Hey Family!
I am alive! Time here is so limited and so busy! My companion is Sister
Larrabee (prounounced Lairabee). She is so sweet! Our first day we sang Called
to Serve and it was a great feeling singing with hundreds of new missionaries (I
think over 800 came in on the 3rd). The closing song was the Army of Helaman.
Instead of singing "And we will be the Lord's missionaries" we sang "And we are
now the Lord's missionaries!" What a statement of truth and joy!
We are busy from 6:30 until 10:30 and most of the time is in class. It's a
meal to class, a meal to class but I love it! I don't realize how much time we
spend there until I start writing in my journal and I realize that pretty much
all the day we were in class. It's so amazing and I am learing so much. The
scheduling here for the first two days was a little off because of the 4th of
July-- they had to rearrange the schedule for the holiday. On the 4th we ended
class and personal study and had a fireside. It was packed and we needed to go
to the overflow room.We sang many hymns which is such a blessing. The spirt and
joy I feel when singing with everyone else is amazing! We had a mini talk and
then watched "17 Miracles" and I love that movie. It was so nice to take
a little break and not do anything for a few hours. We also got permssion
to stay up past 10:30 and watch fireworks. Even though it was allowed I am never
going to break that rule because getting up the next day was so hard.
Yesterday we taught our first "investigaor" (aka our teacher acting like on
of his investigators from his mission). There are so many things that I wish
that we could have done better but it went pretty well for our first lesson. He
in currently unemployed, single, and has a 3 month old daugher Sophie. We taught
him about our Heavenly Father's love for him and also about the restoration.
He belives in a higher being but belives that He just left us to our own
devices. We did our best to explain that our Heavenly Father loves us more than
we can understand and we created this great plan for us for our experience so we
can learn and grow and become more like Him. He said we could come back sometime
and we are teaching him another lesson later today during our classtime. After
the lesson our teacher talked to us after and he said that we loved the way that
we bounced off from each other. So that is a confidence booster!
We had gym time yesterday and played Beach Vollyball across from one of the
temple parking lots (the one we saw last Saturday). It was so much fun to just
get out and joke around. It was much needed and very appreciated!
The other sisters in my District are Sister Priest and Sister Aholelehi
(like Aloha Lei Lei- she's from Hawaii). We have a great district! Funny story
one of the Elders is Elder Wilson and he is going to the Indiana Indonaplios
mission and everytime I see him I think Blake is here! He looks so much like
him- especially from the side! So Blake when you you go out in the mission field
look for an Elder Wilson! He's amazing and brings great insight to our lessons!
Well I need to go! Love you all! Miss you and thanks for your Dear Elders! I
love them!!!!
Love,
Sister Clifton
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