A Busy Week!

Wow, this week was SO BUSY!! I loved it. We got 28 lessons this week! My record so far. Were going to beat it though. We have been contacting people like crazy and giving out Books of Mormon and doing some street lessons. Its so fun. It is amazing how prepared people are, I was just to scared to talk to them. Man, I wish I would have known how fun and easy it is to just talk to people or just knock on the door, yeah sure people reject us a lot but it is so worth it when that one person talks to us and we are able to give them a Book of Mormon. Yeah, we might not teach them but someday in the future they could run into missionaries again. I love how that works.

On Tuesday we had an exchange with our Sister Training Leaders Sister Varble & Sister Webb. I went to East Brunswick with Sister Varble and Sister Webb came here to Amboy with my comp. I learned a ton from Sister Varble we taught 5 lessons and we had a really good time contacting people. It is always so interesting going and teaching lessons in English with English sisters. It is so different than in Spanish, the gospel is a little bit different in Spanish in a weird way. I am always so grateful to come back to my Hispanics. I love them. But I learned a lot about teaching from Sister Varble, I really enjoyed watching her teach and taking some of her techniques and putting them into my lessons. It was fun getting to know some of these Jersey people. We went to visit this older lady who was born and raised in New Jersey so she was a total Jersey girl, she had that accent and the sass, I loved it. She was having some health issues so she asked me to pray for her at the end of our visit so I did and I don't know where it came from, but I said one of the most sincere prayers I think I have said in a lesson and at the end she just thanked me over and over for such a beautiful prayer. It made me feel good to think that I helped her, I really liked visiting her. We then went to visit a really neat family from Haiti. They are converts and our zone leader actually baptized them. He always tells the story of how he found them. He was training and he and his companion had about 15 minutes to get home before curfew and he walked by this guy in a car and he got a prompting that he should go talk to him but he just walked past. He stopped then he walked back and this guy rolled down his window and said "I was wondering why you didn't come talk to me" then they taught him and he and his wife got baptized. It was cool to go and teach him and his wife and hear their perspective of the story. They had a special spirit in their home and they had special testimonies. We taught them about faith we had a really deep conversation with them about it and he just kept on nodding his head and saying "yes, I like it!" it was so cute. As a mission we are trying to contact 10 people a day and so at the end of the exchange day, it was about 815 and Sister Varble and I needed to do 2 more contacts, so she just goes, "hey do you want some ice cream?" So we went to McDonald's and contacted the two people at the window. hahahaha. But then when we got home we felt like we should go visit a former investigator who lived next door to them who just kind of disappeared. He let us in and we taught him and he said he wanted to start taking the lessons again. He also had this friend over who no one knew about, but his friends name was Alex and he was from Hungry. He had this think Hungarian accent and he didn't speak English very well, but when we got our Books of Mormon out his face lit up and he got a Book of Mormon out of his bag. We were so surprised because Sister Varble had never heard of him before. We don't know where he got a Book of Mormon, but he is very interested in it and he loves reading, but he just doesn't understand English very well. We went home and ordered him a Book of Mormon in Hungarian for him. It is so comforting to know that the Book of Mormon is in so many languages and we can get anyone a book in whatever language they need. We prayed that night and thanked God for the gift of tongues so we could have so many Books of Mormon available to us to give to his children.

The rest of the week was just the ordinary work in Perth Amboy. Work work work and eating some AWESOME food. On Saturday we had a fun activity for the Anniversary of the Relief society. Everyone came in their pioneer clothes and we had the first relief society meeting. It was fun. Then on Sunday we had the relief society presentation, it was very well done. We have a truly amazing relief society and I am so happy that I get to work with them on their visiting teaching. It has been a lot of fun. We went and did some visiting teaching last night and it was really fun just going out with some of the sisters and helping them befriend and serve one another.

Today we had a Sister Activity in Morristown. All of the Sister missionaries in the mission came, there is about 100 of us. The theme was shoes, so we got there, did some exercising then we painted our toe nails then had lunch then President and Sister Jeppson talked to us. It was so much fun being with all of the sisters. I'm so blessed to be in the New Jersey Morristown Mission. I love hearing president and Sister Jeppson talk, they are really great speakers. Sister Jeppson always says cute little poems and she just says cute things. She is very creative. She talked about how as women we all have a natural attraction to shoes, but we all wear our own shoes and we should be comfortable in our own shoes not wanting to wear someone else's. It was very cute and very inspiring. Then she and President Jeppson sang a song together like they do at every meeting. That is my favorite part of every meeting. President Jeppson gets his guitar out and he and his wife sing songs that they write. Sister Jeppson always changes the words to popular songs to things that fit the theme of what we are talking about and they are always cute. WE always laugh, that is one thing that I love about our mission, we laugh together A LOT! One thing that us sisters talk about whenever we are together is how much we all love the way that President Jeppson looks at his wife. They are a good example to us of how marriage should be. I am very thankful for all they do and really just for everyone who works so hard in our mission to do nice things for us. SO blessed!

Well, I think that's about it for now. We've got a good week to look forward to, we might be seeing some changes here in Perth Amboy soon. This is the 5th week of the transfer, so that means only 2 weeks left of this transfer... SO, I could be getting a new companion soon. It's gonna be fun! I love change!

Have a good week, love and miss you!

-Sister Clark
ALSO!! I forgot to include this in my letter. The coolest thing happened this week. I called sister Orton in West New York just to talk to her, she told me that the Desiderios (I don't know if you remember them: Less active family we were teaching, they hadn't gone to church in a couple of years. Pablo wanted to start coming back to church, he switched jobs to start coming to church, his wife didn't want anything to do with church but we promised him that if he started coming to church, his family would see it and they would come to church) ... The Desiderios, as in Pablo and his wife Amada have come to church every single Sunday this year.... It is such a huge miracle. My heart swelled with joy when I heard that. I was so excited! I am so so so happy for them and so so happy that I was able to help him come back to church and because of that his wife came back to church too. It is so much fun to get little updates on how my ward in West New York is doing. I ate lunch with Sister Orton and her comp Sister Ballard and they updated me on everyone. Everyone is doing great and all of the less actives that I was working on visiting are all back to church. I'm so happy about that! I miss that place!