Mission Adventures of Elder Clark Lovell

Hola todos, Its been a great week here in Paradise! We have had a lot of miracles happen here the past week. On Wednesday I dealt with some bruised ribs for no known reason, but we stuck it out and found some really cool people. I learned a really important principle about enduring to the end. This week I saw countenances change as we shared the gospel. We got to teach a lot of families, and the Echipare kids all had successful interviews! On Thursday we had zone conference, in the really rich part of Henderson, and when we got there, all the early morning seminary kids in that stake were using the building. We had to wait an extra hour to start zone conference, and I was conducting! That was fun. We went to the temple to do baptisms for the dead with recent converts, Jazmin, Jalen and Junior. After that Elder Hernandez crashed at the apartment, and when he is asleep, you cant wake him up, so I phone proselyted for the rest of the night.  On Wednesday we ...

Hola todos! Beans, beans, the magical fruit This week literally snuck past me. General Conference was really awesome. We were expecting some change to come to missionary work, but none came. I loved how the main theme of Conference that I understood: repentance. Repentance is a gift from God that we have that literally gives us second chances.  Now as for the title of this week's chapter in my emails. Yesterday we were doing service, and the lady that we were helping move had SOOO many bean bags. I helped move them out of the cupboards, and took a picture (see pics below). Two other things I want to share are things that happened on Sunday night and yesterday night.  A miracle we experienced was on Sunday night. We were trying to find people to teach, and were have little success. It was at the end of the night and we felt that we should start heading towards the car. When we did, we saw a door that was open on the second floor of this apartment...

Hey everyone! Stacking rocks before the baptism I don't have a ton of time anymore, I never do, but I just want to make sure that I got an email out to you guys. We had a baptism for Jalen, Junior, and Jazmin on Saturday. That was super fun, because they are all starting middle school and high school, so its good that they now have the Gift of the Holy Ghost. There was a lot of people at their baptism, and their family invited their non member friends, who all loved the service. Then we went to this Mexican restaurant named Macayo's. It was pretty expensively bland. It was like a sit down restaurant version of taco bell. Its basically the whitest Mexican restaurant on the planet. Anyway, yesterday, we had MLC (Mission Leadership Council) where all the zone leaders, sister training leaders, and the assistants, and President and Sister Youngblood. It was a great meeting, and I felt the Spirit very strong. But as for President Youngblood's sense of...

Hola todos! Service with some kids we are teaching Another week has come and gone in the mission of Elder Lovell! It was a pretty grueling week actually, because there are a lot of new responsibilities I have as a zone leader. I am now attending every district council in the zone, a total of four district councils in two days, which eats up essentially two days of our week. But its a lot of fun. I am already starting to love this zone. It is throwing off my sense of direction though, ha ha.  What used to be the southernmost part of my last area, is now the northernmost part of my area, which throws of my sense of which direction I am going.  My new companion, Elder Hernandez, is my sixth companion. He is from Miami, Florida, which is super fun because we can make east coast jokes all day, like how some people in the east say "Nevahda" instead of "Nevada".  I now have a car in my area, which is nice, because it is a large area, and w...