22 anos!!

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 11:54 AM

Family!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?? Your baby is 22 years old! haha. :) Thank you for your cards, packages, emails and love! I feel so blessed. So remember that one year when everyone forgot my birthday and thought it was the next day, so I went all day thinking there was a surprise party and when I realized there wasn't I started crying...? Well, my roommates forgot it was my birthday. ha. I guess I was prepared for this moment. I'm jk it wasn't that bad, it was just funny when the night before we were all talking about it and then the next morning we were working out and getting ready and then I finally say, "wow I'm 22". They all looked at me horrified and hugged me yelling happy birthday! It has been fun. We had a zone activity and ate a lot

of food and played improv games...reminded me of you Elder Mann. And I was decked out in my unicorn garb! So yup, it has been a good day so far! I hope that you crack open a new tub of mint ice cream back home!

So We've had a couples changes here, a new Visitor Center director and it is FREEZING. But like they say nothing is as constant as change. Adapting to change has always been a little hard for me, but it is getting easier and my trust in the Lord has been strengthend. One thing that is so cool out here is to witness all of the miracles and people who are put in your path for a reason. We met this girl outside her apartment and though she speaks more English than Spanish we asked if we could stop by later and she said sure. Well we show up the next night and she's not there but her boyfriend's mom is. So we had a good 20 min of small talk with her to find out that she had met with the missionaries a couple of times before and so a lesson naturally began because she had a lot of questions. So we ended up teaching her and her 13-yr-old son Walter. It was amazing. She told us we were an answer to her prayers and they are both wanting to change. THat is key, finding people who have that desire to have a change in their current situation for the better. A moment that I will always remember is when we asked Walter what he thought about God. He gave the sincere answer of, "God loves little children, because Jesus always had the kids come to him". It reminded me of when I was little, I remember my strong faith as everynight I prayed to a Heavenly parent that I knew was there though I had never seen them. I owe this to the example of my older sisters who would often come read stories, pray, and tuck me in. We tend to lose a lot of that faith that we have as kids and though we gain reason that is necessary as we get older, the savior has asked us to become as little children: teachable, humble,loving, patient. We learn from the little ones just as much, if not more, as they learn from us. 

I love you all! Keep looking for the positives and you'll find greater joy.

Love always,

Hermana Clement

 My roommates!! (This comp is slow...ahhh)

 I am utilizing the unicorn hat!!! vive unicornio!

This is my hippie sister and she got really excited to dye someones hair for the first time. 

 

Javier at his baptism!

Target has an escalator for carts!

YAY!!

Thursday, January 17, 2013 1:03 PM

 Hello!!

I have some fun pictures for you today! :) heehee. This has been some hard work and it's very tiring, BUT, I believe that if you don't have fun doing the things that you do you are missing out. SO I hope that you enjoy them!

So how are you all doing? I have received lots of emails and letters of love and I can't thank you all enough! I have given up on trying to be punctual on writing you all back but know that I have appreciated all of it and I love you

all. Thank you for the pictures too and the clothes mom and for letters that just talk about your lives. I like knowing how you are all doing. So again...Love you all.

This last Sunday was the baptism of Javier, and wow, it was amazing. We had both (my companion Sister Blasco and I) never had planned a baptism before but we did the best we could and went forward with faith. I remembered 

one baptism back home with the sister missionaries in my Ward and the plug came out when they were filling the font with water, he came 30min late, and they had never practiced the musical number. I remembered this event

and through it all the chaos I remember the sweet peaceful feeling of Luis who was so excited and egar to make that promise to the Lord. So as we filled the font and only had cold water, as we practiced the musical number 5 minutes 

before the baptism, and as I realized that I didn't have a pianist to play and had to step up and play a hymn that I had never practiced, I felt this peace as I watched Javier's face and even more when he stood up to bear his testimony.

This event, also, did a lot more to the ward than I thought was even imaginable. PEOPLE CAME! And they helped and gave him advice and everyone was so happy! All of the members that we had visited the past week really delieverd

and covered the little things that we had overlooked. Javier went back to Columbia but before he did we were able to get him good scriptures and a little baby tie...as a really lame joke but he thought it was funny. So this weekend was such a 

Spiritual blessing.

Also, Kristen!! I finally got my hair back to the natural color! haha. Thank you for all of your help with that before I left. I hope that you are all staying well and loving life! When times get hard and sometimes I feel like I'm not getting answers

I look outside of myself, see the beauty of this world admist the chaos, and like during the baptism I feel the peace. 

Love you!

Hermana Clement

PS. Stay tuned for pictures!!

Hello!!

Thursday, January 3, 2013 1:09 PM

Hello Everyone!!

Well the New Year is here! I wish you all of the best this new year. And Congratulations WOOLF FAMILY!! It's a boy! I'm excited to him when I get home! 

So if you are wondering...no we did not party on New Years....haha. We spent the night packing for Hermana Avelar, she left yesterday back to California. That was really hard. But my new companion is Hermana Blasco de Spain! She was my roommate before so it will be an easy transition for her. She is so much like Kendra, I love it.  : ) We spent our preparation day today deep cleaning and finding the correct energy flow for the furniture in our room. It was exhausting, but just like old times when I was younger. I 

am so excited for this next transfer, we were planting a lot of seeds the last transfer and we had a lot of miracles and now we are seeing the fruits of these labors. We have one investigator named Javier who is from Columbia and he is so excited and ready to be baptized  this month and change his life. We also had Marvin who we had been teaching but said he didn;t want to learn more call us the other day so he'll be teaching him again. It's kinda weird being back in our area because we were at the Temple visitor center

every night for festival of lights but change is good, and I'm constantly being stretched. Oh and Rebecca Chappell (friend from high school) is now my roommate and she arrived yesterday. I watch her and I remember how hard it was to transition at first so I'm looking for ways to help her loosen up and be herself. Everything is going really good, I get fed a lot of latin food and I see people's faith grow everyday. How amazing it is to be a part of this work. 

One thing that I experienced very strongly at my time in festival of lights is the concept of recieving a witness after the trial of your faith. Many nights when I had felt so spiritually prepared and ready to talk to people, they all would either be mean or just walk away mid-sentence. This was really hard and I realized that all of the sisters were having the same thing happen to them on some of the days as well. So I pushed on in those nights having faith that the night would turn for the better. I promise you that everytime I did that, everytime I didn't give up and get down on myself, I found a miracle. I was able to help someone who has humble enough to talk and listen, I found a distraught person that I could help uplift, or even a grumpy old man that I am able to make laugh. This is the work that I love. I feel closest to the Savior when I search for the people that need some light in their lives. A lot are not ready for baptism, nor want it, but the Savior talked to everyone and I am trying my best to be more like him. I hope that you all are able to look at this new year with hope and continue to seek to do good things in this world; we all have so much we can give.

I love you all and I pray you are all well!

Hermana Clement

PS. I am trying to write everyone back, just know that I appreciated all of your cards and packages, I feel really loved. I will do my best to write back!!

  I look like I'm 5! haha

 Our little Tree! Thank you mom. :) You know me so well!

 Santa Came!

With my Visitor Center Directors

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 12:45 PM

Family!

 

It was so good talking to you yesterday! I still can't believe the story about Angela's mother found in my bed....that was so funny!!! Since I talked to you yesterday, I am just going to upload pictures. But know that I love you!!!

I hope that you all had a magical Christmas and that you continue to seek the meaning of Christmas in your hearts contiually! Thank you for everything you do and for who you are. I feel blessed to have you all in my life. :)

 

We continue to see miracles here everyday and it is SNOWING! We are having a White Christmas afterall. Que Chevere. Love you all again and I'll write more next week!

 

Hermana Clement

 

ps. Mom, I'll get to talk to you more on Mother's Day..and I hope you squeeze that new puppy foor me. heehee