Week #29 Feb. 26, 2019

Week #29 Feb. 26, 2019  1st week to video chat Jake with the new communication rules!!!!  It was AWESOME!!


Hey guys, Whassup!? This week was a bit slower but still really awesome. We just worked pretty much all week teaching and trying to find a bunch of new people. Saw and kinda ran away from a bunch of drunk people this week which was a rush. For sunday We made chocolate chip cookies and ate a lot cuy or guineau pig. And then we ate carrot cake for dinner. This week was like american food and stuff. In cusco i found one of my absolute favorite cadies in the plaza vea!!!

This is the oven they use in Sicuani.  It looks like a culvert surrounded by cement or clay and they put a wood fire inside.  So a rustic pizza oven that people in America pay a lot of money for!!

Jake and Elder Chamberlain are turning into amazing bakers!

A celebration meal of Cuiy (guinea pig) and missionary made chocolate chip cookies!

We had a dope zone olympics kind of pday with 3 different zones and it was awesome!!! Our zone destroyed in american football. I did divisions with zone lider elder clancy and we went to tinta casue we had a couple references but we had like no success so that was hard. But the sisters in our district had 2 baptisms and we had to rush all over sicuani to get things ready for it and it rained so hard before so we started alittle later to wait out the rain. Then after we ate food and the whole zone pretty much came to see it. It qwas super cool. We tried to bring one of our progressing investigators but we wasnt there so we couldnt find him at all. Kinda hard to work with that kid but we hope to get him baptized and them after his family to see his example and get baptized also. We hope at least.For p day we woke up and left at 6 in the morning to cusco and got home at 9ish. It was a super long and tiring day haha. But I definitely know the spirit was there this whole week. The baptism we went too was amazing and two little kids were baptized, they shared sweet and short testimonies at the end and it was just an eye opener to see what the gospel really does and how it can change people for the better. I love you all and miss you all tons. chao my friends and family. I love every single one of you.

Elder Clawson

This is a fun video of Jake and Elder Chamberlain on Sunday with their homemade cookies and the cute husband and wife that Jake and his companion live with.  She does all of their cooking and laundry, and the two missionaries live in an extra room on this family's home.

Week #28 Feb. 18, 2019

Week #28 Feb. 18, 2019

Elder Clawson and Elder Chamberlain sharing a Coke and an Inka Cola on the top of Sicuani, Peru!

MOm Hey are you hear, cause if you are maybe we can chat or yo know do lots of things! Haha yea i was in espinar doing divisions with the elders there when i got the news about the new change with communication. I thought it was some sick joke when i recieveed it. But turns out its true, i can do it, but our president just said to be wise in how we use this time. haha i will need to buy some things first in order to do calls and stuff. but my comp is gonna show me more of how to do that stuff haha.

He daddy, How are ya! Haha ill send ya a big email about the week but ill answer some of you questions right now. SO now is summer time right, but its usually never hot, always rainy most the day, every once in a while we receive some sunlight. We found 9 new persons this week or people. My district is super cool and I love it. I really like kinda doing the leader part of the mission. Its super stressful at times but i like crunchin numbers from the week and talking with the other companionships. Today we went for a super early hike in the mornign and came back to eat breakfast. It was super cool. Illl send you guys some pics.

This week was super cool. Although I honestly cant remember a whole lot of what happened. But it was cool!! 

So this week WE had a dope District Meeting with all the elders and hermanas in our district. Tons of fun and my district is the best. We talked about our goals from last week, set some new goals and then had a lesson about the people and not to compare them to numbers however. It was cool, 

on wednesday we went to pitumarca and found 2 new investigators to teach. Happy day. On thursday we contacted even more, we met with a lot of people to try and teach them. Lots of rejection form catholics and stuff like that haha. But what are you gonna do haha. 

Then on friday we went to do divisions with the elders in Espinar. IT was fun, i went with elder pinto from Mexico, close to puerto Vallarta!!!  Then on saturday we went to Pitu again. Found a super old guy and taught him. Then we gave two blessings of health to these two ladies who are both super old and members. One of them cant walk and she actually was my first blessing too. super cool to see her again cause she seriously has such a hard life. Then we went to the two converts who are sisters. WE talked about the temple and after they pretty much just starting fighting about how they are pretty much better than the other. It was super weird cause we were just listening and the whole time in my mind i was just saying ok stop, I fought with my brother too and we hated each other for a while, but now I miss the crap out of him and just want to hang out with him. It was so childish and later i shared my thoughts with them about the whole situation, they have good reason to be mad, but they need to seriously just help each other right now. On sunday we found an old investigator at church and we met with him and he told us he wants to learn more and he will come to church every week!!! we were pumped!!

Today we woke up early and hiked up this trail of crosses up to the top of a small mountain. IT was so fun and super cool, we could see all of sicuani from there!!!! I loved it. then we went to the cancha to play soccer and football and lots of basketball. It was super fun.

 

I love you family and friends and I know that this work is true, and that we will be blessed for our desires and our efforts, i invite all of you to do something you normally wouldnt do to help build the kingdom of god.

 Elder Clawson

Week #27 Feb. 11, 2019

Week #27 Feb. 11, 2019

 MOm thank you so much for that email. It was so awesome. Thank you for all the details you give me, I love hearing about you guys. One thing i remember saying to my comp this week was, when i get home im gonna spend as much time with my family that i can. I miss you guys tons and love you guys. 

This week was pretty fun, not a very big week but still tons of fun really. We had a couple of killer lessons with people, tonight we are gonna have a dope family home evening, I am gonna make the young mens chocolate chip cookies!!!! And we put a baptismal date with a 12 year old kid we have been teaching. He has a tons of problems but both his parents want it and he told us he wants to also. So we have been working alot with him recently. 

P-day at macchupitumarca. Machu means old in Quecha.

We also spent a day in Espinar with The elders there, we had a fun activity to find people, so we just went to the plaza and talked to people. I found this one guy and we talked for like a good half hour. His name was wilfredo and he was divorced and catholic. He was waiting to meet some buds when i found him. We talked about work, what I do as a missionary, and tons of other stuff. then we talked alot about god too. It was super interesting. Later while we were talking so preacher guy saw all of the missionaries in the plaza and decided to preach. then Wilfredo said to me, look its your competition, then we both started to laugh. I got his information and he said that he travels to sicuani at times and that we should meet there and talk more haha. Super dope. then we did divisions and found more people. After we had a super good lunch in espinar. haha 

The rest of the week im sorry but i cant remember a whole lot. But today for p day we went to Pitumarca to see this old ruin called macchupitumarca haha. It was so cool and there was this huge cross on top of this mountain up there. WE need to go to Pitumarca after the mission i want to show you guys all of it and have you meet all the members there!! Ill send you some pics of that place. After we went to buy all the ingredients that i got from your website haha. So we gonnna have a fun family home evening tonight with all the young men. We might have 2 investigators show up too!! Im pumped!!

I love you mom and ill send you some pics!!!

Elder Clawson Tu HIJO 

Con amor

Week #26 Feb. 4, 2019

Week #26 Feb. 4, 2019 6 months down!

Elder Clawson outside his home in Sicuani, Peru.

Geez I dont know what happened this week cause my mind seriously sucks! But I know this week we had tons of crazy things happpen.

Monday: YOu all know what happened, I had flippin Pday. And i got fried playing basketball, volleyball and football americano.

Tuesday: We had a bunch of citas fall through so we just proselyted for most of the day. We found this young 14 year old girl named Evelyn who was kinda interested. But the craziest thing that happened that day was we had tried to visit so many people but seriously no one had time or was gone. So we were gonna head back to the house to do our studying. As we were walking back, i said to elder chamberlain, hey lets get some food, im kinda hungry. So we just found the closest tienda to us and i bought some ice cream. As I was buying, i heard elder chamberlain talking in english and i thought, what the heck is he doing? I looked at him and he was talking to some latino guy! So i joined in and he had perfect english!! His name was Armando and he lived in denver colorado for 2 years and now is a english teacher in Sicuani!! So we talked with him and it was hilarious cause he was calling us homie and stuff like that haha. One time he just straight up said to us, what are you doing here? So that was the perfect opportunity to tell what we were why we are here, he was super interested and said he would like to visit us!! so we got his number and are going to call him tomorrow!! It was so cool!!

Wednesday: On wednesday we went to pitumarca and just straight up tried to find people the whole day and man it was hard. We found 2 new people to visit and also recieved a small assignment from the bishop to help this couple prepare to get married. I have no idea right now what we will teach them and what we need to do but we are gonnna chat with the bishop to find out haha. We talked to this one guy named Nicolas, who had a ton of questions and just wanted to talk, but we shared something short with him and set another time to visit haha.

Thursday: We had a little more success, we talked to a small family of a single mom with 3 kids. and we have been teaching them for a while so we think and hope we can get them baptized cause they have super strong desires and know the gospel is true, just a littlt ebit of trouble with the sabbath day is all they need help with really. We met with a non active member named Ma Yumi, she has some physical disabilities that prevent her from coming to church but she liked our visit so that was super nice. Her family is also working like all the time so they never have time to come to church sadly, but I know we can help them out with that.

Friday: All day friday we were in cusco for Zone conference and it was super dope and super fun. I saw a bunch of elders i hadnt seen in a while so that was awesome. Zone conferences are so fun here in sicuani cause we get to go to cusco when we arent even close really. We learned alot and i had a great interview with president and gave us a goal to have at least one baptism per month. We are working hard to get that goal too haha.

Saturday: Saturday we drove home and just went to pitumarca for like 2 hours and yup not a whole lot happened. Just met with the couple to let them know we are gonna help them out with their matrimony.

Sunday: We went to Pitumarca for church and my comp loved it. But we came back right after and had some citas and started to clean a ton cause we were worried The president was gonna come and look at our rooms! haha. But it was super awesome.

MOnday: Today we cleaned the whole joint. Then we went to the leaders house and played a bunch of board games, it was super fun and we all thought the president was gonna join us but he never did. After we went to a resturant to eat lunch with the elders in our district. 

That was my crazy week, we had a couple of drunk guys try to chase us down to make us try and visit their houses but other than that, it was a super fun week!

I love you all and miss you tons!!

Elder Clawson

Week #25 Jan. 28, 2019

Week #25 Jan. 28, 2019

Elder Clawson and a cute member friend from Pitumarca wh makes these pretty colored clothes.

 Haha MOm thank you. IM jealous you went to hawaii with out me but ill live. I miss the beaches in hawaii! Haha i miss church in hawaii too!! I sent porter a short email, i told him i love him annd such. Haha did you really talk to his mom and try to set a date to have dinner, thats perfect! cause he has a cute 15 year old sister that seth could totally marry!!! We were just talking about it! 

My week this week was super long, Not a ton of success this week, but we still worked super hard. On saturday we went to pitumarca and tried to teach one potential girl who could be baptized but she wasnt home that day. But hopefully on wednesday we can. We got back super late and i got super sick on sunday with the double dragon. It is when you have diarrhea and vomit at the same time haha. I got no sleep and we had to stay home from church. But later throughout the day i got better. Then we had the elders from espinar, who is elder pickett from our group too. SO they stayed with us and we did a short divisions for a bit and then ate dinner and went to bed. Then today we went to the park and played a bunch of games with the zone. But the sisters didnt come. WE got 4 sisters in our zone now!! there was a bad accident with elders and sisters in sicuani before, so they took them out for a year and now we got them back! So everyones pumped to see how it works out but also very cautious. I got fried on my arms and legs today like the sun here is deadly!! 

Pitumarca, Peru

I love you mom and miss you tons.

Thank you for all you did and do to help me out here and to help me prepare for this time. Heck ya its hard, but thanks to your example and love for the gospel and for your children i know im on the right path and i will endure to the end to help the others here to receive the same blessings of love in the family. 

Elder Clawson

Elder Clawson and Elder Chamberlain walking the roads of Pitumarca, Peru.

Daddy thank you so much for your email, especially the part about Hawaii, Im green with jealous rage right now. So my comp was in Puno before. Hes from Sandy and you know how they are... jokeing! he is super fun. I love him tons and he makes the work super fun. But to the district leader, thats just me, and i have 3 other companionships in my district. I havent really been told what i need to do yet but our zone leaders are gonna give me a run down of what to do tomorrow in the meeting. Ill tell you a funny story from this week. So I was In Pitumarca on saturday, and whenever i went to the bathroom it was like straight up liquid. so i was being really careful the whole day. WE got back from PItumarca super late like 830 at night. Then went to bed, but all night my stomach was on fire and i kept running to the bathroom. But around 1ish in the morning i was like man i need to use the bathroom, but i had nothing to crap, but then it came from my mouth this time. So i had the runs, and was throwing up. They have a name for it here, its called the double dragon, pretty scary. Its as bad as it sounds haha. So all morining in sunday i just slept cause i had no sleep. But later i felt better and the zone lieaders brought me some stuff to help haha. Today we played volley ball basketball and football and my arms annd legs got absolutely fried!!! it sucked! but Ill try to find some aloe vera or somehting to help haha. 

Thank you for the email dad and i will try to teach and be more of a christlike example to others in everything that i do. Thank you for your example of a great dad and being strong in the church cause honeslty here, there are not a ton of strong families in the gospel and its hard to see. I just want to flipping grab ahold of there dads and say HEY, follow the commandments and you seriously will receive blessings and be happy with your family! And i know that cause of yours and moms examples. Thank you and i Love you.

Elder Clawson

Jake's room with extra missionaries for the night.

Week #24 Jan. 24, 2019

Thurs. Jan 24, 2019

Transfers this week!
Haha mom you are So good. Its all good. Ill hurry and tell ya about my week. Nothing really happened on monday and tuesday, but on wednesday we went to pitumarca and found 2 old investigators that wanted to still be baptized!! 

The 2 new members in Pitumarca, Peru

So pretty much everyday this week we went to pitumarca to help and teach these guys. Everyday!!! 1 hour there,  1 hour back every day for 5 days straight! But we got permission to have a baptism on sunday and it was in the river again!!1 it was so awesome! Ill send you some picks. Elder Ochoa went to abancay for changes as a zone leader, and im staying as a district leader with elder chamberlain from my mic group. Kinda weird the changes, but lots of others had the same thing. But i have definitley seen the change! i have serioulsy loved the mission so much these past couple days with elder chamberlain. I feel my spanish has significantly gotten better, and teaching and feeling the spirit also. Im in love with the mish in this moment haha. Its hard cause we are still both alittle new, but at the same time we are learning together!! I love you mom and im sorry but not a whole lot happened this week. But one of my friendss emailed me saying she saw a picture of me on instagram baptising someone in a river haha, mariah harris is her name, i think shes a junior this year. I thought that was funny to hear.

The little kid in the pic with me and ochoa is a member that is from pitumarca who lives with us right now to go to school in sicuani. His name is ronald, 16 years old and hilarious. Love him to death, we eat dinner with him everynight.

Love you mother dearest. Ill send some pics real quick

Elder clawson

Jake and his new companion Elder Chamberlain!