10/27/2014 Liz's Baptism!

Liz got baptized this week!  She did so good preparing herself by quitting smoking.  Her family is soooooooo funny.  She has the craziest little girls that we are going to start to teach.  We found liz the saturday before general conference, and she is the one who brought her whole less active family to church.  That same week the elders visited that less active family, and her step-brother, Garrett wanted to get baptized too.  So it ended up that without knowing or planning it, the step-siblings got baptized in the same service, so the whole family was there! It was a really cool miracle for their mom. 

    

I have some sad news too: we had to stop teaching the Padilla family.  They just aren't quite ready to commit to the gospel yet. They mean so much to me so that was really hard to accept, but I trust that God will help them finish what they started. 

We were teaching so many investigators last week, so it was a little stressful having full responsibility teaching a new companion everything about the area, and making sure were weren't leaving anyone behind or forgetting anything. My companion wants to help, but it is hard for her since she is brand new in the area and we are still learning how to work the very best together.   

 Love,

Sister Campbell

Padilla family

Liz's family

 Liz's baptism

10/27/2014

knee highs were meant for “flour” snowball fight

Zone leaders

District picture- Oh dear!

10/21/2014 Transfers

My companion is getting transferred, we don't know where yet, so I will be getting a new companion tomorrow!  I'm a little nervous to be taking care of more responsibilities in a fairly new area.  And we get to find out if my area is getting split today.  Crazy!

    Robert Lopez and Adan Guerrero received the Holy Ghost this Sunday!  It was so wonderful.  Robert is already going to seminary and out to lessons, and is going to get the priesthood and still really wants to go on a mission. We started teaching his mom sunday too, and the only doubt about the church she has is if she has to send her son away on a mission for a long time and not be able to see or talk to him. I just want her to talk to my mom to give her support when she finds out the church is true. That family is so wonderful.

  This week I had one of the best moments on the mission.  We hadn't seen the Padillas in a few days and finally got the chance to talk to Elias, their father. I wish I could explain what happened, but he shared his heart with us and we cried with him.  I truly felt great love and respect.

10/13/2014 Adan Got Baptized!

I don't think I've told you very much about Adan!  Wow. So a recently baptized family just had their little boy turn 8 years old.  It was such a joy to see how happy he and his family was.  Hopefully we will be able to help the parents be baptized soon! 

The Padilla family!  Oh my goodness what a week!  They've been progressing, but it has been a rough week.  We did everything we could to help them reach their goal of being baptized this week, but they just weren't quite ready yet. They are reading and loving the Book of Mormon. They still have some things they need to change and commandments they need to learn. Keep praying for them.

We are teaching Liz and Richard.  Funny story with them: They had a church tour this past week at like 8:00 at night. It was pretty dark, so when they entered the church it was a really spooky.  All the class rooms were dark, only a few hall lights lit.  There was faint piano music playing, then as soon as they opened the chapel door, they heard light singing.  Richard freaked out, and warned Liz not to GO TOWARDS the music. and they turned and were headed out, fortuantely we caught them and ended up having a really spiritual church tour. :) They are so cool.  They are really looking forward to being clean from sin and feeling more peace in their lives. 

We took Robert to a lesson with us, (our recent convert) and he bore his testimony in a contact.  Then after we left he had the missionary fire and went and talked to some random people fishing all by himself about the gospel.  They spoke spanish so it was pretty tough for him, but we were pleasantly shocked when he told us. He really wants to go on a mission. 

So I'm doing really well.  Sister Wonnacott bikes like Karen and Kathi's energy combined, so my legs are dead. And we found out that our area doesn't really have a northern boundary, so we explored some members homes waaaay north and found out that our area touches the beach!  I got to go on a couple of exchanges with some great sisters and I really hope that they got something out of it. I am reading Jesus the Christ and loving it. How did family history go this week?  Happy birthday Tegan and Teyah!  

Love,

Hermana Campbell

P.S. we got to see the movie meet the mormons this week. Is it showing in all over Utah.  They are showing it in McAllen this week.

10/6/2014 General Conference

What a wonderful week with General Conference! There are so many talks that I enjoyed and that blew my mind.  Recently we got trained on doing family history, then with the talk on family history that was given I have just been lit on fire, and I want so bad to have the opportunity to do it but I can't.  But you family at home can! I know it seems like our whole line is filled but it occurred to me recently, and just like Katie has found out that we still have so much real family history work to do and names to find!  We need to start finding our cousins! I want to invite my family to spend a little time each day to pick a line and start working on it to find our relatives.  I promise that sacrifice will be worth it.  I also promise that the peace that the general authority promised and the joy of having found our very own name will fill our home.  I know there are more members of OUR family who are waiting for us.

    I was worried about having not very much time to work in our area last week because we went to McAllen for a few days for a mission leadership conference, then general conference. But by help of God, we helped bring 15 less actives and investigators to conference. Even though less than half were from our area, I know that the Lord used us to provide a way to bless these people's lives, and it was a huge humbling moment for me to see God answer my prayers.

Love,

Hermana Campbell

Sister Perez made me a birthday cake

1st zone lunch with sisters in our apartment. Sister Barton (blond), Sister Perez (convert of 1 yr., me, and comp Wonnacott.

Our beloved office missionaries Elder & sister Neil & Sister Wonnacott my companion

The Salmond family in area Mission East

San Benito country Rio Hono. this is what a lot of my area looks like

part of our area

The rain is relieving my attacked mosquito eaten leg!

All the sisters I serve