LAST MISSION LETTER!!!!! Mission Week #95

Well,

 

The time has come. Not sure what we are doing today....Tomorrow I have my final interview at 2. Wednesday morning we meet up at the transfer chapel then we are going to a session at the Oquirrh mountain temple. Then we go to dinner at Tucanos, and then we have our final testimony meeting at 7. I am muy excited!

 

See you Thursday at 4:15

 

Love, Elder Clark 

Mission Week #94

July 23, 2012

Subject: One More Week 

Well, I am glad to hear everything is well with Dad. I had been praying lately in my nightly prayers that everyone will be fine and protected until I get home. That was a good prayed to have answered.

 

Last week went well. We had a leadership meeting Tuesday and it was cool to get to hear from President McCune. He had his own investment company and told us some cool stories of occasions when he was with some of the richest people in the world but they were still unhappy because they were very poor spiritually. One of the stories was him with the 4th richest person in the world.

 

It is very surreal every time I see the date....This is my last week!                                                    

 

Am I sad to leave? Yes. Am I excited to come home? Very much so.

 

For some reason people don't understand that MTC missionaries cant leave the MTC so we get asked daily where we are going on our missions.  We went into Ross before coming to do emails today and a lady asked where we were going so I just told her Florida.

 

The picture with the clown nose is from district meeting. Sister McCune talked to us about avoiding distractions and not being distractions in the leadership meeting so I had to pass on the message. Mom sent me the clown nose so I had to use it for something. It worked to exemplify the principle of not being a distraction.

 

The other pictures are from our day of incredible winnings at nickel city.

 

Have a good week,

 

Love, Elder Clark

Mission Week #93

July 17, 29012

Hello again!

 

Last week went by fast... For PDay we went to nickel city and played laser tag and all the games that aren't video games. We spent a lot of nickels on one particular machine and got like 3000 tickets. It was fun. I interviewed a 16 year old named Tristan for baptism and it was a cool experience. He has made some big changes in his life and he got baptized Saturday.

 

We had interviews with President McCune this week. I like him a lot. He has more of a normal person vibe and President Pitts had sort of a general authority vibe. He will be great for the mission. When we started our interview he asked me to remind him how long I had been out. When I told him he basically talked about finishing strong the entire time but it was good.

 

Wednesday we went to the Timpanogas temple as a district. The Cosgraves happened to be in the same session so it was fun to see them again. He is now a Branch President in the MTC.

 

Thursday I went on exchanges with the other Elders in the district. The dinner appointment we had was pretty funny. We were in the kitchen talking to the family as they were finishing preparing dinner and I saw that they had a chore chart and piano practicing was on there. I asked their 10 year old son if he had practiced the piano that day and he got mad. Then his mom started with the very familiar "I keep telling him that he is going to be happy that I made him learn one day..." speech. The son got more angry and left the room and his dad had to go talk to him. I felt like I was re-living the experience from my childhood. I think I probably reacted the same way at that age. Poor kid, he has years of battling ahead of him.

Is the battle worth it? Who knows...

 

It was fun to see mom.  The sheer look of surprise was priceless.

 

Have a good week!

 

Love, Elder Clark