I don't work for the church. I work for the Lord

That's something that our branch President said in branch counsel last night, and AMEN to that. I have had so many awesome expériences this week, but wow short time hoy dia, no se porqué?Me and my town heheheAll the recent converts are doing sweet. T and Hermano G are home teaching comps (haha, those two are the bomb) and are helping us out with B, who I have worked with for so long, and WANTS to be baptized, but still has doubts about whether the Book of Mormon is true or not. Totally normal and healthy concern, so I'm not too worried about him. He'll come around. :)We have a new investigator with a date, Benito. He lives outside of Quilla, in Rosario Mayo, so we can only visit him once a week, because like my latina comp says, "not everyone has cash-money" hahaha. She is so cute.  But he has a date for the 24th of December and is progressing so fast.We found 3 new investigators this week, Marcel, Roel (13) , and Lindi (7, almost 8 in January, wahoo). They are an adorable little family, and this week we helped the girls get ready for church, and we all went to church together in 2 moto taxis. It was awesome,  I am so excited about them. Nadi shared her POWERFUL testimony with us this week, she's the only member of the church in her family and has received a whole lotta grief about it.  Gosh, she is poderosa, and I feel so grateful to know her. I was reading my journal, and I mentioned sweet Nadi in my very first email home to you guys. It was crazy to look back on her huge progress. She is such a sunshine in my life, and will forever be a special part of my heart. Everything was super awesome this week.I have 0 complaints.Love my life here, and this is the realest work I have ever done.The work isn't cheap, we work hard, and maybe it hasn't been the best 9 months of my life on record, but you know what? It has been the best 9 months FOR my life.This time is so special, and I feel so grateful to be hermana clark.I love you all a million!Keep trying, keep praying, everything will work out. Oh está, todo bien, Hermana Clarkbelow are some pics of our p-day trip to Las Cataratas 

Alright I'm purchasin' a piece o' land aqui

Alright folks, comin atcha from Quilla. Today is transfers. 

Lots of people have told me, "hermana clark, compre se una chacra ya!" or "hey, just buy a farm here in Quillabamba already" because I've been here for so stinkin long, and I'd be better off starting something like a business.

Haha funny, but anyways, I am staying in Quillabamba, wooooo. Honestly, a change would be nice, I really would love to see more of Peru, but I cannot complain because Quillabamba es HERMOSA. 

I'm serious, walking the streets of quillabamba with ice cream in your hand and a sweet compañera is BLISS.

We spent a lot of time walking on the side of highway. We have a new investigator that lives outside of Quillabamba in Echarati, and so we have to travel in a mini van to get there. (they're called combis and THAT is the main mode of travel. That, or mototaxis) But, when we have to return to Quillabamba, we have to flag down a car, basically hitch hike. It's totally normal, but then I always think about be doing that in the states, and it makes me laugh.

So many funky things that are just so normal to me. Like for example, a role of toilet paper on the table in place of napkins. Totally normal. Or a billion dogs in the street, and dog poop on the sidewalk siempre. Totally normal. Or a bowl full of mangoes in every house, (because there are honestly too many mangoes here to eat) and pulling an orange off a tree. Totally normal. 

The lesson with Beniato, our new investigator out in Echarati was so cool. He's a carpenter, and so to teach him, we literally just sat down on his stacks of 4x4's, and taught him the restoration.Thought I was gonna have transfers, so we took a bunch of pics just in case. (But hey! I'm still here!)

Love this little one,Ave. and Veronica and Jose . I've taught them my whole mish, Veronica isn't a member, and Jose is less active. I don't know why, but they just have something special with me. Like, I am so drawn to them, even though we haven't seen much progress with them, and my comps have never been so excited about them like I am. But, I sure do love them.


I really do love the youth here. I think I've said it before, but they have my heart. This week, I taught their sunday school class about "How can I learn to make my own decisions?" and we talked about lots of important decisions in life, like what university to attend, what career to pursue, the person we are going to marry, and deciding to serve a mission.We talked about our daily decisions too, about the pressure to sometimes do things that would save you embarrassment, or because everyone else, but that we really shouldn't. There are a few youth that are very set on serving missions, and when they talk about serving missions someday, it usually makes me cry. I just want every single person to experience the joy that I have felt as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. It is so dang cool. 


Also, how pretty is Echarati? It is seriously a dream that i live here, amIright or amIright?

T and J are so good. T is the 2nd counselor in the YM, so that is really cool. This week, we did family history with them, and J lost her dad when she was young, so we prepared the name so that they can go to the temple in January, and bring that name. It was SO COOL. 

Please do family history. It isn't impossible, and there are a lot of people that are good at it that can help you! 

Okay, I love you all un MONTON! Chao, cuiden se mucho y que tenga una linda semana!

Oh está, todo bien, 

hermana Clark

PS Will someone please tell me about this whole Donald Trump thing? Everyone down here is MAD that he is President, and I really have 0 idea what is happening in the states. But I pray for the sweet red, white and blue every night.

Things I'm grateful for...

1. Quillabamba, and the members here in the branch. They treat me like I am their own. No I'm serious, they treat me like a peruvian, quillabamba-born, daughter of theirs. 

2. So many powerful families in our branch. 

3. Hermana Gladis, seriously one of the angels in my life. Her son Royer (that I told you about, that got his mission call to Pocatello ID (haha) finally arrived to the US of A this week, and I am SO excited about it. A kid from Quilla in the states? That is so rad. This week, she cried as she told me of the relief that she felt that one, I was okay and headed back to Quillabamba, and 2, that her son made it safe to the states. She calls me her "hijita" and I love that. 

4. The opportunity to do yet another youth choir (the grind never stops, I'm serious)

5.. All the phone calls to see how I was doing in the hospital. Overwhelming. I LOVE quillabamba.

6. My health. I am grateful for the bodies that Heavenly Father gave us, to be able to work & to help & to serve in His cause. 

7. I feel grateful for my comp, who is as green as can be in the field, and is MY daughter, but has taken care of me like I am hers. She is an angel.

8. Doing Family History with J, and preparing the name of her dad, who died in 2002, and now she and T can go to the temple to do the work for her dad. Cheveraso. 

9. When T and Hmo G blessed the sacrament this week. SO AWESOME. 

10. My wonderful family. I will never stop missing them, y les amo un monton! 

New pet- jk jk

 In Cusco, with the Peru and the flag of Cusco 

This pic might be the first billboard in quillabamba. hehe 

What I spent my days doing in the hospital, reading The Book of Mormon. That book is so rad.

Me and my cutest comp. When you get to see quillabamba someday, we will go to Misky. The cremoladas can make ANY person smile. 

What we spend our days doing, sharing the BEST book with the cutest people. 

I am obsessed with Choclo. It's the corn here, and it is so dang good. Puts corn on the cob in the states to shame, I'm serious.