Dear Family,
Riding a bike in May Valley is terrible. This week we had to ride bikes till Friday. My legs were shot. But it was relatively a good week. We didn't have our baptism, which was sad. Its been pushed back to next week. Hopefully our bishop will still allow her to be baptised. Mercedes' family is looking for a condo to move to, and there are no condos in our area. So she will be moving out of our ward and that concerns our bishop with the transition and everything. From the missionaries point of view she needs to be clean as soon as possible and the transition will be tough either way so why not let her receive the holy ghost? Also one of the members of the ward council raised some concerns on whether or not she was qualified. He asked some good questions, questions that should be asked before someone is baptised but the way he asked them were sort of cantankerous. Like "are you teaching the Book of Mormon?" But all is well that ends well. Hopefully she will be baptised next week.
This is the last week of the transfer. Another transfer has come and gone....way too fast. I feel like it's 50/50 on whether or not I will be transferred. But life is going good in May Valley. We put two part member twins on date for baptism yesterday so that was great. Sis Robins has been out of town for the past several days. Hopefully they don't get back until tomorrow we have some cleaning up to do before they get back. We get a little lackadaisical in being diligent with the dishes and others miscellaneous things when they are gone.
We have been asked to give talks, not this Sunday but the following. Which will be good. Get to cry repentance to a captive audience about them not doing their part in finding...just kidding. Kind of. In all seriousness, May Valley is great ward. Lots of willing members, who will do things at the drop of a hat. Bishop Jarman is very missionary minded, which is awesome. But in the eyes of all missionaries, members could always find more.
We have been doing some re-activation recently. Which I have found to be pretty cool. With the senior couple in our ward working with the less-actives we don't do too much, but we have tracted into some inactive members. We have been teaching them and a couple of them are making the journey to return to being active members. I never really learned how to do less active work in the beginning of my mission, but I've learned that you have to treat them just like an investigator. Be bold. Extend commitments. And get fellowship.
This week was one of the hardest finding weeks. It seemed like no one was interested. I don't think we had a single tracting lesson. Usually I'm pretty good at being able to say two prayers and share a quick message at the doorstep. But this week was just difficult.
Sounds like things are still up and going back home. That's cool that you get to go to Dallas. Got an email from Drew. He was wondering why he hasn't got an email forwarded or the blog updated. His guess as to why, was a little radical. I bet Wesley and Tanner are rejoicing this week while Reagan is at camp. But sounds like it should be pretty fun. Boomerangs must be in the swing of summer, with 70% of the rentals being water pieces. There are pros and cons to that. Well have a good week. It's going to be a busy preparation day today. Need to catch up on some letters that I have been procrastinating. Surprise I know. And we have to clean and then go play basketball. Then back to work for the week.
Love, Elder Clark
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