May 29, 2017~"We Were Not Placed on this Earth to Walk Alone" ~Thomas S. Monson

1.  Do you have to speak every Zone Conference?
Yeah... haha its part of my responsibility.

This week was good....super hot but a good week.  I got a little sick because we ate pizza and it didn't sit right in my stomach but that's alright.  I found something really cool in Alma 37:37 because I hadn't been sleeping much.   We have been continuing to teach Hector and his kids as well as two brothers, Jorge, Luis and Manuel and Carlos and Alfredo and Rosalia so we are doing good with that. We are hoping for all of them to get baptized this month.  We have dates so we will see what happens. Today we played soccer against the other Zone Leaders and the APs and it was super fun.  I will try to get the pics.  I played super good...I hurt now and I am so out of shape but I played good and I think people were surprised that I could actually play haha.   Its not a sport that I take time in but I'm an athlete and so I feel I can do it haha.   Not much more...we are going to be having Concilio (Council) and so I will have a lot more things to talk about because its been the same thing everyday so it feels like I don't have much news but we have been doing good... helping a lot of people so I'm enjoying it.  I have been able to see Elder Edwards and Osorio more.  We slept in there house yesterday and we talked a lot.  It was super fun.  I really enjoyed it and after the game we bought pizza and had a huge feast in their house haha. It was a good day today!

I just wanted to tell ya a story about what happened this week too. We had a lesson and it was a weird lesson because they didn't accept to listen to us again.  I went into the lesson dizzy and not really feeling well due to the pizza that I ate but then after we started teaching and I didn't feel bad again till after we got done. I thought it was a great lesson even though we didn't get accepted by them to come back but I saw the blessings of the power of God ...honestly it was cool.   Well that is what I got...I love ya and stay safe Mom!!!

Elder Cleverly with Elder Edwards

Mission Soccer

Eating Pizza with the AP's

May 23, 2017~ "Kindness is Powerful"

Thats too bad about baseball and well maybe next year will be better.  I know who his son is because he has come a couple times to the misión so I have met him.   Is Charly coming here for the MTC??????

So this week was just a normal week.  We didn't do too much but yesterday we had a Zone Conference and it was super good but super hot haha.  I spoke about Baptism and I compared it to Thomas Edison and how he spent the whole time trying to make the light bulb and if we do that with our lives... focus on the Góspel the entire day, it will have an impact and we will have more success and growth in the Góspel.  It was fun yesterday but other than that nothing really to report.   I Love You Mom... sorry for the short email.

Elder Cleverly 

May 15, 2017~ "Every Day May not be Good, But There is Something Good in Every Day"

We are working on the Baptisms right now.  We have some people so we will see how many and when.  We are working with Alfredo and Rosalia,Hector and his children and we have some references so we hope we got some good people.

Yeah, the world has gotten bad and it is just a way we can show our faith and its the truth that we are the strongest people because its a lot harder to grow up in this world.

Thanks for the letter Mom.  It was fun to talk to you guys and I hope that you guys play well!!!!

Elder Cleverly 

May 8, 2017~"Perhaps This is the Moment For Which You Have Been Created"

1.  Looks like its a transfer week...Do you know if you are staying?  

We had changes and I stayed but my comp left.  I have the child of  Davy Adams... his name is Elder Solis

Thats so funny about Davy because now I'm with his companion and I have heard a lot about him ...he was a leader in the mission haha. 

Thats super cool about the family of Fernanda... Will I see her on Sunday????  

I don't want to say too much because then we will not have anything to talk about on Sunday... so this week my comp left to another area and I got a new comp.  I'm LZ1 now and I'm super excited for this change... we will see how it goes. I don't know what else to say because this last week we didn't do much because we had to worry about numbers and stuff like that but now we are going to start off the new change right with a lot of people to teach so I'm hoping it will be good.  I love you Mom... keep up the good work!!

Elder Cleverly 

May 1, 2017~"The Holy Ghost Warns, Comforts and Testifies"

1.  Did the Baptisms happen?
Yeah we had two...Alma y Monica

2.  Are things still going good with Elder Batz?
Yes,  we are having a good ole time... honestly its not the same as Elder Osorio but its still good haha

3.  So do you feel like you stay pretty organized as a Zone Leader?  Able to juggle things pretty well?  
Yeah we are doing pretty good... sometimes we forget things but thats alright... we aren't perfect haha

Thats sweet about the Jazz but now they play the Warriors which will be hard but a good game too.
So not a ton this week because we had to travel a lot and take a lot of pictures of the houses and do inspections of the houses.  We had to do 7 interviews for the Zone haha but we had a good week.  I will just tell you the story that I like the most... so we had two baptisms... the Mom Alma she lost her sight about 4 months ago and she has had a fear of water before, so now it is worse.  We had the interview and she passed but on Sunday we were really worried and her fear of the water and so was Paty her child and Monica her other child.  I was the one going to to do the Baptism and she usually screams but when I got in with her she didn't do anything... she was calm and controlled her fear and was Baptized... it was the scariest thing of my life but it ended up working out and I'm so glad that it did haha.   I know that the Lord allowed me to baptize her and it was honestly a miracle to be able to do it.  That honestly was my week.  We didn't work a whole lot this past week but we got what we needed to do.   We did get to hang with Elder Osorio and Elder Edwards because they did the interviews and we ate with them today!!!!   Not much else...sorry but yeah hope we have some more news next week... love ya!!!!

Elder Cleverly

Alma and Monica's Baptism

Obviously Elder Cleverly is getting fed well...KFC

Hanging with the AP's Elder Edwards and Elder Osorio

April 25, 2017~"Even the Best Technology Can Never Be A Substitute for Revelation From Heaven"

1.  Did you have the baptism this week?
Yeah we baptized Ricardo!!!!

Haha that is so funny about Devin...I miss that guy haha 
That is good that Stock is doing well and keeps strong. Well this week was a good week because we had a baptism and we will have two for this week too!!!! It was a good baptism. We baptized a guy named Ricardo who really changed for the better.   He was really having problems with smoking and when we showed up he changed and was able to get baptized.  It was a good feeling to be able to baptize him even though the water was freezing cold!  Something that I learned that I shared in my talk yesterday in the Zone Conference is as Missionaries we are helping people prepare to go to Disneyland.  We are  helping them change their life so that each home really is the Happiest Place on Earth.  We help families be together forever, to love and be concerned about each other and to feel loved by Heavenly Father regardless of their age, skills, appearance or talents. We are helping them see that they really are Princes and Princesses... that there is Royalty within them and that one day they will each live in their own Castle. We are helping to build a Magic Kingdom, the Kingdom of God on Earth in preparation for the Kingdom of Heaven that will soon come when the Savior returns.  As Missionaries, we are the luckiest people on the earth... Just a little something that I learned this week and I hope that it can bring joy and help in your lives.... other then that we are working hard and will hopefully have two baptisms this week ...so I'm pumped haha.  Love you Mom... stay safe!!!!!


Elder Cleverly 

Looks Like there is a new kind of Easter Bunny in Town

Ricardo's Baptism

Ricardo's Baptism Day

Elder Cleverly with Ricardo

April 17, 2017~ ""It is Far Better to Follow the Creater than the Crowd"

1.  What was Easter like there in Mexico?  
Well Easter here is called "Semana Santa" and lets just say the Catholics are crazy with reenactments of what Christ did for us.... they really go too far with it!!!

2.  What was the best thing about this past week?  The worst thing?
The best thing was that we heard the BYU synfania (symphony) play and it was super good.  The bad thing was that we arrived one night to our house late because we were super far away and we got done late from our lesson but it was a good lesson!!!

Haha that doesn't suprise me that you are bruised haha you are always bruised lol

That is really true... we look at it as a day to day thing.  When we don't have a good day we go and try to do better the next and each week we get to renew our covenants and follow Christ a little better each week

So this week was super fun and super hot.   Since its pascua (Easter)  we are challenged to teach about Christ and what he did for us and what pascua means.  For me its a new life, a second start and a blank page because he suffered for our sins so we can start new and follow him in a different way each day.  It was a great week.  There were not a lot of people in the streets. We got to teach with Alfredo and his wife and it was a great lesson but we did get home late haha but that's alright.  We are preparing for the baptism of Ricardo this week so we hope he passes the test so he can get baptized this week.  On Friday we had exchanges with Elder Richards and so I was with him while his comp was with Elder Batz.  It was good.  We worked super hard and even though there was this guy that told us that the devil is right and how there will be a war in Mexico and that the devil is going to win and how he is just bluffing right now and really he has all the cards and that we are wrong and we don't know because we just think in the way of God... it was a good day haha.   We found  a lot of people to talk to and teach and we got to go listen to the BYU Idaho Band that came.  It was good and we got to talk to the members of the band and the Zone.   I know what its like to stress.  For me we are stressed a little bit because the Zone isn't doing too good.  We are going to Baptize but everyone else no, so we are really working to get that fixed.   On Sunday we went to the temple with Ricardo and we listened to a family sing about the Pascua (Easter).  Also on Sunday I talked in church about the Atonement and how Christ didn't want to suffer and die but he did it because he loved us and still loves us and he loves God.  He asked if there was another less painful way but of the will of the father not his will so it really made me show that yes he had a hard life and for us its hard too but if it was hard for the only perfect being in the world shouldn't we be able to suck it up and go with what we have.   It opened my mind a lot and its an awesome thing to learn.  Well that was my week.  I love you!  Stay safe!!!!

Elder Cleverly

a Street named Salt Lake 

the Virgin Mary

I found Utah!

The Band 

The Place I live in

A statue of my life that I had made