Happy 21st Birthday Elder Bubba!

Leaves and Scones

This past week went very well.
We finished with Zone Conferences in
Lyon which ended up going very well.
I am excited to go to zone conferences
next transfer and be able to just
listen and participate!
We also had an exchange here in Geneva
which went very well. I got to work
with my old companion Elder N, and we
had a great day of talking to people by
the church.
There is an older couple that lives
right next to us, and the older woman
always goes out and rakes her leaves
all the time, but the leaves always
fall faster than she can get them.
So on Saturday, the mission president
asked us to go and rake her leaves and
his wife and himself made us scones!
They were way good and it was good to
get out and serve some of our neighbors.
On Sunday I went to 3 different Sacrament
meetings which was the most I have
ever been to in a day; 2 of them were
the primary programs though which were
soo good. I love learning from little
children.
Yesterday we got a new missionary from
Norway which went very well as well. I
love seeing the new missionaries come
in and seeing how much faith and desire
they have!
This upcoming week, we have an Exchange
here in Geneva, we will be going to
Chambery on Saturday for an exchange,
and we will be having an exchange on
Monday in Lausanne, so it will be a
great week of working with other
missionaries and talking to a lot of
people!

Have a great week.

Catching up with two weeks of emails:)

Elder Bubba and Elder H

NOVEMBER 4, 2009
With the start of the transfer and
the preparation for the zone conferences,
and all the other things that will take
place throughout the transfer ready, this
week has been spent quite a bit here at
the mission home, meeting with the
president, but went well none the less.
The missionaries came in and it was great!
I love seeing the new missionaries!
They have such great faith and such a
great desire to preach the gospel.
Our Brazilian investigator is doing
very well! She is still looking very
strong for the 28th of November, and
she is on her way to reading the whole
Book of Mormon. She also asked me to
baptize her this week, so I am really
looking forward to that.
C is also doing very well and he will
tell us tomorrow if he will be
baptized the 28th of November as well!
We are having a great time here together,
Elder S and myself, and we are
looking forward to all of the great
things that will happen this transfer.
We are going to try really hard this
transfer to have a good time and really
have a blast doing this great work.
This upcoming week should also be exciting.
I think we might visit the reformers wall
today here in Geneva. Tomorrow, we
will be heading up to Metz,
for the Zone Conference on Friday.
We will go down to Nancy for an exchange
on Saturday and will come home that night.
Next Monday we will have a zone
conference in Yverdon, Switzerland, and
then a zone conference here in Geneva
on Tuesday. It should be great!


You would also be happy to know that I
am still eating healthy and I am doing
well physically.
I hope you have a great week.
Is there anything I can do for you?
Love always,
Elder Clayton Henderson Welch

NOVEMBER 11, 2009
Bonjour
It is a beautiful day here in Geneva.
The sun is shining, and it is beautiful
outside with orange leaves all over here
in Geneva; Finally a break to all of
the cold rain! The fact that it was
rainy this week actually wasn't too bad
though, seeing that we had 3 zone
conferences, and a full day of church
in there, keeping us out of the rain,
though, I do feel
bad I didn't get to be out there working
hard and earning myself some "wife
points."
The 3 zone conferences went great though!
We are talking about being more
effective missionaries, and have created
a study packet that we go through to
facilitate conversation on the topic with
all the missionaries. We are seeing
great results and I am excited to start
putting some of these things into
practice myself.
We were in Metz, Frace
(where I started my mission) on Friday,
and we had an exchange with the Zone
Leaders in Nancy that night and on
Saturday which went very well.
I was with Elder H and I had a great
time learning from him.
We tried so hard to do exactly what
we though the Lord wanted and we saw some
great results, most specifically the
feeling of doing what the Lord asks of us.
We also had a "Soirée des Talents"
(Talent Show) here in Geneva on Saturday
where we say a jazzed up version of
"Love At Home" as an Elders Quorum; good
times.
Sunday was a great night!
We are teaching a Mongolian who just
started coming back to church and her
non-member Sister D and we went over
and ate with them and another Mongolian
non-member. The food was so good and the
formerly less-active member said she
wants to be temple worthy within a year!
It was so great to hear that!
We had also just taught D about Alma 32,
how faith is like a seed the last
rendez-vous, and she explained to us
that the seed has been
planted and she feels it growing in her
heart and she said how great she felt!
It was so good!
This week should be great as well.
We will be going to visit the P
Family, one of my favorite families
here tonight, and tomorrow we are off to
Lyon for a Zone Conference there.
We then have an exchange here with the Lyon
zone leaders and another exchange next
Tuesday in Lausanne with the Zone Leaders
there. It should be a great week and I
can only hope that the weather continues
to get better!
Have a great week and please let me
know of anything I can do for you!
Love Always,
Elder Clayton Welch


We received Elder Bubba's travel
itinerary today (crazy huh?)
He gets back to the USA
February 11, 2010!!