Cordoba Argentina Temple Dedication

Celestial Room of Cordoba Argentina Temple

   
Hey Everyone-

Wow yesterday was soo cool. I felt the spirit soo strong! The church really is growing in ALL of Argentina! Yesterday the temple in Cordoba which is about 7 hours away was dedicated and we had Elder Uchtdorf and Elder christofferson come! We got to watch all 3 sessions and we saw our stake president give the opening prayer in the 3rd session so that was cool because we've worked with him a lot! We didn't get to see the cultural celebration because President told us that we can't soo it's all good:)

Cultural Celebration from Friday, May 15, 2015

Elder Uchtdorf holds up his temple recommend and the "For the Strength of Youth" pamphlet during his opening remarks at the cultural event in Cordoba, Argentina.  (LDS Newsroom)

Visitors Entering the Temple for the Dedication on Sunday, May 17, 2015

We had a good week and finally got into one of the houses we had been trying to get into for a little while as we pass by to others. Her name is Veronica and her dad is blind and can't really hear. We were able to talk to her for a little and we had a solid lesson on the Restoration! She is going to be baptized we both feel. It just won't be by me because she needs to go to church at least 3 times and I'm probably getting transferred, but it's ok--- it's the thought that counts! She'll be making the best decision of her life! 

Ordinance room inside Cordoba Argentina Temple

We also taught several other people this week! One old lady named Rosa! She was pretty prideful at the beginning but then she really took interest in us. I told her we are here in Argentina for so much time when we could be in a  university and we don't even get paid. I got to bear my testimony of why I'm here and how we sincerely want to let people know of this great message. She was VERY interested in the Book of Mormon and was flipping through it and reading small parts here and there which was a really good sign that my comp and I picked up. 

Baptismal Font inside Cordoba Temple

Also we asked for directions from this old guy when we were headed to the home of a kid that stopped us in the street a few days ago to teach him and his family. The kid named Luciano wasn't home but we did talk to this old man named Diego for a while. After we finished we planned  a time to come back and talk with him and he told us," Here you have a friend!"   It made me feel really good and I had never felt that kind of respect for being a missionary out on the streets here so it was a cool little experience for me.

A lot more experiences like that have been happening and the Lord is really blessing us and it's awesome! Sorry this email is a little long and I'm going to try to do better with weekly emails haha! Glad you're all patient with me-- you're all the best!!

Love the one and only,

Elder K Chamberlain

(Letter from May 11th)

Oh my gosh Organ stop Pizza!!  What a cool picture! That;s a fun place ahaha! My first date with Bailey Bowman was there haha!

Ya I miss you guys soo much! But almost 6 months passed when I last talk to you guys which is crazy! We're almost halfway through the year then we'll be at Christmas sooo soon and I'll be filling out my trunky papers! Thats what we call them but my papers for going back to the United States!!

Hey thank you soo much for bringing grandma and grandpa and all the cousins to my mother's day skype call...I literally can't tell you what that did for me. I feel soo strengthened because I know I have a lot of those eyes on me and I'm going to do my best for all of them:)

We found about 4-5 possible investigators this week but a lot of them weren't there when we made an appointment with them. But they're some nice looking people and we're hoping to get to know them better!

Hey Elder Ah you hasnt told me if he's sent your guys stuff but let me know when it does ok?

OH Suzy loved that video and she told me she teared up a little bit so thank you so much for doing that for her:)

Love you all pops:)

Elder Kohler Chamberlain

Happy Gringos

Hey Mom!

This is the "gringo room' where all of us from the United States watched General Conference.

Elder Ah You is sitting next to me.  

General conference! The zone leaders also brought me 2 packages from the offices that same day so it was that much better!  One was from the Strattons (fun tie and candy!) and the other was a small envelope with these four Instagram books you sent.  I love reading them!  We passed them all around to the other missionaries in between sessions.  Thanks Ma!

Asado with Hermana Gisella and Juan Manuel!!  Elder Barton is the blonde guy next to me.

This week was awesome! I miss Elder Ah you and Elder Barton soo much though!

We've been working a lot with 2 families named Familia Rivas and Familia Guevarra. Both of them are almost the same. Both of the moms are very young like mid 20s and aren't legally married but are members and the husbands aren't members. They each have different problems in their relationships but we're really helping them and I've learned soo much. At times I feel weird with my age, teaching people about how to live their life and how to fix it (like I've ever been where they've been before). I'm soo grateful for the spirit and how much it helps me and everything that I've learned and that I'm learning everyday.

I'm sooo glad you guys liked the video! At first I wasn't going to do it because I didn't think I could! But I thought when will I get the chance to do this again?  So I did it without tearing up or anything haha.

Yes I love everything you sent!! The Ipod works perfect and I've been using it every night and I love it!  I'm sooo happy I have what you guys gave me!! I'm going to save it all sparingly...except the ranch cornuts..... those things are freaking gone ahaha!

Hey so for this week we're working on the skype deal cuz its this next Sunday! We have church from 3:30 to 6:30 is the thing....it's really dumb because there's not really much to do on a Sunday morning and people use the chapel for another ward in the morning. The church pays for a little bus to go on a certain route and it picks up all of the members. They'll do this until November or so until there done redoing the chapel to make it bigger because the church is really growing here which is good! 

I'm planning on skyping after church so like at 7:15 to 7:30 p.m. my time (3 or 3:30 your time)  My comp is 2 hours back cuz he's from Peru so he might call in the morning but I want to skype and I don't know if I'll be able to go to their house in the morning. I will come to the ciber to make more emails this week and let you guys know so we can set a sure time.

Oh-- on May 16th there will be the cultural celebration for the Cordoba Temple and Elder Uchtdorf is coming! The dedication will be the next day! I'm soo excited!!

Other than that my district is doing good and I love helping everybody out in anyway I can. Love you all!!

Elder Kohler Chamberlain


(another letter from May 7, 2015)

Im super good! My companion Elder Charca have been doing really good and were trying to find more people to teach. Yesterday Elder Zeballos came to talk to us. He spoke in spanish in general conference but knows english too. Hes the first counselor in our area presidency and was sooo cool to hear! Him and his wife along with president and sister goates talked to us!

Its really starting to get a little cold here haha! I swear its soo hard to get out of bed like the cold just drains you! But im gonna buy a nice jacket to wear to get warmed up before I work out in the mornings.

Im learning soo much mom and its been helping me a lot:) Im really just trying to learn the gift of consistency which was mentioned yesterday.

We can really try to do whatever we want but we will never achieve it unless we are consistent. We put that into perspective for our investigators and enduring to the end. We do A LOT of little things that result in our exaltation and because of the CONSISTENCY we had to go to church every sunday, read our scriptures everyday, pray everyday, go to seminary, fast every month, do hometeaching eery month and sooo many more things is why we are happy and successful in what we do.

Something we teach is simply we cant eat all the food were going to eat in one day but we need to save and eat it day by day. Its a simple concept but sooo many people dont even do it or arent aware of it. I can stuff myself with food and be completely full. It wont matter cuz tomorrow im going to have to eat again.

Seriously I learn soo much:)