Sent: Mon, Dec 6, 2010 4:21 pm
Subject: buenas tardes
Hello again,
It has been another exciting week here in Orem!
I'll start with Wednesday... Wednesday night we had dinner at Hermana Manrique's. She is Peruvian and loves to feed the missionaries. She is definitely the prototypical latin lady in that she gives us tons of food and watches us eat. We arrived at her house hoping for a small dinner because an investigator family who we have been teaching was also feeding us later that night. However, after we sat down she put in front of both of us the biggest mounds of some chicken/peppers/noodles thing I had ever seen in my life. It was very painful to finish. After that we had a couple other lessons then went to the Borgo's. They are from Zenora, Mexico and their two sons were baptized in April but they weren't. Maria, the mom, had made us some spicey soup stuff and Jaun, the dad, made us tacos. I was still very full from hermana Manrique's so it was pretty rough trying to put down everything. After we ate we had an awesome lesson on the Restoration.
Thursday we were walking to an appointment and I looked up to see Tyler Anderson driving by. I tried a quick wave but he was already passed. I was pretty sure it was him at first glance but the Longhorn stickers on the back of his truck closed the deal. Anyway, the appointment we were walking to was to see Enrique and Julianna. They are the young couple from Guatemala. We had a really good lesson with them and they accepted a baptismal date of the 18 of this month.
The highlight of the day Friday was our lesson with Juan and Maria. We watched the Restoration DVD with them and talked about prayer. When we asked Maria if she had prayed yet she said she had and felt no doubts about the church and believed it all was true. Good answer right? So, we committed them to be baptized. We are still working on a date for them... It may be a possibility to have it on Christmas which would be pretty sweet. After they accepted Juan told us that they were actually talking about it that morning and had basically decided already. They are awesome.
Saturday we had Mission conference. The whole mission was there along with Elder Worthlin of the area 70, Elder Jensen of the Presidency of the 70, Bishop Buton, the Presiding Bishop, and Elder Nelson of the 12. It was a straight 3 hour meeting and all the talks were amazing. It was definitely a great experience to meet and here from amazing leaders as they all are.
Sunday was not so great. We were planning on having quite a few people at church but only Uriel, the nine year old made it. Juan is a mechanic for a snow clearing company so he has to work any time it snows. Sunday was a warm, clear, day but his whole family was sick. Also, Enrique and Julianna were sick. The Morales family, who I havent really talked about but have 14 kids were supposed to come but after calling them early and going to there house we had no success. And, Silvia, who has been progressing well was finally going to come to church but didnt answer the door when someone went to pick her up. However, we did sit it on a ward council meeting after while the ward spent almost two hours planning the ward Christmas party, 30 minutes of which were deciding on the type of drinks that would be there. That was some comic relief.
Overall it was a good week. We spent some time knocking doors and found some good potentials. Also, it was warmer. It is like 60 today! It sounds like everything is going well at home.. Much love,
Elder Clark
Subject: buenas tardes
Hello again,
It has been another exciting week here in Orem!
I'll start with Wednesday... Wednesday night we had dinner at Hermana Manrique's. She is Peruvian and loves to feed the missionaries. She is definitely the prototypical latin lady in that she gives us tons of food and watches us eat. We arrived at her house hoping for a small dinner because an investigator family who we have been teaching was also feeding us later that night. However, after we sat down she put in front of both of us the biggest mounds of some chicken/peppers/noodles thing I had ever seen in my life. It was very painful to finish. After that we had a couple other lessons then went to the Borgo's. They are from Zenora, Mexico and their two sons were baptized in April but they weren't. Maria, the mom, had made us some spicey soup stuff and Jaun, the dad, made us tacos. I was still very full from hermana Manrique's so it was pretty rough trying to put down everything. After we ate we had an awesome lesson on the Restoration.
Thursday we were walking to an appointment and I looked up to see Tyler Anderson driving by. I tried a quick wave but he was already passed. I was pretty sure it was him at first glance but the Longhorn stickers on the back of his truck closed the deal. Anyway, the appointment we were walking to was to see Enrique and Julianna. They are the young couple from Guatemala. We had a really good lesson with them and they accepted a baptismal date of the 18 of this month.
The highlight of the day Friday was our lesson with Juan and Maria. We watched the Restoration DVD with them and talked about prayer. When we asked Maria if she had prayed yet she said she had and felt no doubts about the church and believed it all was true. Good answer right? So, we committed them to be baptized. We are still working on a date for them... It may be a possibility to have it on Christmas which would be pretty sweet. After they accepted Juan told us that they were actually talking about it that morning and had basically decided already. They are awesome.
Saturday we had Mission conference. The whole mission was there along with Elder Worthlin of the area 70, Elder Jensen of the Presidency of the 70, Bishop Buton, the Presiding Bishop, and Elder Nelson of the 12. It was a straight 3 hour meeting and all the talks were amazing. It was definitely a great experience to meet and here from amazing leaders as they all are.
Sunday was not so great. We were planning on having quite a few people at church but only Uriel, the nine year old made it. Juan is a mechanic for a snow clearing company so he has to work any time it snows. Sunday was a warm, clear, day but his whole family was sick. Also, Enrique and Julianna were sick. The Morales family, who I havent really talked about but have 14 kids were supposed to come but after calling them early and going to there house we had no success. And, Silvia, who has been progressing well was finally going to come to church but didnt answer the door when someone went to pick her up. However, we did sit it on a ward council meeting after while the ward spent almost two hours planning the ward Christmas party, 30 minutes of which were deciding on the type of drinks that would be there. That was some comic relief.
Overall it was a good week. We spent some time knocking doors and found some good potentials. Also, it was warmer. It is like 60 today! It sounds like everything is going well at home.. Much love,
Elder Clark
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