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
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