Well Another week down. Crazy. sorry yesterday was another holiday. but the last one i hope. It was a busy day for us though. it was canada day and none of the quebecois like canada so they all just stay inside and sleep. it is pretty funny.
ok here is what happened in the exciting week of Elder Cameron
Felix called us!!! Who is Felix? well good question. you may recall a certain story from last week about a man giving us smoothies. that was felix. he called us and wanted to know if we could pray for him because i guess he is going to move with his family to start a new life up north. We said YEAH we can do that. and we asked him to call us when everything got figured out. He is pretty cool. maybe some day the missionaries up there will find him. HE would be a great young men's leader.
The same day we had a DA at Frere Ochs's house. He is my favorite. every week he comes up to us and gives us a hug. you can tell that he has genuine love for the missionaries. His wife has cancer but she keeps getting us to come over to her home for food. they are amazing people. I love them. we ate burgers and well dad they may hold their own in a fight with yours.... they were so good. my companion tried to say flavorful in french but they thought that he was complaining about the burgers. then he explained and we all laughed. good times.
Ok so there is this guy in our ward who looks exactly like the man from mary poppins who loves to laugh. and sings the song you know who i am talking about right? i know jessica does. well he and his wife give us food every week. they are hilarious. well we went over to their house because they had a neighbor there who is not a member. we were told over the phone that we would knock the door and she would come to the door and we would say hello and she would ask if we had already eaten. we would say yes but then she would invite us in for ice cream. it was hilarious she planned out what we would do to get in to talk to this guy. He was not interested at all but it was fun to go over there.
at their house we ate something called Sugar Pie. It is just that. Brown sugar, butter, and pie crust. it is heaven! i think i am starting to gain weight! haha just kidding you know i can't gain weight. it is a quebecois thing though. sugar pie and poutin. good stuff up here.
So this guy that looks like the guy on mary poppins asked us if we liked music. I said of course and then he asked if we played. again i responded of course. so he said do you play guitar. i said yes. then he said how about mandolin? then i said oh Yeah! then he went into his room and pulled one out and handed it to me. he told me to play. so i started to play and he grabs a recorder thing like a little flute, you know the ones we learn how to play in the 6th grade. anyways he grabs it and he starts to play along. at first i was thinking an old guy and a recorder hmmm. because he kind of squeaked, but then he just started shredding on this thing. it was incredible. i have never seen anything like it. so we jammed for a little while. haha it was so great
I keep forgetting to write about justin's song. my first day here sister cannon gave each of us a disk and said it had justin's song on it. i told her he is my bro and she almost started to cry. she loves that song so much and everytime she hears it she almost cries.
and now the cannons are home. we now have President Patrick. i have yet to see him. we are going to the island tomorrow though and he and his wife will be there. so we will meet him then.
so then we had ward council. it went really well. we were told we were to take 15 minutes on sunday because it was the 5th sunday, to talk about ward missionary work. so we did just that. we met with the ward mission leader maxim. he is way cool.he is really young and is really funny. so sunday came and we had to give a lesson. i had to give 5 minutes of it in french. it was hard. but i did it.
Plastic money! its pretty cool. i have a picture that you will see.
This lady we had a DA at told me this and dad i think you will like it. if has something to do with seeds
got a really nice note from my great grandparents. i love them. they are great. go camerons!
"if a seed was content with being a seed it's whole life it wouldn't grow into a wonderful maple tree" maple tree because it's canada. haha
but i loved that. if we are content with where we are we will never see what we could have become. i think it was like that for me before the mission. if i was content with staying home and not doing anything i would never see this wonderful place or meet this incredible people, or share the perfect gospel. all of those things make me better and make me continue to strive to become better.
I was reading in alma when the stripling warriors fight the lamanites. And of course i read about how they were taught by their mothers. well mom i am now a part of that army. and i do not fear "death" because you have taught me. just as their mothers did you have taught natalie and myself to not fear but to have courage, and now 2 of your children are in the army of helaman, and 2 have already return. and one is preparing herself right now. so thank you mother. because of you lives are being changed.
well how is my family at home? sick rides! anything else new? em girls camp sounded like a blast. i hope you had a great time. dad any crops coming? this lady in our ward has a garden and is amazed on how much a teenager knows about gardening. haha all because of you. but i really didn't know that much.
Well i will talk to you all later. on monday next time haha.
i love you all
Elder Cameron
Tout est Bien
or as the quebecois say
Tout est beau le. tsais?
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