Mission Week #12

Sent: Mon, Jan 3, 2011 5:41 pm
Subject: Hi

Hello again,

It was a great last week here in Utah.

Monday night we took Elder Covington back to the MTC. The front desk people are pretty strict but they let us help him take his luggage to his room with an escort. It was fun being able to go back and look around with a different perspective. It seems like I was just there.

Tuesday it snowed the entire day. Also, it was the long awaited day when Enrique and Juliana were supposed to go with the Huerta's (Ward Mission Leader) to get their marriage liscenses. Sister Huerta called at like 1:45 saying she was outside of their apartment knocking but nobody was coming to the door. I told her to keep trying and she said she would. That was the last we heard of them that day.

Wednesday night we stopped by Enrique and Juliana's to make sure they had gotten the liscenses and finish setting up the baptismal program. It was an incredible relief when they told us everything had gone well. Enrique chose the Elders Quorum president to baptize him and Juliana wanted me to baptize her. We also had a good lesson with Juan and Maria that night.

Thursday was the dual Wedding/Baptism. We got to the church at like 6:30 and set up the room where the baptism was going to be then set up the Relief Society room where the wedding was going to be. There was great support from the ward and they had a table set up with food for after the ceremony. We got started with the wedding at about 7:15 and they got married, took some pictures, ate, and then we all headed to the other side of the chapel for the baptism. More people showed up for that and everything went very smoothly. Going to bed that night was extremely satisfying after all the work we have done with them.

Friday we had our district training meeting in the morning then met back up as a district at around six for our new years activity. We ordered pizza, watched "How to Train your Dragon" which was excellent, and played some phase 10 before heading home at about 9:30. We had permission to stay up until 12 but at 10:30 we popped our sparkling peach cider and went to bed at about 11.

Saturday was a non proselyting day until 5 pm. We got to sleep in until 8:30 and just chill at home all afternoon.

Yesterday was the confirmations of Enrique and Juliana. After we went to the other ward and Juan and Mario Romero recieved the Priesthood. The whole family is continuing to do great. Juan and Mario have been bringing their uncle, Tomas, to church and at church yesterday we talked to him about being taught as he wants to. Thus, last night we saw him and he seems golden. Also, we also saw a 9 year old girl named Laysha who was never baptized so we will be teaching her for the next couple weeks and her mom and her have already said that she wants to be baptized as soon as possible. Pretty sweet.

Thats about it... Hope everyone is doing awsome!

Much love,

Elder Clark