WE ARE OUTTA HERE

2 Days!!  I AM SO EXCITED TO GO!  Samoa is going to be the absolute best. I am also super excited for the long flight, hopefully I can catch up on all my sleep. This last week has been amazing, lots of spiritual experiences.

Elder Christofferson came to the devotional this week! I was super excited to see another Apostle. The spirit that they bring with them is just so special. He gave an awesome talk on the Book of Mormon and the history of it. It was super interesting. He brought in the Book of Mormon that Joseph Smith's mom used, so that was cool. I love hearing the sure witness of Jesus Christ from an Apostle. Today we are blessed to have members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the 12 come to dedicate the new buildings here at the MTC. I am super excited for that.

I am going to miss my companion so much. It is going to be weird having a different companion. Elder Pangai and I have gotten really close. He works really hard and has such a good heart. I know he is going to be a great missionary. Maybe we will be future companions, who knows haha. 

My new P-days I believe will be Wednesdays, so I'll be emailing then from now. I think that would still be Tuesday here in American though. 

LET'S GO!

Elder Roberts

Me in 3 days 

Minnesota Squad, Elder Woodson, Me, Sister Flake 

Elder Christianson, Me, Elder Pangai​​

Cousins!  Elder Damiano and Me

General Conference + Chick Fil A = Hype Week

General Conference was so awesome! My favorite talks were Elder Cook's on Humility and Elder Ellis' on how hard things are good. How about Samoa getting a little shout out! We had some district discussion time on Conference and that was really good. General Conference has never meant so much to me that it has this time, it seemed like every talk had something that pertained to me and what I needed to hear. Also, I got to spend a lot of Conference with one of my friends, Tanner. We grew up together in Minnesota. 

Monday is fast food night and rumor was going around that Chick Fil A was coming and I was getting soooo excited. I had 5 sandwiches. It was the best food we have had here by far, especially because the food here isn't that great. We have 4 Elders in our room and we took back 10 sandwiches for that night. We had them all laid out on the table about to feast and then someone yelled from the hallway "Clarke is coming!" He is our branch president so we HAULED to get those hidden under my companions bed. He walked in like 10 seconds after we got them hid, it totally smelled like chicken though haha. It was close but we still feasted that night.

I leave in about a week and a half and I can't wait! Samoa is going to be so awesome!

Elder Roberts

Me and Tanner 

Chowin Chick Fil A

Best Week So Far

This week was awesome. Elder Pangai and I made it a specific goal to work super hard and be more diligent. It really paid off, we have seen so much improvement. Samoan is coming along pretty well and I am really enjoying my time here. Just over two weeks till I go to Samoa though, I seriously can't wait. 

For the devotional this week Elder Bragg of the Seventy came and gave a great talk on missionary work. I always love the devotionals. They always get me so excited to do the Lord's work.

Not a whole lot else happened this week, just still lot's of class and sub-par food. I am so excited for General Conference these next couple days though! It is will be such a great experience hearing from modern day prophets of the Lord. I hope everyone takes advantage of this time to feel the spirit and listen to the words of the Lord. I am so thankful for all the Prophets and Apostles, I know they are men called of God to be special witnesses. 

In our residency we have some people on the floor below us that will come around every night at like midnight and knock on everyone's doors. It is so annoying. All the Polys got together and went to their room and chewed them out super hard and lets just say they haven't done it since haha.

Tofa!

Elder Roberts

Me in front of a snowy mountain because I had no cool pictures this week 

One of my good friends from BYU, Elder Pearce.

My Companion was sick of wearing dress shoes so he wears flip flops now haha