Febuary 7 2011

Nothing too new here. The work is going good, we had a crazy week after one of our senor couples had to suddenly up and leave. Left us all here in the office a little shocked and shorthanded. They brought in a few more Elders to take the secretary position and finance manager positions. So we´re living with a few more now in our house. Our house is pretty cool, it´s three floors and super old but it´s comfortable for being here in Argentina. The top floor is just one big room full of bunk beds and then a deck. It´s basically only used when the departing missionaries come in and when the newbies arrive. Speaking of Newby, he gets home in about a month! I guess Keeley and Steve are going to Hungary to pick him up as well. Crazy how we´re all getting old in the mission now. I´ve had a big desire to be able to leave the office and be a normal missionary again but I´m not sure it´s going to happen. I´m kinda sad about it to be honest, but I understand that the Lord must need me here helping President before he gets ready to go. I´ve told him I´d like to leave for my last 9 weeks but from what he´s told me and the way he talks I think that it´s probably not going to happen. But thats ok, I´m learning a lot doing what I´m doing and I´m enjoying it when I can get out with the missionaries and work with them. Thats when I find my greatest joy.


Pretty sad to hear people still making anti Mormon comments to Dad. Makes me want to cry to be honest. It´s just Satan trying to throw Dad off thats all. I was always good at having ´selective hearing´, and sometimes in situations like that you have to have it. No one can shake my faith, anyone can say anything about polygamy and it doesn´t mean anything to me because I know that the church is true. I know that Joseph Smith said what he said he saw. I know the Book of Mormon is proof of that. I don´t know that from what anyone else has told me, I know because I wanted to know. I prayed, I studied, and I felt an answer. And I continue to get answers and reassurances of those answers every time I read the Book of Mormon. I´ll tell anyone that at any time. It´s just sad that people have such little faith that they settle with the idea that we turn into to dirt and thats that. How sad... How hopeless is that? Bye mom, bye dad, bye wife and kids..... fun 20 years we shared there, now I´ll never see ya again, Chau.... That idea is crazier than a boy seeing God and his Son to me. Anyways, tomorrow we have a leadership council, and then we´re hoping to get out and work this week a lot with a few struggling zones. Should be fun. Love ya!

Elder Hoglund's  going home dinner that Elder Campbell got to enjoy!