August 26, 2013

Life is great! I will start off with the most exciting news of the week.............ready?........... We tract a lot....... and we hand out pass-along cards...... and no one ever calls......... But on Thursday? SOME CALLED!!!! We gave this lady a pass-along card three weeks ago! We were so confused about who was calling us. She said she wanted us to come over and teach her about Jesus Christ. We asked her when and if right then was okay. She said yes! We drove to her house and talked to her. She said she has been working for the last ten years and hasn't done anything else. No one ever knocks on her door, but we did. She thought for three weeks about calling, but things always got in the way. But she decided it was finally time to include God in her life. WOW! We invited her to be baptized. She accepted, but there isn't a firm date. OH MY I LOVE HER. She works on Sundays, but we have this feeling that the more we teach her and she comes closer to Christ, her desire to go to church will and things will work out for her to come. She is so humble. With my mission president, we have been focusing on praying about and extending commitments about what our investigators need to do to come closer to Christ. We received some neat ideas today. Hopefully Edwin, our investigator that was going to get baptized, will feel the importance of the Gospel and keeping commitments. It was very weird yesterday. Edwin cancelled a bunch of lessons with us, but he said we could come over yesterday. So we invited a member, Hermano Blanco, to come with us. We need a woman to go in every house, so we invited this other lady, Marta. We went to pick up Marta (10 minutes late) and her other friend, Marcelina, was there, so we invited her. All three of these people are converts to the church. Hermano Blanco works in the temple now. We ended up getting to Edwin's house twenty minutes late and he wasn't there. We didn't quite know what to do. We got the phone out to call him, and he suddenly came home. The people he lives with had company over, so we decided to just go to the park. This was at 8:20 at night (and it was dark). We were going to read the B of M, but couldn't, and the members there ended up teaching him the first lesson again. That is what he needed! They talked to him and helped him resolve some of his concerns. I think he feels less alone now and when we left, he ended up promising us to read the B of M at work today. We didn't even ask him! He just told us himself that is what he wants to do. We are convinced he is going to be baptized and go be a stake president in El Salvador (where he is planning on moving back to next year). The members made such a big difference. All of our investigators need normal people without name tags to help them feel welcome, ask their questions, and show them how to live the Gospel in everyday life. Please go out with the missionaries!

I love you all very much!

Love,
Hermana Clark