January 18, 2021
Buckle up for this first paragraph, its a crazy one.
Aight so here we are, Elder Beckstrand and I going on a
peaceful, stress relieving walk after a long day of mission work. LA has
a lot of homeless forts along sidewalks, but we usually maneuver around
them no problem. Today was a little different. As we are walking I
notice some commotion from a homeless fort and next thing I know, I see a
homeless lady absolutely bugging out with a pair of gardening shears in
one hand and a piece of REBAR in the other, as a missionary, I made the
'smart' decision to walk to the other side of the street. The homeless
lady goes running past us chasing a homeless dude...doesn't end here
though. They eventually got tired, it seems like heroin addicts don't
have much endurance.. ha! But somehow they ended up cornering my comp
and I on the sidewalk and they are absolutely tweaking out, yelling at
us and such, so I'm getting ready to throw some hands because one is
threatening us and the other is talking about how much he loves Jesus.
So there is a lot of mixed emotion, I couldn't decide if i was gonna
dunk (baptize) him and deck her and dip or what. Hard to pick up on the
vibe at the moment.....so I turn to my comp to see if he will back me up
if someone starts throwing punches, right? Yeah, no. My comp straight
up ditched me and went to the other side of the road without telling
me.. so here I am trying to fend off a tweaker who loves Jesus and
another tweaker that is trying to kill me. It ended up turning out fine
because the homeless dude slowly meandered off while the tweaker lady
was walking after me... She eventually backed off, it was what was best
for her. I was ready to hit her with a 1-2 Mayweather and finish her
with a 3-4 McGregor ha! close call!
Hope that made sense, if not... read it again? Hahaha <3
Now the missionary portion of the email:
One of our other eternigators has started keeping real
commitments and reading the BOM on his own, soooo stoked for him! Also
our Bap. Date still has covid, he got tested again and it was still
positive :/ so it'll be at least 14 days from Saturday. Everything
happens for a reason, whether we understand that reason in the moment or
not. This has played a huge role in missionary work. Pete (our bap.
Date with covid) has canceled his baptism because of his covid tests
coming back positive, but in the midst of him feeling like he is gonna
die he got on his knees and prayed and he said he prayed all night long
and his testimony grew more than I or he could have imagined. The fact
that his baptism was canceled sucks...a lot. But he was able to turn
this lame situation into an opportunity, an opportunity to grow his
testimony of prayer stronger and stronger. What an inspirational guy.
"Rather
than being judgmental and critical of each other, may we have the pure
love of Christ for our fellow travelers in this journey through life."
Thomas S. Monson
^ That's one of my fav. quotes. Just thought I would share it with you :)
Love you all and hope life is going good.
Love Elder Clark
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