Bonus Pictures & Christmas Phone Call Home

This week we did receive an email but it was rather short and just said that he would be calling to arrange the time to call us.  He was changed to a new area.  He is now 10 hours by bus away from the city in a place called Truilljo.  We looked it up on Google Earth and it's a really pretty place.  His new companion is from Mexico and he is a trainer again.  It was so good to talk to him and see his face.  We were able to talk for a while and it was really difficult saying good bye.  As his mom, I sure wanted to have him stay with Elder Peterson until after the holidays, but the Lord knows best and I'm certain he will be just fine.  He has been entrusted to a fresh new missionary to teach him how to be an effective and awesome missionary.  He looks and sounds great.

Here are just a few bonus pictures I found on the mission blog.   Thank you for following his journey and praying for him, he's doing great and the prayers are felt, always.

Couple of Bonus Pictures for Elder Peterson

Will looking at Letia's facebook, I found a couple of pictures from when Bridger served with Elder Peterson.  He was sad to leave him, but still feel like they were so blessed to be able to have the time together they did.

 Sofie's baptism

What they received at a white elephant gift exchange.  Lucky???

A Fun PDay, Sofie's Baptism & Why go on a Mission

First a couple of pictures of him and Elder Peterson.  This week may be a bit sad as the two of them may be changed.  Hoped and prayed it would happen after Christmas, but we will see.  He was changed last year right before Christmas, which not sure why a it couldn't wait until after the Christmas, but that is one thing I'm sure will be answered during our phone call.  Can't wait to hear his voice.  Sure love him and am so proud of all he is doing.  I really appreciate the words he tells to who ever is reading his email about going on a mission.  It is scary thing to decide to go and his words are an answer to prayer for me as Stetson is preparing to send his papers in.  It's a good one, enjoy...

1st off yes got the package this morning sooo bomb i haven't opened it yet because we have been running around getting everything ready but now its all good today we had a great PDAY we me and Peterson decided to make an American breakfast for the zone (with the help of the Hermanas) and watch a movie of Christmas so awesome we watched this new movie ive never heard of it i think its new called Arthur's Christmas so funny i loved it we watched it in Spanish so it was alll good also we had a white elephant gift exchange while we listened to Christmas music our Zone is AWESOME i think today was one of the funnest pdays i have ever had with my zone man i hope we don't have a change i want to stay with Peterson for one more change so hopefully we will see what happens the next change is freaking 9 weeks long so we will see how it goes. Anyways what a week i don't think we had one normal day

Whats Up Holy smokes we are so close to Christmas can you believe it i cant it seems to be flying by this month so this week was INSANE for Elder Peterson and me we ran everywhere we took out more papers and were in the registro national of personas for so much this week but it all ended good.

Well changes are this week i still don't know if i will have a change nut we will see what all goes down it would be cool to stay with Peterson for 1 more change just cause hes freaking cool and i love that guy but no one really knows right now but in a day or two we will know so he how are we going to talk this year facetime??? Or skype just let me know so i can get ready and well i want to call on Tuesday is that cool but it wouldn't be until the afternoon I'm thinking but let me know what you guys think.

So anyways the zone caught fire this week we had some sweet baptisms our baptism went awesome with Sofie so legit she got up and bore her testimony after and it was so good we had a way cool Hermanas Hermanas molanfy crying after cause we also watched a way cool video of Christ and how we can remember him during this Christmas season honestly I love Christmas there is something.....something different I can't really explain it but it's amazing here even though Christmas isn't that big I love seeing lights and trees it's the best. Ya know I do have to say the mission is the coolest/funnest thing in the world to do with your life anyone that's reading this, because you learn so much you learn about Christ you learn about the church but most of all you learn about yourself who you are and who you need to be and I think that is the best. Watching people get baptized is soooooooo cool there is just something about it that makes you feel good. I'll have to send you a pic of Sofie she's AWESOME!!! well I can't wait to talk to you again sorry this email is all over the place you're the best.

Love Elder Bridger Clayton

A Surprise Limo Ride & the Talent Show MC's

It is so much fun to ready his emails each week.  You can see that both him and Elder Peterson are loving their time together.  I am praying that they do not get changed this week as it's a transfer week. I have prayed hard many times and this time it is for them to be able to spend Christmas together.  I was looking at the mission blog and found some bonus pictures on there, so exciting they are at the bottom of this post.  Enjoy, it's a good one...

Heeeey how are you guys doing today well this week was good alright lets just start it off with a little adventure so the aps are good friends of ours they re way sick and we wanted to something cool for the multi zone on Wed so me and Peterson put our thinking caps on and figured something so sick out so we go and contacted this guy who's got a LIMO white way sick and we ask him if he could come and pick all of us up and we will ride to the meeting in a white limo with Pres. Veirs so the guy was way cool and said ya which the plan was a go so then to get everyone a little more stoked..well a little background info our mission is AWESOME to spread news or gossip hahah so we start this rumor with just 2 elders that we hear that an apostle coming  and boom by 9 at night everyone KNOWS KNOWS that Elder Christopherson is on his way hahah so funny so we dressed up way nice got our suits on sunglasses and Hats the limo came and picked us up with President so then we pull up and everyone is just going crazy and the driver opens the door and hahah the crowd devastated haha man it was so funny but everyone was a good sport about it but man we pulled a good trick on em so funny. Then they chose me and Peterson to Announce and run the talent show hahah it was a good time.

So that was funny also we just had a crazy week we had some meeting with the stake pres and we need the zone and the stake to do better so hopefully we can this week in the zone we have 16 baptisms planned so ya we need everyone of them and we have a baptism this week of Sofie so cool shes awesome itll be this Saturday so we are excite for that it will be good. Anyways ya pretty much no one went to church again this week only Sofie so we definitely need help in finding people man its killing me so ya hopefully we can find people this week!!!! Pray for us to find people and that people can find us some how well i hope you all have a great week i love you all so much you're the best.

Love Elder Bridger Clayton

The Dynamic Duo

Working the Mic

President Veirs & Elder Clayton

Riding in the Limo

A Birthday Surprise for an Hermana & Just as it Should Be

You can tell they are having a wonderful time. There are rumors of them staying until temple dedication which is in April. I guess we will wait and see what happens. Thanks for all the support and prayers always appreciated and felt. Enjoy...

Man what a week this week flew by insane i cant even believe it so we had a bomb week though i will say that so this week it first off started with RAIN RAIN RAIN it poured here for 15 hours straight it was a mess streets turned into rivers roads collapsed houses and neighborhoods swept away it was crazy we got to go and help out a bit with cleaning houses out and everything but what a mess man but the church did a great job with volunteers and some people slept in the church for t a couple days so ya also a bit of Good news Tegucigalpa Templo is DONE we are just waiting for a date now but they say it will be for sure before the next general conferance which is good news because with the release date being changed i will still be here in april hahah i still dont know what to think about that but whatever. Also so in our zone there is this one Hermana Named Hermana Lopez she is freaking coool from Costa Rica and it was her birthday this week and she doesnt have family or anything at home so we i guess you can say ^KIDNAPPED^  her and her companions and took them out to kunch but we didnt want to just go the typical beans and rice Honduras style so we changed it up and went out to CHILIS hahah wow was that good and she was stoked she had never been to a place like that and she loved it they all sang to her and we got a cake after all it was so worth it because she called me and Peterson and thanked us again and again for having the best birthday ever and how she felt and how she would never forget it it was way cool SOOOOOOOO worth it she was excited so that was good also last night we went to watch the christmas devotional i honestly had never seen it before nor did it ever call my attention but it was AWESOME Elder Uchtdorfs talk was amazing the same with Eyering and Monson they are all awesome guys. well i hope you guys have a great week STETSON i am sorry about you car that blows big timwe i hate people  like that that kind of stuff ticks me off all the robbing and stealing it helps NOONE  but youre all good man dont worry.

Love Elder Bridger Clayton

An Awesome Week with Peterson & Turkey in Honduras

Well family how was your guys week I hope it was great especially with thanksgiving how was the turkey to tell you the truth WE HAD THANKSGIVING!!!!! From a family in iur ward the molanfys they re cool and the turkey was awesome i hadn't eaten turkey in 2 years and it tasted and I love that you put the lights up already and the tree I think that is the fun thing about being here in central is at a lot of the businesses and  there are lights and trees which Make me freely good I will start taking some pics hopefully so you can see whats going on with us.

So what did you guys think of our little surprise haha pretty cool huh we thought so we talked about doing it and we loved your reaction yes we are comps so what I couldn't explain last week was how changes went cause we had to keep it a secret but it was something like this...... They get to zona San Pedro SULA. And they're going in putting the zone in when it's time for the new ZL of SPS with me so all I hear is "elder Peterson from jazmines will go to centro SPS as junior ZL with Elder Clayton ..... Whooooooooookaaaaaaaoo the crowd goes wild I'm telling you everyone is just like are you serious baha so Peterson gets up with me and we finally sit down and president just says "I think I screwed up " laughing so changes were cool! And me and Peterson have. Been working hard these 2weeks we have 1 girl progressing for baptism so that's good sofie I think she will. E baptized the 8 th of December so ha we just. Red to get more people to church dang it so pray for that that more can go and that we can find a family to baptize for noc
December I would love our zone to be. Celestial if that happened I could stay another. Change probably so that would be cool pray for us that these things can happen but hAha I can't. Believe it's almost December wow I am going to send a package home anything you guys would like if you can tell me by tonight at 6 I will be able to get the message so ya tell me anyways this week was full of excitement I think the funnest part of the mish is getting out and just working that's when you see the craziest and funniest things ever.  Like this week one day for lunch we went to a chicken place in centro right in the heart and were eating when some lady walks in and all the uneaten food is at and starts throwing it in a bag when all of a sudden the people who were eating go back and have to kick the lady off their table because they were just filling their drinks up hahah man I felt bad so the lady threw the chicken and beans back on the table and moved on to the next one Peterson is just in unbelief and I'm just kind of chuckling just cause its so normal but whatever all good when all of a sudden she pulls a 180 and taps Peterson on the shoulder and asks him if he is going to eat the huge piece of chicken on his plate mind you it is untouched and he was going to eat it when he's a good guy and says no go for it and boom that thing was in the bag in 1.2 seconds my head spun it was so fast hahaha man good times.


Well also we had a really good time teaching this week found some good people they just need to go to church so well hope for the best also I wanted to share a story with you guys about Omar caballero remember him the guy that me and Johnson baptized well he has been a real friend to a member of the church named Jorge Gonzalez and this is who told of his Christmas story ..... One Christmas Jorge had nothing to give his family for Christmas over 20 years ago he didn't know what to do so one opportunity came to sell chairs yeah chairs to make some money it was the 23 of December and Jorge had no idea what to do or to whom he would sell the chairs when the thought came to him of Omar caballero he calls him up and Omar says bring all of them to me Jorge a little astonished replys I have over 100 here that's not  important bring them to me so he takes them to his house they unload and put them in the garage after Omar just gives him an envelope with the money and says Merry Christmas Jorge goes home and when he gets outside his house he opens the envelope to find a lot more money then the chairs were worth so he calls Omar to say this when Omar says the money is not
Important have a merry Christmas I love you and they hung up. Hearing this story was amazing what a friend what an answer to a prayer awesome I love Omar caballero he's so cool a guy with a huge heart  I live Christmas a time when we can think more about others then ourselves I love you family you're the best thanks for all your love and support and prayers they are felt I love Honduras especially te city it's awesome I love you so much have a great week.

Love elder Bridger Clayton