Letter #12

Hola Familia!

What a week it has been here in California and it sounds like you have had a whirld wind of a week for you all to.  First of all Happy Birthday to Emma, Sophie, and Madelynn.  I feel like they are going to be so big when I get back it is going to be crazy.  It also sounds like you have had a lot of fun in West Yellowstone.  How fun!

This week has been so crazy.  We haven't been teaching a ton of lessons so we have had a lot of time to just go around and knock doors.  This area is one of the wealthier areas so we try to find high concentrations of hispanic people.  We have yet to find something that we already don't know about it.  So naturally since we have been talking to lots of random people we have had some interesting experiences.  Yesterday took the cake.  We talked to a guy who i'm pretty sure was on some type of drug, but everyone needs to hear the gospel.  He proceded to ask us if we beleived in magic, aliens, and love.  He told us he was a street prophet, he said he was homeless but had a house in agourra, and a camp in the woods, and he said that he new ten times more then us about life, as we walked away he told us he was Arros the God of love. The whole time he was talking I was just couldn't beleive it was actually happening and my companion and I decided that sometimes we just want to be able to take pictures of conversations.  I feel that that is just one of many interesting conversations to come.  We also found a guy yesterday that wanted to buy a Book of Mormon from us.  We read a scripture to him and it really touched him.  He spoke english so we had to go back to the car and get him an English one and then we had to refer him to the Elders.  Hopefully they can find him again, and hopefully he will actaully read!  It is so interesting how the people we talk to want to listen and want to learn but aren't willing to read the Book of Mormon.  This is just so frustrating because if they would only read they would know the gospel is true.  They can't know unless they read.  It is just that simple. 

Mom was asking all about my living quarters.  We just live in a room in a members house.  We have our own bathroom and they have provided us with a fridge which is a blessing.  We don't eat with them but we eat in their kitchen.  It is a couple whos kids are all out of the house.  They are so cute. They just chill in the house all day.  She knits all day, and they things she makes are BEAUTIFUL!  And the husband studies the gospel all day.  He always shares with us the interesting things he is learning.  It really is a great experience living with members because they are always interested to hear our stories and how our investigators are doing.  It is funny for me to because I always think of the elders in Ashton and wonder what it would be like to live with him.  I'm sure that would just be a great time.

Our days are interesting here but some interesting things are that we have started to have an English class for the members in the ward, and hopefully they will start to invite there friends:) We really have no idea how to teach English but as we have started to realize how odd English is.  We have funny things.  One of othe ladies asked what, "you are ever so welcome" means.  She understood, your welcome, but why add the ever so.  I though to myself that is a really good question!  So we will see how it all goes.  We are also teaching a Book of Mormon class. We actually found an investigator our of having this class.  It is really cool to take time and read it slowly.  We just started from the begininning and are reading it and talking about how we can learn from them and apply them.  I love the Book of Mormon.  It has so many great things and I hope that you are all reading from it every day!!! We try to get our members and investigators to realize it's important but I really wonder how many members of the church read it everyday.

Well family I must be off.  We are going to try to do a craft today and make Book of Mormon t shirts using spaghetti and spray paint.  We will see how it turns out and I will give you all the details of how it turns out. I hope that the baptism goes well and know that I love you all and think about how your doing every day:)

Les Quiero!

Hermana Clark