I know, I KNOW. My last weekly email was short and this one might be shorter too, but I had an awesome P-Day today going Bowling!!! Yep, today we went to shopping mall (I also had to buy new shoes because I blew out the side of my athletic shoes playing basketball just like Manu Ginobili) so I bought some shoes, a super nice Kawhi Leonard Jersey, and we went bowling afterwards with my friends! After not playing in over a year, I am happy to anounce, I bowled a STRIKE on my first box! I won´t talk about the rest of my game because it was pretty embarrasing, but I was at least proud of my first frame.
The work was actually really great for us this week as well. As a zone we baptized 6, and have 5 planned for this week, and as for our area, we were able to put some new baptism dates that we plan on having them get baptized in December!! I am really excited for a family we found, the Lopez Family, who all came to church this week, the dad for the very first time! We were also blessed with another guy, Fredrico, who, by curiosity decided to walk into our meetings on Sunday for the very first time! He was soo excited and interested, had so many questions and could hardly contain himself! We have an appointment with him this week (This time he IS in our area!) and also he is going to come to our REALLY AWESOME activity we have planned on Saturday! So now let me tell you about this REALLY AWESOME activity. Lately we have been working a lot with out Ward Mission Leader, who is really great. He has been helping us with our investigators, we have a meeting every week with him, he helps us out with our english classes, and helped us planned a family home evening with the ward. On Saturday night we invited the whole ward to come and are going to have a really inspirational meeting. We have invited some of the coolest converts of our ward to come and tell their conversion story, and how the church changed their lives. We have also invited President Mann to come talk and let everyone feel his energizing Spirit! We´ve planned things also like a video with pictures of the ward from a really long time ago, a choir of missionaries, tamales and hot chocolate, and of course some games!! It will be a huge success I know and I can´t wait!! So I couldn´t be more excited for our ward right now as we are gaining their trust and that they are more willing to help us with the missionary work. I also have a talk on Sunday about missionary work and told everyone they need to repent and do better by helping us in the missionary work if they truly love their Savior Jesus Christ. It was great, I love giving talks in church haha.
So this week I am really excited for what is coming up. After having a slower area for a while, the pace is picking up, and we could have about 5 or 6 baptisms planned for the new future. Of course Christmas time is coming up which is a great time to serve and love everyone. We will probably plan a zone Christmas Caroling activity which I am excited about. This week we also got to go to the temple which was a very powerful and spiritual experience like always, but then afterwards I was scared out of my mind because they gave us all Flu Shots.... :( Ugh I hate shots but now I can basically eat and do whatever I want and not get sick right? I don´t think I even have to cook my food anymore! This week Elder Boynton and I also started meal prepping since we are in the same house. Every morning after the gym we eat 3 eggs with some bread and on Sunday and Wednesday nights we cook some chicken breast and a ton of spaghetti and pack them into tupperware containers for the next 3 days. Every night we have a super filling and good dinner which gives us ton of energy for the gym the next day and honestly I feel like I have so much energy throughout the day too. And maybe you didn´t want this extra detail but I am going to say it anyways, I don´t think I´ve ever had more solid poops in over a year of all my time in Mexico. JAJAJA. Of course I still have to eat my tacos, donuts, tamales, and whatever other good food Mexico brings me, but I feel great physically right now, AND spiritually. I am continuing to study hard and have truly fallen in love with the Scirptures, especially the Book of Mormon. How grateful I am for them in my life.
So yes, like every week, is was wonderful and very fast. We actually have had to walk a ton this week with a lot of fallen appointments, and it is really REALLY hot still... Ugh I just want some snow! It doesn´t even feel like Christmas time as far as the weather goes. But I am very excited for the Holidays. Especially Thanksgiving! Even though we don´t really celebrate it here, I have so much to be grateful for and will have a heart full of gratitutde that day for sure. I will try to eat some sort of turkey too haha. I sure do miss spending all of this time with you guys though. Have fun smashing the gord without me! And finally this week I have been playing a lot of chess with Elder Boynton as well. I am getting pretty good and realized I am a lot better than I though! Who woulda known?
Well, I guess this email wasn´t as short as I thought it would be anyways so I guess thats good! Have a great week, love and miss you lots, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
Your number 1,
Elder Tyler Clark!
GO SPURS GO!
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