November 2008

11/3/08
Hey Family,
How are things. I’m doing okay. Last week I said was a horrible week, but now that I think about it, it couldn’t compare to this week...
On Monday we were assaulted and robbed in our area, one block from the church. We were on our way home on a fairly used road. Two guys approached us, one with a gun the other with a knife and told us to give them EVERYTHING, so we did, but when they got my wallet I told them to at least give me my identification and they threw all my credit cards and id´s on the dirt... but they robbed my bible and my triple in Spanish both of which had the nice leather covers. They also got fifty bucks which I was going to use today to buy some new souvenirs.. pretty bad start for the week. So I basically didn’t eat this past week and probably lost about 10 pounds. But the good news is that we had an investigator that went to church in the rain and has a baptismal date for the 29th of November, which is cool cause I’ll be baptizing my last week in the mission followed by a temple visit the following week. Maybe since we live pretty close we can go through a few times when I get back. Well that was my week. Just about everyone here in Paraguay is scared of Obama because even the stupid Paraguayans know that he nuts if he says he wants to talk with Chavez...
Dad- tell aunt Lucy I said hi and that she should talk to Kent about the church. I’m kinda interested to know if anyone has ever invited him to be baptized, and not that it will cure him but stuff happens (read the stories in that booklet that grandma made us) when people come out of the water with a new dedication to serve Christ.
I did find my 4gb USB with all my backup fotos, but I don’t have a chip for my camera ... I’ll probably get one today.
Could you tell Levi to write me, I’m still curious on what he is doing. Oh, one more thing could you send me my itinerary... I don’t have it yet.
Lysa- hope ya´ll had a good Halloween. in Paraguay they have the day of the dead on the first day of November, but nothing ever happens, most of the time punks go grave robbing and things like that...
K´s- How’s school? Are you going to play sports this year or not? If not why? I’m pretty good at soccer now and i´d bet 20dollars that i could beat you in a shootout. What’s new as far as video games, did you guys buy the new super smash brothers game for Wii, I imagine that is the hottest game right now for Wii.
Well stay outa trouble fam, and I’ll try.
Love Clancy

October 2008

10/27/08
Hey Mom,
Sounds like your busy with your calling... that is a good thing. This past week hasn’t been very fun at all. I got a change and I’m back in Ciudad Del Este. It is the least baptizing area in the mission this year, with the exception of Barcequillo, which I have already been to. My companion is from Cuzco Peru. He’s new in the mission and I’m his second companion which basically means I have to teach him everything that his trainer didn’t, which apparently seems to be a lot. This past week he almost got us killed by offending an investigator... a good story to tell you later. But besides that, the worst news is that in the move I lost my camera chip and the pen drive that had all my fotos on it. I can’t find it anywhere. My day today is dedicated to locating them even if I have to travel three hours to Ca`Aguazu to do it. I’m not very happy at the moment, but
there is good news.. I’m going to be home in 39 days and a wake up! My plans, if its okay with you, is to be stress and work free for a week... mostly spent sleeping, reading books, and maybe trying to figure out how the Wii is supposed to work.
Well once again I’m in the 3rd largest market in the world. Tell me what you want for a souvenir, I’m pretty sure I can find it. Oh, and just so you know the dollar is going up so it would be a great time to take money out of the bank if you send me money :P
Love, Clancy
PS-did you get the picture of the spider... not that it was a cool picture or anything...

10/13/08
Hi,
How’s life? I’m doing all right. This past week was pretty boring. My companion was sick for 3 days and we didn’t leave to proselyte at all. Pretty much ruined the week. Besides that, not much is new and I’m starting to realize that I’ll be home in 7 and a half weeks.. pretty crazy. Well stay outa trouble and have fun.
Love, Clancy
10/6/08
What a great conference! I hope you had the chance to go to all the sessions. I loved the talks given and probably the best talk was the one about virtue given by the lady, Dalton I think... and the talks by Kristofferson, Holland and Eyring impressed me. Did you hear the foreign guys speak - Gavarret and the 2 Brazilians? They spoke pretty decent English for South Americans.
Well, I’m doing good. Not much happened this week. We had 4 investigators go to church, hopefully one of them gets baptized this coming month. I have a new goal.. I’m going to finish the bible in Spanish for the 3rd time and read the Book of Mormon again in English before I finish the mission in 8 weeks. Hopefully your scripture study is going well.
Well, stay outa trouble and tell the family I said hi.
Love, Clancy

September 2008

9-29-08
Hey Mom,
Congrats again on your new calling, that’s pretty cool. Just don’t stress out about it.
Well this week pretty much stunk for me. I was sick with a cold most of the week and Friday I was vomiting all morning some carrots that I had eaten on Thursday. Then on Saturday when I had a completely empty stomach a sister gave me mondongo soup. I’m pretty sure I explained to you what that was once right, its the fourth stomach of a cow... you Well, I took one bite to be polite then almost puked, then I told the sister that I couldn’t eat it and she me made me a fried egg. But besides my health I’m doing pretty good. I get to go twice more to the
dentist... she pretty much destroyed my already rotted out tooth doing the root canal and is now reconstructing the tooth instead of just putting filling in.
In the end it will cost 225 dollars.
Well I’m going to try now to send a few fotos.
Love Clancy
9/15/08
Happy Birthday Mom,
There is a saying here in Paraguay,
How many times have you turned 15? hahahaha
I guess that just means your almost three fifths the way done with life... scary thought ha? I’m doing great, they finished the root canal and then called me back in, because they want to reconstruct my tooth cause it’s just a disaster.
Well my comp is still the same, Elder Muñoz from Argentina. Things are heating up politically it sounds like back home. Wish I was there to participate a little but sounds like dad’s got things under control.
It got really cold this week. Don’t know why but all the sudden I got a crazy cold and it’s bugging me to death. I bought some weeds to make a tea out of (it’s what Paraguayans do... hope it works). Well stay outa trouble tell Lysa and Kelby to write me and don’t get in a car wreck.
love Clancy
9/1/08
I’m doing great. we had a lot of success this week. We have a kid witha fecha bautismal por a 20 de este mes de septiembre. tambien tuvimos 90 personas en el reunion sacramental . Estamos trabajando duro y espero que tenemos más exito.
Not a lot else is new. Tell sis Corbin if you can that I said hi. Fix your bank problems quick and tell the rest of the family I said hi, and tell Levi to go on a mission, it’s part of his ´responsibility´ as a priesthood holder.
Well see ya later.
Love Clancy

August 2008

8/25/08
Hey mom,
I’m doing great. I have a new companion. His name is Elder Muñoz. He’s from Argentina. He is my fourth Argentinean companion. My other companion right now is back home. He finished his mission. I hope things are going well, not much new here.
love Clancy
8/18/08
Hi,
I’m doing good. I don’t have a new companion yet, but I will in 2days.
We are teaching 3 families right now and they will probably be baptized sometime next month. Not much is new. I found JIF peanut butter! The small jar cost me 14650 guaranis($3.30), but it was worth it! I miss eating PP&J.
Well tell the Corbin’s I said hi and they can email me if they want to. I’d be happy to hear from them.
Well not much going on.
love Clancy.
8/10/08
I’m doing pretty good. This past week we went to Asunción twice. Once for the dentist the other to go watch a soccer game. It was cool. President Bradley took us and we had a good time. My comp is cool and we are teaching great. He goes home in a week. I’m
going to get a new companion in 8 days. Things are great. Stay outa trouble.
love Clancy
8/4/08
Hey mom,
I’m doing great. I got a new comp. His name is Elder Erfert from Yuma, Arizona. He’s a really cool guy. He goes home in three weeks and is a pretty ´trunky` kid.
Well this past week stunk! We walked probably about 15Km a day and didn’t get hardly anything done. I’m in Barcequillo right now (the area I was in for six months), so I can do internet before I go to the dentist today. Hopefully this is the last time I’ve got to go.
Yesterday I wrote in my journal for the first time in about 3 months. I know...I’ll repent and try to write daily. Just not a whole lot is going on. Stay outa trouble and if you can send me the name of the new Bishop and Stake President so I can resend my trunky papers. Oh, and the nearest airport.
love Clancy

June, July 2008

7/7/08
Hey mom,
Sorry I didn’t get a good letter off last week. I’m doing pretty good. This past Wednesday I went to the dentist where I’m now undergoing a three week root canal due to a split tooth...but the good news is that it is really cheap down here to go to a good dentist. In the end it will only cost about 250 dollars or something like that. The mission will should be getting in contact with the insurance company too to possibly help pay for it.
Things are great though. This past week we broke all of our records and taught 30 lessons with members and found over 45 new investigators. We are working pretty hard.
Well just so you know, birthdays in the mission stink as well as American holidays, but I get that is just the mission.
Tell everyone I said hi. Good luck with the house.
love clancy
6/30/08
Hey family,
How’s everything? I’m just writing a family letter today cause I don’t have a lot of time. I’m doing great. This past week my comp went to Asunción for a few days with a sick elder, and it looks like we may go back cause I need to see a dentist. One of my teeth Split and will probably need a filling or a cap.
Don’t really need anything at the moment and I’ll write more detailed next week.
Good luck with selling the house this week. Ya’ll are in my prayers.
Love Clancy
6/30/08
Hi mom,
Hope everything is doing okay. I’m doing great. We had conference and interviews this past week. I learned lots and got to travel a little bit. My area is huge! I’m in Caaguazú if you want to look it up. It’s a branch that meets in a small house. We have about 55 active members and about 450 people on the rosters.
Well , stay outa trouble
love Clancy
6/23/08
Hello,
I’m doing pretty good. Guess what? I got a change, now I’m in Caaguazú 4th branch. My comp is really cool, Elder Cowgill from Colorado. I do know Brown. He was my second district leader and he was also one of the assistants to the president. Anyway hope the house sells quick and you get what ya´ll want.
It’s freezing here in Paraguay now, probably about 40 degrees outside. Well that’s about all except that I took out a little bit of money because I was broke. Sorry I kinda feel like take out money too much, but your package should be getting home soon.
love Clancy
6/2/08
Hi,
Sounds like things are pretty crazy back home, hope you guys get the house in order. I’m doing pretty good and have had some success the past few weeks. This past week we put 6 people with a baptismal date and had one investigator in the sacrament meeting. It’s getting cold here in Paraguay and it got down to about 40 degrees the other day.
Today we went to Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam. It’s the largest in the world and number 1 on the list of modern wonders of the world.
Well stay outa trouble. Hope things go well.
love Clancy

May 2008

5/25/08
Hey Mom,
I’m doing well. This week we worked really hard and found 26 new investigators and put four with a baptismal date, a family. How’s the ward? I just bought a new a pair of shoes, my others had been repaired about 6 times and keep falling apart so I just bought new ones...I’ll send a photo next week my shoes were a disaster. Anyway I’m going to the market today to get a pen drive. Could you put more money on the account? I’m going to need it to send the package off.
Write me this coming week,
love Clancy
5/19/08
Hi,
This past week we had a baptism and we found 20 new investigators,
including 3 families. It was a pretty good week. I’d imagine you’ll be able to sell the house, I would hope so anyway- but either way I’m definitely going back down to VB to visit everybody and stay for a few days to a few weeks but it kinda depends on what my plans are and where I decide to go to school at.
This past week I probably walked about 6 to 12 miles a day and I’m actually pretty tired. The money I took out is mostly so I can live till the end of the month. I’m going to try to get a package off in the next week or so. If you see Joe, or his mom, tell them I said hi and that I’m having a blast.
love Clancy
5/5/08
How are ya? I’m doing pretty good. This Wednesday I should be getting a new companion. It’s been a long week. I did a baptismal interview in another area and had to convince the stake president to let us confirm on a Wednesday (I spent an hour at his house, and it went well.) Then on Thursday was the Paraguayan Labor Day, and all the Paraguayans got drunk and wet, it was raining. Let’s just say that it was a complete disaster for our proselyting and I got soaking wet cause my umbrella broke earlier in the week. In the end I put 2 baptismal dates and had two investigators in the sacrament meeting. Tell everyone I said hi, tell grandpa and grandma I want to know how their trip to the church sites went and that I’m doing pretty well.
love Clancy