A Meal Fit for a King

Bridger's mission president's wife, Sister Veirs maintains a blog of the mission.  I love looking at the pictures and with any luck finding a picture of our missionary.  Today was a wonderful surprise when I found the picture of Elder Clayton and Johnson with the Veir's family who were visiting their parents.  They went to dinner with them at a steakhouse and the picture speaks volumes.  This is the dinner he wrote about in his last email.  No wonder he said he couldn't finish his meal, it's ginormous.  He looks fantastic...

As you can see by the date, it's only a week old picture.  His smile says it all.

One more of all who attended the dinner.  Man, I miss him.  But he sure looks happy!

Sending Home Elder Johnson & Strawberry Shortcake

This email is not long, but the information is awesome.  He is sending home his comp, Elder Johnson.  I am sure he is going to be quite sad as has been a good duo.  Having much success with baptisms and the people are loving these elders.  I'm sure it is their fun personalities and spirit that helps.  He is teaching Sunday School each week which he told his dad about, and loving it.  This from the same kid who ditched SS quite often...ha-ha.  And bonus pictures, too!  This is a great email...read on and you'll see.  Enjoy...

 The Baptism of Omar

 Someone moving houses...literally!

Crazy electrical storms they are having in Honduras

Man this week seriously FLEW!!!! Insane i cant even believe it it went so fast this week ended great as well with the Baptism of Alejandro way bomb the kids awesome his mom is a member and she was inactive for like 10 years and then just one day she decided to go to church and to stay there so they have been going for 6 weeks straight now and theyre aweosme the baptism was sweet and ended with STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE ya im a fan still some good stuff so then ya we were all over San Pedro Sula this week ads our Zone baptized 10 which i was pretty stoked about so right now we have 19 in the zone for the month and now we just have to meet our goal of 27 for the month so im hoping we can do it the zone is great we have changes this week so i hope that everything is good there i hope that we can keep it up especially because there are changes this week so we will see what happens i will get a new comp since Johnson is peacing out for California and so im nervous but excited as well we will see how it goes changes should be crazy this week. Also pretty sure i will see Elder Williams tomorrow as he flies in tonight he will be here at about 6 so ya we will go and see whats up with that.

 

Sweet things that happened this week awesome family we are teaching will be baptized in  Septemebr fam Beltran so that will be awesome they are so cool and Elizabet so cool and smart its awesome! So that wil lbe aweome oh also this week So Elder Johnson is from the same ward as President Veirs crazy right so presidents son and friend came this week and we went to Dinner with them... can you say awesome we went to this amazing restaraunt where i got the surf and turf hahaha it was amazing 550 lempiras is what is costed so like 20 bucks for a huge steak and 7 shrimp cooked to perfeccion it was amazing best food ive had in along time the funny thing is i ate only half and i was just stuffed so full i think that beans and rice have a huge affect on ones eating habits but ya anyways that was fun so this week just flew by i cant even remember everything that happened i mean we flew out to Ocotillo to do an interview and walking to the registro every stinkin day its crazy so do you guys have any questions or anything you want to know write me a list of them and i will respond to you all i love you guys so much youre the best family in the world tell zoie i say what up and to stop eating all the chocolate chip cookies. oh and hows the scooter doing i was telling some peoploe abnout that this week and how awesome the scoot is so i hope you guys have it andf are riding it so crazy i love life love being a missionary im glad you had fun at elder rowes homcoming great guy well i love you so much you guys are the best

 

Love Elder Wayne Clayton

 

 

ps going by my middle name sick right haha love you

An Awesome Baptism & Loving San Pedro Sula

I have to admit, these emails are always such a fun thing to receive and when they are full of happiness and success it makes it even better.  He is loving his area, and had great success with more to come.  I find it hard to read that he's already worried about school and things when he returns.  I'm sure he is feeling like it's coming faster than he would like.  But somehow I hope he understands that it will all take care of itself.  He has been obedient and so will be blessed as he decides what to do.  The Shane that he mentions is  missionary that will be leaving the MTC that went to WX and is a year younger than Bridger.   I am going to send a letter down with him to give to Bridger and I'm excited as I haven't told him it's coming.  I hope it all works out.  Enjoy, it's another good one...

What up Family well another week right another awesome week.

 

So we had an amazing baptism with Omar Caballero amazing in his baptism his friend got up long time member and shared of an exp he had with Omar over 15 years ago that one christmas this friend had nothing nothing until he decided to sell chairs ya he had found chairs and decided to sell them so after thinking of to whom he was going to sell them he called Omar and Omar told him to bring them to him ALL OF THEM so he went and Omar just opened up his pocket and put the money in they talked and laughed and then this friend went ho,e and tool out the money where he found out it was double the amount of the chairs he called Omar and Omar said to just leave it alone and dont worry about it. And his friend said that because of that his family had a christmas and had food on the table amazing this guy Omar Caballero great guy love him huge heart great guy the only sad thing is his mom huge caholic his wife same story he never told his family he was listening to us or about his baptism nothing great guy he is an engineer and builds parks just amazing the baptism was great awesome day Saturday.

 

Also this saturday we have another baptism for Alejandro  so that should be good we were at his house last night and cool kid loves the church and everything so ya i had a great week so ya also what else happened man other than that i dont know  so anywyas have you guys ever heard of the PIANO GUYS Alex Boye and John Schmidt how sick are they if you dont know them get to know them they are awesome.

 

So anyways im still having a great time here in San Pedro i love you guys so much thanks for always being there for me i found Gates blogspot and am going to try to figure out a way to write him great kid right so cool its a good blog they have for him so ya shane williams get here this week and a sick thing about being ZL in San Pedro we get to help in bringing the news in so ill be  seeing him a little on Monday and Tuesday so Johnson and me have come up with we will get him a welcome to the mission gift dont know what it will be but we will find something so that will be good.

 

I hope youre all getting ready for school maybe you guys need to start helping me think about where i want to go to school Utah State UofU or BYU i dont freaking know help me out everyone talks about it and it scares the crap out of me.....so ya help me with that please. and also help me out Caleb and shoot a buck like those ones in the pic in Bearlake this year thats what i want.

 

Well love you Love

 

Love Elder Bridger Clayton 

Ask them anything, and Loving being a Missionary

I look so forward to Mondays and hearing how his week has gone.  He is doing so awesome and loves being a missionary.  I think it is so awesome for him to write this.  Especially to his brothers.  What a great example he is to them.  He is now realizing that some of his companions and friends are almost ready to head home and that makes him a bit sad.  However, he has watched his dad and how he is still friends with several of the missionaries he served with and knew on his mission.  I on the other hand am looking forward to meeting some of them as they come home.

Well thats is about all the english that people can say down here ya know the ones that have gone to the states illegally and got sent back yo How you doin, and wher you from man freaking brooklyn new york down here in San Pedro Sula hahah but anyways had an amazing week really just awesome! it started out finding a family of a returned Missionary that served here like 4 years ago is living with this woman he met on his mission and now wants so badly to change his life for the better what a great family!!! we got there and hes like 24 and shes like 30 with two kids that are 9 and 7 they had never talked to the missionaries before and just one thing that he said that really stuck out to me is he says. and i quote ask them whatever you want they are here to help you and help us!!! Awesome he said it was time to get things back into order and so that was bomb they went to church and everything is good the only thing is he is from Guatemala so he has to get back there to get his papers so that he can get married here so itll be a bit of a process but it will be all good. Awesome family also we have two baptisms for this week ALEJANDRO so awesome love the kid the mom was inactive ya they have been goin to church for like 4 weeks now and aweomse. Then cooloest thing ever this man we aare teaching named Omar we had a lesson with him best lesson ever we just talked about his life and how he wanted to change and we threw out baptism for the 11th HE WAS STOKED!!!! and we are too he is one of the coolest inv and people ever its amazing. Also Raul the free mason came again he is so awesome  and we had one other brand new family in church it was so great i loved it yesterday was a great day. This week just flew by so fast im telling you this city is just nuts i tell you i love it though this week too brasil beat Honduras people were ticked!! hahah its amazoing how serious soccer is down here it honestly is life the country shuts down like stores dont sell fast food so SLOW cause everyone is just glued to the TV hahah i love it down here its great. so ya also we had a Zone leader Conf. way awesome and i learned alot there really are some of my best friends here in the mission the sad thing is in these changes Missionaries are starting to bounce that i have come so close to i mean in these next two changes i lose Johnson, Anderson, Hafen just everyone Diego, castellon, De Leon sucks man i love them all theyre all my good friends i love the missino itsw the funnest and best thing in the worl if someone out there is not sure if they should go or not just pray and GO its awesome im telling you. I love being a missionary.

So ya pretty sweet week love San Pedro love you guys

Love Elder Clayton

ps ill be on for a bit love ya

Oh an by the way...

So i will give Johnson our Number and Address so you guys can take him to dinner and talk one night HES AWESOME

aLSO I was saying about the package to jus tput the money on my card san pedro is expensive and i have everything here and i want to buy some stuff so if you just want to put money on thats cool. but again i was thinking about you guys and hoping that you are all doing ok and seeing the blessing in you're lives is money and everything.  I love you so much

LTD, Living the Dream & Looks like his Dad

This is a great email.  He is so happy and you can feel his love of the people, the country and his mission as you read.  There is also a  picture of him that he sent that he can't believe how much he looks like his dad.  He also was so excited about finding Fruit Loops or I think Malt o Meal Tutti Fruities, they are in the picture.  Funny how simple things can be so awesome to him now.  He sounds great.  Enjoy...

Well How is everything going family im doing just great as always here in the heart of San Pedro Sula!!!! So sweet to be able to say that i love this city its so awesome anyways this week was good we started off the week good finding more families its really great because right now we are teaching 11 Families so that is awesome.  They are reading the Book of Mormon praying some know its true just the whole going to church thing is very hard for them to do. but its all good we had an awesome guy so Boss he will be getting Baptized This saturday or the 11th but ya super pilas man also we had 1 family go to church who the dad is a member but the wife and kids no so it was great that they showed up. so awesome anyways so had a great time teaching this week my Comp Elder Johnson is From California Rancho Cucamonga so thats a bit far but he will be attending LDS Buisness College two weeks after so he`ll be up in Salt Lake living in the Avenues so i will give him youre guys number and you can go to dinner or something with him one night hes a way cool guy and we are doing great here in San pedro Sula anyways. This week was good this week i started to read the new testement since i have read the Book of Mormon a couple times i want to read that to get to know more about the Savior Jesus Christ and his atonment for everyone of us it is amazing and im just starting out and am in Matthew but its going really great and im hoping to learn alot more as i keep going along. So. Life is great there is definitly no where else i would rather be right now than here in San Pedro this really is a great city with some great people let me just tell you of a great exp. i had this week. So we wee working out on the bordo when it started to pour rain and the streets turned to rivers. While we were waiting on the side of the road a guy pulled up in a car and asked us where we were going we told him where and mind it was very far he said ok and we got in talking to him and it was a good ride he went way out of his way to just take us where we needed to go cause we were in the rain. So we were writing his number down when someone called me on my phone and everything so we go to get out of the car and we thank him and say goodbye as we shut the door Johnson asks me if we got everything i said ya and bounced so we go to our next lesson when i go to look for my phone and boom not there freak so we call the guy he looks for it and finds it and the next morning comes and drops it off at our house. GREAT PEOPLE live here i love San Pedro.

So anyways also the Olympics are going on HONDURAS BEAT SPAIN TALK OF THE FREAKING COUNTRY yesterday while walking we got stuck in the middle of a parade hahah so aweosme you guys have to post me with what else goes on with Honduras and if they win anything i know they are playing in like 8 events so be sure to watch em and root for em theyre defintly NUMBER 2 BEHIND THE USA so root for em anyways that was sick getting stuck in the parade everyone with Fireworks Beer and chanting OLE OLE OLE OLE    OLE   OLE hahahah so fun i love this country Blue White and the Five stars is so awesome. Anywyas how are all you doin hows school when does it start for Stetson and Caleb. And man this change is going so fast its insane.

Well i love you all i hope you guys are getting stoked for the Deer Hunts in October in Chalk Creek and Bear Lake it will be so legit i love you guys so much thank you for helping me everyday and being here with me i love you.

Love Elder Bridger Clayton

Come What May and Love It

ps also we need more families so pray for em thanks i love you