WEEK 59 IVAN GETS DUNKED/ICE CREAM GALORE

Hello everybody! I probably had way too much sugar this week! 

Apparently a semi truck tipped over with a bunch of ice cream in it and one of the members in my ward got 3 freezers full of ice cream and gave a lot of it to all of the missionaries. Our freezer was literally filled to the brim with ice cream. It's insane!

Ivan got baptized this week so that was epic! He is going to be an epic member! We are also starting to teach his girlfriend and she is really interested too! Temple Marriage? Who knows. We are also making a lot of progress here with some cool people so stay tuned! We got Niesha who is pretty cool and used to live with her Grandma who hated the missionaries coming over but her Grandma passed away so that's a win for us. She came to church so she will probably get baptized soon.

We got our boy James that we found on my first day in the area. He is really cool and his wife is really crazy. We went into his house and his wife got mad at him and us and she went kind of crazy so we had to go outside and James said a prayer with us and his wife came out later and apologized! It was amazing! James knew we were sharing an important lesson with him because Satan is trying to stop us (through his wife). It was really powerful.

Church was really funny because in Sunday School they started talking about vaccines and it almost got contentious. It's better to talk about Gospel topics at church for a reason so that Satan doesn't slip in.

I also studied Jacob 5 which was actually pretty epic if you actually know what's going on! I also caught some epic lizards hiking last week which was fun! I hope that you all are doing well! 

-Love Elder Clegg

WEEK 57 STRIP CLUB/CRAZY BUS PEOPLE

 Hello everybody! It was a pretty bomb week not going to lie. My bike needed some parts so we had to use the bus a lot of this week and it was pretty epic. There's so many crazy people on the bus it's hilarious. We were on it and this guy started talking to me about how this country is corrupt and something about Native Americans and talked about how the Bible is false and a bunch of other crap. He asked if I understood and I said No! He was also talking about how Satan is our savior and I was like I don't believe that. He was a satanist. It was weird. I don't know how this man has any hope in his life.

We had a bomb lesson with our boy Ivan! We went over the baptismal interview questions with him and he's doing really well. He has that desire to do good! Let's go! To end it off we asked him to pray and ask God if he loves him. We taught him how to pray. He did it and it was such a genuine prayer and right after His love hit us like one of those buses that we have been riding. It made Ivan tear up and Elder Russell was crying a little bit. It was such a spiritual moment. Ivan's baptism is going to be epic! On Sunday Ivan even brought his girlfriend to church! He is a better missionary than we are!

Elder Russell and I one night ended up at a bus stop right by a strip club called "Chicas Bonitas" which means beautiful girls in English. It was pretty weird. There were a bunch of women with limited clothing on. On the bright side we talked to some people about God around there. Don't worry, I don't give into temporal temptation. 

I saw Aunt Nancy and Uncle Karl too. They went to the BYU game here in Vegas because that's what you do if you're retired, old, and from Utah! I appreciate the snacks!

It was a pretty epic week. I was also able to see my first convert Raul from my first ward at church on Sunday! He's doing good and is actually the ward mission leader now which is impressive. Hopefully everything will keep going well for us. I love you all and hope you all have a grand week. Stay off the bus all you can!

-Love Elder Clegg