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.
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