Hey Fam! well first things first I just got the package! jaja like maybe 2 hours ago i got it from peter, dads bud, hes a good guy i met him in my farewell jaja I remembered him, really funny he knows a little of Quechua jaja so he still speaks it somehow which is awesome! but I got all the Reese's and cookies!! and they smell just like home, gotta love that! Thanks Fam! and thanks Wirthlin Fam!
Well this week was cool on Tuesday we did some service with some Elders in Bellavista it was way rad we had to take out a wall I put some pics in my drive with us all and we had to take out some cement pillar that were maybe 4 feet into the ground it took like 6 people to get them out I love service ja ja just changes things up, and after we mate'd (drink they make) ja ja I also love mate. But it was some hard work taking that wall out we just had a few hammers and a pickax, that's it and we got it out somehow.
Also had a split with our ZLs they are really cool guys one is from Ecuador and the other Argentina. He has a thick Argentine accent but he also speaks perfect English. We had a good time and taught four lessons that day. He was really impressed that just opening the area a week ago we had actual lessons jajaja. but it was a good time with him and we had some good laughs, I also played him in chess and whooped him 3-0. I'm teaching my kid to play chess to, let's just say there is room for improvement, but he's still cool.
On Saturday there was a conference with Profecta Nelson where he talked to all the missionaries in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia it was way cool he said his favorite book is 3 Nefi and chapter 27 favorite chapter, it was so cool to hear him also Elder Anderson was there and got to here them speak to us it was in English and than translated to Spanish pretty cool, and than Sunday was when he was in La Paz Bolivia, where he gave a talk to all the Bolivians here too and he spoke in Spanish!!! That man is 94 years old but speaks better Spanish de me, that was really cool and I think a lot of people were surprised he could speak Spanish, it was really cool. it was like a 7 and 8 general conference that was chala.
Also we are teaching a really cool family!! yes family! its with a mom dad and a little daughter they have, fabian y lizet they are really cool and a reference from our mision leader they are really cool and really love the gospel we have been teaching them for 2 weeks now and are really interested Fabian is a member but super inactive for maybe 40 years, baptized when he was like 9 and never came back to church and his wife is not, so were are helping activate him and teaching his wife too! hope all is good! Pray for them!
OH yeah last week I was playing basketball and going up for the rebound I slammed into my bud E. Daltons shoulder and he gave me a black eye!! so I've had that all week too but I'm all good, I got the rebound if you were wondering jaja.
But all is good here. Love you guys, hope you have a good week and know that God loves you and que somos hijos e hijas de dios y el ama cada uno de nosotros, todo esta bien! tambien fuimos a cristo hoy, Translation: That we are sons and daughters of God and he loves each one of us, everything is fine! We also went to the Christus today,
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- Elder Clayton
Bolivia Cochabamba
Here's what I wrote for my journaling and Chatbooks with what happened with the package: I have always known that my Heavenly Father is well aware of His children, but I tell you what, I know without a doubt that He knows me, and our son in Cochabamba Bolivia! We have friends that left on Saturday to go there for a missionary reunion. I sent them with a package of things (very trivial things)for him like a new p-day shirt and cookies I made Friday morning. I prayed so hard that they might be able to find him today, and guess what? Somehow, they did! Those cookies are still fresh! I couldn't be more happy than I am right now and I am so grateful for prayer and for a loving Father who loves me and my boy in Bolivia. When I left the package I said, I just want something in there to smell like home. In his email today, his exact words were, “it smells like home!” This is truly a blessing today. There are no coincidences as we all know, these are tender mercies of the best kind. They reported he is so happy and from these pictures you can sure see it!!! I’m excited to be able to stay with their kids for a few days this weekend. It’s the least I can do for the gift they gave me today. Today was one of the best #missionarymondays❤️ to date for sure. Oh, the black eye in the last picture is from a good game of basketball 🏀. He says, no worries...I got the rebound. Ha ha.
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