Conference Edition.

Dear Family I am so Happy!!!! :) I just barely got a hair cut and I feel refreshed and awesome from the conferencia este fin de semana!! It was absolutely amazing they actually had an English room for all of us gringos!! The Spanish is coming along and I am not letting anything get me down!! I am so so so so so thankful for the counsel and the testimonies of the Savior!! If I had one piece of advice for you all it would be to please please please study, listen to, and most importantly read the talks again and create a study journal in which you record, not necessarily the words of the prophet but the spiritual promptings in which you receive!!! Please please please don't ever be satisfied with where you are spiritually, always strive to be closer to the Savior by studying the scriptures daily have a specific time that you read PERSONALLY each night as well as as a family!! Strive to gain a personal testimony of the Savior and Joseph Smith have the desire to study and ponder on these things and you will find as you study, and pray, and sincerely ask the scriptures as well as talks, may I suggest 30 min of scriptures and 30 of the living prophet, I know that if you do these things you will be blessed and you will have happiness and questions and problems you have in your life will become clear!! Please please do this pray for the desire to want and be hungry for this and It will bless your life forever!! I love the talk that had the question "am I doing all that I can to receive all the blessings of my patriarchal blessing?" or to live my life to the fullest serving those around me and being happy?

I love you guys so much!! Now let me tell you about my area!! In this area there is so much potential we have a woman named Nanci who is awesome!! She truly has a desire to learn about the gospel but her husband doesn't like the gospel he has not given it a chance and he doesn't want her having anything to do with it! But we are taught that God never leaves us alone and if she truly does have a desire and exercises faith, the God that created heaven and Earth will create a way for her to be able to join the church and receive the blessings!! We have a lot of people that say they want to and I think they do truly want to to a point but they don't put forth the work instead of doing the small things we ask them to do to help them build their faith, they come up with excuses. My family, please never let this happen to you Being a part of this church in this day requires a consistent effort to renew your faith and conviction lest you fall and satin gets to you and you loose sight of the truth!! With God scripture study doesn't have to be a sacrifice. Again, I say pray for the desire and the Lord will help you want it with all your heart!! There is something else I would like to say concerning keeping the commandments. I have a testimony that keeping the commandments and making an effort to renew yourself can be easy and fulfilling. This is something I didn't understand very clearly before the mission. This and the fact that Jesus can help us have desire!! I had to gain a personal conviction by living and on a consistent basis using the atonement to try and improve for the day or week!! I bare testimony that true happiness lies in keeping the commandments and evaluating what you are doing to try harder and do a little better!

I want to end by saying once again how much I love you all and I think about you all!! Please can you get me Sammy's email and Adams email tambien. I want to write you all individually!! also could you get me Elder Wilson's email, and tell Kathy I think she is awesome!

I had the opportunity to share family photos of my camera with people and they all said how beautiful my family was and how gorgeous my mom is!! (Love you MOM!!!) :) send me pictures of the family by mail so I can show people!! :) Love you all and TELL Crystal I love her and I know she is going to make a difference in so many lives!! Cant wait to hear all about her farewell, love you

Have an amazing week!! 

ELDER SANDBERG 

Hola from the heart of the city of Salta!! :)

Walking the Streets of Salta

I am right now in the heart of city of Salta, in a cyber, which is a internet cafe there is some crazy Argentinian rap playing! Everything is so different!! My area is all pretty much city we basically have two areas portezuelo uno y dos, half of it is rich and and very lindo (cute, or enchanting) and the other half is very poor! They basically have left over bricks and rocks and wood planks for their house! and blankets and left over posters for doors! My compañeros name is Elder Edwards from California, with his glasses he kinda looks like Clark Kent. They call us Elder Kent, and they call me Elder Capitán America! The members are very nice and have so much faith! We work a lot with the members a familia Florez(who are recent converts) and are just awesome!! a boy named Maxie who is about 15 and is a Kappo (stud or boss) and also Simon (who served his mission in chile). He is about our age and is very much a kappo also!! 

Elders Edwards and Sandberg
(Elder Clark Kent and Elder Captain America)

We have to be careful though cause there are a lot of "snakes" everywhere even in our ward!!! I love the area though the people are so nice and accepting!! The food is great! there are a lot of empanadas! and Pasta which I love!! :) As far as the language I am so grateful for the prayers of my family!! I can now pretty much understand most of what people are saying and respond in my broken Castellano!! :P :) Its great though I don't let myself get discouraged because I know if I am doing everything I can on my part the lord will do the rest and Carry me!! :) I just had one time this week where for about a half an hour I was just like!!! AHHHHH, but I prayed and read the scriptures and It was better!! Sometimes you just need to take on your mountain one step at a time!! I am also convinced That Goals and Planning is so Important and that is something I am becoming better at!! My companion described it this way! Once you climb one hill(one goal) there is another and another after that, but little by little you are climbing higher and becoming better!! :) 

We have had some pretty funny experiences!! One time this guy comes out of nowhere and he is smoking a cigarette  and he has tattoos and he obviously chews also! and he has this shirt that says "football, beer, women" and he says I want to come to your church where and what time is it?? It was great! I only have five minutes left but I want to bare my testimony to you!! 

I know this church is true and I know that God loves us and has a plan for all of us!! I know that when we read the scriptures and turn our hearts unto god in prayer, God will bless us help us to become better!! We will be able to do more than our mortal bodies are capable of doing!! "God can do more with a humble and obedient soul than a person can with just pure talent"!!! Please know that I love you all soo much, you all have made a difference in my life and I am better because of you all!! Please, my family, know that I keep you next to my heart and I pray for you I love you so much!!! Please share this word and this gospel with others and look and pray for opportunities to serve!! We are so blessed to have this gospel in our life!!! It is amazing I am so thankful for the power of the priesthood, I had the opportunity to give my first blessing in castellano this week, I am thankful for the opportunity and the spirit that was there!! 

Have an amazing week and I will talk to you next week!! :)

With love from Salta!

Ok so I am going to start from when I landed!!! It was very rough and I almost lost my lunch. We could not see anything but gray clouds all around us!! But we finally made it!!!

We had to take a bus into the airport because we there was not enough room for our plane! On top of that there was a strike at the airport and nobody was working so we had to wait for about 4 hours, but we talked to this awesome guy who told us all about the money and the "blue dollar".

After that we got the opportunity to see Buenos Aires for a little visit the Buenos Aires temple (but not go in) and visit the MTC here!! We tried some great food!! Then we met the President and I love him he speaks Spanish and English perfect!! He doesn't even have a Spanish accent!! It has been awesome here I love the people and everything!! 

I want to bare my testimony!!  I love the gospel and I love the people!! I am so grateful for the opportunity God gives us with the gospel! The gospel is so beautiful!! I wish I could convey the importance and the wonderful blessing that the gospel means!! But I know that the Lord has a way of preparing his people!! And, even though we are the only two Elders in basically 2 areas(Portezuelo 1 y Portezuelo 2) God can and will help us find the people he has prepared for the gospel!! I am so grateful for the blessing of families and Christ's atonement, The gospel is so wonderful and powerful it can change even the vilest of sinners and the hardest of hearts and save them for eternity. Knowing this has been the happiest thing and It brings me joy everyday!! I love you so much my family I hope you all have the best week and I cant wait to hear from you next week!! 

Me and my comp with some of the sisters from the MTC

My first area

LAST WEEK IN THE US

So excited to Go out into the Field, Its going to be so amazing! This week has been great with the travel plans and Just trying to get as much studying as we can done!!! The next time you guys hear from me will be in Argnetina I am very excited!! :) 

Love you all and I hope you guys have the best week where every you are!!

Until next time! :)

Elder Numbers is a Kappo (Stud, Boss, ect)

Just some of the District
Awesome day for the temple!

Your going to rock it Elder Miles! :D

Temple DAY :)

What a beauty

MY watch broke :(

BEST BROTHERS EVER

BEST MOMMY EVER

BEST FAMILY EVER

2 and a half weeks left in the MTC

Hey everybody!!

How is everybody doing I would love to hear from you my Mission Email is nicolas.sandberg@myldsmail.net

I would just like to give you guys a little update on whats up here on west campus at the MTC. For those of you who dont know west campus is where all of the Spanish speakers go In some ways its nicer then the real MTC and in some ways it is not! Regardless I am having a great time!! Yes there have been some awesome ups but there have also been some low points, but your experience where ever you are and what ever you are doing is always what you make it!! :) I have been blessed with this awesome opportunity to excel and Learn the Spanish Language Its tough, but I love it! Some times there is so much information you just have words flying around in your mind!  It is such a blessing to be here we are teaching 4 pratice Investigators at the moment fabiana who is 23 and is a student and likes to party, Carlos who is 55 is from Peru, he reminds me a lot of a little younger version of my Grandpa They both speak with that same Peru accent and they both speak very eloquently, In fact he just walked in and I said buenos Dias to him! :) We are teaching a investigator named Alex who is 15 and lost his uncle and is taking it very hard, and we are teaching this investigator named Diego who is as hard as a rock, we pretty much had to beg him to let us share a message and then he stared at us like"what are you doing in my house" anyways we are trying to soften him up a little... everybody who listens to the missionaries has a reason or something we can help them with and everybody has the ability to be touched by the spirit when we teach them with love and charity! :)

Again I would like to say I am so thankful for this opportunity the MTC has been a wonderful blessing and I have had the amazing opportunity to see myself grow spiritually form this experience! 

I LOVE ALL OF YOU!

 and I hope you all have a wonderful week! :) 

So... first week in the MTC was pretty awesome

So... first week in the MTC was pretty awesome

I met my awesome companero Elder Danielson on Day 1! He is awesome It is very easy to get along with him! He is pretty much like my brother already! It was very nice to meet my District, we have a lot of happy good kids! :) The Spanish is coming along faster and better each day, our teacher teaches us just speaking Spanish, we are learning Spanish by immersion!!! The first day in Spanish you didn't really know whats going on, but through the spirit and the gift of tongues, we have all grown and learned a lot!! we also started having the opportunity to teach an "Investigador" in Spanish by the 2nd or 3rd day! it was kinda crazy but WE started to get the hang of it and now its coming easier. we are already praying and baring our testimony in Spanish! We get up at 6:30 every morning go to classes, then we have Personal study time for an hour, then Companion study for an hour, the Language study for an hour! then later on we either study more or we go to a devotional which are always the best!! :) we are actually not on the Main MTC campus we are on the "west campus" Which is where all the Spanish speakers go It is just a set of BYU apartments Turned into classes and dorms. I love it here though you can always feel the spirit so strong and there is a awesome feeling of bonding between everyone! Im looking forward to coming closer to God and The Gospel as I learn from my teachers and My district and the Scriptures, I bear my testimony that this is the true church and that Thomas S. Monson is our inspired prophet, Nothing can make me more happy then being out here to serve! I love you guys be safe and Ill pray for you.

Sincerely,

Your Missionary Elder Sandberg!!

:)

Here are some pictures

Me and My Componero

Taking it easy with some food we were given from "Dear Elders"

EL DISTRICTO

ARGENTINA 

La clasa