Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:49 PM
Subject: Hola
To: bclark8@aol.com, Bruce Clark
Hello!
Greetings from Santaquin! I must say, it is quite the place! For some general information... We are living with the Gibsons, a retired couple. It is a nicer house and we have a room in the basement and share the kitchen with them upstairs. We have a silver 2010 Malibu. We cover Santaquin, Genola, Goshen, Elberta, Eureka, Mosida, and Manmouth. The "towns" go down in size with Santaquin being the largest. We have a Subway and a Family Dollar. Genola's main attraction is a large fruit stand. We ventured out to Elberta which takes about 25 minutes on Friday and it is very reminiscent of Wheatland. There are some large ranches where there are workers that live in duplexes on site. The new companion, Elder Wallace is the Man. He has just been out 6 weeks more than me so Spanish is a fun adventure, but we get by without to much difficulty.
It was pretty wierd packing up and leaving Orem. It felt like I had been there forever. Monday night we went to family home evening with the Huertas. It was sweet because everybody that was there just went around and gave me advice. And, Sister Huerta bought Pizza. Tuesday night we had dinner with la Familia Retamales. Bro. Retamales was probably my favorite member I got to know. After we went and visited some families. We talked to the Romero's for a little then went and visited Uriel. Uriel had drawn a picture of us and it said "Best Friends Forever." Bro. Esquivel brought out one of his masks and signed it and gave it to me as a goodbye gift. It was sad leaving but awesome to see how people had changed as they have accepted the gospel in their lives.
Wednesday we met in Provo for Transfers. It was fun to see everyone. Driving away was wierd not only becuase it was my first time with a car, but also becuase I am not used to looking at another gringo companion. I still do double takes at times because Elder Wallace is extremely blonde.
Overall there is tons of work to be done. There are a lot of people who are being taught but not too many that are interested. There is just one very small branch the people are awesome. Saturday the Branch President's 8 year old daughter was baptized and there was a huge party after at the church. There were about twice as many people at the party as there were at the chapel a day later for Sacrament meeting, which isnt too great. There was a new Branch Mission Leader called on Sunday as well and we seems like a good guy. We had two dinners yesterday, one with an awesome family from Puerto Rico, then an hour later with a family from Mexico.
I think that's about it. I am excited to be here with a great companion. I love you all!
Love, Elder Clark
Subject: Hola
To: bclark8@aol.com, Bruce Clark
Hello!
Greetings from Santaquin! I must say, it is quite the place! For some general information... We are living with the Gibsons, a retired couple. It is a nicer house and we have a room in the basement and share the kitchen with them upstairs. We have a silver 2010 Malibu. We cover Santaquin, Genola, Goshen, Elberta, Eureka, Mosida, and Manmouth. The "towns" go down in size with Santaquin being the largest. We have a Subway and a Family Dollar. Genola's main attraction is a large fruit stand. We ventured out to Elberta which takes about 25 minutes on Friday and it is very reminiscent of Wheatland. There are some large ranches where there are workers that live in duplexes on site. The new companion, Elder Wallace is the Man. He has just been out 6 weeks more than me so Spanish is a fun adventure, but we get by without to much difficulty.
It was pretty wierd packing up and leaving Orem. It felt like I had been there forever. Monday night we went to family home evening with the Huertas. It was sweet because everybody that was there just went around and gave me advice. And, Sister Huerta bought Pizza. Tuesday night we had dinner with la Familia Retamales. Bro. Retamales was probably my favorite member I got to know. After we went and visited some families. We talked to the Romero's for a little then went and visited Uriel. Uriel had drawn a picture of us and it said "Best Friends Forever." Bro. Esquivel brought out one of his masks and signed it and gave it to me as a goodbye gift. It was sad leaving but awesome to see how people had changed as they have accepted the gospel in their lives.
Wednesday we met in Provo for Transfers. It was fun to see everyone. Driving away was wierd not only becuase it was my first time with a car, but also becuase I am not used to looking at another gringo companion. I still do double takes at times because Elder Wallace is extremely blonde.
Overall there is tons of work to be done. There are a lot of people who are being taught but not too many that are interested. There is just one very small branch the people are awesome. Saturday the Branch President's 8 year old daughter was baptized and there was a huge party after at the church. There were about twice as many people at the party as there were at the chapel a day later for Sacrament meeting, which isnt too great. There was a new Branch Mission Leader called on Sunday as well and we seems like a good guy. We had two dinners yesterday, one with an awesome family from Puerto Rico, then an hour later with a family from Mexico.
I think that's about it. I am excited to be here with a great companion. I love you all!
Love, Elder Clark
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