May 11, 2015
Happy Birthday Padre Bernardo! May 9th was the city´s
Birthday and oh man, the people here know how to party. Thursday until Sunday
was one big party here. With concerts every night and big parties at main
square and music and Calvary of Horses and Gustavo Lima (a VERY famous singer)
and everything! The parties made it a little hard to work at the end of the
week because everyone was just partying, visiting with family and pretty much
doing everything except stay at home. Our church attendance suffered too because
of mother’s day and the parties. Almost nobody went to church. It was a little disappointing
but understandable. This week we have stake conference about 2 hours away from
here and we are hoping to take lots of people there with a bus! Pray that we
can get a bus to take everyone!
We have ran into a problem here, It seems like the small
local churches are feeling threatened with our presence here and are starting
to preach against the Mormons and spreading anti-Mormon fliers around to some
of the homes that we are visiting. But we are seeing that it isn’t affecting
the work here because the families that we are working with are just becoming
more curious as to what the big deal is! Lots of people are defending us too!
One man was talking to one of our investigators and was talking bad about us
and she told him he had the wrong information and that we are super cool and
good people. She even invited him to receive our visits. He didn’t accept but
it goes to show that the Lords work will always go forward and that nobody can
stop it! It is amazing what excitement 4 young men in white shirts can do in a
small city. I am loving every minute of it!
We met a super great family this week; Mom, Dad and 5
children. One of the children is Deaf and she just signs to her sister who
translates everything for us. She is also teaching us sign language and we are
getting pretty good at it! We are already making sentences with her! haha This
family is really receptive and wants to learn more about the church! They are from
the north east of Brazil and every word that ends with s, they say it as if it
has sh, which is awesome too!
We are very excited because our first transfer here is over
and now we are ready for the baptims! We have a bunch of people that are SO
CLOSE they just need a little push! It has been hard because this little town
has a LOT of faith and when something new comes to town, talking about God, it
is hard to change what you already believe. But the Lord has prepared a ton of
people here. We just need to find them all!
Yesterday was so great to talk with my Mom! I love my family
a whole lot and can’t wait to see everyone in less than 3 months! But no time
to think about that now! I still have a ton of work to do before my turn is
through!
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I Love you all and
thanks for all the support and love!
Elder Clark
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