January 29, 2018~"No Matter What, We Always Have Worth in the Eyes of Our Heavenly Father"

~HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ELDER CLEVERLY~

1.  Are you going to be doing anything for your birthday?  Did you get my package?  

yeah I did get it... today actually haha!  I love it!... its a good package!!!!!

Yeah its crazy that I am 20... its hard to think that.  Thats cool that Kaelyn won!!!!

So this week was a good week and also a lot of work because my Comp had to do the close (the close is closing the three mission accounts every month its a pain) we were going going going but some highlights for this week were:

I made our website you can check it out.  Staying up till 11 every night to finish up the close...I was super tired. 

I got sick on Thursday so I haven't had a great health week!!! 

We drank a lot of coke because we were tired and to stay up we would drink coke haha... thats the video.  We didn't have cups.We also ordered some Mitekate which are burritos and they are huge and we ate two each!  After that I went to migracion to get my green card and I saw Tio Avila there haha.  You like my sweatshirt??? I got it made. 

Also we had an activity in Castorena and I contacted like over 300 people... it was awesome!!!!  I can't really remember if there is anything else so I will close with that.  I'm having a good birthday and I am loving life.....Living the dream!!!!​

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELDER CLEVERLY!!

January 22, 2018~"If We Look to the World and Follow its Formulas for Happiness, We Will Never Know Joy"

1.  We got a new Prophet.  What are thoughts on all of it?  
It was cool how they explained how the system works and who will be the new prophet and I sustain the new prophet...Nelson
He is in great shape!

Yeah the transfers are going fast and I have 5 months left.... that is crazy Mom!!!  There were 9 new missionaries that came but there are going to be more...yeah we are early risers!  Elder Jacobsen is awesome!  He went to BYU before the mission.    He and I get a long so well.  Yeah it will be my last birthday here so I hope its good.  I'm excited for my birthday!!!!

This week was nothing too exciting... just the normal work in the offices but it has been a blast going with Elder Jacobsen.  He is a great guy and we have had some fun. He is stressed because he hasn't been trained so I have tried to help him but its a little difficult so we are going through it one day at a time.   The airport went well except that one Hermana missed her flight so her fam was a little upset and well she was crying.   Nothing else after that just looking forward to my birthday!!!! I love you Mom!!!

Elder Cleverly 

Elder Cleverly with his new companion Elder Jacobsen

January 15 2018~ "Live Your Life to be a Good Example of What You Believe~Robert D. Hales

Yeah its good and we are doing great here. It was fun to go work a little bit so I was super excited. The sports was fun but I was hurting so bad after that I couldn't walk for like three days because I was in pain.

Thats too bad that yours wasn't fun because mine wasn't super crazy but its not boring.

So this week we have been working hard to get all the new missionaries ready to get here and we got everything ready to go.  We found out that I was going to get a new companion so I am with Elder Jacobsen.  He is from Montana and is super cool.  We are going to get along super well because we have the same interests.  Its cool to be with him and it was rough his first day which was today because he had to wake up early like 4 oclock to go to the airport and we just barely got back from Pres house due to the meeting we had with the new missionaries and tomorrow is going to be worse because we are going to the airport again haha.  It will be alright.  He will get used to this life we have here in the offices haha... but anyway I don't have much left to say besides that so I love you Mom and hope things are well!!!

Elder Cleverly 

January 8, 2018~"The Service that Counts the Most is usually Recognized by God Alone"~ Michael T. Ringwood

1.  We thought your Living Christ was cool.  I printed it off so I can frame it.  That was a pretty neat idea.  How did it go with sharing it at Consejo?
​It went well.  At the beginning I shared the story about Tyler and always fighting to the finish and then a little later... after I got a little emotional when I talked about the Living Christ... yeah I know I'm a baby. But it went well and I'm glad I got to help the mission feel something.

That sounds fun going to Rush and playing all those games!!!
That is the dumbest thing ever him trying to get out of paying by giving fake info...I'm not the biggest fan of liars.

Yes President Monson was a great guy and when we got the news we sang we Thank Thee O God for a Prophet....my Comp and I and the APs and then we listened to some of his last and famous words. It was powerful

So this week was kind of different and I will tell you why.  So on Monday we worked in the office because it would have been easier to do that then to have P- day so we worked here in the office and got everything worked out and then on Tuesday we had Consejo and that is where I shared my talk.   That was a fun day because we are really picking things up here in the mission.  We are starting to make some movement in the right direction and its awesome to be part of that so that I can be able to help this mission fly.

On  Wednesday we took P- day and we went up to Castorena to spend the day there and well we played monopoly and we got to go with some members there that are really awesome and have been since I was in that area.   At night we did divisions with the APs and I worked with Elder Lipscomb.  We got to go see a family that me and Elder Bonner found that got baptized and it was cool because we were the first ones to find them and they got baptized and so it was a blessing to see that my work paid off even if I wasn't in that area anymore. They thanked me for finding them which that was cool to hear!!!

On Thursday we got a call from Pres. saying that an Elder got a third degree strain and that he will be going to the hospital and he will be with us for a week.  The Elder will be with us till next week.  His name is Elder Allen....so on Friday we were in the hospital for a while to do that but we did get to cut the Rosca and we had great breakfast there... it was good.  On Saturday we went to the airport to drop off an Hermana that was going home and we had to wake up super early.  We ate at Toks and then President let us go home and sleep for a little bit before we got on to the rest of the day.  On Sunday I don't know if you received a foto but we ate with that family... a great family from the ward and then we got back to the office and we found out the power was out and we had lots to do so we worked on our phones and got something done and then we went to Pres house and finished the rest.  Today we had an Elders Conference and there we played a tournament of sports and I was playing like a beast as usual... it was way fun!!!!!

So that was my week and this week we are going to be super busy because we got the new people coming in and I got to get that meeting set up and ready to go so we have a nice smooth meeting!!!!

I love you Mom

Elder Cleverly 

January 1, 2018~ "Happy New Year"

1.  The dates that you put for baptism...did any of those go through?
They haven't been to church but it might be because of the holidays 

2.  How was Christmas Day?  How was Coco?
Christmas was good.   We went with some members and had cinnamon rolls and biscuits and gravy.  We played a bunch of games so it was super fun!!!  Coco was a great movie.  We watched it in Spanish and I say its better in Spanish because you can see the culture....o thats good that I can understand it.  I recommend it. 

3.  Did you enjoy getting to see everyone here together? 

Yeah it was cool..Didn't really get to talk to everyone but thats fine... I'll talk to them more when I am there haha

6.  Are you doing anything for New Years Day?

We stayed up last night and watched fireworks and we also let lanterns off with President... nothing besides that because we got consejo (counsel) tomorrow

Its always good to see you guys!  The horse race is actually really fun and its cool to watch !!!  I heard that Star Wars is a good movie.  We see the advertisements all the time.  Thats cool about the movies.  I love movies haha.  Is there no snow???  Thats too bad aobut the car.  Hope everything comes out ok.

Yeah my last birthday here...  My last everything here... how sad.
I don't have anything that I really want... just candy haha but if there is something you think of, send it on down.  Maybe something that I have in the house that I left that you think I could use... I don't know... my mind is blank

My week hasn't been too crazy.  Just mainly here in the offices and well on Christmas Day we spent the day at the family's house and then went to presidents house and we watched the movie Coco.  President gave us permission to watch it there without him there.

On New Years Eve we stayed up and ate tamales and lit lanterns off and then we went to bed... nothing crazy.  Tomorrow we are having consejo (counsel) and I will be talking about my Living Christ that I made and also about F2TF (fight 2 the finish)... so it should be good.  I attached the Living Christ I made so you can read it as well as a couple fotos.  I love you Mom and hope you guys have a good year!!!

Elder Cleverly