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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello family
Date: 30 Jul 2013 05:42:42 AM MDT

Well I know that youre all probably freaking out that I didn´t send a letter to all you the other day but hopefully the letter today will make it up to you.

So this week has been pretty amazing and really packed full. We had to go around all the mission to do the zone conferences. It really has been a blast. Sometimes it was a little intimadating. We started out with the Roca zone which was pretty tranquilo. But on tuesday we had zone confernce with both the Nuequen zone and the Nuequen Oeste zone. There were like 50 missionaries that I had to train. Now that was a little intimidating but it was also really fun. One of the really crazy things was that at the end they invite all the missionareis that are going home in the next two transfers to bear their tesitmony. So one of those missionaries was me. That was really a cool experience. It was a chance to see how much my tesitmony has grown over the past two year. So after the conferences here in the north we traveled down to Esquel. It was a really cool experience to see some familiar faces. But was that coolest thing was is that we stayed the whole weekend because president had to be there for district conference. So on Friday after the zone conference I was able to go down to Trevelin to visit some people. Everybody was happy that I could actually talk this time. We were able to go out with the Asbell´s who are the matrimony that are down there. They are awesome and they were really greatfull for my help. One of the really cool things is that we were alble to visit Prosperina. Unfortunatly she has been inactive since March. We talked to her and she said she felt a lot better about the visit. We comitted her to go to chruch next week so I really hope and pray that she will. But on sunday it was awesome to see everyone. The nicklitcheks, the gangas, and also Paola and her son Irving both went. IT was a really great meeting and hopefully it help Paola a lot. We also went to visit her and she really has progressed a lot over these past two years. She is trying to get married so she can get baptized but she and her boyfriend keep running into problems. Hopefully they can do it. It weould be awesome to see her get baptized.

I´m sorry I haven´t been able to send pictures. I can´t figure out whats wrong but I can get the file to pull up on the computers with all my pictures. Hopefully next week I will be able to. I love you all an dhope you have an amazing week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello
Date: 20 Jul 2013 07:13:53 AM MDT

Hello family! How is everyone doing this fine saturday morning? It is a little chilly here in Neuquen so i hope you are all enjoying the nice warm weather. Well it hasn´t been too long since I wrote you but it sure has been a crazy first week here.

I´ll start off one Tuesday. Tuesday morning we all took the missionaries going home to the airport. There were a couple of really good friends and really good missionaries like Elder Nance the left and it was sad to see them go. But a couple hours later the new missionaries arrived which birghtened up the spirits again. The new missionaries are awesome. It was really fun spending the day with thiem and getting to know them. We had to do all the training stuff and teachign them the rules and all that. It was fun.

The next day on Wednesday was a crazy one. We were excpecting all the trainers to come in to do the capacitation with all the missionaries. What was also crazy was that Hermana Lovell had to go home and there were also 2 other missionaries that were coming in from Colombia. So president and Elder Zimbelman went to the airport to take the hermana and to pick up the new Elders. But some flights got delayed and that left Elder Wagstaff and I alone to do some of the training. Now I will let you know that I literally had no idea what i was doing thing whole time. Its pretty much just like they throw you in to get up to game speed. So during lunch Elder Wagstaff tells me that you are going to have to train the new missionaries by yourself and he was going to train the trainers. So I did my best and I had to really rely on the spirit to take all the time. But it turned out really well and I think that all the missionaries could feel the spirit in the capacitacion. And right when I finished President came so we could continue with the meeting.

So those are just a couple of the things that happened this week. Its been pretty tought getting use to the office. Its just totally different than the other life of a regular missionary. We were able to go out and work. We do have an area. The area is called Belgrano. But now we have to focus on the zone conferences that start next week. On Monday we go to Roca and on Tuesday we are here in Neuquen for then on Thursday we make the trip down to Esquel so that will be really fun to go back down there. Hopefully I will be able to go down the Trevelin and visit some people. So that will be really fun. A whole lot of traveling but it will be a good time.

I love you all and I hope you have a wonderfull day!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Some news

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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Some news
Date: 15 Jul 2013 08:22:13 AM MDT

Well hello everyone. Its fun to write you today from my new area. I would think that you will all be excided to hear about where i am. Well today I am writing you from the comfotable mission office because I have been assigned to be the next assistant to the president. Yeah pretty crazy no? I was really surprised and its going to be a really cool experience.

Well this week we were able to have the baptism of Sabrina. It was a really special baptismal service. All of the Barraza family was there and also Sabrina´s parents came and they really liked the service. We showed a video that showed the testimonies of all the apostles and he told us that he really believe that all the things they were saying were true. So we set up an appointment to go by this week.

We were also able to make a lot of progress with another parrt member family. Brenda is a less acitve member who says she really wants to return to church. She is living with her boyfriend Sergio. He accepted a fecha for the 17 of agust and they are both really excited to start changing their lives and go to church.

So yeah its going to be a pretty crazy experience being assistant but I am pretty excited to be with Elder Wagstaff again. We will also be in a trio with Elder Zimbleman for a week and a half so that will be fun as well.

Sorry but I forgot my camera in the house. I love you all and I promise pictures next week. I love you all and hope you have an amazing week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Hello everyone!

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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello everyone!
Date: 3 Jun 2013 08:25:37 AM MDT

Well we have had a pretty crazy week here in Zapala and a lot of things have gone about. So I guess I´ll start with the transfers. So as you already know Elder Wagstaff left to go be the new assistant and so that means that I´m just staying here in Zapala with my fourth companion. His name is Elder Suarez. He is from Uruguay. I met him while I was in Trelew and he is pretty awesome and I´m really excited that he is coming here to be my comp.

So this week was another battle with sickness. Once again I cought a stomache bug and was out of work for 2 days and man was that a really boring 2 days! But now I´m doing fine and i´m at 100%. But I it was a tough week in our area because also earlyer in the week we went to do exchanges in cutral co. So thats 3 days that we wern´t able to work in our area. But I think its safe to say that the lord blessed us to make up for the lost time.

This week we were able to find two sweet new investigators Hector y Carlos. Hector was a reference from the hermanas and has already been to church. He was super recieptive and while we were teaching him his Carlos came by and we were able to teach him as well. They are both really interested in the church and want to learn more and follow Christ as well.

Another blessing that we got was on Sunday. but it started on Saturday night. Elder Wagstaff and I were walking down the street and we said to each other that we hadn´t contacted pretty much anyone this week so we started to talk to all the poeple that passed us. We came upon a man named Sergio. It was a simple contact and we invited him to church. We weren´t sure if he was going to go because I realized that he gave me a fake address. But surely enough Sunday morning he shows up! We talked to him in between classes and said that saturday night he was thinking and he said that he grandpa is member of the church and wants to follow what he is doing. So he was super content to be there in church. He stayed for the whole three hours and we set up a cita with him for wednesday and got his real address haha.

So another good piece of news is that Elder Kimball is coming to the zone! He is opening an area in Cutral Co and will be training as well and be the district leader which means I will be able to do exchanges with him shortly so that will be awesome! I love you all and hope you have a wonderfull week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Hello!

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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

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

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

With Elder Wagstaff and the Venagas Family

Hello Family!

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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

Sleeping bag suit

Dear Family

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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hey!
Date: 13 May 2013 07:38:46 AM MDT

Well it sure was nice seeing you all the other day. But i guess that means I don´t have too much more to say in the letter. So unfortunately yesterday I was not able to see Yanet get confirmed. The reason: on saturday night I was struck again with food poisening. Yeah I was not a great experience so yesterday I just spent the day in the bed and we didn´t go to church. But we called Nestor and Yanet and she did get comfirmed so today we will go by and congradulate them and start teaching the lessons of retension.

We are really excited with the familia Rodriguez because the accepted a fecha for the 6 of june. The mom was a little hesitant but Micaela told us that she has been wanting to get baptized for about two years now so thats awesome. Hopefully we can help them reach that goal.

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

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Here is the picture for the baptism (I forgot my white tie haha)

Baptism of Yanet

Baptism of Yanet

Hey!

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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

Hello Family!

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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello Family!
Date: 29 Apr 2013 08:36:48 AM MDT

Well this has been a really awesome week here in Zapala with Elder Wagstaff. We have had a good time sharing the gospel with the people here.

So I will start with the familia Rodriguez. They are doing awesome. Unfortunately we weren’t able to find them all week except for late Satruday night. We tried multiple times but could never get a hold of them or find them in house. So finally on saturday night we found them just in time to invite them to church. They said that they had been talking about it and were making the plans so they could go. So on Sunday they whole family was there. It was awesome. It was the ward conference so all the classes were really awesome. It was a great experience and the ward did a good job of helping them feel welcome also. The kids were all able to make friends. It was great. So they are doing really awesome. We really excited to find them this week so we can put a baptismal date with them and help them progress toward that.

So this week Nestor and Yanet got married! That was a really big step for them. We are super happy but now we have to make sure that Yanet is ready to be baptized. We have a baptismal date for her for this coming week but it still isn’t sure. Yanet isn’t were we would really like her to be in terms of her progression. They didn’t go to church and they haven´t been reading. This week we are going to be pressing hard and hopefully we can help her make that final step (which really is the beginning).

So this week the weather has been a little crazy. We had a huge rain strom on friday. The streets were like rivers. It was crazy. I´ll send some pictures.

Well sorry I don´t have too much for today. Just know that I love you all and hope you have a wonderfull week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Me in the rain. You can also see the river that formed in the middle of centro!

Elder Hudgins in the rain

Elder Hudgins in the rain

The wedding of Nestor and Yanet

The wedding of Nestor and Yanet

The wedding of Nestor and Yanet

 

Hello!

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From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello!
Date: 22 Apr 2013 08:14:09 AM MDT

Hey everyone. Well this has been a pretty sick week here in Zapala with a lot of cool stuff happening.

First I will start off with the familia Rodriguez. Oh my goodness this family is like every missionary´s dream. They are soooo awesome. Family is the mom, Carina, and she has 3 daughters and 1 son, Micaela, Laura, Tiara, and Lucas. They are all so awesome. We had actually contacted them about a month ago but we could never find when the mom was home. So the other night we finally were able to talk to Carina outside and everything was just awesome. She was super interested and said that she had been looking for a church for her kids for sometime now and they only live a half a block from the chuch here. So she told us to come back another day with a member so we could enter and teach them. And man it was just a sweet first lesson. They are so prepared. All the kids were involved and asking questions and all accepted the invitation so be baptized. They are so prepared, especially Micaela. She is 17 and has been investigating churches for a while. After the first lesson she told us she read the chapter and she even read more. She said that is just gave her more ganas to read after reading the first chapter. We invited them to church but unfortunatly Laura got sick and ther weren´t able to go. But we stoped by at night and they said sí o sí they will be going next week. We really are super blessed to find this family.

Anyway we also had another sweet miracles this week. One day were were trying to find an old investiagtor and happend to find a less active family. They said they had only lived in the house for a year so they were kind of lost and none of the church members new where they lived. But we found them and talked to them for a while. They have had a lot of problems adjusting to their new home and the new neighborhood. We found out that she also has a son that is 10 years old that is not a member. So this week we started to teach them and hopefully we can help them progress.

Also there was the familia Barraza. They are a family have have been members of the church for a long time. Sealed in the temple and everything. The hermano was bishop also but they have been inactive for about 8 years now. The other week the temple presidend from Buenos Aires came and had a fireside. They went and then the next day they came to church. They have a kid that need to be baptized as well. So hopefully we can help this family as well come back into full activity again.

So also some really crazy news. Elder Lunsdskog is being transfered to Neuquen. My new companion is going to be Elder Wagstaff! Man i´m super excited. This transfer sure is going to be a sweet one.

Well I love you all and hope you have an amazing week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins