Elder Clay Giles

  Olá! Hey everyone! Well, this email is going to be short because I'm currently curled up on my bed dying right now, but this week was pretty great!  We were able to find three new friends! Let's gooooo!  The Lord truly does bless hard work, obedience, and faith with miracles!  I am truly Thankful for this Gospel, my family, my friends, Elder Stettler, all my fellow missionaries and Jesus Christ's atonement!  I love each and everyone of you and excited for my peeps that just got their Visa and that are heading to Brazil! I'll be there soon, but the Lord still has need of me in Michigan. Also, Transfer calls were this week and surprise surprise! I'm staying in Jonesville! But, Elder Stettler is now the DL so that's awesome! Well, love you guys a ton! Elder Giles

  Oi! Tudo Bem! This week went by so fast! But I love every second of Missionary work! This week has been pretty crazy and the Lord truly guides our lives if we let him. So, on Wednesday I went on exchanges with my DL, Elder Driggs! He is such an awesome missionary!  Well, we were on the way back to my area and we stopped by this house that Elder Stettler and I had doorknocked previously. When we knocked, a guy came to the door and he was like "Oh, Don't I know you? We see each other often at the post office!" and I was like "Nope, we have never meet before." At that moment the spirit was so strong and we had a great conversation, but unfortunately he wasn't too interested.  So, a couple days later I was thinking about that conversation and I had a huge prompting to go back! Well, this past Wednesday we went back and it was crazy cool! So, Elder Driggs and I pulled off to the side of the street and I wrote my testimony in a Book of Mormon, Elder Stettler gav...

  Olá! Como vocês estão? This Week went by so quickly! Tuesday we were with a member for like 5 hours driving to a bunch of inactive members that live on the border of our areas, and that was such an awesome experience! Wednesday we had Zone Conference for the whole day! We had to travel about 2 and a half hours by car to get to it, it was in a major city called Grand Rapids, which is also getting a temple in the next few years! Zone conference was such an amazing experience and I learned so much! The spirit was so strong as the Missionaries who are leaving this transfer bore their testimonies! Also, one of the best parts was that I got to see Elder Olson again! I love that man so much! He always is so happy and loving, it's insane! He also is so funny😂😂 It was sad to see him go when we left, but I was excited because he got his Visa! Hopefully I'll get mine soon so that we can go to Brazil together.  Thursday we had exchanges with our Zone Leaders! I was able to go to a pla...

  Oi! Tudo Bem! The week went by so fast! I had a ton of Spiritual and funny experiences, I'll share one from each category.  Before that, I had my first exchange this week! An exchange is where you literally exchange companions and then either go to a different area or stay in your area with a new comp. This time I left my area and went to a place called Battle Creek! Super cool name and a cool looking town. The Elder who I was with was Elder Garbett, he has been out on his mission for 16 months so he is pretty experienced so it was awesome to learn from him! Spiritual experience, a super awesome spiritual lesson!  This lesson was on Tuesday and was with a lady who my Comp and his Trainer met at the local farmers market a couple of months ago. Her name is Amy, she is so sweet, kind, and Loving. The reason why she wasn't able to meet sooner was because she had a ton of family issues come up right after Elder Stettler and his Trainer, Elder Cruz, had met her. But, we were ...