Hey everyone this week has been awesome! My companion and I started off the week with our hair cuts that we gave to one an other! We ended up buying a machine to cut hair this past Monday and we cut our hair after I wrote all of you guys. I cut my companions hair first and it turned out better than I thought it would for the first time cutting hair. My companion cut my hair also and was for the most part cut good just one part on the side of my head where he had cut a little to short. It was pretty funny! 

Also this week my companion and I had a super awesome experience that I want to share with you guys! We were at one of our the houses of our investigators and they where drinking tea. We have been teaching them for about 1 month now and we thought that they were living the word of wisdom because they had started to but a friend ended up giving them a bag of tea so they started drinking tea again. I asked to see if I could look at the bag to see what the ingredients were. When they showed us the bag we knew that this type of tea they can't drink. But long story short I ended up putting the tea in my bag and we left. The family that we are teaching we have a close relationship so I felt comfortable taking the tea. It was funny!  We received a phone call about 15 minutes after we left and Getsemni called us and was laughing and was like where's my tea. He asked if we could share a message the next day and also bring the tea. We all had a good laugh and said yeah well bring it don't worry. Well we where thinking because we really didn't want to give them the tea. We knew what there favorite drinks and ended up thinking lets try to switch them. we ended up buying the stuff and wrote some sticky notes to put on the containers to give to them. After all was ready we said a prayer that our heavenly father could help touch the hearts of especially Getsemeni and that the swap would go as planned. We ended up switching them the things we had bought for the tea. I know that are heavenly father hears our prayers and if we will have the faith anything is possible. I know that our heavenly father touched the hearts of this family and helped them realize that its important to live the world of wisdom. They said that from now on they are just going to buy the other drinks that they like more then tea because they know its not good for there health. 

 Have a good week everyone 

Elder Cleverley

This week hasn't been too eventful but we had (cambios). I cant remember the word in English but it is when we switch companions. Well sometimes i am a little worried. Just because i cant speak Spanish perfectly and now i am forgetting how to speak English. Haha but anyways we ended up receiving 2 more sister missionaries in our area. I am still the district leader here and me and my companion this week have just really been helping the sisters out because they are opening an area. They split our area  just because its pretty big and put the sisters in one area and us in the other. My companion and i know the area and where the members are and the positive people are so we showed them around a bit. The other sisters have been having a really rough time with their investigators to accept a date to be baptized. My companion and i ended up visiting 2 of there investigators that were ready to be baptized but just wouldn't accept a date. I was a little worried and having a hard time knowing what to share with them. I Ended up saying a pray and finding the scriptures to share. Long story short the lessons where super spiritual and my companion and i ended up putting a date for the girl whose name is Kristy this Friday and the boy that has 16 years of age this past Saturday. Both were baptized and the people who where baptized ended up asking if we would assist. We were so happy that they wanted us there and we took one of our investigators to the baptisms. Our investigator accepted a date and was worried to be baptized but seeing the others were ready and is very excited and is telling everyone she is going to be baptized the 24 of February. We are so excited and will see what happens. 

Elder Cleverley

Hey everyone this week my companion and i first of all found super positive people that we are preparing to baptize. This week the lord really blessed us with people that where prepared for us to find and teach. We have be contacting like crazy in a area called Diez de Septiembre and contacted jency. Well we found out she was only visiting her grandma. We asked her where she lived and it was super far away again. The same story we had with alexis that live and hour and half a way and comes every domingo. She came to church this week and loved it. She says she wants to be baptized and one day be a misionara. the people of honduras will do whatever it takes to get to church. We have been visiting her every couple of day and its hard just because its so far away. 

Also this week my companion and i learned how to make food from honduras. We will see how it goes when we are not having help from a native. One of the picture the tortilla is in the air. That is definitely not how you do it. I haven't quite figured out how to do the tortillas they way they do it. I do it differently but its taste the same.

Love you all,

Elder Cleverley

Hey everyone so we had another baptism! My companion ended up baptising alexis that lives 1 and a half away from the church. So the day of the baptism we went to set things up a little early. Well when i looked in the font i thought it needed more water so i hit the lever. Well then i thought i want lot of people to be at the baptism becasue we had the baptism at 1'0 in the morning saturday and people where working and stuff. So we 'passed by members houses to see if the kids where in the house. Well we ended up getting a tone of people at the baptism but when returned the church was flooded. Good new is the churches are so different here. They are set up so that when cleaning you can dump tones of water on the floor and not ruin the walls. I was preatty emabarressed the guy we ended up baptising helped mop the church before the baptism. But the baptism was great and i will never forget alexis and his example of doing whatever it takes to go to church.

Love you all,

Elder Cleverley

Hey everyone so my companion and I had our first baptism together this Saturday. It was an amazing experience and I felt the spirit so strong during the baptism. It was a true privilege to baptize nelson and is by far one of the best experiences of my life. To see the pure joy that nelson had was so great and I will never forget the baptism of him. 😁

 My companion and I yesterday had quite the adventure. We have a investigator that has been coming to church for 3 weeks now and we finally found out where he lives yesterday. He was always saying I live a long ways away and my companion and I thought that he might be exaggerating a little. So after church we went with him. And wow where we surprised. We first took a bus for 30 minutes and then after that jumped in a motor taxi for another 30 minutes and then we walked another 40 minutes up and down mountains to get to his house.  Alexisis has been coming to church and spending 60 limperas every time to come to church. His house is about the size of my room and is made of mud and sticks and dirt for floors. I don't know how he is getting the money to come to church but what an example for all. He hardly has money but knows how important church is. We all need to have the attitude like Alexisis and do whatever it takes to go to church. We have it so easy in the states and sometimes we make excuses for reasons why we can't go to church. Knowing the situation of Alexisis I think we all can jump in our cars for 5 minutes to go to church and have a good attitude like Alexisis. 😀

Have a good week everyone!😁 

Elder Cleverley

Hey everyone! I'm doing great! We are writing super late today because we had a reunion and also we played soccer with some of our investigators today. It was a blast! My companion that i have now has been my favorite companion so far we have had a blast and also are having tons of success! Like I said last week the members didn't have trust in the missionaries because of the pass missionaries that were in the area before us. For 2 weeks we only had 30 people assisting all the iglesia. We had a meeting with our mission leader and we decided that this week we're going to change that. We left with tons of members to visit people this week and gained trust of the members and also we had 87 personas in the church this week. The ward as starting to pitch in with the work and we are definitely seeing the difference. We brought 9 investigators and 1 family of 4 to the church this sunday. We are preparing them for baptism and the only problem is they are not married. this family is super special to me and we are doing everything we can to try to help them get married. They are super poor but are so giving also. Always are giving food and drinks. Also we are preparing my man nelson for baptism this saturday! He is 8 years old and has been assisting the church like crazy with us! I will send pics this next week of him! He asked if i would baptise him and i am so honored to do so. He is such a special spirit and i just love him to death. We will see how it goes!😁 

I've got a story for all of guys and you all are going to enjoy this. So we had a reunion 2 days ago and we got on a bus and it was super later. There weren't 2 seats together for my companion and i to sit together so we sat separately. I sat by this kid who has 20 years of age and he was so tired he ended up putting his head and sleeping on my shoulder. I thought to myself if i was in the states i totally would of been like dude wake up what you doing. But i dont know i just didn't feel like waking him up. I just love the people here and would do anything for them. If that means letting this dude sleep on me for 1 hour that fine with me. But my companion was laughing his head off. Well i was like im going to take picture and my companion was freaking out. saying dont do it man dont do. It was dark so i hit the flash button and starting taking pictures my companion freaking out the whole time and the whole bus was just balling laughing the entire time. He didn't end up waking up or anything. And when he did wake up. I showed him the pictures and he just i'm so sorry and just couldn't believe that he had done that. I ended up contacting this kid but he doesn't live in my area but i sent the reference to the missionaries en the other area.We'll see what happens. Hope all of you have a good week and enjoy the pics.😁😂 

Ok so I'm training again! My new companions name is Elder Zapata. He is from Chile and wow does he talk fast. I'm excited to be with him and this week has been awesome. He is a great missionary and we are going to have no troubles getting along. Right now we are working hard in our area and especially gaining the trust of the members. There has been a few missionaries in the past in this area that were not the best example and some things happened but we are gaining their trust little by little. Hope all is well! Love you all