Mission Week 6

Hola mi querido Familia!

Week one of transfer two has come to a close. Wednesday morning everyone met for transfers at the chapel across the street from the MTC. A member drove us there and I met the new companion, Elder Barrera. Originally he is from El Salvador but his family actually lives in Layton Utah and he lived there for 3 years before starting his mission. And I thought I was surprised to see Utah on my mission call... He is really cool though. He has been out for 15 months and is a hard worker but a lot different than Elder Santos. He's not much of a fan of biking which is quite the contrast of Santos who would have been thrilled to get up early and bike for exercise. Anyway, after picking up Elder Barrera the member took us to Cafe Rio then we were off.

Kassandra, the 19 year old we have been teaching is doing well. We just about have everything ready for her to be baptized this weekend. The family still is deciding timing and such but things are looking good. We recieved a referral this week of a family who attends an english ward and has been less active but recently they have started to come to church and have a 9 year old son who wants to be baptized. It turns out the dad is the only one who doesnt speak english but they still want the lessons in spanish. Thus, we started teaching Uriel, the 9 year old Friday. It was a little different teaching a kid but was fun. In English work most of the baptisms are kids between 9-12 who are just in less active families and so I got a taste of that. Also, Sunday at church we found out about a young man in the ward who has been going to church for a while but who's parents would never let him get baptized and last week, got permission. So we need to meet him but that was pretty cool news.

Everything else is going great. Last night we had a nice amount of snow which I still look at with Floridian eyes of enjoyment. Hope everything is going well at home,

Love, Elder Clark

Side note: Last transfer the Utah Provo Mission was the highest baptising in the world. Pretty sweet.