Family!!!
Man, I´ve been missing you guys. First and most important, I
want to congratulate ADAM!! Yes!! Your baptism on Saturday!! Way to go dude :)
It is a saving ordinance, and one of the most important things we can do in this
life. You have now taken upon you the promise to be a witness of Jesus Christ at
all times, in all things, and in all places - as well as keep his commandments
and honor Him through your obedience to His commandments. Maybe you could read
Mosiah 18 with Mom or Dad one of these days, and read about those who made those
same promises at the waters of Mormon with Alma! Congratulations dude :) I can
now say that everyone is my family is a member of the church! That makes me so
so happy. Nothing makes me happier! Again Adam, congrats. Your party looked
super sweet too. Isn´t Mom amazing? Not to mention Dave is The Man. The only
thing is um... where are the pictures of the baptism? The white clothing? The
font? :(
Well, I am pleased to say I had quite a great weekend too.
Elder Whitcomb and I completed our goal for the change of 4 baptisms!! Just like
Adam - Sophía, Ruth, Emílvia, and Rachel made the covenant of baptism. So
awesome. We held the service at 8 AM before the sacrament meeting - that way
they could be confirmed as well, instead of waiting two weeks because of General
Conference (I´ll get back to that). So Ruth asked me to baptize her, and we also
had E´ Whitcomb, Bishop Sanjur, and Rachel´s big brother baptize. I helped make
the program too. It was just a great thing to see our goals realized after so
much hard work and hard times. I was hungry for a baptism!! I hadn´t had one in
a really long time. I´m just grateful The Lord was confident enough to leave 4
of His children in our hands to teach and help to perform their saving
ordinance. Unfortunately, I wasn´t able to get a picture of Rachel in her white
gown, but perhaps I´ll send a pic on another occasion.
So I´m actually really really sad to say goodbye to Elder
Whitcomb - he has taught me so much, and we´ve grown so much together. I am
really happy for him though - he will be landing in Boston to see his family
this upcoming Thursday. I love that guy. I´m looking forward to chilling with
him at BYU. Double dates and such. Don´t worry Mom, I´ll make sure to give him
our phone number. :) I will say though, with changes this Wednesday, I am super
excited to get a new comp. - I am fully expecting another latin comp. - which
will be awesome for my Spanish. President has also told me he´s bringing in two
more elders into the Ward to help us with our gargantuin area. So I´ll be
showing them around the area a little bit too. I can smell good things comin´.
Haha. Lastly, I just wanna say I'm SUUUUUPER excited for General Conference this
weekend. I can hardly wait!! I wish the whole world would watch it - it would do
the world a whole lot of good. I´m way excited to get counsel from all the
church´s leaders on what I can improve and such. You can bet I´ll be bringing a
few questions to the meetings too.
Well, I´m gonna end this letter now, but I hope you enjoy the
pictures and that you all have a fantastic week.
Love, Elder Clarke
P.S.... Ah almost forgot! I got my package this week!! I LOVED it! All the
reeses and cookies are already long gone. And the socks? Fetch they are nice.
Thanks soooo much!! :) Also, someone please tell Bro. Scott Harris I recieved
his letter and give him much thanks. I loved it - I keep his coin in my right
pocket every day now.
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