He sounds so good and as always never complains. I told him I would
pray for him to get his goal of a baptism in the river as well. I know
the people love them there. I get Instagram pictures often from cute
girls who snap pictures of him which I think are funny. But you can see
the happiness in the faces of the pictures he sends. He worries about
his time growing short as he had been in the area quite awhile. But, as
we are well aware he will be just fine were ever he goes. You will also notice his "Spanglish" is quite evident. Love that too! This weeks marks his 5th month. He is doing well, and I am finalizing his Christmas package. Anyone wanting to throw in a little note to this fine young man, please get it to me by Friday, he would love it.
Thanks as always for your love and support as you follow his journey. We all appreciate it. Enjoy...
Sunday was one of the best days of my mission so far! So I
am still here In Sabinas Hidalgo, with Elder Randall and we are working
so hard. The first part of the week was hard, not much to look forward
to, but it got so much better. On Saturday, we went with a member to
Villadalma and Bustamante for these famous tacos which were super good!
They are two little towns in our area and we went to a cave!! It was
super high up and we were in the clouds! The cave was so sweet, then we
went back to our area and worked. So Sunday we were giving talks and
both of us were just kind of frustrated with well everything. but Sunday
was amazing. So we have the help of a hermano in the rama that is
helping us reactivate less actives. So we had 53 people show up and the
stake president came yesterday to talk about missionary work. So, I gave
my talk first, I talked on Christlike Attributes. Humilty Charity and
fe en Jesus Christ. It went well, then Elder Randall spoke and burst
into tears, and told the rama it needs to change. Its true though. There
is a lot of pride here, and rumors and the members just need to keep
going forward. Ramas are super hard to work with because they are so
small. I have been here for 3 months about and it gets frustrating to see
where the fruit of your labors are. but yesterday I realized that my
fruit is strengthening this rama and getting it on track to a ward. the
stake president spoke on missionary work and it was amazing. He
challenged everyone to give a book of Mormon to one person this week. So
we went home really fast and brought back 50 Libros!!! So sweet. The
rama loves us though. I told the hermano that we are working with that I
want to baptize in the river before I go. So one of the rama goals is
to help Clayton baptize in the river!!! haha so sick! Oh and after the
meeting because it was so good. The Stake Pres called our mission
President!!! No manches. it was awesome. So we spoke with President
Swapp for a little bit. Then after, we went on divisions with the
jovenes and they love going with us. oh and a member who lives in Dallas
asked us to come bless his dad who was sick so we went in his truck to
this super nice house. And its crazy here because there are so many
white people! This house was just like America haha. It was a good
blessing and that was yesterday. but I love it here and love the
members. They are taking care of us.Oh and its starting to get way cold!
We need to buy gas for hot water. First hot shower in 3 months! Love you all!
--
Elder Clayton
So close and yet so far...
notice the date of expiration...ha-ha
Says sorry it's blurry, but this is Sabinas at night
Top of the cave they went to says it in the clouds. A lot like Minnetonka like at Bear Lake
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