Absolute Best, until the END! Letters from May 22 and May 2

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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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..:)

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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

Valle de Uco

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!

Great Start to a New Year!

Whaddup Fam and Friends!

I am beyond grateful for my new comp! He is soo awesome and loves to work!  He is from Tucson and he has a way big heart.  I've already learned a lot from him this week. This is his last transfer and he wants to end super strong for his dad that just passed away a couple months ago. I've never seen someone want to sincerely serve the Lord and someone testify soo strong about the love he has for his family and that he will see his father again. It wouldn't matter who you were or what you've done in your life, you could feel the spirit testify soo strong about the plan our Heavenly Father has for us. I'm feeling it again as I type this-- it's kinda weird. 

Anyway we were able to teach a lot and we put a baptismal date on a guy that found us in the street! His name is Maicol Suñer and he comes up to us asking,"Hey are you guys Mormons?"  We told him, "Ya, we are.  We're missionaries."  He then just started asking us all these questions and we could answer all of them.  Later I asked him, "Why did you want to talk to us?"  He told us that we've always caught his attention and he felt really curious to talk to us.  

So we taught him a little about the restoration and finished it more fully a couple days later and invited him to be baptized and he said yes!  We were soo happy!

Also we're planning a "future missionary" activity with the Hermano Marcelo Riveros for the primary and we're going to try to get references from it!

Anyway that's something that happened this week much love to you all!

Elder Chamberlain

Blessings from the Lord

Hey everybody!

Elder Arzubiaga and I have been doing really good together and we did A LOT of street contacting this week. A new family is coming into our ward named the Nuñez family and we found out that they live far away--about 2 plus hours by walking. We were planning on the making the trip because the parents just got baptized and the daughter wants to get baptized too but we had some nice members take us there and then they took us back.  It was a nice little blessing from the Lord. It would of been a total of 4 plus hours of just walking out in the campo...(field) it's nothing but just farm land so it's really quiet there but those parts of Argentina are super beautiful.

Anyway cool miracle-- we were teaching some of our investigators (Andrea) and we talked about baptism and she had a question like Hermana Alonso had about the baby baptisms and how she didn't believe that a baby could sin either...later at the end she said" I would get baptized. It would be really cool!" So that made us really excited. We both felt like we wanted to wait because were going to tour the chapel with them and give them the invitation there!  But then she said she wanted to be baptized!  Anyway, that's something from this week.  Hope you're all doing good!  

Much love!!

Elder Chamberlain

Oriana got baptized!

When Elder Chamberlain served in his first area, Godoy Cruz, he met a sweet little girl named, Oriana.  He and his companions taught her the gospel and really came to love her and her family.  Elder Chamberlain wasn't able to baptize her because he was transferred to another area.   But just today, Elder Chamberlain sent us some photos that his friend, Elder Ruiz Diaz (the Elder with the glasses) sent him of little Oriana getting baptized.  We are grateful that Elder Chamberlain was able to introduce the gospel to her.  He is SO happy for her!!

She is such a darling little girl.

 Here is Oriana with her mother and Elder Ruiz Diaz, Kohler's former companion.  

(Here is his letter from today, March 2, 2015)

Hey Pops-

Wow Wade-- what a stud to run a full marathon! Haha! That is a really good time for a man that's turning 59 years old! Way to finish!! Please let him know that I think that's super cool and congratz!

Happy Birthday Mom!  Sorry I'm late telling you (kinda not my fault haha)  Mom (and almost you, Dad) are 45 but that's still nothing...You have soo much life ahead...I will see 70-80 year old people smoking and drinking and I'm surprised at their age when they tell me! That sounds like fun though what you all did for dinner and presents.   I'm sure mom liked those things.

Wow, that's really cool Dad about having the consultant speak to your general dentist friends...Not only the fact that he will be edifying you and your staff/businesses but you are getting them all involved to refer straight to you. Hey how's that one chapter going for that guy Brian Tracy? Was that it? I can't remember. I'm soo excited for the future!

Man that's funny Hailey and you have been struggling with allergies.  I had the worst allergy attack in like all my life I swear! I was with my comp and it hit me( late at night so good thing) in a less active house and it was bad...just a constant dripping nose and red eyes...If I tilted my head backwards I could feel everything in my nose run back it was pretty bad/gross...But I thought I was going to die that night cuz the 2 close farmacias were closed but my comp had some pills so that made me happy haha! 

Wow I'm sooo excited for Dayton, Nick and Colton getting their mission calls!! They're going to kill it! Colton should email Keaton about the Mexico MTC!

Man Brandt is coming home?  That was fast! That's a guy I can't wait to see when I go home haha. Miss that guy. Speaking of fast too I have 2 more transfers and a week or so and I'll be at a year which is really crazy to think! I still feel like the new kid somewhat but I can speak really well!

This week nothing super cool happened. A lot of talking on the streets/knocking on doors. Saturday we had a service to clean the church and we got to perform Saturday morning for mutual in front of all the kids all ages( Like 30 kids?) We performed a skit of what missionaries do in their schedule everyday so that was fun! We showed what we do when we we're working out. I was going hard and my comp was slowly stretching while in his bed we said cuz he's actually done that before ahaha!!

Ya it has been raining but not too muddy. The ground is really dry and they still have sidewalks kinda. They are more like cemented rocks that are so grounded down now from wear and tear that somehow it's not even really a sidewalk anymore haha so there's a little mud that gets on the shoes but I usually clean and polish them later anyway so it's ok. End of April is when it will start getting pretty cold until about the end of August or so.  It will be weird to have winter in your summer!

Love ya tons dad-- have an awesome week!!

Tu hijo,

Elder Kohler Chamberlain

First Baptism!

Chaparro Family

Hey Mi Familia -
The baptism was super good! Ezekiel made his decision to be baptized the day he was baptized! He also decided as he was going into the baptismal font who was going to baptize him! I had just baptized his older sister so he chose my comp. We baptized 4 people and the bishop baptized the Mom. My comp got to baptize the little girl Leila too btw. But it was cool-- I have never actually gone into the water yet to baptize! We confirmed each one of them and had the bishop and other members confirm them members in front of the whole ward! I also got to give a 15 minute talk on Joseph Smith and got to talk about my experience of going to the sacred grove which was super cool. The spirit was super strong in that meeting!

Baptism Day! The dad is in the blue obviously. Sorry about the shadow in some of them mom! I baptized the oldest girl and my comp baptized the other two and the bishop on the end baptized the mom! They were all confirmed yesterday in front of the whole ward and we all participated! But we let the members do it to make better friendships with them!

Here are some photos of families from my last area (finally!)

Leon Family from last area.

German Chavez and his family from my last area!  Love this family!

The Martinez Family!!

 Me at the Dike/ Dam By Chimbas

Hey sorry I have to hurry ma cuz we have to go to the hospital to help out the sisters-- apparently something isn't good! I love you sooo and everyone sooo much!! Happy anniversary and valentines day to all!! THANKS FOR THE PICS AS ALWAYS!!

Love,
Elder Kohler Chamberlain

Baptism This Thursday!!

Mom-- just to start, there are 3 packages waiting for me in Mendoza and I'm sooo excited!  My good friend Elder Ruiz Diaz (the guy from Buenos Aires) is the new penscionista and he gets stuff like that. President gets mad when we get packages or send them but letters are fine. But we're super tight so he should get me my packages and perhaps send some letters! I just have to give them to the zone leaders every time they go up there for stuff for the zone meetings. The next mtg is tomorrow but they won't have it so I'll have to wait till the beginning of March to get them.

This week was rougher than usual so thank you for those prayers ma:) That's funny how you had that feeling. 

I've had cereal almost every breakfast and lunch haha.(we don't eat at night but sometimes we'll get a hotdog but its usually like 10:30 or 11 when we come back from walking so far)

We are trying to get Ezequiel (the boy in the Chaparro family) to get baptized with the rest of his fam too! So we are going to be teaching them everyday this week and they will literally all have the baptismal interview just hours before they're going to be baptized haha so were going to see how this will go!  We're trying to work with 2 other investigator families and about half the time they're just never home and it's a long way there. We got a less active family to church again this Sunday too! Estefenia, Nacho, and Sol. A little girl and a boy and a divorced mom. Her husband has been cheating on her and doesn't give her anything and they're pretty poor. I felt bad tho cuz we came over yesterday to get them for church and the mom was telling Nacho to drink his chocolate milk (breakfast) so we could go to church. So I was like "Nachito drink your milk!"( my comp and I call him Nachito-- it's just more funny haha) But he was saying "NO- I don't want to and was hitting me with this little bracelet thing. So of course I tried taking it and he pulled his arm back and my arm hit his milk all over him...He was NOT in his church clothes so that was good. But he started crying then literally just started laughing! ..it was kinda weird. The mom wasn't mad at us but then I started to clean it all up.   I took the cup to the sink and I'm washing it off. It slips out of my hand and falls in the sink and I'm like wow, that could've broke...but then I looked down and there was another glass broken!!...I didn't know what was happening but I felt sooooo bad!! So I went and told her(After the kids had done that for me LOL)  I told her I would pay for it but she refused of course. Anyway I just felt bad like were waking up these people to come to church and here I spill hot chocolate all over her 5 year old son and break one of her cups while trying to clean it. I was waiting for something else to happen but I just told myself that nothing more was gonna happen and thankfully nothing else did! 

But overall we had a really good time in church and we saw the Chaparro family there with all 3 of her kids which made us really happy! The 15 year old daughter Rosa wants me to baptize her so I'm super excited! The mom is going to have the bishop baptize her and maybe I can baptize the other kids? We'll see. Please pray for the Chaparro family to endure till this Thursday! And then forever after!

Anyway that's a story I had this week. Everything else is good really and the mission is just being the mission and I'm grateful for all of it. I will pray for Sister Schmidt and for her to recover. That's really sad. I know if she has faith that she'll come out. Something I've heard from a missionary is that people in those types of situations can really come closer to God. But what was more interesting( And kinda different) Is that he said they should pray to see if it's their time to leave this life and if there's anything that Heavenly Father would like for them to do before they leave. It's kinda a scary thought but if we know it's God's will I guess it's better? I don't know-- I wouldn't want to receive an answer if I was going to die but that's something I heard and I thought it was interesting. Tell her she's awesome and that she can do it! She has a missionary in Mendoza Argentina praying for her!:)

Hailey looks sooo good! I'm soo proud of that little girl! She's too funny ahaha. Spencer is just a giant and I don't know what he's going to look like when I get back. I wouldn't doubt if he's that much better at piano now to be honest.

I love you mom!! I hope all is well with you, your book, calling and everything!

Hey we're coming back later today to finish our emails so I'll write dad and them!

PS: Hey can you tell Brother Mask that I want to write him?? He never answered me-- I want to tell him about certain things going on here! I know he can relate to since he served in Argentina. I would REALLY appreciate that. I look up to him soo much and he's helped me with a lot of things in my life. Anyway thanks ma love ya!