December 18, 2017~"The Spirit of Christmas is Christlike Love"

1.  Were you able to get your package from Sis. Grossen yet?  I'm sure if you did you opened it haha.  
Yeah so I got it and opened it hahaha

So what time do you want to skype?  We have an activity at night and we do eat so give me a time that works for you and we will see if thats ok.

Yes its cool to travel all over the place haha and well its super fun helping out the Missionaries.  Yeah I talked with Sister Grossen on Wednesday or Thursday through skype and she said she had talked to you and that you were really sweet ahahah i told her that you probably talked a lot ahahha
yeah hermana Robison is super cool she just got back from the mission she was a great missionary 
yeah so i did meet there son he goes home tomorrow which is crazy but we have met him 

yeah so this week was a fun week cause first things first i got the package thank you i love it hahah second we got to travel all over with president due to the fact that sis grossen wasnt there he was lonely hahah um we got a lot done in the offices and we actually got out and put 4 fechas bautismales for the 31st so we hope they can progress. We gave missionary advice to hermana grossens son which was really fun. I went to toluca again today to do the trainng and it went well ahahha after we went to the airport to get a visa fixed so an hermnaa can go home tomorrow!!! 
We had our christmas party which was fun and we went to horse races!!! President took us there and it was awesome it was actually really fun and i enjoyed going i definitely want to do it again!!!
So this week we will have our conferences and so we are getting prepared for that and well i am excited to share to the whole mission a message and as well im pumped about being able to see some missionaries. So thats whats going to be going on this week and we will be able to go to some members houses as well to celebrate Navidad so we are excited for this week but tell me what time you want to talk and send me the skype infor again alright thanks mom love you i will be on for a while today!!!!

Elder Cleverly 

Horse Races

December 11, 2017~: "Live the Gospel Faithfully Even If Others Around you Don't Live it at All"

1.  When is Sis. Grossen suppose to be coming?
So she is there because her son had his farewell and so she is there and will be there for 5 more days.  President is sad about that.

Thats alright about not sending too many ties due to the fact that I bought 11 ties from the factory hahaha... they are super cheap!!!
Yeah changes get hectic and I'm not a huge fan of that but thats ok because its a way to help.  Thats good to hear that Stock is doing good and got his football awards.That is good about pitching.  I think Stock can be a really good pitcher so I hope he keeps it up.
That will be better on Christmas Eve for us and we might do it early now that we are going to be going to one hour of Church.  We will be with President that day.  We are going to do a white elephant as a office staff... it will be awesome!!!!!

Yeah its crazy that things are speeding up and we are going to be in 2018!!!  This week was a little crazy due to the fact the new people came and we got them in and out and on there way and well after that I had to do four retencion reports which help us see where we need improvement in the zone....so I have to do that for the entire mission so then the missionaries can go with the Stake Presidents and they can talk and see what is it that we need to do to keep working and finding success. I also had to do all the visa stuff because the immigration will close on the 15th so I have to get that done before Friday. I have to do 4 peoples visas!!!
Something that was fun that we did was that we went to Bosque de Chapultepec cause we are looking to see if we can do the concert there and so we went and we were there for hours trying to find a cool place to do it.  We got to see the whole park while we were doing that hahaha.  On Wednesday we had Consejo (counsel) with the zone leaders and the Hermanas and my comp and I had to go to Costco to get 11 pizzas haha.  We got our Uber but by the time it came the two boxes on the bottom were destroyed haha...it was so fun!!!!  It was good to talk to the missionaries about how we can do better,  how to get the mission where it should be.  To be able to do that is fun... being able to talk to them and help them understand our vision and what we need to do to get there. 

Quick note is that dad would love it here because you can buy nuts on any corner fresh and whatever type you want and there is one of those guys on the corner where we are and so we will get a big bag of nuts for 30 pesos and its just a mixture of a ton of nuts!!!!

On Sunday we had a good time at church and well it was good but the best part was the dinner with a family that the dad is from Germany and the Mom is Korean.  They talk in like 6 different languages... its crazy!!!! I heard a whole bunch of words... it was blowing my mind hahaha.

Today I went to Toluca to do a training with the Zone Leaders to help them be energized and to keep going and work hard.  Its something that we are doing.  We are helping people to see the vision and to go do it and so that is what we are doing every Monday.  We are going to be traveling and going to train the missionaries and cheer them on and help them pick the mission up off the ground.  We are super excited for it and it went well today.  I love Toluca.  Its really cold there but it was fun to go back.  It was fun to help them and to see all the missionaries.  It went well and the communication that we have now in the mission is crazy good and we are pumped and so is President.

So that has been my week.  I hope that things go well and we will be talking to you guys on Skype in two weeks!!!!

Elder Cleverly 

December 4, 2017~ "The One Who Falls and Gets Up is so Much Stronger than the One Who Never Fell"

1.  Do you see Dar and Nola every Sunday?
Yeah we do and sometimes more during the week due to the fact that they live super close to us hahaha

2.  What did you have to do for this transfer week to help out?
I had to get cell phones ready for new areas, I cook the food for the new people, I help teach them and tell them the rules and responsibilities as a missionary.  I take pictures, I get the visas, I get all the pouch.  I help go get the missionaries from the CCM. I do most of the stuff .

3.  How are you guys promoting "Light the World"?
So we have put up banners all over the church, on President's car and other areas and we are going to be doing a concert so that we can sing.  We  will have a little movie night with the people in the Bosque de Chapultepec so we are doing things and I will explain what we did on Saturday

Yeah I clean some good shoes hahaha.  It was a good walk.  That's a really cool experience that you had Mom!!!  So what day do you want to talk?  We have the choice if we want to talk on Christmas or Christmas Eve???  Also Hermana Grossen is going to Utah so I might be giving her some things and if you want maybe you can meet her and you could send some things with her.

This week was a busy one due to the fact that it was the changes and we have to get everything ready for that but it was good because we got everything ready in time so we didn't have to stay up super late. First off, a good friend went home, Elder Garcia.  He got sick and so we had to take him to the airport which was sad.  He is a great Elder and will do great things later on in his life.  We also got in a lot of traffic so that was awful haha.  Something that we did was we went with President to Pachuca and we sung to Orphans.  We totally left the mission to do this but it was awesome and we gave them a bunch of waters and juices.  It was super fun and I had a blast.  We were there for a long time but totally worth it! 

Today we had all the new missionaries come in and it was fun.  I got to help them out and I got to get them ready to go get out and work.  They are great kids and are going to do great things.!!!

That is all I can remember.  I can't think of anything else besides the fact that we played tennis so I will call it done.  Just know that I love you and hope that you guys have a great week!!!

Elder Cleverly 

November 27, 2017~Let Your Smile Change the World but Don't let the World Change Your Smile"

1.  How was your Thanksgiving?  Tell us about that day.
Well the day was awful haha because the whole day we were in the offices but that wasn't the bad part.  The bad part was the food.  It was awful.  It was like garbanzo beans.  It was terrible hahaha but that's alright cause we got a pie from President.

2. You said you had to teach the first aid merit badge.  Who did you have to teach it to?
We taught it to the Deacons haha.  They were crazy and didn't really pay attention but that is alright.

Last week was crazy with traffic and climbing on walls but that makes it fun!!! Mamey is super good.  I don't know how to describe it hahah.  Yeah the girls went crazy when they saw us... it was a little strange hahaha.  I talked about that to the primary as well. I taught about choosing the right and I gave my rings out to the Primary.

So my week wasn't anything insane but I'll highlight a few things that went down besides the Thanksgiving.  On Tuesday we had an activity where we shined shoes.  There are some pics I sent and well it was a blast.  We found a couple people that were willing to listen but they don't live in our area but thats ok.  So there was a ton of traffic after so we walked like 6 miles to get to the offices but the cool part is that we contacted all the cars on the way down and even the buses.  It was awesome.  I loved every minute of it.  We contacted over 120 people on that walk!!!!  On Wednesday we had to stay in the offices to help President with interviews so we got him a Thanksigiving gift which was a card from each missionary about how much they appreciate the Grossens.  It was cool.   After we went house shopping and it was super fun.  We found a couple of houses so we might be moving but we aren't sure.  On Thursday we did have pumpkin pie...it was good if you can see by the foto.
Friday we got to meet the new missionaries that are coming to our mission because they were doing there Visas and we were there helping a few missionaries renew there visas.  Saturday we broke out the Christmas stuff and put up the tree which was fun because now its Christmas time!!!!!  Sunday we had a really good late Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and everything it was awesome!!!!  Today we didn't do much... just cut our hair and took a nap haha.  So that was my week... nothing amazing but that is alright!!!!   Love you Mom!!!

Elder Cleverly 

Giving President Grossen the flu shot