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!