Monday, May 23, 2011

Fresh Squeezed Limeade...& they speak so Fast!

Well im here and im lost its is all true the 9 weeks at the mtc for spanish no help.... its crazy they speak so fast here so fast i have no idea what honduras ranks on the fastness for speakers scale put i gaurentee its way high. Anyways after atlanta  we got on the plane not a big one pretty small like 25 rows thats it! anyways the ride was super long talked on the plane with people about Honduras all different views oh and while talking on the plane we all had like a lesson with this guy and so he wanted a book of mormon so the one caleb gave me for christmas i wrote my testimony in it wrote it was from my brother for someone who needed it and BAM done deal i guess... anyways so we touched down in honduras no psych slammed down in honduras in the most ghetto airport ive ever seen and the humity hit us its freaking hot here so we went through cuastoms and all then pres veirs and his wife was there to greet us said some hellos then went outside to the bus. And thats when we all relized thats its alot hotter than we all thought. So we threw our luggage on top of the bus and were off driving to the mission home in San Pedro and im not gonna lie i know i am definitly not in the US anymore im pretty sure every car here is stolen because they drive insane!!! in a matter of like 10 mins i saw 2 huge crashes and ya then went to the pres casa ate slept till like 8ish where we then picked up the latinos from guetemala that flew in theyre all pretty cool so that was good. Tuesday went to the office for like trainnig and stuff and also learned in this missioon it is a rule to have a line in your hair, aka comeover so yep sportin it again. Wed came they day of changes and so we all found out who our comps are and where we are going So the whole meeting was in Espanol did not understand a word of it. Then got paired with my comp haha Elder Petersen way tight kid form cedar hills Utah and we are opening an area up! The city is called Cofradia. its up in the mountains anyways after the meeting we took a bus to a bus terminal with the other elders going like 6 hors away when we got to the terminal we went with our luggage to catch a ride up to the area so we had to walk up this hill to the freeway!! or what here is considered the freeway with all luggagein hand ran 4 lanes oh my gosh can you say welcome to Honduras? so we walked down the road a ways until this way old school bus came and picked us up threw all our luggage inside then we had to run to get in. honestly i have no idea why i thought it was empty but it was full and flip the black guy with the foot long finger was scary i have people yelling at me what to do and to move in a language i  dont even know anywyas got on the bus and we rode anbout an hour up the canyon then got to where we were getting off stopped they threw our luggage to us and then we had to pull our luggage on a dirt road for about a quarter of a mile or so where we met a member put yep put our luggage in the back of his 1970 mitsibishi truck with no windows no door panels no console no nothin it honestly was a box with wheels and drove to our house. Man this place is very pretty very green but extremely poor! Got to our house and just unpacked because we are both new to the area then went out while we contacted petersen talked while i listened flip right now its not fun at all because honestly i know like gospel word and hings but to have a conversation nope im hopless. man its hard its hot we dont even have a laundry lady right now so we could possibly be washing our clothes in a pila google that its nuts so other than not being able to understand anyone its good we eat and drink fruit everyday in our yard we have a mango tree concunut avocado and orange its sweet made some limeade from fresh squeezed limes so thats sweet. our area is huge we live in the middle of it close to the church dso if you google that you can see it but its like 15 miles by 15 miles aka huge its hot never gets cold ever oh haha some other facts so our house smaller than my room for sure it is one room with a small square in the corner for toilet and shower my shower is a pvc pipe that comes out of the  wall and the knob to turn it on is a knob for a garden hose outlet. ahah loco si anyways por favor pray for me i need some help with the languge. Love you all hop i can hear from you next week ill send some pics next week to so yep love you come what may and love it right.... I hope so anyways
 
 
Love Elder Clayton 

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Ready to Go!!!

He is so excited to go...and he's ready.  We are so excited for his adventure to begin...even if it's far away. 

 

Hijole! Pueden creer lo? Ultima semana a las MTC loco si? anyways this week has been honestly the only words i can think of are insanly hard so on tuesday im in class and get a call to go to the front office so i wake killebrew up and go down there to a lady that that meets me and tells me that we are recieving a new elder into our district so im like alright are we moving his stuff whats up? she tells me no but that it is an elder that was previously here in august to october but went home and so i was just like alright where is he at? Hes chillin on a couch with all of his bags and things ready to go so we take him to his new room by us get his things go to class come to find out he is going to San Pedro Sula Honduras Tambien anyways the day goes on we kinda get to know him hes from provo utah actually lives about 50 yards from the MTC anyways had a good fireside with Neil L. Anderson 3 apostoles in 9 weeks ya id say i was pretty fortunate so after the fireside we had district review where my branch president talked to me telling me that the new Elder is now in my compoinship so im a trio? ok and i was tight with that im like k hes a cool kid wants to be here its gonna be all good. and it is that way....somtimes anyways i have no idea why i got another hard comp what the? anyways lo siento if i sound frustrated but this week has been an extra struggle for me lo siento. Anyways thanks so much for the package!!! loved it it was the bomb you should be expecting a package as well probably on monday though because i am going to the mail room tommorrow. But thank you and a suprise package today!!? totally pumped thanks havent gotten yet but really looking forward to it. Also with this week Elder Grimes from Cali had a sist on his knee they did surgery on it yesterday and it is so bad he has to go home for 3 months for rehab so can you say ridicoulus week for me and our district getting a new elder leaving one behind what the flip but...."Come what may and Love it"  Right?!!!!! right thats all i can do anyways other sweet stuff that went down i watched a talk by Jeffery R Holland called Because of your faith have you seen it so bomb he like thanks every person for just being a good person its a way bomb talk because really every person is good just with bad choicesanyways pumped for sunday dont know how much time i will have to talk in SLC BUT IN aTLANTA I will have time for sure i have the 800 number i will write it in my planner tonight so i will for sure have it so dont worry about that. man busy week its crazy by the way my package is gonna have like my robe sweat pants some pics silk ties cause they wont make it and ya do you know how pouch mail works? could you Dear elder me TODAY about that because on Saturday they do not print Dear elders stupid i know anyways anyways onn pouch mail do i need to put a stamp on it cause i know they go to salt lake but then do they disperse from there i have my Honduras Adress i will write it and send it to you in my box with the stuff so monday you will get it tomorrow is my Pday to beacuse along with this week they changed our whole schedule up so tomorrow is my Final PDAY!!! at the MTC that is.
Sorry this letter is everywhere hopefully you understand it all. Cant wait to talk to you on sunday or monday morning which ever no se if i can call from honduras but ill see does that number work out of country? anyways love you all hope youre all good and happy love you so much
Love Elder Clayton

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Travel Plans, Only 10 Days Left at the MTC

Newest letter received yesterday.  He's doing so great.  I also got a card for Mother's Day that I have to wait until tomorrow to open...I'm dying but I'll wait.  Disregard the puncuation.  Remember he's trying to hurry.  I promise he knows how to write correctly...ha-ha.

Enjoy...(not sure what he did to get the grey background, but I've tried everything to get it off and I can't do it...sorry)

Hola como le va? well lets start off with some sick news we have our travel plans!!! awesome and nerve racking at the same time  nuts so we leave next Sunday well technicaly its monday morning but really sunday night we fly out of SLC Int at 1:05 AM fly to Atlanta with a 5 hour layover and on to San pedro Sula Honduras from there flippin nuts  but im stoked for it.also we will leave the mtc at some time Sunday night so i will call from SLC y Atlanta that will be so sick im stoked for it  aare you?. well so what else has been going on so Elder Brewer had a problem withh  his ankel so he needed to go to the Dr. and so haha i organized a split to go with him. YES i was free for like 2 hours it was pretty crazy but also wierd everyone was stoked to see us which was sweet we just went to a clinic oon university blvd. so not to far but still pretty crazy leaving after you have only been inside two places for 8 weeks the MTC Y temple so it was  sweet. oh another piece of great info they have opened the outside field up soo  last night we played kick ball for gym so bomb loved running on the grassit felt so good. Then we hosted again this week i was traffic patrol again way fun but you never ansered my question what did you guys do after you dropped me off? and last piece of sweet news sweet but scary i have 10 dias left can you believe that?! i dont know what to think anyways how is life i hear osama is dead nba playoffs are a trip and it was the rainest april in utah  ever WOW that a ton psych but its funny to hear news from in here because whatever it is it doesnt really matter at all well media news, news about families and friends i love to hear. Well that s about it sorry my typing is terrible its the bad keyboard mixed with spanish lo siento K i love hope you all are doing good HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!! talk to you soon.
COME WHAT MAY AND LOVE IT RIGHT
Love Elder Clayton
ps im sorry but ws wondering if i could possibly get 2 more things before i left we have talked to teachers that have gone to central america and 2 things are gold those are Toothpaste so could i possibly get some of that crest extra white y also some of that hair gel from walgreens por favor sorry i dont mean to be a burden i would go and get them pero im  locked up so can not