Great news....We have been given permission from the Church that we can use Skype on Christmas to talk. Get a webcam and get signed up!!
Haha the little note about the Ben Lomond coach just reminds me that no matter who is in charge over there (Wilcox, Burningham) they are still Ben Lomond. So awesome that so many family members were there to see OHS win. Good for them.
Greg did send me an email about the sales job. It sounds really interesting and I feel like I want to give it a shot, but this year I don´t think will be the year. The timing doesn´t work out how I want it. I don´t want to be home 5 days then fly away again, only to come home two months later to start school (which will probably end up being somewhere other than weber). Anyways we´ll talk about that on the phone i suppose! I came to the chapel two nights ago before the big charter bus left the stake center to the temple in Chile. I got there just in time to see Miguel Cassanova, his wife, and four kids putting their raggity old lugguge in the bus. We exchanged a moment I´ll never forget, pretty filled with happy tears and hugs. They got sealed yesterday for all eternity. What an amazing journey for that amazing family who lives in the worst neighborhoods in Argentina. I´m so blessed to have met them, and to have been a part of his miracle conversion. We ate Sunday dinner with Carmen and her family yesterday. It was great. They even cooked us an Asado which as of late has gotten extremely expensive. She sure loves you, I can´t even explain. She always tell me how she can´t wait to see you some day and how she just feels like she knows you even though you´ve never met. She told me to make sure I told you how greatful she is to you for sending her ´beautiful son to find her´. I´m going to email Kirk today. I´ve had a lot of people to write over the last few weeks and I´m making sure I write him today, seeing as how this letter isn´t going to be too long. Anyways, we´re just going crazy here setting up for the annual christmas party. So much dang work, holy crap. It´ll be worth it to be able and provide the mission with a fun day of christmas games and food. There is a rumour going around that President Lindahl picked up the Area 70 President today and that he is coming to the party! That´d be something else I tell ya. His name is Elder Melvin Arnold. He actually spoke in General Conference in October. Anyways Love Ya!
Carson
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
December 13, 2010
Wow I can´t believe the roof fell in on the freaking Metrodome. What the heck are they going to do for the rest of the season?? So weird. Also hard to believe that Daniel is home now. Jon Holley just got home last week as well from his mission, time is just flying. That sounds pretty cool how they got the whole family there at the airport to see Daniel get home, I´m sure he was way suprised!
I´m so proud of Kel for getting out on his mission so quickly. He´s such a great kid, he´ll change many lives out there in Japan. So extremely weird he is going to be on a mission. He´s still just little Kel to me, who could never say his R´s right. Now he´s leavin on his mission. His brothers Jan and Joel sure set good examples for him. I wish AJ could pull his head out and go but thats alright. It seems like your Christmas season is getting pretty busy like usual. Kyler and Carter´s games, and Karlys piano. Many things to keep you busy and active. I can only hope that at this time of year we can try to remember why we do all of this and why its such a magical time of year. All to celebrate the birth of the Christ. I´m so grateful for him, for his atonement and endless love for me. I´m trying to focus on him this year. All of the blessings he´s poured upon me, and as we celebrate his birth i can only try to repay a little of what he did for me by helping his children come to remember their Lord and Savior. Christmas music is playing all over and people have their decorations up but it´s nothing like home. It´s just not really the same ya know? The heat, and all the different traditions i think have made it easier for me to discover the true meaning of Christmas. Behind the trees, snow, santas, and candy canes is the Savior. Thats my focus here at Christmas time this year. I can´t lie to you though, this time of year makes you think about home a bit more than others. I miss the snow! I miss American Christmas! Haha.
Anyways, we had quite the week. I feel like my job is just a big adventure week after week. Anyways, this week I had to travel up to San Juan to finish the inspections of the penches there. I don´t know if I ever explained exactly what or why I´m traveling around so much so i´ll do that. If this is the second time I´m sorry you can skip through this part haha. But apparently a few missionaries in Europe passed away from CO2 poisoning a few months ago. President Monson was devastated and personally called the 70 presidents of each area and told them that every mission was to have someone from the offices physically verify each pench to make sure there is a detector put in and hung on the walls. So thats what I´m doing. Quite the bit of traveling. It would be a lot easier to put up the detectors as well if all the houses here were made out of something different than concrete and brick. BUT they´re not so I we have to carry the big powerdrill with us to drill the holes for the detectors. Anyways we went to San Juan and had to do 14 penches in two days. It was a marathon! But it was probably the coolest experience ever. I took my companion Elder Frost in place of Elder Packer because of how marathon´ish it was. President decided he didn´t want us sleeping on the floor in some random apartment so he... booked us a room in the nicest hotel in San Juan.................! It was incredible, I felt guilty the whole time not kidding. They just took such good care of us too because they all know President. Anyways, the matresses..... divine. The shower.... worked. And.... THERE WAS CARPET! It was just a step outside of Argentina! Wayy too nice for a couple of missionaries. Anyways it was a fun trip, lots and lots of work and a lot of heat (it was about 110 during the midday). Anyways there is a little note about my week. I love you all so much. Christmas time makes me think about ya more! Thanks for being so supportive of me! We´ll talk to ya next week!
Elder Campbell
I´m so proud of Kel for getting out on his mission so quickly. He´s such a great kid, he´ll change many lives out there in Japan. So extremely weird he is going to be on a mission. He´s still just little Kel to me, who could never say his R´s right. Now he´s leavin on his mission. His brothers Jan and Joel sure set good examples for him. I wish AJ could pull his head out and go but thats alright. It seems like your Christmas season is getting pretty busy like usual. Kyler and Carter´s games, and Karlys piano. Many things to keep you busy and active. I can only hope that at this time of year we can try to remember why we do all of this and why its such a magical time of year. All to celebrate the birth of the Christ. I´m so grateful for him, for his atonement and endless love for me. I´m trying to focus on him this year. All of the blessings he´s poured upon me, and as we celebrate his birth i can only try to repay a little of what he did for me by helping his children come to remember their Lord and Savior. Christmas music is playing all over and people have their decorations up but it´s nothing like home. It´s just not really the same ya know? The heat, and all the different traditions i think have made it easier for me to discover the true meaning of Christmas. Behind the trees, snow, santas, and candy canes is the Savior. Thats my focus here at Christmas time this year. I can´t lie to you though, this time of year makes you think about home a bit more than others. I miss the snow! I miss American Christmas! Haha.
Anyways, we had quite the week. I feel like my job is just a big adventure week after week. Anyways, this week I had to travel up to San Juan to finish the inspections of the penches there. I don´t know if I ever explained exactly what or why I´m traveling around so much so i´ll do that. If this is the second time I´m sorry you can skip through this part haha. But apparently a few missionaries in Europe passed away from CO2 poisoning a few months ago. President Monson was devastated and personally called the 70 presidents of each area and told them that every mission was to have someone from the offices physically verify each pench to make sure there is a detector put in and hung on the walls. So thats what I´m doing. Quite the bit of traveling. It would be a lot easier to put up the detectors as well if all the houses here were made out of something different than concrete and brick. BUT they´re not so I we have to carry the big powerdrill with us to drill the holes for the detectors. Anyways we went to San Juan and had to do 14 penches in two days. It was a marathon! But it was probably the coolest experience ever. I took my companion Elder Frost in place of Elder Packer because of how marathon´ish it was. President decided he didn´t want us sleeping on the floor in some random apartment so he... booked us a room in the nicest hotel in San Juan.................! It was incredible, I felt guilty the whole time not kidding. They just took such good care of us too because they all know President. Anyways, the matresses..... divine. The shower.... worked. And.... THERE WAS CARPET! It was just a step outside of Argentina! Wayy too nice for a couple of missionaries. Anyways it was a fun trip, lots and lots of work and a lot of heat (it was about 110 during the midday). Anyways there is a little note about my week. I love you all so much. Christmas time makes me think about ya more! Thanks for being so supportive of me! We´ll talk to ya next week!
Elder Campbell
December 6, 2010
We´ll we´re not quite at 6 months yet! New years day will be six months till I get home ( well I guess that depends on a few things, but right around there). That would be weird to think Ky could be out by this time next year. He should try and set it up so he is at the MTC during Christmas. I heard its so super amazing there during Christmas with apostles and sweet programs and all of that. It is probably about 90 degrees outside! SO HOT! I´m just a roasting. Me and my new companion Elder Frost ( from Prescott, AZ) have made it a goal to go running in the mornings 4 days a week, and even at 7 o clock it is boilin! I feel like Boozer and Birk haven´t changed a bit since I´ve left. That video you sent me of them just makes me laugh. Snooring Boozer haha. I miss civilized dogs. And cute little Schnauzers, all dogs suck here and want nothing more than to bite your ankles off.
This week I got some of the most amazing and fulfilling news that a missionary can get. Yesterday was Godoy Cruz Stake conference so that meant seeing my old converts from Trapiche my first area and all of the members from that area. It was so great to see them. Even more gratifying that they are going to church still and so active. I´m sure you remember Carmen, my first convert. She´s now the Sunday School President and a Ward Missionary. She loves me haha. All of the missionaries that come from Trapiche tell me they don´t hear the end about me and Elder Chesley from Hna. Carmen. Anyways I got to see her, she was so excited to see me and invited us to eat an asado with them this month. The better news was one of the two notes that made my day, my week, and maybe even my mission. ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Shes going to the temple to recieve her endowment next week!!!!! YES! The ultimate missionary goal. To know their converts are converted and have made the change in their lives. So awesome! Then I found myself sitting on the pew in front of Miguel Cassanova. Remember the miracle that he was? You´ll have to look back on that letter if you still have it. The guy who lives in the horribly dangerous area, that for some reason we entered knowing it was against the rules and answered the mans prayer that had been praying the night before for a sign. Anyways, I can´t even tell you how awesome their family is, and how good their doing. And even better that the same week Carmen is getting endowed........... Miguel is doing the same thing! And getting sealed the next day to his wife and kids! They´ve been saving since the day of his baptism to muzzle up the measly 200 pesos it takes for the church to be able to send them on a bus to Chile. Such faith and such conversion. I´m so lucky to have been able to play a part in the conversions of these people. I know for a fact now that there really were people I knew in the premortal life that I promised I´d find in this life. I know that with out a doubt in my mind. It was such a sweet conference! Other than that I´ve been traveling around here locally in Mendoza with Elder Packer installing new CO2 detectors for the missionaries. We´ve also been working really hard in our area and have a lot of people to baptize and the end of this month. Which will be sweet! We even have a baptismal service set up for Christmas Day. We´re dreaming of a white Christmas! :) Anyways have a great week! I love you
This week I got some of the most amazing and fulfilling news that a missionary can get. Yesterday was Godoy Cruz Stake conference so that meant seeing my old converts from Trapiche my first area and all of the members from that area. It was so great to see them. Even more gratifying that they are going to church still and so active. I´m sure you remember Carmen, my first convert. She´s now the Sunday School President and a Ward Missionary. She loves me haha. All of the missionaries that come from Trapiche tell me they don´t hear the end about me and Elder Chesley from Hna. Carmen. Anyways I got to see her, she was so excited to see me and invited us to eat an asado with them this month. The better news was one of the two notes that made my day, my week, and maybe even my mission. ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Shes going to the temple to recieve her endowment next week!!!!! YES! The ultimate missionary goal. To know their converts are converted and have made the change in their lives. So awesome! Then I found myself sitting on the pew in front of Miguel Cassanova. Remember the miracle that he was? You´ll have to look back on that letter if you still have it. The guy who lives in the horribly dangerous area, that for some reason we entered knowing it was against the rules and answered the mans prayer that had been praying the night before for a sign. Anyways, I can´t even tell you how awesome their family is, and how good their doing. And even better that the same week Carmen is getting endowed........... Miguel is doing the same thing! And getting sealed the next day to his wife and kids! They´ve been saving since the day of his baptism to muzzle up the measly 200 pesos it takes for the church to be able to send them on a bus to Chile. Such faith and such conversion. I´m so lucky to have been able to play a part in the conversions of these people. I know for a fact now that there really were people I knew in the premortal life that I promised I´d find in this life. I know that with out a doubt in my mind. It was such a sweet conference! Other than that I´ve been traveling around here locally in Mendoza with Elder Packer installing new CO2 detectors for the missionaries. We´ve also been working really hard in our area and have a lot of people to baptize and the end of this month. Which will be sweet! We even have a baptismal service set up for Christmas Day. We´re dreaming of a white Christmas! :) Anyways have a great week! I love you
Nov 29th...pictures of trip up to Valle de Uco
Here are the rest of the pictures of our trip Friday. Enjoy :)
The after activity
Andes
Biker Guys
Christ Statue
Coolest Drive ever!
Cowboy
Looking down the Canyon
Man Made Waterfall
me and the salto family with font behind
Mt Tupungato second biggest in south america 21500 ft.
old elders quorem pres.
Other Members
Over looking the Valley
Police on horses
Storm movin in
The Cooles
Nov. 29th 2010
So it was a pretty busy week but definitely one to remember. Thanksgiving was honestly one of the best Thanksgiving dinners I´ve ever had. The senor couples really took care of us. We bought the biggest turkey in Argentina I think. It was HUGE. I´ll attach a picture of course. They cooked up mashed potatoes, stuffing, different casseroles, different types of rolls, puddings, vegis, pumpkin pie, banana cream pie, peach pie, apple pie. Holy cow it was great..... a lot different than last year to say the least. I think we probably ate noodles with tomato sauce. That is the spoils of being in the offices I suppose. All of the headache and relentless office work paid off this week.
So Friday was kind of a rough day, had a lot of problems and a lot of things going on but it seemed like the Lord made it that way on purpose for what he had in store for me later that night. It was about 7 o clock and I got a call to my cell phone from the Zone Leaders in Valle de Uco (my old area). I thought it was kind of an odd call, and picked it up. Even more to my suprise was that it wasn´t an Elder on the other line, it was a super girly voice. She said, ´´ Elder Campbell this is Alejandra Salto, I hope you remember me! I just was calling you to tell you I´m getting baptised tomorrow, and I really want you to come!´´ I just got hit with the greatest feeling of happiness mixed with excitedness I can´t even explain. Alejandra Salto is a really neat story. She´s the daughter of a recently reactivated mom (when I was there we reactivated her in the church). She´s 13 years old her back is deformed as is her right leg that is half as long as her left. She is the sweetest little girl ever. She has such a good attitude about life and through all the painful bone stretching they put her through she always tried to put a smile on her face. She has a metal rod attached to the short leg, and once a month they adjust it like braces (it´s stretching her leg out, they think in 10 years it will get her leg to be normal sized), but imagine the pain.... attached straight to her femur. She just walks around with this little wooden crutch, some times i think the Lord subtly reminds us how thankful we should be for healthy bodies. She has always wanted to get baptised but her parents were really worried about he falling or getting hurt entering and leaving the makes hift font in Cordon. And she has always been a little bit embarrassed of her deformities, hence the worries of getting baptised. But my old companion Elder Mitchell kept working with them as we did when we were together and she finally got baptized yesterday. I had a smile on my face all day that couldn´t be wiped off. Even had one of the most dramatic satan involved events of my life happen directly afterwards that I´ll explain, but not even that could get me down. I got to go back and see all of those members I served as their 1st councilor, and got to see one of the biggest reasons the Lord sent me here, Paola Fredes and her amazing family again!!! As if the story doesnt get better, Damian, Paolas husband that we reactivated before she got baptized is now the ward mission leader and he is the one that baptized Alejandra. SOOOO COOL!!!! Everyone greeted me so excitingly, they had no idea i was coming. All of them remembered my name and had huge smiles, tons of hugs and happiness. It was great. So neat to go back in that little iron shed of a chapel and watch someone who is like a brother to me baptize a little girl that was so special to me. The Lord blessed me so greatly to get to see that. One of the happiest days of my entire mission, without a shadow of a doubt. We toured all of Valle de Uco that day, inspecting the penches and installing new CO2 detectors. The Packers and Elder Miller came with me. President Lindhal let us take the mission vehicle. I got some really cool pictures of the dramatic scenery, as well as some cool guys on horse back, and a bike race that we had to pull over as directed by the billions of police. So after the baptism we were all just feeling great and happy. We pulled out of Cordon with me, the packers, elder miller, and the elders quorum president (who had a bad ankle and needed a lift) to another little town named Tupungato to check the Elders CO2 detectors there and as we passed by a cop motioned to me to pull over. This couldn´t have been more than 10 minutes after leaving the baptism. He came up to the window slowly, looked in, and then told me to get out of the car. I felt really uneasy I knew the guy was up to no good, i had a really creeped out feeling. I also knew he had seen Hna. Packer in the passenger seat with her MacBook in her lap. He had me walk to the other side of the highway with him, and once out of earshot of the car started threatening me with some pretty bad language, that he was going to take me to jail. And that he knew the Brother in the car was an illegal Bolivian, and using some pretty bad names for Bolivians told me he was going to send him back to his country unless I had something really good for him. I don´t know where i got the nerve but i asked why the heck he pulled me over anyways, and really nervously told me because my lights weren´t on (it was 3 oclock in the day), and to shut up. Then told me to give him a thousand pesos or he was shipping me off. I had not even close to that, i tried to calm him down and ended up having to give him the 150 pesos I had on me of personal money and he let us go. It was pretty gut wrenching, i could just sense Satan using that man, he was just so not normal ya know?? But it all ended up fine, just another Argentine adventure!!! Haha. It´s just so corrupted here! Satan wasn´t to happy with that spiritual high we were on but there was nothing that could bring me down. It scared the crap outta me not going to lie, but nothing got us down! At the end of the trip on the way from Tupungato to Mendoza there is a HUGE Christ statue that looks over all of Valle de Uco. We made a pit stop and took some pretty cool pictures. I´ll attach some of them too.
I can´t believe Christmas is coming. The last two Hymns we sung at sacrament meeting were Christmas songs and for a second I was sooooo confused! Anyways, I hope you enjoyed my super jam packed email. Its a lot longer than normal! I love you all and am thinking and praying for ya. We´ll be talking here soon enough, pretty crazy to me. Doesnt seem long ago that I was in the pench in Trapiche talking to you all. Or about 6 months ago when I was still in Alvear. Time flies! Thanks for sending a package your amazing for that. I know it is expensive. I shouldn´t expect you to send another for the rest of my mission. Love ya!!
Carson
So Friday was kind of a rough day, had a lot of problems and a lot of things going on but it seemed like the Lord made it that way on purpose for what he had in store for me later that night. It was about 7 o clock and I got a call to my cell phone from the Zone Leaders in Valle de Uco (my old area). I thought it was kind of an odd call, and picked it up. Even more to my suprise was that it wasn´t an Elder on the other line, it was a super girly voice. She said, ´´ Elder Campbell this is Alejandra Salto, I hope you remember me! I just was calling you to tell you I´m getting baptised tomorrow, and I really want you to come!´´ I just got hit with the greatest feeling of happiness mixed with excitedness I can´t even explain. Alejandra Salto is a really neat story. She´s the daughter of a recently reactivated mom (when I was there we reactivated her in the church). She´s 13 years old her back is deformed as is her right leg that is half as long as her left. She is the sweetest little girl ever. She has such a good attitude about life and through all the painful bone stretching they put her through she always tried to put a smile on her face. She has a metal rod attached to the short leg, and once a month they adjust it like braces (it´s stretching her leg out, they think in 10 years it will get her leg to be normal sized), but imagine the pain.... attached straight to her femur. She just walks around with this little wooden crutch, some times i think the Lord subtly reminds us how thankful we should be for healthy bodies. She has always wanted to get baptised but her parents were really worried about he falling or getting hurt entering and leaving the makes hift font in Cordon. And she has always been a little bit embarrassed of her deformities, hence the worries of getting baptised. But my old companion Elder Mitchell kept working with them as we did when we were together and she finally got baptized yesterday. I had a smile on my face all day that couldn´t be wiped off. Even had one of the most dramatic satan involved events of my life happen directly afterwards that I´ll explain, but not even that could get me down. I got to go back and see all of those members I served as their 1st councilor, and got to see one of the biggest reasons the Lord sent me here, Paola Fredes and her amazing family again!!! As if the story doesnt get better, Damian, Paolas husband that we reactivated before she got baptized is now the ward mission leader and he is the one that baptized Alejandra. SOOOO COOL!!!! Everyone greeted me so excitingly, they had no idea i was coming. All of them remembered my name and had huge smiles, tons of hugs and happiness. It was great. So neat to go back in that little iron shed of a chapel and watch someone who is like a brother to me baptize a little girl that was so special to me. The Lord blessed me so greatly to get to see that. One of the happiest days of my entire mission, without a shadow of a doubt. We toured all of Valle de Uco that day, inspecting the penches and installing new CO2 detectors. The Packers and Elder Miller came with me. President Lindhal let us take the mission vehicle. I got some really cool pictures of the dramatic scenery, as well as some cool guys on horse back, and a bike race that we had to pull over as directed by the billions of police. So after the baptism we were all just feeling great and happy. We pulled out of Cordon with me, the packers, elder miller, and the elders quorum president (who had a bad ankle and needed a lift) to another little town named Tupungato to check the Elders CO2 detectors there and as we passed by a cop motioned to me to pull over. This couldn´t have been more than 10 minutes after leaving the baptism. He came up to the window slowly, looked in, and then told me to get out of the car. I felt really uneasy I knew the guy was up to no good, i had a really creeped out feeling. I also knew he had seen Hna. Packer in the passenger seat with her MacBook in her lap. He had me walk to the other side of the highway with him, and once out of earshot of the car started threatening me with some pretty bad language, that he was going to take me to jail. And that he knew the Brother in the car was an illegal Bolivian, and using some pretty bad names for Bolivians told me he was going to send him back to his country unless I had something really good for him. I don´t know where i got the nerve but i asked why the heck he pulled me over anyways, and really nervously told me because my lights weren´t on (it was 3 oclock in the day), and to shut up. Then told me to give him a thousand pesos or he was shipping me off. I had not even close to that, i tried to calm him down and ended up having to give him the 150 pesos I had on me of personal money and he let us go. It was pretty gut wrenching, i could just sense Satan using that man, he was just so not normal ya know?? But it all ended up fine, just another Argentine adventure!!! Haha. It´s just so corrupted here! Satan wasn´t to happy with that spiritual high we were on but there was nothing that could bring me down. It scared the crap outta me not going to lie, but nothing got us down! At the end of the trip on the way from Tupungato to Mendoza there is a HUGE Christ statue that looks over all of Valle de Uco. We made a pit stop and took some pretty cool pictures. I´ll attach some of them too.
I can´t believe Christmas is coming. The last two Hymns we sung at sacrament meeting were Christmas songs and for a second I was sooooo confused! Anyways, I hope you enjoyed my super jam packed email. Its a lot longer than normal! I love you all and am thinking and praying for ya. We´ll be talking here soon enough, pretty crazy to me. Doesnt seem long ago that I was in the pench in Trapiche talking to you all. Or about 6 months ago when I was still in Alvear. Time flies! Thanks for sending a package your amazing for that. I know it is expensive. I shouldn´t expect you to send another for the rest of my mission. Love ya!!
Carson
Campbell Turkey
Cooking with the Packers
Turkey...gobble, gobble
Table with the Boys
Turkey board
Nov. 22nd 2010
Hey mom. Had a good week. Time flies here in the office, it´s honestly incredible. Weeks seem like days. To think I´ve been here almost 2 months just blows my mind. Frischknecht got his trunky paper today. Its the paper you get when you hit the 18 month mark asking the information of your family and your home airport so they can start working on your trip home. That means I´ll be getting mine for Christmas. So crazy, i still feel like I just got here. It´s so hard to believe but then I get reality checks when people ask me what province of Argentina I´m from because I sound Argentine. Seems like days ago I was with good ole´papa Chesley my trainer not being able to say a dang word. I remember how frustrating and hard that was. Now I have a hard time speaking English. I´m glad that the Bodilys finally got a hold of you. Their such good people. If I decide to go to UVU I´d definately be living with Brayden. We became really good friends in the mission. I´m having a hard time deciding what route to take when I get home. First school wise and second career wise. So many choices, so many pros and so many cons. A lot depends on my first six months home.
But I figure that the Lord will direct me in my decision. President Lindahl told me to start looking into my options after the holidays end. I always wondered if that affected missionaries in their work, planning for home in the 4th quarter. But it doesn´t affect me, if anything i think it helps me feel the sense of urgency to make every minute worth it out here. What is your take on my options? I can always use my motherly advice!
So yesterday we hit the jackpot and while getting the rare opportunity to shop at the Argentine equivalent of Costco (the senor missionaries had to buy air conditioning for their penches) we found what even the Lindahls didn´t know existed here.... Turkey! We bought the last Turkey in the place, weighing in at 24 pounds and costing us a heck of a big $275 pesos. But man are we going to be able to feast on Thanksgiving! Such a difference from last year being with a kid from Honduras, I absolutely forgot about Thanksgiving till you told me in my email the following week. CANT BELIEVE THAT WAS A YEAR AGO! Anyways, things are great here. I´ve got some interesting news for ya next week. Hopefully some pictures. (I´m working on noting all of my pictures, it´s quite the process!) But know that I love you, I´m thinking about you all! Holidays seem to do that! Keep up that head, love you all so much.
But I figure that the Lord will direct me in my decision. President Lindahl told me to start looking into my options after the holidays end. I always wondered if that affected missionaries in their work, planning for home in the 4th quarter. But it doesn´t affect me, if anything i think it helps me feel the sense of urgency to make every minute worth it out here. What is your take on my options? I can always use my motherly advice!
So yesterday we hit the jackpot and while getting the rare opportunity to shop at the Argentine equivalent of Costco (the senor missionaries had to buy air conditioning for their penches) we found what even the Lindahls didn´t know existed here.... Turkey! We bought the last Turkey in the place, weighing in at 24 pounds and costing us a heck of a big $275 pesos. But man are we going to be able to feast on Thanksgiving! Such a difference from last year being with a kid from Honduras, I absolutely forgot about Thanksgiving till you told me in my email the following week. CANT BELIEVE THAT WAS A YEAR AGO! Anyways, things are great here. I´ve got some interesting news for ya next week. Hopefully some pictures. (I´m working on noting all of my pictures, it´s quite the process!) But know that I love you, I´m thinking about you all! Holidays seem to do that! Keep up that head, love you all so much.
November 15, 2010
Sounds like Grandma and Grandpa had a great trip. I sure do want to go there someday, it´s a definate goal of mine. I´d sure love to hear about their trip which I´m sure I will. I can´t believe that Christmas is coming up so soon. It doesn´t seem long ago that I was sitting on the floor in my Trapiche pench talking to you all on the phone after all of the crazy phone card issues. Thankfully I´ll be in the offices and I´ll be able to use the vonage phone here at the offices which is an 801 number. The only issue is that I´ll be splitting that phone with 5 other missionaries, trying to find enough time for the amount of time we usually talk for might be hard unless you decide to buy a card and call the regular office line. We´ll work out those details whenever you want to, we have about a month still. You´ll have to ask grandma and grandpa what the new security is like in the airports. Someone told us that they are getting really frisky now after some terrorist scare they had. I´d like to know seeing as how I´m going to come home sometime haha.
The birthday package was great! I ended up only paying 30 pesos in fees. (its all about what you declare on the outside, and hiding the rest of it) Scott and Mel know me alllllll too well, couldn´t have been any better seriously! The socks were great, as were the little candies. I think the best was the memory stick though! I´m thinking that maybe you´d like it if i sent that back with all of my pictures on them? Let me know on that one. I think ive sent cards back home before..... tell me which folders i´ve already sent. I have folders up to this point catagorized by my areas. MTC, Gerogia pictures I believe I sent all home because i don´t have any of those files with me here. Then I have folders titled 1.Trapiche 2.Alvear 3.Tunuyan 4.Cordon 5.San Juan and 6.Offices. I can try and send back as many files as possible and maybe you could work on putting something together cool. I´ve always said the first thing I´d grab in a fire would be my scrapbooks. Sure would be cool to have a photo album of my mission. I know thats quite a bit to scrapbook all professionally so just an album would even do. Priceless treasures. Just a way to remember everything ya know. I´m so pumped for Carter!!!! He´s such a stud, good for him. He might not get a ton of playing time but that´ll be such a priceless experience for him. I´m proud he worked hard, and then saw the result.
It´s so great that PJ is going to go on a mission. I´m so proud of him, i thought i´d never see that day come to be honest. You´ll have to get someone to tell him somehow that I´m really happy for him. Anyways, i should probably go. We´re making a movie for the mission to see at the Christmas party. It´s going to be really funny. Let me know about that pictures thing. A big request for the package is that you send A BUNCH of stuff to make SMORES. There is nothing here even close to marshmellows or hersheys chocolate, or graham crackers. We were thinking for Christmas we´d make SMORES. Elder Frischknecht´s family sent us a box full of smores stuff when we were together and it lasted us two a couple of smore nights. We have 6 misionaries it might have to be a full box of stuff to get us Christmas night eating smores. Just a thought, would be cool! Thanks so much, love you all tons!
Carson
The birthday package was great! I ended up only paying 30 pesos in fees. (its all about what you declare on the outside, and hiding the rest of it) Scott and Mel know me alllllll too well, couldn´t have been any better seriously! The socks were great, as were the little candies. I think the best was the memory stick though! I´m thinking that maybe you´d like it if i sent that back with all of my pictures on them? Let me know on that one. I think ive sent cards back home before..... tell me which folders i´ve already sent. I have folders up to this point catagorized by my areas. MTC, Gerogia pictures I believe I sent all home because i don´t have any of those files with me here. Then I have folders titled 1.Trapiche 2.Alvear 3.Tunuyan 4.Cordon 5.San Juan and 6.Offices. I can try and send back as many files as possible and maybe you could work on putting something together cool. I´ve always said the first thing I´d grab in a fire would be my scrapbooks. Sure would be cool to have a photo album of my mission. I know thats quite a bit to scrapbook all professionally so just an album would even do. Priceless treasures. Just a way to remember everything ya know. I´m so pumped for Carter!!!! He´s such a stud, good for him. He might not get a ton of playing time but that´ll be such a priceless experience for him. I´m proud he worked hard, and then saw the result.
It´s so great that PJ is going to go on a mission. I´m so proud of him, i thought i´d never see that day come to be honest. You´ll have to get someone to tell him somehow that I´m really happy for him. Anyways, i should probably go. We´re making a movie for the mission to see at the Christmas party. It´s going to be really funny. Let me know about that pictures thing. A big request for the package is that you send A BUNCH of stuff to make SMORES. There is nothing here even close to marshmellows or hersheys chocolate, or graham crackers. We were thinking for Christmas we´d make SMORES. Elder Frischknecht´s family sent us a box full of smores stuff when we were together and it lasted us two a couple of smore nights. We have 6 misionaries it might have to be a full box of stuff to get us Christmas night eating smores. Just a thought, would be cool! Thanks so much, love you all tons!
Carson
Nov. 8 2010
Your pictures of your party just made me laugh! Haha you really went all out, i was just thinking ´´what are all these crazy moms doing dressed up like its a slumber witch party´´. Looked like it was 100 percent girly, and totally enjoyable for you haha. Congratulations on pulling that off. The Bodilys should be calling you soon. I just sent off your number to them so they can call you. Make sure your answering! Christmas package.... make sure you´re smart with it as far as the hiding things and not marking on the box whats really inside. Mark the value as dirt cheap because last week i picked up the mail and we had an elders parents mark 100 dollars of value. We paid 200 pesos to pick it up. So DUMB! Another box totally got broken into and they stole everything. It was like that when they brought it to it. They stole everything BUT the food. So be wise. I would love a new ReAL jersey for christmas (the red one). I gave my old one to a convert. Other things.... I dont really need much else. Little novelties like seasoned salt, or garlic pepper, sour patch kids, would be great. Suprise me! Haha! If you dont send much in the box im fine with that. I think Id like to have personal money on my card more because I´ll be coming home in 6 months. We kinda had a bit of a scare last week that i didnt want to tell you about but i feel like its ok now. President Lindahl called me to go outside w/o my companion about a week ago, i thought it weird but went and he had me get in the drivers seat of his car. He told me he was having chest pain and to take him to the hospital. I was kind of shocked yet confused by how calm he was. It´s a long story that i´ll have to tell later but a very special thing I´ll never forget. Giving him a blessing in an Argentine emergency room, while he was talking on the phone to one of the quorum of the 12. Being there alone through everything with him. He was admitted to the hospital but has recovered and wasn´t having a heart attack as feared. He actually came back to work today for the first time in over a week. So that is good news. Anyways I´ll try to attach some pictures. The truth is I havent taken many the last little while. This week I´ll take a lot because I´m going to be taking the mission car and traveling to another state named San Luis to check out our apartments there and do some repairs with the Packers (senor couple). Should be fun, ive never been outside of mendoza except for the one week I was in San Juan. Anyways we´re going to go cook an asado today. Sooo good! Have a great week, love ya all! I´ll send this with my official mission signature that goes with all my emails from the offices.
Elder Campbell
Pensionista / Materialista
Misión Mendoza
0261 424 4165
2012677@ldschurch.org
Carson
Elder Campbell
Pensionista / Materialista
Misión Mendoza
0261 424 4165
2012677@ldschurch.org
Carson
My Birthday Dinner
Happy Birthday to me...
The Bodily's
hmmmm...the Wine I was given on my Birthday. Still...Yes...Unopened!
November 1, 2010
So i dont have a whole lot to write this week. My birthday went fine, i think that mission birthdays might be some of the lamest or it might just be that i´m getting older and they are just lame now haha. The senor couples we´re nice enough to take me out to dinner in downtown mendoza. We ate at a really yummy place named Las Tinajas. They actually gave us a free bottle of wine on the house haha. We accepted it to be nice but asked them not to open it, that we would ourselves later on haha. I´ve got the bottle in the pench, it´s kind of the joke around here. People put it in other elders beds, and so forth. Haha. The Bodilys got here and I got them my paperwork for my license. It´s all signed and notorized. You´ll have to give them a call in the next few days. I think they fly home tomorrow if I´m not mistaken. They totally took us out to McDonalds and spent over 100 pesos on us! Such nice people, his dad is so funny. I think his mom would totally fit in with Natalie and you. He was a great buddy of mine here. I sure respected him, and he became like a brother to me. Anywho, I´m going to the eye doctor this week because i´ve been getting head aches really bad whenever i look at a computer for more than 10 minutes and my eyes are drying out and being really obnoxious for me. I never told you but my glasses got stepped on by another elder about a year ago and i´ve had to survive on only contacts every single day. I think over time my eyes are saying enough i need a break. So i´m going to get a new perscription. I talked to you a while ago about it, but kind of on purpose left out the symtoms i´ve been having. So that should be good. The last 2 weeks of mine have been dedicated to figuring how the heck i can get an Argentine drivers licence. Well after standing in 3 hour lines for days, and jumping through hoops after hoop (which included getting a state I.D in Mendoza). Plus getting around the anti americans (which 1 in 10 or so are). But after it all I did the written and driving tests this morning at the Argentine DMV and got my LICENCE! Ohhhhhh yaaaaaaa!!! I´m sending you a picture of my state id, it´s pretty cool lookin. And wanted to show you the difference of what i looked like the first day in the mission(pic on the left), and what i look like now (pic in the middle). Quite a difference ehhh!? Have a great week, i loveyou!
October 25, 2010
That was pretty cool to talk on saturday. I thought that would surprise you haha. I told everyone that you were going to scream once I answered and you did exactly that haha. It´s starting to get a little hot down here, summer is just getting ready to start. I´m going to get my licence papers signed tonight and sent it back with the Bodily´s. It looks like tomorrow I´ll be going to get my Argentine Licence. It´s been rough but we have a guy here who has connections and we´re supposedly going to get it done. I went to the DMV thing here this morning and came out empty handed. As we were coming out there were two different guys that came up and whispered they could get me my licence if I´d pay em 100 pesos. My Argentine buddy told me that they really would, but that we couldn´t be dishonest haha. So corrupt everything here. Just guys sitting.. right outside of the government offices selling fake id´s. Every time you have to go in there you have to ´take take out a turn´ or make an appointment and they only give so many out a day. So what happens is there are like 4 guys that go and make all the appointments for themselves then go outside and auction them off haha. Just retarded.. Anyways we just got back from the zoo, it was pretty crazy. They definately dont have any laws about getting close to the enclosures and the enclosures themselves aren´t very good. I´ll send you some pics, we had a lot of fun with the little monkeys. I dont have a whole lot else to write about seeing that we just barely spoke. President isn´t here this week because they are doing the ground breaking on the temple in Cordoba. A pretty big day for Argentina! Anyways, we´ll see ya next week! Love ya!
A note from Mom...
I sent this request to Elder Campbell:
"You know how I am about getting pictures. Pictures tell a story! and I love seeing what your world looks like. I would love to see some pictures of the mission home and those you are working with."
He really listened to his mom!!!!
"You know how I am about getting pictures. Pictures tell a story! and I love seeing what your world looks like. I would love to see some pictures of the mission home and those you are working with."
He really listened to his mom!!!!
The mission motto (is in the front entrance) ´alcanzando lo mas alto´ means ´reaching the highest´.
Front Lobby (pictures of the prophets)
Elder Nope is the financial secretary and isnt in right now but his name is perfect for the missionaries who want more money on their allowance NOPE!
Elder Wiest my ex companion and zone leader who is the assistant to President right now.
Elder Rodreguez from Chile, Presidents assistant as well ( love this elder)
Hermana Nope, Presidents secretary
Hermana Packer mission nurse ( i told her to strike a pose, isnt she a funny lady?!)
Elder Packer, ex air force kernal (really funny guy) hes the head of security and handles materials with me
Here's my desk!
October 18, 2010
So, it was quite the week to say the least! A lot of work and headache but definately a good experience, and I took a lot out of this week end from Elder Aidukaitis´s words as well as just learning life lessons. I´m learning a lot of patience here. I think the Lord definately wants me to be here for a reason, and needs me to be here to keep everything working smoothly and helping these new couples. I would be lieing by saying this is the funnest thing in the world, but it has been a good learning experience and will continue to be. I had a good little talk with Elder Aidukaitis, he´s an amazing man. A very spiritual man. President Lindahl esteems him as a future member of the12. He spoke English fluently as well as his Spanish. He only had a 10 year professional career. you can imagine how much he made in those 10 years to have been able to retire and become a mission president at 45 years old. He spoke to us about the connection between our goals, faith, and a plan of action to carry out these goals. He was great. I can´t believe the sacrifice these men make for the Lord. It´s incredible, he mentioned to president that he hadn´t seen his 7 year old boy in 3 weeks. And how excited he was to go home to see him after he was done in mendoza.
So we had a baptism saturday! It was really neat, and the little girl named Valeria Arias is just the cutest little 10 year old girl you´ve ever seen. She´s been coming to church for years with her grandma and we finally started teaching her the day i got here. She was super prepared so it was just a matter of organizing the baptism and doing a baptism interview. She´s the sweetest little girl, you can just feel her spirit and loving character. I understand the scripture even better now that says we have to ´´return unto him as a child, meek, submissive....´´
I can´t believe that grandma and grandpa are going to Israel! I have a dream to go there someday, what a neat experience to walk in the place where the lord walked. I´m looking forward to doing that someday. Anyways, this week should be crazy for us, it´s transfer week and we supposedly have 16 new missionaries coming in. We´re going to have to open 3 new areas in the mission which means Elder Campbell is in charge of making sure there is an apartment we have close or if they need a fridge or beds or whatever thing. So we have that and then today we found out that they dont have their visas yet...... remind you of about a year ago with me?! So we´re all here in the offices and in the mission waiting to see if these elders are going to come or not because it just affects everything! How can you do a transfer if you dont know whose coming? Like its just going to be a big mess! Haha, but we´ll have fun with it. I always find the comedy in tough times, being able to laugh is such an important quality to have even when everything is seeming unlaughable. Anyways, the boys didnt write me to let me know about the vikings so that´ll have to wait till next week. I´m attaching a picture of the baptism as well as forwarding an email of the missions to you! Loveyou!
Elder Campbell
Spring Time in ARGENTINA!
I took a trip to Alvear last week to see some penchs and actually tried to start being a photogapher, you´ll have to tell me what you think of the pics. We were walking looking for one of my old converts while we were out in the country and came across a guy with a HUGE HUGE pig! he let us come and pet it, it was basically just a big old dog. It got all excited when we came over and i started rubbing its back and just like birk and boozer gave a big ole flip to his back so we´d rub his belly. Your going to love these pics! Gotta downsize them real quick so they´ll get through.
So we had a baptism saturday! It was really neat, and the little girl named Valeria Arias is just the cutest little 10 year old girl you´ve ever seen. She´s been coming to church for years with her grandma and we finally started teaching her the day i got here. She was super prepared so it was just a matter of organizing the baptism and doing a baptism interview. She´s the sweetest little girl, you can just feel her spirit and loving character. I understand the scripture even better now that says we have to ´´return unto him as a child, meek, submissive....´´
I can´t believe that grandma and grandpa are going to Israel! I have a dream to go there someday, what a neat experience to walk in the place where the lord walked. I´m looking forward to doing that someday. Anyways, this week should be crazy for us, it´s transfer week and we supposedly have 16 new missionaries coming in. We´re going to have to open 3 new areas in the mission which means Elder Campbell is in charge of making sure there is an apartment we have close or if they need a fridge or beds or whatever thing. So we have that and then today we found out that they dont have their visas yet...... remind you of about a year ago with me?! So we´re all here in the offices and in the mission waiting to see if these elders are going to come or not because it just affects everything! How can you do a transfer if you dont know whose coming? Like its just going to be a big mess! Haha, but we´ll have fun with it. I always find the comedy in tough times, being able to laugh is such an important quality to have even when everything is seeming unlaughable. Anyways, the boys didnt write me to let me know about the vikings so that´ll have to wait till next week. I´m attaching a picture of the baptism as well as forwarding an email of the missions to you! Loveyou!
Elder Campbell
Spring Time in ARGENTINA!
I took a trip to Alvear last week to see some penchs and actually tried to start being a photogapher, you´ll have to tell me what you think of the pics. We were walking looking for one of my old converts while we were out in the country and came across a guy with a HUGE HUGE pig! he let us come and pet it, it was basically just a big old dog. It got all excited when we came over and i started rubbing its back and just like birk and boozer gave a big ole flip to his back so we´d rub his belly. Your going to love these pics! Gotta downsize them real quick so they´ll get through.
How many missionaries does it take to dunk a girl of this size?!
In white is the Elder who is my comp in the office (he is the pensionista but leaving home this week). The other is Elder Miller from the MTC who is actually my companion now! how cool right?!
Oct 11, 2010
So, I´d tell you that your email this week didn´t make me cry but that would be a lie. All I can tell you Mom and Dad is that the Lord does hear our prayers. Although the blessings will come on his own time, they will eventually come. All in accordance with our faith and efforts. I pray for each one of you every single night. I´ve felt almost repetitive sometimes but I´ve never given up and never stopped even when it felt like everything was getting worse. I can´t say that my faith never waivered, but i can say that i never stopped praying and never will. I KNOW that he hears us, and I KNOW that he loves us. He wants us to be happy, he wants us to lean on him for support. He wants us to follow the principles of the gospel, because he knows therein lies our true freedom, liberty, and happiness.
Everything that you told me that happened this week is NOT and coincidence. The Lord work in mysterious ways but it seems to me like these are the less mysterious ways.
We´ll like a rookie quarterback I got thrown into the fire so to speak with my new assignment as the housing manager in the Mission Mendoza. This week (my first week on my own) happens to be one of the biggest weeks in the whole year for the mission. THE Elder Aidukaitis (President of the South America South Area) 1st Quorum of the 70 comes to Mission Mendoza tomorrow. It´s basically like Larry H Miller coming personally to the Fanzz store in Ogden to see how the stores being ran. And first thing he´s doing.... coming to the offices to interview us (the office staff). I´m actually am nothing less than thrilled, it´s going to be an amazing experience to be able to have an interview with a General Authority and to get to learn from him. What an amazing blessing right? he´s going to be here in our mission for the week and everyday i get to go out with him to show him how our missionaries are living for an hour. Taking him on a little tour of the apartments that are the closest to the mission offices. Blessed me right?! I´ll be sure to send pictures and tell you how the week went next P day.
The preparation that goes into getting the mission ready for this week is a lot. President Lindahl and Sister Lindahl obviously want everything to go picture perfect for the General Authority, so we´ve been planning around this since I´ve gotten here. All missionaries are to have haircuts and their suits dry cleaned this week :) funny little things that Sister Lindahl is all about. I´m learning so much being around my mission president and his wife. Such a shining example of what I want to be some day. Humble servants of the Lord, that are so full of love and charity. To think that a man like President takes 3 years of his life for the Lord is remarkable to me. He´s teaching me a lot on the business side of things, which is something I´ll take everyday from a man of his stature. It´s been a tough adjustment trying to balance time spent as a missionary out working and the time doing the things I have to do to fill my duties as the housing manager, as well as being the translator for our new senor couples. But the Lord is helping me find that balance.
I´m seeing a lot of answers to my prayers start to come though, my confidence in the Lord has tripled recently and I´m so grateful to be a part of his great work. So grateful to have supporting parents at home who love me! You´re everything to me, my family is everything to me. I was so filled with emotion after your email today i went straight to the bathroom in the mission office, locked the door, knelt down and cried for a good while. I´ve never felt as close to the Lord as I did today, it was almost like he was in there, kneeling with me, giving me a hug. I could feel someone with me, it was something I´ll never forget. I love you so much. Have a great week in St George!
Your boy,
Elder Campbell
Everything that you told me that happened this week is NOT and coincidence. The Lord work in mysterious ways but it seems to me like these are the less mysterious ways.
We´ll like a rookie quarterback I got thrown into the fire so to speak with my new assignment as the housing manager in the Mission Mendoza. This week (my first week on my own) happens to be one of the biggest weeks in the whole year for the mission. THE Elder Aidukaitis (President of the South America South Area) 1st Quorum of the 70 comes to Mission Mendoza tomorrow. It´s basically like Larry H Miller coming personally to the Fanzz store in Ogden to see how the stores being ran. And first thing he´s doing.... coming to the offices to interview us (the office staff). I´m actually am nothing less than thrilled, it´s going to be an amazing experience to be able to have an interview with a General Authority and to get to learn from him. What an amazing blessing right? he´s going to be here in our mission for the week and everyday i get to go out with him to show him how our missionaries are living for an hour. Taking him on a little tour of the apartments that are the closest to the mission offices. Blessed me right?! I´ll be sure to send pictures and tell you how the week went next P day.
The preparation that goes into getting the mission ready for this week is a lot. President Lindahl and Sister Lindahl obviously want everything to go picture perfect for the General Authority, so we´ve been planning around this since I´ve gotten here. All missionaries are to have haircuts and their suits dry cleaned this week :) funny little things that Sister Lindahl is all about. I´m learning so much being around my mission president and his wife. Such a shining example of what I want to be some day. Humble servants of the Lord, that are so full of love and charity. To think that a man like President takes 3 years of his life for the Lord is remarkable to me. He´s teaching me a lot on the business side of things, which is something I´ll take everyday from a man of his stature. It´s been a tough adjustment trying to balance time spent as a missionary out working and the time doing the things I have to do to fill my duties as the housing manager, as well as being the translator for our new senor couples. But the Lord is helping me find that balance.
I´m seeing a lot of answers to my prayers start to come though, my confidence in the Lord has tripled recently and I´m so grateful to be a part of his great work. So grateful to have supporting parents at home who love me! You´re everything to me, my family is everything to me. I was so filled with emotion after your email today i went straight to the bathroom in the mission office, locked the door, knelt down and cried for a good while. I´ve never felt as close to the Lord as I did today, it was almost like he was in there, kneeling with me, giving me a hug. I could feel someone with me, it was something I´ll never forget. I love you so much. Have a great week in St George!
Your boy,
Elder Campbell
October 4, 2010
If you haven´t already bought all the things for the package you can always send me money as well. I am going to buy soccer shoes today because i gave mine away to a poor little member boy. I would love that as my birthday present. Scott and Mel can put money on as well if they´d like. Buying a coat like that would be cool, the leather goods here are amazing. I´ll be writing later on today, but thought i´d write a little right now. Conference was amazing yesterday. I´m right next to my first area ´Trapiche´ and i got to see Carmen, and the miracle Miguel Cassanova. It was a tearful reunion to see my first two converts. Carmen is the sunday school president, and Miguel the Elders Quorem President, and is planning on going to the temple in December to get sealed for eternity in the temple. A MISSION MAKER! This next sunday Carmen invited me and my comp to eat an Argentine BBQ at their home. SO AMAZING! Anyways i´ll write more later. Love ya
Sept 20th 2010
So San Juan is great. It´s living up to it´s hype as a great place to be as a missionary in the Mendoza Mission but as well is living up to it´s hype as the hottest effin place on earth! I´m loving it none the less. For the moment we don´t have an aparment of our own because the owners kicked us out. We´re stayin in a tiney tiney place with two other missionaries and just living out of our bags. Kind of a distraction but we´re working through it. Our new apartment is really close to being closed on. Seems like i´m involved with the housing difficulties whereever i go! Maybe it´s a sign i should be in real estate because i´ve done a lot of finding apartments for missionaries. Haha, anyways saturday we had a great baptism. Jenni Gomez made herself the newest member of our church saturday. She´s a great woman with 9 children. (We´ll be working on baptising them these next few weeks, but the father isn´t all for the church). San Juan is a lot like inland California, really really green trees, and it´s a very beautiful city. I love it so far. The climate is super hot but the people are really nice. They are very known for their odd accent. In spanish alot of the R´s are rolled, with that spanish twist ya know? But here the double RR´s or words that start with R that bring that rolled noise are accented here with a SHHHH. So a place like Rawson is literally Shhrowson. Totally odd, and really hard for the new missionaries that come in because they have the Argentine accent as well when prounouncing double L´s. So everything has Shhhhh´s in it. Hard to understand for a lot of people. With this much time in my mision it´s not bad, i can understand it but it just kinda throws ya off haha. Anyways i´ve got some good pics for ya this week hope ya like em. Tell everyone hi for me.
Carson
Carson
Diaz girl my last day in Cordon
Bolivian family i was teaching in Cordon, love those kids!!!
Fredes family (converts) outside of the chapel in Cordon. This family was like my family in Cordon. SO AMAZING, i baptized Paola (the mom)
Baptism of Jenni
Coming into San Juan (Look at those mountains!)
First morning outside of the apartment in San Juan
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