Aah this week has been great. My companion goes home in a couple weeks, so she is freaking out. We are complete opposites on our time out on our missions, she has 2 months left, and I have 16 haha!
But she is great. I try to help her as much as possible. She has helped me a lot out here, I can only hope that I have done the same for her.
So we actually had a member of the Quorum of the Twelve come to our mission and speak with us! It was AWESOME. Russell M. Nelson was there. I got to shake his hand. You could just feel the love he has for us the minute he walked into the room. His talk was AMAZING and I learned so much from it. I left that room wanting to be such a better person, a better missionary. We learned to "do the hard thing, even when you don't know how."
My companion and I have been teaching a lady by the name of Sambala. She is coming along so great! When we bear our testimonies, you can just see the light in her eyes that she knows what we are saying is true. After one of our lessons, she even said,"I can feel a warmness come into the room." THE HOLY GHOST! We taught her and her daughter about the Restoration yesterday and her daughter really wanted to learn more. When we left the church building, I shouted with joy! I was so excited! I even used my Tangled analogy. :D Sister Najarro and I even said to each other,"I have no idea what I was doing, I don't even know what I said." but it must have been from the Lord, because they understood and want to know more.
We also got in contact with that family I told you guys about before. We taught them the Restoration as well. They were so excited when we came over, they were all saying,"Yaayy! You guys are here!" And I felt so much love from them! They have a 5 year old named Matthew, 7 year old named Sophia, 15 year old named Meghan, 17 year old named Daphne, and a 22ish year old named Steven. Sophia was so excited that she was able to see us again, she gave us big hugs and she loves opening the Book of Mormon, even though she cannot read very well. But, she is such a great little girl. We watched the Restoration DVD and she asked her mom,"Mom! Mom! Can we read the book?!" What a sweet spirit! We invited her older sisters to mutual and they were very excited about going this week.
Speaking of mutual, the hermana's in our apartment were invited to participate in mutual and invited us to come too. What we did was talk about our missions and explain what we do as missionaries. It was great. I hope some of the kids there listened and were inspired to go and serve missions.
I love it out here. I will be torn in half once my visa comes! I don't know anything about it, but I should find out this week. I will know what is happening by Sunday.
Jade, one of the hermana's that is rooming with us has a brother that is your age ;) we said that the reason I came to Chicago was so you guys could find each other bahahaha (I thought it would be funny for everyone to read.) I can tell I will be friends with her for a long time. Her name is Hermana Savage, and she loves glitter, like I do. We go running every morning and we all get along so well. It is great! The other hermana is Hermana Jones. I love them so much! When they find an apartment, I will be sad. But we all 4 help each other out a lot.
My Portuguese is worse than it was when I left the MTC, but it is still pretty good. I thank Heavenly Father everyday for it.
I love you all and miss all of you. Your emails brighten my day! Till we meet again (:
Love,
Sister Indago Clarke
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