It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas & Happy B-day Elder Torres

This is a great letter.  He sounds so great.  Bridger has always had such a kind and generous heart and it's apparant he took those talents with him.  The first Christmas package got there and I feel like it boosted his spirits at just the right time.  A true tender mercy felt again.  Love you Elder Clayton, you're a great son and a wonderful missionary.  Enjoy...

Hello family welcome to diciembre!1

First can you guys belieive this week is freaking gonna be december thats nuts i cant even believe it but anywyas your emails sounded way bomb sounded like Thanksgiving was great did you guys eat alot. My Thanksgiving consisted of some beans some rice an egg and...oh i drank some banana soda....ya it was a memorable one haha oh i did go big and buy a dounghnut in the morning i hadnt had one of those for a while haha but it was good. So ya met Elder Richardson huh.. haha how was he doing. Did you like the stuff i cant really remember what i sent home i remember like Zambos and ya those are freaking good i have no idea why you dont like those theyre the best i love like chile lime stuff like lime i buy a bag of chips here and buy a lemon to squeeze the juice over the chips its way good i think its a honduras thing. Anyways ya thats awesome and you cleaned the yard huh and the lights dang i forget how big this week is right. Thats cool though are you guys ready for the Holidays. Freak i am i got the package LOVED THE TREE loved it i also bought a little manger scene so i have it next to my bed getting me into the christmas spirit i didnt unwrap any thing but the bouncy balls were a little unwrapped so i opened those and i could see the gum the orange cream and flip i couldnt wait so i ate that too! Ya the candy that was in the bags snickers hersheys and MYMS there gone i ate em all it was amazing amazing i gotta say i didnt eat alot of chocolate back at home but here i just craze it they dont have chocolate here everyonce in awhile you can find a snickers in a pulperia but theyre like 20 lmps so i dont buy that but ya thank you so much also for the stocking for my comp he was gratful for it. This week it was my comps birthday and he got out of email and told me his parents didnt send him a package or anything and he was a little bummed so i decided alright were gonna party here for his birthday so i called up all the jovens and was like alright be in the church at this time cause were gonna celebrate and  i gave em money to pay for a cake. Then i talked to other way awesome members here to tell em about the day and so everything was gonna be good we go to bed thursaday night i wake up to the phone ringing at like 5 am who in the freak is it its Monolo a way awesome ward member i answer it and he tells me he wans to wish E. Torres Happy Birthday at 5!ª!!!! anyways i pass the phone and he sings to torres and it was all good the day started off bomb. Then in the morning we went and did some yard work alrigt really went and macheted this ladies yard it was cool then she gave us a thing of sugar cane to suck on that was good i like sugar cane and ya normal day went to dinner then after he asked me where we were going i told him this one lesson and we passed in front of the church i told him i needed to use the bathroom we walked in and BAM all the jovenes were there with cake fresco it was awesome so then we left there and went to Monolos house where again he bought cake so needless to say we partyied it up for Torres and he was really happy so it was all good. This week was pretty awesome yesterday we had 15 investigators at church we are teaching 7 families and 3 are progressing so lets just say in Decmber were gonna have baptisms haha im so stoked Fam Villanueva is awesome theyre by far me favorite were going to San Pedro tomorrow to sack her partida and then were gonna marry them and baptize em haha its gonna be awesome. And ya that was my week i had a great one and Hoping this one will be awesome too thanks for all your prayers really i have felt them this week as last week i honestly was a little down and ya but im good i love you guys so muh thanks for everything.

Come What May And Love It

Love Elder Clayton

Broken Glass, & a Testimony of the Book of Mormon...A Really Good Week!

Welp another week right. Man this week was super awesome honestly it was a great one so heres a little bit what went down this week On Tuesday we eat dinner with a nice lady from the ward before leaving we asked if she needed help with anything and she said the only thing was to change this light that was 15 feet in the air i said oh ya dang thats a hard one especially since i havent seen a real ladder for like 6 months then she tells me well i can use the table and a chair alright sweet lets give it a shot so we move the table of WOOD right we thought it was wood anyways then put a chair on it i got up man like a foot short oh dont worry my comp says put this on the chair its like a water jug of some kind im  thinking oh this is really gonna end good thats all i know im gonna freaking fall anyways i get back up step on the chair then the stool and pop crack BOOM the freaking middle of the table was made of GLASS and shattered under i fall and freak it was a scene glass everywhere it was bad the hermana was all cool about it i felt bad and ya after that we just left this week were gonna take her flowers but yeah it was harsh oh i didnt get cut or anything just incase you were wondering. So also one day we were teaching a lesson and i thought im gonna describe a lesson to my family what its like in Honduras so here it goes... So were walking the dirt muddy garbage filled streets when you see an hombre outside ya stop and start to chat with him then you ask if you can share a message and we walk in. His wife is making dinner outside with the wood stove goin smoke blowing in our faces we get to know the family where theyre from and all that family is huge here right and then well have a lesson one of my favorite things to do is to read the book of mormon with investigators outside i love it i guess i have always loved being outside and well i have also come to love the Book of Mormon aka El Libro de Mormon but ya by the way i dont think i told you but i completed the challenge and finished the Book of Mormon 2 weeks ago it was great i love the Promise from Moroni and well really ive learnded you can do it more than once a testimony is evergrowing so ya need to maintain it i dont even know if that last line made sense but i know its true anyways also i am going to describe the best food ever made they are BALIADAS so bomb ok you have a flour tortilla but not the cheap ones you buy from the store no good flour hand made tortillas with beans this hard cheese thats down here i dont know if ive told you but american cheese it does not exist down here the cheese is wierd but its good. then mantaquilla or also its called cream with scrambled eggs avocado oh man they are so freaking good . Anyways thats that this week we are gonna baptize Jaiman a super cool guy we met him like 3 weeks ago hes ready and its gonna be an awesome thing also.... We have another wedding!!!1 Yep gonna marry and Baptize another couple heck ya Carlos and his wife theyre older like 60´s but so awesome Carlos is so freaking funny always making jokes and hes super funny Other than that things are good ive had a good week were working weve found a couple but could always use more so ya now im gonna read your emails and ill add from what you have written....

Well youre guys week sounded awesome i laughed about the frozen yogurt ah those were the days at the NSLPD loved that and heck ya i wish i had some Christmas music i want to listen to it so bad ya its allowed its all good. That is the coolest story about the wallet the coolest there definitly are good people everywhere NYC honduras bountiful utah everywhere good people well man i love you guys sorry im runnin short on time were gonna go play some futbol and learn how to make tortillas so its gonna be super sweet and oh have i told you how much i love tortillas of corn theyre are so good they eat freaking tortillas with everything spaghetti rice beans oh ya by the way dad asked if the food is the same from my cook....YEAH everystinkin day rice beans and a little meat but whatever come what may and Love it I love you guys so much youre the best

Love Elder Clayton

Great News...Paying for a Wedding and Not Loving the Food

 Last week as we didn't get an email we anxiously waited to hear from him this week.  He's doing great.  His attitude is awesome and he had some great adventures this week.  Please do not be offended by the first sentence, it is a family joke and we love and miss our Grandpa North. 

Enjoy...

Well How the Hell Are you (As grandpa North Would Say right remember that one time he said that haha) Haha anyways i was thinking of 1 liners and that came to me anyways freak what a week i didnt get to write you last week thanks to Velasquez haha so amazing he knew i wanted to write home way bad so so its a pretty funny story actually in the morning got a call he had a change so we went to choloma and printed fotos for him then came back to the house and he said okn well rest for a bit ok tight so i laid down for 10 mins in the hammack when he comes out and is like ready ready me he loved just trying toget a reaction outta me but i rarely gave him one so me i get up slow out of the hamack get dressed slow put my stuff in my bag and he tells me nah im tired well sleep and just not use internet today i tell him ok cool im down with that and lay in the hamack and ya he wanted to use it way bad too but freak i wasnt gonna give him a reaction so ya haha and the rest of the day he just kept saying pday was sweet right right i would just say ya man it was a good pday i loved it haha he was ticked but whatever right we got through it. Last Week was super rough but i got through it so we had a wedding for ALejandra y gerson and baptism that was super sweet oh except they were too poor to pay for the freaking wedding so..... i paid the freaking thing freak it was like 50 bucks but ridicoulos it was for a good cause but i feel that in this last month i just blew through lempiras but whatever. The baptism was sweet! it was really good. So after the whole p day thing we had changes on Miercoles i have a new comp.........Elder Torres de Guatemala but honestly im stoked this kid is a stud a real worker in just 5 days were good friends really Im teaching him english so thats pretty cool too. Anyways well this week i dont know what has happened with the food here but this week it has been bad i have eaten pigs feet again man theyre terrible i hate em also ate cow tongue ahhhhh that was super wierd but whatever also haha oh man so pulpčrias right theyre like little stores but there is one for every corner like honestly every 100 feet theres a pulp and they have everything you need food wise so we use em for like breakfast or snacks and ya. anyways i bought some well its suppose to be sweet but its not bread and i go to eat it and its just super moldy and ah nasty so what do i do well i was pretty much starving and ive been in honduras for almost 6 months so my immune system has really built itself up so i wiped off the really bad parts ya wiped it off it was like wet and soggy and ya i ate that crap haha havent been sick yet but well see what goes down haaha anyways oh also at changes i saw Peterson SI HOMBRE i was so stoked havent seen him in like 4 months we talked for like 45 mins it was awesome!Also something big happened the other day friday they put the angel Moroni on the TEMPLO it was cool i didnt get to see it but alot of members went to Teguc to see it go down and they all said it was amazing it was cool. So ya we dont have alot of people to teach right now it sucks we gotta find some people. I wanna find more that are conversions and not just baptisms right now theyre puttuing alot of pressure on us to baptise but i dont know i dont want to baptise just to baptise i was to help CONVERT people to the gospel and its hard but were getting through it thanks so much for all your emails you guys are the best last week sucked that i didnt get to talk to you but this week was just that much better i love you all so much thanks for everything!!!!

Hope someone is on

Love Elder Clayton

A Really Long Week...

Not sure what happened, maybe transfers, maybe a power outage, maybe too busy.  But, we didn't hear from Elder Clayton this week.  I'm sure his week was longer than ours, but we are so looking forward to this week and an email.  How in the world did people do it when email wasn't an option.  I would never have made it. 

Love him and needless to say my heart is at peace.  Heavenly Father is watching over him, we are praying for him and I'm sure he's just fine.