September 10, 2013 ~ Elder Brock Cleverly

1. How many teachers do you have? Who is your favorite one?
I have 2... one is Hermano Whittaker and the other is Hermana Falcon. I like the hermano... he is sweet and I set up a double date when I get home cuz he lives in Utah... haha...The other is a native and she is good.

2. Make sure you let me know of your flight plans to El Salvador in case they don't send them to me.
I still haven't gotten my flight plans so I have no idea..

3. Have you had any stomach issues?
Nope... no stomach issues... just one night where I woke up 4 times for the bathroom an hour each time but then I was fine haha

4. Have you had your hair cut there yet?
Yep, just got one today and you know I already hate it... haha

5. Who are some of your favorite Elders there that you enjoy being around?
The Elders I like are my roomates and Elder Williams from Idaho who goes to my mission but all the others left this week...

Well I sometimes don't know about you mom...I think I know you then you do something that makes me go what the!? haha... I'll send you more pictures in a sec. But yeah I wanna just get out already haha.. Next time we talk I guess I will be! I did find Elder Woolley.. I'll get a picture before I leave but it was dumb because last Tuesday night I finally found him and couldn't tell you haha. Sounds like everything at home is going good. I have gotten my update on Stin he emailed me... he said he is shooting for Oct 30th or something. The BYU game sounded cool.. glad you guys are trying to rub it in haha jk...I don't care...I would rather be out here. Its fun and there is honestly nothing I want to do more right now! So now I'll tell you about my week!

What a week it was. Not a ton happened but the things that did are worth telling. So the District we would play volleyball with left this week and it was kinda sad in a lot of different ways. First it was because those guys were like part of our District and they were fun to play with....and second and more importantly was what happened Saturday. They and their Teacher came into our room and apologized to us. They did that because they said they hadn't been good examples to us and didn't show us the right things. They would sometimes slack and not study and weren't ready for the field... Huge respect to their teacher who took the whole blame and said he should have been better. All of these things were true and they are great guys and will be great missionaries but they weren't ready. But then later that night they had a Zone meeting and apologized and talked to us just as Missionaries. They talked about exact obedience and how they were a bad example to us. Now to me it kinda hit me hard. I have gotten too comfortable and its been my fault that I have been slacking and didn't really think it was them at all. Something their teacher said was that he was sorry that he let all the people down who are connected with us. I want to say sorry because I haven't been doing my best and this past week that seems like it has been the theme and it really kicked me in gear now. I'm trying to be exactly obedient now and I heard it all before I left but it doesn't set in until you learn it for yourself which I have done now.

The 2nd story is better though... so this past Sunday we go to priesthood and find out my comp didn't get told he was teaching priesthood so next week he has to do it.. so the whole time I'm just making fun of him and laughing and he tells me its gonna come back to bite me. Well then I find out later I have to speak in that next Sacrament... well that didn't bug me.. you know me I had my talk prepared throughout the week just in case and it was only for 5 minutes.. half Spanish half English. Well little did I know that when I walk into the room who of all people is there?! Of course the freaking MTC PRESIDENT! This guy is in charge of everything and was an apostle and knows Elder Holland really good.. I think they were comps or something and I just go oh crap! So I wasn't the 1st to speak but one of the kids started telling a story in English and President Pratt asks him if he can do it in Spanish... now I'm really like "I'm dead". So I start translating my whole talk and when I get up words started just flowing from my mouth... it was so cool and everyone said it was a really good talk with only a couple of English words! I guess everyone said after that the President leaned over and asked my Branch President who I was and was like oh great please no... but I haven't been sent home yet! haha ...My talk was on nothing other than Exact Obedience and after he said my talk was really good. I felt so relieved and humbled haha. Well that was my week. I can't wait till next week. I really am counting down the days. I love you guys and hope everything is going good back at home! Can't wait to hear from you guys... Love you Mom!

Elder Clev