September 8, 2014-Vale La Pena

Vale La Pena

Just another great week down here in good ol Comodoro Rivadavia.  Suns out..not too much wind..just a great week!

We moved in to our new pension.  I am so tired of packing it's ridiculous! haha but hey.. I'm getting a little better with cramming everything in my bags.  It was actually a miracle how we found our pension.  We were at district meeting Tuesday morning when we get a phone call from our investigator Alexìs' dad.  1. We were pumped he was calling us and  2.  He called us to tell us he found us a pension! Huge miracle.  We now live behind their grandparents.  It's this tiny red shack that has one roomish thing and a bathroom kinda thing.  We were just so excited that it was our investigator's family that we were like WOO WE'll TAKE IT.  We then realized that night when we had no heater, kitchen, or lights that we might have needed to look a little better.  Morning came and I put my hand on the window to hear what kind of deathly animal was making this awful rooster crow that I broke the window just putting my hand on it.  Haha it's a little fixer upper but every day it's getting better and better.

We truly do love our pension now. And we're living behind this old couple again. BONUS. Our first night they invited us over for some mate and tea and juice for us and the old man literally went through his life story.  Literally...he went year by year since he was 9 years old when he was kicked out of his uncles house then went to work and didn't meet his mom till he was 18 but by then there was no love or anything and he shook hands and went off again.  He talked about the 40's like it was yesterday!! I am so grateful to be able to serve here and meet people like this old couple .  It makes everything worth it when you can learn about the past of someone who has been through everything and then some and note they have 10 kids who all work hard and they are all married!!! I repeat 10 kids and all of them are married.  That does not happen here!! Even member's! So ya we are about to go to work!

We had stake conference this weekend and 2 of President daughters came down.  It was so fun talking with them.  One of them knows Lauren Watts and was told to give me a hug and Sister Roger's was sad when she had to tell her that we can't hug her.  Pretty funny.  Amazing conference.  President Rogers is truly a man of God who wants more than anything for people to have the opportunity to be sealed in the temple for time and all eternity.

Well sorry about the novel..wasn't planning and sharing all that but when you get lucky enough to not have a broken keyboard down here you have to take advantage.

Be happy this week..the Church of Jesus Christ has been restored and we're living in it..what more could you want?  

Love you all,

Elder Cordero 

September 1, 2014- Congrats on catching a big fish mom!!

Congrats on catching a big fish mom!!

Happy birthday dad!! What better way to spend it than camping, hunting, and fishing with the family!

Well this week has been amazing!  Honestly every week is fantastic out here..not gonna lie..sometimes it's soooo hard but at the end of the week I can´t help but smile.  We had so many miracles and my love for this gospel keeps growing.  I love hearing what everyone's doing and all that is going on back home.  I can´t believe there is going to be a wedding in December Kinny!  I'm so jealous you are all camping right now!  I can´t wait to fish again!  Gunner drew an elk tag? how tight!!

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes.  I couldn't have asked for a better birthday out here.  I really tried to keep it on the down low but this ward is awesome.  Ended up eating 4 cakes and too much pizza.  I was thinking about it and I can't even describe how grateful I am for everything in life right.  I have the most amazing family with parents that sacrificed so much for us kids. I was raised in the gospel being able to watch and follow after the examples of the most amazing faithful members including all our extended family.  I am so excited to take everything that I am learning here and use it with a family of my own some day.  I love serving so much.  The joy that comes from serving is something I want to carry with me forever.  I am so grateful for everything in life but most importantly Jesus Christ and his eternal act of service in the atonement.  

JULIETTA AND HER MOM CAME TO CHURCH!!

I love you all!

Go do temple work and pray we'll get a temple in the Patagonia!  That´s why I am here!!! Working for a temple!!

Elder Lamb


S/o to some amazing families this week for making my birthday amazing!!
First of all Ojeda family for making me the dopest cake and always helping us out with teaching investigators and the Jovenes and the Robles family and Moreno family for celebrating my birthday and of course the Castro family for inviting us over and Sheila for always posting pictures of us because mom and reegan love all her posts haha:) Love all the people so much!!

Birthday Pictures:

August 18, 2014

What is up!!  This week has been great of course!! I realized that no matter what happens it truly always is a good week:)

Well I'm blinking like crazy right now because this wind is doing some serious work on them ojos.

I honestly can't remember all that happened this week.  Elder Chavarria and I are working so great together and President loves it.  We're just always happy and just try to pump up all the other missionaries.  I don't have like any time..sorry!!

That's awesome you saw the pictures mom.  That is the family we live behind so every night coming back to the pension we stop by to say hi or ask for something and we always end up sitting around the kitchen table and they tell stories about their childhood and their kids and stuff!  I love hearing from them and just being around a strong family here.

We've been doing a lot of service and I told the ward that I expect to be able to do service for every family before I leave and they´re on board.

Soccer just got 10000 times more competitive and I am obsessed. I'll definitely be playing in some sort of way when i return competitively.  

Wowowow wait a sec..Reegan is going into 9th grade? and Gunner into his Junior year? Nooooooooooo....well if 9th  grade was in the high school I'd tell her to take 8th again.  That's crazy!!

We had interviews with President and Hermana yesterday and they just keep getting better.  It's amazing to here from them.  Such real people who truly care about everyone!!

Oh and my cameras broke so.......no mas fotos por un rato:(

Thanks for everything!!!!!! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY AND I LOVE THIS GOSPEL!!!

Elder Lamb

August 11, 2014- There is no education like adversity

(i was given a quote book and i like that one by Benjamin Disraeli)
FAMILY!! Long time no see huh? Wow this week has flown by!!  On Monday we played soccer on a turf field which was too much fun. Literally gonna come back and head straight to Russia for the next world cup reppin USA. It's so much fun!! We always play Americans vs. Latinos and we spank them every time and we sure let them know it!  Guess what?  Remember Elder Chavarria?  He was Tres's old comp in Rio Grande.  He's from Atlanta, Georgia.  He was on the team of the first championship the gringos had over the Latinos.  Well he's my new comp!!  I was BEYOND happy!  He gets here today!  Craziest thing too.. He had a dream 3 days before we found out about transfers that him and I were going to be comps! Crazy! Well we have already set some very high goals this transfer so we're gonna go to work!!

 We found this amazing kid Alexis through contacting.  We found him a couple weeks ago but this week we were able to really get to know him and his family.  We invited him to ward family home evening and he came!  And his parents even drove us because it's pretty way sketchy where they live.  Then we invited him to a baptism in our zone on Saturday and he came to that as well with full support from his parents.  And again his parents drove us!  It was far too.... Literally they have helped us more than any of the members except Castros and course who live in front of us.

So miracle of the week.. Elder Garcia and I were contacting and we've contacted the majority of our area so far but we were walking and we came upon a street that we'd already contacted but I said "well let's contact it again because there's usually always someone new or they just didn't answer the door the last time".  These two women were walking out of a house to enter their car.  I was tired of clapping to houses and not receiving a response so I walked over to these older women and said I know they were leaving but we'd love to present ourselves and tell you about a plan that God has for us.  They were in a hurry but one of the ladies stopped for a second.. Took a deep breath.. Then with a sad look said she is a member and she wants us to come back an teach the lessons to her son who is 10 because she wants to return back to church and she wants her son to receive the lessons and be baptized.

My testimony grew so much more of just talking to everyone and contacting.  I have been studying a lot about virtue and wow it's a hard attribute to have but I'm striving to be more virtuous and already I have so much more peace and happiness.  It's also helping me so much to look at people not as they are but what they can become. I love being a missionary.  We were giving a blessing and I couldn't help smiling because I was thinking about how AMAZING it is that we have the privilege to have the authority of God to be able to help and administer at any time or place. 

So happy Zig is out here!!!

oh ya we lost power this week...that was fun waking up and trying to shower and get ready when it was pitch dark.. but it's back on.. all good:) 

LOVE YOU GUYS!! have a great week!!!

Elder LeBaron paying me 10 pesos because he wanted a certain card while playing phase 10 but it was my turn but he just really wanted the card.. haha he offered and I took it!!

Poundin some hot dogs and a burger. A member canceled lunch and since that's very rare I went all out! Great break from all the pasta and fat.

Susana!  She was just baptized 2 weeks ago and invited all the missionaries in our zone over to her house.  She rents out a turf field and that's the one we played on.  We brought a cake to share with everyone.  A member in our ward made it.  The beanie I'm reppin was made by the nicest sweetest tightest grandma ever.  She's the one we live behind and they always hook us up with food and stuff she knits!! 

August 4, 2014- These people sleep too much!

These people sleep too much!!

I've said it before and I'll say it again.. You want to fix this government in one day.. Take away the 4 hour nap in the middle of the day!!  I love Argentina but to support and acknowledge from 1 in the afternoon till 5 as a time when everyone's sleeping and the stores are all closed is a joke.

Mom, you need to come down here and teach people how to decorate!  Haha when I read about you having to plan that dinner it made me realize just how amazing you are with all that!!  Tell Brother Wheeler that I am doin some serious work in all these gardens down here all thanks to him.  Words gotten out that I know how to work well in gardens and with the shovel so we've been goin around to different houses to do service.

Well this week has been a testimony builder for sure.  We had multiple lessons cancel on us and it was very frustrating at times.  But I did what I said I was going to do and talked to everyone.  We were so blessed to have some AMAZING contacts that we have already set dates to go back and teach.

I had a miracle this week.  We were teaching this 12 year old boy who looks and acts like he's 16 but that's just typical here.  I swear there's something in the water. This boy loves to study the bible and talk religion and would rather study the bible than play outside. Crazy right? Truly amazing kid.  Well as we were teaching we set the restoration up so well.  We taught the apostasy great and the spirit was so strong and as I was about to introduce Joseph Smith and the first vision I was overcome with the spirit and started fighting back tears as I was telling this boy that we have the Church of Jesus Christ once again on the earth and that Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father appeared this a boy around the same age as him. We put a date for his baptism and we have a lesson with him today so we're very excited. 

My testimony is growing so much. I have so much more confidence to talk to anybody and I myself am surprised by how much I love to do service. Thank you for everything!!  Sometimes I lose perspective when times are hard so i'm going to try and remember more that it's not a sacrifice; it's a blessing and the greatest opportunity to serve the Lord. Everything is great. I want to see some pictures of Florida Mckinley!

July 28, 2104- WHAT UP!!:)

What up!!:)

Whaddup fam?:)  how's everything going??:) let me know!!!

So this past week has been unreal!! The Torres family were married Friday morning and baptized that same afternoon just like we planned! I'm still stunned it all worked out.. Usually there's always something the government here does to prolong the process even more. Or the family backs out or just something happens but nope it all went perfectly! It was so spiritual to hear brother Torres share his testimony with everyone after the baptism and say that this was only the first step and they are already counting the days till they can go to the temple next year!!:)

So I'm super illegal here so they have to send me on a 15 hour bus ride to Rio Gallegos tomorrow to do paperwork then I'm coming right back. Not to excited about that. 

Feeling great now.  Also cut my hair yesterday.. I don't know why I just always will hate cutting my hair.  Oh and I've been asked multiple times if I paint my hair or dye it and I'm just like ummm neck yourself and then think about it. The kids here are insane.  Imagine sacrament meeting with all the kids ages 6 and younger screaming and running and nobody does anything. Super tempting to trip one of them to teach them a lesson haha. Naw the wards great! Everyone is super nice and they truly try to welcome new people to make them feel comfortable. 

I've been studying a lot about our Savior recently and I came across section 138 of the doctrine and covenants. It is a vision given to Joseph F. Smith in 1918 the day before general conference and it is about the 3 days after the Crucifixion of Jesus before he was resurrected. He was ministering among the dead in the spirit world. He was teaching and sharing the complete gospel with them and he sent messengers to help him teach such as Adam, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Isaac, Jacob, Isaiah an many others. Then it talks about how there were spirits "reserved" to come down in the last dispensation such as Joseph Smith an Brigham Young. It made me think about the worth of souls and how great this work is.  Missionary work will not stop at death. It is going to grow and grow and keep growing till everyone has the opportunity to hear and to choose. I am so grateful for our savior Jesus Christ.  Because of Him we can live with our families forever. Because of Him we can overcome death.

I hope everyone has a great week:):) S/o to Ziggy for entering the MTC this week! Don't get fat! haha dang i miss that food so much!

I kinda fixed my camera.  Here are a few pictures.

                                                               Cutest puppies

                                                            Comodro Rivadavia

Pictures of the Torres family

 Taking a picture of a bunch of missionaries and little kids is basically impossible.  A lady in our ward made the cake and said she is going to make one for all the missionaries in our zone next P day so that's dope!! 

July 21, 2014- WEDDINGS!

So family Torres are getting married and baptized on the same day this Friday!!  Everyone is so excited!  We are throwing a big party with the ward after the baptism and President said we can stay out a little bit later.. So that's awesome!  This week has been awesome. The youth traveled to the temple last Sunday.. A 26 hour bus ride one way.. Crazy!

I gave a talk yesterday in church and it's a lot different from speaking in a house to a legit Chapel but it went great:)  We had zone conference with president and Hermana Rogers and the Assistants.  It was so amazing! The whole conference was about how to use the Book of Mormon more and using it as evidence of the restoration. I am loving the Book of Mormon more and more as I apply it to my life and the lives of our investigators.

We still have the two puppies in the pension and the ward gives us dog food and supports it haha we are gonna drop them off at the vet today though because they destroy everything and cry all night!

So we had some bad fish a few days ago and I've been pretty sick but it hasn't effected the work or anything until our lunch yesterday.  We had lunch with family Zukhurukov...they moved to Argentina from Ukraine in 2001 and they eat SOOOOO MUCH!!!  We had this tomato chicken soup that could fill you up then we had a ton of steak that was only the fat and a ton of chicken.. After that we had fish then these weird pancake things then "salad" which is just tomatoes and a bunch of juice and vinegar then we had bread, fruit and after that cookies after cookies and a ton of candy....... I literally thought I was going to die after... Demasiada comida. It was cool talking to the family about the differences in cultures and stuff. They always talk in Ukrainian in the house and it's so cool.

Well 6 months is gone!! Crazy!!  And Eli has a year!!  Oh my goodness!! It's hard to believe! 

These past 6 months I've met some of the most amazing people on this planet!! 

I can't wait to see what the next year and a half have in store:):) 

Keep praying for a temple in the Patagonia:):) 

Love you all:)