Hola!
Another week has flown by! Saturday night is our TRC time and we finally got to have a volunteer instead of just teaching a teacher or other missionaries. We taught an older lady from Honduras and it definitely got me excited to be teaching real people in a couple weeks. This Saturday we are teaching the Plan of Salvation and that is a little more difficult especially in Spanish but its great. It is weird being the older people here at the MTC. I had become pretty good friends with some of the other Elders before they left but the new districts are pretty sweet. The other Tanner Clark, or "Elder Clark # 2" as he is called lives in the room next to me. Its crazy that out of over 2000 people he just happened to be put in the room right next to me. This monday the district got to be hosts for the Senior missionaries and we helped them move in. We met some awesome people from a small town in England who were going to Taiwan....quite the culture difference! The district one week older than us in the zone were all supposed to be going to Mexico but none of them received their visas so they will have to get transferred somewhere else in the states until they can get them. It makes me glad I'm in the States! Friday we are supposed to get our travel plans and that says what time we will be leaving and whatnot. Very Exciting!! Not much other news here from the MTC..all is going well!
Love, Elder Clark
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Tanner has been in the MTC for 7 weeks, my the time has flown by... we have gotten a few letters with pictures, but we just got his first SD card full of pictures. So fun to see!!! 
Good Friend from California Brad Stapley, our family moved to Florida when Tanner was 6 and he and his friend have kept in touch throughout the years and they went into the MTC a week apart. How fun....
Good Friend from California Brad Stapley, our family moved to Florida when Tanner was 6 and he and his friend have kept in touch throughout the years and they went into the MTC a week apart. How fun....
Birthday Packages
Elder Clark and Elder Holmes... One of our Aunts friends sons...
Getting to leave the MTC to go to the BYU Laundry to get some pants tailored... Elder Clark said it was really wierd... 
Friday, September 10, 2010
MTC Week 5
Hola!
This past week has flown by, it always seems like I was just here typing when I go to write these emails, but its been a great week. We made the transition to only teaching in spanish last week and that has definitely been a big change. Its an interesting feeling wanting to say something but not being able to translate your thoughts into the right language. I'm definitely glad I am learning Spanish though because it will be awesome when I can finally say what I want! Glenn arrived here last wednesday and I immediately saw him during his first dinner here and have seen him throughout the week. Also Noa Cassidy got here last week too and Ive seen him almost everyday. I told Brother Cosgrave last night about Glenn being here and he said he'd try to find him. This morning after we finished doing laundry Elder Meyer and I had the pleasure of leaving the MTC campus and voyaging to the BYU laundry place two blocks away because he had to get one of his shirts altered. It was wierd thinking of in 3 weeks how I'll be going out to Provo then just starting right away. Everyone else has the whole day of traveling and going through air ports so it should be pretty sweet. Saturday afternoon/night was very wierd being able to hear the the BYU game from outside our class room. I really hadnt thought of college football until someone noted the fact that we probably wouldnt have any TRC volunteers since our scheduled time was during the time of the first home game. Thus we ended up teaching a missionary instead of a volunteer but it was alright. Everything is going well here, I cant believe I only have 3 weeks left!!!!!
Love, Elder Clark
This past week has flown by, it always seems like I was just here typing when I go to write these emails, but its been a great week. We made the transition to only teaching in spanish last week and that has definitely been a big change. Its an interesting feeling wanting to say something but not being able to translate your thoughts into the right language. I'm definitely glad I am learning Spanish though because it will be awesome when I can finally say what I want! Glenn arrived here last wednesday and I immediately saw him during his first dinner here and have seen him throughout the week. Also Noa Cassidy got here last week too and Ive seen him almost everyday. I told Brother Cosgrave last night about Glenn being here and he said he'd try to find him. This morning after we finished doing laundry Elder Meyer and I had the pleasure of leaving the MTC campus and voyaging to the BYU laundry place two blocks away because he had to get one of his shirts altered. It was wierd thinking of in 3 weeks how I'll be going out to Provo then just starting right away. Everyone else has the whole day of traveling and going through air ports so it should be pretty sweet. Saturday afternoon/night was very wierd being able to hear the the BYU game from outside our class room. I really hadnt thought of college football until someone noted the fact that we probably wouldnt have any TRC volunteers since our scheduled time was during the time of the first home game. Thus we ended up teaching a missionary instead of a volunteer but it was alright. Everything is going well here, I cant believe I only have 3 weeks left!!!!!
Love, Elder Clark
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
MTC Week 4
Five weeks today! Still hard to believe... Not too much happened this week. Another district in our zone left yesterday so we get a new district today. The zone leaders had a list of the names of the Elders who are coming in and one of their names is "Tanner Clark." I dont think ive ever met anyone with my same name so that should be fun. Last night our devotional speaker was Richard G. Hinckley, President Hinckley's son. He gave a great talk then opened it up to questions for the last 15 minutes. After as we were exciting the building and he was walking to his car he stopped for a couple minutes and talked to a group of us. He is definitely a lot like his dad. Spanish is coming along alright. Tonight we are teaching the first lesson for the first time in completely Spanish. We've taught some parts before but never the whole thing for 30 minutes so we'll see how that goes. Thanks for the letters!
Since we're here 9 weeks the Branch Presidency switches the district leaders half way through and on Sunday I became the new district leader. The most exciting thing is now Im the one with access to the district mail box. Not so exciting is that I get to plan two hour long district meeting a week. However, it is definitely a good learning experience and I also enjoy going to the extra leadership meetings with the Branch Presidency. I really do have amazing leaders. Our branch president is a orthapedic surgeon, then there is doctor Cosgrave, and Brother Sanchez is an architect. I really admire how Chirst-like they all are and also they're individual success outside the church.
-Thats awesome Nolan is going to California!!!!!!!!! He is going to be an amazing missionary.
Thanks for everything,
-ELDER CLARK
Since we're here 9 weeks the Branch Presidency switches the district leaders half way through and on Sunday I became the new district leader. The most exciting thing is now Im the one with access to the district mail box. Not so exciting is that I get to plan two hour long district meeting a week. However, it is definitely a good learning experience and I also enjoy going to the extra leadership meetings with the Branch Presidency. I really do have amazing leaders. Our branch president is a orthapedic surgeon, then there is doctor Cosgrave, and Brother Sanchez is an architect. I really admire how Chirst-like they all are and also they're individual success outside the church.
-Thats awesome Nolan is going to California!!!!!!!!! He is going to be an amazing missionary.
Thanks for everything,
-ELDER CLARK
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