Zone Conference Week

Dear Mom and papa, and family,

Ok, first things first. L IS GETTING MARRIED!? What the heck? Tell her to write me immediately, if not sooner! Thanks!

The pictures of all the children with the quilts are wonderful! Completely adorable, and I love all the quilts! Way to go mom! Are you campaigning for the best (great) aunt award? I think you have got it from them now!

So yep, we do have an awesome teaching pool. We are happy about that!

B is doing great! To answer your questions mom, he is from Nigeria. He is an amazing artist, and seriously paints complete works of art. He’s fantastic! I will try to take some pictures of stuff he's done. He basically accepts everything and backs it up with scriptures mostly from the Bible. We taught him the Word of Wisdom this week, which brought some complications because we were a little worried about it not being in the Book of Mormon or the Bible, but he accepted other revealed scripture since we have prophets on the earth today. So that was good. We are going to have to work a little bit with him on the whole coffee thing.

We also taught C the Word of Wisdom. Which he had been taught previously, but he requested it, so we taught it. Apparently last time he didn't catch that coffee wasn't OK, so he had to get over that, and he just reverted to Caro, which is great! He is pretty awesome. We are just working on solidifying his testimony of the Book of Mormon and the Prophet Joseph Smith. He reads and prays everyday, which is awesome! And he is doing great. To answer mom's questions, he is a 40 year old helicopter engineer and he works for the England police force on their helicopters. Pretty cool. He is English, one of the few that is actually from England that we teach. And he is awesome! He is dating a girl who is a member, and that's why he originally started looking into the church. But he's making sure it's something he wants for himself, which is important. I think that's it.

Onto the A's. Oh the A,s. I love them dearly. They are an amazing family. They do struggle with things at the moment though, and we aren't really sure how to get past them. Basically, they know that the church is true. They know that we have the authority to baptize. And they know that the church teaches correct principles, and they want to live by those things. BUT they don't want to get baptized because they don't want to have to go to church every Sunday, and they just want to live life as good people . So we are at a standstill at the moment. They are still doing their challenge, and they came to sacrament meeting yesterday, which was great. But they just aren't committing. It’s pretty frustrating when you know that they know that it's true! A man in the ward on the base this week saw C walking into work with the Book of Mormon in his hand. He even reads it on his breaks! How do we get past these barriers!? That’s our problem at the moment. But hopefully we will be able to figure it out.

We started teaching this other man, N, who we have been teaching recently. He an interesting man, and loves the debate. Which I don't love. So I am having to work to keep calm and collected, and teaching him without him fighting back. It’s an interesting test of patience for me. Sister N on the other hand, loves the debate, so I let her do a lot of the teaching in those lessons.

This week has been a little tough. I got a pretty nasty cold, and as we all know, those are never fun. So I have been trying to get some rest, and it's been no fun. I am finally on the up-hill but poor sister Ncaught what I had. Caring is sharing, right? Ha-ha. So yeah, now I have to take care of her.

We had zone conference this week which was wonderful!

We are starting new training soon that will be taught also in the MTC, which we are excited about! Sister Ogden asked me to play a piano solo, which I finally scrounged one from one of the members in my ward. So I played "a poor wayfaring man of grief", which went well for the little time I had to practice it, which totaled maybe 4 or 5 times playing it through. Ha-ha, terrible preparation. But what can I do, that's not what I am here in England to do. Now if there was a harp...that would be a different story...

So things are going well! Thanks for the updates on Yosemite, and everything! I loved the pictures, and you all look like you had a fantastic time! That’s awesome that Caroline gave Lucy the bread mixer. If you see anyone getting rid of another one, grab that one for me!

I know this church is true! I know that Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ, and that this is the only true church on the earth. I know that through it, we can return to live with our heavenly father again. I am so grateful for the Priesthood, and am grateful for the men that keep themselves worthy to use that priest

I love you all!

All my love heaped up, pressed down, and running over,

Sister Clark

I LOVE YOU!!!!!