This week has been pretty good. First of all I just wanted to tell you what the weather is like here so you can be slightly jealous, 65 degrees and climbing. It is So beautiful! Perfect weather, so currently I'm not missing the snow and cold to much, but we will see what i say christmas and I wake up to my first christmas without snow!! It sounds like you all had a wonderful thanksgiving and enjoyed your time. For Thanksgiving this year we ate with the family that we live with. It was so delicious and was good because it didn't take tons of time out of our day to eat, and we got to do the traditional go around the table and say what we are grateful for! Another fun thing that we did was we made those hand turkeys. You know when you paint your fingers different colors and your palm brown and then make a turkey, well we kind of did that only we used markers because we have no paint. then we wrote little notes on the turkeys and put tape on them, knocked on the peoples doors and then ran away. Pretty sure the majority of the people either saw us or new that it was us, it was still fun though because it was something different and fun. I have so much to be grateful. I was thinking about how I am grateful for Spanish and that I have the opportunity to learn it. because with learning the language I have learned to love the culture and the people so much. I was think about how a few months ago I didn't know these people that have grown to be apart of my everyday life. They are the kindest and sweetest people ever! Yesterday our unit was combined with the english ward and my companion had to translate! I was just counting my blessings that I didn't have to translate. I just know I would never be able to do that! All the members complimented her though so I just know she did a good job.
This next week I am looking forward to Zone Conference!! I am so excited. After the last Zone Conference I just remembered being so rejuvinated and ready to work. So I am excited for that. We also found out some good news yesterday. There is a couple in the unit that isn't married because they were waiting for there divorces to be finalized in Mexico. So they are living together and only one is a member but the other is basically a member just lacks the whole being baptized thing. So supposedly this month was supposed to be the month when the divorce was finalized. They said they wanted there marriage to be a surprise and they were only going to tell the bishop, so yesterday the bishop told us that we needed to start teaching her (trust points for us because we were already starting to teacher her:) I don't know if that made a lot of sense, simply, I hope they are going to get married this month so that we can baptize her and they both can be worthy!!! THey are the sweetest family and they have two of the cutest little girls! This week we also had another cool experience. We have been teaching this lady Magdalena. One of our appointment fell through and so we went to visit her and she invited us in. We taught her the restoration. As we recounted the first vision tears came to her eyes. It was so sweet and wonderful! That was the second time where something had touched her enough that she started crying...which is something that I can totally relate with:) In case you were wondering how the crying thing is going, it definitely magically didn't leave because I am speaking spanish, but it is definitely easier to control, yet another reason why I am grateful for Spanish!!
Well It has been good to remember some of the miracles that have happened this week. I hope that you are all doing well and having a wonderful Christmas season.
And I have Some VERY IMPORTANT NEWS!!!! The mission office address has changed so you need to send all of my mail to this address!!
California Ventura Mission
3301 West Gonzales Road
Oxnard, CA 93036
Please address everything to this address so that I can keep getting that mail, which I love so much!!!
Les Quiero!!
Hermana Clark
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