This week has been awesome, but I'll address your email first.
It has been snowing off and on all week. We go out in the morning with snow on the ground, but by the afternoon it's all melted. Friday it rained like crazy all day. We got soaked.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARNO! I can't believe you are 14 already. How nutso is that one? Elder Causey had his birthday on Saturday, but on a mission it's kind of just another day. No cake. No presents. Just doors and rain. Haha!
Go Alex! And shout out to Jake! Our Bishop's son just put his papers in last week. Hopefully I'm still here to see where he goes.
Well I guess you want me to talk about what happened here in Mission. I feel like a broken record, but when P Day rolls around I can't think or remember of anything that happened this week. One of the highlights was definitely Zone Conference. It was all about teaching out of the pamphlets, which simplifies our teaching. It was also about using those pamphlets and practicing with our members to get referrals. We tried that with a couple members and it was rough. They asked horribly distracting questions and made it really hard for us on purpose. Probably the worst Restoration I've ever had. And I was on exchange with my DL who used to be a ZL, so you'd think it should have gone well. But Zone Conference was great, and I was able to learn a lot of applicable things.
As for one of those, (sidenote: President Burt is so inspired) we talked about what to do from 9-10:30 at night. President Burt told us to spend it with the Savior. To really use our missions to strengthen our relationship with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I had been drawing and watching church movies during that time, so I felt like he was talking to me. Since then, I've been writing in my journal until 9:30 and then reading the scriptures until 10:30. It has changed so much! Not only have I strengthened my testimony of and relationship with God, but I have learned so much about Him! I finished Doctrine and Covenants, and I'm now working on the Old Testament. It has been great, and I have learned so much about Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, etc. I would recommend reading the scriptures every day!
We also have been feeling a lot of chastisement by the Spirit. Not that we have done anything BAD, but we could be doing better. So last night we decided to just go out and walk around outside. We grabbed a Book of Mormon, wrote our number in it, and went out. It was late, so we met 1 lady who was jogging. She wouldn't stop to talk to us, but we will definitely keep trying that. One of these days a miracle will happen! Nobody ever found anybody while sitting in their apartment.
Anyway, that's me. How have things been going for you guys? I can't believe that I've been gone for almost a whole school year. It goes by so fast, honestly I'm just trying to live it up because one day it will be me who has 1 transfer left and I have to start planning for "life back home". It's a scary thought.
If you want to know anything let me know! I'll try to get pictures of the apartment this week.
Love, Elder Clark
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