I love his emails each week and look forward to seeing the progress and growth of our missionary. Stetson teaches mission prep and asked Caleb for an experience to share with the perspective missionaries. At the end of the post, I have included his story. It's amazing and so worth sharing. Enjoy...
Monday- Normal P-day stuff but after we had a family home evening with the 2nd councilor in our ward, he is really nice and a really strong member of the church, he was baptized about 12 years ago and is just so nice and first to help everyone. We had a lesson on how we are never alone because we have god and our savior always and the spirit was super strong and he thanked us so much for coming!
Tuesday- Today it was raining on and off all day, its really crazy it comes out of nowhere and just downpours for like 30 minutes, than it stops and the sun comes out automatically its cool, and the Thunder is so wild, it rains a lot here right now. which I really like.
Wednesday- Past two days my comp has not felt very good, he says to have a really bad headache and it really shows because it our lessons I have had to talk a lot more which I can do but it takes me forever to talk jaja. But I think it is helping me, I also went to the place for my Bolivian ID today that was really sweet cause I got to meet up with all my buds from the MTC again and have a English Conversation.
Thursday- One of the towns in our area is really difficult to get to it takes two different trufis one on a main road and the other on a dirt road, its about a 30 minutes from our house to our investigators, as we took the first trufi we sat there waiting for another one to arrive after about 10 minutes we decided to start walking up this dirt road... we walked all the way to the top! took us about 40 minutes but there was no cars to take us! We finally made it to the top where we had lesson with these two teenage girls and a member in a dirt soccer field. They were really nice and we dropped a Book of Mormon on them too.
Friday- We taught a few lessons today and at around 6 we had a family home evening with this new family in the ward we went to their house and when we got there they were all dressed up to go to a party with the Stake, we didn´t even know about this so we said its ok and we went to check on other people but everyone was going to the party haha. We decided to take it in early where we then just did some more Spanish and scripture study
Saturday- We had a lesson for this one chick that I have not met before but my comp has taught her once she called us up and said she needed to meet with us so we met in the chapill and we started to teacher her about the plan of Salvation and she was really nice, lots of questions and the spirit was really strong with her, I then asked her to be baptized and she didn’t know what to say, about 3 minutes of silence goes by and I ask if she could pray and ask God, if she should? she thought I meant later but I was like no right here now. But she was all for it. We knelt down and she offered a really good prayer on what she should do.. I than started to ask her again and before I could finish she said yes! jaja, super awesome and the spirit was nuts!
Sunday- I love Sundays because its kinda a break from teaching and we just have to listen, This Sunday was really sweet because our goal for people who attend church was 6, but come Sunday we had 13 people come to Sacrament meeting! It was so awesome to see everyone there and bonus it was the Primary Program JAJA super dope! Spanish primary hymns are really cool.
So far really loving it in Cochabamba, Something that is really hard here is when I try to contact with people I usually mention something about their clothing and a lot of people have New York Yankees and Chicago Bulls stuff whenever I mention something about it like, Oh man you like Michael Jordan? they are always so baffled, I´ll point out the name Jordan that is on the shirt and they have no idea who he is! They just like the logo, or name haha, We also teach a lot of lessons with Older folks and we will leave them to read our pamphlet or a scripture and we will come back and ask if they read it and they say no, and we ask why and it’s because They can’t read! Its so hard but we always just read it with them and they are extremely grateful.
The mission life is rough, but it’s really rewarding too, All is well down here in Bolivia love you all!
Elder Clayton with some mighty fine tacos
In a place called Sivingani
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- Elder Clayton
His email to me this week: When ever I write a letter to you I start typing "madre" because that's what it was in my phone, and that doesn't work so I try mom, still nothing haha only Tammy pops up, I do this every week!
I got a phone call this week from a Elder with the last name Bishop? I don´t know who he is but he is from Utah and he says his mom knows you? not surprised but I'm still not sure?
Can you put me on Walkers email list? I don´t get his. When is Joe coming down to Cochabamba? I don´t think that is really fair if dad goes to him Joe needs to come here? or Kristy,
How is spanks? Chris still work everyday?
Love you ma thanks for everything sorry this letter is short.
Elder Clayton's story that he shares with Stetson:
Elder Clayton's story that he shares with Stetson:
We had a meeting with this 25 year old girl who has only met with the missionaries a couple of times and somehow she feel through the cracks and she hasn’t been meeting with us for like a month, she called us Saturday, which never happens and we she asked if she could meet with us today we found time that night around 9.00 in the capilla when she finally showed up we asked her why she wanted to meet with us and her eyes just started to water and she was really timido and she said she just missed the feeling of the church, we then started to teaching her the Plan of Salvation and we got the first two points and she was really accepting and I feel like she really got it when, I then started to asker her to be baptized but she didn´t answer, about 4 minutes went by and I asked her what she felt. With no reply she continuted to sit there in complete silence for another couple minutes. My comp than asked, for the second time, to be baptized, again no reply. I was sitting there and I knew what to say but I just couldn’t say it.. I knew what to say I knew how to say it but I couldn’t, I don.t know how to explain but I literally couldn’t say it, I needed to wait and let the holy ghost work with her in this time of silence. After maybe another 3 minutes goes by.
This is when I than asked her if she would be willing to ask God what is right? She said yes and we got on our knees to ask her right then and there. In the softest Spanish voice I have ever heard she asked God what to do..
She ended her prayer and with tears in her eyes for the third time, "Segura el ejemplo de Jesucristo..." and she smiled and said yes!
This spirit was super strong and I learned that you should not be afraid of silence; silence is when the Holy Ghost is speaking.
yeah that’s what i got love you bud thanks for everything! Check my Drive I put stuff in there like every week.
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