tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32545671276894269142024-03-05T02:13:00.688-08:00Andrew Campbell's BlogI'm Andrew Campbell. Follow me on my mission to Fort Collins Colorado and the surrounding areas.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-52384643200117185912016-11-14T17:53:00.003-08:002016-11-14T17:53:51.987-08:00"I have a serious hankering for In-n-Out.<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Final email from the mission field!!!!!!)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Yes, I will talk. <i>(Meaning...talk in church on Nov. 27th. I asked him last week and he totally ignored me.) </i>I want to talk about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Sorry, I forgot to respond to that question last week. I have a </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">serious hankering for In-n-Out. <i>(Guess that's where we'll be headed after the airport. Hope that's okay Olivia and Rachel.) </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We had several less-actives we've been </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">working with come to church last week and we had three investigators </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in the primary program. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I am in Scottsbluff right now, heading to the mission office soon. I had to send a package of extra stuff. By the way, Elder Campbell is training a new missionary. One of only eight missionaries this transfer! I am so proud of him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">See you soon!</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-46585468156348842242016-11-07T17:24:00.000-08:002016-11-07T21:08:48.809-08:00Endure to the End!<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Here it is....only one more email to go--I think--unless he can't next week due to transfers. This one is short but sweet.)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Well, I can't believe I have made it this far. But, here I am. I </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">have pondered a lot on why missionaries would give up or take it easy </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">at this point. To be honest, it is really quite easy to do so. No one </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">would blame me. But, I have pondered a lot about the covenants I have </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">made, and my desire to be a disciple after my mission, and I know that </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">if I were to give up now I would be failing in my discipleship and I</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">don't believe I would be a disciple after my mission. So, I will </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">endure to the end.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I don't think I will send a bike home. Sounds like a hassle. <i>(After much emailing back and forth we decided he'll leave the bike with someone there and we can pick it up when we take a road trip to his mission. It's a nice bike! It's the first bike we'll actually get after a mission. BJ had one stolen and one demolished in a bad accident. Peter's was too beat up at the end to ship home. This one was FREE and a GOOD one! I want it!!) </i>I </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">believe I won't have to ship anything else. I will see if a small </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">package needs to be sent. We will see! I love you so much and I will</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> This week was eventful and non-eventful simultaneously. I got </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bronchitis! So, I spent most of the week coughing very hard. I am </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">taking antibiotics and steroids right now. <i>(And he said in a later email that he was feeling much better. YAY!) </i>Also, Elder Christianson </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">went to the ER. He's all better now. <i>(He told me it was a really bad stomach flu and then he had a reaction to a Chinese flu....I think he meant, Chinese FOOD!) Made me giggle!) </i>So, this was a very </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">medical-centric week. <i>(Not my favorite thing to hear!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Elder Campbell REALLY liked the Twix. I have a picture of him </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">looking intensely for more Twix after he ate them all. <i>(I found ghost-shaped Twix on Amazon, so I sent him those.) </i>Our ward had a trunk </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">or treat and we did a trunk. A sister in the ward donated cheese </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">balls for us to hand out and we threw a bunch of pass-along cards on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">them for decorations.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> We are having a district p-day today, and we are going up </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Scottsbluff. We are going to have some fun outdoor adventures... We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">just got back. It was a lot of fun. It turns out the wagon ruts are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really big! Like mini canyons. I thought there were going to be marks </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in the rocks, but they were a lot bigger. <i>(I will attach a few he sent.)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> We had some awesome spiritual experiences this week. Our three </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">girls are progressing really well, and we have had several </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">less-active's progress. The spirit has been upon us in incredible </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">abundance and we love it. Sister Nash, an investigator we taught when </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we were in the Scottsbluff Ward got baptized this weekend. She didn't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">want a baptism picture, but we got a picture before the confirmation. <i>(Glad things are going well for the end of his mission and that he continues to work hard.)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I have got to go. We have to be in early for Halloween. If anyone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wants to talk to me in person...that time is coming shortly. <i>(I know....15 days!!!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-40187092106800808092016-10-24T18:16:00.001-07:002016-10-24T18:16:18.363-07:00Finally A Chimney Rock Picture!!!<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Only three more emails!!)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I once again am at a loss as to what to write to you about this </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">week. We had stake conference this week. They actually hold two </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">meetings; one in Cheyenne and one in Scottsbluff. It is harder having </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the two population centers of your stake separated by 100 miles. I </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">really love the stake leadership. Stake President Thaddeus Brown is </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">incredible. <i>(I like his name!) </i> I would like to be like him one day. He is fully confident </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">without being overbearing, he loves and leads with clarity, and he has </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">incredible hair. <i>(HA!)</i></span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> We also did some proselyting in Bayard, a small town in our area. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Campbell has endearingly named it Sketchtown, USA. I seriously </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">get such a weary feeling when I am in there. It feels like a dream. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The town seriously needs the gospel. On the bright side, Chimney Rock </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">is located nearby, so we got some pictures! I will send one your way! <i>(And I will attach it.) </i></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We also found some dogs that followed us. It is always a pleasure to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">have a friend when you're out knocking doors. <i>(Guess there aren't as many cats in Nebraska.)</i></span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Last week our mission had an emphasis on studying Preach My Gospel </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Chapter 1. My favorite quote from it is this statement, "Enjoying the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">gifts of the Spirit should be one of your most earnest desires." The </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">gifts from our Heavenly Father are so great! Why aren't we seeking </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">them constantly?</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Also, I had an exchange with Elder Gardiner serving in Alliance. We </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">went up to make a contact in the Wildcat Hills near Gering. We got an </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">excellent picture. <i>(I will attach it also.) </i>I am grateful for the chance to serve with Elder </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Gardiner and the progress he has made in our time here.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Elder Campbell and I have been studying the Safeguards for Using </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Technology manual. I have appreciated it because he has been making me </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">make plans for how I will use them upon my return home. I have seen </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">that they are about so much more than staying away from wasteful </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">activities on a computer, it is about making every act a deliberate, </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">useful act in your life. I am excited for how I can apply them. I am </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">getting really weird. <i>(Getting weird? Hmmm, I might beg to differ!) </i>I have committed to perform nightly planning </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">sessions to make my days more effective. I can't believe myself, but I </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">am excited for what I have learned and what I can apply. I hope you </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">have an excellent week.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Andrew Campbell</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-87269329118749836622016-10-17T17:39:00.001-07:002016-10-17T17:39:18.544-07:00The "INCREDIBLES!"<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Only four more emails....I think I'M the one getting trunky!!)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> The Lord has been working a great work upon me this week. I have </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">been blessed with a great gift of faith. The greatest gifts come from </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">God, and I have been blessed with great peace of mind. It has come </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">with a greater desire to repent and give my all to the Lord. I love my </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Savior Jesus Christ so much for what he has done for me.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> <i>(INCREDIBLE or some variation seems to be the word of the day!) </i>We did have the temple dedication and it was incredible. There was </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a great outpouring of the spirit. I pray that this area will be </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">blessed with great spiritual power because of this temple. Afterward, </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">we met up with the Scottsbluff elders in the parking lot and discussed </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">what the spirit taught us during the dedication. It was great to feel </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">so unified with them. I especially appreciated that the dedicatory </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">prayer included stating that we were rededicating ourselves to the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Lord.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I did use the handkerchief you sent me. All the missionaries got </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">free ones, but mine was extra special. <i>(You use a white handkerchief as part of the dedication ceremony. For his birthday I sent one with the Fort Collins Temple embroidered on it along with Elder Andrew Campbell and the date of the dedication.) </i>We also got recommends signed </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">by President McMurray. And, we got to choose our session. We went to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the </span><span class="m_9180599882664623244gmail-aBn" style="font-size: 12.8px;">noon</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> one!</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Cheyenne is about 100 miles away, so going there is always a </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">journey. The exchanges were great. I went with Elder Bush, my new zone </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">leader, and a stellar fellow. <i>(Wow, that's a great thing to be...a stellar fellow!) </i>We got to work in the Prarie View Ward, </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the extra ward that the zone leaders picked up in addition to their </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">current ward. It was incredible! Just in the day I spent there, we got </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">several referrals and incredible member support. We even had a member </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">present a lesson that was planned an hour in advance (I don't recommend </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">doing it normally) that went fantastically.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Then, we had zone meeting and interviews. During zone meeting I got </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">to near my departing testimony. I am so grateful for the testimony I </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">have developed on my mission. It didn't come the way I thought it </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">would, but it came from Jesus Christ. Then, I had my departing </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">interview. President McMurray gave me some basic advice. He told me to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">always pray, read my scriptures every day, always go to church, always </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">do my home teaching and magnify my calling, and when I get to BYU to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">attend the temple weekly.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> The MyPlan system has been going for a few transfers now. I really </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">like it. I do need to go soon, so I will marathon answer your </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">questions. I did get the postcard and appreciated it. I would gladly </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">clean Grandma's gutters, but I wouldn't be comfortable doing it alone. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I just lack the confidence in my skills. I am going to work on getting </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a picture of Chimney Rock for Dad. I appreciate his letter and will </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">work until the end. I love you all so much.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love again,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-760160559703565022016-10-10T15:36:00.001-07:002016-10-10T15:36:45.464-07:00Mormon Trail Memorial<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> The past 25 hours or so have been the most productive for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionary work here in the Chimney Rock Ward of all time! It all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">started when my friend Terrence walked into church because he had </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">heard good things about it and wanted to find out. Brother Baird </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">talked to him when he walked in and took him to Gospel Principles. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">had the chance to teach him the first lesson there and he agreed to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">read and pray over the Book of Mormon. We should be meeting with him </span><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aBn" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aQJ">tomorrow</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">! <i>(Awesome sauce!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Simultaneously, we just helped a family in the ward move into their </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">new apartment and we just got invited back to teach their unbaptized </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">children. That will also take place </span><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aBn" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aQJ">tomorrow</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. Two investigator </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">teaching appointments </span><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aBn" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aQJ">in one day</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> is better than we have ever done </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">here. <i>(They are being blessed for being so good.)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> This week I also began the MyPlan program! It's requiring </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">introspection beyond what I have ever done before. This week I had to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">write about the truths and the attributes the Lord has taught me. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Here's some of what I recorded: "Heavenly Father is the giver of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">most precious of gifts. All we have to do to receive them is ask. In </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">fact, he will give whatsoever we ask for in the name of Jesus Christ." </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">And "A faith and hope in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I have gained a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">firm gratitude for the atonement and the great gift and what man is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">capable of because of it. I love Christ for what he has done for me and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it moves me to action." <i>(Pretty wise words from someone so young. I am grateful he was able to serve a mission and become such a strong young adult. </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> This week I get to go to Cheyenne for exchanges. We will be going </span><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aBn" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aQJ">on Wednesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> night. Exchange for </span><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aBn" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aQJ">Thursday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. Go to Zone Meeting in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Cheyenne </span><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aBn" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aQJ">on Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> as well as receive my departing interview, and get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">back </span><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aBn" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span class="m_309818928624557996gmail-aQJ">on Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> night. Also, we were doing some proselyting in Bayard, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a town in our area that is right by the Chimney Rock. We found a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mormon Trail memorial! I am going to attach some pictures! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I need to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">go but you are the best!</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> It is indeed transfer week. Elder Christianson's new trainer is </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Gould. I honestly know nothing about him. That means it is back </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">to just the Chimney RockWward for Elder Campbell and I. We did enjoy </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Brother McMillon's baptism </span><span class="m_5701064676227848848gmail-aBn" style="font-size: 12.8px;">on Saturday</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">. President McMurray gave us </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">permission to confirm him at the baptismal service, so that took care </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">of that. <i>(Bro. McMillon gave Andrew suspenders as a baptismal gift. I'll attach a picture.)</i></span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> When it comes to social conversion/gospel conversion, I see both </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">sides of the argument. My opinion is that conversion to the gospel is </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the only form of conversion that really matters, but it is not always </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">realistic to expect that conversion to take place without some form of </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">social conversion. This is more than just a cultural coincidence. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Moroni Chapter 6 instructs us on this, as well as Matthew </span><span class="m_5701064676227848848gmail-aBn" style="font-size: 12.8px;">18:20</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">. The </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">ward council should be in charge of the fellowship of this new coming </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">family, but as I have learned well on my mission, relying on a ward </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">council to do anything is an exercise in futility. <i>(Please don't have your feelings hurt if you are presently on a ward council. This is just Elder Campbell sharing his true colors!!)</i></span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> This being the fourth General Conference of my mission, it was the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">first one with an emphasis on missionary work! The last three </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">conferences had great messages, but hardly a mention of missionary </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">work was made. This one had two big talks about sharing the gospel, </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">and references to missionaries and missionary work throughout. We view </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">it as the ammunition needed to move forward with working with members. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I also very much appreciated Elder Meurs talk on the Sacrament. It</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">gave me a lot to think about as to how I will approach partaking of </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the sacrament after my mission. I especially like the suggestion that </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">we use </span><span class="m_5701064676227848848gmail-aBn" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Saturday</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> to prepare to take the sacrament. I need to repent and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">better utilize this gift from Heavenly Father. I am excited to be </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">reading the talks soon, because trying to take it all in in one go is </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">difficult at best. I did like the emphasis on repentance. Before my</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">mission I didn't feel the need to repent because I thought I was </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">walking perfection. My mission has transformed my view of the nature </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">of repentance. Once I faced a couple trials I realized that my state </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">is weak at best. Repentance is one of the greatest gifts we have </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">received. It is the only exercise of our agency that really matters. <i>(What a great life lesson to learn.)</i></span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> So, about the going home preparations. The mission office </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">recommends that you take time to back-up your I-pad before you go </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">home. I will probably move everything to Dropbox soon. I also begin </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the MyPlan program this week. I have to work on making plans on </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">continuing discipleship, schooling, careers, and dating/marriage </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(<img alt="😱" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f631" goomoji="1f631" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f631" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="😱" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f631" goomoji="1f631" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f631" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="😱" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f631" goomoji="1f631" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f631" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="😱" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f631" goomoji="1f631" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f631" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" />). As difficult as being a missionary is. Real adulthood </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">seems scarier.<i>(Oh, it is, my son, it is!!) </i>Pray for me to have the spirit with me as I make these </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">plans.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>(Attached are the following pictures: Andrew's baptism suspenders from his new convert, he and his companions in an empty Chinese restaurant--he commented about their lack of coordinating their faces---and looks like a Papa Murphy pizza. Oh, yeah!!)</i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-31334075180949406092016-09-26T17:00:00.004-07:002016-09-26T17:00:41.605-07:00He's Coming Home!!!! Nope....He's Not!!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I am sorry for the false excitement there. I believe the ticket </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ordering is an automated system and they accidentally entered me in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">too early.<i>(Words do not describe the emotional rollercoaster ride I went on. I received an email from Church Travel that had his entire itinerary coming home on OCTOBER 4th!! I always thought he was coming home in November, so I sent an email to the mission office to confirm this change. They wrote back the next day saying SORRY! Are you kidding??!! My poor heart!!) </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> This week, as I told you earlier, we said goodbye to Elder </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">M. He will be so missed. Elder Christianson has been a great </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">addition to our companionship. Taking over his ward, the Scottsbluff Ward, </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">has been a fun addition to our work as well. This week, as we went to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">teach their investigator Jim. He told us he has decided to be </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">baptized. I just want to comment that Jim is an incredible man and I </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">loved being in his home. He is also hilarious. He has a joke for every </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">situation. We set a baptism date for </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">October 14th</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">. He texted later </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">that night asking if it could be sooner. Jim has been faithfully </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">attending church and keeping commitments, so he will now be baptized </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">this Saturday</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> between sessions of General Conference. I am so happy </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">for him. He is such a good man and I am grateful he is making this</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">decision.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> We also taught their investigator named Carol in the Bishop's home. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">She has previously had serious disagreements with the doctrines, but </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">she has had a significant change of heart, and she too desires to be </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">baptized. That date we set for </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">October 22nd</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">. Yesterday we fasted for </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">her to get </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Sunday's</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> off so she can attend church with us.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> This week I have been madly training Elder Campbell and Elder </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Christianson. We delved into the Plan of Salvation pretty hard, and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">watched way too much of the District. We have been getting down good </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">ways to plainly explain the Atonement, the Spirit World, and the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Kingdoms of Glory. I am so proud of their progress! The Chimney Rock W</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">ard is still struggling with missionary work but there is some cool</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">progress going on. My health which had been steadily progressing took </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a nosedive this week. <i>(NO!!!!) </i>It's really quite distressing and has made it </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">hard to stay on top of things. Please pray for my wellbeing and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">ability to progress this work as it has been given me. <i>(Everyone, please pray for him. He only has 7 weeks left!!)</i></span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Last week was a wild one. For the beginning, there are malevolent </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">forces that are trying to get the zoo shut down, so we came in and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">helped them get ready for the accreditation analysis this week. <i>(I hope they pass!) </i>Then, </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder C. Scott Grow of the Seventy came to do a mission tour on </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Friday. I have had a lot of meetings with general authorities before, </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">but this one was quite near earth-breaking. <i>(Wow, earth-breaking...not sure what that even means!!)</i></span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> The meeting began with Elder Grow having four missionaries come up </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">and give five-minute talks that we had been instructed to prepare. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Campbell was the last one and he did an excellent job. <i>(I wish he'd told us what he spoke about.) </i>Elder </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Grow commented on how great of a missionary he was going to be. Then </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">we had an excellent lunch. <i>(What did they eat? Hmmm....the things I wish he'd tell us.) </i>After lunch, the great rebuking came. It was </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">not a rebuking of "you are all bad missionaries and need to shape up", </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">it was more of "you're all pretty good missionaries but you are doing </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">this completely wrong." What he explained to us, in a nutshell, was </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">that most missionaries focus first on finding new investigators and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">trying to teach them, and preparing them for baptism when they are </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">ready. He said this is contrary to the instructions we receive in </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Preach My Gospel that state, "Prayerfully set goals that are in </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">harmony with the Savior’s command to “teach all nations, baptizing </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Matthew 28:19)." The first key indicator we report on is baptism, and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">it is the least reported key indicator. When we plan with only a week </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in mind, we are setting ourselves up to not teach repentance unto </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">baptism. He presented an alternate plan.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> What we were instructed to do is begin a planning session by </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">prayerfully setting goals for how many people will be baptized in a </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">month. The next week you plan for the week after that, etc. He then </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">shared with us the mission averages for key indicators. One in three </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">investigators with a baptismal date gets baptized and one in five </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">investigators who attend sacrament meeting get baptized. He said </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">following mission statistics, we have the capability of predicting our </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">key indicators based on our baptismal goal. So, if you have a goal of </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">four baptisms and you are an average missionary, it is going to take </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">12 baptismal dates and 20 investigators at sacrament meeting. So, if </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the Lord has revealed to us how many baptisms are going to take place </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in our area, we can know, on average, how much work that will take.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Elder Campbell and I put this into practice the next day and it is </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">frightening. <i>(HA! This boy makes me laugh so much!) </i>We received the goal of 8 baptisms on </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span>October 8th</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">. I will </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">show you our key indicator goals for his week, based on that. I will </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">attach it as a picture. Show it to your missionaries and ask how </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">insane we are.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Finally, Elder Grow interviewed six missionaries at the end of the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">meeting. I was chosen as one of those. At the end, he told me that he </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">had had an interview with my soul as a general authority. He asked me </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">to write this message to my parents, "You have a great son who loves the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Lord. I know that because I stared into his soul and know. You should </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">be proud to have him as a son." <i>(We are extremely proud of our son!!)</i></span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Okay, question answering time. We do get tornados here. We can go to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the church basement if one appears. <i>(So how far away is the church? Just wondering!!) </i> I did read the article about </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">wrestling! I had no idea it was about Colin. He is a hero to me. <i>(In one of our church magazines called The New ra (it's for youth), there's an article about Colin Anderson and his experience as a wrestler and a team captain. It's a great article and Colin is a great young man. He's serving on a mission right now!) </i>The </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Hamiltons are out of town for a week or so. <i>(Nooooo! They are supposed to help me figure out how to pay for the iPad Andrew is using so he can keep it and use it at college.) </i>We do not have a washer or </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">dryer. We go to our old place and do it. <i>(Last week he sent pictures of the yummy steak nachos he had on his birthday. I wondered how much they cost since a missionary's budget is pretty limited.) </i>The owner of the restaurant </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">actually gave us the nachos and cheesecake on the house. I just got </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the email asking which airport I want to fly home to. Is Sacramento </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">what we want? <i>(Yes! When did it say you were flying home??? I want that email??) </i>You are all the best. I will work on pictures!</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><div>
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<i>(I'll attach a picture of his goals. A pretty sunset picture. And a picture of him playing disc golf. I will not attach pictures of people I don't know who are playing disc golf. I might attach the video he sent just because it's so silly and I love hearing his laughter in the background.)</i></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-43271779430105806172016-09-05T17:07:00.001-07:002016-09-05T17:07:33.085-07:00Moved to Gering, NE!!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Hmmm, what happened this week that you would like to hear about. On </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tuesday we had trainer's meeting. We got together and talked about new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ways for us to make our trainees more uncomfortable. Going tracting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and being completely silent and making them do all the talking is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">currently winning out. <i>(Poor guys!!) </i>On the way back we picked up my zone leader, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Coleman, in Cheyenne. We did an exchange! We had a grand old time </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">together. He loved doing service at the zoo! <i>(I want to know what they do for service at the zoo?!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <i>(I indexed marriage records from Bridgeport and Bayard, NE this week. I wondered if they were near him.) </i>Bridgeport and Bayard are both in my proselyting area. I have not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">yet been out to see them but I hear they are nice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> For my </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">birthday...we went tracting! <i>(His birthday was Saturday, the 3rd.) </i>Tracting has really been the name of the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">game out here. Our area book is quite empty and referrals aren't </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">coming. We have a car to get to places. It's a Subaru Legacy.<i>(Nice!) </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> We also went to this place called the Steel Grill for my birthday. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">It is known as the best restaurant in town. We had steak nachos which </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">were excellent. <i>(I'll attach a picture.) </i>Then for dinner we went to Subway because someone gave </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">us a gift card. Something really great about this ward is that there </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">is a culture of the old women in the ward giving the missionaries gift </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">cards. <i>(Hmmm...I sent him a Subway gift card for his birthday. I guess that doesn't count!)</i></span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> This whole transfer is dedicated to finding. Our district set the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">goal of 100 new investigators this transfer. We met this awesome guy </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">who I am sure is going to get baptized. Once we told him about the Book </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">of Mormon he wanted to know if he could come to a church that taught </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">from it.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I have a lot of pictures to send and I will send an email about school.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Elder Andrew Campbell</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>(He didn't send any explanations of the pictures, so I am guessing on some of them.)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>1. Moving day? He said he was moving to a new apartment. I think it is in Gering. He should LOVE this apartment because the furniture in the truck he is sitting on is EXACTLY our couch we have here at home. What a hoot!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>2. Elder Campbell and a cat.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>3. Elder Campbell and another cat.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>4. Elder Campbell and the steak nachos he mentioned.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>5. Elder Campbell with the CD he got for his birthday. Sis. Dorothy Thompson recommended it...looks like he loves it!</i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-38562582905748872952016-08-29T18:04:00.006-07:002016-08-29T18:04:55.973-07:00Elder Campbell and Elder Campbell in Scottsbluff, NE!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <i>(A friend wanted to send him a birthday card since his birthday is Saturday...luckily he did send me a temporary address!!) </i> I do wish I could tell you my new mailing address, but we are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">getting a new apartment this week, but I do not know its address. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">will try to work something out to tell you.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Now, it is time for the big news. My new companion is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">named....Elder Campbell! <i>(That did make me LOL!!) </i>Yes, it is not a joke. He is from Las Vegas. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">His full name is Konrad Joseph Campbell. <i>(Our missionary is Andrew Joseph Campbell...so they have a lot in common!) </i>He comes from a part-member </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">family and he was the only active member of his family for most of his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">life. He said his favorite candy bar is Twix and his favorite snack is Goldfish</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. He is into engineering and golf. I asked if he liked disc </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">golf and he said it is all right, but it's just not golf. He is so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">green; it is awesome. I have been feeling a bit of that fire as well. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Being with him is quite enjoyable. <i>(I am so glad to hear this since they will be together for 12 weeks!!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Everyone told me that Nebraska was going to be flat as all get out. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">That, however, is just not true. We have a bunch of bluffs to the south </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and the Wildcat Hills, which are essentially a pine forest. It is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">honestly more pleasant scenery than Laramie. It is honestly kind of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hot. It has been pushing ninety. The whole area reminds me of Lodi. It </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is more humid than the rest of the mission and it is very green and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">full of agriculture...with a sub-urban cityscape similar to Lodi. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">There is a giant regional hospital here that is the main employer and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there is a sugar company undergoing major expansion. There is also a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ton of corn farms. <i>(Sounds pretty.)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> So, my district consists of Elder Midgley and Elder Christianson who </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">serve in the Scottsbluff Ward. Elder Midgley is from Leeds, England, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and Elder Christianson is from Pasa Robles, California. Elder Gardiner </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and Elder Borges serve in the Alliance Branch. Elder Gardiner is from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Alberta, near Cardston, and Elder Borges is from somewhere in Brazil. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Sister missionaries serving in Sidney said where they are from but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I do not remember. I think Sister Kaupert is from San Jose. Then, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">serving in Torrington, Wyoming, are the Winders. They are a senior couple</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">from Blackfoot, Idaho.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> We live with the Scottsbluff elders in their apartment while we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wait for our apartment to close. They are a lot of fun to live with. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">like it a lot! There is a Wal-mart just two blocks away and we have a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">washer and dryer in our apartment <i>(Nice!)</i>. My ward actually covers the city of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Gering and Terrytown and a whole bunch of outlying areas. We actually </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">have two additional counties, Banner County and Morrill County. <i>(That's a lot of area!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Our ward is a bit on the smaller side. We are working on doing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">what we can to strengthen it. I honestly have no idea what the size of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the nursery is.<i> (Hey, I was just wondering!) </i> We have a golden investigator named A. We have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">been doing a lot of tracting because we need new investigators and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">referrals are not coming and we have an empty area book. Our zone has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a goal of finding 300 new investigators and I have been trying to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">inspire </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the district to find as hard as they can. <i>(That's a mighty lofty goal!) </i>Also, there is a zoo </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">here and we do service there. <i>(That sounds very fun!) </i> I need to go but I love you all.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>(He sent two cat pictures. One is of a BIG cat and the other is of a normal-sized cat.) </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>(The new missionaries with Elder Midgley's flag. Elder Campbell on the left.)</i></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-8557713943702899692016-08-22T17:40:00.000-07:002016-08-22T17:40:14.319-07:00Heading to the Chimney Rock Ward in Scottsbluff, Nebraska!!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <i>(He's getting transferred!!) </i>Well, here are the details! I am leaving Laramie! I have been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">assigned to be a trainer and a district leader and I will be serving </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in the Chimney Rock Ward of Scottsbluff, Nebraska. <i>(I am so excited. Now we can visit three states next summer on our road trip visiting his mission!) </i>So much for being</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">done with leadership. President McMurray said that when I see him to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">pick up my new missionary, he will give me the interviews for the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">temple and BYU. I'm excited for my new district as well. Also serving </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in Scottsbluff will be an elder from England and he is training a new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionary, too. We'll also have a senior couple serving in my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">district! I believe Fort Laramie is in the Torrington Ward where they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">serve, so I may be able to fulfill Dad's request and go see it. <i>(But now Brian says he has LOTS more requests for him. HA!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> The G's seemed to really like the Fort Collins Temple Open House. Brother G said he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">hopes he can be sealed to his wife there next year. We'll see how she </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">feels about that. My companion's investigator in their ward committed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to be baptized on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">September 17th</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, so that's exciting!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> My ward is going to be covered by Elder W and a new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">missionary, and he will be covering the Overland Trail Ward right next </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to us.<i>(I love the names of these wards...so pioneery!) </i> I feel good about it, because Elder W had two trainers </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">who both were assistants to the president, and I hear he is pretty </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">good as well. Our mission has 31 new missionaries coming in this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">transfer <i>(WOW!)</i>, a little less than half of the mission is going to train. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">am really excited for my district, which will have four missionaries </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in training. It includes Scottsbluff, Sidney, Alliance, and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Torrington, Wyoming.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Some elders on their departing temple trip brought down my birthday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">box.<i>(Yay!)</i> I opened it and ate a few things, but the wrapped gifts are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">waiting for my birthday. <i>(Sept. 3...my baby will be 21!) </i>Thank you so much for the awesome stuff!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Also, we saw S again this week and went to the dump to unload </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">stuff with him. He talked about his interest in dream psychology and i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ts spiritual aspects. I told him that First Nephi is about dreams and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">then he got really excited. I think he is really going to read it now!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> All right, I'm going to work on getting you some good pictures. Thank </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">you for all you do!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">He attached a lot of pictures. There is even a very silly video. I will see if I can attach them all or if I'll have to send some in another email. .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1. Maybe the G family?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2. Half of the zone.</span><div>
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">3. Elder L, going home this transfer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">4. K, his companion, when he didn't have any companions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">5. Elder J...backing like a champ. He left for Australia today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">6. A silly video of Elder J talking to cows.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-31819879566528383382016-08-15T17:50:00.000-07:002016-08-15T17:50:32.729-07:00Going to Visit the Fort Collins Colorado Temple!!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <i>(I heard that Elder Campbell's companion was heading home early, so I wasn't sure where he was going to be moved and who he would be with. Here's the answers.....) </i> As a matter of fact, I am in Laramie. I don't have much time to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">email you though because I am going to the temple today. That's right, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">they gave the missionaries a chance to go! We get to go as long as we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">bring an investigator, and the Gs are coming! <i>(I am so excited for him!! This is the brand new Fort Collins, CO Temple!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I am now in a trio in the Snowy Range ward. We cover West Laramie </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">which is kind of the old, run-down part of town. The area has </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">approximately two paved roads. It's a change coming from Ridgeview, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">otherwise known as "Richview". We are covering both areas right now. <i>(That should keep him busy!!) </i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">My companions are Elder Underwood and Elder Jeong. Elder Jeong was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">born in Korea and lived in Toronto, Canada and is a visa waiter for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the Sydney, Australia North Mission. He just got his visa and he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">leaves </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">next Monday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. Elder Underwood is his trainer. Elder Underwood is from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Southern Illinois and joined the church in high school. He has a fiery </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">desire to be a missionary that is fun to be with. He actually lived in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Heritage Halls Building 30 during the Summer of 2013. He said he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">remembers seeing me there. You can send my package to the same </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">address, I get to check that box every few days. <i>(His birthday is September 3, but I'm nervous about sending a package where he doesn't live anymore. I'm trying to figure out when transfers are. I might just have to be brave and send it.)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <i>(He needs a new temple recommend and an ecclesiastical endorsement to get back into BYU.) </i>President McMurray simultaneously answered my question and gave me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a transfer hint. He said he could give me the interviews when I see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him on transfer day. That means I should be headed to the mission </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">office for that. <i>(Maybe I will send his birthday box to the mission office!!) </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Sister G is still progressing well and coming </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">to the temple today. J...has fallen off the earth. R came to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">church and substituted in Primary, so that's exciting. You should call </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Sister C back. She is an old woman who is not a member but </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">loves the missionaries. <i>(She called me last week and left me a sweet message saying how much she loved my son and all the missionaries who visit with her. She's 88 years old!) </i>We also have an awesome progressing </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">investigator in the Snowy Range ward named S. She is fully </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">converted like R but is afraid of her family's reaction, like </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">R. Please pray for those people, S as well. We have been so </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">busy holding down both areas. Something exciting we did was go </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">contacting less-actives in Centennial and Woods Landing. I saw some </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">really pretty sites. It's not all forest but there are also some </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">pretty valleys. We didn't have much luck except for finding some </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">people had moved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I am proud of Dad for his truck. <i>(Brian got a brand new Ford pickup truck for work. It's BEAUTIFUL!!) </i>On my mission I have learned how </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">much I loved my F-150 back home. Fords are great! <i>(Well, "his" Ford was bought by his brother, Peter, so he will have to drive our Silverado when he gets home.) </i> I'm excited for the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">kitchen as well. <i>(I've been sending him kitchen upgrades. It will be a new kitchen when he gets home.) </i>All right, I need to go get ready for the temple.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Campbell</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-27289411404703085112016-08-08T19:25:00.003-07:002016-08-08T19:25:47.644-07:00Complex Carbohydrates Are the Name of the Game For Our Health!!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <i>(Sadly, Elder Campbell's companion is going home due to severe depression. It's a real problem with missionaries. There is a lot of stress. I hope he enjoyed his time with our son.) </i>This whole week has really been a build-up to Elder B going </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">home. He is still with me, but we're just waiting for the call from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">President McMurray telling him when he is getting picked up. I just </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sent an email to President McMurray that I needed those two things. <i>(He needs a new temple recommend and an ecclesiastical endorsement to get back into BYU.)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">On Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> we had a huge wood chopping party. We chopped about 16 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">cord in total. I think that's what someone told me. Apparently, the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">snow will be coming soon here and people get ready pretty early. So, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">we got a lot of free food and chopped a ton of wood for people. I was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">really sore yesterday. <i>(Good exercise!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <i>(Andrew s still dealing with health issues.) </i>I had another meeting with Brother J </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">on Friday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. He, President </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">McMurray, and I got things figured out after our last meeting. He said </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">it is likely that I have some form of sleep apnea, but my neck wedge </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is helping there.<i>(Hallelujah!) </i>But, most of my problems are likely stemming from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">other sources. He said I have the fun opportunity of having a body </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that is very sensitive to what happens to it. <i>(That is so true! That's why he always wore sunglasses. His eyes are very sensitive to light. I wonder if it has anything to do with his autoimmune disease, vitiligo??) </i>So, if I take my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">medication at the wrong time, or eat what I shouldn't, I suffer </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">immediate effects. This is evidenced by the health boost I experienced </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">when I controlled my medication times. Our current goal is improving </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">my diet. He explained a way I could actually lose weight, and I truly </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">have been doing it all wrong. Sorry, I've just been stressed about the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">situation and not worrying about my mouth guard at all. <i>(I sent a mouth guard that is supposed to help with sleep apnea. USE IT, son!!!!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> J actually texted us yesterday, but I haven't been able to see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him yet. R is still doing really well, but nothing has changed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there.<i>(But I will keep praying for her mother to have a change of heart.) </i>We had a fun lesson where we role-played them inviting people </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to the temple open-house. Sister G is still progressing and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">awesome. <i>(YAY!!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> So, I am probably going to be in a trio with another companionship </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">in the zone. The jury is still out on who, where, and when though. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Wish I could tell you more! <i>(Next week!)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Brother J said complex carbohydrates are the name of the game </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">for my health, so anything whole grain would be appreciated in my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">birthday box. You are too good to me. <i>(So whole wheat bread and pasta for his birthday?? That sounds kind of dull. Any suggestions, friends and family members??)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Picture #1) After teaching the G's for over a month, their cat finally let me pet it.</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span><div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Picture #2) Me with Elder P, my mission brother serving in the zone. He had </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a scholarship to play football at USC but they revoked it when he went </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">on his mission. He just told me Elder Moala signed with BYU.</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Picture #3) with Elder D. The zone leaders were having a meeting when we </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">had appointments so I got to see some friends.</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></div>
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<i>(I sent him the news that we are getting a Cafe Rio in Stockton...which is pretty close to Lodi. Remember, Elder Campbell wants his wedding reception catered by Cafe Rio. This is his reaction to the news.) </i>That is some pretty glorious news you just shared with me. I am pretty stoked. </div>
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<i>(A sweet sister in Laramie sent me a message that my missionary had spoken and had made them all laugh, but she couldn't remember why. This is what he had to say about that.) </i>I did speak in Sacrament meeting, and the point of humor was that I got dressed this morning and couldn't find my suit coat. So, on the Sunday I was speaking, I went suit-less. I told them how my one job is to get dressed up, and I failed. Don't worry, I know where it is. The talk in general was about getting people to the temple open house. I got so excited I pounded the pulpit. <i>(That would be entertaining!)</i></div>
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J gets back today, so that should be good. Sister G has a baptismal date of August 19th. We are still working towards that, but we are quite excited that she committed to work for it! They are such a great family. I love going there. We also just met our new investigator R, who was in the YSA ward, but she married a member so it's all us now. She told us that she believes every part of the gospel is true, but her mother doesn't support her getting baptized at all, and she really wants her to be there. Please pray for softening of hearts there. <i>(Will start tonight!)</i></div>
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This week I read an article in the April 1975 Ensign called, "Atonement: The Only Wholeness", by Arthur Henry King. It was a philosophical review of the human condition in light of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. He talked about how the Atonement makes us "at one" with God, and thus, at one one with our families, our surroundings, and our societies. It was especially interesting when he talked about how sin is a false form of atonement, an attempt to make us at one, but a failure. I don't know if this makes any sense to you, but it makes incredible sense to me. Christ had to perform the Atonement because mankind by itself is fully incapable of achieving absolute unity, and as we've been told, "If ye are not one, you are not mine." I will just say...this is really exciting to me.</div>
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Yesterday in our fifth Sunday meeting, they asked for examples of times when our prayers appeared menial and unimportant, but we recognized it as important to our Heavenly Father. I recounted a time when I had just enjoyed an excellent Papa Murphy's pizza and I was enraptured in its bliss. I was so joyful that I said a prayer thanking Heavenly Father for the gift that is Papa Murphy's pizza. I truly felt the spirit tell me that Heavenly Father was pleased that I chose to share that. The ward found it hilarious, but poignant. Plus, our dinner appointment tonight has already committed to feeding us Papa Murphy's. You could say we scored pretty big. <i>(Such a silly boy!)</i></div>
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<i>(I've started a new tradition. Whenever Elder Campbell gets a new companion, I send that new companion a gift basket with goodies from their state. It's probably good that I only started this recently and he only has a few more chances for new companions. It's a bit pricey, but very fun to do.) </i>Elder Biggs <i>(from Virginia) </i>really enjoyed his package, but he was pretty embarrassed that my parents sent him a package and not me. I have been enjoying the awesome snacks with him. He is such a good guy. <i>(Andrew has received many packages these past 21 months, so no one feel too sorry for him!)</i></div>
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This week we taught the G family the Word of Wisdom. Sister G had a lot of questions, but she committed to try to live it and Brother G said he would hold her accountable. We talked to S, and he really wants to read the Book of Mormon, but he is working full-time, getting a master's degree, and has a wife and two kids. <i>(Sounds like he needs the Book of Mormon in his life!) </i>He said when he gets the time, he is going to sit down and read the whole thing. It is just trying my patience, because nothing is happening right now. J won't be back until next week...<img alt="🙁" class="CToWUd" data-goomoji="1f641" goomoji="1f641" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/1f641" style="margin: 0px 0.2ex; max-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle;" /></div>
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<i>(Callie Crum sent the following email [</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Hey, I was volunteered to lead a discussion up at Youth Conference next month on Sharing the Gospel. Not sure how I got so lucky, but I was wondering if you would ask your missionaries in your next letter out to them "What they wished they had known or had done before their missions or to be more prepared." I thought some thoughts from current missionaries would be fun and helpful. The conference is </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">August 5th</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">, which I know isn't much time, so if they are able to respond before then, great, please forward their thoughts to me. I would really appreciate it. If you'd rather I send them an e-mail asking, then could you give me their addresses? Don't know which would be better for them. I know writing time is precious, so I don't want to take time away from them writing home to their families, but just a few ideas is all I'm looking for.</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">], </span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">which I forwarded to him. He wrote back the following answers.) </i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I would like to answer Sister Crum's email in a general way. Of all of my mission experience, something I wish I had truly grasped before I left was truly enjoying and wanting to go out and share the gospel. I had one of the least and the most populated proselyting areas in our mission. When I was in Boulder, we had at least 60,000 nonmembers living in our area, and in my time in Firestone, Colorado we had maybe 1,000 nonmembers in our area. The areas were quite similar in one aspect, and that is that our planners were completely empty. We averaged 0-2 lessons a week in both areas. When a missionary is in this position, he goes out and tries to find someone to teach. In suburban western America, this is brutally difficult at best. Learning to talk about the gospel in a natural and joyful way to God's children is much easier to bring on a mission than to gain on a mission, because when it is your responsibility to do so 24/7, and when everyone treats you in such a condescending way because of your white shirt, tie, and nametag, it is easy to lose hope. Gosh, I wish I already had those skills when I entered the field, because then having an empty teaching pool would not be so frustrating, because I would be ready to preach God's word. I would add another thing that I am glad I came into the mission knowing. That is that a companion may force a companionship to fail beyond your control, but never, NO NEVER, be the reason a companionship fails. Both companions need to give to the relationship in order for the companionship to thrive, but if your companion refuses to give, keep giving anyway. You will be better off for it.</span></div>
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Last night I read my patriarchal blessing and realized that I need to get my act together regarding certain things. So, for the first time in my whole life, I am practicing organization. <i>(Can I hear an HALLELUJAH!!??!!) </i> I am now keeping track of exactly what I need to pray for, what I need to be grateful for, what specific topics I need to study, discussion topics with Heavenly Father, and general to-do items. It is my goal that through this, my progression will no longer be a willy-nilly hodge-podge of this and that, but will consist of purposeful acts. Maybe I'll even clean my room. But, let's not get too crazy. <i>(Be still my heart!)</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <i>(Since the last email, I sent him several items to try to help him sleep better. One is a SlumberBump, which is supposed to help you sleep on your side and the other is a mouth guard that is supposed to keep your airways open.) </i>I tried the SlumberBump...It could have gone better, haha. I don't </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">think it's supposed to coincide with my neck wedge and pillow wedge <i>(other things I found on Amazon to help with sleeping better!)</i>, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but those actually help. I woke up and found my body had twisted around during </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the night and I was back on my back. <i>(I remember that he's a crazy sleeper!) </i>The mouth guard I got out last </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">night to use, and discovered that I had to start boiling water and the like to get it ready. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(It is supposed to form to your mouth, so he needs to get it hot and malleable.) </span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Hopefully I'll have the energy to do it </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tonight</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">because last night I just didn't. I crawled into bed and fell asleep.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-12361928230409373062016-07-11T14:28:00.001-07:002016-07-11T14:28:56.891-07:00Staying in Laramie, WY!!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Well, I don't know if you were aware of this, but this was Elder Butler's last week as a missionary. I just bid him farewell and he is off to the mission home. He was grateful that I made his last transfer a worthwhile one. He said we had the highest key indicators that he has had in his whole mission. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Very proud of these young men!)</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I am staying in Laramie for a fourth transfer and my new companion is Elder Biggs. He was just finished being trained in Rawlins, making me a step-father in mission terms. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(That's silly!) </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He had a good trainer and he seems like a great missionary. Oh yeah, he is from somewhere in Virginia! </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Working on finding him a fun gift basket with a Virginia theme!)</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> An investigator from the YSA wards got married this week and she is in our ward now. She is set to be baptized later this month. So, that was a pleasant surprise. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Most definitely!) </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Also, the part member family we're teaching is holding family home evening. Most members of the ward don't even know that she is not baptized. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(That is very impressive.)</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Everyone else canceled our appointments this week. Shana is going back to the South this week. She has committed to be baptized there though. She is actually going to Mississippi, so maybe she'll meet Michele's family. (Except they have moved to Florida...HA!)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> We met President McMurray this week! </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(This is his new mission president. Mission Presidents serve for 3 years, so Pres. Brown and his wife headed home.) </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He is so cool! He is excited to get out there and teach and baptize. It's cool for a mission president to have greenie fire. But, the best experience I had was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">when we had a phone conversation about my sleep apnea. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Andrew hasn't actually been tested for sleep apnea; instead, he was told by a doctor that he probably has it. It is making him so exhausted during the day.) </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He told me about how Christ performed the Atonement so I could get through this trial, and leaning on Christ is what I need at this time. He told me I can't beat myself up but it's hard not to! </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Stop being so hard on yoursef, Elder Campbell!)</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I am excited for this transfer. Some serious baptizing should take place. I am really grateful this is the Lord's work, and he performs it, because if it was all up to me there would be nothing but failure. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(Not hardly...he always cuts himself short!)</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> We just </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">got back from hiking with the Fike family. They just called us up and </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">asked if we'd like to go hiking </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in twenty minutes</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">. It was a lot of </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">fun, but there was a point where we were crossing rocks over a river </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">and I biffed it really hard. I fell in the river and got soaking wet. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Apparently there's a video of it, so hopefully I could get that to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">you. <i>(I would love to see the video...he did send a picture which I will attach.)</i></span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> This week we taught a part-member family that has been coming to </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">church together for a few months now. They are such great people and I </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">really enjoy being with them. I am really excited for them. Shana got </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a job in a little mountain town outside of Laramie. We haven't been </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">able to be in good contact but she is still doing really well.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> We got to teach our sticky-star friend this week. <i>(This in referene to last week's letter where he said they helped a man take glow-in-the-dark star stickers off of the ceiling in his house.) </i>He is recovering </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">well from his incident. We also taught him at Subway; can't complain </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">about a home field advantage, haha. <i>(I just sent a Subway gift card, hope it comes in handy!) </i>He's committed to reach out to God </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">again, something he gave up on a while ago. We also contacted an old </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">tracting potential named Spencer. He told us he'd be building a </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">retaining wall the next day if we wanted to talk to him then. We told </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">him we'd help him build it! <i>(Smart guy getting free help with a retaining wall!!) </i>After we worked on it for an hour or so he </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">invited us in. He told us about how he had become a Buddhist because </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in his old Christian faith he couldn't find a personal relationship </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">with God. He told us he was interested in studying old pre-Catholic </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Christianity because he feels like original Christianity had a </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">stronger personal relationship with Heavenly Father that has been </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">lost. We told him he came to the right place! We explained the Plan of </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Salvation and he was blown away. I am so excited for him!</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Our new mission president came this past week. I haven't been able </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">to meet him yet, but my zone leaders say he is a lot of fun. We have a </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">zone conference with him </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">tomorrow</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> morning. <i>(I hope pictures get posted!!)</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I did get my package this </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">week, and the candy has been enjoyed by all. I really appreciate it! </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The jerky is so good! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Dad looks really happy in those pictures. <i>(I sent birthday pictures we took of Brian.) </i>I am </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">really grateful for them.</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Love,</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <i>(BJ, our oldest son, got a recruiting phone call from Google. They want him to work for them in Boulder, CO. Andrew served there, so he sent him his opinion of Boulder. Ooopps!) </i>I sent BJ my thoughts on his job offer. Google would have to make me </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a millionaire to get me to go live there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> This week was not quite as </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">wild as the last one, but we still had some excitement. Last night I slept really badly, </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">so I am not really in the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">email writing mood, but I will do my best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> This week we thought Shana was going to have to move out of </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Laramie, but that may not be the case after all. She came to church </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">again and loved it. It's so sweet because she keeps telling how </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">grateful she is that we came into her life and that Elder Butler and I </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">and are the two finest young men she has ever met. She has also made a </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">lot of friends in the ward. She is becoming one of the members. <i>(That's so wonderful, I hope she chooses to get baptized.)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">On Saturday</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> we were walking down the street when a man stopped us </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">and asked us if we helped clean houses? We said, "...Sure!" Then we </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">went to his house and helped him by peeling off hundreds of sticky </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">glow-in-the-dark stars from his ceiling. It turns out he was going </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">through a really hard time and was in desperate need of company more </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">than anything else and we did him a greater service than we thought we </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">could. We should be teaching him later this week! We also have another </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">investigator we are teaching </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">tonight</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">. She is a referral who called the </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Bishop and said she wanted to learn more! <i>(Wow, that's sounds pretty golden!!)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> This week we did service for the food bank's commodity delivery. </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">They got a giant delivery of eggs they were not expecting. In the end </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">they gave us two boxes of egg cartons, totaling 360 eggs! <i>(WHAT???!!!) </i>We have been </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">having too great of a time having eggs for breakfast and giving them </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">out! <i>(Okay, Connie Jo, time for egg recipes this time!)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Also this week, Sister Weatherford's parents came into town! I met </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the famous Norm Shumway! <i>(He was a Congressman from our area and his wife was my mom's friend.) </i></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I will attach a picture! <i>(Picture is attached along with a picture of his weekly cat picture.)</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> I am sorry, I would have a lot more to say but I am not feeling well </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">and emailing is taxing. Know that I love you all so much.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> This week was lacking in dull moments. I don't think the excitement</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Monday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">: We were street contacting on the University of Laramie campus, when a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Christian Evangelist stopped and talked to us. We shared with him </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">about the temple and he was very interested. We should meet up with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him again. <i>(I hope they do meet up again!)</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tuesday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">: Our Bishop got a call from a woman in Greely about a woman </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that just moved here. She had told her about priesthood blessings and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">this woman moving here said she would like one. We met with her and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">taught a short lesson and gave her a blessing with our ward missionary </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">named Kenny. He is a great guy. Later that day we got some sidewalk </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">chalk and we went around town drawing Fort Collins temples on the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sidewalks with the open house dates and our phone number. <i>(Picture attached and the video will be in another email.)</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Wednesday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">: We taught Shana again with our ward mission leader, Brother </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Carlisle. She has had a hard life, but she felt the spirit and loved </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the Book of Mormon. We practiced singing our song for Zone Conference th</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">at day as well.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Thursday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">: We had zone conference! It was on a ranch in Cheyenne. It </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">was the Wyoming Hereford Ranch, which is the oldest fully documented </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ranch in America. The spirit was strong and President Brown said his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">goodbyes. He honestly loves us. He said his greatest regret was his </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">failure in showing that love to his missionaries. But, his ultimate </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">goal was for our hearts to be pointed towards the Lord, and not to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him, so he is not worried if we don't like him, because he knows we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">are closer to the Lord. President Brown goes home on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">June 30th</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">same day President McMurry flies in. I also got to pet a horse. <i>(Picture attached!)</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Friday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">: I am trying to remember what happened today. I remember we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">went and saw Grandma in the morning, then we ate some mac and cheese </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">casserole. We sat at a bus stop waiting for a bus that never came, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">then we helped some people from Rawlins who were stranded here in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Laramie. We also did service at the food bank and knocked some doors.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">: We had a zone fast, which turned out to be the hardest fast </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I have ever done. Fasting while knocking on doors all day in the hot </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">sun adds an element of difficulty. We also moved a new member of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ward. He is actually the Bishop's son. We didn't have a dinner so we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">grilled some chicken and it was the most gratifying meal I have ever </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">had! <i>(Glad that 80 pounds of frozen chicken is coming in handy!)</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">: Shana came to church and she loved it! She said she plans on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">coming back every week. <i>(That just makes me so happy. She is on my prayer list!) </i>An awesome woman in the ward jumped in and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">saved us because our planned fellowshipper was out of town. Shana is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">going to be cooking dinner for us </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> with a few of her new </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">friends from church as well as a lesson afterwards! Then, yesterday </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">evening we get a call from a man we do not know who is staying in a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">motel in town. He said he had met a new friend who was spiritually</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lost and had been praying for guidance. He invited him to hear from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us. So, we hightailed it over there, a several mile journey, and taught </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">him the Restoration and gave him a baptismal date of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">July 24th</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. His </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">name is Charlie by the way.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">This Morning: We had another lesson with Charlie in which we learn he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">is heading to the VA hospital in Sheridan...today. We pray he will get </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the help he needs and will continue learning about the gospel there. I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">got a haircut! <i>(And not at the VA Hospital...I asked. He said a sister in the ward, Sis. Shumway, gave him a haircut. Thank you, Sis. Shumway!)</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> I am afraid I do not know what tag pictures are. I will send you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">some pictures from the week though! And yes, Bishop Means did write to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">me. <i>(Thank you Bishop Means!) (I wondered where he played disc golf.) </i>There is an 18 hole disc golf course in Laramie, but we will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">likely be playing chair soccer today.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> This week I realized that I have been doing a major aspect of my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">mission completely wrong, and I am not the only one. <i>(Now that he has less than 5 months left?) </i>Doctrine and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Covenants </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">8:10</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> reads, "Remember that without faith you can do nothing; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">therefore ask in faith. Trifle not with these things; do not ask for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">that which you ought not." We approach missionary work so faithlessly</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, thinking that we need to be able to say the right thing. We </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">forget so easily that the spirit will convert our investigators, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">the people we meet on the street. They will crave the spirit they feel </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">and desire it more. That spirit comes by our faith, preparation, and</span><br />
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<i>(Andrew has already requested that he'd like Cafe Rio catered at his wedding reception. I gave him the good news that Cafe Rio is coming to SACRAMENTO!!) </i>That is some beautiful news. Cafe Rio always pulls through, doesn't it? </div>
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<i>(Last week Elder Campbell confessed to throwing his companion's disc golf disc in the lake, so I got on my trusty Amazon Prime account and sent them a new set.) </i>So, Elder Butler and I did get that package, and since Elder Butler already has a complete set, he decided the gift should be for me. So, I am officially a disc golf hobbyist with a complete 4 disc set. We played this morning and I did awful. Elder Leavitt said they were pretty good ones, too. I just need to learn what I am doing, as I have absolutely no idea. <i>(Me either!)</i></div>
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This week was really awesome in the fact that we got the official invitations for the Fort Collins Temple Open House! <i>(I will attach one for each of you!) </i>We have just been going out and talking to people about the temple and it is a ton of fun. We met a very kindly couple from Montana that were pretty interested in going inside. As far as teaching goes, this week was kind of dead. Everyone we told you about last week didn't even get taught this week. Everyone is just...moving slowly. Except for us, of course, we have been moving so fast and hard.<i>(Good job!)</i></div>
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We had a zone meeting this week, and we talked about how we are going to teach people about the temple. What we are working on is improving our teaching of basic principles about the temple and its purpose, and we are inviting members who are bringing their friends to allow us to teach them a little more about it before they go in. I found this quote about the temple in the Ensign that I found quite poignant, "The work that goes on in these buildings sets forth God’s eternal purposes with reference to man, who is God’s child and creation. For the most part, temple work is concerned with the family, with each of us as members of God’s eternal family and with each of us as members of earthly families. It is concerned with the sanctity and eternal nature of the marriage covenant and family relationships. It affirms that each man and woman born into the world is a child of God, endowed with something of His divine nature. The repetition of these basic and fundamental teachings has a salutary effect upon those who receive them, for as the doctrine is enunciated in language both beautiful and impressive, the participant comes to realize that since every man and woman is a child of Heavenly Father, then each is a member of a divine family; hence, every person is his brother or sister." I honestly, for the first time in my life, felt a bit of excitement about the sealing of all mankind back to our Heavenly Father. I am honestly stoked that it is happening.<br /> I pet another cat this week. I will send the footage. <i>(It is attached at the end of this email.) </i> It is quite a joyful experience when it happens. The weather has been...interesting. We have had heavy rain every afternoon. The rivers are starting to flood. Yesterday we went to our favorite place....Rock River! A new member moved out there and just got there the night before, so a bunch of guys from the Elder's Quorum went out to move his furniture. The town tends to be an inactivity maker. Every family that moves out there goes inactive. This family has committed to be the first that makes it! I will pray for them. Speaking of praying for people, we have been asked to pray for our incoming mission President, President McMurray, that he will have a smooth transition to being our president. Maybe you could pray for him, too! <i>(I will happily do that!) </i>Also, we have held to the diet! I think I have lost some weight. I pray you will all be well!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-34186957060083431872016-06-06T17:57:00.001-07:002016-06-06T17:57:27.130-07:00Eating Hot Wings and Playing Disc Golf<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mother and Father,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> We did get Elder Butler's gift box and he loved it so much. <i>(Yay! I sent him things from Chicago...since that is where he is from!) </i>I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">believe he is from the Chaumberg First Ward. <i>(Brian thinks that's near the airport.) </i>i am indeed the recipient </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">of an emergency transfer. He did some gnarly stuff in his last area.<i>(Whatever that means!) </i> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He is a good kid though and I like having him as my companion.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> We did some exciting stuff this week. We found a new investigator </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">from Ghana named Mavis. <i>(Another, YAY!) </i>She has an excellent spirit. She is skeptical, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">but the spirit will convert her. We also have a new referral. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Apparently he just got out of prison and he read the Book of Mormon </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">there. He considers himself to be fully converted and he wants to be </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">baptized. We should hopefully meet him </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">. <i>(Yay...so grateful for the Atonement!) </i>We also had a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">conversation yesterday afternoon with an evangelical Christian name </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tim. He Bble-bashed pretty hard but he was a nice guy. <i>(Sounds like they are keeping busy.)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> This week Elder Butler and I had some discussions in our companionship study this week about the tools </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">our great adversary uses. We came </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to the word "counterfeit", and Elder Butler declared it to be the most </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">accurate description. A counterfeit is a fraudulent imitation of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">something else. Satan doesn't just bombard us with bad stuff. He gives </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">us an imitation of the right stuff. That is why we need the Book of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mormon, because it was given to us to help us see through deception. <i>(I love that analogy. Although these young men are so young, they are so wise.)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Elder Butler, despite not needing to lose weight at all, has agreed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to diet with me to help me do it more effectively. I told him I wanted </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">to lose weight on our first day, and we detailed a diet plan that we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">would hold each other to. We have not broken it yet! <i>(It's almost a week...that's impressive.)</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Sorry this is getting to you late. I was in the midst of eating hot </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">wings <i>(Must be on the diet plan!)</i> and playing disc golf. I lost Elder Butler's extra disc in the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">lake. I hope he forgives me. <i>(Just sent some using Amazon Prime!) </i>I love you all!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Love again,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elder Andrew Campbell</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01196772374498744149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3254567127689426914.post-67492536453041956762016-05-30T14:08:00.001-07:002016-05-30T14:08:18.752-07:0080 Pounds of Frozen Chicken<i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(It is transfer week and Elder Campbell is staying in Laramie. He is getting a new companion from Chicago. I hope they work well together. He doesn't have much to say, but he did send two fun pictures.)</i><br />
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