2 weeks.Feeling Better, and On the Run

Well the penicillin, along with an
of other drugs, seem to be
working, and I am almost back to 100%!
Though the week was busy, the thought
that the Lord was watching after me,
as well as the mission President's wife
who made me go to the doctor,
made everything go smoothly!
This last Tuesday we had a zone leader
council, which is actually my favorite
meeting in the mission. We have
breakfast and lunch together, and than
its just the 8 zone leaders, the mission
president and his wife, and us
2 assistants, and we get to just talk
about the needs of the mission and have
a very intimate teaching. I love it.
We had three topics and just had a
round table discussion about the topics,
along with teachings and a slide show
we prepared. It went very very well!
Right after the zone leader council,
we took the 5 and a half hour road
trip up to Nancy, France (in the North
of France) for our exchange with the
zone leaders.
The exchange went very well and we
even had the chance to go to KFC.
Yes, the fried chicken place.
There are about 4 in the mission area!
Its great. Elder and I fixed the goal
to find a family to teach, and literally
the last door we knocked on that day,
we found a man, his wife, and their
three daughters who said they would
come to church. Talk about miracles!
On Thursday, we drove back, and then
finished up some administrative things
we needed to get done.
Friday, we had another exchange here
in Geneva. I was with Elder , a
great missionary from Paris.
We saw a lot of great people and
learned a lot from each other.
Saturday, Elder Sorensen and I got
to work in our own are for the first
time together in like 2 weeks.
We had lunch with our Brazilian
investigator Ilana, and her Brazilian
friends! It was amazing. Then we saw
a recent convert and
then he helped us teach.
We then saw a member family and
they actually ended
up giving us an hour long lecture
on how to eat well. I think we are
going to try to improve our eating
habits. No more buying coke,
unless on a road trip.
This week will be craziness.
We will be going on 5 exchanges.
Yup, 5. Tuesday in Fribourg
Switzerland, Wednesday here in
Geneva, Thursday in Sion Switzerland,
Friday in Lausanne Switzerland,
and then on Saturday we will be
taking 3 missionaries to the airport
where they will be headed back home.
Interesting thing is that the mission
president will be gone from Tuesday
to Sunday. So we will kind of be in
charge and taking this missionaries
to the airport by ourselves.
It should be an interesting experience!

I hope you have a great week and keep
trying something new everyday.
I promise
I am doing well and my health is good.
Have a great week!
Love always,
Elder Bubba

August 24, 2009
This week was quite the adventure;
5 exchanges. Although it was a
little difficult being all over the
place, it is a such a great chance
to see the Lord's hand work in so
many marvelous ways, not to mention
see the beautiful Swiss countryside.
This last Tuesday I spent the day in
Fribourg, Switzerland. It is a
beautiful city, with a lot of great
things to do. We taught a great
Portuguese family and it was a
great experience.
On Wednesday, I worked here on an
exchange with The zone leaders
from Lyon. It was a crazy day,
and we were all over the place.
We ended up going to Martigny,
Switzerland that same night.
Martigny is such a beautiful
place and is in the Alps.
The exchange went very well and I
think I talked to people for 6
hours straight. It is one of the
only areas in Switzerland that is
primarily catholic (Everyone in
Switzerland is protestant).
Actually, on our way to our exchange
in Lausanne the next day, the mission
president let us go see the
Matterhorn, the mountain the
Disneyland ride is modeled after. It
was quite the adventure! Believe it
or not, my companion forgot his camera,
and mine was out of battery! But
I saw it and that's all that matters.
Check it out on Google
images if you want to see it!



Quick miracle.
On my exchange in Lausanne, we were
waiting to meet up with a
recent convert on a bench and he
was running a little late. A man
comes and sits down and we start
talking with him. We fix a
rendezvous for that same
after and we went and taught him.
We fixed a followup lesson for the
next day and he fixed a baptismal
date and came to church and should
be baptized in about 3 weeks!
Its so amazing to see how quickly
the Spirit can touch people!
This week will be full of zone
conferences, a mission council,
and meeting with
the stake presidencies with the
mission president and Elder
Kopischke of the 70
as he does a mission tour.
It should be a great week and
I again will be traveling all
over for it. I am way excited
and can't wait to hear the words
of this inspired man, and for
the chance to travel around with
him, eat with him, and just get
to know a servant of the Lord!
Thanks for all of your love and
support and for everything you do
for me. I pray that you have a
great week and that everything
keeps going well! Thank you!
Love,
Elder Clayton H. Welch

ps. The pictures are of my visit
to the John Calvin museum.
John Calvin was one of the two
major reformers with Martin Luther
and he did everything from
here in Geneva. I saw the church
he preached in and everything!
This is me next to one of the
museum sign and the other is me
reading the 10 commandments
at the museum in french!