TRANSFER TO ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING

Rock Springs, Wyoming.... I would have never guessed that when I got called to Salt Lake City, UT, that I could serve in an area like this. It's a desert, but other than that it's a lot like home. Trucks everywhere, everyone talks about hunting or fishing, and I think it's the only place in my mission where I'll find this amount of southern accents. My first week here has been great! There's so much work here that it's not even funny. There are 4 sets of missionaries in Rock Springs, so that tells you how much work there is out here. I went from covering 7 wards in the Salt Lake Valley to covering 3 here. We cover the White Mountain, Overland, and Gateway Wards, and we're in the Rock Springs Stake. My companion is Elder Peters, from Las Vegas, Nevada!! He's been out just one more transfer (6 weeks) than me, so we're both still greenies.... haha. But for some reason they made me the senior companion, so I have no idea what that means.... He's been in this area for 3 months now, so he knows it pretty well. It helps when you have a companion that knows the area and the members well enough to get you acquainted as well. We live in an apartment with another set of Elders, Elders Kaya and Hoffman. Kaya is training Hoffman who just came out last Tuesday. This is also Kaya's last transfer, so he's kind of sad that he's going home. He served as AP with my trainer, Elder Ackley, so we talk about stories he told me of them a lot. Anyways, the work here is awesome. We have a lot of people that we're teaching and several that are close to being baptized. The members here are great and love feeding us, just like the valley. I've met a lot of cool people out here so far, and I know I’m going to meet a lot more. We just ate dinner last night with a family whose son is leaving in July for his mission. He's going to Lima, Peru. They're all huge sport nuts just like me, so that was nice to talk about. We're gonna play basketball with the two sons and their ward, and hopefully bring some investigators or less actives along as well. We're teaching a 10 year old named Sam who is super smart and wants to be baptized. We're also teaching a guy named Ben who is a firefighter and wants to get baptized so that he can baptize his daughter. We just started teaching a man named, Justin, who just moved here from South Carolina 2 weeks ago. He moved here for a girl who is a member, and came to church the first Sunday he was here and liked it. We asked him, "Would you be baptized if you came to know that the things we are teaching are true?" and he said yes. We've seen several miracles already, and we're hoping to just build on the momentum and motivation that we've had. I know I'm gonna like it out here, even though it's a little different. God wants me here for a specific reason and purpose. I love and miss you all. Taylor and Ralphie I love and miss even more.     

Love, Elder Clark