2016 is off to a great start!

Hey fam and friends and people I loovveee and miss a lot:)

So this week was another amazing week! Maicol came to church and he really liked it! He was understanding everything way good and before he left, he offered us a taxi with him and asked when we'd have the next appt! He was even reading in the gospel principles book about baptism.  It was sooo cool!!

We have had a lot of success and saw several less actives go to church this week for the first time in a long time! I honestly don't know what to choose to write but we're starting a lot of good things with families by just cleaning out the area book which has been helping us a lot and just seeing a lot of miracles!

I LOVE ELDER HOLLAND!! Oh my gosh he is my favorite apostle and I never feel the spirit stronger with any other than him. At least for me, haha!  He's awesome--- what an opportunity! You guys will have a good time. Kelsey and Spencer will too for sure haha!

Mom Hermano Riveros came to church after not coming for like 10 years... He helped teached Maicol why we do things the way we do them. He fellowshipped him-- I guess is what you say in english. it made me soo happy to see him. I've come way close to him and he helps us soo much and I've learned some really deep doctrine things too and just a lot from his experiences that he had while on his mission.

Anyway,  I have to go because we set up an awesome lunch with food from Paraguay because several of the missionaries are from there and so is the hermano! I'm pretty excited-- the food sounded good!

Much love to you all you're all the best!!

Elder Chamberlain

Wow mom thank you sooo much for that quote....that actually really means a lot to me. I'm going to tell that to my comp..

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Tamara Chamberlain <tntmusic92@gmail.com> wrote:

Here is one of my favorite quotes for you this week:  "Live up to your privilege....the Angels cannot be restrained from being your associates. If you are pure, nothing can hinder. " -Joseph Smith

I pray angels will be your associates this week️

I love you!
Mom

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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

December- New Area, Nice Weather

December 7, 2015

Hey Ma!

Wow you have been super busy this week! That makes me happy Im gald youre doing good and busy with a lot of things. Im doing good I want to hear more about how YOURE doing!!

I loved all the pics that you sent me! It looked super official and everything haha! Plus you sold 130 in that one night thats amazing! Its so true sometimes we cant see the hand of the Lord in our lives until after things have passed. Thats why we have to be patient and know the Lord will come through. So in reality jsut faith and patience and well be fine!:)

Thats something Ive learned in the mission a lot just how to have more faith in Him. Once we put our faith in jesus Christ and truly do that well feel his love and well have that sense of security, that sense of Peace that somehow...everything will turn out to be alright...we just need to put our trust in him.

So ya this last week my comp has just been super sick. We went to Mendoza for a couple days and did the tests and this next wednesday were gonna have to go back to get the results to see whats wrong with him. Other than that ya Ive just been in the pench reading, working out, and just doing that while he rests up.

This Thursday were gonna have our zone conference too and im hoping well be back but to be honest I dont think we will. But Im hoping!:) 

Oh thank you sooo much Mom for the package I got! I got the big one with the corn nuts and workout bands and stuff. Did kelsey put in the funk socks those are soo cool ahaha im wearing them right now!

Im so glad to hear youre all doing well Ma! I love seeing blessings come into my family:)

con cariño,

Elder Chamberlain

December 14, 2015

Dad thank you soo much for the email! Ive been sitting here trying to figure out photos and they arent working. I wasa able to tryi a couple times but I dont know if you guys got them or anything.

Anyway this week was good. My comp was sick a lot but we were able to leave a couple times. We had a long talk the other day and about our relationship too and it was really helpful for the both of us. Hes just a very immature guy adn has been sheltered a lot of his life and doesnt understand a lot of things. But Im learning to love him because if I can learn to love him, I can learn to love my family, wife, firends and jsut people that Ill want to be with.

O thank you sooo much for the packets too! i didnt tell you that! The music is awesome! I can only hear a couple albums because the rest isunreadable but its ok.

hey so I wont write you guys this next monday but we did finally get someone to help us with the skype. I have no idea what time were jsut gonna do it on a small ipad in a memebrs house but ill make sure to write you guy before I skype you all:)

Hey i have to go my comp is feelin better today so were gonna try to go work but lvoe you tonzz! Thanks for all you write to me always! I wish I could write more!

Elder Chamberlain

Thanksgiving Week

Hey guys!

So this week has been pretty stressful and all over the place. I'm in the offices in Mendoza right now because my companion has something going on with his stomach. We don't know what it is and so they're doing tests on him and so we're gonna be here and away from our area for a little bit. I think we might go back later this week but I know he has another appointment this next wednesday so we'll be coming back haha. He just spits up stomach acid about every 5 minutes and has been in the bathroom a lot alot with some pretty bad diarrhea. During that I've been helping out down with the office elders for the monthly meeting president has with all of the zone leaders in the mission so it's been cool. Pretty busy at least!

Other than that thanksgiving was fun! We had a pretty small turkey but none the less it was a turkey! Better than copos de maiz all the time!  ha ha!  We had that with some empanadas and some bread and salad it was awesome!  I was super super grateful they invited us. There were some other people too and they pulled out wine and offered it to us and we actually got to teach a little bit about the word of wisdom! It was a good opportunity for us!

Other than that we actually have a lot of other things going on for us but I don't remember everything we did this week and it's a lot of typing haha.

I'm working and trying my best mom. I've come a lot closer with President Goates and I'm learning to trust him more now. He's teaching me a lot.  But ya other than that everything is going super good and I'm just pressing forward.

So ya that's what's going on with us! Much love to everybody!

Elder Chamberlain

New Area, New Allergies, New Friends

Hey Mom and Dad -

What happened to the living room and kitchen!! what happened?!! It's totally different!  But it's ok but woowwwww I've been gone for a little bit havent I...I can't believe it...

Ya it's been another crazy week but let's see...I've never heard such loud thunder and rain in my life...something stung my lip and it got super swollen and I couldn't feel it....I've had super bad allergies here but it's ok now I got a medicine called loratadina and it has the same stuff that claritin has soo I'm really happy. Plus a nice hermana from the states gave me some benadryl and that made me really happy haha.

No, I'm good for christmas.  I don't really need anything.  Thanks though :) So, I'm being rushed by my comp.  He's different but he loves to work so that's good :)

Today we're going to visit a guy in a hospital who is probably going to have his foot amputataed from being in an accident and we're teaching him.  His name is Eddie.  Maybe you guys could pray for him.  

Something cool is that there's quite a bit of investigators here and a lot of people that need help soo 'Im glad im here:)  Also we're teaching a family that lived in new jersey for a little while and invited us to thanksgiving...they said it wouldn't be like how it was there but they would try to make the best Argentine Thanksgiving for me ever and that made me really happy haha:) However the mom is super catholic and doesn't really like us in a more religious aspect but it's ok we're building the relationship:)

But ya I've been busy as normal and doing everything I can for these amazing people.

Much love to you mom and dad!  Tell Spencer I'm super super proud of him in tennis.  He is a stud!!!  

 I'll talk to ya soon!:)

Love,

E Chamberlain

Goodbye to the people of San Raphael

Jacqueline and Oscar Gatica

We made honey bbq wings for the Gatica family.  They loved them!

Hey Everybody,

So this week we said goodbye to A LOT of people that I've come soooo close with!  I'm going to San Luis Ampia with a porteño from Buenos Aires. It should be really cool!  Last week I didn't know I was going for sure but I planned on it because it was really likely that I was going to and if I didn't do it I wouldn't have had time to say goodbye to anybody. It would be like I just disappeared (which happened for several missionaries that were unexpectedly leaving) As I was saying goodbye to a ton of people this week  it was pretty hard. I didn't cry in front of any of them!! But some of the hermanas almost made me ha. I know I'll see them again when I come back with you guys:)  I was able to leave my testimony for a lot of them and with some I was able to share a favorite scripture of mine which is in Helaman 5:12. It's the one about the rock of Christ and if we build on it we won't fall. And I was able to share it with a lot of less actives and ONE family that we were able to bring back! The Aguilera family! They're officially coming back to church and it makes me soo happy! :) 

We had stake conference this last Sunday and the stake president talked a little about the member attendance. There are 5000 members in San Raphael and we have the biggest zone in the mission. We only have 600 that are active.  It was a surprising statistic but it's all good! The stake and apparently the Church is focusing a lot on increasing the priesthood and the leaders are encouraging us to work more with men that can prepare to have the holy priesthood.

Oh my gosh-- I'm so sorry about those people that died in Gilbert and in Europe...I heard something from an old lady about a lot of people died in a concert in Germany haha but ok...soo there were hundreds that died and in France...ya it's been a sad week.

Hey I haven't gotten any packages here at all. Maybe theres that one that that sister brought here but I won't know until the next zone meeting and were probs not gonna go to the offices when we go to mendoza. Tomorrow is when well have the meeting with all the mission and some Seventies over this area and right after the meeting we're all leaving to our new areas with our new comps...it's gonna be pretty crazy with 250 missionaries and those that are leaving with their suitcases and everything haha.  

So, to answer your question, Mom - we don't have a relief society president BUT we have a girl that teaches the gospel doctrine classes and the bishop's wife helps too and I think she has multiple callings. We don't get a whole lot from the ward but there's some hermanas that help us with clothes and giving us lunch!!  We have really good lunches here!

I'm trying my best out here and only care what the Lord wants me to do. I trust him more than anybody and have learned in some of the most fearful time in my mission here to trust Him. All he wants us to do is try our best and leave it in his hands.

Hey I have to go but I love you all so much. Have an awesome week:)

Love your son,

Elder  Chamberlain

Halloween Day P-Day Activities

Men in Black

Hey Everyone - 

Awesome week! We had an amazing activity that we made and we had 5 investigators come and 3 full less active families come that we have been working with for a LONG time haha. Ahh man it's soo cool to see when people finally progress...EVEN if it's just going to the church for a halloween activity haha.

Veronica and BOTH her parents came and they loved it! They had told me they had never seen veronica the way she was since the accident and that they knew she was really happy. That made me feel soooooooooo good I cant even tell you! were going to ahve a family night with them and the Alanes family (Oscar and Jackie) Hermana Alanes came up to me and actually told me that we should do it so were gonna have an awesome time tonight!  Ma, we had such an awesome activity! There were a bunch of kids dressed up and even some of the parents too haha! Ya, that's what we planned to be, "men in black" haha everybody liked that. We put a lot of work into the activity and also the Funez family (our ward mission leader) helped us a lot.   

We had a spiritual thought after and we shared a Mormon Message called, "What Matters Most" and we talked about how activities like this bring us together and unify us.  It was super cool!  Mom, I'm doing good.  The Savior has my back and so does my Heavenly Father.  It's a lot of things but nothing I can't handle with the Lord :)  

Thank you soon much for the scripture (Alma 33:23) that's really good!  I know that through his atonement our burdens can be lightened.  I don't know exactly how but that's just how it is ha ha!

Anyway Im going to try and send pictures Cause I havent been able to in forever(only through some members and facebook ahaha. Anyway much love everybody!

Elder Chamberlain

Elder Chamberlain and Oscar Gatica

Elder Chamberlain with Oscar and Jackie

The entire barrio (ward) at the Halloween Party

Carnitas (Argentine sausage)

Hermanas in our District

Jackie Gatica and our barrio for dinner