Mission Week #21

Sent: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 1:38 pm
Subject: Hi

Hola,

How's it going? There isnt too much news today but some good things are happening...

A couple of weeks ago we were getting our hair cut and we started talking to this guy named Danis from Honduras. We works at a farm in Mosida but lives here in Santaquin and has been living with a less active  for about 3 years. We got to know him a little and he said we could come over sometime. We stopped by last Sunday and he was busy so we stopped by again on Thursday and had a really good lesson with him. He had tons of questions about the religion in general but is really sincere and wants to learn. We basically talked about everything from temples to authority. He grew up with Evangelical parents and was baptized when he was little but we talked about being baptized the same way Christ was and the importance of authority and gave him a baptismal committment. He said he wants to but just didn't want to set a date yet. He also asked if he needed to be married to be baptized if he was living with his girlfriend. We explained the importance of that and his girlfriend who was there didn't seem to excited about getting married. We will see...

This week we were pretty straight up with some people who know they need to change but don't want to. We found this older guy named Juan how lives in a tiny trailer in the yard of a less active family. He said he was almost baptized awhile ago but since then has started "hanging around" with an amiga. The problem is that he has a wife and kids in Mexico who don't know about it. He said he knows he is doing bad things with the amiga but doesnt want to leave and offend her. We explained to him how he was offending God and that he needed to change. I think he was pretty humbled because he came to church yesterday for the first time in years. There is also another Juan who is married to an active member and knows everything but has problems with some of the commandments and thinks his friends will annoy him if he gets baptized. We told him he was putting his salvation in the hands of his friends and that he wouldnt live with his family after this life unless he changes. He also came to church yesterday and looked like he was listening pretty intently.

We had good lessons with the Vasquez and Munoz families. We watched the Restoration DVD with the familia Vasquez and I asked them after if the believed it. The mom was kind of unsure but the nine year old daughter said loudly "Yo lo creo! (I believe it!)" Hopefully her mom will have the same attitude soon.

That is about it... I have been studying about authority/church orginization/apostasy lately. It seems like it is all more clear and true the more you study and preach it. I am glad I don't have any doubts about telling people that Christ's church has been restored to the Earth.

I hope everything is going great!

Love, Elder Clark