Meeting Spot

Hey family and friends,

So this week was pretty busy with the hospital and being in Mendoza for meetings. I had my last zone conference and it was way cool and kind of sad to be honest! We didn't have a whole lot of time in our area which was kind of a downer for us but something cool that happened is that we got to talk more with Margarita and we got to give her a really nice book of Mormon  and she said she's going to definitely read it. Her son Ramon, has been helping her a lot  and he's a good example because  he's married in the temple for time and all eternity so he really wants to help her do that since she lost her husband less than 9 months ago. She misses him a ton and had a huge breakdown in front of us the other day and we both could talk to her and testify about the covenants we make with God and that the family is eternal.  

Hey I have to hurry though because I just have 1 more pday -- the next one I'll be with my parents and visiting people and doing some final things here. Ma, let's meet at the statue in the plaza at La Consulta.  Did you look it up on Google? I will send you a pic.  You will need to find out how to get here so my comp and I can meet you and dad before church on Sunday.  

I love and miss you all sooo much!  Thank you all for everything!! Much love!!

Elder Chamberlain

LETTER FROM PRESIDENT GOATES

Brother Chamberlain,

It was good talking with you today.  Our office elders are looking into the oven situation at your son’s apartment.

Following is a letter I send to parents who plan on picking up their children at the end of their mission:

I understand you would like to pick up your Son at the end of his mission.  The Church discourages parents from picking up their missionaries, however, if you do request this privilege we are asked to ensure that you understand that you:

               

- must make plans based on the release date established by the Church.

- should not request a change in the release date to accommodate other travel plans or commitments.

- should inform me and the Church Travel Office AT LEAST three months in advance

- will need to make your own arrangements, including travel, lodging, meals.

- need to ensure that the visit in no way imposes on members, mission resources, or missionaries, including office staff or other missionaries who are traveling home.  For example, if members know that a family of a missionary is coming to visit they may feel obligated to spend their precious resources to prepare an expensive meal, even if a missionary insists that they need not do so.

- understand that your son will continue to be a full time missionary until he is released by your Stake President.  Accordingly, he is to dress and conduct himself as a full time missionary until the time of his release.  Accordingly, I recommend that activities be consistent with what might be done on a P-Day.

If you come, we would be pleased to invite you to the dinner and testimony meeting the evening before his departure.  You can spend time with your son starting the day before his departure (we might be able to arrange this as early as Sunday evening depending on his final area, travel schedules, and companion availability for other missionaries).  I just ask that he be available for his departure interview, as scheduled, self-reliance training which begins on 4:00 PM on Monday, and the dinner/testimony meeting immediately thereafter.

Let me say it has been a delight to work with Elder Chamberlain.  He is humble and very kind hearted, always striving to improve himself.

Let me know if you have any questions. 

President Goates

Argentina Mendoza Mission

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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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