Todo esta todo bien (Everything is fine)

Whats up fam! Pretty chill week here the baptism went through which was really dope! Albert was way prepared for this gospel and I'm way excited for him! Something that I learned in baptisms is how hard they are.l  Yes, it's hard finding these people and teaching them but the baptism itself is really hard.  You have to invite all the ward members and hope that they will show up, get the font ready and the church all cleaned its a lot.

So Saturday came and we decided to clean the church in the morning  and because we don't have a ward mission leader we have to do it, but its all good.  We cleaned the church and the font and we went outside to start filling up the water.  But the valve on the font was broken so it was impossible to keep the water in, it would just leak out and not stay.  We called the fist councilor but still it just was broken so to stop the water from leaking out we got a plastic bag of flour, put it in the tank and then put a rock on it!  haha water stayed in! Bolivia way, I love baptisms but they are always so stressful and always something goes wrong. 

But its a real testimony builder cause it just shows how real Satan is and how much he hates baptisms and will try all has to stop them! 

Anyways that was like the highlight of the week but it was all really dope.  When I got here we only had one lesson for the whole week planned, so we are contacting a ton and looking for everyone!  We can to talk to which is good I had a lot of practice with it when I was in Betanzos so I really like it now, and it really helps when the people speak Spanish too.  In my old area if you spoke in Spanish theywould respond in Quechua here they speak Quechua but respond in Spanish if you talk to them in Spanish which helps a ton! 

But its all good here in this little town Sipe Sipe! I really like it here and having a lot of fun. Something cool my pension that feeds us is super inactive and has not been to church in like 8 years!  Super sad but we had our baptism and I invited her.  My comp thought it was weird cause she would never come, but she came! and the next day to church too!  Really dope he told me that is the first time she has been to church in like 9 months! so that was way dope! 

Yeah, I love this place and I'm really happy to be here and my comp and I are getting along really good I love you all too!  Todo esta todo bien (Everything is fine)

 My comp E. Pusarico, and I with some Laminitas

This is how i do my laundry! Looks sucky but in Betanzos it was with cold water! So it's a TON BETTER HERE! 

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- Elder Clayton

Bolivia Cochabamba 

Sipe Sipe

Well what's up fam? As you have known I am back in Cochabamba Zona Quillacollo area Sipe Sipe with a Elder with little time in the mission called Elder Pusarico from La Paz Bolivia, out of all my areas this is the least country but it's still way country haha its pretty cool here and we are trying to contact a ton so we can find more people to teach.  So far it's we find a lot of people but when we come back for the lesson they are not there. But it's all good!  We will find those who want to hear our message, my comp is pretty chill and we are trying our hardest. 

So one thing really cool is that the other Elder here when he left have this one really cool kid who is going to be baptized this week his name is Albert and has been coming to church for about 2 or 3 months now, he is a really cool kid who is really prepared.  We are currently teaching the commandments and is really excited for his baptism this week pray that everything goes good! 

So every Friday here is a special activity, English classes! haha so the old elder that left this area was a gringo and spoke Spanish who was then replaced with a new gringo ha-ha so I taught my first ever English class haha we talked about parts of the body, and face it was funny and cool, we had like 5 people come so that was good.

Sunday was pretty cool so back in Betanzos it's a ward that should be a branch and here in Sipe Sipe its a branch that just got turned into a ward like 3 months ago ha-ha, so it's pretty small there was about 40 members who came to church so that was cool I only had to bless the sacrament which was normal but than no talk, and no class. 

So today for p-day we went to Tunari which is the highest mountain here in Cochabamba I think ha-ha but its freaking  gnarly high and we hiked it! ha-ha it was way fun cause there was snow! yes SNOW in south america Bolivia in June! ha-ha it was way cold but really fun we did it with the whole zone which was cool, I got some cool pics, pretty fun to see all the different things here in  Bolivia it has a little bit of everything, I put a new folder on my drive so go look for that! 

All in all a chill week getting to the new area it's fun.  My comp is kinda quiet but it's all good Il'l get him to come out more! Love you guys. All is well down here! O and it;s a ton warmer here! haha like the nights are cold but then all day is awesome! Love y'all! 

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- Elder Clayton

Bolivia Cochabamba

New Transfer, New Me

Well, looks like he is headed to a new area and as always his attitude is upbeat.  I was able to be on and chat back and forth with him and he will miss this area.  It was hard, but it molded him and he learned a lot about  himself and just how tough he is.  Funny thing as you will read and as we joked about on his Mother's Day call, the bikes got finished just as he was ready to leave, and his warmer clothes that we sent, well...he will get those three days after he arrives in his new, warmer area.  Typical.  But, still he reports; all is well.   And, he added more pictures to his drive, so I gave you a few more to see, too.  Enjoy, it another great one. 

Whats up gang? So these six weeks are up with E. Baros and I will be heading back to Cochabamba tomorrow.  I'll be going to zone Quillacollo and the area Sipe Sipe, to be with an Elder from La Paz,  Bolivia, he is new in the mission with only about two months or so but it will be more campo which will be fun.   I'm excited to go back but I'll be sad cause this place is way hard but it's a fun area, and E. Baros is a beast too ha-ha. 

Well this week we have both been kinda sick here in Betanzos and has been kinda a slow week which is kinda lame it was on and off me and him sick which was lame but with the time we did find we got some things started.  As you know we have a weekly activity in the church that nobody comes to ha-ha but we decided to change the area for the first time this week where we went to the little town of our bishop and we had it in his house, and it was awesome!  We bought some juice and cookies and shared a small lesson about helping the missionaries, and we had like 10 people there which is about as much as we have at church!  So it was dope!  But the best part about all of this was we finally got the bikes back!  ha-ha after almost 5 weeks and three days before I leave but I got to use them, at least once haha,  but we had to ride back from our Family night threw these up and down hills in the pitch black ha ha!   I had taped my hand flash light to my bike and that worked out good but it was gnarly but really fun haha we got back in time and all was good, 

Something that they do in Bolivia that is super lame is pedestrian day where there are no cars!  People park their cars in the middle of the road at like 4:00 in the morning so people can't drive around literally can't drive around, so you walk but they did it on Sunday and this week was Stake Conference en Potosi, so we had to leave Saturday night in Potosi, sleep there for the night then stay all day, until around 7 when there was the conference, cause they end the pedestrian day at like 6, it was way lame cause we were  there all day and not feeling good but it was a good conference, we had our pension come and that was it out of ward betanzos. haha 

Well yeah that's just about it for me here, I'll be heading to back to Cochabamba tomorrow so that will be fun, excited to go back but it's fun to be outside of Cocha too, love ya guys! and all is well!, also I put the rest of my photos on my drive! 

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- Elder Clayton

Bolivia Cochabamba

JWs and Zone Conference

This week he was able to go to Uyuni; they have been trying to go there for a few weeks and it seems to always fall through.  Not this time.  He put several pictures on his drive which I will add to his blog.  I will put a couple here in his email; but if you get a chance to go to his blog there is a lot more there to enjoy, just too many to put on one email.  And as always, thanks for all the thoughts and prayers in his behalf, he appreciates them and always says he feels them.  Enjoy...

Well this week was pretty good we have not had much success lately with just doing door contacts so we have started to go and just find people in the plaza and just invite them to the activities that we have.  So far nothing has really happened but we are trying everything we can to invite people to Christ.

One funny contact we were talking to this one like 20 year old kid and then this elderly  lady came and sat down next to him so we said hi to her and then she kinda just went off on us! turns out she was a JW! ha-ha we tried to just be nice and talk to that one guy, but she just wanted to insult us.  After a few minutes of her just making fun of us in Quechua we asked the two best questions for a JW which is;

1. Where did your Bible come from? beause they use another version of the Bible. which does not say Bible on the front.

2. How did your church start?

Here there is a good amount of JWs and we have had many chances to ask this question and every time they all have the same answer.. (I don't know) it's famous we have heard it a lot we then just gave him a handout and left to talk to someone else and left her.

This week at zone conference was really cool the subject this transfer was Adan y Eva and it was so awesome there is so much crazy doctrine in this story but I love zone conference it is just a spirit high and you get to see all your buds from the other zones for the first time in a few months,

Lastly we finally got to go to Uyuni this week which was way dope! I took tons of pics and it is way cool biggest salt flat in the whole world! Also part of Star Wars was filmed there!

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- Elder Clayton
Bolivia Cochabamba