Meeting and Teaching new people in his New Area

This week was a lot of administration things, when ever missionaries change houses, o pension we have to go look at it first and make sure its all good, so this week we did that with 2 houses and with one pension, and even tho Sucre is not very big,but it takes a looooong time to travel anywhere, but you see alot of the city, turns out in the heart of sucre, it really is white, I guess they don't call it the Ciudad blanca para nada (white city)

Wednesday  we were walking around contacting and looking for old investigators when I see a bunch of kids on the roof of a house so naturally, I started to wave at them, they waved back and we  walked over there to start talking to them, it was four people and one was a member! dudes way inactive, but we took out a cita with all of them and taught all three of them in the week! that was way awesome, one girl was named, Rosario, shes 14 and we shared the first lesson with her and when we got to the Book of Mormon, she goes I have one of those! she runs down and brings one back! Turns out she has a friend that's a member in her school, that gave her the book!  We invited her to read it and she was really amazed that we were talking about the same book, she's really cool!

Thursday this week we went on Intercambios with the elders of San Juanillo the district leader, I went to there area cause I'm new in mine, we had a really fun day, the first lesson we went to was with this guy named Fernando that has been investigating the church for like a year now, the dude knows everything and has the coolest questions, we started the lesson about the Book of Mormon, and ended with teaching the law of chastity, spirit works in all ways to find out what the investigator really needs, when he gets baptized the dude is gonna be like a stake presidente jaja.

For Pday today we made a big breakfast with the whole zone and than kinda funny, we went and toured a catholic museo/church, it was fun.. lets just say after seeing all the gold crowns, statues and paintings of people pouring water on Jesus head, I'm really glad for the Restored Gospel. 

Well this was my week, pretty chill just grinding and lovin it! love y'all, have a good week all is well here!

I don't have any photos....

¡te quiero mamá! (I love you mama) I guess he threw that in because no photos...ha-ha.

T - doce semanas (T minus 12 weeks)

Hello family and friends, well this week has felt really fast, on Monday I had my last night in Colcapirhua we had a good bye family night with the familia Silez, like the coolest family in Bolivia I gave them some fotos and said good bye, as we ate a cake, they were so awesome and showed me a ton of love, I'll miss them a ton and am very happy for the time i had there to enjoy Colcapirhua, and all the other great families too.

Tuesday was kinda a blur, we had to wake up at six and headed straight over to the airport to pick up my comps comp. they got switched up and I stayed there in the airport with a few other missionaries until almost 11, when are flight was gonna leave but than it kept being pushed back until 12:30 we left to Sucre, got there a little after 1 and that's when the fun started, we had to send some other elders to Potosi and Tupiza en a taxi when my comp and I started for Sucre. It's a good hour ride in Trufi. But it was fun at lunch around 2:30 and started to go and look for some people to teach. 

Wednesday in the afternoon we got a call that we needed to pick up a elder from Potosi in the bus station and send him to the airport in the morning, picked him up at 10:30 and 5:00 in the morning Thursday we headed back to the airport to drop him off to head to Cocha and do his Visa.... picked him back up at 3 in the afternoon. It was a very exhausting day. lots of traveling. but in the night we visited some members and got to know a few more people. 

Friday we had our district meeting, where I met the new zone it's pretty dope we have 18 here with 8 sisters 10 elders, super dope I'm excited to be here and work with all these new missionaries, the zone is really new with a lot of missionaries less than six months our really old with like 21 months (yo). but it's all good you can learn something from anyone, good our bad. you can learn.  

Saturday we were walking in the street when a bus drives by and gets off a kid maybe 17 and he's a member! calls us over and we start talking he's a recent convert, maybe over 2 years. and he says his brother who is 11 is reading the Book of Mormon and wants to be baptized!! We walk with him to his house and he tells us to come back later, we came back in the night and taught a lesson with him and his little brother who starting the conversation like this... "I really wanna be baptized the 1st of June, can I do that?" POR SUPUESTO! super dope class, taught lesson one and he was shocked that Jesus came to the Americas, but he believed all of it, way awesome! names Juan, he's a stud. 

Well yeah that was the week here in Bolivia, life is good, we are looking for some new people to teach and getting this whole airport thing figured out. All is well tho! Love y'all! 

Elder Caleb Clayton

Cochabamba Bolivia

Sucre is a ton of mountains, its a good leg work out.

Best family in the whole world, Familia Silez

Airport at like 5.30 in the morning thursday

Headed to a New...and his Final Area - Perolero zona Sucre!

Hola mis queridos, Well transfers have come in and I'll be heading out, my new area is called Petrolero zona Sucre, should be really cool I don't know very many people in the zone but I'm excited, my comp will be Elder Ayala, from Colombia. We are from the same group so we both got some time under our belts, Here my friend Elder Gallini will receive my old comp Elder Cordova who was just in Sucre, so we just did a switch, I'm excited to go out there it's a short 45 minute plane ride from Cochabamba, so I'll be traveling a little farther than a few miles, I'm stoked about that.

Well let's see here. This week was chill in the zone we had a total of  nine Baptisms! Which is our monthly goal! So we made it! on the first week, Gallini and I were happy about that, one of the baptisms was ours but the story is kinda weird, so it's a little girl about 13 years old, who got baptized 4 years ago but they lost her records... So she needed to get baptized we taught her really fast and she got baptized last week!

Wednesday here was a holiday, can't remember what but nobody had work, so we went with my favorite member in maybe all of Bolivia Coquito, super dope guy who gives us food at least one time a week, huge stud! We made planchitas with him and the family pics abajo. They were really good and we had a good afternoon with him and the Silez Family.

Friday night after the baptism we were in bed everyone was home when we get a call from a couple of sisters that needed a blessing, we got over there right quick and gave a blessing to her. As we were leaving and waiting on the corner for a taxi, the one that picked us up was a man named Henry, who was the father of Valeria, who got baptized just a few hours before!! The dude is not a member and we could not believe how crazy it was that he picked us up right there at that moment, we took out a cita to talk to him, he's not married to the mom and almost never sees his daughter, really cool guy and nothing short of a Milagro, to call him over and give us a ride, This was at 11:30 at night if you didn't know.. We called the sisters and told them thank you for calling us asking for a blessing cause if not we would have not seen/talked to him, and taken out a cita.

This week was really good, we finished strong and had a good time doing it.  I"m stoked to go to Sucre and see a new city, I'll be dying (coming home) there which will be fun jaja, kinda trunky, but I'm still grindin! love y'all.  All is well here!

la Pensionista

Familia Mendoza, sin sus papás 

Sonia

Es Gratis - It's Free!

We had a really good week, we found a few new people to teach and have been working really hard together. Tuesday we had Leadership council, so all the ZLs had to come to Cochabamba to go to the reunion, however there were no flights because of Easter so they had to take a 10 hour bus ride here jaja long story short, at 5:00 en la morning i received a phone call that said ¨LZ Tupiza¨ a zone that is about a days travel away, so naturally I hung up... But it made me think so I called them back and it was the LZ who just got to Cocha in a bus and didn't have anywhere to go jaja so we had to pick them up and give them a place to crash until the meeting tomorrow, it was a fun p-day we hung with them and had a family night with them and a great family that live a block away from us. They bought us chicken and hamburgers, super chala family 

Thursday this week, I went on a split with E. Dalton jaja.  I feel like I'm always with him, this time we were in my area, our day was chill, in the morning we were contacting when a dude comes up to us speaking perfect English, he was a member and served a mission in New Jersey! He wanted to go and eat lunch with us, but instead he bought us a coke, really cool guy. 

After that we had a cita with a gal we contacted a few days early named Julia, we knocked her door and she let us in, she had read the whole L2 we gave her and wanted to buy the Book of Mormon... little did she know its FREE!! She really wants to go to church and loves it already, she told us she does not believe in things just happening, but God is behind it all, she did come to church too! She's rad! 

Also  Reese's have dropped in price so we bought some! - see pic...ha-ha

Welll yeah sorry the letter is short but this is the highlights of the week, today I went to TGIFridays which was dope I like meat. I think this will be my last week here in Colcapirhua, it's been a dope area, and I've learned a ton here. I will see whats happening this Sunday with transfers.

Love y'all!  All is well aca. (here)

The pictures he sent are from TGIFridays - Onion Rings with steak. only 117 Bs. (vale la pena)  I put this in Google translate... it means (it's worth it) so it must be a little bit of money to buy the meal he purchased, but those onion rings look amazing!

And, the Reese's Cereal that dropped in price, obviously, he is his dad's son and concerned about his budget.  Such a good kid.