"QUE CHALA" ...and we got Bikes!

It sounds like it was a good week.  I was able to be on with him quite a bit and best part was he sent me a short little email just of thanks.  That's what gets me the most.  Sure am excited to hear his voice next week!

Pretty chill week we are working really hard and looking for everyone we can possibly talk to and share the message of the restored gospel with them!

Well this week was nothing really big but we had some cool stuff happen, first off last week we got bikes! So in this area its really small but, we have little towns that are really far away in mountains and hard to get to by foot so we talked with a guy in the stake and he found us two bikes in Potosi from members, we bought one for 300 and the other for free!  She said if it's for the work of the Lord it's yours!  So we told her blessings for us today and tomorrow for you!  She was so nice and we were really grateful.  One bike is like ready to go only needs a new tire, the other needs some work.   But we are tight with this one dude in Betanzos and we think he will fix us up good.

Funny story we were storing the bikes in the church cause we didn't want to take them to our house and as we were walking these bikes this little kid runs out and asks us what we are doing ha ha So I respond with "this church, this church is true!" and she just kinda pauses for a sec than goes "QUE CHALA" which is just like cool haha but it was so so funny and my comp and I were dying laughing.

Yesterday was pretty funny too, so we have started different activities here in Betanzos to try and get members more active, so we have Wednesday night scripture study where we just teach a class we had three people come to that which was dope, Saturday futbol, where we had three members and like 6 teen age kids come and play with us, but what is fun is every time the church is open like every kid in this whole pueblo knows about it and comes to play with us ha ha so we had like those 10 playing football but like another 15 in the church just hanging out ha ha it's fun.

Sunday we had a solid 20 people come to church and my comp conducted the hymns, I blessed the sacrament, gave a talk and then both of us gave the mission prep class for the second hour and the third hour class for the fourth Sunday! pretty nuts, also its getting into winter here and like half the town goes to Argentina for the winter.. which is going to be really rough, to find more people.

p-day today we are in Potosi and our new Zone Leader E. Swenson is way dope and like 6"7 and loves basketball so now our normal p-day of futbol is now basketball  pretty funny now in this zone of Potosi we have 10 gringos and 6 Latinos but 4 of the Latinos speak English! super funny we are helping them out to learn more which is fun.

yeah my Quechua has gotten a lot better I can say a few things like:

how are you?
I'm fine
what is your name?
my name is
we are misionaros
I don't understand Quechua
see ya later!

yeah that's all I can say.. all is good here tho I Love my comp we have a lot of fun here which is really really helpful, but I love you all up north and all is good here in cold Betanzos!

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- Elder Clayton
Bolivia Cochabamba

Best email of all:

just wanted to say that I love ya and i thank you for your emails you send and the fotos, think of ya often, love ya mom!