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
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