So yes it was quite a weekend here in the shaky south. We woke up again at about 5 30 the other night from another after shock. It wasn´t near what the first one was but enough to shake us pretty good. The first one about shook us out of bed. We ran out the pench as quickly as possible trying to throw on clothes. The buildings here are not very stable to say the least, that includes the apartments so we got out asap. We stood outside as we still shook around, i just felt very dizzy and helpless. Quite a terrible feeling, you just have nothing you can do that power is so much more than we are. I felt like throwing up! It seemed like it was at least 4-5 minutes but apparently it was only 1. I suppose time goes slower when the whole earth is shaking haha. I feel for those families in Chile, and am praying for them. I´m so grateful all of my buddies that are serving on the other side of the mountains are all ok. Especially those that lived close to the epicenter. We´re 4-5 hours away and it was scary enough.
Saturday was actually really good despite being up all night from the earthquake. Faustino was baptised at about 8 o clock here in Alvear. It was a very spiritual service. Really neat for me to see a guy that's been working so hard on his smoking problem to get baptised. And now has fully made his way to becoming a member of Gods church. His best friend is a returned missionary and he baptised him. Really neat moment after he came out of the water to see them have a very strong embrace. Gets me all teary eyed typing about it. Fautino is going to move into Wildo´s house (Wildo is the returned missionary), and he´s going to be able to have that support to help him stay off of the cigarettes. Totally sweet guy. Now thinking about it he´s been investigating for the same amount of time i´ve been here in Alvear. Really about 2 weeks more. Pretty sweet. Anyways i´ve sent some pictures of the old winery we went and explored as we were knocking doors way out in the country. It was way too cool not to go take a few pictures in. Especially since we´ll probably never get back out there (it was about 2 hours to walk to the neighborhood it´s in). Apparently the bodega has been shut down for more than 80 years. There is definitely no roof, but there are still the giant vats where all the wine was stored. Just hundreds and hundreds of gallons i´m guessing these things could hold. Kinda had a creepy feel to it, we saw a few old mattresses and things in the bottom of the vats, and i´m thinking there are a few homeless living in them. Also i´m sending a picture of some cool lil eggs they sell here. They´re Quil eggs we finally found out today. their super cheap and really tasty. We like em, but they are teeenie tiney! Anyways, i love ya all very very much. We´ve baptised all of our investigators..... so we´ll be dedicating a lot of time over the next two weeks trying to find hungry souls! We are working with 2 others who could possibly progress to baptism. Really only one being knows if they will or not and thats the big man upstairs. So we´ll leave it up to him, keep teaching the best we can, and keep inviting every person we see to come closer to Christ. I´m in 2nd Nephi 5 right now in the book of mormon. I´ve started to read in Spanish and i feel like i´m getting so much more out of it. It´s such a beautiful language, and the words just come to life to me. I absolutely love being able to read in spanish, it´s like reading it all for the first time, and really just exciting to me that i understand every word. Maybe it just means so much because i´ve been working so hard to understand it. Something along those lines :) Bummer about kyky, tell him to kick some in soccer, i love spring time at home. it´s finally cooling down here a bit, anything less than the relentless heat we had a few weeks ago. Love ya!!
Elder Campbell
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