Emailing isn't quite as good as talking face to face but that was fun to see you! Since then, we have been pretty busy. Friday night there was a stake activity called "La noche de Hispanidad." It was in the gym and most of the Hispanic countries were represented with food and some of the members performed dances from their various countries. It was awesome to enjoy parts of all the different cultures and to meet more people. Alejandra's whole family came and I spent a lot of the time talking to their oldest son Kevin who is 11. It seemed like they all had a great time. I think we went to something similar a couple years ago with the Harts and that was where Blake owned the stage with his guitar.
Saturday I attended my first baptismal service as a missionary. It was for Hugo, the 16 year old we have been teaching and Manuel, who is about 25 has been investigating the church for over 7 years. I never taught Manuel but it's pretty sweet how we ended up baptizing him. Last week during our weekly planning session we were setting goals and for our baptismal goal we were only going to put 1 but decided to put 2 in hopes of something out of the blue. From what E. Santos has said I guess it happens somewhat often that people just call the missionaries and say they want to get baptized and that happened to us Wednesday. Manuel called us and said he wanted to get baptized. Since he's had all the lessons he just had to have the interview so he had that then he was baptized Saturday...pretty sweet!
Sunday's seem like the busiest day of the week. We have to wake up early so that we can be at the Sharon Park ward council at 7. The bishop of that ward is awesome and he's one of the people who comes and plays soccer some mornings with us at 6. Elder Santos and I then go to the Timpanogas ward that starts at 9 so we usually have some time to try and arrange last minute rides and give last minute church invitations. This week two members picked up Alejandra's family and they all got there a couple minutes after it started except the grandma who works Sunday mornings. They were worried about not having church clothes or the money to buy them but we told them everyone would be accepting and the ward was really friendly to them all. Alejandra has 4 kids (11, 6, 4, and 2) and the 6 and 4 year old girls love primary. The primary president asked us to go in for like 5 minutes and talk about what missionaries do so that was fun. Later last night we went out teaching with Hugo. He was pretty nervous but I think it was great for him. We taught some good lessons and one in particular was with three teenagers from Guatemala who we found last week.
Not much other news....everything is great here in Orem!
Love, Elder Clark
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