Holllllllllaaaaaa!!!!!!
I feel like i haven't heard from you all in so so sos so forever long. I'm trying to get used to not getting the dear elders everyday it's been tough! It makes it a little easier to focus on the work so i suppose it's good but i do miss you all twice as bad unfortunately.
So the airport was a fiasco!! We get on the 6 50 flight to Denver and @ 6 45 some security guys come on the plane all angry and say we need passenger Campbell off the plane immediately, we've found something in your bag we need to discuss. So they pull us off the plane and we watch our flight take off. I asked the guy "Is it illegal to carry scriptures or white shirts cause thats all i got man." he laughed and said he didn't know anything just that i needed to be off the plane and brought to the front counter of Delta. So we walk up and they tell them who i am. The lady covers her face and says "I said we need passenger Gamble, not passenger Campbell." Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... my bags went to Denver w/o me!! As did Elder Millers. They apologized a million times and put us on a direct to atlanta like an hour later. They called Denver International and got our luggage re-directed and it ended up beating us there. We had to call church headquarters but everything turned out well. Just a little hecktic yeah! I've decided i don't believe in coincedences though. On the flights we were schedualed on me and elder miller sat together, and on the direct to atlanta we were separated. I had the opportunity to talk for about 3 hours to a lady from Hawaii who'd never heard of our church before. She totally just told me about her whole family situation before we even spoke about the gospel. She was sad because he family had moved away and she didn't know what she had to do in this life to keep her family together. If your thinking what i was thinking, perfect segway into our message right?! Haha it was totally sweet, and low and behold the only pass a long card i got in my church travel itinerary was in bold letters accross the front 'Strengthening Your Family' and a free offer for a dvd on it. Totally from up high, it was almost unreal!
I told you all about the train story so i won't write about that. We came back that night and spent a night at the Kings (mish pres), then the next morning we had the transfer meeting and got to meet my new companions! Yes plural, in case i need to leave mid week they are keeping me in a three man companionship. Elder Humphries (Bear Lake, ID) has been out 11 monthes, and Elder Carnley (South Jordan, UT). Awesome guys, we have so much fun with each other. And we work hard. I never imagined the mission being this fun, yet i had never imagined it being this hard. Everyday goes minute by minute as far as your mood and phyche go. One minute what we think to be a golden investigator flakes on us never to be seen, and as we walk out of the apartment complex we meet 3 new people. It seriously is hard on the mente! (mind) But it's all good. This mission is different for the spanish speakers because we have to weed through the english speakers to find the hispanics. When we find them about 90 percent are illegal (which is ok they can still join the church), but they almost all are seemingly just bunked up with their so called 'esposa' (spouse), and 3-6 kids. The problem is that they aren't actually legally 'esposas'. So frustrating! You have to be married if your living with someone to be baptised. It's hard for them to understand because thats just how it is for them ya know? They're not dating, seeing other people. Most of them have been together since they were 14 but we just cant do it unless they are willing to get married. We are teaching a family names the Ortiz's. A family of four, and they love what we teach them. Our two lessons last week were so good. So spiritual, and they've come to church the last 3 weeks. They want to be baptised, and we found out sunday that they are not really married. Such a downer, but we're working with them and i truely believe they'll be willing to do paperwork for marriage. I pray they will, we'll see them wednesday. Last night was a night i'll never forget. We went to a boy names Erik's house. He is 17 an was baptised 3-4 weeks ago. He hasn't come to church the last 2 weeks because his mom won't bring him. (he is the only member in the family) So we went over to see what was up. As we sat there on their completely broken couch, in this completely old apartment that 6 people are living in I looked around and saw Elder Humphries sitting with Erik talking to him in deep conversation, I looked over at Elder Carnely and he was talking to Laticia (eriks mom), and i was sitting on the floor talking to Brenda (Eriks 10 yr old sister). 3 lessons happening at the same time in that little tiney apartment, and the spirit in the room was like ground shaking!!!!! I thought to myself wow..... this is what it's all about. Laticia was listening to everything Elder Carnely was saying like really intently, she's going to come to church next week as is Brenda. She said she thinks she wants to be baptised but i told her she needed to pray and i taught her how. We'll see how it goes but i don't think i'll ever forget the feeling in that room last night. It was incredible. I have a few other stories, but not enough time to write em. They include watching the Salvadors (investigators) catching two rabbits in their backyard, killing them, and roasting them over their grill. Right in the middle of our soccer game we were playing with them mind you. Mid game they saw them and chased em down. Talk about living off the land yeah?! They're so happy and have so little, we have nothing to complain about! Anyways I love you all, keep readin your scriptures! The good book is true! Talk to ya next week, send some cartas! (letters)
Te Quiero!
Elder Campbell
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