July 17, 2017~ "Happy 1 YEAR this WEEK"

Thats alright.. I can wait for the package and the tie haha

Well the house does have two bathrooms and its so nice honestly!!!

Thats good to hear about Jackson and awesome you got to talk to B Patt... I miss that guy.

Thats awesome to hear about Stock!!!

So this week we have been finding more people and having some success.   So we have a guy named Martin... he should get baptized on the 30th so we will see.  He is super good and we are hoping everything works out.   We have been traveling a lot... mainly in camion (truck) and combi (bus)...you can ask Fernanda what that is.... so I have been really tired haha and we are going to be baptizing a lot in the zone and as zone leader that makes me feel so good.  We are going to be zona de poder!!!! (Power Zone).  

 Thanks for everything Mom and enjoy the fiesta and I hope I'm there in cardboard haha ...love you Mom!!!

July 10, 2017~""Show Respect to ALL and Hatred to NONE"~Dale G. Renlund

1.  So did all those baptisms happen in your Zone?
We had 12 baptisms this week... it was good!!!

That's an awesome experience.  What I have learned here is that we can try to force people to get baptized but what it is going to do is they are going to go inactive and not want anything to do with it.  It should be on their own will and that's the truth.  It's their salvation.  I can teach them everything and invite them but if they don't want it, its not in my hands anymore because I did what I was suppose to do.
Sounds like a fun 4th.  We didn't do anything here and it is like Oregon ...it just rains here everyday haha. I got the shaver and the shoes and the gel.  I found something but its not the same... but this week was awesome.

This week was so much better even though we were traveling around doing interviews but thats why it was super good because we baptized 12 in the week!!!!! and we got to be a part of that in the interviews as well.  We baptized one with the hermanas de cuajimalpa!!!!! We baptized a kid that is 12 years old and he is super awesome.  His name is Alonso.  He followed me on facebook he said haha.   It was a super good week and well we found some good people to teach.... honestly miracles and we also had 4 new people in church this week!!! so a great week.  On Saturday we had our first English class here and it was huge!  There were so many people and I will try getting pics for you... to show you that it was good!!!!   I also will send pics of our house and well we got soaked a lot this week because it rains every single day and its not too fun but its not hot so we have a good time.   We are trying to find new people now to teach so we are contacting and well I will be renewing my Visa this week because I will have a year soon.... that is so crazy!!!!!   That was my week and I hope you guys have a good week too.  I Love you Mom!!!!


Elder Cleverly 

July 3, 2017~""Every Day May not be Good but there is Something Good in Every Day"

1.  What is Elder Bonner like?  What does he like to do? (like what was he involved in in High School?)
He is good.  He really likes to work and its fun being with him. He likes to bike, wakeboard, outdoors stuff and in high school he wrestled.

2.  What did you learn from your last companion?  Did he finish up his mission?
I learned a lot about how to teach better and taking lots of fotos haha and how we need to enjoy the mission because we only have two years to do it and then never again. He finishes his mission this change so in August. 

3.  Are you and Elder Bonner the only missionaries in this area or are there others?
Well in our area yes.  We are the only ones in the Ward but in the Stake there are other missionaries.  We are the zone leaders and so there are others. 

4.  Do you have someone to wash your clothes in this area or do you do it yourself?
Yeah a sister in the Ward washes our clothes. 

The area here is super big and beautiful.  I will try taking pictures when I can.  Thats good that Stock did good and they were asking about him.  Thats sad...I'm going to miss Trey so much.  I love that guy and KT but he will probably study there in Utah but still I don't want them to go!!!  Dang I miss fireworks... Here they aren't like they are there.. they just blow up here and no colors so I don't really like them but thats alright.

This week was a wild one haha because of the rain and all. I thought that the consejo de liderazgo (leadership council) was super good.  I learned a lot and I enjoyed everything that we talked about... the optimism and how we should always have the attitude of working hard and just going.  It gave me a lot of energy to work this week and well it was a good week because of that.   On Wednesday after the conference we got back super late due to the rain here and not being able to get a taxi or use metro... it was a down pour and we got pretty wet..  The metro was closed down and all the roads were closed. On Thursday and Friday we worked and we found a couple of people through contacts.   Saturday we went to El Mirador and did interviews but we didn't feel good at all about how they came out and so we told them that they had to wait a week.   I felt good about our decision and how we felt about it because both of us felt that it wasn't right.   On Sunday we had two baptisms and it turned out great.  This week we should have at the end of the day on Sunday19 baptisms in the Zone so I am super pumped for that.  We are going to try to be at some of the baptisms to cheer on our missionaries here but we might not be able to go to all of them haha.   We had our zone activity and we watched a video about a football team and how they we need to have a good attitude and we should always push ourselves to our limits.  The movie was about a kid named Brock and he bear crawls with someone on his back the entire length of the field and he was only suppose to go to the 50 yard line but they blind folded him and let him go and the coach was pushing him all the way to the end.  It was really good and it was a good interpretation that we need to go all the way till we can't anymore.  That is what he did and he didn't think he could even do 50 yards but he went all the way and sometimes we need to block out our obstacles and fears and just listen to the Lord and he will take us all the way to the end... so that is my message today. 

Love you guys!!!!!

June 26, 2017~"Stay Close to the Spirit and the Spirit will Stay Close to You"

1.  How was your first week in your new area/new companion?
~It was strange because we were lost but good because we are both lost together haha

2.  Does this area have a lot of things in it?
~yeah... its a big difference from like a city to pueblos... its super weird

3.  How far away is this area from your other area?
~I'm not sure... we are more up on the hills than my other area 

4.  Where were the Baptism pics?  You said that you had those baptisms but we didn't get any pictures of it.  
~I sent them but I'll try again 


Well sorry to disappoint on the email this week but its not a lot when we are opening an area because we just contact and get to know the members more.   I like this Ward.  All of them are super good and they are really nice.   My area is super beautiful and I enjoy being here and our house is so beautiful... honestly I love it haha.   We are tired most days because we walk around a lot but its alright because we are looking for people.   we have three fechas for this week so we will see if we can baptize and well other than that we are trying to find more and more.  Its hard to start from scratch but its also good because we can talk with everyone and find people that we wouldn't find if we were cleaning the area.   Its weird that I will be completing a year this change.  The time has gone by so fast and its crazy how much fun I have had.   We have become good friends with the converts of Elder Bradley and Elder Christensen named fam. Barrera.  They are super cool and really good members.  They help us out a lot with rides and food.   All we have been doing is getting to know where all the members live because its hard to know where everyone lives... but its good.  Thats really it... not much sorry!  I will try sending you the pics of the baptism!!! I love you Mom​!

Hector and his Family's Baptism

June 19, 2017~"You Don't Find the Happy Life, You Make It"~Thomas S. Monson

1.  Is this week a transfer week?  
Yeah we had transfers and I am still a Zone Leader but I am opening an area up and so its going to be hard haha 

This week was the last week of my time here in Tacuba.   It was a great week that we had and a bad week due to the fact that I had to say goodbye to all my family, to my friends and family here in the barrio tacuba la bella. I love this area but its time for me to go to another area.   We were passing by with Hector and his family a lot this week so that we could baptize them and guess what, that is exactly what we did.  We had four baptisms on Saturday and confirmed them as members on Sunday and it was a great feeling because he has been trying to be baptized for 2 years and he finally separated with his girlfriend and they got baptized.  It was a great feeling to be able to baptize them. It was my goal to leave this area with them as members and that is what I did.  I completed my goal and helped them take one step closer to God.   I have been in contact with him since I came to the area and now my last day he was baptized.   He told us that everything that he wanted never happened or he never could do it but when we got to that day he told us that at last it was his time and what he wanted. and he did it for him to come closer to God.   He took that step and I am proud of him.   I also said goodbye to a lot of members and friends that I have here.  It is the sad part about leaving this area because that is what happens... we get closer and comfortable and then they send us to another area.  I wish I could be here longer but God wants me in another area and that is whereI I will be.  I can only help certain people like Hector... only I and my comp could have done that because he is our convert and we were sent here to help him....now I got to go to work in Castorena.   We don't know anything about this area and there isn't a map so its crazy.  Elder Bradley will help us with that tomorrow but its a big area.  I am excited to get to work here with Elder Bonner (my new companion).   He is super good and we will get along really well.  He is from Draper and went to Jordan High School.   I hope I can have success here because I think this area is good and when we learn where everything is then we will have a little better control over everything.  It will be a challenge so we will see what we can do.

Elder Cleverly