BETANZOS, BAROS Y MAS BURROS

Pretty chill week we had we are trying to find everyone we can and talking to all we can. 

Lunes- P-day- chill day

Martes-last district meeting in our zone something that is really dope is in the city of Cochabamba it's 7 different zones so you have a lot of missionaries but when you are outside of Cocha you have the zone, and everyone else is about 3 hours away South or North ha ha so you get really close and this was the last day so it was pretty cool to hang with everyone for the last meeting

Miercoles- we went to our first counselor's house today and had a lesson with his family they were harvesting potatoes right then and they pulled some out of the ground and made us some!  They were really good french fries, and probably the most fresh that you could get.

Jueves- we went out to this little pueblo and ate some lunch with a member in church he never really talks so I just thought he spoke Quechua and is quiet but we started to talk to him and he is way awesome he had some questions about the resurrection and it was really fun talking with him and then everything we said he translated it to his wife it was way dope and they gave us some TUNA its a fruit here it's way good! 

Viernes- We found this really cool family in a like hardware store and we just started teaching them, they were really funny and had a pet monkey like a year ago, they had a ton of funny stories about him and they were really cool to talk to the mom is very faithful but the dad does not believe in God so it was a very two sided lesson.   But the dad had a lot more questions than the mom and they were though out questions, which is always dope! 

Sabado- we had our weekly futbol in our ward last week we had over 20 people there who came and played, this week it was my comp, three ward members and me.  We still had a lot of fun but, it's so hard to be inviting all these people to church, futbol, but just no mucho éxito, (success)  but its all good. 

Domingo- pretty chill Sunday my comp had to give a talk today but I didn't  so that was nice.  Sundays are pretty chill but really rough cause they're all in Quechua so it's like starting my mission all over again and today E. Baros my comp fell asleep in church ha ha its very hard to pay attention not gonna lie.  But after that we went to Potosi for the night to start P-day in the morning. 

The transfers came in last week and I'm  here again for another six weeks with Baros, I'm  really stoked to still be with him he's dope.  Yeah lots of contacting and looking for people here.  Just the work of the Lord. 

Love you all, and all is well here in Betanzos! 

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- Elder Clayton 

Bolivia Cochabamba 

The Work is Progressing and Faith is like a Semilla

Pretty chill week here in Betanzos. We are working really hard here to find all the people that we can and share the true message of the restored gospel with them!

Lunes- so we had zone conference this week at it was in Sucre so we went to Potosi Monday p-day and then stayed the night with E.Clark y  E.Caldwell .  We hang out with some members and this one kid who is special needs.  But the funniest kid I have ever met, he has been with the missionaries for like four years and he knows a lot of funny mission words or English words and we ate some cake made out of corn... it was not corn bread, it was cake with corn.

Martes- yeah today we left at around 9 en the morning to head to Sucre for the day.  It's about 3 hours away so we got the whole zone in a bus and headed to Sucre it was way dope to hear from President  and to see everyone who is outside of Cochabamba and we ate at a dope hamburger joint with everyone after that we left the conference at like 10 and made our way back, we got home at around 1:30 in the morning haha but it was a dope trip.

Miercoles- we are teaching a gal here who is really, really interested with us. She is reading the Book of Mormon, has had the first two lessons and loves talking with us.  But she has a [husband] a man she lives with and has a kid with but they are not married.. anyways he does not really like us.  Every time we come over he leaves or if he comes in while we are there he leaves.  We keep just praying for him and her so we can talk to them both, we will get there! Her name is Sandra she's dope!

Jueves-there is an area here called Laganella it's like a 40 minute ride just like through a canyon and it's a huge lake where you can catch fish, we talked to a few kids there and it was pretty dope to see this whole area, I think there was more sheep than people there ha ha.

Viernes- we found this way cool family last week a mom, dad and like 5 kids we started talking to them and we were really stocked to teach them..  Came back this day and turns out they are members! Just super inactive he was the old 1st councilor and now he has not been to church for ten years! But they are really awesine and we started to talk to them and a couple of them are not baptized so right now we are really focusing on them and we want to reactivate them cause they are all really cool.

Sabado- we have a weekly activity to play soccer in the church cause last time they had an activity or something in the church was about 3 years ago ha ha and this week we had 3 members and like 15 just random people come up to play it was way dope! yeah.. I like soccer now ha ha

Domingo- first normal Sunday where we did not have to talk, which was nice.  But for the third hour of the YM we had the lesson and we talked about Faith and we shared the message from E. Oaks and the scripture about the faith is like a semilla, (seed) and everyone here are farmers! So it was so awesome everyone was way involved and it really was a dope class.  My comp asked a question to one guy and said when we have a little seed should we use a bucket of water all at once or little by little? The guy responded with a five minute speech on how first you need to get good earth and where you are planting the seed it was super funny, they loved it!

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- Elder Clayton
Bolivia Cochabamba

Chanchos and Donkeys, Chocolate Bars, and Fixing a Flat Tire

Well that slingshot I bought for a dollar has really been a good time.  It has broken twice and I have fixed it twice.  Ha ha, when you shoot donkeys, cows or dogs they don't do much but when what is really fun is when you shoot a pig they scream so it's pretty fun to have it around. ha-ha!

Lunes- P-day lots of fútbol which is way dope I have gotten a lot better and I can score one or two goals every week now.  It's really dope, but after about 20 minutes you are dying because there is no air here ha ha but it's way fun.

Martes- my comp did not feel too good in the afternoon so we came home and he just took a nap, when your comp is sick or you it's super boring but he is all good.

Miercoles- we have this one way cool chica that we found last week and this week we finally talked to her and just to give you an update almost everyone here is really confused on our message and does not understand very well, so when we get someone who understands really quick it's way awesome, we teach this gal called Sandra and she is way cool and read the whole pamphlet that we gave her and after our message she was having questions about what's after this life, so boom! lesson 2 plan de salvación ! and we gave here a BOM too, she lives in like fields and a dirt house so she is really humble and we have another lesson with her this week.

Jueves- I don{t know what happened this day but something that is really funny is we have this one store where we always buy a chocolate bar thing and one time we tried to contact her and I asked her what her name was and she just responded with I'm a Jehovah Witness.. but we still go there cause the chocolate bars are really good.

Viernes- we have these little pueblos that are outside of the main area so you need to take these like taxis, which is kinda like hitch hiking ha ha but the road is super windy and this dude was driving who was super crazy, and each corner you can't really see behind it, when we went around this one corner and there was a huge rock pile! So the dude dodged it with his first front tires but then with his back we hit a part of the pile as big as a curb, and we were flying, so of course or heads hit the roof along with the other 5 people in the car and he stops to see what happened and he had popped his tire so bad that it came off the rim and then the rim had a huge dent in it! Super nuts, but do you think this guy knew how to change a tire? NOPE! So guess who had to do it? yup the two gringos! So we hoped out and got it all and we went on our way, also we still had to pay..

Sabado- we started a new activity in the church where we clean the church and then play futbol after and this week was the first time and we had two members come and two investigators! it was way dope we played for about an hour with them and it was a lot of success because they said they will invite all their friends next time

Domingo- chill Sunday here in Betanzos we had 30 members come to church! which is probably a world record here, so I blessed the sacrament with a member and my comp lead the hymns and after we both gave talks again ha ha, my study's now are just preparing talks and we then gave the class for the third hour. We only have the two councilors here and then our bishop is really really sick in Argentina so we are lacking leaders here.

yeah all is pretty dope here in Betanzos.  We are trying to work really hard with the members that we have and trying to find new ones! Love ya all.  All is well down here!

Yeah, the internet that we are in right now is the worst, the USB drives don't work so maybe a ton of photos next week sorry fam
te amo

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- Elder Clayton
Bolivia Cochabamba

Pictures for Potosi

Elder Clayton has put various pictures on his Google docs and these are the ones that I have downloaded to add to his blog.  Enjoy.  Sure is a beautiful place he is serving; with lots of pigs...ha-ha.

All pics