From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello Family!
Date: 15 Apr 2013 08:17:56 AM MDT

Hello everyone! Well It sure looks like you all had a good time getting together this past weekend. It looks like you had some hamburgers. As good as a nice asado is I do miss a nice barbaque with some hotdogs and some hamburgers.

Well this week was a pretty fun one where we were able to have a lot of fun in our area trying new things to try and find some more investigators. We were also able to make some progress with a couple of our investigators. Yanet and Nestor are doing great. This week they found out for sure that they can get married without the permission of her parents so they were super happy for that. They have seen a lot of their prayers answered and that has helped them a lot. They had been praying to Nestor could find a job and just last week they police department called him and he had to do a couple tests so he could get a job with them. So that was a blessing for them and now with the news of the new law for marriage, its just another one. They both came to church yesterday and had a really good time. So that is awesome. They are progressing well for the wedding date on the 27 and the baptismal date on the 4 of May.

We were also able to make a lot of progress with Lucía. She has been have a really hard time keeping her commitment of going to church. So we toughter her the restorationg and really focused on extending that comittment. It was so nice to here her finally accept that comittment firmly. But there was also another cool exerience on Sunday mornging with her. So she told us that on Saturday night she stayed up realy late watching movies with her kids. She didn’t think she would be able to get up for church at 930 in the morning. So she told us that in her prayers at night she told God that if he really wants her to be in church then he will wake her up in time. And in answer to her prayer that actually happened. That was a sweet experience and i’m sure that it will strengthen her testimony of prayer. She still says that she is afraid to ask to see if the church is true though. She is still afraid of offending her mom. So we will have to think of some way to help her out with that. But she is progressing little by little.

Well I hope you all have a wonderfull week. I love you all. Thank you for the pictures. keep sending them! Have a great week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Here are some pictures of our little hike we did last week. Its a hill called Michacheo that give you a look at all of Zapala.

Pointing to Michacheo

From the top of Michacheo

From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello
Date: 8 Apr 2013 08:15:32 AM MDT

Hey everyone back at home. I hope everyone had a good conference weekend. We had a good time with a little miracles here and there as well.

So the conference was awesome. Confernce seems to have so much more meaning in the mission. Unfortunately I wasn´t able to see the priesthood session. But we downloaded the audio and we will listen to it in out pension later. Too bad I wont be able to see Spencer though. That would be awesome to be in the choir there. Too bad I can´t sing. This time I watched it all in spanish, which to be honest isn´t as enjoyable and a lot more tiring but it was still nice to hear all the words spoken. I really liked Elder Cooks talk about peace. But also that made saturday conference great was because we had a surprise investigator come. His name is José. We found him in the area book and went and contacted him earlyer in the week. We we talked to him, he wasn´t interested at all and said he wouldn´t be willing to pray about our message. But we invited him as well to the confernece. When he arrived Elder Lundskog and I were shocked and super happy. He loved the first session so much that he stayed in the chapel during the break and stayed for the last session. It was awesome. Unfortunately he left before we could talk to him. But Elder Nelson´s talk about the restoration was a great talk just for José. So hopefully we can find him this week and talk to him about how he felt or if he has any questions. Hopefully the spirit touched he heart and he will have desires to listen.

So this week was pretty crazy because we barely had any time to work in our own area. On Wednesday we were in Neuquen and on friday we were in Cutral Co and the we had General conference and that made it a little hard to help our investigators to keep comittments. The week we were working really hard to Yanet and Nestor would go to the conference. But something came up and they didn´t go so that was a little frustrating. But we did have a good lesson with her and she said that she knew the Book of Mormon was true. So thats awesome. We also hear of a possiblitly of a new law that says the anybody over the age of 18 and get married without the permission of the parents. So we will have to look more in to that and that really could be a huge blessing for us. Lets hope that it is true.

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

Elder Kyle Hudgins

From: Kyle Hudgins
Subject: Hello everyone!
Date: 1 Apr 2013 08:23:06 AM MDT

Well this week was a great week with a lot of wet weather these past few days. But it was a fun week and we are really excited for some new investiagtors that we found.

So I´ll start with Yanet. Things are going good. On tuesday we went by their house and they told us that they already have a wedding date set for the 27 of April. So that was sweet. Yanet and Nestor are doing great so we put a fecha for Yanet on the 4 of May. So now the only problem is that she is only 18 years old and she needs her parents permission. That kind of has her scared. The relation with her parents is not that good and if they find out that she is getting married to be baptized they deffinatly will not give permission to do it. So that kind of has Yanet a little discouraged and unfortunately they did not come to church yesterday. So that has been a little frustrating but I know that if we do all we can that it will be in the Lords hands. I just hope that they can excersize their faith so they can receive these blessings.

So this week was had interviews with president and the assistants came by early and we did intercambios with them. I went with Elder Heaps to go to the terminal to pick up some other missionaries. Meanwhile Elder Lundskog and Elder Zimbleman we working and they found a sweet new family. They are old investigators that we contacted a couple weeks ago. We were just walking in the street and we started talking to a little kid. We told him to ask for his parernts to come out. So we talked to his mom a little and she was really nice and really interested. So we are excited to teach another family and hopefully we can help all of them receive an answer that this is the true church. We also found that same day a woman named Andrea. She is awesome with a lot of questions. She studies with a lot of religions and really wants to find dirrection. She has family that are members in Chile so hopefully we can help her out and get her on date so we can help her get that dirrection.

So also another really awesome thing is we are teaching some Gypsies. I didn´t know they actually existed until the mission because there are a ton in Argentina. They are super nice and willing to listen. We invited them to the conference last week but they didn´t show up. When we went by this week they told us that they went out looking for the churhc but couldn´t find it. So that was a bummer but at least they have desires to learn and know more.

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

elder Kyle Hudgins

Some photos of our last p day. We went to primeros pino to go look for some piñones. They are like a pine nut that only come from the araucaria tree. This is like the only place in the world that has those tree (or so they say).

Araucaria trees

Me and Elder Lundskog

Me and Elder Lundskog

A cool waterfall.

A cool waterfall

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