Monday- Last p-day we went to this really dope place called the Cancha, they sell like everything you could think of and it just streets and streets of diffrent stuff and its super cheap! I got some really cool stuff that has the same type of texture as my car seats so I really liked it, later we went to lunch at Burger King. Like the only american resturant down here haha, and ended with a FHE with some of the youth in our ward.
Tuesday- We have these two people that we are teaching that have been living together for 16 years! They have two kids, a house and they just don´t see the point of marriage, we had a lesson with the ¨wife" while the "husband" was gone and we challenged her to babtizm and she said yes but we dont have a date yet, and then after that we talked about marriage, and her only concern was Divorce, which is hard but, after 23 years and she is almost 70 I think she will be ok...
Thursday- We had this full lesson plan for today and it was at the top of our area so we took a trufi that takes like 20 minutes on bummpy dirt roads and when we got there no one was home! we stud around for a while and then just started contacting, we came to this one gate and these two kids with BLOND HAIR came out! haha the only kid with blond hair around here is me, they were really funny around 8,12 and we gave a short lesson in the street and we have another one planned this week with there mom.
Friday- We had a FHE type thing with this family tonight and they are just like us! Three boys haha! They were super funny and the dad is trying to learn English so he likes me, we shared a video about, "what is most important in our lives" and the spirt was super strong, they were all babtized as a family almost two years ago. way awesome.
Saturday- Babtizim day, pretty much this whole day was prepare for the babtizm we woke up studied and then 11, cleaned the church, 12 lesson, 2 fill the fount, 4 another lesson. The baptizm was supposed to be at 6:00 so me and Elder Azolas showed up around 5:30 and we were getting ready after about 45 minutes have gone by, like no one is here and we are getting worried then people start to show up and finally Silvilla.. The one being baptized shows up at 7:15! We didn´t start until 7:30! haha frekin Bolivians. But it was super awesome and she barred her testimony at the end and it was way sweet and you could feel the spirit super strong!
Sunday- This was the First Sunday where I was in the ward and it was a busy one, Sacrament meeting my comp and I had two baby blessing and one confirming the holy Ghost! super crazy, after that we had a Gospel principals glass where we had 5 of our investigators show up to and that was awesome to see them!
The best part of this week was Sunday night when we had this lesson plan with this young family with two kids lived together for maybe 3 years and they were really nice we shared part of the first lesson with them and they were super interested, they had tons of questions and they were on the edge of there seats the whole time it was so awesome, in the closing prayer our investigator, Alex said thank you for sending your servants to us, it was so dope! I´m excited to meet with them again this week!
The days are really long but then all of a sudden its p-day again, We teach like 3 or 4 lessons a day usually and the one on Sunday is the only one where a father was there, This place has really built my testimony on the importance of families and how everyone has a roll in them, Love you all and hope you have a good week! All is well down here!
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- Elder Clayton
Bolivia Cochabamba
Wanted to add this short note he sent to me: Dang that is alot of weddings! I am happy for all of them! Yeah i´m excited to read everyones letters about what happend this week end! Thanks for the prayers they have really worked last week I was always so frekin tired but now I am doing alot better and I know that is why! I will tell stetson to drop by somore and say whats up, Love you mom and thanks for all you do, I think of you guys alot because all I teach are single moms and its so sad, there lifes are so hard doing this alone but they are all so happy, I´m glad to be lucky enough to have both! Love you mom!
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