Love you!
-Elder Lambert
Hola mamá y mi familia!
Great to hear about the family! Sounds like a crazy adventure for you and Dad! Seeing Dr. Hilton would have been very cool as well, I would definitely be interested in hearing what he had to say. I was also grateful to hear about Noelle's experiences in the land down under! Super cool that she got to see kangaroos! Also- that is an awesome testimony from Grandpa Young! Very powerful.
As for me experiences here in Buenos Aires- it has been quite the read. Last Wednesday we took our flight from Salt Lake to Atlanta, and then took an overnight jaunt from Atlanta to Buenos Aires. There was a small group of us that took the flight to Atlanta and then several more missionaries met up with us in Atlanta to come out to Argentina! The flight was long, but I was blessed that I was able to sleep alright, even though the seats were pretty uncomfortable. We arrived in Buenos Aires Thursday morning and proceeded to pick up our luggage; then games began. We met three guys out front who were in charge of picking us up, I'm guessing they were members but they didn't speak a lick of English. Luckily, I was able to understand enough to get a role call done so we could see if everyone who was supposed to be there was present, and to know that we were supposed to follow him outside to where the buses would be. As we got out to where we would wait for the bus, the guy who I had been following asked me "Castellano?" to which I said no, but it was kind of cool to be communicating in some respect.
We proceeded to get on the bus and one of the guys who directed us to the bus asked for tips for the guys who had loaded our luggage up to take to the CCM (Centro de Capacitacíon Misional). One of the Elder's only had a $20 bill and the guy just took it and gave him the $5 change he had. We all had a good laugh about him giving a $15 tip first thing in Argentina. We got to the CCM and got all checked in, unpacked our bags and found out who our comps were! My companion for the duration of my time here will be Elder Kindt, a white boy like myself from West Valley. Elder Kindt just graduated in May from Skyline High School. I was thinking about it last night, and I really do feel like God needed Elder Kindt to be my comp while I am here in the CCM. He is certainly a kid, but he has a great Spanish vocabulary after taking spanish this past year and school and working landscaping with the hispanic community the last couple of summers. It has certainly helped me improve my Spanish, and we can complement each other well because I feel really motivated to speak with the native speakers here in order to learn and practice and then he helps me to learn how I need to properly say what I'm thinking.
The next morning after arrival I found out some news that has made the past week CRAZY!!! I was appointed district leader over one of the groups of american missionaries that had arrived the day before! Not only that, but I was in charge of making assignments for sacrament on Sunday! I didn't even know anyone yet! lol. I had been hoping that I could come into the mission and just take a back seat and learn from other elders about how to be a good leader in the mission, but nope- I got thrown in right away! It has been a very good thing though, I feel it has reminded me to be a servant and give unto others. Even though I have felt some stress about doing my best to learn for myself and help the missionaries in my district I know that I have been blessed so that I might help others.
Fun and funny moments from the week: I have now gotten used to using the bidet in the bathroom; I heard one of the Latino elders rapping and then told him I freestyle so I got in a good little freestyle which earned me some brownie points with the latinos here; I have had a lot of fun meeting all the native speakers here, they are really nice and when I embrace my "gringo"-ness and joke around with them they think it´s hilarious (I've been practicing the baptismal invitation, my testimony, the missionary purpose, etc. on them); in our second lesson with our practice investigator my comp said we were EXCITED (excitado = aroused) instead of excited (animado = animated) jaja; I played fútbol with the latinos the first day but then my knee started hurting again the next day so I've been backing down a bit during physical activity; and the food has been very good (a lot of meat and a lot of french fries- I just need more vegetables in my diet).
Yo sé que Jesu es el Cristo, él es el Salvador del todo mundo. Por la misericordia, el meritó, y la gracia de su, podemos recibir vida eterna. Queremos hablar de su nombre para siempre. Oro que puedo posear su poder con mi siempre. En el nombre de Jesucristo amén.
I love all of you and am extremely grateful for your help and support. Thank you for being the hands of God in my life.
Love,
Elder Lambert
p.s. I have pictures but I don´t have time to send them now! Also, the plan is fine for the phone. I'm okay if you cancel as well; do what you think is best. I also found out that I can get Modafinil here! Potentially without a perscription!
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| At Salt Lake airport. |
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| With Elders at Salt Lake airport. |
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