He is doing awesome, and I'm certain it is because he has such great support and prayers said in his behalf. It's been three weeks, and yet feels like so much longer. I know that it is only two years, but I think this one is going to feel like the four!!! But in his words, and the words of his Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather William Clayton; all is well...
Enjoy!
It was a pretty good week this week our devotional on Tuesday we had a guest speaker that was pretty cool you probably don't know him, his name is Elder Oaks from the Quorum of the 12 Apostles! (ha-ha) When he walked into the room we all stood to show respect and the spirit hit the room so hard! It was amazing! He spoke about Thomas S. Monson, missionary work and the importance of the the Book of Mormon is the role to conversion. it was so sweet! I was seated only 20 feet away from him, and it felt like he was talking right at me, amazing feeling.
It's amazing how much you can feel the spirit here. All my friends who came here the same day as me English speaking have all left, I said good bye to Elder Sterner and Elder Fisher the night before they left, and It was sad to see them go but you could tell they are ready to serve and ready to preach the gospel.
My companion and I are teaching this one girl in our TRC from Chile and every time we talk with her she just seems really sad and alone, so we were teaching her the Restoration and how the Gospel blesses our family along with the B.O.M and when we mentioned the book, she got really excited we gave her a copy and she was really eager to read it. the next lesson we had we were gonna talk about the plan of Salvation but instead we decided to bare testimony on the Book of Mormon y Joseph Smith the spirit was sooo strong! she started to tear up and we asked her to pray if the book was true and she said yes and we challenged her to pray right now with us here and she started to cry! Then I was crying! and so was my comp! It was a beautiful prayer and even tho this is all fake, these people act as real people with real problems! I'll keep you posted on what happens with her.
Even tho I've only been here for three weeks, its crazy how you can already teach lessons in Spanish, del don de lenguas es real, I had to teach seven lessons in five days this week and I promise you I could not have done that with out this gift. I have really come closer to my Savior here and my love for him has grown huge! I heard this dope quote this week "If you're drowning in doubt, sorrow, or discouragement just remember your lifeguard walks on water." I've watched every video of the Savior on LDS.org this week haha, they are so good and really help you feel the spirit. I really like the one "prince of peace." You have probably seen it but its really dope!
Well I love you all and I'm loving this mission life. half of me really wants to go to Bolivia now and the other half just wants to stay and enjoy the MTC for as long as I can, All is Well
- Elder Clayton
His MTC District
Elders Clements and Clayton
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