Camron's letter.........Sept. 17, 2012

Hola Familia, We had to go to Santa Cruz last Monday at 6:30 in the evening and we had some pretty good experiences. However after riding on the train for only 15 minutes, the back car of the train came off the tracks and we suddenly started to stop pretty fast. Then all of the sudden, all of the lights shut off, and then the air turned off too. There was dead silence for awhile and nobody knew what was going to happen to us. Then suddenly, the doors swung open and a bunch of people entered with masks on and with guns in their hands!!  Haha, just kidding. But really, we had to wait for like an hour and a half to get the train put back on the tracks so we could start moving again. Then an hour later it derailed again and we had to wait once more, haha. The third time it happened, they took the back car off, and we went on to Santa Cruz without the back of the train.  It ended up taking us16 hours to get to Santa Cruz. It normally just takes only an hour when we take the plane. But it turned out to be really cool because in the morning we saw a bunch of birds. Birds that I haven't ever seen before in my life. At one point the train scared up at least 100 flamingos and storks that were pink/white and white with black. It was was pretty awesome. But after getting to Santa Cruz, I was priviledged to baptize the 8 year old son of the familia Guaristy. They are still very strong in the gospel and the dad just received the melquesdec priesthood. It was an awesome baptizimal service and the mom and the dad both bore awesome testimonies of how they knew they were in the only true church. They expressed how greatful they are to be part of this gospel and also to be able to become an eternal family. It's awesome to see how their family has stayed strong in the church.  I'm sure they will continiue to be strong. We were blessed this week to be able to help a young family attend church. They stayed for the whole three hours with their three little kids. The dad just got to bed 2 and a half hours before church started and when we called him at 8 in the morning he told us he would go. The mom likes the church a bunch and she wants to go again, and she also wants to be baptized. She has a slight problem though. She will have to get married first. So we hope her "husband" will be willing. The awesome couple Rosio and George that we are helping, had to go to work Sunday but we were able to visit Rosio last night and we planned a family home evening with a family of converts today. So we hope they will help them out a lot. Rosio wants to go to church too but George seems to be a little scared. We are praying that everything will go well with him and that he will want to attend church too. This week we will be going to Santa Cruz again, but this time we will be going with all of the zone. We are leaving tomorrow at 4:00 and we will be riding on a different train. Not the one we went on last time, haha. Unfortunately this one is slower so its going to be fun too. I look forward to writing you next week to tell you how this week went. I hope this week will be awesome for all of you.   Love, Elder Christoffersen