Monthly Archives: March 2013

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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello Family!
Date: 25 Mar 2013 07:31:59 AM MDT

Well this week was pretty awesome. We had a couple of miricles and a lot of good things happen to our investigators.

Anyway, I´ll start with Yaneth. I don´t know if i mentioned about her a while back, but she is the girlfriend of a member menos activo here. Before I got here she had gone to church quite a few times. But my second week here her mom made her stop going to church because she says we are a cult. So we had no contact with her for the past 2 months or so. Also her boyfriend Nestor got discouraged and everything and we lost contact with him as well. But this week we went by and found Nestor. He recently had a surgery and wanted us to come by. So now he is living with Yaneth behind his grandmas house. We talked and asked Yaneth about her situation and explained that she wanted to get baptized but her mom wouldn´t let her. But now that she is living outside the house she told us that she really wants to now. So we talked with them and told them that they first need to start doing all the things to get married. So this week they comitted to start all the tramites and everything. So hopefully in about 2 weeks they can get married. And right after that Yaneth will get baptized. It was awesome and really an answer to our prayers. We had been praying a lot for Yaneth but she just wasn´t living in a good eviroment in her house. Yesterday she came to chruch and we had a special stake converence via satelite. Elder Russell M. Nelson, Elder Clayton and Elder Bowen all spoke and it was an awesome conference. Elder Russell spoke (in castellano as well) about how we can only recieve the exaltation by being married in the temple. So it was perfect for them. I´m super excited for these two. We showed Yaneth a picture of the temple and loved it. So we are super blessed to have them coming to church again.

Also with Roberto. He was getting a little disanimated because he is realizing now that he can´t really progess more with out being married. But we comitted him to come to the conference yesterday and also to prepare himself for the general conference in two weeks. He came yesterday and loved it as well. I love it how all the people who spoke were very direct and I think it help Roberto understand the importance of marriage in God´s plan. This week we will go by and hopefully he will be doing a little better. We keep praying for him that he can commit to live the law of chastity. Hopefully these conferences will help him have enough faith to do it.

So this morning we got an email from President telling us that Elder Cook of the twelve is going to be visiting the mission on June 1! So that is going to be an awesome experience. Im very excited to meet him.

Well I love you all and hope you all have a wonderfull week! Thank you for all the letters!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

A couple pictures from San Martin.

San Martin

San Martin

So its kind of hard to tell but in this one we climbed a really steep mountain to get to a neighbor hood that was on the mountain side.

Steep climb

Steep climb

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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello Family!
Date: 18 Mar 2013 08:51:50 AM MDT

Ay ay ay! I just wrote all my email and then the computer crashed and it didn´t save my email! So anyway I´ll tell you a little about what happened this week.

So this week we saw the most progress with Roberto. Roberto is a stud and has been coming to church every week for about 2 months now. The problem is that he is not married. So anyway this week we talked to him about the word of wisdom and he got a little dicouraged. He said he really likes to drink coffee and it would be hard for him to keep the word of wisdom. So he was thinking about just stopping it right there because it was another obsticle for him. But we asked if he wanted to fast about it so he could recieve more guidance. After the fast he was doing a lot better. he said that he hadn´t drank coffee either. We talked to him about being baptized and he said he still wants to so it. So we told him to think about all the options so he can keep the law of chastity. He said he is going to talk to the girl he lives with so we will see how it goes. It would be so awesome to see Roberto get baptized. He keeps all of his comittments and his disires to follow Christ are sencere.

So I hope you all have a wonderfull week. Love you all very much!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello Family!
Date: 11 Mar 2013 08:05:28 AM MDT

Hello everyone back home. Its good to hear from you all this morning. So I guess I´ll clear up a few things from my last email. We do not have a car. We were with a member and his car broke down. But yes, it would sure be nice to have a car.

Anyway this week was a little crazy. I guess I´ll do it all in chronological order. So on Monday, we found a really sweet new investigator. Her name is Lucia. We were going by a menos activa and they were outside drinking mate and we asked if we could share a message with both of them. It turns out the Lucia is actually an old investigator. We talked to her about the plan of salvation and how it can bless her family (because she has 9 kids!). It was a great lesson and we made an appointment to come back on Saturday in her house. So we went and we talked about baptism with her. We found her teaching register and saw that the missoinaries tried putting a baptismal date with her multiple times but never accepted because she is afraid that her mom wont accept it. But we were talking and we invited and she accepted. It was awesome. She really recognizes the importance and said she would be willing to prepare herself to be baptized. Unfortunately she didn´t come to church. But we are making progress with her and hopefully we will find her this week and recommitt her.

So on Wednesday we had zone leader council and had a capacitacion with the president. It was a really awesome council where president talked about us helping our missionaries be excellent missionaries. there are going to be a ton of changes in the mission in the coming months and the president is really focusing on how we can change ourselves. It was a really good one and we went to San Martin and Cutral Co to so the same capacitacion with our zone. I think the missionaries recieved it really well and I´m looking forward to the results.

So last night Elder Irala left and now my new companion is Elder Lundskog. He is coming from being zone leader in Comodoro. I don´t really know him that well so we will see how it goes. But I´m sure we will have a great time and I´m excited for him to come.

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

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Sunrise

Sunrise

So here are a pictures of some dog that always come up to us to play with us whenever we leave the apartment and return.

Some Dog

Some Dog

 

Hello Family!

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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello Family!
Date: 4 Mar 2013 07:29:19 AM MST

Hello everyone! I´m glad to hear that you are all doing well. Well this week was unlike any other with difficulties with health and trials in the work and also with some miracles sprinkled on top.

So thisweek both Elder Irala and I came down with a nasty cold which really made it hard for us to work. And also while we worked it seemed like all of our appointments would fall through. It was Saturday and we had barely taught any lessons. But on Saturday we had a great day. We found a part member family called the Familia Saavedra. The hermana Saavedra has been less active for about 6 or 7 years. She is maried to a non member and her son is 9 years old and not baptized. We found them and got to know them and talked about how the gospel of Jesus Christ had blessed her life. We committed them to come to church and the Hermana came with her two sons. It was great because she came even though she has been pretty sick this whole week. It was great to see them in church and she said she really loved it. So we will continue to work with them. I was a nice blessing.

The other blessing we recieved was we finally found a really good old investigator that we Elder Irala had lost contact with. Her name is Veronica and she is awesome. She has a strong desire to be baptized but the thing that is holding her up is that she is not married and the guy she is living with doesn´t have much of a desire to get married. Elder Irala told me that when they were teaching her before that she started to cry when she found out she couldn´t be baptized. And then after that we couldn´t find her. But we finally found her again this week and she said that she was having a lot of problems and said she felt really for just leaving us like that. But she said that she had been reading the Book of Mormon and still has a desire to be baptized more than ever now. We had a great lesson with her. Elder Irala was really happy to be able to find her again and we are really excited to start teaching her again. Hopefully we can help her make this important step in her life so she can receive the blessing of the gospel.

Well, last week I mentioned that we were going to Primeros Pinos but on our way there the car broke down and we weren´t able to make it. But we had a good experience and we still had a good time.

This is the last week of the transfer and it sure is going to be a crazy one with a lot of traveling. On tuesday night we go to Neuquen for zone leader council then we go straight to San Martin for the capaciacion and then we come back on Thursday in the evening and then on Friday morning we go to Cutral Co for another capacitacion. So hopefully I will find some sleep somewhere in there. It should be pretty crazy. Well I love you all and hope you all have a wonderfull week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Elder Queirolo and Elder Hudgins

Elder Queirolo and Elder Hudgins