Well this week has been pretty crazy! We had some interesting experiences and some sad experiences to. We had to drop one of our investigators. It was sad but she just wasn't ready to accept the gospel yet. This last week we had some fun activities. Here they put on a play type thing of the birth of Jesus Christ. All the youth participate and they do it out side on the lawn of the church. It brings some nonmembers into the church and so it makes some good opportunities for the missionaries. On saturday we had the ward party. The party was for both the Spanish unit and the English ward. Two men in the ward did a skit of the 12 days of Christmas using raw chickens. It was pretty hilarious but the whole time I was thinking to myself that all of the Spanish people here are thinking Americans are so ridiculous. It was fun though and is always fun to be with the ward. We are having a party just for the spanish unit this Saturday which I am very excited for. Hopefully we can get some investigators there. We had one of our investigators at church yesterday and he seemed to have enjoyed it. We just worked a lot this week trying to find knew people and trying to help the people we are teaching progress. Oh and we also had Zone conference this week, which of course was AWESOME! We got new phones and they installed these little things in our car that are supposed to monitor our speed and how fast we stop and stuff. It was kind of funny because me and my companion had been talking about how president probably has tracking devices and on his iPad he sees a little dot for all the cars and they beep when we brake the speed limit or if we leave our area or something. Then at Zone Conference he told us about this little box that is connected to some type of satellite and is supposedly going to talk to us when we go to fast and stuff. My comp and I just looked at each other as he was telling us this. We must have gotten revelation or something:) We learned a lot about how our purpose as missionaries is to help people to come to christ, but we can help them higher than we are. Therefore we have to come unto him our selves. President Castro talked about how our goal is to be like Jesus Christ and we have to have faith, repent, be baptized, receive the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End, and grace is what helps us through all of these steps to refine us and help us become like Christ. One thing he said that really hit me was that he said as missionaries we are the closest thing to Christ as our the people will see in this life. That blew me away, and really made me think. I really am a representative of Jesus Christ, and when the people see me, do they see Christ, can they feel his love. There is that scripture in Alma 5 that asks us if we have received his image in our countenance. Really to become like Christ is everyones goal, and as we take the proper steps we become like Christ. We fall and we have weaknesses but the grace of God is what makes it possible for us to really reach this goal. I have so many things that I have to change about myself to reach that, but it is comforting that God doesn't expect us to be perfect in an instant, it is a process, day by day, minute by minute. It is especially applicable at this time of the year when we can think about what we can change about ourselves to help us receive Christ in our countenance for the upcoming year.
Well I hope you all have a good week and take some time to think about Christ and what he did for us.
So the place where we do most of our tracking is awesome! There are SO many lights! Some of them even have music playing outside. It is so interesting how they don't like have any money but yet they have all of these elaborate house decorations. The other night my comp and I saw this group of people. one person was carrying a statue of the Virgen Maria in a glass box, there was like 20 people following her with candles and chanting. Oh the traditions of the world. I couldn't even believe my eyes. People always say that they don't worship the Virgen Maria, I am pretty sure walking around with her with candles and chanting is worshipping! Hispanic people just love her and actually think she is the mother of all of us. Oh the lies of Satan! We are doing our best to spread the gospel and let people know that worshipping her is definitely not ok!
Well I hope all the Christmas parties go well. I love you all!!
Les quiero MUSHISISIMO!
Hermana Clark
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