The power of faith & true intentions

This week was a completly different week for me. As I changed my mentalitly and mindset like it was a pre'game warm up. Every morning was different. Everytime I left the house it was different. I had set a peronsal goal that I would find 5 choosen childern of Isreal, who are prepared to listen to the restored Gospel of Christ. As in everything I did, was with true intentions that I would find someone new and prepared everyday. I would always ask and talk with my Father in Heaven first. I had to ask Him that I could have this faith to find those prepared. And I was able to find 4. I know that I was able to find 4 children of God are such a blessing and the mercy of God given to me. I hope that for the rest of my like I can continue to have the faith that I was able to cultivate this past week , and apply it forever. The faith in our Saviour Jesus Christ and his Atonement, and that through his grace he will bless us, even when we lack in our afflictions. But during these trials we need to have the faith and patience like the people Alma and his people. Mosiah 24.13-16 ... that we are able to support these afflictions in happiness, and patiently knowing that this is the will of the Lord.

I wish I could explain every one of the situations of the 4 choosen childern of God that we found this week, but they are too long and amazing haha. But with faith and patience the Lord can give us this power and love to do his will.

Alma 7.19

Elder Clawrk

email sent to us from his pensionista

Ben translated the letter that accompanied the photos:
Pictures of Elder Clark's birthday from Ayacucho. How are you Sister Clark?  I'm Sister Soledad, your son's pensioner (person that prepares all his food)  He is a good missionary.  Greetings (like goodbye)

A whole new world

Well, its a whole new world over here! The people are very different the culture is very different. I feel like I'm in a movie scene everywhere I go, it's so animated. very beautiful. The area is huge! Very difficult to get to know. But the work still goes on.  There is no time to fall behind.

We taught this younger girl this week, shes 11. recently baptized less than a year ago. And she is the only member in her family, her father is in jail and her mom can't get baptized.. and there are all these problems in her family, however, she explained to us how she has hope and she wants to strive to get her family to church everyday. But something more than just her life shocked me as she gets herself to church, she has read the book of mormon 2 times already and is on her third time around. I was blown away. She is an example to me. I know many people who have barely read it 1 time, and she is on her third. What a powerhouse. She is working on saving her family, and being such a perfect example to all.

I hope we can all have this desire to read the scriptures, and to put aside all the problems and tests that we have and push forward. This scripture reminds me of this (Alma 1:25)

I hope we can't all wait for the day when OUR SAVIOUR comes again Alma 4:14 !

Because I can't wait. And I hope I will be in the right place , doing what the Lord would be doing. Setting an example of the believers.


=dler Clark

We sent peanutbutter to him for his birthday. He was so happy!

AYACUCHOOOOOOOOOO!

It was a little hard to leave, but when there is an end, there is always a new beginning!
love
Elder CLURK

*mom note: here's what he said In a separate email to me -

I left Lima at 12 at night sunday, and got here (Ayacucho)at like 9 in the morning, it was the worst bus ride haha, I was so dead yesterday haha.

*Here's what he said about his new companion:
dude is chill as dirt!!

My new companion!

This week we were able to take someone to the temple. Wow, everytime I go I feel the sweet calm powerful spirit! But the vision of the mission, is to begin with the end in mind, seeing them dressed in white.- with some other things but the beginning is the best part. To begin with the end in mind. If we always begin with the end in mind in every desicion that we begin with the temple in mind or better said, the Celestial Kingdom in mind.

If our goal is the temple and if we are always thinking of temple or if we were always in the temple, how could we have bad thoughts..

I wish that I could always be in the temple. I wish that I could get everyone to get sealed in the temple.

I hope that I will be able to look at everyone of God's children dressed in white in the temple. If I don't view them like this, then what way am I, of the world. of what the world sees them.

How can you yell at someone if you picture them dressed in white in the baptismal room? you can't.

How can you not smile after entering the temple ...

The temple is where we feel the joy and love of Christ. and we need to help others feel of this love and joy from Christ, this hope that we have, we need to share it, and build our homes and testimonies upon it.

TEMPLE=SALVATION.

GO TO THE TEMPLE, AND THEN GET OTHERS TO COME WITH YOU!


Alma 36:20-21 feel and taste of the intense and sweet joy of Christ.


Elder CLARK

What dedicated missionaries do!

(zoom in to see the missionaries in this photo)

All I have to say this week is if you don't end your scripture study wanting to continue to read, then it wasn't an effective study. I have never had such a desire to just read read read! So much inspired and sacred words that we have to feast upon.

I love these verses. Mosiah 18.8-10 especially verse 8, we are to be witnesses before God, in all of our works, until we die. So that we may have the eternal life that we so desperately want, so that we may be resurrected in the first resurrection.

So the question is, are you a witness ?


WE ARE ALL WITNESSES!


¨that wasn't meant to be a Lebron reference.


Elder Cl**rk

Many signs & signals

There are so many things that happen in our lives, many signs and signals that the Lord gives us. But if we aren't looking , we will miss these precious little gifts from our Father in Heaven.


About a month ago we were receiving calls from a member from the ward. He had a friend who was asking us to give him a blesssing. And this week we were finally about to get with him and give him a blessing. His name is Carlos Rivera. He's taller than me, there aren't many surprisingly haha. But he's tall but very skinny because he has this very bad back sickness. that has injuried his spin. And he can't eat a lot or something like that. But he has lost a ton of weight. and he is just the most humble man. You can tell he was already a humble man before his illness.

But its so amazing to see his attendful mind as he understands every bit of doctrine. and is so willing to change and truly understand that the our Lord knows everything that he is going through. As he is only 28 years old. going through this rough stage in his life, as it's hard for him to read, so we pick out special verses for him to focus on.

I know that he will follow the example of Christ. As the lord has given him this speacial trial so that he was lead to us.

I know the Saviour knows all that we are going through.

and that through HIM we can change. We can let go of our weight that we sometimes carry for so long upon our shoulders.

We just need to come unto him in humble prayer and pour out our souls unto him.

He is waiting with open arms .

Mosiah 24;13-14

Eldar Clark

I love this work!

I love this work! That's all you have to know about this week.
So a couple months back , Elder Castro and I were getting a hair cut from this lady named Katty Salcedo. And so we decided to give her a short summary of our message of the Restoration. She has come to church for about 10 sundays straight and yesterday, this passed sunday, she made a coment about the scriptures. How she really hadn't quite understood them. But then she testified of how she understands them now. There's power behind ever verse, she says. As she is now marking her scriptures , verse to verse as we talk of the great words of wisdom behind them. and how she just wants to keep on reading and reading the scriptures.   She has a baptism date for this February.

Then another recent convert we were meeting with this week, as he bore his testimony this past Sunday. but when we were teaching him the atonement and answering all of his questions, he told us how he knows that all of our answers to all of our questions are in the book of mormon.

I know those words are true. We just need to search them with real intent!!!

2nefi32.3-5

all things that we should do!


Elder C7ark
Extras:
yeah. for the most part. I am trying to work my hardest to build up this ward before I leave . Strengthen fernando and the leaders here.
My comp, elder Paucar, is from Peru & had been serving for15 months.

morning

After 1 day!

Happy New Year!

New year was insane with crazy fireworks that went off at 12 exactly.. Sounded like world war 3!!! No joke!

But this week had a pretty amazing miricale that was happened.

As we were walking to a less actives house. My comp turns to me and says, ´lets go find a family!´ and I thought yeah yeah, kinda normal about it with some enthusiasm but with no faith. And at that moment I realized that in that same morning our mission president talked to us. he told us that everytime that we leave the house, we need to have the passion to have a miricale or at least expect to have a miricale! So I told myself or my Father in Heaven, ´lets see that miricale´! and not seconds later we turn the corner and a family was walking toward us. I was so suprised! Wow. I noticed that the husband was carrying some bags. So I offered to carry his bags for him to his house. then he told me his house was right around the corner... definitly was not around the corner. But he let me help him out. So I carried his heavy his bags to his house. We immediately had this bond of trust! Then he allowed us into his house. It was amazing. this family is chosen. I know they were. The first impression was key. These families are waiting for us. Just need to find them.

Elder Cl0rk

Double stacked baby I ate this morning!