Trabajando con Albedrío - Working with Will

Well this week was pretty good, we are looking in the area book for old investigators to teach and we have found really good success with it.  We have three or four people that we have found and have been teaching for a few weeks, and this week we invited them to take a bigger step and be baptized!!   They both said no.... But it's all good! Salvacion does not come easy, we are gonna keep working with them and see what happens, their names are Paola Sanchez and Alfredo Murillo. Alfredo is almost always in the church cause all his family are members wife, and three kids, just him no, and Paola has a sister who is a member so we got members working with us too!  But we will see what happens. everyone has their agency .

So this week we had transfers and Tuesday my comp and I had to head over to the good ol airport to send everyone off to Cochabamba, and get the ones coming in from Cocha, its always fun jaja get to see a bunch of elders.  Transfers worked out smooth and they all got their flights on time. Except for the elders in Tupiza (Tupiza is a zone like a solid 10 hour bus ride from the town to the airport.) So when they left there was a road block cause there was no water in the town and the town folk were not happy about that, so they couldn't get here to Sucre in time cause there were people in the road, so they stayed the night with us and we ate some fat sandwiches.  I got pics. Than Wednesday at 5 in the morning back to the airport to send them off again.  This time everything worked out. 

Well yeah that was the week in short words, today for p-day we went to a cemetery jaja, it was real lame but pretty... and I ate a philly sandwich for lunch, but SpankyS makes them better, lesprometo (I promise)

 Also fun tidbit there have been problems here in the mission with money and now in our zone we have no money :) lovin it.. 

I got new fotos on the D.R.I.V.E.  love yallll chaooooo 

all is well hereeee!!!

A Bolivian Suit...

Happy week! So we had changes last night and I'll be staying with my comp who will kill me here in Sucre, I'm happy about it, I didn't really wanna change and I wanted to end with a Latino, so it all worked out. 

This week was pretty chill no mas, we had leadership council so I was in Cocha, it was a really rad class, Pres talked about diligencia, and shared a class from Elder Anderson that was about Love and Expectation. Really cool. when I was district leader in Vinto I gave the elders in my district a atributo of Christ to study and give a five minute class, and I gave E. Fisher (my orchard stake bud) the attibute of Love and he gave the same class! like 8 months ago, it was really cool, I made eye contact with him in the conference and just did one of those head bows, like we already know what he is going to say.. But still a good class. 

Our flight back to Sucre was at 4 in the afternoon and when we were in the airport we met a couple from Sandy Utah!!! What the heck jaja we talked to them and he was a missionary here in Bolivia 40 years ago!!! Small world, the church makes it smaller jaja, got home around 6ish. 

Well more than that this week was kinda slow, I've been sick like the whole week, just with a cold and sore throat, kinda lame but hopefully this week will be better. I got some photos on my drive, go give them a look.  oh esta todo bien (oh, it's all good). 

His Bolivian made suit!

Another Week goes By in Sucre and we got his Flight Plans!

Whats up my linda familia,(nice family) i'm writing you in Cochabamba today, we flew out of Sucre at 6:30 this morning, it's been a good day.  Last night was really fun the other zone leaders had to stay in our house from Tupiza and Sucre, and it was a hoot we stayed up a little late, and drank some real gooood mate. I'm gonna get you guys into it! I promise! So we flew out at 6:30 this morning and when we got to Cocha we walked off the plane and you could see your breath! It's so cold here! jaja but now it's almost three o'clock and way hot! I don't get the weather here. We went to the Cancha and ate some lunch which was fun cause I saw a bunch of people that I haven't seen in like a month and I saw my good friend E. Miller who will go home next week, we were comps for 4 weeks in Sipe Sipe, I''ll miss him!

We had a pretty busy week, some things we did were Thursday helped the elders from Las Delicias move houses which was funny cause they only moved by 2 blocks away, you could see their old house from the new house, but it was really lame cause that house was underground and had no windows. really dark.
But now they live on the second floor in a really nice new house with two rooms  and live with a member. That's a ton better!

On Friday we had to hit up the airport again with a Elder Almanza from Colombia, really cool dude we made some tacos with him and beans! I think I've only eaten beans on my mission a grand total of two times jaja, they are not very popular here in Bolivia, but we sent him off in the morning for his flight, hit up district meeting, lunch, and back to the airport to pick him up.  Sent him back to Potosi around 5 in a rapidito.

Also we had to pay a cook for some other missionaries in the zone and she also invited us to Tacos! I love Mexican food, and it was a salsa with Piña, super rrrrico!

Well asi was the week, it was a good week and we are working with all the missionaries and getting everything figured out, all is well here in Bolivia gotta love it! and love you all!

Also I got the package! Thanks!
And if you noticed this computer is in English and I don't have that many mistakes, kinda impressive.

Elder Clayton
Cochabamba Bolivia

And, our 2nd  favorite email this week came Elder Adams, the secretary to the president, read on:

Good afternoon,

I am Elder Adams from the Bolivia Cochabamba Mission.  I’d like to advise you of the return of Elder Clayton July 30^th, 2019.  He will arrive at the Salt Lake City Airport at 10:50 P.M.(full itinerary attached).  If you have any questions feel free to ask at this same email.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Elder Adams

Secretario del Presidente

Misión Bolivia Cochabamba

2011441@churchofjesuschrist.org

(591)-4-4117270; 71736630

Going Back to his Old Area, and a Miracle from the Taxi Ride

Prettty good week On Tuesday we had zone conference in Potosi, which was really fun it's about three hours in a bus ride to get there from Sucre, and I got to pass my old area Betanzos.  It was really cool to see it again after more than a year being there! In my drive I took a pic of the elder who is serving there now, He's fairly new just like me and says the ward has changed a ton, now they have almost 40 active members and they don't have to talk every week, really cool, that little town is really changing. The conference started at 4 and ended about 8;30, after dinner and fotos we headed home, I wasn't in my bed until 1:30 in the morning.. long day!

Thursday I went on a intercambio with E. Burris from Oklahoma, he's a funny dude we are from the same group so we had a really good time together talking about the last 20 months. It was a pretty fun day but we had to do a lot of stuff with the zone, such as get some baptismal clothing and we had to send a  house contract to the sec. in Cocha, but it was a good time with him, and we drank some more mate.
In the night we had a cita with Rosio a girl we found maybe 2 weeks ago, we had a lesson with her today and also her sister! really cool, we shared the first lesson and gave her a Book of Mormon, she was so happy and and almost started to cry! she promised to read and we took out a cita for next week.  really cool lesson, she told us as we were leaving that when she enters churches she has a pain in her chest, but when she was talking to us she felt really good!

Well something that is really cool that just happened, so if you remember my last week in my old area of Colcapirhua, we gave a blessing to some sisters and got home really late, but the taxi driver we contacted was the dad, of the little girl that got baptized the same day, and he picked us up at almost midnight on some random street in Cochabamba, well his name is Henry and got baptized two days ago! Super cool and a real miracle, to find us at that time, contact him and ended up making covenants with God four weeks later! really rad!

Yeah that was the week I have a good amount of fotos on my drive so go check them out..!
all is well here, love y'all!

Elder Caleb Clayton
Cochbamba Bolivia

todo tipo de servicio - All Kinds of Service

This week was pretty good to us, on Wednesday I went on a split with a new elder from Uruguay he is really cool the dude only has two weeks in the mission and has so much animo we had a dope day and found a ton of new people, and he is from Uruguay where they drink a ton of mate, and he drinks it with out suger which is pretty gnarly! but y'all ' drink mate soooo... but I'll get you guys into it!

With our pension we did a service project where we had to go to the city and pick up a bunch of their old furniture that they had in a house, than throw it all in the back of a truck than head it to the new house. It was fun.

Also this week there was some more elders that needed to get their visas and they were coming from Potosi, the Lz in Potosi sent the missionaries to us  in a taxi at 9 at night and so they got here in Sucre at midnight.. it was four elders that we had to go find in a  bus terminal and than went to bed.. until we woke up at 4 in the morning to head to the airport, cause they had a flight at 6:30 really long day.... but we got them all out, except one. cause he forget his carnet! his ID, and you can't fly if you don't have that!  So he will have to make the 4 hour ride again, next week! 

Today for p-day we went to another museo (museum) it was really cool, and than hit up a market to buy some recuerdos and my comp wanted to look at some stuff. Here in Sucre there are a ton historical sights that you can see, and they are all really cool, and have a ton of  Catholic background, but I mean it's Bolivia and almost everyone when asked is Catholic. 

Well yeah this was our week, tomorrow we will be heading to Potosi to the zone conference so I will see my old area Betanzos!  I'm excited for that, but I won't be able to stay around,  just pass by and pick up some elders.

Love y'all have a good week!       All is well here!

 MATE

Service project, in the truck

museo hoy (Museum Today)