Transfer to Valle de Uco

Hey family and friends,

So this email is going to be very short because I have a lot to do today because I'm leaving tomorrow for another area called Valle de Uco. I'm excited but way nervous and pretty sad too. I'm going to be with a gringo named elder christensen and I haven't heard anything about him and there's also 2 christensens in our mission so I don't know which one will be my new comp.

Other than that this week I've seen some amazing things and some awesome miracles. We have a ton going for us which is awesome and I feel proud that I've been able to help teach and start a lot of future baptisms that will be future missionaries in the church. I feel proud of what I've done and I'm ready to go to my next area and finish my mission there.

I love you all sooo much I hope you all had a great easter weekend and that everyone enjoys General conference!

Love,

Elder Chamberlain

Marcelo Riveros took this photo and sent it to me.  It's my absolute favorite of his entire mission because it sums up what my son has been doing the last two years of his life.  Faithful, diligent, obedient, hardworking young men giving their ALL to serve their Lord.  

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Dear sister, today I feel pretty sad. I know our Savior needs E' Chamberlain in other place because there are more souls waiting for him. However my heart is crying inconsolably. Today we had the most powerful and strong spiritual experience. I received a blessing from my brother and best friend. I know he was a tool on the Lord's hands. I felt his love so deeply and my heart started to jump inside my chest. I love your son. He saved me from a fallen state. I testify that We know one each other before our lives here in Earth. I know that my Father in Heavens knows it and that's why I'

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not able to deny this. I know I'm going to see him again and I'm going to know you. I promised to my Father and Kohler that I'll be part of Kohler's life forever and I will help him, protect him, I'll be there for consolation and guide. We'll share more laughs and tears. I testify you that just like Ruth 1:16-18 We'll be friends forever and we'll keep on working for our Savior. Please I beg you to sustain and hold him because I know he's as sad as I am. I know he's more strong than he thinks but if there's just a minimal chance for help him or strengthen his heart I'll do it. I made my promise, I'm crying like a baby and we cried together but I wanna tell you that tomorrow I'll give him a blessing because I know that

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E' Chamberlain

during this new challenge. He es the most important missionary, (at least for us he must be) so don't forget your son is a Christ's servant and he was invested with power from on high. You can be proud because he's someone that makes me feel like that.

With love Brother Marcelo

From: Thomas Chamberlain <kohler.chamberlain@myldsmail.net>

Subject: Re: Hi great missionary

Date: March 28, 2016 at 9:09:09 AM PDT

To: Julie Marshall <juliatmarshall@gmail.com>

Hey grandma!

Man I've been doing sooo good and just about experiencing everything! I'm trying super super hard to have a good attitude about everything but its all been a humbling experience for me and I've been learning sooo much.

YOU ARE AWESOME! You leave with the missionaries to go tracting?? Thats awesome I can totally see you and grandpa...wow you guys are amazing. 

Grandma I'm soo grateful I have strong family members like you and grandpa in the gospel. It gives me sooo much strength to do what i do here and makes me soo happy that were all united in our faith. You guys are truly examples to me and all of us. Thanks for being my grandma and as well as for grandpa being one of the coolest grandpas ever haha! I CANNOT WAIT to hang out with you guys and talk with grandpa about the mission. It'll be awesome.

much love grandma tell grandpa I love him a ton too! Talk to you guys soon and have an amazing general conference!

Love,

Elder Chamberlain

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Julie Marshall <juliatmarshall@gmail.com> wrote:

Oh hello you fabulous young man. When I read all your letters about being robbed, funny but different experiences, tough but spiritual times I am so grateful for your strength!!  I am so grateful that you are strong and brave and true️. I watch these missionaries in Merced and always think of you. Especially when we go tracting with them to such different homes. Makes me so grateful for my parents and my family and our many blessings. Just know how much we love you. Grandpa and I do not miss a night without praying for you. You are a blessing to us all. God bless you my wonderful grandson. Grandma

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Franco Got Baptized

Well this week was a fight with the adversary for sure. It was a super stressful week. Super tired, some couple scary experiences, some funny ones, and weird ones haha we had it all this week. Overall it was a well balanced week!:)

Franco got baptized and it was an interesting baptism with some arguments here and there about Franco not going all the way under the water. Franco is extremely scared of the water and he had to gird up a lot of courage to be baptized.( With the help of ice cream and food after haha) We also had to talk with president about it so it was a good learning experience but one of the most strangest baptisms ive probably been to.

Other than that the next day on Saturday we had Jennifer and Rubens baptism and it was awesome!! I got to give a talk on the holy ghost and I felt it was good! Even though being asked in the meeting to give it haha! Which is pretty common here in Argentina haha but its a good skill to have! At Jennifer baptism we invited a bunch of kids that were playing basketball on our court outside to come inside and watch the baptism! Before hand we were playing with them and got to know all of them. One of them is named Juliana who lost her grandpa last week and another 5 months ago and talked to us really openly. The kids here are very mature to for the things they go through but not just that. There

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s kids there age (about 11-12) smoking in the streets that weve seen before and its always wayy weird to see and they'll offer it to us and say other stuff haha. primary kids ages! Anyway but the kids enjoyed the baptism a lot! We got to talk to one of their parents that came in from asking her daughter where she was and she wants to hear our message! Also many of the other kids want us to come by and I

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m going to be teaching English with my comp. Way excited! 

Anyway those are some of the good things that happened this week! Much love to you all!

Elder Chamberlain

So Grateful for a Baptism

March 7, 2016



Hey family and friends,

So this week was a very stressful week...but we got through it all without complaining at all and we were very grateful to the Lord for helping us have a good attitude. ALL of it is a really long story but we had to move everything ourselves in basically a day or really less...We were robbed in our own apartment several things but more of my comp which was hard because some of them were sentimental things...our land lord basically forced us out and told us that a lot of the things were his (almost all of it besides a table chairs and the fridge thank goodness)...some problems in the ward  the new apartment is nasty/ has bugs everywhere combined with mosquitos all over you at night etc and more that I don't want to say but we dealt with it. We took it with a good attitude and we were grateful for the experiences that happened to us.

I'm sooo glad that the Lord gives us these experiences to us. Knowing also that all these experiences will be for our good makes me have a better attitude even if we don't have anyone to help us with them. We just have to remember that the Lord is always there and that's all we truly need.

Look at challenges as opportunities not obligations because the problem is never the problem-- it's how we react to them and that's what the Lord did. He never once reacted poorly to any problem that he had, he just dealt with them. Anyway so I encourage you all to "just deal" with your problems and accept them as the Lord did. 

The coolest thing that happened this week though was on Saturday was that I got to baptize and confirm 2 investigators that the sisters had been working with. Their names are Claudio and Alicia and I would always teach them in the gospel principles class and they wanted ME to baptize them. It was such an honor and I hadn't gotten in the water to baptize for a while! I missed it sooo much! Before Alicia got to the font she just started crying and her husband was telling her how much he loved her and how proud they both were of each other. It truly gave me a testimony that the church is true and that this church is ALL ABOUT uniting families to be together forever. It was such a cool moment and to be right there watching the love they both had for each other to start this new path together and as a family with 2 other little girls. One will be baptized by her dad in a couple weeks and the other who isn't of age yet.

I'm soo grateful for this gospel and how the gospel truly blesses families by uniting them together for eternity. It's such an amazing blessing to be a tool in His hands and watch how he will work through us being His representatives here on Earth.

Anyway I hope you all have an awesome week I love and miss you all soo much! Stay and live true!!:)

Much love everybody lets have a good week!!  Oh, I tried to make my companion some heart pancakes.  They didn't turn out that well ha ha!

Elder Chamberlain

On the left is Marcelo Riveros.  He helps the missionaries here a lot!

The water here is VERY dirty!!

My attempt at heart shaped pancakes I made for my comp ha ha!

February 29, 2016

What is goin on family and friends!

So this week has been really hard and rewarding. About a little more than a week ago we were randomly told by our landlord(who is a member by the way) that we had to be our of our pension by the 1st of March with no exceptions. We were somewhat confused and it was kind of frustrating. This pension has been by far the nicest pension I've had in my whole mission and it says a lot from president telling me that I lived in the worst one for 6 months haha so that made me feel good. I've seen some of the best and the worst haha. We have been trying to work and pack the things we could without having to use them that often. We don't really have a lot of things but its the extra books in the pench, and some furniture things with no tools to dismantle them and just us...and our good friends Marcelo and our mission leader Joel haha. They're awesome were planning on having an asado with them today!

Later our land lord comes over and tells us that basically everything in our pench is his and doesn't belong to the church and we were like...well we basically wont have anything when we move...it'll be an easier move we can basically just carry our stuff over to our other pension. Our new pension is nice...our land lord is a jehovas witness and is super nice. She doesnt know how to read but shes learned a little bit from reading the bible. Shes already been asking us in what we believe soo ya were definitely going to baptize her haha. She needs it! 

After all of that we called president rastelli that's in charge of helping cleaning and maintaining the pensions in the mission and he told us that he was going to talk to our land lord. In that same call he told us that our land lord lied to us and basically everything belongs to the mission, and that we don't have to move out in such a short time.

The contracts with the church are for 30 days and we had about 9 and he lied saying that he informed our pencionista( idk how to say that in english) a month earlier. So having the extra time to move has been great and now we have money again soo we have a little more food than normal ahaha.

The coolest thing that happened this week though was on saturday was that I got to baptize and confirm 2 investigators that the sisters had been working with. Their names are Claudio and Alicia and I would always talk with them in the gospel principles class and they wanted me to baptize them. It was such an honor and I hadn't gotten in the water to baptize for a while! I missed it sooo much! Before Alicia got to the font she just started crying and her husband was telling her how much he loved her and how proud they both were of each other. It truly gave me a testimony that the church is true and that this church is ALL ABOUT uniting families to be together forever. It was such a cool moment and to be right there watching the love they both had for each other to start this new path together and as a family with 2 other little girls. One will be baptized by her dad in a couple weeks and the other who isn't of age yet.

I'm soo grateful for this gospel and how the gospel truly blesses families by uniting them together for eternity. Its such an amazing blessing to be a tool in His hands and watch how he will work through us being His representatives here on Earth.

Anyway I hope you all have an awesome week I love and miss you all soo much! Stay and live true!!:)

Elder Chamberlain

ASADO!!

We work out really hard.  It helps get rid of stress and makes us feel a lot better.  I'm sorta addicted to it!