May 23, 2016
Hey Fam and Friends!
This week was kinda hard because I had been sick for basically all of it with a cold. It is way
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y cold here now and the worst about it all is when the people say that its going to get A LOT colder. I
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m like ahaha
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great! But no we
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ve still been leaving except for one day where I was pretty down and thought it would be better to get better so it wouldn
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t get worse. I have just 4 weeks left so I've gotta get out there ya know? Perseverar hasta el Fin!!
Loyeda didn't come to church and we set up a time with her the last week and she wasn't there and its an hour plus walk and she lives in the middle of a tonnn of farm land because
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Consulta is basically that haha. Soo it was a little sad and discouraging to be honest but LUCKILY there was a neighborhood that was pretty small but we went there and we got inside a house and got to teach them so it was most likely meant to be! It was really cool.
Also we found A LOT of new people this week that are all (to me at least) VERY good potentials to be baptized so we
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ve been planting a lot of good seeds. One of them is named Leonardo that just from today I think 5 days ago had his newborn child get blood cancer. We were talking to him and he started tearing up and we taught and testified about eternal families and how the Lord has a plan for ALL of us. He was on his way to Mendoza with his wife and baby for some doctor appointments so he couldn
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t attend us in that moment but were going to visit him this next week along with several others! He also lives out wayy in the middle of nowhere but at least part of the way there is on a bus..:)
Anyway those are some things from this week here in La
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onsulta! I hope you all have an amazing week! Much love!!
Elder Chamberlain
May 30, 2016
Hey fam and friends,
This week has been a very successful week for us wow! We have found a lot more new and future investigators, we've been able to teach a lot of people that we haven't been able to contact for a while that really needed the help of God in their lives, plus we invited Loyeda to be baptized and she said YES and the date is for the 11th of June!! We're sooo excited! I've still been somewhat sick but The Lord has been helping me get over it and just leave the pench everyday because I only have just a couple more weeks left! I just want to thank all of you for the prayers for me and my investigators because I can testify that they've been answered.
Also we've been working a lot more with the members and inviting them to pray and recognize the people the Lord has prepared for them to share the Gospel as well as to have the courage to do so. We've seen a lot more confidence from the members and are planning a fun activity for the branch and are hoping to bring the branch closer together.
Soo my comp and I have been getting along a lot better. We had a pretty serious talk after planning for the next day and it was kinda rough. I kept myself under control though and he kinda did too. But there were several comments I chose to not let offend me as much, at least not let them get to me. So I just ignored them and kept saying "the problem isn't the problem, it's how I'm going to respond to the the problem... that's the problem" and it's helped me. I've truly developed a brotherly love for him and have been serving him a lot--doing the dishes, just always not caring about whose turn it is, cleaning his study table, giving compliments, and I gave him a little mp3 player as a gift. Then, this last Sunday, I woke up early and made him pancakes haha Argentine style! But the Lord has been really helping me out from this and I feel I've learned a lot on how to get along with people and how to truly influence them for not just my benefit but for the both of us. It's been cool seeing how the Lord keeps on teaching these things right until the end. I feel that both the adversary and the Lord have been giving me trials for my experience and to see if I will fall.... but I won't fall! I'm going ALL the way to the end so I can say to the Vintage Ranch Ward and more importantly, to my God someday, that I tried my absolute best until the end.
A quick cool story that happened this week. A way nice lady named Margarita lost her husband a while ago and she has kids who are members of the church however she's not a member. Her husband was a VERY strong Catholic apparently and she feels that by converting to our faith, she'd be leaving him. We explained after having lunch with her more thoroughly of how the family can be together forever and that her husband like it says in 1 Peter 3, is being preached the gospel. She was crying a lot and we promised her that if she listened to us and would make the decision to be baptized she could be sealed to her husband someday in the temple. It was a way cool experience but that's the short version.
Anyway I love you all soooo much! I'm sooo grateful for this gospel and for all of you. I hope we can all stay strong in the faith and see all of us as one big family in the Celestial Kingdom. Much love!!
Elder Chamberlain
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