From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello!
Date: 27 May 2013 08:17:09 AM MDT

Hello everyone.I hope everyone is doing great on your beutiful holliday there in the United States. Everything is going great here in Zapala and we are having some good success here.

I´ll start with a new investigator named Omar. He is a pretty cool guy and also pretty evagelical. But he is pretty willing to listen. He was a reference that we got from a member and she said that he was going through some hard times and that he could use a little help. So we went by and he accepted us even without us introducing ourselves. He told us that he has been separated for a little while now and he feels like he has failed God. We talked to him and we were able to share two lessons with him this week. We shared the restoration with him and also talked about how he could recieve the dirrection he needs. He said that he had listened to the missionaries before but he never asked God if Joseph Smith was a prophet so we committed him to do that. After the second lesson he told us that all the things we where teaching him we helping him a lot and that they were entering into his heart. We are really excited to be able to teach him and I think if we keep helping him feel the spirit of our message he will be ready to get baptized.

Luciano and the Familia Barraza are progressing really well. The family loves it when we come over. They all came to church this last week. The last lesson we challenged the Dad to prepare himself so he can baptize his son. He accepted and said he was going to do whatever he needs to do it. Luciano is awesome. He is only 9 years old but he is really smart. He reads all the things we leave him in the Book of Mormon and loves going to church. He is looking really good for his fecha on the 15.

So this week we celebrated the independance in Argentina on the 25 of may. We had a pretty sweet acitvity in the church where we all ate the traditional dish of the holliday called Locro. Its like a corn/bean/ a whole bunch of other stuff like cow stomache and basically every other part of the cow. Its pretty good and we had a good time. The members also brought some friends that weren´t members so it was good to introduce them a little to the church.

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

Elder Kyle Hudgins

We got a picture here with the big bowl of locro that we all ate.

Big bowl of locro

The second it with Elder Pereira in San Martín. You can see the lake that is right there next to the city.

With Elder Pereira

This is a picture with Guille and Laura Venagas. The are like our parents here in Zapala and take us out on Pdays. Last week we went to see the virgin Mary haha. Sorry mom, I don´t have a close up of me and Elder Wagstaff.

With Elder Wagstaff and the Venagas Family

From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello Family!
Date: 20 May 2013 08:06:43 AM MDT

Hello everyone! Well it sounds like everyone is having a good time enjoying the nice spring weahter. Things this week went pretty well and we had a good time.

This week we were able to start teaching a part family the familia Barraza. The dad is a former bishop but right now is inactive. We started teaching them because they have a son Luciano that is 9 years old and not baptized. When we went the dad told us that Luciano has wanted to get baptized for some time now but it just hasn´t happened. But we when we went they were really happy to start going to church again and we committed them to start working to Luciano can get baptized on june 15. I´m sure that they are going to make it. They came to chuch and we also had an english class on Saturday and Luciano and his brother both came. So we are super excited to teach this family and hopefully we can get them into full activity again.

This week we had our zone conference. It was a really great conference. We talked about the importance of the first vision and how we can share it better and also the importance of the Book of Mormon and how we should use it. It was a really sweet conference and I think everyone was excited to go out and use the new things that they had learned. Right after we went out and worked and had a great lesson with Emilio. We shared with him the first vision and takled about the book of Mormon. IT was a lesson filled with the spirit. We comitted him to read the book of Mormon and he said he would love to. We were going to put a fecha with him but again the grandma interrupted and just went off and she just doesn´t give any room to change the subject. So hopefully tonight when we go by we can finally get him on date and help him progress toward baptism.

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

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Here is a picture of Elder Yañez and his sleeping bad (bag?) suit! We were on divisions and I just had to get a picture with it on.

Sleeping bag suit

From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hey!
Date: 6 May 2013 08:16:16 AM MDT

Hello my dear family and friends. Well this was sure a fun week and we had a lot of really cool things happen as well. Things are looking really awesome for the whole zapala zone.

so I´ll start off with Yanet. So las week she was struggling a little bit and wasn´t too excited about her baptism. Nestor was really diligent though and wanted to really help her out. So on Friday we planned to teach them in the house of the bishop here in Avellaneda. We had a really awesome lesson with him and his wife and we went buy Nestor a Yanet on saturday and she said that she was really excited to go to church the next day. So on sunday they both came and had a good time. So we should be have her baptism this coming saturday which will be awesome. It made me realize even more the importance of the members in the work. Everybody is excpecting this missionaries to follow Jesus Christ but when a normal person tells you to do it it sure means a lot more.

So this week we were able to find another family. But this one is of three generations. Their names are Marta who is the grandma, Graciela her daughter and Gracielas son Emilio. They are all really awesome. They have had some contact with the missionaries in the past but we can´t find anything about them in the area book. But the first time we went over they opened up to us and told us about all the bad things that are going on in their lives right now. They really have a lot of dificulties. Yesterday we went by again and talked about how our faimliy can be together forever with the gospel of Jesus Chirst. It was an awesome lesson and right as we were inviting them to be baptized the grandma (she likes to talk a lot) interrupted and just went off on a huge tangent. Oh man! Afterward people came and the spirit was just not right to invite them. But we are excited for the next visit with them. They are really awesome and willing to keep commitments. Hopefully we can get that fecha with them this week.

This week we also had the zone training meeting. And man it really was a sweet meeting. The zone right now is super awesome and super animated about the work. We talked about repentance and a missionary gave just the sickest talk about it. I think everyone felt the spirit in the meeting and left ready to work hard. So the zone is really moving in the right direction so we are super excited about that.

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

Elder Kyle Hudgins