BONJOUR TOUTE LE MANDES! j'AIME MA FAMIILE!! TU ME MANQUE MA MEAR!

well it has been a much better week.. I am still homesick, but its okay.. I received a blessing yesterday and that helped me so much.. it was perfect and I had all the guys in my district help.. it was truly awesome! well I miss and love you all so so so much! there are so many little things here that I miss about home! well my camera broke which stinks and i will send that home to you this week along with the other camera. I will just load videos of it with specific videos to you.. I will also bear my testimony on it in french and you can send the video out to everyone this week. I hope you like it! Lets just say the french own this place. we have the best schedule, the best service, and the best teachers! I'll take a  pic with them before I leave so you can see them! french is by far the most sexist language in the world. there is a reason it is called the language of love. listen to this...."Je voule framage" it sounds so awesome with a french accent and it means "I would like cheese" haha anything you say sounds so romantic and awesome all of us have a loving accent to make it sound super cool (: its so great.
Reunion Island
 One of the missionaries here, his family lives on reunion island and he told them about me and they haven't gotten a new missionary on the island for 4 months so apparently everyone in saint pierre and saint denis is super pumped to meet the new "american missionary" haha so hopefully they still like me when I get there! so there is 4 locations that missionaries serve on reunion.. thatis in saint denis ( north) saint pierre (south) then saint benoit (east) and saint paul (west) north and south have houses and the houses are really nice, then east and west are smaller cities and missionaries live in nice apartments! so that should be pretty awesome! the food here is gross.. I eat 6 bananas and 3 glasses of water for breakfast.. then sandwiches for lunch, and whatever dinner they have.. FRIDAYS ARE PIZZA FRIDAYS and they get dominos for us and it is SO awesome to have food from the outside world!
No More English
starting Monday are only aloud to speak french to each other. lessons are going so well and its awesome when heavenly father blesses me with the gift of tongues when I really need it.. we do home teaching once a week and we have to teach members a principle from the bible or book of mormon.
Missionary companions can be a lesson in patients.....
anyways so me and my companion struggle..  he has a strong testimony and he loves to teach but hes just not mature enough yet.. hes honestly pretty annoying and I know heavenly father is trying to bless me with patience. he does all these little voices all the time like super high pitched and also tries to sound like goofy, and also stitch. I have sat him down several times to try to work on it but he just blows me off and says its part of his personality and I just have to deal with it.. which is okay I have accepted it, and I am trying to treat him like christ would. I ask him every day is there anything I need to work on, and he says no.. so that is good. we are just opposites.. he also isn't the most obedient missionary. he breaks quite a few super small rules which i have talked to him about, but he just doesn't listen. There are times where I just sit there and be quiet and pray in my heart that I don't knock him out. and thankfully god blesses me with acceptance all of the time and I know that is a blessing for being obedient! I do a lot of service for him also. anything he likes to do I do it with him, but if its something I want to do we never do it, which is totally okay. heavenly father is trying to teach me an amazing lesson right now. haha its a blast..
I love emails and letters.....
well again to all my friends and family please send me emails, and if you can set up a dear elder and just send me some love if you could because it truly means the world to me. and thank you to the friends and family who sent me dear elders this week. thank you mama for sending me one daily its awesome (: and also alyssa,  thank you so so so much for your letters they keep me going and I love it very much!
My Testimony.....
I just want you all to know that the church of jesus christ is TRUE! I know that christ atoned for our sins. I know that jospeh smith had a real question in his heart to know which church is true. in james 1:5 it reads "if any of ye lack wisdom let him ask of god, given to all men liberally and abraideth not, and is shall be given him." the spirit testified to joseph smith that he needed to pray. He went to ask heavenly father to know which church was true. I KNOW that joseph smith saw god the father, and jesus christ, and I have never been so sure of something in my life. through joseph smith the gospel of jesus christ was restored on the earth. and the power of god was restored on the earth which gives us the opportunity for true baptism, true repentance, and being able to perform true ordinances that heavenly father commands. today there are 15,000,000 members of the church, and there are 90,000 missionries in the world including me, we have a prophet who leads and guides us like the bible times and the book of mormon times. god does NOT change, so it would make sense that he would have prophets on the earth today, this is the LORDS work, au nom de jésus-christ amen.


With a full heart,

Elder Clark