¡Hola!

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: ¡Hola!
Date: March 12, 2012 11:32:20 AM MDT

Hey! How is everyone doing this week. Looks like you all had a great time this last week with Grandpa´s birthday. 78 years old! Happy Birthday Grandpa!

Well this week wasn´t much more different than the last couple weeks. Its still pretty tough but I am really starting to see my own personal growth working here in Trevelin. It is something that President Brinkerhoff told me before the mission and I can see it know. Its that i will learn to do hard things while on my mission. I can tell you right now that working in Trevelin is the hardest thing that I have ever done in my life. We don´t have many investigators and as of right now, none of them are progressing. We are putting in a lot of time with the less active members and we also haven´t seen too much success there (except for this week we had three menos activos in church so that was awesome). This week was really hard to keep my head up and my faith strong as well. On Saturday was really had an awesome day planned. We were going to see all of our investigators and put fechas, re-put fechas and invite them all to church. We called them all the night before to confirm and they were all on board. We were really excited for the day. But unfortunately the day did not turn out how we had hoped. All of our appoinments fell through and we only ended up teaching one lesson the day. It was very dissapointing. Elder Clark and I were dragging our feet around at 8:00 and we really just wanted to go back to the pension but we decided to stay out and knock doors and street contact but that didn´t bring many results either. We were both pretty disanimated at the end of the day. Sunday was much like the same. We tried going to see our investigators we couldn´t find yesterday but they weren´t home again. It was a tough day until we went out with Presidente Ganga in the evening. He gave us a few references and we went around to them setting up appoinments. When we got back to the pension last night we were still pretty disanimated about the last week and especially the last few days. Then Elder Boyd called (the AP and the guy in that picture with Elder Clark and I at zone conference). He said that its awesome that we are being dilligent in out work. But we have to make sure we are working with faith as well.  We have to believe that what we are doing, Lord will guide us in whatever we are doing. We have to seek for his help. He told us to say a prayer before we go to bed and to ask specifically for help in finding investigators and to have a baptism in the next 3 weeks. And to do it with all the faith you can muster up. It was my turn and it was probably the most faith filled prayer i have ever given in my life. It has given me a good outlook about Trevelin and made me really excited to work with these references that Pte. Ganga gave us. There was one that I have been really thinking about. Her husband recently died. She is really good friends with the Ganga family so we are going to go by with them this week and i am really excited for that.

One really good thing that happened with our investigators was with Wanda. We had a really good lesson about the Plan of Salvation. She really does want to get baptized but she is having a hard time giving up the things in her live. Her friends aren´t a very good influence on her and she has a big problem about keeping the word of wisdom. We know that she felt the spirit in our last lesson with her. I keep praying for her to have the strength to stand up to the temptations of the world.

I have the hope that working with more faith and always improving the way we work will bring success to Trevelin. Thank you for all your prayers and I ask that you continue sending them this way. I love you all and hope you have a great week.

Love,
Elder Kyle Hudgins

some pictures

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: some pictures
Date: March 5, 2012 7:53:35 AM MST

Alright so the pictures are me with all of our rent money that we have to pay the dueño. What a rip off. The other is of the spider we helped a guy make for carnaval. And the other is the delicious burritos we made. I never realized how much i love mexican food until I wasn´t able to eat it.

Hellooo

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Hellooo
Date: March 5, 2012 7:36:14 AM MST

Hello everybody back at home. Its been a nice week here in Trevelin. Hope everyone is doing awesome at home. It sure sounds like everyone is doing great.

Bueno, this week was not the easiest but we did find some new investigators that I hope we can progess with. One of the news we found this week was through service. We were just walking down the street and we saw this old woman working on her lawn mower. We asked if she needed help and she answered bastante. So we ended up helping her take apart her lawn mower trying to figure out how to get the starter going but it we couldn´t figure it out. So we just cut her lawn with a push mower and a week wacker. She was very greatfull for our help and invited us to come back next week. So we are hoping that goes well this week.

The zone leaders also came here and Elder Clark and I did divisions with them. Elder Rodriguez, one of the zone leaders, was in this area about a year ago so he took Elder Clark around to some antiguo investigators so we will be visiting them this week as well. I really hope we can get some progress with these new investigators because the ones that we have now aren´t progressing as well as we like.

The zone leaders were also in our district meeting. One of the things we talked about was keeping a positive attitude. To be honest these last couple of weeks I have become a little discouraged. We haven´t been able to have any lessons with any of our fechas and havn´t had good attendence in church. Last Monday when we went out and worked in the evening all of our appointments fell through and we were left in the rain without anything to do. So we went around knocking doors in the rain for the last hour of the day. Nobody answered the door during that hour. It was tough. But Elder Clark are still keeping a good outlook and we start every day as a new day, forgetting the day before. I just know that sometime we will see the fruits of our labors if we keep working hard. Even when people don´t do the things that they say they will do you still have to love them and keep helping them recognize how these things will help.

The coolest thing that i get to see here, is the progession in the gospel with Prosperina. She gave an awesome testimony yesterday. Last month she said that she still couln´t say that she knew everything in this church was true but she wants to know. Yesterday she said that she now knows it it true to that was awesome. I could feel the spirit so strong in the chapel it was awesome. Their is no greater joy than helping people be converted to the gospel.

One thing that the zone leaders also suggested was work with the members more. They showed us a plan they made about how to work with the member. This is something Elder Clark and I are going to try and I really think that it will help the work here move along very well.

Thats awesome to hear about Jr´s call. Elder Clark is from Spokane WA. He says that that part of the state is more farms and stuff and also a lot of hispanics. Just let him know that anywhere you go and serve the Lord, you are going to love it.

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

Les amo,
Elder Kyle Hudgins

Hello Everyone!

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Hello Everyone!
Date: February 27, 2012 8:03:08 AM MST

How is everyone doing. Its great to hear from you again this week. Thanks for all the emails, I love getting them every week!

Well this week was a little slow and pretty frustrating. We weren´t able to have any lessons with any of our fechas and we weren´t able to get any of them to church either. Elder Clark and I have gotten a little disanimated about our lack of success but we just have to keep working and I know we will start seeing some awesome stuff happen. And one awesome thing did happen this week. So we went to our appointments with Paola and Zulma with her son (they live right down the street from each other) on Saturday. None of them were home. We were really down about it because that had been happening all week. So in planning we put our back up plan to knock doors in the neighborhood which we usually never plan to knock doors (my reasoning was that I really wanted to find a new investigator in that neighborhood because Paola and Zulma aren´t the most reliable people). Not the best demonstration of faith, but it turned out really well in the end. So Paola was not home so we went knocking. We started with the neighbor and it turned out that she was really interested in our message. It was awesome! Her name is Wanda and she had so many questions, saying that she likes the Bible but just doesn´t feel it has everything because of all the changes that have been made to it. So that got Elder Clark and I extremely excited. We talked about the Book of Mormon and gave the lesson about the restoration. She was very receptive to it and we put a fecha for the 17th. And she said that she would go to church. So Sunday came and unfortunatly she didn´t come to church. We went by yesterday and she said that she had slept in but she had read all of the Restoration folleto and 2 Nefi 2 and she has no doubts. So that was sick. We set an appointment to go on Wednesday so hopefully we can keep her progressing. Its awesome when things like that happen and you can see that the lord is working through you and he is also working in other places preparing others. I love the verse Jacob 5:72 where it says that the Lord of the vineyard went to work with the servants. I know that He is working with us in Trevelin.

Last night we went out with Pte. Ganga to do some visits. Alright so here is a little story. So Pte. Ganga was at the verdulería and he left his teachings for George Albert Smith book in the store. So a couple days later he returned asking if he left it there. The cashier guy pulled it out from under his desk and said yeah but he wanted to keep it because he has started to read it and he loves it. He is like 100 pages in. He then pulls out a teachings of Wilford Woodruff book and says that he has already read this one and loves it. I have no idea how he got those books but we were very excited to go contact him with Pte. last night. We we went and we were going to give him a Book of Mormon but he was busy helping people so he couldn´t talk. The unfortunate part was that we found out he lives in Esquel. Puchas. So we will be sending a very sweet reference to the Elders in Esquel.

Yesterday I also gave the lesson in priesthood. Suprisingly it went really well. I was really suprised that i could speak spanish well enough to teach a class by myself. that was and I just felt an awesome sence of accomplishment afterward.

We had an interesting opportunity to lend service by helping someone make a float for Carneval here. We contacted a guy and he was making a giant spider in his garage and he said to come by and help him out. It was sick I took some pictures and I´ll send them out to you in the near future when I can get a working USB.

I also got sick this week. I have no idea what it came from. But we wern´t able to go out because I was throwing up and stuff. Its really boring staying in the pension all day. I would much rather go out and work even if we don´t have the most success. I love this work and I am so glad to be a missionary. There is nothing else i would rather be doing right now.

Well I hope you all have a great week. I wish for the best in everything for all you back home. Love you all!

Les amo,
Elder Kyle Hudgins

Hola a mis queridos

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Hola a mis queridos
Date: February 20, 2012 7:34:30 AM MST

Hey how is everything going at home! Its awesome to hear from all you again. I always get excited on Monday´s to read all the emails. Thank you all for all the love and support and thank you for always making my Monday´s awesome.

This week was pretty awesome. We were able to go to Trelew on Wednesday to listen to Elder Foster of the second quorum of the seventy. It was pretty awesome. I really though he was going to drop cane on us but he was actually just really loving and ecouraging on helping us be better missionaries. He talked about improving ourselves on being more obedient and then using the help of the members and us helping the members as well. He said that if we do that our baptisms will increase a lot. He was a really nice guy but he spoke mexican spanish and it made me realize how dirty it is. Argentine spanish is no doubt the best spanish out there, creéme (a little bit of vos for all you). While we were in Trelew we were able to work the day there because our bus didn´t leave till 10:30 at night. Elder Clark and I ate lunch with Elder Kimball and his comp Elder Brown. Elder Brown was in Elder Clark´s district in the MTC so we all knew each other. We ordered this pizza that was seriously the best pizza I have ever had, the Fugaceta. Oh man soooo much queso it was delicious. So we visited some of Elder Clark´s converts and some of the members. We had a lesson with one of the members who did a lot of work with Elder Clark. His mom is not a member. The Hermanas who are in the area where also there which was awesome. So we had 4 missionaries and 5 members all in one lesson for one person. It was awesome. We invited her to be baptized but didn´t really accept it but she knows that this church is true and I´m sure she will be baptized in no time.

So we got back to Tevelin on Thursday morning and Elder Clark was not feeling good and started to throw up and stuff so we had to stay in all day. So that was kind of a drag to lose 2 work days of the week. Another thing that sucks is that we lost our keys and we think they might have fallen out of Elder Clark´s poket on the bus so now we have to get into our pension through the window which is getting a little old by now haha.

So transfers were this week and we found out that Elder Clark is staying here for another 6 weeks. So thats pretty sweet. We really feel that the field here is ready to be harvest here. We have put in a lot of work so far to plant some seeds so we just gotta keep working on it and thrust in our sickels. Its pretty exciting but there is still a lot of work. We really have to get people to church. There are a lot of people that want to be baptized and could if they just attendent church so hopefully we can get them going here.

Well thats about all. I hope you all have an awesome week and have fun at work tomorrow, Dad. Oh and I actually got the package last Tuesday. Thank you for the ties they are awesome and thanks for the shirt Tyler. I love you all and hope you have an awesome week.

Les amo,
Elder Kyle Hudgins

February 13, 2012

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: (No Subject)
Date: February 13, 2012 8:00:47 AM MST

Hey how is everyone doing this week? Thats awesome news that ad finally got a job. I was praying extra hard this week and its really is sweet to see Heavenly Father answer all the prayers. This week for me has been another tough one but we made a couple break throughs that really are getting me excited for the future here in Trevelin. On Wednesday I did divisions with the district leader Elder White. He is a really bold missionary and when he is in a lesson he has that goal and will do whatever it takes to get it. He came here to Trevelin so I thought it was a really good opportunity to take advantage of the situation. We went to a lot of our investigators that day trying to put some baptismal fechas. Well, our first two lessons where really spiritual I thought but the investigators still would not accept the invition. It was a little frustrating but we felt we did all we could do. Finally in the evening we went to Zulma, a less active member, to help her son with his english homework. After he had finished helping we taught him a little bit about baptism. He has told his mom that that is somthing that he wants to do so we gave him the challenge to prepare himself for March 3rd and he accepted. It was awesome. His mom pretty much taught the lesson. She knows so much and she really needs to be going to church. I really hope that this will help her in her reactivation process.

We also had a really awesome experience, this week while contacting a reference we recieved last week. I can´t remember the last name but the last name is Marchan. We went to his house in the afternoon and he wasn´t there, but right as we were about to leave he pulled up in his car in his driveway. The first thing he said was that he wasn´t interested, and that he had just returned from the cemetary where he went to his wife´s grave who died recently. He was saying that he doesn´t want anything to do with us because he was mad that God would take away his wife. He said that he was just so lost right now and doesn´t know what to do. We told him that this is the reason we where at his house at that very moment. He still resisted and didn´t want to talk. But we were presistant with him and said that this is the help and direction God has sent and that there is a reason that we were at his house at that very moment. He still was resistant. But we asked him one last time if he wanted to talk to us and he said no and then in mid sencence he just stopped talking and started to cry and then said alright one day i will talk to you guys. So sometime this week we are going to go over there and drop off a talk for him to read that i just read this morning by Elder Worthlin called “Sunday will Come” its awesome. I´m so greatfull that we were put in his path to help him at that very moment. I really hope and pray that he will accept us when we come by his house.

Another sweet thing was that we put 2 other baptismal feches this week with the familia Uribe. I think I have talked about them before and how the dad lost his job recently and has to go work in the fields now. We put a goal with him and his 9 year old daughter to be baptized on the 3rd of March. They said that they would go to church on Sunday but they didin´t show up which was dissapointing, but i hope we can get them progressing and coming to church next week.

Things with David took a little bump this week. We went by his house and the door was open and everything and we could see some beer bottles in the house. One of his friends answered the door and we asked for David and he then looked behind the door and says hey the mormons are here and then you can here someone say oh tell them im not here. So that was really a bummer. That was something that really hurt. Its hard to see someone you help change their life and then make a mistake. We haven´t been able to find him since then but I hope we can really soon. We go by his house every day looking for him because we really want to help him and he know how happy he can be. I know he can still make this change in his life. We just have to keep praying for him so we can find him and help him out.

Thank you for all the support from home. I haven´t recieved the package yet. It will most likely be either next week or the next. Oh yeah i totally forgot. This week we are going to Trelew for a conference where Elder Foster from the second quorum of the seventy is going to be there. I hear that authorities usually drop cane at these conferences. I just hope he doesn´t do it on me. Its going to be fun because i will get to see Elder Kimball again and Elder Clark has some converts that we are going to go visit. I´m excited and I´m sure that i will learn a lot.

I hope you all have a wonderfull week!

Les amo,
Elder Kyle Hudgins

“porque no recibís ningún testimonio sino hasta después de la prueba de vuestra fe.”

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: “porque no recibís ningún testimonio sino hasta después de la prueba de vuestra fe.”
Date: February 6, 2012 7:26:19 AM MST

Holy cow what a hard week! I have been thinking this morning about what I´m going to include in my email today and its been hard to try to make it seem like I´m not having a terrible time on my mission. It just seemed like nothing we had planned to do did not happen this week. Although a lot of things this week happened that i wish didn´t i deffinately leaned a lot from it and i still have high hope for success here in Trevelin. This week we found out that David still has some problems with the word of wisdom and he didn´t come to church again this week. We are trying to help him through his repentance process and really feel the atonement work in his life. He still is a little hesitant about comitting to keeping the commandments of the Lord and its also very hard to work with him because he is not home a lot. I still think that he is prepared to recieve the gospel but its going to take a little more work. He still has desires to change so hopefully we can help him make that final step of actually allowing the gospel to work in his life.

With Paola things are a little tough. We are really trying to help her recieve her own testimony. Right now she wants to be baptized because she sees that is has helped her kids but she hasn´t made the connection of this is the only true church. She is tough to work with and is a little stubourn but I think we can still help her with this. Her kids are awesome and they always help her. She reads the Book of Mormon with them and also her son just recieved the Aaronic Priesthood yesterday so that was awesome.

The last bad think that happened was with one of our recent converts Jorge. He was baptized about 6 months ago and went to church every week since then. But now he hasn´t been for a month. He is not happy with the member of the branch and says they are hypocrites. He thinks he is ok because he still reads the Book of Mormon. We are going to see him today. Hopefully we can get him back on the right track.

One bright spot this week was with Prosperina. We teach a class for the investigators and recent converts that attend church. Yesterday Prosperina was the only one there. We decided we should talk about the temple. It was really good to talk to her about that. We had a little pamphlet with some pictures of the inside of the temple. At the end of the lesson she was like saying, “I don´t know what it is but i just feel like I have to go there. You guys probably think I´m lying but there is just something inside me telling me I have to go” And we were telling her no that is the spirit testifying to you of these things. jaja. It was awesome. She has really helped me a lot in gaining my own testimony and she wants her whole familiy to be baptized. She just had her daughter and son in law move here from Córdoba and we were able to talk to them a little this week and they are awesome. I really hope to be teaching them sometime this week.

Even though all these things happened this week I am still so greatfull to be a missionary here in Trevelin. Its not easy but if we keep working hard in know that we will find success somewhere. This week I felt really greatfull for this things that I have here. Especialy Presidente Ganga. He works about 12 hours a day pretty much every day. He has been the branch president off and on for 20 years here. Without him and his help the work here would be so much harder than it is. I am also greatfull for the opportunity to be a missionary. There is no greater happiness than the happiness you get from sharing the gospel.

Anyway, I can´t believe that the Giants won the Super Bowl. I actually got to see some of the game because one of the houses we went to last night was watching it. It was very weird to see some other sport thats not soccer. I´m glad you all had a good time with the family last night. The England babies are getting huge!! I hope you all have a good week. I love you all.

Les amo,
Elder Kyle Hudgins

Una semana aca en Trevelin

For those not familiear with missionary terms, a missionary’s trainer is referred to as “my father” (mi papá), therefore the trainer of your trainer is “my grandfather” (mi abuelo). (jh)

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Una semana aca en Trevelin
Date: January 30, 2012 7:38:50 AM MST

Hello everyone! Hope everyone had a sweet week. It looked like you all had fun at Nana and George´s farewell. I can´t believe that they are already leaving. Thats awesome, I´m so excited for them. I do have two questions: What are those things that Tyler is wearing on his legs and what is going on with Nate´s hair??? Anyway, I´m glad everyone is having a good time.

This week in Trevelin was a pretty good one. We have been really working on getting references this week and we feel we have been getting some really good ones. There are a couple of people we are trying to talk to with some member but that can be a little difficult here with the small membership we have. One referrence we got was from Esquel and it was for Properina´s son. He lives here and we have actually met him before and he has two little girls that love us. The problem is that the wife really doesn´t like us. So we are trying to get a noche de hogar with Presidente Ganga and the family this week. I hope it works! We are also really trying to get these menos activos going to church. A lot of them have some kids that are not baptized so we need to get those families going to church so we can get those ordinances done.

We had an awesome lesson this week with one of the less active members. Her name is Zulma and she was baptized a long time ago and really has a strong testimony. She also went through the temple a few years back. We talked to President Peterson about her a little and he says that she really needs to be back at church. So we went over there this week and had a really good lesson and committed her to coming to church on sunday. I guess that bring me to this sunday. It was raining all night and all morning yesterday. Nobody showed up for church. There were only 9 people in sacrament. But the awesome thing was that Zulma actually showed up. It just made it all the better. I had to give a talk yesterday too about repentance and Zulma said that is was really good so i hope it helped her a little. She gave the closing prayer in Sacrament and it was a really good prayer. She said some things that show me that she is on the right track.

David is still progressing really well, although he didn´t come to church. But we talked to him Friday night and he said that he doesn´t drink anymore. We didn´t even have to tell him. Its awesome because the first time we saw him he told us that he wasn´t going to stop drinking because that was just what he did. But now he is like telling all of friends that is just stupid. He was telling all of them how cool it was that Presidente Ganga was visiting him too. Its awesome to see all the ánimo that he had about these changes he is making. I just keep getting more excited for him.

Things are still going well for Paola. She finally got a date set for her marriage for the 30 of March. We were hoping it would be a little sonner but its good that they have that date set. Right now we are really trying to get her to have her own testimony of the gospel. She is kind of riding of the testimony of her kids right now. We gave her the committment to pray about the church so hopefully she will get that confirmation.

Yesterday I think I probably had my best lesson. Elder Clark is really pushing me now and making me take lead in the lessons. We taught the daughters of Dionisio i think i may have metioned them before. They are both really nice and have a desire to find some sort of religion. But it was probably our best lesson of us teaching together so that was really satisfying.

The weather here this week has been really nice. Today I am actually wearing a sweater and my jacket. It has been raining a lot these past few days and its been a nice break from the hot weather. Oh and my package probably wont get here for about a month. I finally got the package the DeBry´s sent. Tell them thank you.

I think thats about it for the week. I´m excited for Nana and George! I hope you all have a awesome week!

Les amo,
Elder Kyle Hudgins

Oh and I´ll explain the pictures a little. The one that says RiBer is a joke around in Argentina. Its talking about River the soccer team and they are in the B league right now. In the alphebet the call the letter “b” b larga and the letter “v” b corta. So the joke goes like this… How do you spell River?… Con b larga (because they are in the b league).

The other pic is with Elder Clark (mi papá) and Elder Boyd (mi abuelo, Elder Clark´s trainer) at zone conference.

The other one is just a cool sunset.

Awesome week

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Awesome week
Date: January 23, 2012 7:51:15 AM MST

This week was pretty sweet. We had zone conference in Bariloche on Friday and it was pretty good. But let me start with the beginning of the week. On Tuesday we had just returned from dristrict meeting and we saw that we had nothing to eat in the pension so we went out real fast to get something. While we were walking we saw a couple tourists sitting on the side of the road. They seemed really frutstrated so we asked them if everything was alright. They asked if we spoke english and when they found out we did they were pretty happy. They were all from Isreal and they were trying to get to Futulaufu, Chile. Someone told him that there would be a bus coming by later in the day but that bus only comes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. When we told them they were not too happy. They told us that they needed to get to Chile the fastest and cheapest way possible (yes they were Jewish). We told them that it would probably be like 60 pesos to get to the boarder and then another 60 from the boarder to Futulaufu. When we said that they were like ¡¿Seriously?! That acutually was really cheap to what it ended up to be. But we took them to the taxi place and translated for them we even took them to a members house to use their internet because all the sybers were closed. We got them on their way and they were very greatfull for our help. I think it was their first time ever seeing missionaries so I hope we made a pretty good impression.

On Thurday we all headed to Bariloche for zone conference. Elder Clark had to go on Wednesday to do his visa. So it was just me and the Elders from Esquel. 5 hours on a bus is not the funnest thing in the world. I pretty much just tried to sleep the whole time. We did pass through some really nice cities on our way though. But when we got to Bariloche we all went to different pensions in the city to sleep for the night. The pension i was in the terrible. They had no food. I had to take a shower with a cup. It was not very fun.

But Zone Conference was pretty sweet. The conference was focused on baptism. I don´t know if i have told you but i think this mission is the lowest baptizing mission in all of South America. President Peterson said to make sure to focus your lessons on baptism. And put the baptismal date in the first lesson. He also really stressed the importance of finding new investigators. He wants every companionship to have 5 new investigators every week and a goal of 2 every day. It was pretty good. I understood most of it but still not all of it. The spanish is coming well though.

So the best thing that happened this week was on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday we asked Presidente Ganga if he wanted to go out on visits with us and he said yes, but he didn´t want to talk about baptism haha. So we went to David´s house and we talked about baptism. It was awesome. He said he was willing to do what he has to do to be baptized. So we set him with a date of 11 de Febrero and we also invited him to church. And he came yesterday. We gave him a tour of the chapel and it went really well. The first counselor in the mission presidency was there too and he gave an awesome talk. David said he had a really great experience. Also yesterday evening we were walking past his house and he was on his porch and he waved at us so we went to talk to him and you could just tell on his face that he was much happier than before. It is just awesome to see that difference in someone when they feel the gospel in their lives. I am so excited for David right now. If he keeps doing the things we tell him to do we might even be able to move up the date a week. Its awesome to see someone accept our message like that.

Well I hope all is well at home. Send some more pictures. Im sorry i don´t send a lot of pictures but none of the USB ports on these computers work so its hard. Hope you all have a great week. Love you all.

Les amo,
Elder Hudgins

¡Hola familia!

As Elder Hudgins talks about the weather, be aware they are in the middle of summer in his part of the world. (jh)

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: ¡Hola familia!
Date: January 16, 2012 8:41:55 AM MST

Hey how is everything going on at home? Hope all is going well right now. This week was really fun. Pobably my funnest since I have been here. And the reason is because we worked the hardest we have this week. Elder Clark and I are just really focused right now and its awesome. President sent out a new email with mission commandments. He wants to change the whole focus in this mission. He wants us to find at least 2 new investigators a day. Its not really the easiest thing in Trevelin but we did our best to get it. We were going through the area book and trying to thing of part member families all week that we could teach and get them to investigate the church. We found some really good people this week that I believe have really been prepared. We finally found David this week and we sat down and had a lesson with him. We talked a lot about Jesus Christ and what he thing God expects from him right now. He says he really wants to change but he is afraid that he wont be able to fulfill with the commandments and all that stuff. He said he was going to be at church but didin´t show up so that was a little frustrating. Hopefully we can meet with him sometime this week. Another new was Hermano Uribe. The family is less active but he and his 9 year old daughter are not baptized. He recently lost his job and they have been having some family problems. He has really been humbled. He is working in the campo right now and probaly only makes about 50 pesos a day. We had an awesome talk with him. He talked a lot about repentance. He was really beating up himself because he was really close to baptism a couple months ago but then he felt like he had a nice job and all that so he was fine with his life. We asked him about baptism and he had the same doubt as David. But we will help him with that. We have an appointment with the family tomorrow so I´m excited to see how that goes. And another awesome person we found was one of the daughters of a member of the branch Dionisio. He is like 95 years old and we go over every Thursday to do service. He has two daughters that are just the nicest people ever. They always have nice treat and always bring out jugo for us. We took the sacrament to Dionisio yesterday and we asked her about if we could teach the lessons. She is really thinking about it hard and taking it seriously and she knows that it is something very important. So we will go on Thursday and share a message with her. Hopefully it goes well.

This week we have zone conference. My first one. Because the mission is so big we have zone conferences every other transfer. Im excited about it but im not excited for the 5 hour bus ride to Bariloche. And it is taking 3 days out of our work week because Elder Clark has to do some visa stuff. From everyone that I talk to Bariloche is very overrated and always covered in ceniza. Elder Clark says Trevelin is the prettiest part of the mission.

So if you think the weather in Utah is weird, you have to see the weather here. Seriously like on Sunday night last week it snowed in the mountains and Monday and Tuesday were pretty cold days. And these last couple of days have been killer. If you ever send a package, make sure there is some gold bond in there. Oh and also send some pictures to put in my album. I love getting email pictures but i can´t look at them when i want.

Well anyway, I believe thats about all for this week. Hope you have a wonderfull week!

Les amo,
Elder Kyle Hudgins