Where in the World am I, & Bathing in the Streets

His emails are always good for a chuckle and this one does not disappoint.  He sounds so good and happy.  I think you'll find this one brings a smile to your face...again.  Enjoy...

Ok well from the title youre probably thinking ok freak what has happened in Copan this week...the better question would honestly be WHAT THE FREAK HASNT HAPPENED like where do i live i ask myself 2 or 3 times a day but whatever so ill get to the explaining so San Pedro was good but so freaking long the bus killed me it is so far but it was good we got thre and hit up Macdonalds Breakfast freak that was good havent had that for a good year now but ya so we had the meetings they were way good i really liked them they always make me want to be a better missionary so ya they were good i just have to work harder and better in this area to find more people we have to we gotta help this area everything we had just completly died on us so we are looking for news so pray that we can find them or at least a family to go to church and stuff we have people but theyre just they so many problems with papers dont wanna get married uhhhhhh so we need some help so ya anyways got back from San Pedro and we found a Lady who is a neighbor of a member and shes a nice lady named Fita she cant read or anything like that but ya so we are working with her and so i live in Honduras Right where ok not gonna lie we are just Poor all the time you see kids naked or People Bathing Outside in Pilas and Stuff right but dont worry theyre never naked...... pretty much usuakky always have boxers on or if its a girl a bra and underwear so ya anywyas this week we go to pick up a member to go with us to Fitas House and were walking along and get to Fitas house when her Kid is bathing outside in boxers JUST BOXERS RIGHT ok typical until the kid turned and it was FITA!!!!! ahhhhh i just told the member we would come back another day and the member just laughed and said ok and Walked in its just like they dont care here dont care and just dont kjnow i guess but freak talk about the Low of the week man 50 year old Fita showering Topless ahhhhhh i pray for that image to leave my head haha nah its gone but ah man so hopelfully theres youre laugh for the week or at least Richord Memmotts right Thanks Richord for always supporting me youre the bomb.

 

So then also this week we found and are teaching a huge drug addict named Simon AWSOME GUY HAS TALKED TO THE MISSIONARYS BEFORE BUT JUST HAS SOME HUGE PROBLEMS MOSTLY WITH cocaine and Marijuana but we are going to try to help him he love the Savior so much has pics up on his wall and its just really a sad thing he knows and believes so strong in the savior just this freaking drugs have got him trapped ina hole so we are teaching him that in this hole the savior is reaching in to pull him out at this moment so sad but really an aweosme guy well i love you guys i feel like these past weeks have kinda sucked for working i am just thinking about you guys and stuff but im good im love you guys youre the best.

 

Love From Copan  Elder Bridger Clayton

I had told him that I found a picture of him mowing the lawn for NSL on one of his last days.  I never did tell him that I was missing him, but amazingly enough, he felt the same. 

 Bridger:  its good man mom this week i missed you i wish i could just hang out with you this week and go to Paces maybe the mall up in Layton that would be cool huh hahah i love you mom thanks for everything

I love this boy!!!

Business as usual & Sweet Oakley Sunglasses

This week's email was just a business as usual one.  Which to be hones is just fine with me.  There is also a bonus picture of him and another elder.  Elder Floisand is from Rose park and his dad works with Wayne.  They are in the same area and were able to do divisions/splits with each other.  This picture was sent from his mom via Facebook.  He looks and sounds great.
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Well this week was just one of those weeks right but some sweet things happened so first on Tuesday i had divisions with Elder Floisand dude that kid is so tight man and a way good missionary we hap fun up in copan the only thing is we were thinking that copan is so different because honestly solo like 42% of people here can read.......so ya thats a litlle hard when wwe are teaching but its all good i guess they just dont go to school go figure so ya it doesnt help that in some of the villages we teach and houses they dont have ELECTRICITY!!!!! but freak who needs lights anyways right..are they physco but ya we had a good working week but the only crappy thing is that noone went to church freaki dont understand this Copan thing like we even got up early Sunday and Passed by 8 houses not one wanted to go freaking ridicoulous but who knows but ya so this week in church we had the grand attendance of 31 with me blessing the sacrament my comp passing and i had to talk ...awesome freak it is so smalll here like noone goes to church its hard. but oh heres a funny story for ya all so we are going to the church saturday at like 2 oclock to help clean it and as we are unlocking the gate to get in this car just stops and these people are just jumping out but its liike a 6 foot 9 gringo and he just saYS hey so where are you elders from so friendly and  awesome they were from pleasent view utah and his wife was a missioanry here 20 yearsa ago!!!!! pretty tight we talked toem for like 15 mins but it was awesome to see someone allhe saisd though was i just cant wait to go back to america hahahaha its not that bad here i thought i love Honduras but he had had enough hahah youll have to allcome here one day its so tight! Also so we were in a store the other day when i see tis pair of Oakley sunglasses and im like freak these look real and we were ion a pretty nice store i asked the price and the lady was like um......50 Lmps alright ill buy freaking like 2 dollars and 50 cent you cant go wrong only to find out THEY ARE FREAKING REAL after talking to 6 Elders and Other People we have confirmed it i bought New Oakley Sunglasses that are worth 129in the states for 2.50 hahaah i love it also mom asked how much was 200lmps for the gym for a month its about 10 bucks hahah pretty good deal right i cant complain. Anyways thats pretty much allthat went down this week normal week.

Well Love you All Have a good week

LÑove Elder Clayton

Rotten Eggs bring on the Dreaded Double Dragon

This email may be a bit graphic, however he documents quite well and it's pretty enjoyable and entertaining reading.  Made me feel bad to hear how sick he was, but as it was a few days in the past when he wrote this email, he seems fine and happy as usual.  Love him so much.  For some reason I have been missing him even more this week.  But, today marks his 15 month mark...I couldn't be happier.  Although he says it's going too quickly for him.

Here it is, enjoy...

Well i am thinking that all of you guys are wondering what in the freak is a double dragon thats a mission frase here so let me explain what went down so ok this is what went down Wed we go to work and at night go to this members house for dinner which it was a normal honduras dinner with Cheese Beans Eggs and Mantaquila its like a white cream thing i like it anyways we sit down to eat and i just felt like something wasnt right the eggs smelled way wierd so i was just like whatever its all in my head so we ate up and bounced when we got home i was laying on my bed and my comp asked me how i was and i said good my stomach is a little bit upset but all good he said alright i took the dats and went to bed until about 12¨30 when i woke up and went to thhe pila and threw everything up freak first time like the first time i have really thrown up and i was just like that was disgusting and went back to bed to only get up about 45 mins later because the other half of me was about to explode so ok this image might haunt you but its the expierence right annyways there i am in the bathroom pretty much sounded like Harry from Dumb and Dumber and all of a sudden im just like i gotta freakin throw up man ohholy cow i got nothing then i see some hope a pitcher that we use to catch water when it rains is right there in front of me if i can only grab it i will be good...when i lean forward and BOOOOOOOM both ends go exploding ah freak i grab the pitcher and fill it up and i think ok im good but we got a problem i am covered in puke and its 130 in the morning so i strip down and jump in the shower then went to the pila and washed all my clothes  sorry for the pause the computer did somme wierd thing so ya ill continue anyways so that goes down wash up and go to bed its like 2 now go to bed only to go through this same thing 5 more times oh my gosh until 7 am it was so bad man ah hahah but now its over i for sure I ate rotten eggs though man so bad but i got the double dragon called the double dragon cause you blow fire outta both ends haha but ya so that was good. Also It has just poured this week and lights have gone out for almost all the day ridicoulous i feel like im living in the 1700s here with candles everynight to chill with. And Boom started hitting up the gym it is a dump and the lady wanted 300 lmps a nomth ridicoulous we talked her down to 200 so thats betetre so ya thats way tight other than that we had a good Week Lissy is good her mom is stupid soo shes not getting baptized her mom is a member and has so much apostaes its crazy so thats not gonna fly but we are hoping to complete a family here in these weeks to baptizwe the husband of a member so you can pray for Wilson PeÑa hes a good guy just needs to have some faith but hes awesome also we have Maria Jose whos progressing so i hope we can get at least 1 we need 1 for June so ya hope we can do it also i was reading this week in alma 8 14 and 15 just keep your head up right i was thinking of finding nemo that part when dory is just like just keep swimming thats what we have to do me too keep swimming and be happy while doing it.

Well i love you guys youre the greatest have a great week i will look for williams i dont remember him but ya itlll be sick to have another Wildcat here i love Honduras best country on earth minus the USA hahaha love you alll

Love Elder Bridger Clayton

ps say hey to Trottier for me

Hunting in Honduras

This one took me a while to post as I had to correct so many things.  He was on a terrible keyboard and so the spacing and lettering was off.  He mentions that only about 10 letters are visible on the keyboard.  Bonus was the great pictures he sent, too.  He is beaming.  As you can see the apple does not fall far from the tree. He is truly a hunter just like his dad.  You can hear the excitement as he writes about his adventures this week.  Enjoy, this is a good one...

 In the streets of Copan, Florida

 Crossing the river to go hunting

 His first Iguana hunt...successful. I had no doubt!

He is so happy.  Love this boy. They ate this for dinner, and a turtle & dove as well.  Yummy?

Well to startoff freak this stealing jumpdrives outta the mailpeople are sick here know that but whatever ah thats abummer i have everything backed uop so thats all god but freak that ticks me off about the memory it was the 16 gig one and full for you guys hopefully the fools will get what they deserve right. Anywyas thats nuts about Stetson graduating right so tight though hes a great guy and i was thinking the other day causeiwas showing  our family pic to some investigadors and i was like this is my brother Caleb he will be turning 14!!!! inless than a month time fles byright i cant believe it. Anyways this week was changes i didnt have a change im still in theFlorida and ya well itsalright i guess im just as they say gonna make the best of it. I think it was all just the emergency change and the difference from San PedroSula to Copan that did it for me but ya im getting back better so ya anyways. This week in my distrect I Have Elder Floisand dad works with his dad or something hes a great elder and is a way hard worker he is a good sight to the district so im stoked. Also he was in the mtc with ElderFENN!!!! so tight right i love being mormon it makes the world so much smaller.Anyways i was just like i dont know missing home the other day and was just like i wanna go Hunting because in this area we are surrounded by mountains and theres a river and all that so i was talking to some Inv we have and there like freak lets go this Monday and so i was like to my comp you wanna go he said ya hes from Nicaragua and so then we sat there for a minute and i said but what are we gonna hunt and they told me doves and iguanas!!! and i said alright thats tight... how are we gonna shoot them and theyre just like with a sling shot of course how else oooohhhh ok and i told um i dont have a slingshot so they told us to come back the next day and they would help us make them so we went and made us a slingshot and this week while tracting and walking from lesson to lesson ive been practicing i can say ive aquired a new skill here slingshottin like not gonna say im a dead eye but i can shoot anyways today we got up at 5 to go up into the mountains where it was an hour and 15 min staight walk and hike to get there when we all set out and Ban one of the kids killed a dove and i was like these natives are GOOD so we went along and well im going to describe how Honduras Hunting Is ok its CRAZY!!!! yA GET ONE TO SHOT AND IF HE DOESNT HIT SHOOT AGAIN and ya until the iguana yes sorry o hunt iguanas falls from the tree or jumps thats when they hit the ground and you have to run and get your machete on it......Its so much freaking fun hahaha an adrenalin  rush so we had like 3 when they all told me  it was my turn so we spotted one in a tree and i dida litle stalk move andshot once missed shot twice missed again but the third time nope POPsmacked the thing and it comes screaming outta of the tree and theyre all yelling get the machete machete it so its the ground i get over there and just smacked it with the machete and then cut the bottom of its throat hahahah so ti ght but different hahaha it was so fun i havent gone hunting in over a year but it was fun.more  or less you can see a replay if you turn on the discovery channel and watch when the guys hunt in Afrca and theres all those natives like yelling and stuff haha superfun. So ya that ws definitly a high point for my week. Low part in Copan we have 0 inv progressing srewe have people to teach just not progressing so we gotta change that somehow we are working with a girl named Lissy pray for her and her mom that she can give her permission its that the mom is a member just doesnt think her daughter of 13 years is old enough whatever its pretty much the only thing we got so ya i need some help anywyas i love you all hope you enjoy this letter im sorry about the writing and spaces its cause today we had to go to an internet super chasta...sucky and the keybaord only has the letters visiblq of qxzgkpñ all the rest are worn off.

Anyways write me back if youre on i would love to hear from you and imma try to send pics of my trophy iguana and o a turtle. We are having the feast tonight i forgot to mention iguana doves and turtle i get to keep the turtle shell so i think that is cool well love you

LoveElderClayton

A Better Week and No Gym for Awhile

This was a welcome email as we were concerned about how he was doing.  Even in the last email, he knew it would all work out.  He has always been able to do hard things and this is why.  The Lord knows so much about him and maybe this area is just where he needs to be, even if he couldn't see it at the time.  We also got a bonus package from him this week and it was missing the flashdrive full of pictures.  BUMMER!  We will survive.  It did have a handwritten letter which meant the world to me.  He's doing just fine.  The Lord truly watches over his missionaries.  Thanks again for all the prayers and support you are sending in his behalf.  It is felt and appreciated more than you know.  Enjoy...

Well im sorrry fam about last week email just frustrating right but anyways this week was a bit better i went on divisions for 3 days with my Zls so that was tight i love Honduras thats for sure i could never be mad at the country or the people i know for sure this is my mission i love it just cause when you talk to other people that have served missions and they say i served in the Best mission in the world and they say like Guatem,ala or somewhere else and freak they are so wrong because the best mission in the worl is really Honduras San Pedro Sula and I know it so ya i love the mission its bomb sucks somtimes but i know that everything will be good so never worry about me i am safe and loving life everyone has hard times in life mission whatever it might be the test though is how we come to face those problems and all of the things we are faced with daily right so everything is good.

 

Anyways this week we went to some little villages alot of people but the there are villages all over that we have to walk about 30 mins to get to em so far from the church but ya its the people that are going to church and progressing so thats good right just so different from the city i freaking love San Pedro thats probably why i was so sad to leave cause San Pedro is so bomb. Anyways ya this sunday we had the consler from the mission come and speak since it was branch conferance and he was talking about how all the work had to go forward here and that we need freaking help but ya all good so this week i went on a quest to find a gym to go to tin the morning and wel we found one the only thing is it opens at 1 ionthe afternoon and closes at 4 in the afternoon....WHAT are you kidding me who in the heck goes at that time so stupid so i ask the lady if she can just open aat 6 for us for an hour and shes just like well.......i dont know dont think so hahaha you have got to be kiddi¿gnme so right now i guess i can kiss the gym goodbye.. but its all good. Also there is a way cool lady named Lourdes her kids are members and have been for like 3 years she has never gone to church she went this week and loved it so boom got a date already 16th of June so that will be sweet to have this area get a baptism havent had one here in like 4 months so it will be good to change that,

 

Anywyas i was thinking about you guys alot how stetson is going to graduate and all its so crazy stetson will be such a tight missionary i know it he will be bomb i love you Stetson thanks for being so awesome. And caleb im sure hes lovin stakin the dough ray mi right hahaha so sick you guys are the best Family in the world thanks for everything love you all love

 

Elder Clayton