Hello family from.................................my 2nd area the great city of General Alvear! I got the transfer call Monday and i´m with my 3rd companion Elder Mendoza from Honduras! Alvear is gorgeous. I´m about 5 hours south of the city of Mendoza close to the furthest south point of the mission. It´s a lot smaller of a downtown as well as the city as a whole. We´re very close to all of the vineyards and fruit plantations. I can not tell you how delicious the inseason peaches are here. Straight from the tree, straight up tasty. The grapes are started to get ready. Right outside of our apartment there is a big vine that goes above our heads. Every day we eat a fresh grape from above our heads on our way out to work. I´ll send a picture of it. The climate luckily is a bit cooler, We hit about 90-95 as apposed to the usual 100 in Gody Cruz-Mendoza area. The nights are really nice. We´re a bit further from the mountains and can barely see them, thats´been really weird to adapt to. It´s been mountains my whole life! I honestly was really bummed to get the call to leave Trapiche because Elder Gutierrez is going to baptize all 4 of the investigators we had this week :( The important thing is that they´re making the change in their lives and their going to blessed forever, but i really wanted to be there! You get so attached to these people. From finding them in the streets and becoming best of friends, and to see them accept the gospel and make the changes in their life, you just start to become close. And it´s tough to leave! But thats ok, my first day here we found two young boys playing in the street and told them we wanted to share a lil message with their family. One is 15 the other 9, the mom doesn´t listen but the kids came to church sunday and loved it, made really good friends and want to be baptised! We have a service for the 16th for them. Hopefully mom will want to follow in the suit of her children sometime. We can only hope. Spanish is coming right along, me and elder mendoza get along great. I live in an apartment with two other elders . One from Lindon, UT, and the other from Cali, Columbia! Great elders. Sounds like things are just fine at home. For now i´m going to try and send a picture quickly, but know that I love you all very very much. I´m praying for you daily and hoping that everything is good at home. I´ll let you know when i get the package thank you so so so so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elder Campbell
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