Hey fam another week has gone by down her in the Cochabamba! A lot of different things happened this week that was not like the normal weeks. I have been called gringo more the past few days than the past three weeks haha, if you ever wanna feel like an outcast and just total culture shock try getting into a bus that is packed full with maybe 40 Bolivians on it and the ceiling is to short to stand so you are bent over with the song Funky Town blasting in the back ground hahaha! Its a different world down here in Bolivia and I love it.
Monday- Last Monday was pretty chill we went to the cancha again where I bought a rubix cube and some dope crocs haha, crocs are just like the thing down here everyone has them and they where them to everything.. I don't know.. Also another thing to try have someone explain to you how a rubix cube works in another language. Frekin confusing but I can almost do it.
Tuesday- We have this new family that we are teaching and they are those gringos with blond hair, anyways they live super far away from our house and it takes us like 25 minutes to get there and back in a trufi, Anyways its a family of three boys and a single mom, they were super nice to us as we shared our lesson when we were getting ready to leave the one boy around 12 was really interested in our message and asked us when we could come back! (Never happens) We have another meeting with them this week, its hard because they live so far away we can only share a short part of our lesson with them.
Wednesday- In our ward we have this really nice kid named Brian who is about 20 years old and he just turned in his papers to serve a mission, he leaves with his mom and a cousin who is not a member we asked her if we could come by and talk with her about our message and she said yes, in our first lesson we asked her to be baptized and she just kinda stud there super quite, and that's when the Holy Ghost just goes to work, and like a minute later she said yes! We have 4 baptismal dates in less than two months, lets just say the Lindo ward is cooking!
Thursday- Nothing really big and spiritual happened this day but I will say one thing is you know that trick where you point at someone’s chest and say like they spilled our have something wrong and then they look down and you flick there nose with your finger? ya you know! best thing ever! hahah We get every kid we see with it haha its the best, this one nino we got 9 times in a row haha! Its the best.
Friday- This was my First day with a companion split! I went over to this area called via Mexico with an Elder Sanabria from San Pedro Sula, he is really dope and super funny, This day was really nice because even thou we did the same thing in my area it was completely different, I liked it alot. And I really just thought about all my friends serving missions and how no matter where they are we are all doing the same thing everywhere we go, just a few miner different things really.
Saturday- I actually had back to back splits this week, the zone leaders came to our area and we split up and took half of each others appointments, I had a Peruvian comp named Elder Ferranan, he was way cool, and I really learned alot this day because, I know these streets a lot better than I thought I did, which helped a lot, we contacted and got 6 investigators in one day! our goal this week was 6 haha!
Sunday- This week has been really different also because we had alot of lessons that were in the morning around 8 or 9 so we had our study time, just like whenever we could fit it in our day haha. It is nice to change our schedule around every now and then. We had a lesson today with this new member maybe 2 months in the church and we had a lesson about the commandments, after we were done and we felt good, we had a closing prayer and we were just kinda talking, when Rosario, the recent member sneezes.. and she says oh JESUS! haha me and my comp looked at each other and just busted up laughing, we told her what’s up and she felt really foolish it was so funny!
Yeah pretty much it all is well from me down here, Love you all and hope you have a good week!
Photo in a trufi with the Honduras comp
yo en el calle
--- Elder Clayton
Bolivia Cochabamba
Wayne was in Spokane doing work on the temple and was able to meet up with Elder Feller at Church as a surprise. Then planned to take him and his companion to dinner on Monday night. Here are some emails from his dad and communicating with him:
Hi Pal,
It is Sunday night and I am in Spokane Washington. I talked to the Fellers and told them I would find Jace on Sunday if they could tell me where and what time his church was. So they did and this morning I got up and drove 55 miles to Priest River Idaho. I walked into the chapel and Jace looked at me the same time I looked at him and his eyes were as big as fried eggs!! I went and sat by him and told him was working on the temple. Then I went to gospel ensencels with them. It was fun to talk to him, he asked all about you and I showed him your pictures. If I get done in good time Monday I will take him and his comp. to dinner, so I will let you know.
The rest of my week was good, Just thinking about my boy Caleb.
Elder Clayton: Yeah our new member is way awesome she comes and even stays the whole time, we still meet with her quite often too.
My ward is super beast, they help us out a lot for new people and they are really friendly too. Our house is actually really close I can see it from my window and its maybe a 2 minute walk haha, not bad, I probably walk 2 or 3 miles a day, no se, I only really eat lunch, its all rice, chicken and potatoes, but they have like 20 different forms of chicken so its not bad. I actually really like it.
Yeah I got my card the day after I took out my money, that's why I didn't take out any this week because I don't need any for a while. thanks for all you do love you pal, HOW THE HECK DID YOU FIND JACE AND EVEN GO TO CHURCH WITH HIM!
How are you pal? You sound great.
Elder Clayton: WHAT! WHAT! Doing good down here, hard work and livin life.
Tell Jace i love him and his red hair! Sense you met with Jace does this mean that Dr. Feller is gonna come down to Cochabamba and meet me at church too! If so I´m super excited! That is awesome send me some more pics if you can? I write him almost every week, hope he is doing good up there! In the big Spokane, love that guy!
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