Feliz Cumpleaños Elder Clayton

It was his birthday last Sunday and I am always so worried that for some reason they won't get a cake or something, but as always; He is so aware of His missionaries and they celebrated with a wonderful cake and song.  I will try and include it, but if not you can find it on Facebook or Instagram.  I am grateful prayers are answered.  We were also blessed to have a sister going to Bolivia and took a package with her.  We are hoping that he was able to get that this week.  The package had Hostess cupcakes, candles, Reese Peanut Butter Cups, notes from home, and a chess set.  Hopefully, tomorrow's email will let us know if it arrived.  Enjoy; he is loving this area and he is doing well.

Whats up gang just got on this week was pretty chill we had a good week and a good time here working in Sipe Sipe, my mission presidente said that my comp will leave this transfer and i'm really excited to see him my new comp is en two weeks but all is good here we are working hard with our members which is really fun to get and know everyone! 

This week I had a dope intercambio with a Elder Chapman from Idaho we are from the same group so it was a good day we found a new investigador contacting where we teach the importance of the gospel of Christ and focused on baptism she was really interested and had tons of questions. We have another lesson with her coming up and I'm really excited to talk to her again. But after that E. Chapman and I decided to head over to this pueblo in our area called Parotani where tons of members live so we went over there which was really fun and super country we found out that we are only like a bus ride from the mission La paz haha and when we were there we found some of those Santa Cruz cows they have a hump on their back, like a camel!  Super cool and like way rare we took some pics and petted them while talking to their owner it was a really good day and after we had a lesson at night so we didn't end our split until the next day in the morning, so two nights! It was way awesome.  haha 

My Bishop here has been gone for almost four weeks until he came back this week which is really nice but something sad is in all my areas my bishop has not been there for the first weeks I'm there. For example in Lindo my bishop was gone for the first 12 weeks in America and still was gone a lot for the other 12 weeks I was there. In Betanzos my bishop was in Argentina for 4 weeks cause of health issues then in Sucre for almost three other weeks and then my bishop here, just got back from Santa Cruz after 4 weeks too!  So I have been blessed with the gift of waiting for a good bishop, which they are all good; just not here. 

Well as you know yesterday was a new month, and that means a new day. another year. ha ha even tho it was my birthday.  Just want to say that I love you all and thank you guys for all you do for me and helping me out so much and keeping me updated on life!  Love you guys and pray for you always, hope all is well and love you guys a ton! 

1. Santa cruz cows i got a video para yall too! the video is to help Bridger with his fears (Bridger is afraid of all cows, I will try and add it to the blog) elderclaytoninbolivia.blogspot.com

2. they made me a cake with the La Paz flag, cause I was making fun of La Paz once and they told me I have no heart for La Paz but then I said I love it so I told them to put it on my cake, so they did ha ha

We had a little party for him at the Hewitson's with all our friends from the "hood" to wish him a great b-day since it was his actual day.  We all love him and it was fun to celebrate it with him, kind of.

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- Elder Clayton

Bolivia Cochabamba