Hellllllooo!
So another week come and gone. Weeks go by so fast out here it is ridiculous.... I've never experienced time going to fast no joke. Days however seem like eternity, waking up @ 6:30, working alll day then finally going to bed by 10:30 (if we're lucky). A normal day goes a little like this
6:30-7:30 Wake up, Work Out and Prep
7:30-8 Breakfast
8-10 Comp and Personal Study
10-11 Language Study
11-12 Lunch
12-6 Out the Door, Prosylite (can't spell it lo siento)
6-7 Dinner Apt
7-9 Prosylite
9-10:30 Shower, Plan for next day
P-day is different obviously i'll write about that next time. For anyone else that wants to write me i'd say email is probably the safest AFTER this week. I got an email from headquarters saying that my 'promisa' is in and they are sending it to me to sign it. It's the last document they need for the visa. After i sign it they send it to Argentina, then they send the visa back. So looks like i'm about 2-3 weeks out. We don't have a time limit here on the computers. I'm serving in the closest area to the mission office and home. I'm in the Stone Mtn- Spanish Speaking Area. We cover Lilburn, Snellville, Norcross, Lawrenceville areas. Basically three english speaking districts cover our one spanish speaking. Thats why we have a car. It's about..... 30-40 minutes end to end. We had a pretty good week. We have found 2 new investigators and have 2 families that are progressing. The one still has the whole marriage epidemic they are deciding on. The mom really loves the church and they have come every sunday for the last month. Ugh, i wish they'd just tie the knot! We go out and give blessings probably every other day, there are a lot of members in our small branch struggling financially, and health wise. You think it's bad back home economicly? Think again. The main employer of our area was a GM assembly plant. It's huge, covers 10-20 square miles of land i'd guess. It closed last month. You'd think it'd really help with the missionary work but we're not seeing it quite yet. We have a lot of single women and their kids that are interested in the church and want to be baptised but they have their former legally wed husband back in mexico that they haven't seen in 10 years and don't know their where'abouts. It's crushing.... but we can't baptise them. We get fed every night for dinner. We have a small struggling spanish branch here but out of the 8 or 9 really super active familes, they all just want to feed us. Allll the time haha. They compete for who has the best meals, like when we leave they always ask if it was better than the night before so they can brag at church. It's great. Hispanics for the most part are so humble! They live so much different than we do, it's neat to see things from other peoples perspective. It's funny to see how ridiculous of a language English is now that i'm learning Spanish. We don't make sense, and it's so hard to Hispanics to learn. We teach a few families English lessons. Good way to get in the house and gain their trust. We also are told by Pres King to play as much soccer as our investigators want to play. We're totally happy with that! It really is interesting though how we can find a field full of Hispanics playing, join them and really just have them accept us! We're finding investigators that way a lot. We go every saturday night. Anyways we live in Norcross officially. We're really closer to Lilburn. If you go on Google Earth you can type in Parkview High school and the church is right next to the school. Oh another note speaking of their high schools. They're fetchin hugeeeeee!!!!!! Their sports facilities just kill me. I'd have killed a man to have their facilities. They basically all play in Stewart Stadium. luxury press boxes, kentucky blue grass, huge megatrons on both sides of the field. Bowl seating on some. it's just ridiculous. Parkview has the number 1 ranked girls soccer program in america. (i thought mike and tash would be interested in this.) They have 8 kentucky blue grass, beautifully manicured soccer fields on their school campus. The sinners always have huge tourneys every sunday but wow what a spectical. I'll take some pictures. They're all lit too. Anways i'm good, luckly haven't been sick! I'll get the flu shot. Love you all, stay safe and say your prayers. If your feeling like your having a tough time go ahead and read D&C 121:7-8.
Elder Campbell
P.S - I lost on of my xd cards so i don't dare send it home. i'm going to try and attach some pics!
I sent a letter to you today about some other stuff. my shoes got ripped, well one did and they are about done anyways. Those black nikes that i've had for a few years. So i need to get some, dunno if i should wait till Argentina or get some quality ones here. Also dunno what i should do about the whole xd card deal......
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