Elder Brandon Clark Serving an LDS Mission in Lima, Peru South: Brandon's translated voice recording

Brandon said he had 35 emails and didn't have time to write. He apologized for not emailing last week & tried to make it up to me by sending a voice recording, pictures of his journal entries & 20 photos. So I translated a voice recording he sent to us to share with you all:

I was kissed twice today by a 60 year old man on the street. That was a weird thing. I was dying laughing after he walked away. The man told me I was earth. He told me I was earth and told me a bunch of other stuff that was just crazy. Just funny things like that happen.

We are out of lesson 1 pamphlets, so we came up with a great idea and we made copies of the pamphlets, it was so hard, but we were able to get it done so we can give them to people. It was really hard to make, they’re only in black & white, but it was awesome.

We got a miracle new investigator today. He felt the need to walk into the church as he was passing the church. So he went in & met with the mission leader. The guy ended up calling us and asked if he could meet with us that night. So we got to meet with him that night & it was really interesting to see this broken down man. He was totally broken & torn. He told us a bunch of things & all the rough things he’s gone through. For example, his dad died recently & he was in a huge accident with a motorcycle. He flipped a bunch of times in the air and landed on his head. AND HE LIVED! He said he’s been smoking & drinking since he was 14 years old, and all these things. And man, wow, this guy just came to us like a humble son that’s done something bad & asked for forgiveness. He went to the Lord, and the Lord was ready with open hands. And he told us how difficult his life is and all the things he’s going through. But there is no limit to the atonement. It’s going to take a lot of work to help him out. The atonement is for everybody. And only through the atonement he can make it. It was a pretty powerful day. Pretty Awesome!