Quarantine+Epic Talks=Knowledge (Week 78)

Top of the morning to y'all. I'm sorry I haven't written in awhile. I guess I just forget. Anyways a lot of things have happened in a little bit. We were in quarantine, we cleaned a ceiling in a house, we hung out with some 8 year olds on the streets for a couple hours and one of them played John Cena music as he RKO'd a punching bag, and we tried to catch a 3 ft lizard while a old lady got mad at us. We also got addicted to listening to BYU speeches, devotionals, talks, and podcasts. We learned a lot of stuff about Joe Smith and it was all pretty epic stuff. I think our brains got a little bigger.

Well, after almost 2 years of dodging the covid I think we finally caught it. We only had to do like 3 and a half days of quarantine. Elder Arnold tested positive. We figured out his test results while he already went to Montevideo and did a bunch of Visa stuff. I got the results here in Pan de Azúcar and sent them to the office Elderes and one of the Assistants called Elder Arnold when he was on a van heading back to the promised land with a bunch of missionaries and it was speaker phone so everybody knew. Elder Arnold got dumped with me and then we started our quarantine. We learned so much stuff though from talks and study about Joseph Smith and also a lot about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We also heard a talk from a fellow named S. Kent Brown in a BYU devotional. He seemed pretty cool and talked about the Second Coming. Low key I kind of miss quarantine for the learning but, now I have to help other people learn the truth too.

So yeah, we hung out with some 8 year olds and other kids. The leader of the pack is named Diago and he's a hilarious little kid. He was always trying to impress us by jumping off a truck and pretending to be John Cean. We try to get the kids to talk to their parents so we can meet with their family. It's an effective technique because kids are easier to talk to. 

We've been teaching this guy named Marcos who is just the most humble guy ever. I love the man so much. We gave his kids a soccer ball and it was epic. He's excited to be baptised now and we are excited for him too. He also sells delicious donuts and we found him by buying a donut from him so that was lit. We also taught a kid named Miguel and he was interviewing me with his phone about stuff. I hope my Spanish pulled through. One of the questions was about Mr. Beast. He's a good kid and lives right next to the church building.

So we chased down this big old lizard by a school place to try to catch it, but a lady stopped us and told us the Lizard has a home there. If it wasn't for that meddling grandma. We also have been trying to fish around here too. I've been trying to catch a River Monster in a stream by our house. One guy came by and told us to move down stream so he could take a bath. Let's hope he didn't get killed by a River Monster.

Well, I hope that you all are doing well. My Spanish is finally getting there so that's good. I love you all and hope you all have an epic week. Always remember: "And his name is John Cena!"

-Love Elder Clegg

I'm a Relief Society President! 😅

Well, well, well. I'm sorry it's been a long time since I have been transferred from the beloved city of Rocha Uruguay to a land with more flavor if you know what I mean called Pan de Azúcar(Sugar bread😉). It's a branch that covers a couple little towns in the hills and I love it. My new comp is named Elder Arnold and he is from San Diego and we are having the time of our lives. Both of us can't really speak Spanish and so much stuff has happened this week that I don't know what to expect anymore. All I can do is laugh at whatever happens and have a good time. We have been out of money, we have been trying to figure out a bus system, I lost the phone on the bus, and all of the dogs want to eat us. So much stuff has happened that I look back on the week and feel like time has been super slow but, super fast in the moment. 

Well, the miracle of this week was self-inflicted. We were riding on the bus and I had the phone out of my pocket. We made it back to Pan de Azúcar and we hopped out of the bus and I felt my pocket and no phone. I was like "Man down, I lost the phone" and we started dying. We went to our house and ate lunch. We humbled ourselves while we layed in our beds and headed to the bus terminal. A guy told us to find the brand of bus to tell the driver. We waited at the stop for like 15 minutes and then we decided to enlist a member for help. Nobody could contact us if they wanted. We hit the members place named Joan who called some peeps and I had the idea to go to the church. We needed to grab the keys at the house so we almost made it to the house and we saw a bus like 200 yards away at a stop. We look at each other for like 5 seconds and we were like "Should we run?" "Yeah" so we booked it and made it just on time. We told the bus driver what happened. It was a different bus driver and he was like "What color was it?" We were like "Uhhhh black" and he was like "Just kidding" and pulled that puppy out. As he was driving away a guy in the back of the bus winked at us and they drove off into the sunset. We are still trying to determine if the guy was one of the 3 nephites or John the beloved. It was a miracle. God's hand was definitely there while my ignorance still is there. 

We have found quite a bit of people over here in Pan de Azúcar to talk with and to teach and it's been really cool. There hasn't been missionaries here in awhile. It's been really bomb and fun.

I'm not sure if the members have too much confidence in our abilities. We were eating with some members and they brought up the question: "Does the Lord have confidence in you guys?" It was pretty funny. I'm not sure if the Lord has confidence in us but, I sure do love the Lord. 

I love you all and hope you are doing well. I'm chilling in Sugar bread in Uruguay, sweating and having sunburns. Love you bye. The reason I'm a relief society president is I'm a district leader over 6 Sisters and that's it.

-Love Elder Clegg

2022 Already?

 What's poppin? I cannot believe that it's already 2022. It's weird that it's a new year. I also think my wallet was surprised too because it jumped out of my pocket in a taxi and I haven't seen it since. I guess the old saying "New year new wallet" is coming into play. Later that same day we found the same taxi and same taxi driver and everything and the wallet wasn't there. My guess is that whoever got a ride from the same taxi took the wallet and either turned it into some lost and found thing or they just took my wallet. Either way it's funny to think some random person in Rocha Uruguay has the only United States guy's drivers license.

Other than that it was a pretty epic week of finding. Now that we can hunt people down and talk to them in the streets, we have found quite a bit of new people to teach. One lady named Luci we found by the next lesson said she wanted to be baptized so that was easy. One problem is that she can't read so that's a little difficult. She is cool though and wants the big tall guy to baptize her. Last night we talked to an 8 year old kid that took us over to his family house and we taught his whole family and it was pretty lit. Also they sang happy birthday to me and it was really adorable. Nobody can really pronounce Clegg over here. People get thrown off by the double g. They are also giving us cake or something today so that's pretty lit. Oh yeah, it's also my birthday today so I want: a Lamborghini, 3.5 million dollars, a ski resort, and colder weather here in Uruguay because it's hot. 

I'm doing pretty good though and hope y'all are having a good time wherever you are. I want to wish you all a splendid new year and merry birthday to all and to all a good night. The work also is starting to pop off here. I know that to be true because we are all out of Books of Mormon now and need more but, the mission doesn't have more. We will see what happens. Love you bye. 

-Love Elder Clegg