February 26, 2018~"Compared to God, Man is Nothing Yet We are Everything to God"

We are still working with them its just hard because we are always doing other things.  Yeah it was a lot of money but that is what happens when missionaries don't take care of houses!!!
Transfers flew this past change.  Its super weird because next thing you know I will be on a plane.... that is super weird and I don't know how I feel about that.   February flew!!!  Oh trust me I have been working out everyday.  We go hard.  Its not a ton that we do because we don't have a lot of equipment but that is alright.
Trust me...I will leave the office and lose a ton of weight because I won't eat as much and I won't workout the same way as I am now so I won't be able to maintain my body and I will go back down to a skinny boy!  

I sent out an email to all the parents and Bishops and Stake Presidents that everybody was ok after the earthquake so that is why he got the email.  That is cool that he knows Elder Cook.  He is a great missionary!!

That is too bad about the baseball tourney but that is alright... sometimes that happens!!! Glad you guys got home safe.  Yeah I have talked with Mash.  He seems like he is doing great and well I don't know about hanging out in the living room but we will for sure hang out hahaha

So my week consisted of a lot of running around and late nights!
To start it off...Tuesday we had to go to the airport super early and drop an Hermana off in one area which was so tiring because it was a lot of travel but oh well then from there we traveled an hour and a half to get to our District Meeting which we showed up late for to drop money off.   After that we went to the offices and I got all the cedulas done so that I didn't have to worry the rest of the week about them! After that on Wednesday we were working on the close (the close is closing the three mission accounts) and I went to the visa place to renew a couple of visas and so we traveled for that. On Thursday we finished the close and President brought us Buffalo Wild Wings and so we enjoyed that but Elder Christensen got food poisoning and was sick the rest of the day so we had to finish the close alone and we didn't go to bed till 1:30 that night! On Friday I went to the visas place to take fotos and fingerprints for the missionaries and then we went back to the visa place to pick up the cards.   We saw some new missionaries there which is always fun. That night we didn't get to bed till 12:30 due to the fact that I needed to finish the visas and Elder Jacobsen didn't finished the close till that night.   After that we had to go to Office Max to make mission binders (binders that have information aobut the mission and how it is.) and we didn't get to bed till 2 because I was up doing 15 of those haha. On Sunday I had a great day at church.  I was dying in the 6 hours that we have because I was tired from the night before but thats alright. That night we had meetings with President and we went through the changes and what will happen.  We set up and then we went to the house but I stayed up talking with Elder Osorio about a lot of things because I hadn't talked with him for a long time and he was staying at our house so it was fun to catch up with him but I stayed up till two as well and today we had to wake up early to go to President's house and do the orientation with the new people so it was a long week... well not long but tiring!  Tomorrow we will be in the airport all day. So this has been my life... a lot of running around but its fun.  I enjoy it! It was sad because the Hermanas that go home tomorrow are the Hermanas that came with us to the mission... at the same time and were in the CCM with me so its sad to see them go but I guess its getting to that time. The meeting went well today.  I had a blast and have fun with the new missionaries.  I get them pumped and they get excited and so its fun for me and I get to meet them and learn about them. There is an Hermana named Hermana Porter that knows me through the facebook page and knows you because you are in charge of the page haha so I talked with her today about that.  There are great missionaries and I am sad that I won't be able to work with them a lot because my time is short here now but I hope I can help them understand the importance of this work and to be a missionary.  I hope that they can look up to me and rely on me to help them because they are so awesome!!

Well that has been my week... hope that everything goes well and know that I love you guys!!!​

I forgot to tell ya that we did a challenge where you had to eat a pound of hamburgers and we did it!!

February 19, 2018~"Love is the Most Powerful Force in the World"~ Dallin H. Oaks

1.  The family that you ate at last week....their last name is Player?  You said they have a great story.  What is their story?
So they have been moving around for the dad's job.  He works for General Motors and he is really high up in the company and travels every three years to go to a different place and helps out there.  He was explaining to us how it all worked out and how it was an internship and he got the job later and it was because he speaks Spanish.  He served his mission in Argentina...I don't know how to really explain it but it was the blessings of serving a mission!!!!

Yeah its too bad they don't get into the Olympics here but oh well. I miss the Olympics... but that's alright there is always in two years. Yeah I love breakfast food!!!  Yes that Hermana is super cool.  I didn't get that foto but I'm glad you got to see that.  Yes the family did come to church we were super happy!!!  This week I played volleyball in boots haha and I balled hard lol.  Yeah I am having fun and its going to get more fun soon because we got a lot of meetings and activities so I'm pumped!!

Yeah I miss baseball a lot... hearing that Stock and the team did good made me sad because I wasn't there to enjoy it with them.  I still wish I could play baseball again though.  I am glad that they did good in the tourney.  Dad told me that the finals got rained out...that's too bad but maybe next year!!

To tell you the truth I don't have a ton to tell ya because we pretty much did the same thing everyday which was work on visas! That is what we were doing all week but the cool part was I got to meet the new missionaries that will be coming in next week so it was exciting.  Also we did go to an abandoned house that the missionaries left and we will have to buy a new boiler because the missionaries destroyed that one and they left 2 years worth of light, water and gas bills so we will have to pay for that too.  It was fun because we went on an adventure haha!!! This coming week is changes so I will be getting ready for the new missionaries and we will go to the airport tomorrow because a new missionary comes in tomorrow so I will have to go pick her up. Also we played volleyball today.  I was the best as usual haha but it was fun.  We played fair and it was a good time that's for sure!!!! Other then that not much.  I don't have a lot to tell you.  Oh I am up to 180 pounds again.  I have been working out a lot and drinking spinach  blueberry and strawberry with banana and other things smoothies so its been helping me get some weight back on me.  I am working out so that's the best part.  Well that is all I got.  I love you!...Enjoy the video and the photos.... the photos are older but that is ok!!!


Elder Cleverly 

February 12, 2018~"Increase Your Faith....Proclaim Your Faith...Let Your Faith Show"~Russell M. Nelson

1.  So what do the people there think about the Olympics?
Actually I didnt know it was going on that is how big it is here haha They don't care to much about it besides the English Ward

2.  What was your favorite things about this week?
My Favorite things this week well this is how my week went:
So first was the District meeting which was really good...I really enjoyed it and I had fun.  We also bought a speaker for the house so we can listen to some tunes as we work out and are getting ready. After that we had the junta de los nuevos which is always fun because first we  are in President's house and second we get to help the new missionaries learn more and grow and do an evaluation on them to see how they are progressing. I got to see Elder Bradley there because he is training and it was great to see him and to talk with him.  I had a blast. We made waffles and I ate three of the big huge waffles ...they were so good.  I was full for the rest of the day though haha

After that day we got back really late to the offices and we were tired but President had us go to the hospital because there was an Hermana missionary that was having surgery and so we gave her a blessing.  As soon as we were done the medicine kicked it and she was acting really weird it was so funny haha.  Then the next day we went back to see how she was doing and to bring them food because they were starving... so we brought them some food!!!
After that we cleaned the office and got all the junk out and so now it is our office.

Saturday we got out and taught a family that we found and it went really well.  The family is a great family and we hope that they can progress!!! The bad part was that they didn't come to church on Sunday so that was a little worrying but we will call them and see what happened. 

Sunday we had a great day at church.  I really felt the spirit speak to me as I was in tune with everything that was being said.  It was a great class.  After we ate with the Players.  They are great.  They are from California and Oklahoma and they have a great family and their story is really cool!!!!

That was my week and today we had our training and then after the training i taught all the Zone Leaders how to win at basketball as I did amazing and beat them all haha.  The bad part was I got a blister on my foot for playing in my church shoes so I guess that was my pay back.  Anyways that was my week... a good week!!!
No we didnt get any cheesecake when we went to the Cheesecake Factory because I didn't want to order food, but President did say that we could have done it I just didn't want to be there to eat...I just wanted to help the guy.

Yeah last week was a blast and I really enjoyed it.  It makes me sad that I won't be there again for baseball:( I have been missing it more and more.   Its sad that I wont be apart of that again. I loved those times to go down to St George and play ball and have fun.  It was a blast!

Well I appreciate the email Mom.  Time is winding down for me and its weird.  I don't know how I feel about it.  I am loving life here but also you will get to see the fam.... its a mix of emotions but I will just go into it with a smile and ride out my last few months working hard and not thinking to much about it.

I love you Mom and I hope that everything goes well in the tournament and that they do good!!!!​

Elder Cleverly

SOAKED

Why does he stay out in the rain???

February 5, 2018~"Happiness Comes From Living the Way the Lord Wants You to Live and From Service to God and Others"~Thomas S. Monson

Yeah I could have gotten sick because we don't sleep much which is alright because we are helping but when its cold and you don't sleep its not the best combination.Ha yeah its simple but some missionaries don't know how to run something complicated so we "dumbed" it up for them.
You are lucky with the weather.  It is starting to warm up and I will finish my mission riding off into the sunset with some nice weather hahah.  That sounds good about  the school plans.  Its weird that I will be going to college soon even though I'm not looking forward to that... but its alright

This week we had Consejo (counsel) which was pretty good. I got to speak about a change of heart and how we can have this change of heart.  I tied it into a puzzle with sometimes we are missing that one piece to complete the puzzle and sometimes as missionaries we have that missing piece as well but if we change are hearts and come to the Lord we are able to complete the picture/puzzle and are able to see clearly what God has in store for us.

After that we had a Zone Conference and well it was good.  We did like a "shark tank" thing but you had to sell items that we use as missionaries.  It was fun and you had to think outside the box on the importance and the why of the item.  It was a great activity 

Later in the week we got a call from President while we were in the offices.  He asked us if we could do him a favor and as his secretaries we are more then willing to do anything.  He asked us if we could go to Cheesecake Factory at 11 oclock at night to give a waiter that had waited on them that same day a blessing.  He was going through a rough time.  So we were in the offices till 1030 and then we took Uber to go there.  We met the guy and he talked to us.  We listened for about 30 minutes and then he accepted our offer to giving him a blessing and we gave him a blessing there in the mall in more of a private place.  The good part was there were not a lot of people because it was 11 oclock at night.  After the blessing we gave him a Book of Mormon and he said he would read it. Now he doesn't live in our Mission so we don't know a lot on how he is doing but first things first... the back story behind this was crazy. So first thing was that day was the day that President gave us Books of Mormon to write our testimonies in. What scripture did I put in??? 2 Nephi 22:2 God is my salvation I will trust and not be afraid for God is my strength and my song and he has also become my salvation. So a very comforting scripture.   After that President and his wife were going to go to another restaurant but it was busy so instead the went to  Cheesecake Factory and guess who waited on them for the 6th time??? Thomas. and who happened to have a Book of Mormon with them with a scripture that was already in it with a testimony.... and we just happened to be in the offices when President called ...and we happened to be in the right place at the right time and that just doesn't happens but rather God loves his children and he helps them through his servants and we were able to see the power of God comfort somebody... the Book of Mormon be a comfort to him.... to be an instrument in the hands of the Lord and to be able to see the plan that God has for us in this life.  It is crazy how it all worked out and how we were so ready in that moment and that is because God knows each and everyone of us and he cares for us and he wants us to return to him and we were able to help someone do that.  Even though Thomas doesn't see it as clearly as we do we can testify that it is true... that God does love us and he has a plan for all of us.

That was our spiritual experience for this week.  It was a great week and we finished it cleaning out the office and making it look good. Also we got to have All you can eat pancakes at Ihop for 49 pesos.  It was awesome!!!!

Elder Cleverly 

Elder Cleverly enjoying All You Can Eat IHOP Pancakes