December 29, 2014

such a strange song haha. 

but i like the next 2 verses

1. Ring out the old; ring in the new.
   Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
   The year is going; let him go.
   Ring out the false; ring in the true.
   The year is going; let him go.
   Ring out the false; ring in the true.
2. 3. Ring in the valiant men and free,
   The larger heart, the kindlier hand.
   Ring out the darkness of the land;
   Ring in the Christ that is to be.
   Ring out the darkness of the land;
   Ring in the Christ that is to be.

  The new year is such a great time to evaluate where we are and change what we need to. I have made the same goals every week for a long time and i haven't really made much progress so this year i have decided to change the ways i set goals. I have learned that goals need to be specific and precise. For example i made a language goal i want to read 2 chapters from the Book of Mormon every day so that i can finish it before i come home. So that is what i am going to do! We have a lot to do before the Christ comes again, we much prepare the world for His coming! 

  I am glad that you enjoyed the music. It was so fun to make. We had a great time playing in the roads. we had a couple miracles. a lot of people stopped to listen to us and took pictures of us. we even got a new investigator from it! 

not to much to report on! because you know pretty much everything since we called Thursday! 

 

 i love you all. i hope all is well. at home. i love you very very much

until next week. 

Godspeed.

elder cameron

December 22, 2014

Thank you so much family for my christmas package. I couldnt wait to open it so i just did last night, about an hour after i got it. haha. would have been sooner but unfortunately we had a missionary meeting so i couldnt haha. But it was great to open up that box and see a thousands peps, a flying monkey, a classy cardigan, a wicked white shirt, some scrappy socks, GANDALF, oh my gosh i freaked out when i saw that. i brought him everywhere with me today. I am serious i showed all the missionaries in my zone. It was all the rage! Natalie I loved the petit prince note book. there is a sister in my zone from belgium and i always talk to her about le petit prince because that is one of her favorite books so she was super pumped when i showed her the notebook. you would get along with her well natalie. I just loved everything, cant wait to see you all on thursday bright and early at 730 utah time. wont that be special. i know you will all be up anyways, hahah...... or maybe just emily. haha that would be cool i will just talk to her haha.

I have not much to say because i will just tell you how everything is on thursday. life is good. life is real good. I have a lot of great people surrounding me. I have a great family, i have a great companion, a great branch, and a loving Heavenly Father who cares enough to give me all of these things. I have a Savior. I love him, and I am so glad to be His missionary. I am excited for the future because of Him. 

I cant wait to see you, I am glad that our family is an eternal one. One day, we will be in the Celestial Kingdom together, maybe i will be married, who knows haha. i am still pretty young though so i think i have a while yet before i have to make that step haha. 

it is weird that in 5 months i will be a return missionary. that doesnt seem real. i still feel like a young missionary! it is strange to think that i will be starting my life again, But i feel much more prepared for all that. I still have a while yet. I will treasure the time i have left. 

i am super excited to see you in 3 days

Godspeed

elder cameron

December 15, 2014

Nat i totally saw your chirstmas thing at our branch christmas party! how neat is that! our elders quorum president played it at the end of our party. it was just dandy!

i am so so so so so so so so so so so so sos os sosososos sos os so sos so so so so oh so happy to be a missionary. mom i think that was just you trying to tell me in a nice way to write more things in the emails that i send home. haha. What a funny story. I wont lie i have been guilty of that several times during my school years. haha

wow it is weird to see my 2 sisters in the hobby lobby blue. trop bizarre. How did you get my letter on the sabbath day? I hope you liked the painting. I will send you a picture of what the street actually looks like.  it is just so special. speaking of special i will be doing a little skype session with my lovely family on christmas at 9:30 am quebec time. so that must be 7:30 your time. is this too early? we just have a lot of missionaries to use the computer. I will have an hour to talk to you so from 9:30 to 10:30 quebec time. that would be lovely. let me know if that works!

guess what i did my first baptismal interview this week. it was really cool. a team in my district had an investigator, who actually lives in our building, who got baptized this past week! it was really cool. such a great experience. He is physically handicapped and so the ordinance was really hard for him. Very powerful.

Chirstmas is coming and the Goose is getting fat. It is crazy how fast time is flying. I have not got my package yet and i probably wont get it until sunday. but that is ok. had i got it earlier i just would have opened it haha. 

we had a sad thing happen to us. we had a super solid potential investigator that we found last week but he told us this week that his wife wont let him visit with us anymore. she wants him to stay catholic. i was so sad for him. he wanted to learn so badly but he loves his wife and doesnt want to fight with her. But i know we planted a good seed. you know I have done that a lot on my mission. I may have not been able to see too too many fruits from my labors but i know that i am still being a successful missionary. It is hard sometimes to hear about all this people in other missions getting baptized by the 100s but the quebecois are just as important to God as those people. I have taken comfort in the fact that i am a seed planter. Abinidi was as important to the story as alma was! 

i am so excited to see you next week! i will be emailing on tuesday next week. so dont worry! i will be alive. I love you all

Godspeed!

elder cameron

December 8, 2014

thats right folks staying for another 6 weeks! couldn't be more happy! i am just loving this area and this part of my mission

i agree father the orchestra was incredible. i loved still still still the most. 

sorry folks i only have a little bit of time to write because we did a lot of things today and we only have one computer to share among 6 missionaries, and i said i would go last because most of them are young lads and lasses in the missionaries, Nathalie tu comprends:)

this week was awesome. sergio came to church with his entire family! what a miracle he is. so 7 people at church. his kids love us. the youngest kid is hilarious. he looked at us and said, hi its me Michael! 

we went caroling this week in vieux quebec. it was great we got a lot of people to smile and we handed out a lot of cards. SHARETHEGIFT get stuff done at home family and then let me know how it goes i cant wait to hear the Christmas stories

i am missing you all very much this week as Christmas is coming. but i know why i am here and i will be home soon. 

i love you all

oh i found out i come home on may 28th 2015

elder cameron

December 1, 2104

Guess what family! i almost broke my thumb this week! how neat is that. we were doing some service for a family moving logs. and let me describe these logs to you. imagine a log the size of dad, but about 6 times his weight. ok thats we tried to move. haha so it may or may not have landed on my thumb... yeah it hurt pretty bad, i may have said a swear in my head, but i have been speaking quebecois for so long that it was a swear in quebecois. but i repented so dont fret.

So this week on thursday i was grateful for thumbs, and also for splints and tape and bandages and missionaries who know how to wrap hands and stuff, but more than all of that i am grateful for the power of the Priesthood. I asked my comp for a blessing and he gave me a great one. Heavenly Father told me some other things that i needed to hear. So everything is well. good news it is doing better, it doesnt really hurt at all anymore. 

it is good to hear that the lights and tree are up, will you send me a picture of all that. i miss seeing those things. 

I just loved seeing all the things you are going to do to share the Gift! Man we have some crazy cool stuff for the Christmas Initiative. We are going to be talking to everyone about this new website and the he is the gift video. Big things are coming my friends big big things

thanks for the future package and money on my card. i really appreciate it. Great job running the race lads and lasses. that is pretty neat. I havent ran in a while. 

thanksgiving this year we went to a latino family to eat. it was so so so good. oh man. I love latino food. and there was so much of it too. it was great. 

on our way home from there house we had to take the ferry. and as we were coming out we heard, "hey elders" so we stopped and talked to this lady. she is a member in hawaii. super cool lady, she loved us haha. she asked if she could give us a christmas gift and gave each one of us 20 dollars. how cool is that. To see a complete stranger and be able to connect immediately with them because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She was even doing missionary work. She was telling some other lady about the Restoration, then i got to share the 1st vision with her. Great experience.

We had another miracle. We went to visit a less active only to find that he had moved. so we decided to knock some doors. Elder draper had never done it so we decided to give it a go. It was awesome, we got into the 2nd door and taught the restoration. new investigator! sick bird!

sergio is doing well. he is so cool every time we go i feel the spirit. he has been prepared to receive the gospel at this time. 

i  love you all. all is well from canada. 

Bises

elder cameron

 

November 24, 2014

hi family, mom dad, sisters brothers, dog, uncles aunts, cousins, grandparents, distant relatives that we dont know of that somehow have access to this letter i am about to send home,

how are you?

you know i am just dandy, sorry it is a little late to be emailing. We only have one computer that functions... so i said i will go last because i dont really have too many people to write.

I am doing great. weather is getting colder! i dont really need anything for the moment. though if you were to buy me a shirt could you get a size smaller? yeah thats right i have lost weight! i guess not having a car is a blessing...... haha

Dad you are one inspired man, i will tell you why. I read that very talk this last week and i was so touched by the spirit. I have been studying a lot about the Prophet Joseph Smith. I listened to one of my all-time favorite talks, "Profile of a Prophet" if you havent read it.... (as President Monson would say) READ IT!!!!!!!!!!! lets just say you cannot listen to this talk and not know that Joseph was indeed called of God to be the Prophet of the Restoration. My favorite part of the entire address is the end. Elder Brown says:(and i am paraphrasing here) but undergirding and overarching all the rest I know that Joseph Smith was a Prophet. By the wisperings of the Holy Ghost one can come to that same knowledge.

Dont you just love that? It is the same for me. I have learned so much about him on my mission. But all these things that i have learned can neither give nor take my testimony away. I know that he is a prophet because i have heard the Holy Ghost say to me that he is. I know it and i cannot deny it, and i shall never be able to do so. 

this week was great

remember when i told you about Sergio? well he has a date to be baptized!!!!!!!!! wooooohhoooooooo yeah i know how great is that! It was a great lesson. his son even sat in and so next week we are going to commit him too. I am so happy for him i cant wait to teach him next week. thank you for your prayers on his behalf. 

Mommy thanks so much for all you do for me. I am very grateful for you. I just felt like i needed to tell you that. i am sorry i dont write too much. I have never really been good and expressing what i feel inside but i want you to know that you are the best and have always been the mother that your children needed. i talk about you often so the lads must think that i am a wus or a mommas boy or somthing like that! 

You are all amazing. Happy thanksgiving. May you all remember that the greatest gift we have been given is He who was born in a manger, and He who died on a cross. It is Jesus the Christ, the Son of God. I will always be eternally grateful for Him. 

Godspeed my family

all is well in zion

elder cameron

 

November 17, 2014

My friends,

life is beautiful. especially when you find 3 new investigators in one week. that is what i like to call blessings from the Lord. Fantastic isn't it. 

I am doing well 

i just have to say thank you so so soso so sos o s much to my sister nat and my brother justin for sending me the best little gifts that i have received in a while. You know how much i love music. 

It was so great to read some mumford and sons lyrics. in fact i convinced my 4 man to sing timshel with me. it didn't sound like mumford haha but we tried our best. 

It is snowing pretty hard here. we have got a ton of snow everywhere. It is completely white. i love it. for now. haha

i am doing good on advair and other supplies. thank you for everything

I will now tell you about our new investigator. his name is Sergio. he is from mexico. He is so cool. i gave him a call because we got his information from a team in montreal. He said we could come on over. we had such a great lesson with him. i asked if he wanted to be baptized on the first lesson just like a good PMG missionary should and he said yes!! next lesson we are going to give him a date to be baptized. he could be a member by the end of the year! please pray for this guy

we had another great lesson with 2 other new amis. We gave them a book of mormon and they said they are going to read and pray about it. so we are excited for them as well.

we got to go to montreal for a new missionary training for my comp. it was great. i got to see a lot of missionaries i haven't seen in a while. and we even got to have an interview with president. it was so cool. we both wanted to talk to him because we had some concerns so we went into his office and talked for a while. it was great. 

he told us both that we are going to be bishops and i laughed and he said thats what i did when my mission pres said the same thing on my mission. haha

all is well i love you all  very very much

elder cameron

November 10, 2014

Everywhere you go, there's a tree in the grand hotel one in the park aswell, the sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snoWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

wow

so this week was good, i jammed with a black guy. It was really fun, he played the accordion, and i played my mandolin. We had a good jam session together. he is all about playing gospel music, so i said i would love to jam with him. He said ok then he actually came and we played some songs. Unfortunately he is not too too interested in the Church. But it was fun to play some music. 

it is 430 right now and completely dark. winter is upon us. it is official there is snow. it melted though. so maybe tomorrow it will stick.

we dont have too too much time left for emails today for we have to make some preparations for this next week. 

But let it be known that i am well my companion is great, i am having fun!. we are working hard. get to play some music tonight for family home evening! i love you all! so much. stay tuned for next week

bisou

elder cameron

 

November 3, 2014

Hey family!

so how are you all doing! i am just great. i am happy and healthy just like always. my advair is doing great thanks for asking. my christmas package is coming up that is exciting! i just have one request, a cardigan, a black one would be great! thanks mommy i think i will be great for this winter my coat is sweet. 

we had a great week, i did an exchange with the rimouski team, they are far far away, and guess what! justin got a marble there many moons ago and i visited the same family and i got the marble! only he knows what the marble is and i cant tell any of you what it means but just you know what i mean!

hey mom i ate like 3 vegetables last week! i know that is cool!

we had stake conference this week. it was really good we talked about how to use social media to do missionary work. we are going to try a little bit harder with our facebook account to invite others to come unto Christ. But what is more effective than the missionaries using facebook is the members using facebook! it is so cool seeing the different creative ways that we can share our testimonies on the web. i think i know what family home evening will be about this week, winky face dad!

we have a sister in our district that broke her toe. she was having a rough time so we gave her a blessing and we saw a miracle. before the blessing they said that it was obvious that her toe was broken but after the blessing the next day the doctor said it wasnt, that it never had been broken. It was so cool to see the priesthood of Jesus Christ working with her faith and ours to heal her foot. I have a testimony of God`s love for his children

I know that Jesus is the Christ.. I know it and no one can make me think any other way. I know why i am a missionary. Sometimes it is harder to remember, when rough times come or when you lose the desire, but something always comes back into my mind, It is a quote from Preach My Gospel, As your understanding of the Atonement grows your desire to share the Gospel will increase. I have seen that a lot on my mission

I love you all

I love Jesus Christ

Elder cameron

Godspeed

October 27, 2014

hey y'all

so nat this is weird you are dating people. i am not sure how i feel about my sisters dating people. you're not ready emily and nat, wait about 7ish months and maybe you can be ready... 

we had a really cool week, so you may be wondering why the subject of this letter is how i could have protection, well let me tell you a story

so we sent a message to our main man Emmanuel, he is a black guy from Martinique, he asked us if we wanted to come to a gospel meeting with his friends at his house. we said of course! and so we showed up and 6 black guys were just chillin in front of us. So i started joking with them and challenged them to some fooseball because we have gotten pretty good at baby foot, but then they all starting talking to us about the Church and what we believe. we were able to teach a little bit of the first lesson. so that was cool. they all love us now and if we were in a fight they would come and have our backs for sure. though i dont think that we will be fighting anyone soon, but one never knows so i am glad those guys are on our side

next cool story, we called up a potential and set up a rendez-vous to talk about music, let me explain. when i called him he asked if i play music, so i said of course i do i love to play, and then he asked if we could help him with some gospel songs that he is working on, so we invited him to the institute and we talked about the Gospel, it was really cool. We are going with a different approach this time but it is really fun. 

I am doing well family, my health is good, i am scared for winter, quebec winters are colder than montreal winters. so i will let you know if i need anything. I am healthy wealthy and wise smiley face! well folks that is all for me this week, 

starting a new transfer this week, dont worry i am staying in ste foy for another 6 weeks. I love it here. 

you rock

Godspeed

elder cameron

October 20, 2014

How y'all doing on this brisk autumn day

is it brisk in dear old american fork, because it is certainly brisk here

I just want you all to know that i love you very much and i thank you for your prayers. Please let the ward know that i love them too. I have been thinking about all the things that i have learned from my parents and the man that i have become because of them. I haven't totally messed up so you should be proud haha, i made it out here so that is something special. We are so blessed to have a family where we are all so active and strong in the church. this past week a lot of people have talked to me about justin. I always say, let me tell you about my hero. for example the belanger family who saw my man main justin once a week in ste foy always says, elder cameron t'es comme ton frere mais moins sérieux, haha elder cameron you are like you brother but less serious. hey i will take the compliment!

this week was great we had some sweet lessons, we even found a new investigator! bernadetter from the congo! she is super nice, she is actually a former investigator and so we picked her up again to see if she is ready this time around to accept the covenant of baptism. 

I had an exchange with my zone leader. it was super fun. i love him he is hilarious we had a good time. We are just doing work up here in quebec city

we have been able to work with some new less actives too which is awesome. there are so many less actives in quebec so we are trying to find all those who are willing to come back but just need a little time. I love working with less actives. i love to try and bring hope back into their lives. I love when you can feel the Holy Ghost working through to saying something that they needed to hear. It is awesome! I love being a missionary

la vie est belle mes amis. life is beautiful 

so when was the last time that you shared the gospel with a friend. i know it is harder at home because most of our friends are members but we know people! there are always people who have been prepared to receive us! 

i love you all

i am well i love the mission and my companion i am healthy and trying to be wise haha not very wealthy though

elder cameron

October, 13, 2014

salut mes amis, comment ca va? 

I GOT THE PACKAGE and lets just say, I experienced heaven while eating symphony bars on a ferry this week. yeah how cool is that we took a ferry. that is pretty neat. actually the reason we had to take the ferry is because our branch president invited us to eat canadian thanksgiving dinner at his house. the problem is that he lives on the south shore and the bridge is pretty far away so we agreed to take to ferry which is closer to his house. Then he picked us up from where the ferry dropped us off. That was special.

this week we did a ton of service. seriously it was crazy. so this family asked us to come and help rake the leaves. I am down with raking leaves but then as we got there they said there are a few things we have to take up from the basement. so that was fine you know we are strong young pups. we got most everything but then there was a huge piece of plywood and on the other side was tile, for a bathroom i think. this thing must have weighed like 240 lbs. there was no way that elder draper and i could get this thing by ourselves so the member handed us a sledge hammer and said go to work. So i grabbed that sucker and said, MERICA and hit that thing until all the tile was in tiny pieces on the ground. It was really fun but i was dead after that, and that was all before even racking one leaf. So then we spent a good 3 hours getting all the leaves from off of the ground. Boy did it take a while, my back was on fire, still kind of is, i have not fully recovered from the pain of service. But i felt good inside... kind of haha. i actually was having a small asthma attack while trying to be a hero and smash the tile board, I felt like an old man. But dont fret because being the eagle scout that i am i had my fast acting inhailer strapped to my belt. ok maybe it was not on my belt but it was close. So i am fine, and alive and sore. 

we had some great lessons this week. we taught a family from nepal. it is pretty tough because they dont speak french or english too well so we are trying our best. We also got to see clarence our investigator. he is doing well. we had a killer lesson with him. we told him strait up that he has to pray and ask God. and he came to church!! that was great to see. 

we had a fun week. thank you so much for the package it made my week. thank you for the letters. Dad thank you for your 3x5 card, you said something i really needed to hear. mother you always make me smile with your crafty notes. and emily my banjo card is taped to the wall. thank you so so much

I love you all! 

bise

 

October 7, 2014

sorry everyone that i didn't email yesterday we had a zone meeting and so our pday got changed to today! so this week was great. i loved conference, elder hamulas was probably my favorite. I loved that so much. cant believe that nat is home. It was so strange to see pics of you all. We had a great week. unfortunately i have to make this email short because we have a lot of activities we have to do today because we had to change our pday. I will tell you one story, so clarence our 76 year old black investigator came to the priesthood session. we were so pumped, but as we walked out to greet him he strolls up with a lady on his arm looking like a womanizer haha and he says gentlemen! HE BROUGHT A DATE TO THE PRIESTHOOD SESSION haha that is the coolest thing that has happened this week. if only he knew what it was before hand it was so funny! man i love you all i hope you are not disappointed with my short email but justin and nat and jess and ammo and shannon understand..... haha elder cam

Welcome Home Sister Cameron

Logan September 29, 2014

Yup you got it folks. Well friday i ate lunch with a general authority.

That was pretty special that we had three cmm missionaries parents eating together because those same missionaries ate together on friday with a general authority. It was really cool. Elder carlson came for a mission tour and gave us a 7 hour training. He is an amazing man. he was in the armed forces, in the air force and was a general. this guy is the real deal. He gave us a lot of great ideas and things that we can change to become better missionaries. I am excited to apply all the things that he has taught us. 

it was kind of cool, we got to perform a musical number for him, so Elder Hidalgo, sister sherch, and elder cameron sang a song with sister Gammon on the piano. We only had about a week to practice and so it was no mormon tabernacle choir but i think it sounded pretty good. 

later in the program i was called upon to share my testimony. Man it was a crazy day. But it was a great day. 

Can anyone else believe that nat is really coming home this week? because i cannot. it seems like we should still be new missionaries. time just flies by. Nat is an all star missionary. I just want everyone to know that she has done a great job and has been and will continue to be a great missionary. She sure has made it easier to keep pushing hard and working the best i can. I am so happy that we were able to be missionaries at the same time. She is going to whip you all into shape so be patient haha. Good luck nanners you will be great

we had  a pretty cool week. We met a  lady that is 111 years old­. This lady has seen so much. Well i don't know how much she has seen in the last 30 years her eyes aren't what they used to be. But she is more than 5 times my age! it was hard to talk to her because she only has one ear that works and you must speak really slowly. So i didn't get many words in before she had to eat her supper. But we tried. I wish that i could just stay there for a while listen to her tell stories. She still reads and everything. I think i found a new hero.

you may have seen some of my pics i sent home but i want to explain that mini book shelf that we saw in the middle of the woods. It said take a book and leave a book. Naturally i wanted to take a book but being the good Law abiding citizen that i am we tried to think of a BOOK that we could leave, come on elders why did it take you so long to think of a BOOK to leave if you are constantly begging people to read ONE BOOK!!!! so we left the BOOK of MORMON in the book shelf and we took a michael jackson calander from 1983 and a french literature book that is from 1943. unfortunately i cant read the french book yet but in about 7ish months i will­.

We got interviewed this week by a reporter! how neat is that. i felt famous. he was doing an article on the mormon youth. and so he asked us and the sisters a few questions, I felt pretty cool answering french questions for a french news paper. it was super!

well my friends always remember that God answers prayers. If He didn't none of this would exist. 

You all know that i love quotes, and that i have always wanted to be the author of a quote so i am going to give it my best shot with this one

faith gives us reason, hope gives us strength and charity gives us power.

love you all 

elder cameron

Natalie September 29, 2014

Wow.

Oh what a beautiful 18 months it has been. I feel as if my heart will burst with gratitude and joy because of what God has done in the past year and a half. I Stand All Amazed. I stand all amazed at the miracles He has orchestrated. The people He has found. The people He introduced into my life. The lessons He has taught. The impossible He made possible. The unseen He made seen. And the thousands of miracles He gave me to show a daughter that her Father was there.

I Stand All Amazed that the greatest miracle of my mission

is me.

My mission has taught me many things. But one of the greatest principles I am taking with me, is that God is real. He is our Father. He is our teammate, and He is endlessly running at our aide. To help us. To lift us. And to guide us. And He speaks. If we listen, He will speak. And when we listen, we'll realize that He's always speaking. God never limits His love. We are the ones that put restrictions on feeling His blessings and divine love. The greatest gift He gave us was His son-who provided us with an Atonement. A way to be cleansed. A way to be free. A way to listen without restraint. To be awakened. To be comforted. A way to become like Him. Because that's why we're here. To realize our divine potentional and become like Our Heavenly Father to continue His divine mission.

My mission has taught me to LOVE. And that everyone needs it. We all search to be accepted and feel His love . And the greatest gift we can give to others is to be a vessel for God's love. To leave a legacy of love. I have grown to love this country more than I thought I ever could. I have grown to love companions and missionaries who have become sacred friends, amis who will always stay in my heart, members who showed me what true missionary work is, mission presidents who stood as pillars to lead this country, and my family--who i grew to love and respect more than I ever thought I could. My mission has taught me that the greatest missionaries are the ones who converted me -my family.

It hurts my heart to leave this place. To leave Paris in all of her glory and beauty and sacredness. But I am overjoyed and excited to begin the next step of my journey. Although I will be leaving the land of my mission,

I will not leave my mission

Because my mission is just beginning.

At the end of the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis wrote:

"And as Aslan spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion, but the things which began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them, it was only the beginning of the real story. All of their lives in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page. Now at last they were beginning chapter one of the great story which no one on earth has read which goes on forever; in which every chapter is better than the one before."

My cover page and title page were more beautiful than I could have ever hoped for. And I am so excited to see where my story will take me for chapter 1. Each new page brings another adventure intertwined with God's grace and love. As we let Him write the pages of our lives, He will make our story more beautiful than we can even imagine. More beauitful than we could've ever written for oursevles. As we give Him more, He will make our stories into something more.

Thank you for all of your love and support. And for being there every single day of these 18 months. I will forever be grateful for the support that you have given me and for being a part of my story.

"If you find it’s me you’re missing, if you’re hoping I’ll return. To your thoughts I’ll soon be listening, in the road I’ll stop and turn. Then the wind will set me racing as my journey nears its end. And the path I’ll be retracing when I’m homeward bound again.

Bind me not to the pasture; chain me not to the plow. Set me free to find my calling and I’ll return to you somehow"

Love,

Your Sœur Cameron

100% No regrets I've promised to give MORE

Logan September 22, 2014

I am sorry but this photo that you all saw does not show a companionship, only good friends. I am training elder Draper from farmington utah. he is hilarious. we have had a great time already. we have already had some crazy miracles happen. I will try my best to describe the things that have taken place since we have been here together.

but first,

How cool is it that natalie got to see my favorite companion??? elder fontaine is the greatest. Do you see how tall this guy is??? he is even bigger spiritually. Honestly. he told me he just got called as elders quorum president. he hasn't even been home a week! I am gonig to visit him one day in france and we are going to go watch a soccer match. He will be missed in quebec. 

So i lost my car.... frowny face. another team needed the car so they had to take ours. i was sad inside. so now we are on the bus. but it is great because this week we have had 2 major miracles on the bus. first one

back when i was a wee little missionary in Mont saint hilaire. I taught a man named emmanuel. unforntunalty he moved  while we were teaching him. so we were on our way to an investigators house on the bus and a boy gets on the bus. i thought to myself, ''self you know this lad. who could it be" but then i realized it was fransico. the son of manuel. so i talked to him and he remembered me and i got his dads phone number and then i called his dad, and he remembered me too! so we are going to go and teach him again this week! i am super excited to see them all again. 

second bus miracle:

we were on our way home when a man came up to me and said, "are you the missionaries?" i said yes of course. then he said give me your card please. hahah are you serious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i talked with him, we got his number and we are going to teach him too! haha wow this was too cool. this doesn't just happen

third miracle

we were at the institute and a guy walked in to the building. the senior couple asked if he was there for the class and he said no he was just curious about the building so they pointed him over to us and we starting talking to him. we found out he was attending an alcohol anonymous group, so we know he is already working on the word of wisdom! haha but we got his number too and we are going to start teaching him.

wow miracles are real. and the Lord likes to bless his new missionaries. I love training. it is the best. It reminds me of the beginning of my mission. it is helping me go back to the basics, the fundamentals of the gospel and to become a better missionary.

I was reading in 3 nephi 27:32 when Jesus talks about those who would sell Him for things that moths corrupt and things that thieves can steal. When i was thinking about this i remembered all of the times that i have "sold" my testimony or "sold" reading my scriptures or saying my prayers to do something else or to have temporary satisfaction. We see it so many times as missionaries. Everyone, even the most active members sometimes "sell" what is most precious and what will never die for that which is of no worth. So what must we do to keep the eternal things on the top of our priority list? the next verse tells us that strait is the gate and narrow the way that leads to eternal life, how do we stay on this strait and narrow way? i have a testimony of this principle: by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.  It truly is by doing the small things that we earn our reward in heaven. It is the small things that shape us and help us become like our Savior Jesus Christ. I thought this was so interesting while i was reading, you know Gandalf got it right when he said,

"some believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what i have found. I have found that it is the small things, everyday deeds, done by everyday folk that keeps the darkness at bay." 

inspired? i say yes

I love you all. I am praying for you. That is crazy that nat gets home soon. She is the best missionary i know. 

Godspeed

elder cameron