Mission Week #30

Sent: Mon, Apr 25, 2011 1:14 pm
Subject: Hello

Hola,

This week was transfers but it was quite uneventful. We are supposed to receive the calls Saturday night so we got home Saturday and I waited anxiously by the phone for an hour and a half and the call never came. We had a correlation meeting Sunday morning in Goshen at 6:30 so we had to get up extra early. Upon return I talked to the AP's and they said that we are both staying in the area.

We had a good Easter Sunday yesterday. I don't think I have ever mentioned a guy named Jose Catalan but he came to church yesterday with his family. Him and his wife are like 25 and have been dating since high school and aren't married but have two young kids. His wife is a member but has not been active for years. We have visited them off and on the last 3 months with not much progress but in the last little while he has had a change of attitude. He has never been religious but after losing his job and looking unsuccessfully for awhile he said he started praying for help and was able to find a good job. Since then he said he has been praying daily. It has just been cool to see the change he has made. A couple months ago Elder Wallace and I were teaching him and one conversation went like this.... "Will you read the Book of Mormon?" "No" "Why?" "Because I have no desire and am not interested in religion."

Every Sunday we eat with the Torres family and we had a nice dinner with them. Them, and the Flores family, who we eat with every Saturday are the members we are closest with.

We met with Pilar, Raul, and Sebastian, the workers, twice this week and taught about the plan of salvation. One of the hardest mindsets that people tend to have is that everything that comes from God is good and that basically all religion is equal. While it is definitely true that everything about or of God is profitable for man that mindset kind of takes away from the necessity of priesthood or ordinances. I can certainly understand why it is so hard for people to grasp the Gospel and change though. Generally some of the biggest truths have been rejected. The Earth being round.... Jesus being the Christ. Anyway, Raul and Sebastian, and pretty much everyone else, have that mindset so we are working on that. 

Thats it for this week. Today we are going to the trainer, Wal-Mart, and apparently there is a "Jerusalem" site near Elberta where they are re-making all the New Testament church movies so we might check that out.

Love, Elder Clark