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