Sent: Mon, Mar 21, 2011 1:35 pm
Subject: Another Week
Whats up?
Last week was pretty good....
Tuesday night I had a trainers meeting at the mission home with the Pitts. Sister Pitts made us dinner then President talked to us for a while. Every time he speaks I learn something new. He is definitely quite the knowledgeable guy. Elder Wallace stayed in the area with a split because we had a bunch of lessons planned then spent the night with some other Elders in an area near Santaquin. After the meeting I went and stayed the night with the American Fork Elders. It was really awesome to kind of re-live the whole experience of my last night in the MTC and the anticipation of it all....just this time from the other side of things. When I came out there was like 20 of us but this transfer there was only 2 Elders and 2 sisters. The other trainer was from Panama and of the new Elders one was from Mexico and the other was from Indiana so we kind of already knew how things were going to go. Anyways, my new companion is Elder Ramires from Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He is the man! Missionaries knocked on his family's door about 20 months ago and they all got baptized and now he is on a mission. I think the branch was getting tired of having Americans and they were all very happy and warmly welcomed him yesterday at church.
The area is doing pretty well. We had quite the not fun experience Friday though. Alejandra is having some very serious problems with her husband and we met back up with her Friday at the church. We started teaching and we see a car kind of circling around and Alejandra is like..shoot, it think thats my husband looking for me. Evidently she had told him she was going to a school meeting and he followed her. After a couple minutes he parked and came and knocked on the door. Luckily we had another member with us there and Alejandra and Sister Soto went out and talked to him. He started freaking out and getting all mad then after some arguing, left, and we continued the lesson. Shortly thereafter, he returned again, more mad, and said that she had to go home right then. She was crying and left to avoid further argument. Elder Ramires and I were still there like ten minutes later and he returned for a third time, this time wanting to talk to us. He went off about how we were ruining his marriage, brainwashing his son, and how she was probably dating one of us. We were just really calm and explained what we were doing and he kind of just had nothing to say to the questions we asked. He said we were ruining his traditions and family religion and when I asked him why he was a member of the church that he was he couldnt answer...and all he could say is that he would never change. The main problem is that he is cheating on his wife, is insecure, and is looking for excuses and people to blame for his problems. Yesterday she had to go to Salt Lake to meet with a lawyer so she couldnt make it to church. So, that is the update on Alejandra.
Everyone else is doing alright. They all are pretty connected to their traditions so we are trying to help them understand the importance of following God and not just traditions because that is what their Grandparents did. It really doesnt matter what religion someone is in...you cant just do things because you see other people doing them. At some point you have to figure things out for yourself.
I hope you all are doing excellent! Until next week..
Love, Elder Clark
Subject: Another Week
Whats up?
Last week was pretty good....
Tuesday night I had a trainers meeting at the mission home with the Pitts. Sister Pitts made us dinner then President talked to us for a while. Every time he speaks I learn something new. He is definitely quite the knowledgeable guy. Elder Wallace stayed in the area with a split because we had a bunch of lessons planned then spent the night with some other Elders in an area near Santaquin. After the meeting I went and stayed the night with the American Fork Elders. It was really awesome to kind of re-live the whole experience of my last night in the MTC and the anticipation of it all....just this time from the other side of things. When I came out there was like 20 of us but this transfer there was only 2 Elders and 2 sisters. The other trainer was from Panama and of the new Elders one was from Mexico and the other was from Indiana so we kind of already knew how things were going to go. Anyways, my new companion is Elder Ramires from Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He is the man! Missionaries knocked on his family's door about 20 months ago and they all got baptized and now he is on a mission. I think the branch was getting tired of having Americans and they were all very happy and warmly welcomed him yesterday at church.
The area is doing pretty well. We had quite the not fun experience Friday though. Alejandra is having some very serious problems with her husband and we met back up with her Friday at the church. We started teaching and we see a car kind of circling around and Alejandra is like..shoot, it think thats my husband looking for me. Evidently she had told him she was going to a school meeting and he followed her. After a couple minutes he parked and came and knocked on the door. Luckily we had another member with us there and Alejandra and Sister Soto went out and talked to him. He started freaking out and getting all mad then after some arguing, left, and we continued the lesson. Shortly thereafter, he returned again, more mad, and said that she had to go home right then. She was crying and left to avoid further argument. Elder Ramires and I were still there like ten minutes later and he returned for a third time, this time wanting to talk to us. He went off about how we were ruining his marriage, brainwashing his son, and how she was probably dating one of us. We were just really calm and explained what we were doing and he kind of just had nothing to say to the questions we asked. He said we were ruining his traditions and family religion and when I asked him why he was a member of the church that he was he couldnt answer...and all he could say is that he would never change. The main problem is that he is cheating on his wife, is insecure, and is looking for excuses and people to blame for his problems. Yesterday she had to go to Salt Lake to meet with a lawyer so she couldnt make it to church. So, that is the update on Alejandra.
Everyone else is doing alright. They all are pretty connected to their traditions so we are trying to help them understand the importance of following God and not just traditions because that is what their Grandparents did. It really doesnt matter what religion someone is in...you cant just do things because you see other people doing them. At some point you have to figure things out for yourself.
I hope you all are doing excellent! Until next week..
Love, Elder Clark
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