Roll Plays

Two times a week we have roll plays.  

During this roll play we played a game where the missionary 

has to find the doubt as fast as they can asking inspired questions.  

There are 3 companionships in my district.  

When you have found the doubt, you get to start shooting the other 

companionships with nerf darts!

These are all the sisters we serve.  They are wonderful and I love them.

Baptisms!

Gabriela’s baptism.  Peter, her boyfriend baptized her.

Me, Sister Sarmiento, Ashley, Liz (recent convert) Emily (4 years), Kenneth

 Ashley Prather’s baptism.  She is 9 and crazier than I was!

She is Kenneth Prather’s daughter and step mom- Liz Canto

Extras

“Robert is THRILLED with his new scriptures.  The next lesson we had was all about how to use them effectively.  He was showing all the missionaries at church.  He’s very grateful and excited to go on a mission

“We used banana boxes to build human presents for all 18 members of our zone.  We used them in our skit at zone conference.  We sang this song to the First Noel.

“La tercera navidad elder Embley pocos’ con humildes peritas el gospel predico’.  No olvidemos que paso’ cuando E. Pyrah choco’ labre Elder Munocito en la casa se quedo’.

Harli….Harli….Harli…. Harlingen

Hoy cantaremos porque boutizaremos!!

Part of our skit for the Harlingen Zone

Ward Clerk brings his pet iguana to every church party

This is my cute companion sister Sandra Sarmiento 

12/29/2014 Christmas Week

For the first time for Christmas, I wasn't sick! I think this is the first year of my whole life! However, my companion was :(  We visited the doctor last Monday and he told us to stay inside and rest for a week, and it was very difficult, but we have done the best we could to stay inside and rest for the week. It has been really hard on Sister Sarmiento.  She keeps up a great attitude, but can't stop doing things. She is having trouble letting her body really rest.   Even though we had to stay home, we did the best we could having lessons over the phone with investigators and such.  A few weeks ago I couldn't get out of my mind the name of a less active family: de la Garza. Finally, I realized it was the spirit, and we contacted them and set up an appointment. That appointment we met Zack, who is the grandson who wants to get baptized. His mom is a returning member as well as his sister. It was such a miracle when their family came to church.  You could see the change in Zack's mom.  The Lord had shown her it was time to come back, and their family is so excited for Zack's baptism. It was a testament to me and to the de la Garza family that the Lord is guiding His work and through the direction of the Holy Spirit we can be instruments in His hands to accomplish it. 

   On the other hand I had an experience when I didn't follow the spirit. Since it had been a long time since we worked in our area, we decided to set up a member split, so Sister Sarmiento would stay at a member's home while I worked with another member in our area. We were having trouble finding members to come work with us, and 2 hours before I felt a lot of peace in the idea of just staying home with Sister Sarmiento.  It ended up that the split was a big mess and it would've been better health wise to have Sister Sarmiento stay home with me.  I realized that I hadn't followed the spirit and had received the consequences.

     I've learned a lot this week and am so grateful to be here. I love you and take care!

Love,

Sister Campbell

Christmas in mission 2014

Skyping at Goodmans’

 Worst white elephant ever- squid

12/15/2014 White Week

This week was wonderful! Sister Sarmiento and I have been praying to find a couple who needs to get married before getting baptized, and we feel like Gabriela and Peter are that couple.  They just got baptized, and then are going to get married. Gabriela is feasting on the gospel right now.  We taught her in only a week and a half, but she was very ready to get baptized. Peter, her boyfriend got baptized 3 weeks ago, got the priesthood this week and baptized her! He was more nervous that she was!  We had great support from the branch too.  That branch is on fire right now, and it is a blast to work in.

Also, Ashley Prather got baptized! That is Liz's (recent convert) 9 year old daughter. She is a wild one, but she has learned a lot since we have started to teach her.  Her little sister Emily (4) is super cute and also super wild.  It is a blast teaching that family. 

Also, this week we sang O Holy Night (Norma Dupree's version) for the Treasure Hills branch Christmas party, and it was a joy to sing it!  Elder Davis our district leader is an incredible piano player.  I feel the spirit so strong when I sing that song. 

   

Have a wonderful week, and I love you!

Love,

Hermana Campbell

P.S. Campana in Spanish means bells.  cool huh?

I forgot to thank you for the best part! Robert's scriptures and your testimonies!!!!! I'm sure he will love it. We will give them to him this week.  Those testimonies will be a real boost to him, and he will be super grateful.  Thank you sooooooo much!

12/8/14 New Transfer!

My new companion is Sister Sarmiento Wolff.  She is from Santiago, Chile (yes she knew Presidente Maluenda before the mission and lived 30 minutes away from him).  This is her first transfer as an STL and she has almost a year in the mission. I love her so much!  She is so funny.  She is still learning English, so she asks me all the time what things mean.  I just speak spanish to her all the time and she speaks english to me all the time, and our roll plays go the same way. She is teaching me how to be more efficient, but never judges and is super humble. It is so funny when she speaks spanish in an American greenie accent!  I catch myself all of the time speaking English in a Spanish accent around her because that is the way she speaks. . . oh man and then I realize how funny it must sound to see a werita (white person) speaking English in a spanish accent. She has so many great ideas and is ready to implement them too. We have had a fun first week together. We have been seeing a lot of miracles this week too. Here is one of them:

     Gabriella is the girlfriend of a recent convert that has come to church twice. She wants to be baptized this coming week. She has a sister named April that I have met contacting before. We were expecting them at church, but when Gabriella didn't show up with her boyfriend we asked where she was, and found out that he didn't pick her up. So we took the sacrament, and then left church to find a way to get Gabriella and her sister to church.  Before we left we asked a member if she could leave to after sacrament meeting to come and pick her up.  Thank goodness for awesome members! We found her brother at home, who woke Gabriella and April up for us, then called the member to come. They both had to bring children, but only had one car seat. So we set out in search for a car seat! We asked some members in the neighborhood, then just started contacting and receiving referrals to find a car seat from anyone that we could find. Without success, we headed back to show the member where they lived. The member came with us to the door and bore her testimony convincing April and Gabriella to come to church anyways for the last hour and a half. So they came! 

    I am supposed to play the piano for the primary program the the Spanish ward next week and I am soooo nervous! Good thing i have a nice companion who is willing to get up an hour early with me to go to the church to practice.  Pray for me okay? I re-read my setting apart blessing not too long ago and it said that my talents would flourish on my mission, so I guess this is where I have to do my part to make that happen. 

  Have a wonderful week! 

Love,

Sister Campbell

12/1/2014 Thanksgiving

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  We went to 5 dinners all in a row, the whole day, with no time to digest.  It was so painful, and I felt so bad for not being able to eat all of the food that was offered to me. Remind me to NEVER do that again!  The Lord did take care of us that day. 

So I have transfer news! Sister Vazquez is leaving, and I am staying here!  I'm so happy I get to stay! I love this area so much and the San Benito branch is really growing. She has no idea where she is going and I have no idea who my new companion will be.  Also, Sister Perez, (sister P-money (because she raps all the time in the car with us, hehe) is leaving which is super sad. I will find out later today who my new companion will be. 

The other sisters love to scare each other all the time, just hiding behind doors and such.  so sister Vazquez and I got a wonderful idea to scare them both at the same time!  So we came up with a plan to come hope a little bit early, park the car on the other side of the apartments so they couldn't see we were home.  Then we scotch taped the lights by the door down so they had to walk all the way across the room to turn on the other set of lights, in which we were going to make creepy noises like a door shutting and bike gears turning, then when they went to turn on the lights to jump out and scare them! Well, the best part of our plan failed because they came home early to finish up some studies, so all they found was the lights that were taped off. Well, that was enough for them.  They immediately thought the house was being robbed, so they booked it outside down the stairs to the middle of the parkinglot with hearts racing. Then they called us and asked if we had taped the lights, and sister Vazquez played it out for a little while as we were bursting out laughing at a member's home. 

Once the other sisters found out they got a good kick out of it too.

So to get us back they called our district leader to call us and tell us they messed up transfers and that I was leaving.  We believed them for a while until I saw sister Perez's face. That was a good one! Well, I have got to go now, but I love you and take care!

Love,

Sister Campbell