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.
 

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?!