March 6, 2017

On Monday we had a Multi Zone Conference at the church building in Greenwood, it was a lot of fun! We do one every transfer. After P-day was over I let Elder Chapple drive.. uh oh that was a bad idea. So we have these black boxes on our cars that monitor our speeds and it makes sure we don't drive aggressive and go to fast, so we're on the freeway and Elder Chapple is speeding, and it's me, Elder Richards and Elder Hauck in the car and I was wondering how he was going so fast until I look over and the black box is unplugged hahaha! That night me and Elder Richards we're on an exchanges and we went over to this Liberian members house and they made us Liberian food, something called Palm butter and it's White Rice with a stew type thing on top and the meat is Finch (yes the bird) it was pretty good though! 

 

This week was very productive. Last we checked Sheila had not smoked for 36 hours, making progress! We had interviews this week with President Carlson and I asked if I could do language study and study Yoruba and he said "Of course, anything to further the work!" so now I get to do 30 minutes of language study a day.

 

 This week I was with Elder Cox a spanish missionary on the East Side of Indy and we had a good exchange :) We went to the Buffalo Wild Wings in Downtown and then had a lesson with Mario who is getting baptized on March 25, he speaks No english so I would say something or teach him something and Elder Cox would translate for me. We also taught him how he would be baptized and I role played it with him. The next morning we ran 40 yard dashes for a workout and went on a jog. They live in a pretty cool area of Indianapolis, it's in a little suburb called Irvington. During our exchange Elder Cox wanted me to pick a less active member to go by on the Ward Directory, since I wouldn't know the person and it would be a prompting from the spirit on who we decided to go by. So we picked one and went by, and he didn't have time/didn't want to talk to us. So instead we started knocking the apartments and had a miracle! We knocked on the door, he answered, we introduced ourselves and asked him his name, and he said "It depends on who's asking?" haha the funny thing is, a lot of the Spanish people think that we're Immigration when we knock on the door and we're in White shirts and ties haha but it turned out to be a great discussion with this guy. We talked about living righteously and he brought up living in the world and not of the world and we told him that's exactly what we believe and we taught him all about the Book of Mormon and about Lehi and his family and he was excited about it and wanted to come to church! We knew that was the reason we went to this less active, not for the less active but it led us to this guy. The guy told us he was about to leave in 2 minutes to go look for a job, and we showed up. 

 

After that we went over to Marc's house, he just got baptized a few weeks ago, he's 16, we taught him a lesson on making the right decision and showed him the Mormon message "Staying within the lines". After that we went over to the Bello's for a birthday party and dinner for their little girl, we got unlimited AUTHENTIC Mexican tacos! Me and Elder Cox couldn't eat anymore! Crazy connection too, so Hermano Bello is a convert to the church and has been for 9 years, 2 and a half years ago he was living in New Jersey, I asked him if he knew and Elder Hoyt and he did, it was crazy, he pulled up pictures of Kurt Hoyt and said "Yeah I love this kid" Kurt Hoyt would go over to his house in New Jersey when he lived there!

 

Saturday morning we helped this member move. While we were there moving, Elder Chapple and Hauck were trying to find the house we were at. They called us a bunch and said "Where are you guys at? We're here." But we kept telling them they were at the wrong house. After like 3 phone calls they still couldn't figure out they were at the wrong house and then we receive this text from Elder Chapple "The awkward moment when you walk into a strangers house and yell Where the heck are you queers?" hahahah. Last night we taught Josh the Word of Wisdom and he is still on date to be baptized for March 26! We also found this part of an apartment complex where they're all Nigerian, we will be going back :) I love those people! I love you guys so much and miss you!

February 27, 2017

So as a Zone we set a goal to have 80 New Investigators this week, and we beat that by A LOT! We had 123 :) A new investigator is someone you meet, you teach them a point of doctrine an set up a time and day to come back and they say yes. Good things are happening :) The highlight of my week was probably the exchange to Downtown Indy when I got to visit the Etta's. Everyone always talks about how you have to love the people when you're on your mission and I love Nigerians. I love talking to them, asking about their country and learning what they eat. I am going to ask President Carlson this week in Interviews if I can start doing language study for 30 minutes a day to learn Yoruba (African Dialect they speak in Nigeria). I already know a little bit and they love it when we speak it to them.

This week we were in a lesson and I used a cool analogy that came to my mind with a guy named Olukayode. He was trying to understand what the Book of Mormon was and why we need it. I told him it's like this "If you go outside and look at the moon right now and draw a picture of it, and then fly to Nigeria and draw a picture of the moon there, it's going to look different, but it's the same moon. The Book of Mormon is a witness from a different nation about Jesus Christ, the same Jesus Christ in Jerusalem". And that made a lot of sense to him. We had 3 investigators come to church! Vesnel, Josh, and Sheila. Now we need to get the Nigerians coming :) The goal is to have a Nigerian branch here :) This week we put Josh on baptismal date for March 26! His wife is is a member, and they just got married. This week we were on exchanges and so I was with different missionaries all week but it was fun! Haha Nigerians are so shocked when I start saying words in Yoruba.

Another miracle happened this week, so after church we went on a quick exchange, Me and Elder Chapple went together to go visit Tony (a guy he taught in this area almost 2 years ago when he was here) we go knock on the door and Tony answers and tells us he just had surgery and it seemed like he wasn't going to let us in his house. But then it was almost like God whispered to him "Let them in, you need to talk to them" because out of nowhere he told us to come inside and told us to sit down. After talking for a bit he told us it was ironic we came to his house, because of things that happened in his life. He had been on Elder Chapple's mind so it made this even a cooler experience. So pretty much we found out that his family is Catholic, Jehovah Witness, Baptist and his brother just joined the Mormon church. Pretty much what he told us was that he was on the phone with his brother and his brother was sharing a little bit about our church and it wasn't all making sense to Tony. His brother told him not to worry because missionaries would come around sometime and teach him, but he would have to actually study what we teach, pray, and actually sit down and talk to us, instead of just accepting a Bible and Book of Mormon and having us leave. And then we knocked on his door. In his words he said it was kind of creepy. He told us his mom who is Jehovah Witness said that if she was not Jehovah Witness, she would be Mormon which was kind of a shock. Tony told us he's Christian, and said if he claimed a church, it would be the Mormon church and he's not even a member, now we have to get him baptized. He talked about how he saw our missionaries in dangerous places, and he just saw us everywhere and thought we had an unreal amount of faith because we don't carry weapons or anything we just know that we're protected.

Sheila still has us over all the time and she's still trying to quit smoking. The Bishop gave her advice.. So while she was trying to quit smoking she was trying to quit drinking Dr. Pepper (Since she was addicted to it as well) and she quit the Dr. Pepper. Bishop Stephens said drink the Dr. Pepper and quit smoking, that's the important thing, so pretty much use the Dr. Pepper to help quit smoking, so she can get baptized and once she's baptized, then quit Dr. Pepper. Also, in the past she had been making it known to everyone in the ward that she was quitting smoking to try and help her, but instead it caused stress because she thought that if she failed everyone would think she's a failure and it caused stress which made her want a cigarette and now she's doing it pretty much in secret. I thought that was interesting. 

I was with Elder Dunyon this week and he's brand new missionary, I always take the brand new missionaries to the most scary, dangerous apartment complex :) Hahaha. 

I love you guys and miss you :)

 

This week we made POG (Passionfruit-Orange Juice-Guava) and Poy which is mashed up Taro (Hawaiian Potato) with Cocunut milk and we put Lihingmui (Polynesian powder) on Pineapple and dipped in in Poy. SO GOOD. I also ate Horse!

The Etta's! I got to visit them :) They are the family I was lucky enough to find online as a referral from 2-3 years ago who I sent to White River Elders and they taught them and baptized them within 5 weeks and 2 weeks after that they went to the Indianapolis Temple to do baptisms!

 

February 20, 2017

On Monday we went at 8 in the morning and did all of our grocery shopping and went to this International Market that I love to go to. One of the times we were there this week I met an African guy from Nigeria who I got to speak Yoruba too, people are so shocked when I say something in Yoruba to them. For lunch we went to Moe's (it's a southwestern grille that sells burritos) and we went to the park that "The fault in our stars" was filmed at. That night we planned for the transfer, made some POG which is a mixture of Passionfruit, Orange juice and Guava and we made a smoothie out of it. We had a LU'AU in our apartment and ate some cocunut chips, Lihingmui and Pog. It was a good night!!

Tuesday morning we helped Elders Chapple and Mason get to transfers and helped them get luggage there. This week we finally had time to get out and knock on doors and it was sooo much fun. This Catholic guy we were talking to told us the reasoning behind doing the cross after they pray and I said "Normally I do that in the morning but I usually say "My hair is done, my tie is on, I have my nametag and I have my planner". We took Elder Chapple to the hospital in Greenwood for some more testing and went to this surprisingly good Chinese restaraunt that Elder Chapple wanted to take us to. We went to the intersection named "10th and Drive-by" on the East side of Indianapolis and right as we pull up, 3 cop cars come speeding around the corner with their lights on haha.

On Thursday we went to another Chinese buffet with the High Priest group which was a lot of fun. I gave a baptismal interview to De-Shawn (the guy I taught in the other Eagle Creek area) and he will have to wait another week to get baptized so he can quit smoking. Elder Chapple and Mason took his cigars and fried chicken for him the other week but he went and bought more Cigarettes :) On Friday we went to the Fishburn complex and did service :) I got to see Brad Quick, I mean Elder Brad Quick and we hung out while we did service. It was kind of funny the guy gave me and him the golfcart to drive around and pick up garbage cans while everyone else is walking around all the baseball fields picking up trash, it was a goooood time :)

I was with a brand new missionary this week on exchanges! While we were on exchanges we helped move a Mattress for some people. Brother Merrill picked us up and we went and got it from Costco and dropped it off at Sister Wu's house she's living in. She's from China and the 2 people she lives with are not members. Right when we knocked on the door they invited us inside to eat, they made us Fried rice, I actually don't know how she made it so fast, first I see white rice, she goes in the garage and 5 minutes later it's this hot sizzling fried rice on my plate. They gave us hot chinese chili and chinese cabbage :) She told us she gets bored of cooking for just herself and husband and so she wants us to come over, we made a deal that we'd help her with yard work or something like that and she can feed us :) The cool thing was, the next day we went to a Fireside at our church building and Sister Wu spoke at it and the Chinese lady sent her with some Sushi to give just to me! So delicious :) I hope everything is going good in the 801 and I love and miss you guys!

I don't know if I ever sent this home to you guys but this is me and some kids I was playing football with!

Elder Redmond's going back to Ireland

I met Kathryn's sister!

February 13, 2017

Hello from the Downtown Indianapolis Library! Right now I'm drinking Quinoa JUICE and Flax seed juice, I didn't even know that was a thing until I went to the Saraga International Market today :) This week was full of eating Saltines (food poisoning) and meetings. We got a little bit of finding/tracting in and realized that what I thought were fireworks outside at 9 o clock at night are actually gun shots haha. We went and helped out at the Bishop's Storehouse on Tuesday morning, we're going to make that a regular thing because we live a mile away from it. We also played basketball with the young men.

We've been visiting less active members and helping them come back to church. Sheila is still doing well, she is still working on giving up smoking. She gave up Dr. Pepper! She knows for sure that the Church is absolutely true but she can't be baptized until she has quit for at least a week. It was frustrating, yesterday in Ward Council they were questioning us and they thought we committed her to give up Dr. Pepper before smoking, and we never even told her she needed to give up Dr. Pepper, she felt like she was addicted and thought it up on her own, and we told the Ward council that and they said "Well why was the commitment extended?" and we just thought to ourselves "We didn't extend any commitment about that" I just kind of sat back and laughed while everyone discussed it. But Sheila has us over for dinner a lot, and we visit her a lot :)

We had a Zone Conference on Thursday, from 10-4 and after me and Elder Heimuli went and visited Brother Tupuola! They drive a pretty sweet truck :) (Elder Heimuli and the Assistant to the President) The Zone Conference focused on "Teaching Repentance" to help people realize the change of their ways to align with Heavenly Father's will and we are trying to make sure that when we baptize people we are "baptizing converts" and to make sure they stay active and come to church every week and continually change and repent. President Carlson also emphasized "This is the Savior's message, not ours. And we need to make sure people know that" I love President Carlson he is such a good guy. We went to 2 baptisms on Saturday, both hispanic people the Spanish Elders baptized, 1 was 11, the other was 9. We did a baptismal interview this week for 1 of them, so we got to meet her a couple days before she was baptized :) We drove to the East Side of Indianapolis to their house.

The "Why I Believe" Fireside was a huge success! (Trevor) 1 of the converts that bore his testimony, was scrolling through TV and he saw the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, he loves music and he watched them sing, he wondered why no one applauded at the end of the song, and then Elder Holland got up and gave the talk "Safety for the Soul". Trevor had no idea what the Book of Mormon was, but when he heard that talk he knew it was true. That was in 2009 and Trevor wasn't baptized for 7 years until just recently. Missionaries worked and worked with him, he joked and said that when he got baptized he would hear a sigh from the Salt Lake City Valley from all the missionaries that worked with him. Trevor then sang "I'll go where you want me to go". Another lady bore her conversion story, she was not a member, but her 3 sons were, 1 of her sons just got back from his mission in Honduras and he baptized her a few weeks ago. There is opposition, but with opposition comes great things :) I love you guys and I'm ready for another week and I will report back on what happened :)

Sunny Sunday afternoon before a "Why I Believe" fireside :)

The Etta Family who got baptized :)

Me and Elder Cox

February 6, 2017

Wow oh wow this week was one for the books! So from Monday to Wednesday I was with Elder Ebeling on the East Side of Indianapolis, sooo much fun. We went to the Rio Grande Supermarket to get some authentic tacos and talk to people there, Elder Ebeling would translate for me to the Spanish people. 1 of the guys was trying to get me to buy a lot of food by saying stuff in Spanish and trying to get me to agree. So the East Side is really dangerous, and we went to this apartment complex named Spanish Oaks which is supposedly pretty dangerous, they try not to go there in the evening hours, but that's when we were there :) At the supermarket though we ate tacos and drank Horchata and talked to the spanish people around us about the gospel, on the way out we were walking out and I said Hey to this guy that was ordering some donuts and after talking to him for a while we found out he really needed help in his life, and he'd talked to missionaries 2-3 years ago and wanted to talk to them again. The cool thing about this happening is a lady we talked to an hour before told us if we wanted good pupusa's (Spanish food) then we should go to this Pupuseria and we looked for it and then decided to go to a different one and God led us to talk to these people :)

hahaha also this was hilarious, so earlier in the day we were at the downtown library and there was this minister from another church sitting across from us, and people kept walking up to him and they'd see all of us, 1 lady came up to me and Elder Abhau and all the other missionaries and asked us why we looked so happy and then went on to tell us we're a cult and then when 6 of us were getting on the elevator a guy was getting off and said "Wow the devil's already arrived" hahaha! Anyways that night I didn't bring any of my sleeping stuff, no pillow no blanket and I was FREEZING! I was expecting Elder Cox to leave his bedding and so I left mine and I froze, oh well it's mission life :) The next day me and Elder Ebeling went to the Lavenderia (Laundromat) and did their laundry and talked to every hispanic person there (A LOT) and while we were there we ran into a Less active member in their Spanish branch that he had no idea about! After a couple hours there we were driving down the road and he says "We're going to go knock that door" and it was because they had a sign to be a hispanic house (2 dish network, 1 for the spanish channel) and he followed the spirit and he went. We knock on the door and a black lady answers with her baby and we were both kind of surprised but we started talking to her and her boyfriend comes up who is hispanic and Elder Ebeling says "Ola Hermano" haha and they let us inside and there is 7 people living there and they want us to come back! After that we then started knocking doors, looking for spanish people, he's so funny he runs to spanish people when he sees them. We saw one walk in a house with a red door, so we walk to that house and no one answered, so we go to another house that looked hispanic, they weren't but they said their neighbors were so we went to their house and they were happy to have us come back again and told us to go knock on their neighbors door (the red door) and they answered the 2nd time! After talking to these people we drove to Flores, Flores is someone they found a couple weeks ago, Elder Ebeling and Elder Cepeda were driving and Ebeling said "Alright keep an eye out for a house you think we should knock" and later at the same time they both point to a house and say "THAT ONE!" and she came to church that week and is now learning :)

We then went to a members house and had the best mexican food I've ever had!! Such a fun dinner, they didn't have a sink so we washed our hands in a bucket with a hose :) We then had a way way good lesson with Mario and Juan, Mario will get baptized soon :) Alright more fun stuff, so Friday morning at 4 in the morning the White River Elders call us and their house was flooding! Their upstairs neighbors pipe broke, and so they've been living with us for the weekend. Another flooding happened at the baptism, the font overflowed haha it was bad they had to grab buckets and scoop water out into the toilet. And it happened right after one of the guys in the bishopric told us it had happened before and none of us believed him. It's been a way fun week, now today the plan is to drink gatorade all day and watch everyone play basketball :) Something I learned this week, "More importantly then receiving an answer to prayer, is recognizing the answer and thanking Heavenly Father for it". I love you guys and miss you! - Elder Jared Clark

After Mission Leadership Council at the Mission Home in Carmel, we stopped at the Temple

These guys asked us to say a prayer for all of them.. Also 1 of them kept making jokes saying he wanted us to drink his alcohol.. haha

The Spanish Missionaries :)

Intercambios with Elder Ebeling

January 30, 2017

The zone had 29 investigators at church! It was a great week.

Monday we played basketball all day until 5 pm, and then me and Elder Butler went on an exchange. He is just about as good as the Piano Guys, at playing the piano. He is in the Mooresville ward, and I went with him to his area. Crazy miracle that was told to us by a member (the mom) there when we were at a dinner. She was in 4th grade living in Florida and met a girl her age who was Jehovah Witness. They talked about our church and Jehovah Witness and they were really good friends. 28 years go by and the Jehovah Witness lady is now talking to Sister Missionaries from our church, 1 of the Sisters had to go home from her mission because she hurt her ankle, while at home she was talking to someone who knew the member telling me the story and the person happened to be good friends and had the current phone number and address of her, she called her and told her, and made the reconnection between her and the Jehovah Witness lady, they talked and the JW is getting baptized in our church, when she started reading the Book of Mormon her husband divorced but she knows it's true and wants her to come to the baptism! I thought that was sweet.

I also went on an exchange with Davis Johnson from Wx! I went with him to his area in Avon, we had a lot of fun! While on the exchange Elder Abhau and Elder Ferreira found a bed bug in our room! We spent all day cleaning, spraying alcohol, throwing our clothes in the dryer and setting off bed bug bombs in our apartment. I ate FUFU this week, it's an African dish that is Fish, and potato type stuff in a spicy soup. It was really good! I gave my first Baptismal Interview this week, it was to one of the Spanish Missionaries investigators, he was a 16 year old kid, it was a lot of fun! He lived on the East Side of Indianapolis, and so after we went and Elder Abhau had me meet the famous Brother Lane from the Crossroads Ward, he has baptized hundreds and hundreds of people in the ward that's on the East Side (I'll send you a picture of him). He fed us what we call "Black People Food" which was Potato Skins, Catfish, Pork And beans and Ice Cream :)

This week President Carlson came to a lesson with me and Elder Abhau to our investigator Vesnel, it was SWEET! He wants to get baptized!  This week we had a Worldwide Missionary Broadcast that changed a lot of things as a missionary and I like it! We can now go to bed at 9:30 so we get more rest, I guess the church did a bunch of research and found out missionaries weren't getting enough rest, we don't have to plan at night, we plan in the morning, and we can now leave the apartment at 8 am on P-days! We also don't keep track of the normal numbers we used to keep track of, only people that were baptized and confirmed, investigators that are on baptismal date, investigators at sacrament meeting, and New Investigators. I like it, it's cuts all the fluff and just has us report the very important things and pushes us to do what's most important, get them to church and baptized :) we went to 2 baptisms on Saturday! Very good things happening :)

I love you guys! - Elder Jared Clark

Our apt during cleaning up of BEDBUG scare

This little thing caused us a lot of stress

Brother Lane

This is at Marc's baptism, the one I got to Interview

January 23, 2017

Hey! So our investigator Vesnel is loving what we're teaching him. He is the one from Haiti, he will probably get baptized soon. We taught him about the Plan of Salvation this week, he was in aw over it, he loved it and he made the connection that the reason we know all about the Plan of Salvation is because of the Restoration. His friend also wants to come to church! "Teach when you find, find when you teach"

So this week we're out walking around, and somehow the conversation came up and Elder Abhau's like "You know it's the dirt that gives you Tetnis, not the Rust? Usually rust is associated with it because when something's rusty or in the ground, it usually has dirt on it?" I said "So it's not really that bad to cut yourself with rust?" Elder Abhau responds "Well I'm sure it's not a good thing to cut yourself with rust" Hahaha it sounded good in my head, but when I said it, it just wasn't the same. Monday after a good long day of playing basketball, and getting some burritos at Moe's, we changed into our Proselyting clothes and went out contacting referrals with Elder Kretschmer and Elder Caldon (The White River Missionaries) and then we went to a Single Adult Family Home Evening that the 60+ women in their ward have. After that we spent the night with them in their apartment. Tuesday me and Elder Caldon we're with each other all day, such a good day. Elder Caldon is one of my favorite people out here! We went to this mexican restaraunt, taught Vesnel about the Restoration and Book of Mormon, and made sure he understood that, and visited Sam Ferguson (he's been a member for 2 years) and his wife just got baptized. 

 

Alright now here's a good story, time for story time, and I forgot to tell you about it last week. So 2 Monday's ago me and Elder Abhau were walking to Buffalo Wild Wings in downtown Indy and there are always Jehovah Witness missionaries that stand on the corner with there stands and books and stuff to give out, so we're about to cross the street and then I told Elder Abhau I was going to have some fun :) So I walk up to them and act like I speak no english, Only Yoruba, and I start pointing at my nametag. The one guy, tells the other 2 missionaries that he's got this one, and he asks me if I speak English, I tell him no and say Bawoni, Da da ni, (The only Yoruba I know) to him and I say it like someone from there would, he tells me to flip through this folder to look for the language, I nod my head and say no, and he says "Okay, can you spell it for me?" So I spell it for him, and he looks it up on his phone, but his phone was being slow and I acted like I was in a hurry so I start walking away and said "I COME BACK?" and he's like "Okay okay ya come back!!" but I did not come back.. anyways a week goes by and I'm in different clothes, in the middle of downtown Indy, walking to Buffalo Wild Wings with Elder Caldon, at night, and 1 of them spots me! Hahaha they ran up and stopped me and told me they found the language, except then I started speaking fluent English to them, and Elder Caldon is wearing his nametag in English that says "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" hahaha. It was hilarious. 

 

So on Tuesday we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for Elder Burnett's birthday. We parked in the mall parking, the only problem was me and Elder Caldon parked in a different parking lot then Elder Abhau and Elder Kretschmer and Elder Abhau had to get all of his blankets and stuff he packed for from that car to our car, so here you see 2 Mormon Missionaries in nice clothes, but carrying there stuff through downtown, we looked homeless and we knew it hahaha so funny.  

 

Wednesday we had to get our car oil changed, it's easy to be a missionary and do that because the Church is so organized that we just take it in, all the information is in the computer and they just pull it up and fix the car haha. Sheila (the investigator who is trying to quit smoking before she gets baptized) had us over for dinner that night, it was kind of a late birthday dinner for me and she made enchiladas, spinach and rice pudding!  

 

Thursday we spent the whole day at Interviews with President Carlson, since me and Elder Abhau are the zone leaders we were there from 10-5 at the White River building! All the missionaries practiced teaching us the Restoration, while they waited for there interview, each interview is about 10 minutes or less and there are 34 people in the zone. That night we had dinner with Coralie, she will probably get baptized soon!  

 

Friday I was on exchanges with Elder Allred, he's a funny kid. He came to me in our area, and Elder Abhau went on an exchange with Elder Burnett to there area, since Elder Burnett is the District Leader.  On Saturday we helped Sheila out, we broke down boxes and helped her organize her house, and then she fed us lunch, and we went to Costco with her! Costco reminded me of home, in a good way :) we went and got all the samples, and it was set up just like the one in Bountiful. Saturday was just an all around good day!  

 

Sunday was kind of a funny day, so.... we went to a rougher part of our area, mostly because I wanted to go there so I told Elder Abhau we should, and earlier in the day we found out from Brother Enos that in Hawaii they call Marijuana "Paccololo" so me and Elder Abhau call it that whenever we smell it, it's a good code word because other people don't know what we're talking about haha so we decided we're going to go to a place where he smelt a lot of "Paccololo" because that's usually where the more fun things happen. So we go there and sure enough we have a fun experience, we knock on this door, this lady opens up and says "Come inside Come Inside!!" I asked if a man was in the house and slowly walked in, Elder Abhau was hesitant, let's put it this way, most of the people in there were drunk, 1 had Alzheimers, 1 told us she got out of prison a year ago, but still, they recognized we were sent from God to knock on their door, they were all arguing and they were so excited to have us come in. 1 of the people there, she could not read well, and we told her she didn't have to be able to read, to be able to pray to Heavenly Father for help. After talking to her for a minute she told us to come meet her mom and dad. She walked us back to their room, me and Elder Abhau are both hesitant to walk in, but the lady tells us to, we walk in and the Mom says "What are you doing in my room?!!!!?" I thought to myself "I'm wondering the same thing" then she yelled to her daughter (Who was about 35) why'd you bring them in here?" After a lot of yelling, they calm down enough and realize God may have sent us there, we said a prayer with them and got out of there :) 

 

Safe to say I love being on a mission, and love going to those kind of places hahahaha. I love you guys and miss you! - Elder Jared Clark

 

Us with Bolaji (investigator) with a Yoruba Book of Mormon

Me and Elder Caldon with Vesnel