From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Dear Family
Date: 25 Feb 2013 07:21:19 AM MST

Hello everyone. Well it looks like you already found out about the big news in the mission argentina Neuquen. In July they are going to split the mission and form the Comodoro Rivadavia mission. That means if I happen to be in Trelew, Comodoro, or Caleta Olivia in July, I will be part of that mission. So that is a possibility. That would also be really crazy. But that is going to be wonderfull because it will help strengthen the the church here in the Patagonia. There will be a lot more missionaries to help the wards and everything so it will be really exciting to see how everything turns out.

Well this week was pretty good. We had zone conference which is always awesome. We had a great one. We talked a lot about being more united as a mission and it was really fun with some of the practices we did. We all learned a lot and I think it animated the zone a lot too. I´m looking forward to what is going to become of this mission.

This week we were able to find a couple new people. The first is Alex. His mom is a member menos activo for about 20 year. Alex is 13 and is awesome. We talked about the restoration with him and talked about the holy ghost and how it can testify to him that these things are true. His mom shared her experiences when she was baptized and when she recieved the holy ghost. It was a sweet lesson with the spirit. Hopefully we can help her be active so Alex and be baptized.

We also found Omar. He is a really awsesome guy who lives with his wife and two kids. He told us that there are so many churches now a day that you can´t know for sure which one is the true. We talked to him about prayer and the restoration and he said that it all made sence. He accepted the invation to be baptzed as well so that was awesome. We are going by today and hopefully we can put a fecha with him so we can work towards that. The Lord really is blessing us with some really good new investiagators.

Well I don´t have too much time today because we are going to a place called Primeros Pinos. I´ll make sure to take some pictures. I love you all and hope you have a wonderfull week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Dear Family
Date: 18 Feb 2013 07:13:36 AM MST

Hello everyone over there far away. I hope everyone is doing well. this week was a nice week. We went to San Martín de los Andes early this week and man is that a really pretty place. Its just like Park City. Its awesome. Everything is built out of wood. All the stores and everything in centro are all wood and its super cool. Unfortunatly I forgot my camera and wasn´t able to get any pictures. But we will be going over there and spending a p day there in the next coming weeks so I will be sure to take many pictures. It was a fun day. We did the same capacitacion with the Elders in San Martin. There are 4 there and Elder Hernandez my old comp is there so that was kind of fun and also really weird because now I´m his zone leader is what he says. But we had a good capacitacion. It went a lot smoother and better than the last one. Afterward we stayed and did intercambios and I went out to work with Elder Castro. He is a pretty sweet missionary that loves to learn and works hard. We had a tough day but we were able to learn a lot from each other so that was good. The only bad thing about going to San Martin is the traveling. We had to leave Wednesday at 2 in the morning and we got back to zapala at 4 in the morning on Thursday so that really killed us. It was tough to get back into the swing of things.

So this week we made a lot of progress with Adalberto and Gabriela. We went by their house on Tuesday and we hadn´t talked to them for a while. They said that we came just at the right time. The past week they had had a lot of problems in between them and things wern´t going well. We tought the restoration and invited Gabriela to give the closing prayer and to ask God if these things are true. She said the prayer and it was amazing. The spirit was felt so strong and she was recieving her answer. We went by again on Thursday and she said that she had been praying more and now is willing to so what ever to be baptized. We talked to them about a wedding date and we put one for the 8 of March so she can be baptized the 9 of March. It was awesome and she was really excited. So things were going really well. We went by their house yesterday morning to go to church with them but Adalberto wasn´t home. It turns out that some things happened and the plans are kind of on hold for right now. Its a really big challenge now for them. I really hope they can be strong and continue because the gospel is what is going to help them, nothing else. We will be praying extra hard for them.

The truth is that this week has been filled with challenges like that. Whether it be trying to find member to join us in appointments or just appointments falling through. It has been really tough. But really I feel like Elder Irala is helping me be the best missionary I have been on my mission so keep on going. Hopefully things start turing out better soon. But it has really been a good oportunity to learn thats for sure.

Well I love you all and I hope you all have a wonderfull week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Hello Everyone!
Date: 4 Feb 2013 07:42:12 AM MST

Woooooowwwww! What great news I have heard today. I´m so proud of you Dad and I know that you are going to serve well in your new calling.

This week had been awesome with a lot of miracles. Earlyer this week we went and did exchanges with the missionaries in Cutral Co. I went out and worked with Elder Nielson who is a kapo. He is pretty new in the mission and has been haveing a little hard time with some comps that aren´t so excited about the work. In the area they had been having a hard time finding some investigators so that was our goal for the day. We went out talking to everyone we could see trying to do everything we could to get into a house. We had an awesome day and we were able to find 4 new investigators for their area. It was awesome. We had a great time and hopefully that will give their area a little boost in animo.

This week we have also seen some miracles in our area. I´ll start with Adalberto and Gabriela. These two are awesome. We started teaching them both on Monday and taught them about the plan of salvation the lesson was amazing. Adalberto expressed to us his disire to change his life and to start doing things right and coming back to church. We came back on wednesday and he said that his desire to drink and smoke have gone away. He said that he smoked one cigarette and it gave him a big headache. We talked about the family and how the gospel of Jesus Christ blesses the family. We comitted them to come to church and we said we would come by in the morning on Sunday. So yesterday we were walking down the street we saw Adalberto and Gabriela and their little daughter Ariana waiting outside their house for us. We were so happy to see them out there. They had a great time in church and loved it. We went by last night and Adalberto said that he made it throught the whole Boca and River match without drinking a beer which is a miracle. We talked about marriage and they said that they are going to talk about it. Hopefully by the end of the week we can get a weding date for them.

So we had another miracle with Oriana. She is the daughter of Vanesa a recent convert who wants to get baptized but we thought we had to get permission from both perents for her to get baptized. We did exchanges with the assistants this week and talked to them about the situation because Oriana hadn´t been able to talk to her dad. They told us that with permission of one perent is enough espesially if she lives with that parent. So this week we will be having a baptism for Oriana. She is awesome. She is only 10 years old but reads everything we leave her in the book of mormon. Its amazing how much the Lord is blessing us.

Well I love you all and it sounds like everything back at home is just as wonderfull over here. I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Here is a picture of some of the chacras on the outer parts of our area.

chacras