8/25/2014 Just Another Switcheroo

This has been the strangest transfer of my mission. So, Sister Andersen went home to Smithfield on Saturday. She might stop at home on my birthday, but who really knows. :) President called and said that Sister Stradling would be Sister Whitten's companion in place of Sister Andersen, and that leaves just me with Sister Quintero. 

     I have to tell you some people that we are teaching!  Patty and Ariana are wonderful.  They came to church last week searching.  We had a lesson with them, and they really like our church.  They came again this week, and Ariana is already really involved with all of the youth activities.  The ward is really picking them up and loving them.  That makes our hearts as missionaries so grateful and relieved. They are really prepared, so pray that they keep progressing!

   I also went on an exchange on Saturday to another area and it was a blast! There are always so many miracles on exchanges. We only had about 15 minutes left in the day, but we stopped by a potential investigator's house. We had run out of Restoration pamphlets, but it was okay.  We talked a little bit about faith, then asked him to be baptized.  I really admire the boldness of the Sister that I got to work with.  She is so positive and shows each person that the gospel is exactly what they need. 

    On Sunday we stopped by all of the youth classes and asked them to help us mark book of Mormons or give it to their friend. 

   This is a 5 week transfer so I should know about transfers next week. :)

love,

Hermana Campbell

8/24/2014

Me and sister Byan, my mini missionary

Back row:  Me, sister Stradling, Elder Stirling (district leader), Elder Weeks, Elders Lee & Knighton (zone leaders)

Front row:  Sister Whitten, Daniela, Sister Andersen, Skyler, Sister Byun, Sister Quintero, Sister Maluenda

My new companionship!

Sister Quintero is from Spanish Fork, Ut. Both her parents are from Mexico.

In the back is a map of our area & lists of members.  We are standing in front of my

desk.  Our study stuff is downstairs in the living room.  The mattress on the right is our couch.

We sleep upstairs.

8/18/2014 Sister Quintero's first 2 weeks

Sometimes it takes more that one mistake to learn the same thing. I have an orange camelback that I take proselyting and it is getting pretty worn out.  The side pockets, even after being sewn sometimes let my pens and pencils fall through. One of my blue pens poked out just enough to where it drew, but I couldn't feel it.  By the end of the day, I had a blue swirly design as big as a large grapefruit on the back of my white cardigan. That was sad, but a normal person would probably learn from this experience and check to make sure the pen wasn't still there.  However, me being the Sister Campbell I am, I just wore the backpack with the pen the next day, and again received a large blue swirly cloud on the back of my skirt.  This week I decided to learn about how to use Clorox bleach. :)

      I feel so bad for my poor Sister Quintero who has had the first two craziest weeks a mission could give her. The mini missionaries left.  Sister Byun actually emailed me today telling me about how she is applying what she learned as she gets ready for school, and asking us to pray as she gives her marked book of Mormon away to her friend this week. She is so awesome. So as the mini missionaries left, 5 Sister Training Leaders came and stayed with us for the 3 day training. Each evening they came and worked with us from 5-9.  There were a lot of miracles. 3 day training was incredible.  I feel like the thing I got the most out it was learning about repentance.

      Miracle of the week: 2 extra people came to church who want to learn the gospel who live in our area! We will teach them tonight.

love,

Hermana Campbell

8/11/2014 9 Sisters in the House!

I know sometimes I say regularly that this was the craziest week of my mission, but this time, I'm serious.  This week was the craziest.  We received news Sunday night that on Monday we would receive mini missionaries.  That is when youth from the stake next to us come be missionaries with us for a week, they are with us from 7:15 to 9:30 at night, and they stay at a member's home at night. Guess who we got?  The president's daughter, Sister Maluenda. ha. It was super funny to joke about during the week.  She ended up being companion's with Sister Stradling and I got to be companions with Sister Byan, she is from South Korea, and she's been here for only a few years.  She is the kindest person I have ever met in my life.  Sister Byan and Sister Maluenda have been on mini-missions before, so they kind of knew how to act, and I honestly believe we got the best mini missionaries out of all the youth.  They were so awesome and wanted to do everything they could to learn and be the best missionaries they could be. Then, Monday, I received a call from the Assistants to the President that I would be training a new greenie in a few hours. So we went from 4 missionaries in the apartment to 4 mini missionaries, two greenies, a dead missionary, and me and Sister Stradling. So now I'm in a trio with Sister Stradling and Sister Quintero.  Sister Quintero is awesome!  She doesn't really act like a greenie, in fact, I think she was more sane than I was this week.  I feel really bad for her because I didn't really have a chance to welcome her in, but rather threw her on a bike for the first time all day in Texas 109 weather until she threw up. Wow, what a great trainer she has! It was crazy. But we had some incredible lessons.  We brought two members to the church with an investigator.  When Sister Quintero shared her testimony, relating to the investigator that having faith to do what is right is hard, and having the faith to come out on a mission, the spirit touched everyone in the lesson.  By some miracle two investigators came to church this week.  And for some reason still unknown to me, I got a call going to 3 day leadership training this next week. Life is still great, and I'm learning how take what comes and love it. :)

Love,

Hermana Campbell