Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Letter #5 from the MTC

PRESIDENT DOESN'T APPROVE OF YOUR EATING HABITS

This week has been really good. i have gotten a package 5 days in a row now! i am so loved by my family and friends its unreal. pls tell the tadjes thank you for the animal crackers. they are already half gone. i can feel all of your prayers helping me with the language and i know the gift of tongues is real. we are teaching this one lady named Maribel we have 25 minutes to teach her and she talks for 20 of them. she is the greatest and she is so funny and nice. 

its been a hard one as zone leader because we have had two elders leave after only being here for 5 days so Elder Kramer and i tried talking to them and making them feel loved and have them know what they are doing is something really special. but its better for them to go home because they were miserable here and i didnt want them to suffer any longer. they both had problems witht the mental part of the mission. but our zone has grown together because of them. and our branch president told us that god has a plan for all of us. which is so true.

we hosted on saturday i hosted jeff beals grant gardener (connors cousin that i am friends with) and the man himself connor. it was so nice toto see the whole Van Alfen family and it made me realize how much i miss them. i wanted to give Lori a hug because she is pretty much my mom but i didnt buy Ryan gave me a huge hug. it was awesome. Connor lives on the first floor of my building and Riley Adams is his companion i see them often. Ryan Christensen is on my ZONE and he lives like 2 doors down from me. Blessed. i was in Stephanie Nielsons instagram apparently. and you can see me in the very back which is tight! also BRANDON TAYLOR from the runnin utes was at the MTC i yelled his name and held up the U and he flashed it back at me. it was awesome.

ok two funny stories

at lunch on saturday this one Elder in my zone ate an entire apple core and everything and an entire banana peel and everything. the old man that got after us first time came up to us and said president doesnt like your eating habits. even though president burgess wasnt even at the MTC  that day and then this man says i have had 8 complaints from the senior couples about the way youre eating your food. the senior couples sit on the other side of the cafeteria. then he invited us all to leave the cafeteria. it was so funny even though elder Peterson was the only one eating. Lol.

on sunday we watched Ephriams Rescue and one point in the movie the teenagers that are coming across the plains kiss and everyone started to go wild. a small fire was lit inside of me and i was insta annoyed. i just said yeah were is the exit i want to go home.

but watching Ephriams Rescue made me realize i want to live like the pioneers. they were so faithful and were willing to sacrifice what they already had their old lives, jobs and family. they left and endured the hardest thing every, walking with what they could pull to salt lake. they left it all and walked to Salt Lake because they knew the gospel was true. i want to live like the poineers because of how much faith they had and when the prophet asked them to leave everything they did it without second guessing or asking why. i want to have as much faith as the pioneers and do whatever the lord or the prophet asks of me.

i hope all is well back at home.

still love getting dear elders each day

yo se que el evangelio es verdadero (i know that the gospel is true)

Elder Clark

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