Letter #9

Another week has come and gone although it feels like all I did was blink! I think I have talked to and met more people in these last 3 weeks than I have in my whole life! I am learning how to embrace discomfort and open my mouth even if I have no idea what I am saying! My thoughts are really scrambled this week and I don't have much time, so this email will be shorter than normal I think. 

     We are teaching 5 people who want to be baptized soon! I feel so privileged to have the opportunity to teach these people. I think it's a miracle itself that they still want us to come back because most of the time I feel like I can't say anything of substance and that I'm not making a difference because I don't feel like I can convey the message well, but then they say that they know it's true and that they want to learn more! It's a miracle. It truly testifies that the Lord does the work, we are only the messengers. And just how Christ fed the 5 thousand with only 7(?) loaves, if we put ourselves in His hands and let Him break us it will somehow, miraculously, be enough.  

     I am running out of time, and promise to write more next week, but just know that I love you all! Sometimes when I pray I feel like my heart might explode because of all the love I feel. I have a testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that it has been restored in its fulness. That is what makes this message so special. The Gospel has been restored! We need not wander and we need not despair-there is hope yet again on the earth. And I'm so grateful to share that with people- that God knows them individually, that they can talk with him at any time, that death isn't the end, that the Atonement is real-that life literally has a restart button and that God has a specific plan for EVERYONE-no matter who they think they are or who think they they're not- there is hope!

Hermana Clawson