March Letters

03/21/11
Hello Family and Friends,
   This week was a great week and I am adjusting to a new companion.  We now have permission to send picture. How is the life in the U S A. Well things are going really good. I am working hard here in Peru and hopefully it will pay off this weekend. I have two baptisms for this weekend and hopefully with the help of the lord we can get them baptised and comfirmed this week. Well this week we had a couple of interesting things happened. On friday we had a conference with the area genreral authority Elder Uceda. Wow, was it cool. He spoke about how we can be better fishers of men and everything we need to do to be better missionaries. And it was probably the most spiritual meeting of my mission. He gave countless of examples from the scriptures and bore his testimony powerfully and we all walked away from that meeting just uplifted into the skies it was crazy. It was awesome!
    That was Friday and the other thing was yesterday. We are doing a thing in our stake that is going to help the missionary work. The stake president in every ward has called 10 families to be family missionaries. And we have goals with every family to give us a certain amount of references everyweek. They find the people and then we teach the people. But many of them don't know how to find the people. And so yesterday we had a training with 20 of the families, teaching them how to contact invite to church and talk to their neighbors.  My zone leaders told me that I had to do part of the training. And so in front of about 100 people I trained them how to contact people in their streets and their neighbors. Wow I have never been so nervous in my life. I am not fluent in spanish and I am a new guy in the work. SO, I was freaking out a little bit. But I got up there and started talking and I know the lord helped me through it. I spoke new words that I have not even learned yet, and gave ideas that  I have never even used myself. It was a miracle. It strengthened my testimony about how the Lord helps his missionaries to do his work. It was really awesome and a journal entry, ha ha. Well I hope you liked the pictures if you are getting them. They are about some of my baptisms and the conference that I had with the member of the seventy. I will try to find somewhere where I can make a cd. I live in the ghetto of Lima where there aren't a lot of drugstores. I have to get permission to go out of my zone. But I will look into this week. Well that's all for this week. Thanks for everything that you have done and are doing for me. Love you all.
 Elder Clouse

03/14/11
Hello Family and friends,
This week was great and I am adjusting to my new companion.We now have permission to send pictures
  through the Internet now so I will be able to send three every week.  This three are of me and my area.  What I am trying to get in every house with my new companion.  My new companion is Elder Morales.  He is from Chile.  If you could take Tim Weedman and turn him into a Latino from Chile, this is who he would be Ha, ha, ha.  He  likes the Japanese anime.  He loves to eat, He is really funny and I have a lot of wow moments, but he is a really good kid.  I love him a lot.  He is a convert to the church.  In April it will be two years since he joined.  :He came on his mission a year and three months after his baptism.  Her is the only member of his family and doesn't receive a whole lot of support.  He has a really strong testimony and loves to give it a lot.  Most of the elders have said his companions have had problems with him.  But I look at his other companions and I know where the problems have started.  This week has been really great.  We have not had any problems and we are really good friends.  This change should be great with  no problems I have been trained before with a person like him ha ha.  I am really grateful to be with him.  He has 7 months in the mission and this is this first change as senor cop.  He is in my area so I kind of feel like a senor comp because he doens';t know too much but we are working hard and should have some great success. 
    Well, this week have been normal., well a little, for our transfers this week.  My old comp, elder Molina wasn't going to leave until Wednesday.  He was going to the jungle with his new comp, and so he came and stayed with me and my other comp Tuesday night.  It was awesome that night.  We had a fiesta with games, cookies, and soda.  All four of us stayed there and partied like it was 1974.  Ha ha that is what my comp, Elder Morales said;, Haha goober!  It was awesome.  All of the other days were working normally , preaching the good word.  We have one baptism date for the 26 of March.  I have found a family of 6 to teach that all could be baptised if I work hard.  Everyone of them have husbands and wives, but everyone of them are now separated.  It is pretty sad, but we have been lifting their spirits a little bit.  The family is named Cosodio, wow that's an example of what Spanish doers to someone.  The family name  is Costodio.  Ha ha, its the Costodio!  They are really great and we are working with them.  My date for baptism is named Yasmin.  If you can remember4 she is the story that we came to church and she told us she had a note;  I want to be baptised.  Now I am teaching all of her family and so now they are all OK with her being baptised.  Hopefully with her baptism her family will feel inspired to be baptised.  This week was good.  I am still really  loving my mission and am staying healthy.  Don't worry mom, that all for this week.  Thanks for everything and Love you all.  Talk to you later,
All my Love,
Elder Clouse

03/21/11
Hello mom happy birthday. Wow 55 years. How are you feeling besides old? ha ha. I want you to know that I was thinking of you yesterday on your special day. I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful mother. I couldn't have asked for anyone better. You always did things to help all of your sons and have always been strong in the gospel doing all of your callings the best that you could do. Thanks for all of your support and love. A missionarry really appreciates it. I love you so much and hope you have  the same wonderful day everyday because you deserve it. Thanks for all you have done. I love you so much. I always pray for you. Thanks for everything. Love Elder Clouse




03/07/11
Hi dad!
   I am on line again.  this week was great.  Glad that you had fun with
Sheryl in the temple.  She is a good girl if I shall say so.  Tell hger that I got her package, and thanks.  I also got your package and the money.  Thanks for everything, love you, Elder Clouse

03/07/11
Hello fam and friends!
   Thisn week was great in the work.  It is all progressing really well and it looks like I will have three more baptisms in the upcoming weeks.  This week is transfers.  I am sad to say i will be getting a new companion.  Me and Elder Molina have been great buddies and I am really sad to see him go.  I will be staying in my area for another transfer.  I will almost complete 1/3 of my mission in this area.  It is a long time in one area for my mission.  Everyone is laughing at me but I don't care.  I love my area.  My new companion only has a month more than me in  the mission.  This will be his first change as senior comp and so I will be expecting this next change to be  interesting.  His name is Elder Morales from Chile.  Everyone says he is cool so hopefully we will be friends really fast.  Well,m nothing else is really going on.  Today I am going to buy stuff to make tacos.  I am so excited to do that I can't even tell you.  Not chicken and rice Whoo Hoooo!!  Tomorrow i will get up and receive all my problems.  Ha ha, just kidding, tomorrow I will go get my comp from the offices and then I will have to show him everything in my area.  This week should be tougher than most but I am excited anyway.  I am sorry this letter is so boring but i really didn't do anything this week.  Just the normal teaching and contacting.   I am doing great and am healthy.  The work is going good and I am in high hopes for good things to come to pass.  Thanks for everything, your prayers , letters and thoughts are appreciated.  Love you all!  Next week I will have more to write, until then, I'm Elder Clouse
Ha ha, love you all,
Tio Kev

2/28/11

Hello family and friends!  I had two baptisms this weekend:  Harold and Yasmin. We have been working with Yasmin about 2 months and Harold about three weeks.  It has been really great and I am so glad the Lord helped me to have this little success.  With His help we as missionaries can do the work.  The baptisms were great and were spiritual and I was so happy when I heard their testimonies.  I could really tell both of them are really converted to the gospel.  I personally baptised them both.  Every time I have the opportunity to baptise, I really feel overwhelmed with the spirit of missionary work.  It is truely amazing to see the success and feel the success of a lot of prayers and help of the Lord.  The work in my area is growing and is expected to have more success with the help from the Lord.  Well, every week of baptism is like that is the best week ever.  But this week was even better!  I had help from the members.  I found a lot more people to teach.  Baptism soda and cake! Great Week!  My mission president came and baptised someone also.  He was contacting with the zone leaders one week and found a man and his wife.  The missionaries taught him and when it came to baptism, the man said that he wanted President Blunck to baptize him, so he came yesterday and did it on Sunday.  It was really weird  to see him in my church building but it was great seeing him and talking to him again.  I haven't seen him in two months.  This week we have another meeting with him, a training is what it is called in Enbglish.  I hope that is right.  My English is horrible!  When I read my letter again it just doesn't sound right.  But with only one hour I don't have much time.  We have a training so I am excited to learn something new this week. 
  Me and my comp, Elder Morales are doing great.  We don't have any problems and are working hard.  He is working hard and is helping me with my Spanish.  I am always getting better in Spanish and teaching.  In two weeks I have plans to go to a school and teach some English.  One of my investigators is a teacher and in every school they teach English.  I can go and teach English and give them pamphlets to take home to their parents.  Also I will teach them how to pray in English after I teach them the correct way in Spanish.
   Well, this has been a really good week.  I am so happy I am on my mission.  It is really great fun and I love it.  Thanks for everything you have done and are doing for me, love you all, Elder Clouse