit rusty i haven't played since i was home. but the spirit was still there so strong!! we then taught about the gospel of jesus christ and both our investigators, Raegan and Angelic, committed to be baptised. We are still working on dates with them. they need to come to church. they will! we know they will. we then went and taught divina. the girl we met our first week here who we though had moved away but ran up to us last week and talked with us. we talked to her and her brother in law listened in and they were both eager and excited to read the book of mormon. People just keep coming up to us and talking to us asking us who we are. Our name tags have been one of our biggest miracles this week.
Thursday
FREE SLURPEE DAY we went and got free slurpees after planning.
friday
zone conference. President taught about the apostasty and basically proved that the church is true. no big deal. IT WAS INCREDIBLE!!! then after sister kimball and I were alone sister richardson was on an exchange. we led the area and i drove for my 3rd time. it's really not to bad. in toms river it's nothing compared to real jersey drving. but we went and taught the higgins again. they had been reading and praying every night together!!!! wow!!! they were happy and eric said that he's more inclide to be baptised now! sister kimball that night expressed our deep love for eachother and apriceations. emotions have been crazy as we all are worried about transfers. we don't know what's going to happen but we are enjoying the moments we have together. we love eachother so much. the mission is amazed of how well we get along. that's not usually what happens in trios.
Saturday
We taught paul. the man from taiwan who met us 2 weeks ago and was so excited he took pictures of us. we taught and he is a bible buff. he's from taiwan so my heart was filled with joy thinking of saide, meg, and josh teaching people like him.
sunday
Always great. we had a Fiesta and made burittos and put american flags in them. it was good! we loved it
Well I love you all family! I have to finish some more letter but THE CHURCH IS TRUE! Please everyone read the book of mormon every day! it will bring peace and strength! we are so blessed to have it!
Love sister Clark
clear eyes full heart, can't lose!
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