GUYS!!! Christmas is in JUST ONE WEEK!!!! I don´t know if I am ready for it... I don´t want it to be over!!! I love Christmas time so much and it seems like this year it kind of just snuck up on me! It sure has come so fast and I hate the feeling after Christmas when it is all over but I guess that just means that my next Christmas, I will be home with all of you guys!!! So to explain the title of my weekly email, this week we had our mission Christmas party. All of the zones had to come up with their own little skit or song to preform in front of everyones and ours was pretty funny, but then we just got was put to shame by President and Sister Mann!! They did an act where President Mann was Clark Kent and then had to go save his missionaries from danger. So he threw his coat to the side, and ripped his shirt apart to reveal his TRUE identity... SUPERMAN! He saved some Elders from getting robbed and then beat another Elder in an armwrestling match!! It was sooo funny, I love our mission Presidents so much. I know that they love us a ton and they know how to keep us safe, working hard, and having fun!! I love this mission so much and am convinced there is not a better mission in the whole world!! Afterwards we enjoyed eating hamburgers and hot dogs, playing basketball, and watching Cars 3. And of course hitting some piñatas!!! It sure was a great party and it is sad to think that that was my last one... Like I said though, next year I will be home for Christmas!!
The work is going great still and I am especially excited for the next cycle. I actually just got a new companion today and I am sooo excited! His name is Elder Warnick and he is from Atlanta Georgia! I know he will be an amazing comp for me and we are going to work so hard! I will definitely miss Elder Revolorio though, who has been an amazing companion and friend for me, and these last two cycles have been nothing but great. But like all good things, it must come to an end, and I am very excited for what is ahead! Elder Warnick is about 6´5´´ too, so not only are we going to be one of the best working,teaching, and baptizing companionship, but we have just became the best basketball companionship in the mission by far too. I am going to be throwing alley-oop dunks to him all day haha. I know we will work really hard and have a lot of fun though and like and I´ll say it again, this is the best mission in the whole world!!
So this week after the Christmas party, we came back and had a couple of appointments. One of them was with Tina, the wife of Francisco who had cancer. We had a really good family home evening with her even though Francisco wasn´t able to be there but at the end she told us that this last week she got some bad news... The cancer in her brain came back. It was really sad and hard to hear that, and I could tell her family was having a really hard time. She asked us to give her a blessing at the end and it was one of the most powerful blessings I had ever given. I felt prompted to give her a promise in the blessing, that if she kept following the commandments, going to church every sunday, saying her prayers, and reading the scriptures, that she would have the opportunity in this life to get sealed with her husband and her family for all eternity. Her whole family was in tears after the blessing and she seemed really calm and content. This week we got another appointment with Francisco, so hopefully he will be a little bit more open and willing to come unto Christ now. So I am excited to go back with him and of course all of our other investigators that our progressing! I will keep you guys updated and hopefully we will have a lot of baptisms coming up in the next few weeks!
So this week was a great week. It was kind of weird, I almost wish that time was going a little slower now just to enjoy the Christmas season before it is over but my mission has been flying by. I can´t believe that Christmas will be my 14 month mark and then just 10 months later I will be flying home. I can´t belive it. This week it was also pretty funny, we were walking in the streets when school was getting out one day and we walking passed a bunch of teenage girls who were looking at us. I heard one of them whisper to another, "Oh my gosh, he has blue eyes!" Then a few short seconds later, they all shouted out together, "Eres muy guapo!!" I´ll let you guys translate that one haha, but it was kind of funny. Also I broke one of my guitar strings a while back and this week we walked by a guitar shop on the streets. I asked the guy how much it would be for a high E string and he gave it to me for free since he has a lot of "missionary friends". It was a good tender mercy for me and I know that God watches over his missionaries. I have also had a lot more luck this year because last year I was robbed 3 times right before Christmas! (*knock on wood*) I hope you guys are all ready and excited for Christmas and getting some snow! It is weird to think that the next time I will be emailing, it will already be Christmas but I guess it has to come eventually!! Remember what Christmas is really about and don´t forget to leave out cookies and carrots for Santa and his Reindeers!!!!
Your favorite missionary,
Elder Clark
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