Hola familia!!
So first of all i thought i´d copy and paste a bit of my email to Katie about a few very spiritual experiences i had this week. I don´t think i´ll soon forget this week for as long as i live and past it!
Soooooo basically we´ve had the craziest week ever. A lot of ups and lots of downs but it ended up really good. We were supposed to have a baptism friday so we went to our investigators house the day before to let her know about the program and who was speaking and all of that and she like freaked out... And just like got really scared and backed out of the baptism the night before. We left with the most terrible feeling. Like honestly i have come to love this lady like my own family and it just hurt so bad. We came back the next day and had the most spiritual experience of my entire mission. I can´t even tell you what we said but by the end we were just all crying and the feelings in that room were amazing. She told us she doesn´t want to live another day in her life without the spirit she felt and she´s going to be baptized this friday now for sure. So amazing.. Then the other day we were walking through our area we´re living in (a different area than the area we´re working in) because we didn´t have any appointments. We were just talking to people in the street and what not when we looked up and saw we were on the boarder of the most dangerous neighborhoods in all of Argentina. It´s called Campo Papa, it´s been shut off from missionary work for years because of how bad it is in there. A few years ago they shot down a police helicopter from inside, and another gang in there stole the steeple from our chaple when it was being built and it´s just sitting on top of his house haha. Anyways yeah we´ve been told not to go in no matter what, but for some reason we both had a very strong impression that we needed to go knock a door in there. So we went in two streets, the feeling was kinda scary but strangely enough we just felt like nothing could hurt us. The poverty in there... i can´t even describe, i´ve never seen anything like i saw in there. We got to the house we felt like we needed to knock on and they opened the door smiling ear to ear. The woman was the President of the relief society in the branch in campo papa, who has a husband who isn´t a member and 3 kids. She said ´´the angels are here miguel, the angels are here´´. Miguel is her husband. We entered in and her husband walked in the room and looked a bit shocked to see us. He got teared up and told us he prayed for 3 hours last night for a sign from god if the church was true. And we showed up on his porch the next morning. It´d been years since missionaries had been in the area. I just get chills writing about it.. this work is led!! I can´t explain the feelings that we felt! We taught him the first lesson in the chapel yesterday after church, and we´re going to teach him all the lessons this week. They won´t let us go back to their house because they told us they don´t want us kidnapped haha, so we´re going to be teaching him in the chapel everyday after work. He´s set to be baptised the 14th :)
I just wanted to let you all know how this work really is led! Amazing, how we´ve just seen miracle after miracle this week. I´m so blessed to be a part of it! It´s been a very very hard week, but those few experiences make it all worth it! So about the packages. I´d really love a few different things namely socks, PEANUT BUTTER!, more garments, maybe ties or whatever else you think. Now the secret with the packages is this. Don´t mark the actual amount you paid. They kind of know the worth of things but in all reality the men charging don´t know how much garments cost, or other things in the states. You don´t have to list everythin in the box if you can get away with hiding the stuff in other packages. Maybe a cereal box par´se, dump some cereal out and put some socks in there. Make sure the package doesn´t look tampered with, use some double sided tape and close it back up and mark that its just a box of cereal that cost you 3.50 or something. Get creative! Haha, i need my pin number for my card so i can´t buy you TOMBA jerseys. What sizes?? Blue or white?? Just to let you all know TOMBA is life here. We don´t even dare to knock doors when their playing. We´d be facing death, i´m not exaggerating that. Death. They´re nuts about futbol.. completely nuts. They´ve lost 2 weeks in a row which makes tracting in the streets difficult cause everyone is just pissed off cause TOMBA can´t win. Haha, oh man so funny these peoples. We threw a Halloween part y for the barrio on the 31st it was fun, i´ll send some pictures next week. We´ve got the baptism friday (it´s going to happen this time), and a lot of lessons with miguel, but other than that nothing so we´ll be out ´´opening the mouth´´ to people in the street. (which happens to be my least favorite thing to do) I love the Lindahl´s with all my heart. President is an amazing man, they truely are wonderful people. Their like our parents here. I´ll actually be leaving the same transfer they do and they said they want to go site seeing after we´re done together, and take the same flight home. Cool right?? Haha, you´ll have to see if the family can come down and join. It´ll be cold in july though :(, that´s still 20 months away and the furthest thing in my mind so we´ll cross that bridge when we come to it. Anyways things are good here. Carmin baked like 4 cakes for me and Chesley for our birthdays! They sung me happy birthday in spanish and we ate the little argentine cakes with pepsi for our birthdays! Chesley turned 21 on the 30th. Kinda cool right?? Anyways I love you all very much! Can you get that pin number to me asap?? Thankyou :) Scripture for today is......... 3 Nephi 13:31-33.
Moroni 8:3
Love
Elder Carson Campbell
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