Hola familia! Can you believe it?! 6 freakin weeks! It's been sooooo long, and sooooo short. I have never experienced that whole short+long thing till i got here but it is so true. So a few cool stories. I saw an Elder i thought i recognized the other day, so i went up to him and it was Elder Martinez aka Casey Martinez! I played basketball with him when i was little and his dad was my coach (when i was playing for 2 teams). So crazy to see him, he is going to Jamaica same mission as Chase Peterson! He left this morning. Last week we said goodbye to another district. I was very very close with a few of them and i can see lasting friendships down the road. One of them Elder Smith plays soccer for Westminster. We were very good friends and it was sad to see them go. We do have 2 new districts in but we aren't as close with them. It's our small 4 man district and there is one older district that is a week older than we are and we are all really good friends. very united bunch of guys. Alot of the guys from our district are from st George or have homes down there. So we're all planning to hang out down there the summer we get home. We also said goodbye to our beloved Branch President, President Dean and his wife served here at the MTC as president for 4 years! They were amazing and his release was a very sad moment for all of us. He was like our father. After all the excitement of the visa meeting it only ended in disappointment. The only one out of us 4 that got our visa was my comp Elder Barrus. So the delay could very well effect us still. The lady said she doesn't think it will but who knows. The consul comes on the 12th and hopefully he brings the goods. Argentina is a mess with their visa's right now. Apparently the swine flu shut down their office and when they re opened no one came back to work, thus all the delays. That added to the fact that they are Nazi's when it comes to all the paperwork and stuff. So hold on to hope for me, i so badly don't want to be delayed! Brother Heaton spoke again last night and gave a brilliant talk about charity. I made up a new saying here at the MTC after the talk. It's not WWJD (what would Jesus do) anymore, its HWJF (how would Jesus feel). When people do wrong to you how are you going to react? Are you going to have contempt? How did Christ react when the people (he healed, the people he so dearly loved, the people he taught) scourged him and crucified him? Did he have contempt? Did he have ill feelings towards them? No, he loved THEM and asked his father to forgive THEM. 'Charity is the pure love of Christ' (moroni 7). So that's how I'm trying to live, and that's how I'm trying to think. HWJF? Have charity towards others, no matter how they bother you, or the wrongs they have done to you. I love you! Have a good week, keep the mail coming! I want to know how everyone is doing. I'm sending my ipod and a lot of other things home today, i would like you to send me a bag for carrying stuff on if you can! Holy hellen........... the maple express food! I about died no joke, it was so tasty!!! Thank you very very very much, i couldn't believe it your amazing. Haha. Anyways till next week, Buenas Suerte!!!!
Elder Campbell
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