Como Estan?? Well this week has been pretty good. The weeks go by So fast! It feels like just yesterday that I was writing you. I was thinking this morning about my first week in the mission field. I am pretty sure it was the LONGEST week of my life. I think the fact that I couldn't understand anyone, I was in a new place, and it finally hit me that I was a missionary and was going to have to preach the gospel to everyone, really hit me that week. Every week just goes by faster and faster. It's kind of like a train how it goes slowly to start and then speeds up faster and faster as it goes on. That is kind of how I am feeling. No worries though I still have ALOT of time to learn and grow.
So this week have I got a story for you all!! This week we decided to go by a former and we knocked on his door, turns out he doesn't live there anymore. So we talked to the lady that lived there. She let us make an appointment with her, so we went back. We talked to her about the Book of Mormon. She seemed receptive. So we have ended and were going to say a prayer. Then one of the men that lives there walked in. We asked him to sit down and say a prayer with us and if we could sing a song for them. He accepted the invitation. So we sang "Asombro me Da" in English "I Stand All Amazed". We sang the song and looked up and the guy, Filodalfo, had tears in his eyes. So we set up a return appointment with him. That is always scary because you never know if you are actually going to find them again. So we went for our appointment and he was there!!! We were talking to him, trying to get to know him. Then he is like I just have always wondered, what is the purpose of life. It took me a second to process the significance of what he said, and then I specifically remember thinking, did he really just ask us that question. i looked over at my companion and her eyes were just so wide and I am pretty sure she was asking herself the same thing. So we talked to him about the Book of Mormon and told him that he could find the answer to that question in that Book. The spirit was So strong from the very beginning. We told him we would mark the chapter where Christ comes to the Americas and give him a Book of Mormon. He was very excited about it and accepted the invitation to read and pray. It was funny because we were like, we would like to mark a chapter and give this book to you and he was like Please do that! We walked away and were just speechless. There were just no words to explain what had just happened! One of the signs of someone being elect is if they are asking questions and he had a lot of questions. That was one of the times I wish there was a camera to video our faces when he asked us what the purpose of life was. So we of course set up another appointment. It was the coolest thing.
It was interesting to experience this because it came after a letter from Mom asking me if I had had any really spiritual experiences yet. As I talked to my companion we talked about all of these cool missionary stories that we here from everyone, all of these miracles that happen that missionaries get to see. As we talked about it though, the thing is that we see the AMAZING miracles everyday. They might not be to the fact that we see someone and they ask us if they can be baptized, they can be small miracles. In the case of Filodalfo it was a miracle that we chose that former to go visit, that the person at the door set up an appointment with us, that our lesson lasted long enough so that he could be there for the end and the song. Just a whole chain of miracles. So to answer moms question of if I have had any really magnificent experiences I guess you could say all the miracles I get to see are pretty miraculous and wonderful. Not gonna lie it is seeing those small miracles that helps me through the hard rejections and hours of knocking. I feel your support and I am so grateful for it!! Have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! My companion and I will probably be knocking doors tonight. That is going to be fun when people try to give us candy and we try to give them a Book of Mormon:0
I love you all!!
Hermana Clark
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