This week we also had some cool experiences working with the members and finding new investigators! Things are still going great with Jonathan and Andrea and looks like they will be getting baptized in a couple of weeks! One day when an appointment fell it came to my mind that we needed to go with an old contact who wasn't there when we went back for the return appointment so we just let him go, but I felt strongly that we needed to go look for him again. I felt guided by the spirit as I did so because we got there and immediately got accepted in. Apparently, just the night before, he was walking home in the street and got shot in the leg! (Welcome to Mexico haha). No major injury happened but the bullet hit a bone in his leg and now he has to stay in his bed for a while to recover. It was strange though because he was super happy to see us, and kind of realized that maybe what happened to him was a sign he needed to listen to us and come closer to God. Of course I felt super bad for him and he can't really move for at least a few weeks (there are other people in his house feeding him and taking care of him) which would be really boring, but I suppose God works in mysterious ways for the Salvation of His children. It was a great opportunity we had, we went with him 3 different times this week because he loves it when we visit him, he's taking advantage of this time reading the Book of Mormon, and he promised us as soon as he could get out of his bed and walk again, he would go to church with us. We were able to set a baptismal date with him too for late in April and gave him a blessing of strength so that he could get better and be baptized on this day, and I am so excited and happy for him. His name is Saul, apparently the missionaries were teaching him in Tennessee a little bit too when he lived there, so he speaks English, and I can't wait until he gets baptized. I am so grateful the Spirit guided me to go find and help him. We are also trying to get the sisters of the ward to make and take him food every once in a while so he can get to know some more members!! Sometimes trials and tribulations in life are great opportunities for God to help us and mold us into who we can become if we humbly and patiently let him, enduring our trials with faith. We also had another cool experience working with a young men (16 years old), Aldo. He agreed to come out and do visits with us on an afternoon and when we picked him up we asked him if there was anyone he knew that we could visit, but he just didn't have anyone in mind who he could take us with. We contacted a little bit and then went with an investigator and taught the Restoration. After leaving the lesson he was so excited. I could tell he was feeling the Spirit and experiencing the joy of sharing the Gospel too! It seemed like something just clicked in his head and he understood the importance of of our message. And then he excitingly told us that he knew who we could visit! He took us with his friend from school, Aileen, who gladly accepted another return appointment. I learned that sometimes we don't quite understand how important it is to share the Gospel with our friends and family, and sometimes we have to first just get out and do some missionary work to see why it is so important and feel the joy of doing it. There is no more important or satisfying work than missionary work!
Well, that pretty much wraps it up for the week! An Elder in our zone this week got the "bean boozle" game in a package so we had some fun playing that. I had to eat a canned dog food jelly bean one time and almost threw up haha. I'm not sure why that game exists, but I guess it is funny watching other people having the eat a gross jelly bean haha. We also had some really good food this week too, one day the members gave us money to eat so we went to a really good seafood place and I got some fish tacos. One day we also got some good BBQ ribs right by our house. And of course, as always, we had our fair share of street tacos this week. I´m also pretty happy since I got to play basketball today with a bunch of mission buddies. I love basketball so much, everytime I play I just feel like I can release all of my stress. So it was a great P-Day and I wasn´t stuck in my house all day reading the Scriptures for 3 hours (although sometimes it can be a nice break). I'm really not sure how it is March already, but time sure is going by uncontrollably fast! Only 2 more months until I FaceTime my family again for the last time and then I'm almost home! This cycle is almost over too, this is week 6 and I feel like we are just getting started. I guess as I always say, time goes by way faster when you are super busy and enjoying what you do. Love you all and thanks for everything. Have a great week!!!
Ping-Pong Champion,
Elder T-Clark
Elder T-Clark
P.S. Also CONGRATULATIONS to my sister Lindsey who got into BYU this week! It's weird that she's going to be starting college before me...
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