A Great Week, & Sending another Home

Sounds like his week was a good one.  He has sent so many elders home, which I think would be a little difficult.  However, I did receive an email from President Veirs yesterday saying what a great missionary he is and always has such a positive attitude.  He wants to finish strong and will.  Enjoy...

WOW can you believe that October is freaking over what the heck?!! well i guess we will now welcome in November right i cant believe it anyways how was your guys week i hope everything is good my week was good we had the baptism of the Familia Ortega which was awesome i wrote dad this but here this is just how COOL this family is so was less active and he is a well known painter down here that paints traditional art and sells it around San Pedro and Teguc. And so his wife is a Doctor that works in the best Hospital in San Pedro freaking sweet and they're son Julio man what an awesome baptism and what an awesome family that was awesome so awesome. to watch someone be baptized is just so cool and then after Jenny shared her testimony about how all she wants to do is in one year go to the Temple so that they can be together forever!!! So Awesome i mean to hear that man you really feel good you know what i mean anyways that was the good part and so that was awesome then this week teaching wise we freaking sucked it up seriously i have been a little sick and so that slowed us down and also as you know i am killing again my comp is going home in two weeks and man we just gotta get that desire in us some days and its hard but we just have to keep going the hard thing is we have baptized all the people we have been working with and now we have to find more we have a baptism scheduled for the 10th of November so hopefully we can get all the papers and everything in so that can happen and I'm praying that Elder Peterson can come here and be my comp ah that would be so freaking cool that's what i want so bad but we will see what happens well anyways thanks for everything fam thanks for all the support.


I Love you So Much


Love Elder Clayton

Memories of Joseph, Honduras Soccer, & Bonus Pics!!!

This week's email came with a couple of bonus pictures.  I love when he sends these.  The first one is a picture of the flowers they took to a sister that feeds them.  So glad he has such a compassionate side and is so thoughtful.  He tells of his Sunday School class discussing the story of Joseph and his brothers selling him into Egypt.  We took Bridger to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat when he had his perfect birthday, turning 7 on the 7th of February many years ago.  He loved that play and would sing all the songs with Stetson over and over again.  It's fun to see that as they are discussing it all he could think of was Donny Osmond being Joseph.  Totally worth the expensive tickets we bought to have many years later this memory come to him.  

Thank you again for following his journey...

The baptism that he talks about in his email.

Alright What up FAMILY i hope you had a great week I'm so glad that Caleb shot his deer hes the MAN what a great shot right Caleb i love you bro i cant wait to go hunting with you you know what we should do is freaking put in for a bear tag in the spring and go bear hunting!!!! How sick would that be i think it would be cool i think i already have a point or two anyways this week was insane i just don't understand how like on Tuesday i have 15 things i have to do in a matter of like 10 hours and amazingly i complete all of them its awesome but then i have to wake up on Wed. morning and i have a new 15 things to do i just don't understand it sometimes....? But its all good i love it! i love helping out the other missionaries they're all cool we are in a little trouble with baptisms in the zone this month but this week we should end OK i hope so anyways this weekend we had an awesome Baptism with Cesar Luis and Enrico so cool both 18 years old friends and brothers of members both shared their testimonies after the baptism and both said we did the right thing now we have to keep going and in one year serve missions!!!!! SWEET how cool is that and man did i feel good i really had a great week and that was just to top it all off i will send some pics for sure cause it was cool the best part the brother of cesar luis baptized him and the best friend of enrico baptized him it was great!!! so that was sweet also this wed. we have 2 possibly 3 more baptisms here in my ward Family Ortega si hombre they are so cool and shes a doctor that's legit right man they are cool we are also trying to baptize her sister that lives with the family that just turned 16 so we will see what happens.

Ok La Selecion that is the national soccer team of Honduras and in the past 2 months they have been playing to move on to round 2 for the qualifiers of the World Cup so on Tuesday they had to play Canada here in SPS LIKE 5 mins from where i live the announcement was made and guess what they freaking made Tuesday a national Holiday!!! hahah so from 2-4 everything and i mean everything was closed well not closed because you could just walk in anywhere and everyone was watching the game but ya closed man they love their soccer it was so crazy so nuts because well the outcome of the game was something like 8-1 HONDURAS SPANKED Canada and that's when it just went NUTS we have parades in the street we have fireworks going off blue and white everywhere people screaming the natl anthem....I LOVE HONDURAS hahah so awesome it was nuts like i actually got scared because they get so crazy down here for there soccer but haha oh well the next game they will play will be February 5th haha everyone already knows and everyone is stoked!!!

OH now we will just go to the headache of my days REGISTRO man just imagine having to go to the DMV every stinking day and trying to fix problems that arent even youre...welcome to my life ah its crazy but we are still working with that so ya anyways i love registro but and the same time i freaking hate it but its all good.

So ya pretty much that was my week family ortega is bomb and will be baptized this week so that should be awesome i love you guys so much thanks for everything you do for me all the support and love i love you guys prayers are heard and answered i know that is true as long as we are worthy to receive the blessings we will receive them i also one thing i loved is our elders quorom pres broke down the story of Joseph in Egypt all i could think about was flippin Donny Osmond but hey that's alright isn't it anyways how Joseph was all good then his brothers sell him that sucks he goes to potifer and potifers wife just screws him over cause Joseph was awesome and ran away then they throw him into prison when hes in prison he still and always is OBEDIENT!!! and in a couple weeks or so he is NUMBER 1 in prison then what happens hes always obedient and becomes the Pharaohs Assistant so as we can see even being obedient has its down days but then always in the end after going till the end you will be blessed and that is the truth.

I Love you Guys so much LOVE YOU

Love Elder Bridger Clayton

WWW San Pedro Style & a Bonus Email for Me

World wide wrestling is what the subject means. You'll understand after reading. It sounds like it was a hard week.  Although he can still smile and say, "Come What May & Love it"  We couldn't be more proud of how hard he works and the man he has come to be.  I can surely tell that he is watched over and protected.  He also sent me a bonus email that was so sweet and touched my heart. Funny thing is I had just read a book my neighbor gave me that made me cry and then his email came the next day. Times like these I know Heavenly Father is so aware of who we are and what we need. For which I am truly grateful. Thanks as always for following his journey. Enjoy...

Alright what up family this week has been a hard one especially since Caleb didn't get his buck I'm going to be praying hard for him this week that he can shoot a nice one up in Bear Lake what a great kid right so anyways this week has just been more stressful than i can believe with papers and just everything seems to be falling all at once its just killing me and i don't know what to do because there are some things that i don't even have control over like the stuff from Guatemala we got but we have to send them back now to get them authorized so that's a 120 dollars ya not freaking lemps more that we have to find another family the Hna doesn't exist in Honduras Papers really all i can say the worst thing about Honduras is the Registro National of People it SUCKS i am in there at least 3 times a week just going over papers for the mission and my zone we take out partidas from other missions too its crazy and this week has just been to much to handle but freak come what may and love it i guess right so then on Friday we are in a cita at 3 o'clock when i get a call from one of these areas ok so don't freak out or anything but what i am about to describe blew my mind... ok we have an area in my zone called the aldea del Carmen its a pretty chill area and with changes a kid from Panama stayed way nice kid he has i think 6 months really just loving and nice has a great heart so they put him with this Elder that well lets just say he just doesn't do anything has had a lot of problems in the mission and he bounces around everywhere so they put them together right anyways these are the guys who call us but when i get the call its the elder that is the problem one i answer and he says ¨Elder i am having problems with my companion¨then from the background i hear ¨LIAR LIAR¨AND BOOM BOOM BANG BOOP the kid from panama gets the phone and yelling says ¨he will not be with this guy who does nothing he sucks all he does is sleep and yells at me he says he is going to hit me and ou ouwch ouch he's hitting me¨boom boom pam bamp boom the and so i just say ¨Were coming just stay in the house and please don't kill each other¨so we call the aps that were close thankfully and haul out to the aldea its like 30 mins away and when we get there the gate is open and all we hear is Pass through Elders come from the house when i walked in this was the surprise that i got we have the loving missionary from panama standing ready with a broom stick the other one who is the problem elder is sitting on the ground and there is blood all over the place!!!1 HAHAH oh my gosh words cant even explain it so when we all walk in  the kid from panama is just screaming at all the thing that this guy does wrong and when he called the problem elder started punching him and took him to the ground and that's when this kid from PANAMA just snapped literally!!!! he went crazy and just took this kid to town it was insane so we were there for like a half hour when we took the problem missionary out to come and stay the night with us cause if they stayed together they would of killed each other so he was with us for a day and Saturday morning they sent him to another area so man what a week just a week full of problems who knows it was just crazy so ya anyways this week i will hope that its better haha man it was bad but I'm safe don't worry all is good i hope that this week i can feel more of the spirit with me man i love when i can feel te spirit its makes everything so much better and i need that so that we can find more this weekend we will have 2 baptisms cesar Louis and Enrico both way awesome guys love em so hopefully everything goes good and we can do good in the zone. Well I love you guys you're the best i have no idea what i would do with out you thank you so much for everything.

Love,Elder Bridger Clayton

And here is the best part of the week, at least for me anyway...

And of course, there were tears...and lots of them.  But, they were happy tears.

A Welcome Email & Concern of a Brother to Another

This week's email came with much anticipation as last week we didn't get to hear from him.  I always love watching conference and knowing that he is watching the exact same thing.  This is the time of year that if he is to get home sick this would be it.  It's hunting season.  Wayne and his dad were successful on the first hunt and pictures were sent to him so he could feel of the fever.  He is already talking about next year being there right along side him. More than once his grandpa said they needed him and missed him.  But, they will for sure pick up where they left off with next season.  Bridger has always had a close relationship with his grandparents and he mentions this in this email.  They have sent him written letters as they do not have email and you can tell how much he enjoys this. The announcement of the change in mission age I'm sure was quite a surprise to a brother who is excited to see his pal.  He was able to chat with Stetson and said he would understand if he decided to go.  However, Stetson has a plan and is going to continue to press forward with papers in December and hoping to leave May/June 2013.  This way they can hang out with each other for a couple of months which I think both are looking forward to.  This is a great email.  He is doing fantastic. And today we attended a welcome home of a sister that served as a mission nurse and was in the MTC with Bridger.  There were several other missionaries that knew Bridger and it was fun to hear of their love for him.  In the words of Elder Anderson, everyone loves Elder Clayton...I'm not surprised.  Enjoy...


General Conf what a bomb week right i mean one of the bests i think especially if you are a missionary because its a time that you can actually relax and take a break and really just i don't know the talks seem to be for me more than anything i have learned how to really listen to them and get inspired to be better and do better its like there messages of Hope you know what i mean just that's what i got from this conferance cause there is so much screwed up in the world these days and they all know about the errors and everything bad but then they all talked about Repoentance and Jesus Christ i mean its so cool that He loves us so much that no matter how far we are off the path that if we want to change and are willingly he will always let us back in i think of my freaking brothers man we probably used to fight ok not probably we did for sure but i love them so much so much and i want the best for them thats why they have to stay in church go on missions and ah freak Pres Monson with the new age for missionaries i could not believe that cause i mean Stetson is there ya i mean freak i just have always planned on finishing up then hanging out with him for a couple months and then that he could start his awesome adventure but who knows he could be gone. I Love that kid hes the bomb. So ya conference was great oh with even better news after watching conference our investigators all want to be baptized!!!!! We should have 8 this month hahaha can you believe that im stoked and we will be zona celestial. I love San Pedro so as im sure you know we did not have a change and im staying here in San Pedro YES!!!!! so the plan is this My comp goes home in November ya im sending another one home haha so i will be here until December for sure and really im stoked about it it will be awesome.i love the city its the best. So last week i was in the hospital it was so boring!!!! i was bored out of my mind but its all good now they did not have to operate they were right to the point when it just went away miracle hahah it was cool so then we had a good week the month of September we baptized in the mission 300 people!!!!! that was bomb so there were only like 30 changes not any pretty much so changes were pretty boring. oh highlight of the week reading Dads email about Grandpa Daves deer hunt BOMB.COM man i cant wait for the 2013 deer hunt im stoked i want to go so bad really that is something that i actually miss that and hanging out with you guys but i love Honduras i talked to a family the other day from my old Satelite Area they have a daughter thats 7 and when she turnns 8 she said i have to come back and baptize her or she wont get baptized....ehhh hopefully i can do it right the family freaking loves me there the ones that threw me my birthday party so freaking cool i love them and i love so many people here Honduras is the best the Lord knew exactly where i needed to go also i was thinking something funny remember before i got my call and everyone is always like ^where do you wanna go^i would jokingly say Bismark South Dakota but then really i just wanted to go to some sketchy city in the United States like New York Chicago Detroit Oakland and its funny that the Lord was just like alright he can handle it so lets send him to the most dangerous city in the WORLD hahaha and right now i am in the heart of the city which i freaking love its the best. Thanks for everything guys you're the greatest i love you so much you are always in my thoughts and prayers.  And Grandma and Grandpa sent me a letter this week that i got i love their letters they're the greatest Grandparents in the world and i am so lucky to have them i really want to spend more time with them cause they are the greatest and grandpa dave is someone i look up to so much in my life as well as my dad they are the greatest men i know i love you all.

Love Elder Bridger Clayton by the way you should look up a tamara smith she came with me in the mission and just went home wed. shes from salt lake i gave her youre guys number maybe you can go to her homecoming shes crazy but cool

Love You

No News is Good News...Yeah Right...

This week was quite sad as we got a really short paragraph from Bridger saying he had spent the night in the hospital with his companion who was most likely going to have to have his appendix out.  He said it had been a long night and he was hoping to be able to write later.  Here's the very small email we received, I have to say when I read it at first I thought it was him having the trouble, but it is his companion, Elder Castellon.  We will pray for his speedy recovery and hope all goes well with his surgery.  We anxiously awaited to hear more from him, but it never came.  Faith seems to take over and we know he is ok.  How did people ever do the old fashioned way of regular mail.  I would not have survived.  Here it is...

Well I will hope to write a better email later on right now I am in the hospital with my comp elder Castellon we think he is going to get his appendix out but we are just waiting to see what happens I have been here since 930 last night man talk about long nights didn't get a room until 230 but its all good well I love you all so much talk to you later

Love Elder Bridger Clayton