Hello Family!

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Hello Family!
Date: 28 Jan 2013 07:26:33 AM MST

Well this week has been pretty sweet here in Zapala. It has been really fun gettting to know the area and meet all the wonderful people. The people here are very different. Everyone is a lot nicer and more willing to talk to you on the street and because of that we have had some really great street contacts. So it has been really fun. I´m really excited because the area and my comp are pretty awesome. My comp is Elder Irala and is from Misiones, Argentina. He is awesome. He is finishign the mission in March but he doesn´t let that get to him. He is more motivated to baptize than ever.

So here in Avellaneda we have some pretty sweet investigators. One of them is Roberto. He came to a baptism and went to church last week. We started teaching him this week and all the lessons have gone great. He has a strong desire to learn and be baptized. Its amazing how he understands the doctrine in every lesson and how he applies it to his life. Unfortuantly we found out that he is not married but fortunately he and his wife are legally divored from their previous marriages. So that was a relief because the paperwork for a divorce here takes about 3 months sometimes longer but you can get married in about 2 weeks so thats was nice. Yesterday he came to church and all the talks in sacrament were about marriage haha. He said at the end, well everything they said was for me no? We are going by today to explain a little more about marriage and hopefully set a wedding date for them.

We also found some really awesome new investigators this week. Her name is Gabriela. She went to church a lot when she was younger and wanted to get baptized but her parents wouldn’t let her. But we found her this week and she is together with a less active member. She is awesome and participated a lot in our lesson with us. They are not married but she said that it is something she wants to do. Hopefully we can talk to her husband and help him realize the importance of marriage. She was super set to come to church this week but her daughter was sick on sunday morning so she wasnt able to come. But she said that for sure she would come next week.

We should also be having a couple other baptisms in the coming weeks. Last week a girl named Vanesa was baptized and she seriously is a capa. She has a daughter named Oriana that is 11 that is just as capa as Vanesa. She always reads what we leave and she wants to be baptized. We just need to wait for her dad to give permission and it will be set. There is another investigator named Janet. She is a girlfriend of an ex missionary that is returning to the church. Yesterday she was in our gospel principals class. We talked about the atonement and she was participating a ton in the lesson. Elder Irala says that she had never been like that. Nestor, her boyfriend told us that she knows its true. We just need to teach her more but its been a little hard to find her because her parents are really in favor. HOpefully with prayer and fasting their hearts will be softend and we can teach her more frequently to help her progress to baptism.

Well thats about all I have. Its been a wokderfull week and im sure the next will be better. I love you all!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: photos
Date: 28 Jan 2013 07:36:22 AM MST

The first is with Omar and his family. We had an asado with them a couple nights before I left.

Omar and his family

Omar and his family

The other is the Familia Aguero. They are awesome Brian that is standing next to me is going on a mission to Colombia in March

Familia Aguero

Familia Aguero

Crazy Week!!

Kyle will be serving as a Zone Leader in Zapala.  His zone covers some of the prettiest parts of Argentina. (jh)

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Crazy Week!!
Date: 21 Jan 2013 11:43:13 AM MST

Well we have had a pretty crazy week here in Parque 2. I guess I´ll start with transfers! I turns our that I will be leaving today at 10:30 to go tooo……… Zapala as a zone leader! Crazy huh? It should be really fun though. My new comp is elder Irala and I´ve heard a lot of good things about him, but what everone says is that he walks really fast haha so we´ll see how it goes. But its a little intimidating but I talked to the president this morning and he says that he has all the confidence in me so it will be really fun. I will get to know San Martin de los Andes too so that will be nice to see some very pretty areas.

So this week we were able to see some progress in Omar. He started reading and is really likeing the things that he reads. He is developing a testimony of the Book of Mormon which is awesome. The next thing that we need to work on is just getting him to church. I know that if he comes he will find the disire to get baptized in this church.

This week we also found a new investigator, her name is  Schirley. She is really nice but super catholic. Its really interesting because I haven´t really taught many catholics in the mission pretty much everyone has been evangelical. But we talked about the Book of Mormon and she said that there is no way that Christ came to the americas. WE had a good chat with her thought. She was very nice though and wants us to come back and talk more about this Chirst is the americas. Hopefully the missionaries can continue teaching her and eventually teach all of her family.

Well I hope you all have a great week. I love you all very much. Next week i´ll be writing from the wonderful city of Zapala. Have a wonderful day!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

Hello Family!

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Hello Family!
Date: 14 Jan 2013 07:41:40 AM MST

Well hello everyone. The emails are telling me that it really cold over there. Well over here its quite the opposite. They were saying that on Friday it got up to 37 degrees. Thats in celcius, i don´t know how much it us in ferenheit but it pretty darn hot. But I sure am getting a nice farmers tan!

Well this week proved to be difficult with the weather and also with investigators choosing not to listen to us. The girl we found last week, Karen, decided to not listen to us anymore and we haven´t been able to get in contact with Fabian and Daniela either. But we did have another great lesson with Omar. We had what you call a charla franca with him this week. Or i guess you could call it a lesson where you just talk frankly with him. We really focused on prayer and reading the Book of Mormon to get an answer if the church is true. We felt the spirit really strong and I hope that he can keep his commitments. He then invited us for an asado on Friday. So that was very nice. Omar is awesome and I pray that he can keep his committments. Hopefully we will be able to see som progress in him this week.

This week we were able to find some people knocking some doors. One of them was a catholic that I felt impressed to contact her mentioning prophets. She said that she didn´t believe any of that stuff but we started up a conversation that lasted about 30 minutes outside her house. We shared with her the message of the restoration and she really started to open up to us. At the begining she was really hard hearted and a little stubborn but by the end she was laughing and smiling with us. She was very friendly and invited us over this week. Another was with a nother woman. She was sitting down outsided of Fabian and Daniela´s house but they weren´t home. She told us they weren´t home. We started up a conversation about what we share and she told us she was recently operated and was feeling really bad. She said that the conversation about the gospel brightened up her day and was so greatfull for us. She happily accepted a pamphlet and we set up an appoinement to go back. Those are just some of the great blessing that come from sharing the gospel in evey moment. There is always someone you can help out and they will be able to feel the spirit of the mesage of the restored gospel.

So this week is the last of the transfer so we will see what happens but there is a possiblitly that I may be leaving. But whatever it is, there is still a lot of work to do here in Parque 2 and hopefully we can find some more people to teach the gospel.

I love you all, hope you have a great week!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: photos
Date: 14 Jan 2013 08:15:36 AM MST

Haha I still have some photos from New Years. The first is with Gonzalo and Miguel Lezana, The other is the birthday of Hno Lezan and Gonzalo. The family didin´t have engough money to make a cake so we went out and bought one for them. It was pretty awesome.

Gonzalo and Miguel Lezana

Gonzalo and Miguel Lezana.

Hermano Lezan and Gonzalo's Birthday

Hermano Lezan and Gonzalo’s Birthday.

Hello Family!

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Hello Family!
Date: 7 Jan 2013 08:28:20 AM MST

Hello everyone back at home. Well I guess while you guys are suffering in the cold it has been really hot down here. I´m getting a nice tan so thats a plus. The work is still moving forward as well so thats really good.

So I´ll start with our new years celebrations. New Years eve we were with the Flia Lezana again. We had a good time eating some good asado and all that good stuff. We all had a good time together. New years day we got together with all the missionaries in Trelew and we all ate some tacos. We played some football and some card games as well. It was just a fun time to pass with all the other missionaries.

So this week we were blessed to find a sweet new investigator. Her name is Karen and we found her by knocking doors. She really doesn´t know much about religion and the bible which makes it very different teaching her. We tought the restoration and it was a sweet lesson. We could feel the spirit testify of the truthfulness of the message and she did as well and accepted a baptismal invitation for the 9 of feb. So hopefully we can continue teaching her and also start to teach her family.

So unfortunatly this week we weren´t able to find Omar or Fabian and Daniela to teach them a lesson. But we did talk to Daniela in the door for a little bit and she said that they both had been reading so thats awesome. HOpefully this week we can find them and start teaching them more and they can progress more.

Well I hope you all have a wonderfull week. To bad the vacations are already over with. They sure do go by fast. I love you all!

Elder Kyle Hudgins

From: Kyle Hudgins <kyle.hudgins@myldsmail.net>
Subject: Photos
Date: 7 Jan 2013 08:31:50 AM MST

This picture is of the medicine Elder Julcahuanca gave me. Its onion and sugar. I was pretty congested and took this at night and woke up and everything was gone. It worked wonders!

Onions and SugarThis picture is from New Years with Natalia, Ezequiel, Enzo and Maite Lezana.

Natalia, Ezequiel, Enzo and Maite Lezana