Tuesday, October 27, 2009
October 26th 2009
Hello family. Sorry the email was so dang short last week. I didn´t have anytime after i had erased my whole email. The first 2 weeks have been great here in Argentina. Very very hard, very very challenging, yet good. You always learn to find the good in things out here! Looks like we´ve finally found a new pench (apartment). Paperwork is getting finished up and hopefully we´ll move this week into a lot better pench. It can´t come quick enough. Our pench we´re in now is known as the worst in the mission. It´s got a few..... lets say issues haha. Bad gas leak, non functional toilet, and as we found out this week BAD WATER. Elder Chesley was deathly ill for like 3 days this week. The 3 longest days of my life. I just had to sit and study alllll dayyyy longgggg. I did read the book of luke in 3 and a half hours haha. They determined he got it from the water up there in estanzuela. Hes the 3rd elder to get sick in this apartment so yeah their getting us out. I´ve been drinking the water but no problems for me. No worries i´ve stopped now. As we were sitting in the pench yesterday we had our dueno (landlord) try to break in as we were in there haha. I started screaming in English and i think he crapped his pants. He ran out the gate so fast! He brought over empanadas later that night, i don´t think he knows i knew it was him trying to rob us haha. Little rat.. Good timing to get into Trapiche where we´re actually working! Lets seee..... other questions you wanted answered.... Oh the people. The people for the most part are very very nice. You don´t walk anywhere without saying buendia or buenas tardes. Everyone says hi to everyone. They don´t believe in brushing teeth here, most people after their 60´s are rotting their teeth, kinda gross but hey i love them! Another big piece of news... is........................................ looks like barrio trapiche is going to have their first baptism in over a year :) It´s true. I´ll leave it at that till next week and give you details once it actually happens. Just know that we´re very excited as is the barrio. sorry barrio means ward, but also means neighborhood. I´ll try and give you translations when i accidentally type in spanish. My spanish is still very gringo, everyone tells me it´s very very good, but i´m a skeptic. The couple days in the pench actually really helped me with the spanish i think. I studied so much and yesterday i felt a lot more comfortable and talked to a lot more people by myself. I have a lot more work to do though. I told you a bit about elder chesley in my last letter. He´s from Dallas TX, from a family of 8. He´s is muy muy flaco! Verry verry skinny. 6´1 140. I know i wish i could throw some more of my weight on to him. I´m still slimmin´down a bit. Your probably noticed in my pictures from georgia i had a pretty full face. Kinda hard not to when your in a car all day eating mexican and southern food. Here is different. We eat a big meal at lunch with a member usually and thats it other than a small breakfast. The seista is big here. The streets are empty for about 3 hours during midday. No one wants to be bugged, no one wants to talk. They just want to sleep and be lazy haha. All the shops shut down everything. It´s a ghost town. Its the same every week either on saturday or sunday depending what time TOMBA (the soccer club here in mendoza) is playing. If we´re tracting durning that time. Forget it haha. Anyways i think that was answers to the questions to this week. I´m working hard, trying to enjoy myself. Its been really hard for me the last two weeks here, kinda homesick and what not but i´m sure it will pass as it did in atlanta. The 3 days in the pench made me think about home too much haha. I hope everything is well there. I am so proud of Nic, so proud of the program. It wouldn´t be ogden high without drama in the coaching staff haha. Im´so pumped for the cats football. Por favor keep me updated on the sports. You can send me letters and things to the mission office address, as well as dearelders. I´ll be able to get them every 6 weeks at zone conference. So send those picture cards with stuff :) hopefully i can hold on to my belongings before we switch penchs! We just go out and work and trust in the lord that everything will work out. We talk to everyone, we get denied more than we get accepted. On a large scale. It´s tough to open my mouth sometimes. Im so used to being good with words and it´s so hard to not be able to say what i want to say and not to be able to say it well. But overall things are good and the most important thing is that Carmin is getting baptized FRIDAY!!! Woooo!! Oh yeah almost forgot, happy birthday me tomorrow right?? So weird i´m 20. I´m like a grandpa..... :) I love you all Moroni 8:3. Haz lo justo. You haven´t chosen him, be he´s chosen you to carry his name. Do it in all that you do! You´ll be so blessed, and you´ll find a new purpose in everything you do. When things get hard to stand, kneel. Thats all there is to it. Cuidense (take care of yourself).
All my love,
Elder Campbell
ps. We played futbol today for a zone p day it was so fun and i met a lot of the other elders.
All my love,
Elder Campbell
ps. We played futbol today for a zone p day it was so fun and i met a lot of the other elders.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Important mail info from Mendoza
October 21, 2009
Dear Parents,
As Christmas time approaches we would like to remind you that packages mailed from the states need to be in the mail by November 1st to guarantee that the package will arrive in time for the holidays.
We have encouraged parents to only send two packages a year (Christmas and birthday), and encourage you to put extra money on your missionaries debit card so that they can just purchase what they need here in the mission. We know that this is hard for some mothers to accept and so we just give you the following information so you understand our position.
The mail system in Argentina is much different from the other countries in South America. When a package arrives in Mendoza, your missionary will pay up to 50% customs fee based on the value of the package. If you insure your package, the fee will be based on the insured value even if you only spent $25 on the contents. Remember insuring a package only insures the package until it leaves the US, then when it arrives in Argentina there are no longer guarantees. Keep the value of your packages as low as possible. The Argentine customs official looks at the green customs slip (you fill out) and opens the package to see if it is valued correctly. The package is opened in front of our mission secretary, but there have been times when a package has been already opened and something has been missing. It is wise to put a list of the contents in your package so your missionary will know if something is missing. The mission secretary must pay the financial fee and then charge this fee to your missionary when he receives the package at zone conference. We receive many packages from your missionaries ward members that is full of candy and items that are non mission essentials which end up costing your missionary a lot of money. We ask that you caution your ward members.
We have found that the small parcels sent in bubble envelopes rarely incur a small duty unless the contents are valued over $25. Keeping the package small and light is the key. When you send valuable items like photo cards or debit cards, remember to hide them in your package. One idea is to tape them between two photographs. When sending something new like a camera, remove the packaging and wrap it in bubble wrap with lots of tape wound around it to make it difficult to see inside. Remember that all packages need to be sent to the address below, with your missionaries name as the sender. This is because our office staff can not pick up a package addressed to your missionary. This causes great delays.
Example:
(return address)
Elder Carson Campbell
3098 Circle Way
Ogden, Ut 84403
(Mail to:)
Mision Argentina Mendoza
Casilla de Correro 631
5500 Mendoza
MZA ARGENTINA
Please remember that placing religious stickers on packaging does not help your package here in a country of Europeans, it may help in Mexico, but here they find it offensive.
Also, please note that sending packages to the mission office causes additional delay as our postman delivers on a bicycle not a truck, and the branch post office which delivers to the street address lies in the opposite direction from the main post office where the P.O. Box is.
We are concerned about the content of our missionary’s e-mails from home. Please be sure that the letters from family and friends only contains upbeat and encouraging news!!! If there is serious news of a family death or illness, we would like you to communicate with us directly so that we can place a personal phone call or visit to your missionary.
One last item, the Church does not currently promote having parents pick up their missionary from the mission field. But if you plan on coming to Argentina, the mission secretary must know of these plans six months before your missionaries release date. You may contact our secretary by e-mail at 2012677@ldschurch.org.
Dear Parents,
As Christmas time approaches we would like to remind you that packages mailed from the states need to be in the mail by November 1st to guarantee that the package will arrive in time for the holidays.
We have encouraged parents to only send two packages a year (Christmas and birthday), and encourage you to put extra money on your missionaries debit card so that they can just purchase what they need here in the mission. We know that this is hard for some mothers to accept and so we just give you the following information so you understand our position.
The mail system in Argentina is much different from the other countries in South America. When a package arrives in Mendoza, your missionary will pay up to 50% customs fee based on the value of the package. If you insure your package, the fee will be based on the insured value even if you only spent $25 on the contents. Remember insuring a package only insures the package until it leaves the US, then when it arrives in Argentina there are no longer guarantees. Keep the value of your packages as low as possible. The Argentine customs official looks at the green customs slip (you fill out) and opens the package to see if it is valued correctly. The package is opened in front of our mission secretary, but there have been times when a package has been already opened and something has been missing. It is wise to put a list of the contents in your package so your missionary will know if something is missing. The mission secretary must pay the financial fee and then charge this fee to your missionary when he receives the package at zone conference. We receive many packages from your missionaries ward members that is full of candy and items that are non mission essentials which end up costing your missionary a lot of money. We ask that you caution your ward members.
We have found that the small parcels sent in bubble envelopes rarely incur a small duty unless the contents are valued over $25. Keeping the package small and light is the key. When you send valuable items like photo cards or debit cards, remember to hide them in your package. One idea is to tape them between two photographs. When sending something new like a camera, remove the packaging and wrap it in bubble wrap with lots of tape wound around it to make it difficult to see inside. Remember that all packages need to be sent to the address below, with your missionaries name as the sender. This is because our office staff can not pick up a package addressed to your missionary. This causes great delays.
Example:
(return address)
Elder Carson Campbell
3098 Circle Way
Ogden, Ut 84403
(Mail to:)
Mision Argentina Mendoza
Casilla de Correro 631
5500 Mendoza
MZA ARGENTINA
Please remember that placing religious stickers on packaging does not help your package here in a country of Europeans, it may help in Mexico, but here they find it offensive.
Also, please note that sending packages to the mission office causes additional delay as our postman delivers on a bicycle not a truck, and the branch post office which delivers to the street address lies in the opposite direction from the main post office where the P.O. Box is.
We are concerned about the content of our missionary’s e-mails from home. Please be sure that the letters from family and friends only contains upbeat and encouraging news!!! If there is serious news of a family death or illness, we would like you to communicate with us directly so that we can place a personal phone call or visit to your missionary.
One last item, the Church does not currently promote having parents pick up their missionary from the mission field. But if you plan on coming to Argentina, the mission secretary must know of these plans six months before your missionaries release date. You may contact our secretary by e-mail at 2012677@ldschurch.org.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
1st email from Mendoza October 19, 2009
So i just wrote an entire forever long email that got deleted... Im here! Safe! The journey started at 1pm in atlanta and ended 8pm the next day in mendoza. we ended up getting sent to miami and then on a flight to buenos aires around 11pm. I turned my head to the tvs for a second in miami and saw braylon edwards make the most ridiculous catch i´ve ever seen in my life on the miami monday nighter. Good last american football play to see! We got delayed 5 hours in atlanta then we were late to buenos aires so some guy drove us in his little car to the temple. We were without our bags for 4 days as they were bounced around the world. Lets just put it this way... the clothes i wore for 4 days straight.... im feelin bad for the member that agreed to wash our clothes yesterday haha. My companion is Elder Chesley. He´s a cool guy from dallas texas. big cowboys fan (no one is perfect even gods army). he´s been out 20 months so only 2 more transfers left for him! I´m serving right here in Mendoza! In a neighborhood named Trapiche. It´s an area that hasn´t baptised in a year and half. Which for amission that averages 90 a month is really really bad. But me and Chesley are going to change that. The people are so sweet, they don´t even speak spanish it´s so different. I´ve kind of had to start from scartch. They don´t even call it spanish here. They all tell me my ´´castejano´´ is good for being here a week. The meat is amazing, the fruits are great. My feet are torn to shreds but hey what can you expect i sat in a car for 6 weeks. I´m guessing i´ve lost close to 10 pounds this week, we walk ALOT. Everwhere to be exact. We are searching for a new apartment because we don´t even live in our area. We live in estansuela, and it´s basically the ghetto of mendoza. We told some members yesterday where we lived and they grimiced and asked how we were alive haha. It´s kinda scary at night but during the day it´s totally fine. Hopefully we can find something new before the end of the transfer. I feel at home here. We were flying in and in our final decent we made a big turn and the mountains came into view. Its so much better to be a missionary here. The temptations of the states are gone. There isn´t american music playing everywhere, no football games on the tv´s. Its just very humble and a better place to be able to be in tune. I wanna challenge you all to read john chapter 15 this week. Don´t just read it study it! I´ve been studying it for about 4 days now and i feel like my life is changed. Weird i know! Anyways i only have and hour to write on mondays and we have to come find and internet cafe. Mail is more corrupt than ever here, so the office doesn´t forward mail anymore. That means i´ll be getting mail every 6 weeks so emails are going to be best for communicating! I love you all very much. Moroni 8:3.
If your judging someone you have no time to love them - Mother Teresa.
Paz y Amor
Elder Campbell
If your judging someone you have no time to love them - Mother Teresa.
Paz y Amor
Elder Campbell
Sunday, October 18, 2009
From the Mendoza Mission home
Elder Campbell arrived safely!!!
What a delightful young man you have entrusted in our care. His companion is Elder Chesley who is now training your son. He will compliment your son's talents. We spoke with them today and they are reaching their goals and are very happy. There is nothing that makes a missionary happier than when he or she is being strictly obedient and making their goals a reality. We expect a lot from our missionaries just like we did with our own children, but we also extend love and compassion to each of them. We extend to you our thanks for bringing up such a fine young man. We look forward to getting to know him better as the months go by. If at any time you feel concerned about your son please feel free to call the mission office here in Argentina. We want this mission experience to bless the lives of the entire Campbell family. We know the Lord will bless your family during the next 22 months because of all the sacrifices being made. May we also add that we have a personal testimony of the strength of a mother's prayer. We believe that the Lord answers those prayers with impressions. We encourage you to empower him with your enthusiasm and belief in him. We know a mission is hard, but we know that he can accomplish this hard thing and it will allow him to understand in a small way the sacrifices that have been made by those who have come before him and paved the way in the church.
Thank you again for sending us a wonderful missionary with a strong testimony.
With Much Thanks,
President and Hermana Lindahl
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Elder Campbell Arrives in Mendoza
October 13, 2009
Dear Parents
We announce the Arrival of nineteen missionaries to the mission just three hours ago at 20:00 hours ----Plumerillo International Airport, Mendoza Argentina.
The missionaries were taken directly to the mission offices to begin processing their documents. They were fed Pizza, three kinds of empanadas, soft drink, and ice cream.
They were taken to an apartment nearby to sleep at 10:40 pm. They will have a full day of training tomorrow and by 2 pm will meet their first companions and then will be sent to the areas of their assigned duty on a bus. President and Sister Lindahl pray that the Lord will continue to bless you for supporting a full time missionary in the field.
As you can see by the attached photos, your missionary arrived looking healthy and happy.
Kelly B. Jarvis
First Counselor and Secretary
Argentina Mendoza Mission
Monday, October 12, 2009
Leaving Georgia for Argentina
Dear Miller's and Campbell's!
Well, they're headed to the south... Unfortunately, it looks like
their plane left Atlanta several hours late (bad rains earlier today--
many arrivals were running off-schedule), so we're not sure what time
they'll arrive...but they WILL get to Argentina!
We loved having them in our mission for a day shy of 6-weeks. Their
companions loved them...so did the Spanish branch members where they
served...and so do we!
We only wish them the best as they take their new skills and preach
the Gospel in another wonderful place!
Thanks for sharing them with us--they're marvelous missionaries!
Love,
President & Sister King
Georgia Atlanta North Mission
Sunday, October 11, 2009
October 5th Email
Hey'lo familia!
So this week has been good. Especially getting the news about my visa! Wednesday was really really cool we had interviews with Pres King, but Pres King likes to do things unorthodox so instead of having office interviews he paid to get us all into Stone Mtn Park and we had our interviews and trainings on the mountain! It was so neat and just reminded me of home being on the only half mountain around. I took lots of pictures and will be sending the cards before i leave! I got some major sunburns especially where the white shirt usually covers that a regular tee doesn't. All worth it though it was a fun day. Then i came back to a package from you mom! The digital picture frame?! Genius! I love it so much, and you should have seen me running around the apartment yelling after i watched the vikings clip. If there is anything i could ask for more it'd be more videos of the fam, the vikes, etc. So sweet! Thankyou so so much. Then a few days later i got a package from Katie, i mean honest what a week for me :) I love you all. Conference was amazing!!!!!! I love conference so much now, so weird how that happens. I used to dispise watching it but now i just can't wait! Uchtdorf and Elder Holland's talks were definately my favorites. If it's any indicator how much i love conference i took 18 pages of notes. Yah, i love it! We had the Guzmans come to the sunday morning session. (They are two investigators who had 2 of their teenage boys baptised about a year ago into the english ward. They couldn't understand English so they didn't get taught. Over time they have been so impressed with the change in their young boys that they started coming to the spanish branch. And then asked us to teach them) So we taught them about prophets last week and told them about the opportunity to hear from a living prophet today. They were shocked to know they could have the opportunity. As pres monson came to the pulpit to talk Mr. Guzman leaned over to me and asked ''El es el profeta!?'' I told him yes and he excitedly told his wife. They didn't blink during the whole talk and i could tell they really felt it. I'm so sad i can't be here to see them get baptised! :( But that is ok! My Spanish to me is terrible, but my comps tell me i'm leaps and bounds ahead of where they were at a month. I'm nervous to get to Argentina and not have the choice to speak english! Yet i think that it's going to help me learn so much faster. I'm to a point where i can say anything i want to say and be understood, but there are still a lot of words i don't know, and my grammer needs a lot of work. I totally sound like a gringo too but that will come with time! I just need to get to Argentina to truely start sounding hispanic. I'm sure i'll need a lot more vocab once i get there too. I just know all the mexican words down here haha. Anyways I love you all very very much. I'm done with the BOM for the 2nd time on the mish, and i'm reading the new testament right now. I just read John Chapter 15 and wow it's like my favorite chapter in the whole bible so far. You should read it this week. In fact read it 2wice on two different days. You'll get so much out of it! Anyways i love ya. I'll be calling either around 12noon from ATL or around 3-4ish from Dallas on the 12th so keep the phone close. I wish i could give you a better estimate so everyone could be around the phone especially Katie but it's the best i can do! Love you! Moroni 8:3~
Elder Campbell
So this week has been good. Especially getting the news about my visa! Wednesday was really really cool we had interviews with Pres King, but Pres King likes to do things unorthodox so instead of having office interviews he paid to get us all into Stone Mtn Park and we had our interviews and trainings on the mountain! It was so neat and just reminded me of home being on the only half mountain around. I took lots of pictures and will be sending the cards before i leave! I got some major sunburns especially where the white shirt usually covers that a regular tee doesn't. All worth it though it was a fun day. Then i came back to a package from you mom! The digital picture frame?! Genius! I love it so much, and you should have seen me running around the apartment yelling after i watched the vikings clip. If there is anything i could ask for more it'd be more videos of the fam, the vikes, etc. So sweet! Thankyou so so much. Then a few days later i got a package from Katie, i mean honest what a week for me :) I love you all. Conference was amazing!!!!!! I love conference so much now, so weird how that happens. I used to dispise watching it but now i just can't wait! Uchtdorf and Elder Holland's talks were definately my favorites. If it's any indicator how much i love conference i took 18 pages of notes. Yah, i love it! We had the Guzmans come to the sunday morning session. (They are two investigators who had 2 of their teenage boys baptised about a year ago into the english ward. They couldn't understand English so they didn't get taught. Over time they have been so impressed with the change in their young boys that they started coming to the spanish branch. And then asked us to teach them) So we taught them about prophets last week and told them about the opportunity to hear from a living prophet today. They were shocked to know they could have the opportunity. As pres monson came to the pulpit to talk Mr. Guzman leaned over to me and asked ''El es el profeta!?'' I told him yes and he excitedly told his wife. They didn't blink during the whole talk and i could tell they really felt it. I'm so sad i can't be here to see them get baptised! :( But that is ok! My Spanish to me is terrible, but my comps tell me i'm leaps and bounds ahead of where they were at a month. I'm nervous to get to Argentina and not have the choice to speak english! Yet i think that it's going to help me learn so much faster. I'm to a point where i can say anything i want to say and be understood, but there are still a lot of words i don't know, and my grammer needs a lot of work. I totally sound like a gringo too but that will come with time! I just need to get to Argentina to truely start sounding hispanic. I'm sure i'll need a lot more vocab once i get there too. I just know all the mexican words down here haha. Anyways I love you all very very much. I'm done with the BOM for the 2nd time on the mish, and i'm reading the new testament right now. I just read John Chapter 15 and wow it's like my favorite chapter in the whole bible so far. You should read it this week. In fact read it 2wice on two different days. You'll get so much out of it! Anyways i love ya. I'll be calling either around 12noon from ATL or around 3-4ish from Dallas on the 12th so keep the phone close. I wish i could give you a better estimate so everyone could be around the phone especially Katie but it's the best i can do! Love you! Moroni 8:3~
Elder Campbell
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Email from Mission President
Dear families of our Georgia Atlanta North missionaries...
We hope you are all doing well! Along with attaching our missionary newsletter to keep you up-to-date, I thought I'd share a few other things that may interest you:
*Clean-up following the flooding here continues--especially work shoring up bridges and cleaning out basements. Gwinnett and Cherokee counties were the two areas of our mission most affected by flooding. I read that this is being called a flood that you'd only see once in 500-years...no one was prepared for such a thing. Ten people died and the damages total over 250-million dollars. Very sad and difficult for many homeowners in the area--especially in the neighboring Atlanta Mission. We're grateful for any service the missionaries were able to render. (See Mormon Times article below.) There's been so much suffering...with the other natural disasters occurring worldwide this week.
*The "sick calls" are subsiding a bit in the mission. At least 1/3 of the missionaries called me with similiar symptoms...but most are well now. Please encourage them--as I always do--to carry hand sanitizer and to get their seasonal flu shots right away. Thank you for your support! We'll hear soon as to what Missionary Medical wants us to do regarding the H1N1 vaccine...then let you know.
*The weather here is gorgeous! Brisk mornings and evenings...with an average temperature of 75-degrees during the day! "Maybe" it makes up for the hot, humid summer!
*Nancy and Dale Murphy (former Atlanta Braves star) were here to do a fireside for our mission area. They spoke first to the missionaries...then to members and their friends not of our faith--and many wanted to "know more" afterward. The highlight for me was our 131 missionaries singing "We'll Bring the World His Truth"--it was an amazing few moments that brought tears to many eyes. (I attached a write-up on the event from the Mormon Times.) Nancy Murphy told them that their family motto is, "I can do hard things"...and that's true for missionaries, too, as missionary work holds many challenges as well as blessings.
President King is doing something different with the zone interviews this week (Athens, Lilburn East and West, Marietta) and next week (Roswell & Sugar Hill). They're outside--and so is the training! You'll have to ask your missionaries to tell you where they were held...plus what they did and learned... Spanish Council for all Spanish-speaking missionaries is also next week.
We appreciate you writing your missionaries weekly--they love positive, uplifting news from home as much as you love hearing from them!
"The missionaries need our faith and prayers. Pray fervently every day for their safety and protection, for this is one very important way we all can support them in accomplishing their essential assignment of proclaiming the gospel to all the world." ~Elder M. Russell Ballard, Ensign, July 2003. We are grateful for all of your prayers offered in behalf of these fine missionaries whom we love...and their investigators.
Best wishes to you and your families...
Sister King
We hope you are all doing well! Along with attaching our missionary newsletter to keep you up-to-date, I thought I'd share a few other things that may interest you:
*Clean-up following the flooding here continues--especially work shoring up bridges and cleaning out basements. Gwinnett and Cherokee counties were the two areas of our mission most affected by flooding. I read that this is being called a flood that you'd only see once in 500-years...no one was prepared for such a thing. Ten people died and the damages total over 250-million dollars. Very sad and difficult for many homeowners in the area--especially in the neighboring Atlanta Mission. We're grateful for any service the missionaries were able to render. (See Mormon Times article below.) There's been so much suffering...with the other natural disasters occurring worldwide this week.
*The "sick calls" are subsiding a bit in the mission. At least 1/3 of the missionaries called me with similiar symptoms...but most are well now. Please encourage them--as I always do--to carry hand sanitizer and to get their seasonal flu shots right away. Thank you for your support! We'll hear soon as to what Missionary Medical wants us to do regarding the H1N1 vaccine...then let you know.
*The weather here is gorgeous! Brisk mornings and evenings...with an average temperature of 75-degrees during the day! "Maybe" it makes up for the hot, humid summer!
*Nancy and Dale Murphy (former Atlanta Braves star) were here to do a fireside for our mission area. They spoke first to the missionaries...then to members and their friends not of our faith--and many wanted to "know more" afterward. The highlight for me was our 131 missionaries singing "We'll Bring the World His Truth"--it was an amazing few moments that brought tears to many eyes. (I attached a write-up on the event from the Mormon Times.) Nancy Murphy told them that their family motto is, "I can do hard things"...and that's true for missionaries, too, as missionary work holds many challenges as well as blessings.
President King is doing something different with the zone interviews this week (Athens, Lilburn East and West, Marietta) and next week (Roswell & Sugar Hill). They're outside--and so is the training! You'll have to ask your missionaries to tell you where they were held...plus what they did and learned... Spanish Council for all Spanish-speaking missionaries is also next week.
We appreciate you writing your missionaries weekly--they love positive, uplifting news from home as much as you love hearing from them!
"The missionaries need our faith and prayers. Pray fervently every day for their safety and protection, for this is one very important way we all can support them in accomplishing their essential assignment of proclaiming the gospel to all the world." ~Elder M. Russell Ballard, Ensign, July 2003. We are grateful for all of your prayers offered in behalf of these fine missionaries whom we love...and their investigators.
Best wishes to you and your families...
Sister King
October 1, 2009
Mom + Dad,
No time to write but i'm droppin' off mail and just got word my visa got signed last night. Their getting in touch with the Lindhals and as soon as he needs me I'll be leaving. I think their transfer is Oct. 14th so I'd think me leaving on Monday the 12th or Tuesday the 13th would make sense. Who knows maybe he won't take us until next transfer (6 more weeks). Anyways thought I'd tell ya.
Love ya,
Elder Campbell
No time to write but i'm droppin' off mail and just got word my visa got signed last night. Their getting in touch with the Lindhals and as soon as he needs me I'll be leaving. I think their transfer is Oct. 14th so I'd think me leaving on Monday the 12th or Tuesday the 13th would make sense. Who knows maybe he won't take us until next transfer (6 more weeks). Anyways thought I'd tell ya.
Love ya,
Elder Campbell
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