April 4, 2016 - 77 days until Elder Lambson's release date

My new companion is from Chihuahua, Mexico! His name is Elder Moreno. He is so cool haha. We are working together for a week now and we have already seen so many miracles. He came here for an emergency transfer just 3 weeks before the transfer, so both of us are learning the area haha. But the Lord is definitely guiding us, we found 9 new investigators to teach this week and they are all so solid!

We got to go back to Vitarte on Saturday to see D's Baptism. She is such an amazing convert. Wow, I'm never going to forget her. 

I loved conference. It was extraordinary. I felt like the messages were EXACTLY what I needed. The reaction was awesome in general conference,(to the announcement of a new Temple)  everyone yelped with happiness for the new temple. The current temple is on the east, I'm pretty sure the 2nd one will be in the north.
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Love,
Elder Lambson :)

February 8, 2016

It was an awesome week! We went and played soccer and rugby at this little field in the middle of no where! We did a multi zone and got to play against Elder Jolley whos the zone leader in Chaclacayo.

We were able to work with J  and her family this month to be able to help some of them reactivate and feel the spirit and her mom asked her if she wanted to be baptized so we started teaching her. She shared in her little testimony that ever since her mom told her that she just felt something so special in her heart that she needed to do it. It has been a blessing to know their family :)

So the week started out great with a fun p day, playing soccer and a little bit of rugby. Then we were able to work really hard to the last moment, Elder Golden already knew he was going to be transferred but he kept working hard this week and we were able to find some great part member families to rescue the members and baptize who hasn't received that blessing yet :) Its my favorite way to work :)

We received the transfers today! Im staying here in Vitarte and my new companion is named Elder Carter, from Idaho! So this is his first time being a zone leader, its going to be fun to teach him everything that I just barely got out of learning haha. We´ll see how this goes!! Its going to be awesome!! :) I am very confident that we are going to have a great transfer and I know that we are going to meet every one of our goals. It is necessary to be confident, but not in your self, in the Lord. This transfer will be 7 weeks long instead of the normal 6! I will keep you up on the details!! Love you!! Have an amazing week! 

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Love,


Elder Lambson :)

January 5, 2016

Preface to Elder Lambson's letter by his mom:
Elder Lambson's Mission President called me, just after 7pm Sunday 1/3/16, to let me know that due to severe abdomen pain Elder Lambson was being transported to a hospital.  He reassured me that he would keep me informed as to the diagnosis and that he and his wife were headed to the hospital right then. Several hours later we found out he was being prepped for an Appendectomy.  We phoned Elder Lambson at the hospital and were able to talk to him for a few minutes.  When he answered he said "mom, I'm only supposed to talk to you on Christmas and Mothers Day!" I replied "and before you go into surgery".  I love that he is being so obedient to the Mission rules and the Lord.  President Boswell was amazing in keeping us up to date with his progress via email.
  
Family & Friends -
Hey so this is probably going to be the craziest email I've sent you my whole mission haha. So this week I completed 18 months!! A year and a half!! And you wont believe who my new companion is... Elder Golden, from American Fork! He is the son of Adam Miller`s oldest brother. We actually met each other before the mission and we talked about how cool it would be if we were comps but never thought it would actually happen! And here we are haha. 

My new zone is called Vitarte! And I'm working here with Elder Golden as Zone Leaders! Haha I'm pretty stoked, we are doing great so far, we have had a great week working together already, the only thing that has been able to set us back a little bit is that I got appendicitis! I was in the Hospital for 3 days and ended up getting my appendix taken out!!! 

The area is great we have tons of investigators! Vitarte is where everyone wants to come because they say its the promise land! We actually have a baptism scheduled for this weekend, and for here in two weeks :) It was so sad to leave my last area though!!! Moyopampa was amazing, I'm going to miss them all soo much :,( they were all soo sad to see me go, I felt so bad! I love them so so much and it has definitely been one of my most successful, and enjoyable times of the mission. I had an entire bag full of gifts that the members and some investigators had given me for Christmas and for going away haha. It wasn't the easiest thing to say good bye, but I know that there are people who need me in Vitarte as well and I am already getting a hang of it here! Its a HUGE change but the people are so great here and so receptive! 

Our zone is awesome too, I already know the chapels of the other wards, I was able to do an interview this week for a little boy who got baptized on Saturday. There is literally no down time, but I love it! Anxiously engaged in a good cause!! 

Love you so much! Have a great week! :)
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Love,
Elder Lambson :)

November 30, 2015

The week did not start out strong. 

On wednesday we only had 6 lessons in total for the whole week. We had a really great planning that night and we put goals on what we were going to change and the effort we were going to put. We knew that it was still possible to achieve excellency in many indicators. 

Saturday night we needed 15 more contacts and ask for 16 more referrals so we put the goal for sunday to reach these numbers, we talked to everyone all day in the street and ended up having three new investigators and we took out many visits for this week! We reached the goal! As we felt satisfied after reaching the goal the desire to keep doing it wasn't as strong, yeah we got it now we don't have to do any more. But as we were on the way to our first planned lesson of the day we felt very strong to knock on a door that we pass by almost every day. I thought, we already met the goals, just go to the visit. But the spirit strongly testified to go, that its not for the numbers, but to change lives. So we went, and we met a family of three who had received a pamphlet of the Restoration from a friend who lives far and were praying for missionaries to find them. 

I am so so grateful for the blessing that it is to be influenced by the Holy Ghost. I know Im not perfect, but I know God has higher knowledge and higher ways, as I continue striving to be better I feel him using me in more occasions to bless his children. 

The gift that I want to give him this Christmas is show him that I can be worthy of his Holy Spirit by forcing my self even more and honestly overcoming the natural man than is with in me.

With my companion Elder Herazo, from the colombian coast and Elder Quadas new comp 

Chillin with the comp

Pday, we played capture the flag in the forest, I had the idea that we could do it like a St George snowball fight so we bought all the flour and everyone brought a pair of 

(clean) socks! It was so cool!

Another Chosica Sunset

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Love,
Elder Lambson :)

November 23, 2015

Pic of the Baptism of the other Elders! The pensions daughter. My new comp, Colombiano. We had 10 investigators from our sector come to church today! The work is speeding up!! Love you!

July 27, 2015

These have been a couple of awesome weeks! 

We are working a lot with the less families here and its so awesome!! Practically everyone has a wide knowledge of what they need to do, but the problem is the desire to do it. So what we do is teach the doctrine and show how amazing are the blessings that they aren't receiving. 

Imagine that God is just sending us down blessing like rain, but sometimes our decisions make it like we are putting up an umbrella and impeding these blessings from reaching us. Put away your umbrella! Let God bless your lives and allow him to change your heart! He is the only one that is capable of making this change in our lives, but we are the only ones capable of allowing him to do it! What is stopping you from allowing the blessings from heaven change your life? 

Love you so much! Make good choices! You are a child of God! Don't forget it!

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Love,


Elder Lambson :)

July 6, 2015

Well this week was super awesome! We are keeping strong inviting so many people to come visit us at church and taking out so many visits to come back, this week is full of visits of people that we met this week to come back and teach. The people are super open to listen, its just the fact of understanding sometimes. 

We had some awesome things that happened this week! E.one of our recent converts from the end of May got to go to the Temple this week to be baptized for some of her ancestors!! The other awesome things was that my companion got to baptize his first convert! She shared her testimony afterwards and wow, powerful. She is going to be a true convert! It's awesome this work. It's super fun, super trying, and wow super worth it. I have grown so much spiritually and am learning such amazing things that I am applying every day. Very humbling as well. All around, unbelievable. God Lives.



1 year in the mission! 4th of July zone meeting with Elder Peterson (from Arizona) who is from my group, high fiving for one year down.






The Baptism, my companion baptized her and it was awesome. She is a true convert.

Love,


Elder Lambson :)

June 15, 2015

Wow! We found lots of new families to teach this week, it was very rewarding, we walked and walked and walked and knocked and talked and walked some more this week. Haha full of trials, this is my hardest area so far and with the responsibilities on top I am full every second of the day. Im loving it!

Like I´ve always said from my favorite scripture D&C 58:27 a man should be always anxiously engaged in a good cause. Haha things are great, my zone is awesome, my district is awesome, our pension is the bomb, she cooks so good and she is hilarious, she always talks with us about everything haha, every funny experience that we each day. Its a blast. I am really enjoying the time here on my mission. I really feel needed and like an essential part in these peoples life and their relationships with God. I know that God is giving me the experiences that I need now to develop attributes that I will need in the future. More than anything, patience. I'm training again, and wow my first trainee was a little angel fallen from heaven. We were able to just go out and do work. But with this new trainee/companion its taking a little more effort, a lot more patience and a lot more love. He is tough but I know he needs me and I will not give up.

We don't have anyone with a baptism date right now but we are looking hard to find "los elegidos" the chosen ones.

My scripture for this month is D&C 123:17
Por tanto, muy queridos hermanos, hagamos con buen ánimo cuanta cosa esté a nuestro alcance; y entonces podremos permanecer tranquilos, con la más completa seguridad, para ver la salvación de Dios y que se revele su brazo.

This scripture is amazing. It's my motivation for this month and its so true. I love you guys so much! Remember to serve those around you, when you feel down, think about what others could be going through, I promise you that as you forget about yourselves and help others, your personal problems will solve them selves on their own. Have an amazing week!



I got the package you sent, haha I love everything! I still have the jacket that you sent me last year and yes it is still working miracles I love it haha  (2 questions I had asked him in my email to him)






The pictures.....one is of a tree up on a hill side and you can see how foggy it is!

















Love,
Elder Lambson :)

November 17, 2014

Sent Kiel a picture of Parker driving - his reply:

Thats awesome. A little weird that he is driving, but awesome haha. I got 5 more letters this week! And 2 packages! One from Savanah and one from Grandma Lambson. Savanah sent me some candy and a BYU shirt! And I got lots of cookies and chocolate from grandma! Awesome! I love your little letters with the pictures and just whats going on, those are the best. I miss Kate and Sloan haha thats so funny what they do with my pictures. (ASL - I love you).



In our email to Kiel we asked how he was doing with his new Companion?

Yeah my Companion is so awesome!! We are working super good together!! He reminds me of Bubby haha he is little and kind of a spaz so we have fun messing with each other. We have some awesome Investigators! Yesterday we taught the family Rodriguez and after the lesson they took us over their fence to this huge mountain side with ancient ruins! Its funny it was like you yeah you guys wanna see something cool, we just happen to have these ancient ruins in our back yard hahaha. They are doing really good and we hope to baptize them next month on the 13. We are also teaching a family J and L , there is the mom L with her 2 daughters and J is the step dad. J is the one that stopped us one day to teach them because he wants the best for his step daughters, it has been so cool teaching them because I can relate with a lot of the same stuff, with having a step dad. Because the step dad wants the best for the kids but some times the kids are resentant and they have fights and stuff but really its cause the step dad loves the kids and yeah it has just been super cool being able to relate with them and help the kids see this (yeah its super deep and cute but sometimes I am bad at explaining stuff) (tell dave I say hi haha) and this week we taught them the importance of marrige and they are getting married on the 10th! We hope to baptize the family together on the 13th! What is new with C, she is super happy! She started talking to the dad of her kids again and he told her that he wants to change and they have plans to get married. We started teaching them together and he is awesome. He is accepting everything and if things continue good they will get married soon, then he can get baptized too, and then get married in the temple! How cool would that be!? The work is so awesome and I am loving every day! Thank you so much for all of the love and support!!  I miss you all! Im so blessed to have family and friends as awesome as you guys! I love you and miss you have an amazing week!

First P-day in Peru

My apartment is awesome! There are 4 of us, me and my companion who is the district leader. And also the zone leaders live there. They are saying I was born into the covenant because of my situation with the DL, ZL's, one of the best houses, and our area is legit!

This is such an awesome place and I'm having tons of fun! My comp is awesome and we can communicate pretty good, he knows a lot of English and I help him with English and he helps me with Spanish. He has been out 6 months I am his 3rd comp. Its winter here so its kind of like our falls and winters. Light jacket but not to cold. I'm speaking a lot of Spanish and learning more and more everyday! The zone leaders that I live with are both white and about the same height as me so when ever we walk around us 4 are giants cause my comp is tall too. The zl's are so funny and we are always having fun in our apartment.

For meals we have a "Pensionista" and its a calling they have here. Its a family and our guy is named Hector and he is hilarious. The driving here is crazy. we've gone in a couple of buses and some "moto taxis" which are little motorcycles with two seats on the back and they are covered up. its cool. The big drink here is called inca cola and its like bubblegum flavored Mtn dew. I thought it would be terrible but its actually pretty good.

The members here are so nice and awesome. Some funny stuff that happened this week, there are dogs and cats everywhere! So I went to pet this super cute dog and it nipped my pinky haha no blood or anything though. When we were contacting we met a young girl, probably our age, and after we shook hands to say bye and she leaned in and almost kissed me on the cheek before I realized what was going on haha it was a close one. My comp was like "you have to watch out for the snakes" (girls). We have about 11 investigators and its super fun, I've been trying to understand as much as possible and I have shared a few things in lessons and bore my testimony but most of the time my comp is teaching and I don't really know whats going on. But yeah I'm loving it here! Its nothing like back home, its crazy and it makes me appreciate the states so much more. But I'm having fun and happy to be here. I love you! Have a great week! Oh yeah we are going shopping today I'm going to get some more durable pants cause all I have are suit pants and also a pull over sweater with out a hood
I will send pics next week! The computers we are using today are slow. Have a great week! I love you!

Thanks for everything you are awesome! Here is my official address for mail and packages if you are interested.
Calle Los Agrològos Nº 368
Urb. Las Acacias de Monterrico
La Molina, Lima 12, Perù
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Love,

Elder Lambson :)

July 9, 2014

Hey! My first week here has been awesome! I´m learning a ton of Spanish! My companion is way cool, he´s from Oregon, he did a year at BYU.  We like the same kind of music and we both do sports, we’ve been getting along really well and have been having a lot of fun together and with all of the other Elders and Hermanas in our zone. Gym time is fun I play basketball almost every day except for once I played volley ball. The food is good but it’s just a little off you know? Haha but yeah I’ve seen a lot of people I know and 150 more new missionaries are getting shipped in today and I know some who are coming as well. I’m having a great time! Everything is awesome!  

Im still trying to decide what I want on the inside of my Rugby State Championship ring..... still a hard decision. Do “I AM RANGA”. 

Wednesday is my pday here at the MTC. I´m always super tired but other than that it´s golden. Well I’m logging off now! Can you please send me my cord for my camera so I can email pictures? Send it in a manila envelope though because they cant get packages here. love you mom! Tell Parker I’m still buffer than him and I’ve been waking up early every morning he should wake up too ;) have a great week I love you tell everyone I say hi! 

Love you and miss you! 
Love, Elder Lambson  

haha me and my companion decided log back on one more time for today ;) I hope you are having a good day and a good week. How are you guys finding entertainment without me there? Love you! Talk to you next week.  Here is a pic from my first day, I saw a guy trying to break this concrete up and I wanted to help, he let me but wanted to take my picture.  He sent it to me.  Wow, I really did break a lot of the concrete.   Love you! Talk to you next week

Grandpa Linneer – Kaleen’s dad, spent a week here helping get him ready. 

Kiel Wrote him:

Thank you for emailing me grandpa! Thats an awesome quote I wrote it down in little pocket book. Thank you for all you have done for me to help get me out into the mission field! I hope you're doing well! Have a great week. 

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:16 AM, <Dlinneer> wrote:

Hi Kiel:  Hope all is well...

“You don’t have to be an outgoing person or an eloquent, persuasive teacher. If you have an abiding love and hope within you, the Lord has promised … ‘You shall not be confounded before men; [And] it shall be given you … in the very moment, what ye shall say.’” -Elder M Russell Ballard

Love you,

Grandpa…