Logan August 26, 2013

salut ma famille! comment ca va? 

well another week has past. only one more pday until transfer 3. wow time flies. Emily how is highschool? it sounds like you are having just the best time of your life!! i am so happy for you. just remember stay away from boys. at all times. until after you are home from your mission if you decide to serve or until you are done with your college. you can choose... ha but really how is that high school doing since i left it? you have to check just above the library door. i left a secret sign there. i wonder if it is still there. haha also emily i have my spies at the school! i have my eyes on you to make sure you aren't getting into trouble! you think i am joking but i am not. 

mother how are the little ones? i miss those stories ha. they make me laugh so hard. jess's story about the boy who couldn't stand it any longer made me laugh. the poor little guy. also emily is already starting to change. stop it. not much change in the trees yet but it's a comin! 

dad how is the harvest? good year? i have a good story about farm land which i will tell later in this email. lets just say you would love to live here. not in mont saint hilaire you would probably hate it. but in a place called sorel. that is where you would want to live. 

alright lets get down to business.... to defeat the huns! ya! 

the week went a little something like this. 

so we had an investigator! for like 3 days haha. we found him knocking. super nice guy named dennis. he grew up on a farm way up north and was raised by his older siblings because his parents died. but he told us a lot of great stories. anyways he fed us lunch. we ate blueberries that he picked from the north. crazy i know! they were delicious. i was singing berries and cream in my head when i ate the real berries and cream. i have a pictures so just you wait. 

I went on another split this week. Elder Losee. haha he is a transfer younger than i am. so i was senior for a day! i got to practice my french haha. and guess what i did! i gave my first anointing. my first one was done in french. how neat is that! it was soeur Petit who is old and hurt her back so we went and gave her a blessing. frere hebert gave the blessing and i anointed. it was pretty neat.

after that we went out and knocked. knocking with elder losee was interesting. haha he is funny. 

we had a zone conference this week. it was really good. we are changing the way we do missionary work here. we are going to work a lot more with less actives and stuff. it is going to be awesome. president patrick doesn't want us knocking as much anymore. before it was like a balance now it is all less active work and finding people through them. so that was really good. we talked about shepherding the lost back into the fold. i loved that a lot. As missionaries we come and go. 2 years is not a long time. and 6 weeks is not long at all. so we come and go very often. so it is up to the members to do missionary work too. as missionaries we can only do so much. but when we have members working with us the retention rates are so much higher. and the conversion is faster. so family i encourage you to do missionary work. i know it is hard but the reward is great. there is a scripture i cant remember where it is but it says, i didn't say it would be easy i just said it would be worth it.... hahahahahahahahahaha well anyways do it

so we went out to a place called sorel saturday. dad listen up this is where it gets good. its about  an hour drive to get there. we passed some of the most beautiful country i have ever seen. farm land as far as the eye could see. and we had to take a ferry  to get there. the bridge was far away. i hope thats not apostate now that i think about it. we were on a boat. oops. haha 

well anyways we were doing a whole lot of less active work up there. it was awesome we got a lot of information. like hey this less active moved or even this one is dead. yeah really there was one who was dead. it is sad the ward didn't know that. so do less active work!! 

but we found one less active (the last one we visited ha , i know right, always the last one) and she was awesome. her name is joyce hocker. she hasn't been to churhc in like 50 years or something like that. so she is pretty much a non member. but it was awesome talking to her. she is very much one with nature. we are going to go back and do some service for her. maybe we will get her back to church. she has a dog who jumped on my the entire time we where there. he was huge. just a pup too! but i didn't show my fear. i was strong!

well my family i love you and have a nice week. peace out

elder cameron

emily i am serious stay away from boys hahaha

I wanted to knock this door. We didn't. 

Berries and cream. 

On the ferry. 

Natalie August 26, 2013

Hello dear family!

It was so great hearing from everyone and it sounds like things are fantastic at home and all over the world. I am doing so great and am so happy! I had a really incredible busy week and things are just going great. 

This week I had my first interview with President and Sister Poznanski in french! It was the greatest thing ever and I felt so much love! I love them both so much and have wanted to talk to them in person. I have only met them once (the day i came in) and i was nervous they wouldn't know who i was. I walked in with a bunch of missionaries and they walked up both and without skipping a beat or looking at my tag said ah sister cameron! its so good to see you! its been a long time hasn't it? how are you doing! I tried really hard not to tear up...haha it meant the world to me. I had a beautiful time talking with them and they have changed my life. I love them so much! Soeur Grewar also surprised everyone and gave her dying testimony in zone conference. She is going home after this transfer and President and I were the only ones that knew! Everyone was so shocked and she gave an incredible testimony. She will go home on her 3 year mark in the church. We're so excited to work our guts out for the last 4 weeks that she has here. She is incredible!

Wednesday I went to Torcy for an exchange with Soeur Huntsman. It was so great and I learned SO much. She is an incredible missionary! She's from Utah and is almost done. We were on a train on our way to a rendez-vous and we contacted a woman. Her name is Jeanette and was SO kind! We found out that she's super believing and turns out her aunt is Lds! can you believe that? She is from Cameroon and freaked out when she saw my tag...haha that happens a lot. They always think I'm from Cameroon. We invited her to have a chapel tour towards the end of the week and she said yes! we got her info and left her. That night we called her and invited her to have the tour the next morning instead so i could see her! She agreed and we met her at the church in Torcy. It was my first chapel tour and it was so cool! we ended up in chapel and testified of the Savior. We taught her the first full lesson and it went incredible. She loved it! We quoted the first vision and she ate it up. We committed her to pray and read and she said she would. she was so cute and kind and it was a miracle to find her! God puts people in our paths wherever we go.

Thursday we headed to Vannes to finalize legality and we visited one of Soeur Grewar's old amis! She came to France and has waited 3 years for her husband to get here from Africa! He showed up the day we were there. It was incredible! Felecia is a strong member now and is teaching her husband. It was incredible!! On the way home the train attatched in front of us got derailed so we were stuck in the middle of nowhere for 3 hours which turned our trip into 6 hours! haha it was very long but fun. There was the sweetest old couple who sat in the car next to us and they watched out for us. We didn't arrive to Paris until around 10 so we stayed with the Paris sisters! God helped us and protected us!  It felt so good to get home the next day. I hadn't been in our apartment in a few days. Melun definitely feels like home and I know it's where I'm supposed to be. I love it!

We had a FHE with one of our amis and a family in the ward. Prisca is a recent convert; She got baptized a few months ago and is incredible. Her husband isn't a member but we recently started teaching him. Frere Gaba is a member who is around the same age and he served his mission in Toulouse! He is incredible and set up a FHE with Jean'Paul and Prisca and they're cute little kids. We went over and it was the coolest thing. Frere Gaba is the coolest missionary ever and I gained such a huge testimony of member missionary work and integration! They are good friends now and Jean-Paul came to church on sunday. Our goal for them is getting them to the temple eventually! I'm so excited to teach him this week and involve Prisca.

This week I've studied a lot about the Holy Ghost. I love the quote from Elder Busche that I always quote: "You want to be good and to do good; that is commendable, but the greatest achievement that can be reached in our life is to be under the complete influence of the Holy Ghost, then He will teach us what is really good and necessary to do." I love that!! Every day we make hundreds of small decisions that either keep us walking in the light and inviting the Spirit, or we choose to walk away from Him. The more I'm on my mission, the more i realize that its not Him thats leaving us when we lose the spirit, its us walking away from Him!! What a blessing it is to always have a member of the Godhead with us at all times if we're worthy of Him.

Well things here in France are so great and exciting! Elder Oaks is coming here next month to organize some stakes here in France which I guess is fulfilling a prophesy of President Hinckley! Its incredible and i'm really excited to go! he's also coming for a mission conference too so we get to see him twice! Mitt Romney is also coming to talk to the young adults here in Paris! We're crossing our fingers that we can go! Great things are happening here in France!

We're so excited for this coming week and have 27 lessons planned! We're trying to go all out after being out of our ville all last week. I know that God is a God of miracles and He will help us accomplish anything if we trust in Him and love Him. I know that the Savior lives and He is here with us every step of the way. I love Him!

So great hearing from all of you and Loge, i totally teach people from Cote d'ivoire all the time! My ami Jean Paul and frere gaba are from there! thats way cool! And yes we totally do the buzz thing and try to make our way to the bottom! we made it through once last week! we felt accomplished. haha one Jehovah's witness and 19 muslims later...haha mom we're safe...i promise

Well i love you all so much! I hope you have an incredible week! I am so grateful for you and for your support and love. I can feel it!  You are all in my constant prayers and thoughts and I cant wait for the miracles that await me this week;

LOVE YOU ALL

Soeur Cameron

100 % no regrets! I've promised to give MORE

Logan August 20, 2013

Dearest family. 

how are you all

natalie is right we love to port. nat do you get in the buzz ups and go to the top and try to make it down before getting kicked out? haha the best

well enough to make mom worried. Emily i totally believed your story about the ER and then i read the rest and my comp thought i was so dumb. but that would have been such a cool story. i am laughing super hard. i ate a nut hahaha oh man you are funny chick.

dad i am glad you got in some good service. how was the fence building? granny said it is as straight as an arrow. haha i hope she telling the truth and not just being nice.

mommy how is school? all those little kid stories coming already? tomorrow is the big day Em. HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!!! yeah! so special. i remember my first day as a sophomore nearly 3 years ago. it was a warm summer day. the sun was shining and nat and i went to school. it was fun. don't be nervous. you need to tell madame that she is crazy for not wanting to teach quebecois. tell her when i get back i will teach a crash course. we will see what she says.

so what happened this last week.

we met a lady from Cote d'ivoire or ivory coast as you anglaphones call it. she is really cool. the only success we have is from people who are not from quebec originally haha its sad.

we had a little chat with a guy named Dennis. he is quebecois but he keeps telling us "i won't try and convert you if you don't try to convert me". he lost his wife about 5 years ago to cancer. he is all alone and so he likes to talk to us. he told me this week, in preparation for the winter "in -40 weather and you  have to take a leak outside make sure your back is to the wind" haha i laughed really hard. it reminded me of prairie home companion lake wobegon. haha

we had a DA at la famille Gaboriault. i have mentioned them before, they are awesome. there are 3 little girls there and at first they were super shy around us but this last time we went they wanted to play so bad. white handbook pretty much says stay away from children. i was nervous haha. but i had this little star stress ball thing that they stole and were playing with. needless to say the star didn't make it home with me.

other than that we had a lot of pass bys and port a port. not a ton happened. i got switched back to rive sud zone. so we didn't go to quebec city this week. we will just go to longueil this next week.

good luck with school and stuff. 

love you all

unite!
elder cameron

hurrah for israel 

I cut my hair.

Comfort food.

Sometimes I feel like this.

My eye.

Natalie August 20, 2013

Well hello tout le monde!

It was so great hearing from everyone. Can't believe that school is starting so soon! Time is just a flying. Speaking of time flying....this week was insane and flew just as fast! Let me walk you through some stuff I did:

So we travelled across France this week. Soeur Grewar had to do legality so we took a 3 hour train ride there and stayed with the sisters! It was a holiday so there were people dressed up in old traditional costume and there were bagpipes and celebrations! it was very french and very fun to see. Then the next day we went to Tours and were able to see Soleya's baptism. What a tender mercy! Soeur Kehli even came to the gare to pick us up. She's absolutely incredible and it was a tender mercy to watch her get baptized and to say goodbye.

It was so nice to get back into Melun! I know that its defintely the are I'm supposed to be in. It is BEAUTIFUL! We visited a lot of less actives and did drop bys and invited people to church. Its been so great to get to know the ward members. I took your advice Jess and I got my own copy of the ward list and am trying to memorize them all as we visit them! its helped so much. 

We did a lot of porting this week too. We love porting Loge don't we...haha. We ported a whole complex the other night and had a lot of fun. There was a big soccer match on that night so you can guess how successful it went. I was just praying that someone would let us in so I could watch it...haha kidding kidding. But its actually really cool because here in France, the older people are pretty closed minded and not very open, but the young people are the opposite. Any time we go and port or contact the younger generation they listen and talk to us. It gets me really excited for the rising generation here in France. They are the future leaders!

This week we've talked with a lot of people from all over the world. Most people think I'm either islamic, italian, or spanish all because of something about my eyes?? kinda random! but hey mom maybe that gives us a better idea right? haha i love meeting people from all around the world! This week we were contacted by a Moraccan man who was a professional soccer player for France. He was a manager for them after he played too and he's been all around the world. He was so kind and we talked about how the world needs religion. He commended us for wanting to serve missions and told us that we were unified because of God. It was a nice little conversation. He knew John Stocktan and Karl Malone so we got talking about the dream team and all that fun stuff; It was a blast! 

Last night we had a rendez-vous with a recent convert. She invited us over there to meet with her and her mom. They both got baptized on the same day and have been members for about a year. We went over and looked in and there was a room full of people! They had invited all there friends and told us to teach them. hahaha we were so surprised! It was a really cool experience and we had a fun time teaching them. It was a little overwhelming on the spot! They are so fun and both want to serve missions. Its cool to see the gospel affect peoples lives!

Well today for pday we spent the day in the Louvre!!! It was absolutely incredible and I loved every minute of it. We only went in one wing today and plan on going back to see it all. It was humbling to walk next to masterpieces and feel of their stories. We saw the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo also. It was so cool! I love France and its been so fun serving in Paris. The history here is incredible!

Well things here are going so great! I'm so happy. Soeur Grewar is incredible and we've become great great friends. I love her! I love missionary work and I am so happy here. There is nothing better than running around for the Lord! I am learning so much about myself and about the Lord and His work. I know it's true! 

I love you all so much and i hope you have an incredible week! Good luck with school starting. Em good luck! you will LOVE IT! Don't be scared. Its going to be the time of your life and i'll be praying for you lots! 

Love you all!!!

Soeur Cameron

100 % no regrets! i've promised to give more

The Louvre!

This is our walk home every night.

The Seine River. This is right next to our apartment.

A cute little girl we are teaching! They ask us to come teach then stories of Jesus.

This is at the Port in Vanne that goes to the ocean.

 I got to go to Soleya's baptism!

Pday at the Louvre

The one and only MONA herself.

Logan August 12, 2013

hello family,

this is your son, brother, beloved hero, and cherished icon Elder Cameron, haha 

well lets see what happened this week, first of all thank you so much for the thoughts and prayers,

mom i did get the package, sorry i thought i told you, and my physical address is tricky because we live in a basement apartment of these people and i don't think we have a mail box.... so i don't really know what to do there.... 

but thank you so much for the package, loved the dog. 

Yes you should meet with tarrin rasmussen. haha he would leave a note, such a missionary thing to do. he is such a great missionary and i learned a ton from him. and he lives like right next to brayden's family. 

how are all y'all doing. I am doing better. have i told you that merdyl is the name of my mandolin? she and i have become very close friends as of late. don't worry she is not alive so its not apostate. 

guess what i did this week. placed 2 copies of the Book of Mormon. thats a record week for me. first guy we gave it to was during a blitz. the district leader and his greeny came and blitzed our area. i like elder smith a lot. he was elder wilburs comp in the mtc. which was funny. we had an interview in a wheat field the next morning, because that is what you do on a split, get an interview, and he was talking to me about elder wilbur. Elder smith and i are very similar. I have actually played him in a match of soccer. His team was really good he played for East High. so i made high school musical jokes, anyways he was saying that he had some rough times with him too, but just keep going. so that is what i am doing.

so that story about the BOM, well we were street contacting and we saw this guy. he didn't talk much but we told him about the BOM and he took it. didn't give us anyway to contact him though so that was a bummer. then we sang Happy Birthday to an old lady in the street and gave her a high 5. that was special. hahaha she laughed a lot. 

The 2nd BOM was given to a man who was written down in our area book. we went over there and he let us in! that never happens, then we had a lesson with him. we gave him a BOM. the only problem with him is he has done his "research" about our faith and he has come to the conclusion that the recently unearthed pyrimad in illinois has to be done by the nephites, because nephi is an egyptian name. haha well he was fun to talk to. he also talked about atlantis. oh boy. i got a chuckle after we left. 

we had a DA at frere Barry's house. he is a recent convert of about a year and is preparing to go to the temple. i am so excited for him. he is the most solid recent convert i have ever seen. i feel a little bad for him. he lives all alone in an apartment. never been married. and at first is a little strange but i love him. he is hilarious. he is a salsa danser and other spanish dances. so hopefully he will do a dance at the fete des familles coming up in septermber. i told him that i would play my mandolin if he would dance. he thought that was a good trade. Plus he is an excellent cook. seriously he knows how to make a mean soup. 

we were knocking one day and we saw these 2 little girls making a music video with an iPad. i reminded me of emily haha. so i got in the background and bobbed my head a little bit. just so they couldn't see.... at the time anyway haha i am sure they saw it when they watched it. 

this past week i have got two chances to play guitar. One at Frere Ochs. i love that guy. i was on the blitz at the time and he asked elder smith if he had ever heard me play. he said no, so he went and pulled out his guitar, which is a sick instrument. like 800 dollar guitar. and he said listen to this guy, pointing to me. so i played a little something for him. 

2nd time was at the Blains house. Everyone always asks me what i want to do after the mission and everytime i say not sure yet but my comps, elder rasmussin and elder wilber always cut in and say, he is a musician. so then they ask what i play and i tell them. so Frere Blain said you will not get dessert unless you play guitar for us. so i played. it was awesome. he is a singer so i played and he sang and i sang back up. haha it was special. 

we were knocking and we knocked into this guy named eric. at first he said that he wasn't interested but then we got talking about hockey and the government and then music, and then he showed us some of his brother's bands songs. and apparently they are pretty big. but it was sweet music. i felt a little apostate listening. but there wasn't much i could do... hahah

well thats all for this week, stay tuned and maybe next week we will have some more tales to tell. i love you all. emily! starting the big boy school! you will have to say hello to all my friends that are seniors now. the first friend you must find: Brennan Goodsell. He is on seminary council. so when you see him tell him he needs to email me. i love that kid. good luck em. its a blast. tell madame that she needs to teach a course on quebecois. and then tell her when i get back i will come and teach a class quebecois. you will love high school. it is fun. 

i love you all 

keep on keepin on

elder cameron

Tout est Bien

Natalie August 12, 2013

Bonjour tout le monde!!

It was so great hearing from you and seeing how your week went. Mom and Dad Happy Anniversary!! Thought about you all day yesterday. I am so grateful for you and for the parents and people you are. I'm here because of you and I'll never be able to repay you for what you've given me. I'm trying my best to work hard in your name!

Speaking of working hard....So I got transfered to the great city of Melun! My new companion is Soeur Grewar from Australia and she is INCREDIBLE. Wow her testimony is one of the strongest i've ever seen. She is a convert of almost 3 years and is going home in October. After this she'll have 1 more transfer. We get along really well and we both love to work hard. wow we've hit the ground running and are going at 100 miles per hour. It is AMAZING

So Melun is a suburb of Paris. So we have navigos which means on pdays we can go anywhere in Paris! Pretty fun. We have a list going of things we,re going to do. The Louvre is what I'm looking forward to the most!

Melun is very beautiful and is along the Seine. We ran along it this morning and it was incredible. There were baby swans and ducks all over and the sun was just rising. It was incredible! Sometimes I have to stop for a sec and realize I'm in Paris! There is a ward here and they are amazing. This week we really focused on less actives and visited a ton! It was really great. Yesterday the Bishop's family invited us over for a BBQ. Their son just returned home from his mission and served with Richard Flores from American Fork. He took a picture and sent it to him! Small world.

Friday we visited with Soeur Cunche. She is a strong member here that has changed the world of France. She is a pioneer for this country and has brought the gospel to a lot of people including my mission president! I felt really honored and privilidged to be in her home and speak with her: She is very humble and has such a pure heart. 

We also did some service on Thursday and helped on of the members move. She was so kind and fed us like queens! She is from Hong Kong and speaks great english. We got along really well and she was so fun.

We have a lot of great amis that i'm still trying to remember and know and a lot of great ward members. Yesterday at church a man came and got me and asked me to sit by a lady they didn't know. I went over and she just happened to show up because she lived close! miracle! I talked with her for awhile after and gave her a book of mormon and have a rendez-vous with her this week. Her name is Zora. It is really incredible here and i can just feel the miracles waiting to happen.

Also a fun little piece of news! Solyea in Tours is getting baptized this week. We will be over that way for some legality business so by a miracle I get to go!!! I am so excited! They were so sweet and even changed the time so i could make it because they want me to play the piano. What an incredible family. I miss them! So excited for friday! my second baptism in tours!!

This week i've studied a lot about the Atonement. I read a talk by Elder Bednar and loved this quote: "As you and I come to understand and employ the enabling power of the Atonment in our personal lives, we will pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed. We become agents who act rather than objects that are acted upon." Wow has that been true this week! Being in my second area was scary at first because in a sense you really do start over. But as i have tried to use the enabling power of the Atonment and have strived to ask for strength to bear these challenges, i have felt Him lift me up. I know that He lives and this is His work. What an honor it is to be a part of it. I love my mission with all of my heart. Its the hardest thing i've ever done! But i know it will be the most rewarding, 

i love you all so much and can't thank you enough for your support, it means the world. 

i hope you all have an incredible week and remember there's someone in France who is praying for you everyday! Thank you for the people you are!

Love,

Your Soeur Cameron

100 % no regrets. i've promised to give more

Natalie August 5, 2013

My dear fam,

Wow what a week it has been! So many incredible things happened. First off it is transfer week and i am being transfered! I'm going to a suburb of Paris called Melun. It's the south part of Paris. I'm really excited and anxious to be in a new ville. I am sad to see Tours go. It has been quite an adventure and I'll never forget all the incredible people that i found and met here. I will be leaving part of my heart here for sure. 

For my last weekend here, I got to witness something incredible. As I told you last week we had 2 baptisms set and ready to go for Saturday. Things were going great all week and we were in daily contact with Anne-Marie and William. On Saturday morning we even went and took an hour bus to meet them so they wouldn't be late for their interviews before their baptisms. We showed up and Anne-Marie looked terrible. She told us that she wasn't going to be baptized that day. But William was still going to. Her mom called her and told her that she didn't know anything about our church and didn't want her to be baptized in it. We were devestated. Wow it really hurt. We talked with her and testified and promised blessings. She told us that she knew it was true and she wanted to be baptized but she couldn't that day. We prayed our hearts out praying to know God's will and be there for her. At one point we were alone with William on the bus and we asked William if he wanted his mom to be baptized too. He said yes. We asked him what he could do or what his mom needed in order to make the decision to be baptized. Then, get this, he told us that through his decision to be baptized, he had faith that when he got baptized he would receive blessings and his life would be different. He knew that his mom would see and she would want the same blessings. THE FAITH OF AN 11 YEAR OLD. William will be a light to the world and to his mom. He was baptized on Saturday and was GLOWING. It was such an incredible thing to watch and witness and I feel so blessed that I was able to be here for it. I had my first baptism on my 4 month mark. And it's a day I will never forget. 

Yesterday we had a wonderful dinner appointment with the Colton family. They are from California and spend their summers here in France in their beautiful Chateau. It was build in 1867 I think by a famous industralist.  We spent the afternoon with them and loved it! They welcomed us in and gave us an incredible meal. it was delicious. We got to go exploring on their 100 acres of land and in their beautiful house on all floors. I felt like i was in Downton Abbey! It was so nice of them to have us over. 

Well it's been an incredible 12 weeks here in Tours. I have learned so much about myself and about God. I have seen Him everywhere here. I will miss all the people I have grown to love. All of my amis that we've found together here and all of the members that I have learned to love. Tours will always have a  piece of my heart. It's incredible to think that we came to Tours with literally no one. We opened the ville with not one investigator. But 12 weeks later, the chapel was full of our investigators, less actives and people we have grown to love. It was really humbling to look around and see them all. It was a tender mercy to see it yesterday. I will miss it a lot.

i really appreciate all of your love and support. I read a quote from President Monson that made me think of you all. "A mission is a family affair. Though the expanse of continents or oceans may seperate, hearts are as one." Oh how true this is! Even though there are oceans between us, I feel you all with me everyday and I can feel your prayers. I feel you Mom, Dad, and Em from our home praying for me everyday. I feel Jess and Ammon not too far away and Just and Shan in Logan all supporting me. I also feel my fellow missionary clear out in Canada. I feel of your strength Loge. Even though we're thousands of miles away I can feel you. And I feel our mutual goals and desires to bring the world His truth. It means the world to me. I want you to know that I think of all of you and pray for you too. And as I work I think of you because with the Savior you are my motivation. I think of all the incredible blessings I've received from having an eternal family, and that motivates me to want others to experience it too. 

Well wish me luck as I head out on a new adventure of a ville. I love you all and will be praying for you! Thanks so much for all of your support.

Love,

Soeur Cameron

100% No regrets. I've promised to give more

This is our cute Wiliam. He is going to change the world!

This is Anne Marie. 

Summer chateau of the Colton family, built in 1867. It was the castle of a famous industrialist who's names on the Eiffel Tower. 

They have 100 acres of land and beautiful meadows. We went exploring and found lots of treasures!

I felt like I was in Downton Abbey! It was so much fun!

Their vineyards and greenhouses. 

Saying goodbye to my friend Flora. 

Taking my last walk around Tours. 

Logan August 5, 2013

hello all,

another week has gone by, amazing. thank you so much for all of the prayers and all thoughts that have been given in my behalf. i can feel a power sustaining me. sometimes after hours of knocking you get down and feel like its not worth it, but everytime i think of Doctine and covenants 131, or at least i think it is 131 when Joseph is in liberty jail. he cries unto God asking him why He has forsaken him, and when i think of that the spirit floods my body and a voice comes into my head and says: fear not little one for I am with thee. and then i continue on because i know why i am here. 

so not a whole lot happened this week. we just knocked a ton. we had a couple D.A.s with la famille Vadnais and with le famille Gaboriault. the vadnais are from alberta and the dad has a terrible accent haha it is worse than mine. so we just speak in english when we are at there house which is awesome. and yesterday we had a souper chez Gaboriault. they are the best family in the ward. Maxim Gaboriault, i am sure i have mentioned previously, is the ward mission leader. He is about 23 24. he is so cool. he speaks English too so it is fun to joke around with him. he used to tease elder rasmussen about a girl at home named ashley. so last night during the prayer he prayed for elder rasmussen and ashley in utah. i was laughing so hard. 

french is coming slowly but surely. It is difficile but i am trying hard. i appreciate the prayers for the gift of tongues. i need it. 

We have been planning a party thing for  september called: la fete de famille, or the corn bust in english. that is fun. we are going to do a talent show, so we have been asking all of the families to prepare a talent or to simply bring an activity for the ward to do at the party. i am really excited for it. i am going to play the mandolin for it so we will see how that goes. Maxim plays guitar so he said that we might play something together. that would be fun. 

i do have one funny story. while we were knocking we knocked into this guy and he was kind of making fun of us and was totally high and offered us drugs, we said yeah do you have water? totally joking but he brought out 2 bottles of water, don't worry mom they were still sealed. then we talked to him for a little. he was funny. 

we were knocking yesterday, and we knocked this ladies door. she came and said i don't speak french well, she was hispanic, and we said how about english? she said oh yes i speak english. so we talked to her about the church for a while. she was really interested, the only problem is she is going back to mexico for 2 months, so hopefully brayden will find her and baptize her. that would be neat. 

other than that i dont have too many stories for y'all this week. just keep truckin a long. i have a split tomorrow. that should be fun. it is with elder smith. he is from utah. i actually played him in soccer. he plays for east and we played them in preseason back during my jr year. it was cool to talk to him on the phone about that. they totally destroyed our team so i didn't talk to much about it. haha.

well i guess thats it for the week, until next week .

i love you all and pray for you. I have felt your prayers this week. they are helping me realize why i am here. Just like nat said. i can feel them from utah Logan and american fork and from france. and maybe some other countries i don't know. 

love you all

elder cameron

 tout est bien