Hobbs, Cameron

        Buenasssss!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Hope everyone is enjoying some great food. Sadly, Thanksgiving isn't really a thing here butttt I still had a great week.           I had the oportunity to baptize Ian this week. It was a super awesome experience. Both of his inactive parents came to his baptism! Also one of the speakers at the baptism talked about how parents need to be raising their kids in the gospel. It is exactly what they needed to here. I'm hoping the entire family comes to church next week. The baptism was so great hahaha right after I baptized Ian he was telling me he didn't want to get out of the water and he started swimming around. But I finallyyyy drug him out.      The night before I baptized Ian we watched Christ's baptism together. Ian was excited for his baptism but after he watched the video he was excited on a whole other level. The spirit was unreal. After I explained that he is going to...

    Buenos días from Chile! Hello fam and friends. Super grateful I get to give you guys a little update about my life in Chile every week! Thanks for all the suport and emails it means a lot fr.       My ward had stake conference this week. So all the wards in Talcahuano got together and we got to listen from one of the 70 Elder Costa. Wow what an experience that was. It was super cool to be in a chapel halfway across the world filled with faithful members of gods church. The spirit I felt there is the same spirit I feel back in Idaho. Doesn't matter what language, what country I'm in, or who the people are around me. The reunion made me think about the gathering of Israel and how incredible its going to be when all of God's children are gathered together again. Also i got to have a little conversation with Elder Costa after the meeting!        The work is moving on. Every week we are finding new people, placing more baptism dates and h...

         Happy halloween fam and friends! Super fun week here in Talcahuano. The work is pressing on.          We put a baptismal date for Ian! He is going to be baptized November 18th which I am super hyped for. We saw a lot of progress with his family also. His dad (that's inactive) drops him off and picks him up from church every Sunday. But this Sunday instead of waiting outside in his car he came inside the church! All the members rembered him and were giving him super big hugs so I hope that made him realize the ward is going to welcome him back.         I'm seeing so many miracles out here everyday. The mission really is a incredible. Don't have much more time to share my experiences today. Got to go save some souls. Haha love you all. Have a wonderful week. God lives -Elder Hobbs

     What up family and friends. A lot of miracles this week that I'm super excited to share. But first I wanna say how important the scriptures are in our day. We are literally in the last days. We are the latter day Saints. Satan has more power then ever before. But the great thing is, we have the armor to stand strong. Im not gonna lie i wasnt the best at reading the scriptures before my mission buttt I testify to all of you that if you read a little bit of the scriptures every day you will be able to withstand whatever temptation and storm satan throws your way. Ephesians 6:11-13         Lots of miracles this week here in Chile. To start we found a family that is superrrr inactive. The familia Norambuena. The parents were married in the temple and were super strong members then something happened in the church that shouldn't have happened. I don't really know the details but I do know they are angry at the church. Anyways they have 2 kids, Ashley w...

      Fam and friends! Hola a todos. Im currently writing this letter on a little bus with Chilean music blasting so vamos hahaha. I learned a lot this week. We had a lot of investigators that we have been teaching that are so great and such good people but weren't progressing. These families always invited us into their homes and loved talking to us and learning more about our church. But sadly weren't keeping commitments and we had a few drop lessons. This means you basically tell them if they aren't going to change or try to change then we gotta stop coming by. Anyways had a few of those this week which is sad but it's okay. We need to find the chosen and elect that are going to change and are looking for a change. But other than that this was a great week. I am starting to learn how to teach. I always thought I knew how to teach the gospel but out here its super different. You need to explain at a level that the people will understand. I'm always learning how to...

       Fam and friends! Can't believe im already writing another one of these. I had my first baptism this week and wow what an experience. Really don't know how to put the experience into words. We started the day with cleaning and filling up the font which was very exciting but very slow. Also I had to put the program together which was fun but crazy. I was calling every person in the ward possible to give testimonies and give little talks for the baptism. Somehow every member in the ward was busy that day but finally I got two great members to give a talk. Also passed by the relief society presidents house and asked her to bring some snacks for after.       Maximo lives with his mom and his little sister. The rest of his family are all super catholic. We had a few lessons with Maximo when his uncles and aunts were at his house. They are not super fond of lds missionaries. Anyways a tender mercy that happend is that when I was waiting in the chr...

       Hello everyone! Officially finished my first transfer in the field. So much has happened in the past week and I don't have much time to write this email but I'm gonna try my best to fill you all in. We had cambios this week. For a new missionary he has 2 cambios of training with his trainer. So I just finished my first cambio with my trainer elder workman. Me and Elder workman were super ready for our second cambio together to finish out my training but he got called as a zone leader in a different area. Soooo I received a new trainer named Elder Randall. He is from Arizona and I can tell we are gonna do a great job together. I'm staying in my area which means I'm basically the senior companion for awhile. Elder Randall knows nothing about my area or who anyone is so I've been completely leading the companionship. Feels like I'm the trainer at times haha. Super sad to see Elder workman go. He taught me how to work and to lose myself in the work. But I...