All is Well in Cochabamba!: Everything is "Chala"

Buenos Tardes Familia

This week we were supposed to have an expectation of our house by the mission President so every day we were sweeping and moping, and it’s really hard to keep a house clean when you walk around in dirt roads all day and our house has white floors! But it was all a hoax because he never even came by! but atleast this week our house looked like a temple all week, white and clean

Monday- Mondays are pretty much the same but its different from our normal weekly routine so it’s nice every now and then, I had to get a haircut this week and I was really nervous about, I walked in and all i said was a like it short on the sides and long on top.. haha but it turned out pretty good. I think

This week, Elder Fisher's mom sent me a video of him opening the package we were able to send with someone visiting here. What a blessing it was to see and hear him. I will try and attach it here for all to see. There was also some extra pictures. We are so proud of him and sure love weekly emails. Enjoy!

Martes- We had a zone Conference this week and it was super sweet it was our mission president and he talked about the sacerdocio and he only used the BIBLE it was really nuts, my mind was blown and it was way cool to see everyone again, the whole zone was there so I got to see all my buds from the MTC there. Also was my comps birthday and I had everyone sing to him, that was really dope.

Wednesday- Well something got messed up and we had another zone conference this week haha but this time it was with Elder Montoya from the 70, it was really cool to listen to him, and something he said that was really cool is when you are making a promise to someone promise in the name of Christ. I thought it was kinda weird but I used it in a lesson and its super sick! It really brings the spirit and it seriously just sounds sweet.

Jueves- We lost another baptism this week, last week we lost a 16 year old to Brazil and this week we lost this way awesome single mom to Santa Cruz.. Freakin Santa Cruz. We had a lesson with her about prayer and how we should talk with the lord with all we do, (Alma 37.37) she was on the fence about moving so we asked her if she would pray and ask God what she should do and she said she would, and then that night she called us and she left the next day, real bummer, but she said she is moving back in January, and I will still be here sooo.. Maybe there is still time.

Friday- I went on splits with a dude from Spain today, it was really different because he spoke pretty good English and the whole day we just talked about movies and music, it was so awesome. I liked it a lot. And it was super weird to be talking in English all day, I have noticed that its now alot harder to think in English as days go by, I´m surrounded by Bolivians all day so I really don´t have a chance to speak it haha.

Sábado- Third Zone Conference this week haha, again this time it was with Elder Montoya, this conference was not that inspiring because he really just hammered the missionaries on how we can do better and what we need to work on.. But all in all I had three zone conferences this week so its not the bad haha.

Sunday- We have this really chala investigator named Jonathan, we founded him playing basketball in the cancha all by himself so I went up and we started to ball out together, probably the only kid I have seen that likes basketball here. Anyways we had a lesson with him this week and his mom is really anti Mormons, which is hard because she won’t let us into her house so we teach his lessons on the side of a curb outside haha, but he is way sweet and he came to church yesterday and he really loved it! We asked him to babtizm and he said yes! Really excited for him.

the word cool down here is "chala" and I use it like all the time, we had a family how evening last night and we read a chapter in the Book of Mormon and after in my closing testimony i said the chapter is super chala haha the 2nd councilor was dying, and he drove us back and the whole time he was like, that car is super chala, this road is super chala, adios Elders thanks for the chala lesson haha, All is well down here love you guys!

- Elder Clayton

Bolivia Cochabamba

Me and an Elder Ferrañan he is from Peru I went on splits with him last week or something like that. he is way funny. the only thing he knows in English are. "I am the fastest man in the world" haha