Well hello everyone!
First
off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDIO!! I hope you have a great great day. You
have a little surprise on its way in the postal service. Sure hope it
gets there soon! I sent it last week. Hope you enjoy it!
So I got the news yesterday that I will be training
a new bleu! I'm so excited and have felt God preparing me for someone.
I'm excited to go pick her up
on Wednesday
in Paris. She has no idea what's in store for her out here! This
mission has completely changed my life upside down and all around. I
can't wait for her!!
This week has been incredible. And I also got some other
exciting news!! I'll give you a little flashback. On May 18, 2013 Soeur
Miller, my trainer, and I walked in the rain for hours contacting and
finding. It was my 2nd day in France and we were there with no amis, and
no potentials. We had talked to 30 people that day with no one that was
interested. I was overwhelmed, missed home, and was dealing with a huge
culture shock. As we got on the bus, we had the impression to contact a
woman sitting down. We told her who we were and why we were here. And
she listened. She told us she was searching for God, her husband had
just been killed in a war in Africa, and she was here in France alone
with her 11 year old son and no one else. She had nothing. We testified
to her that God had found her, by sending us to her. That was the day
that we found Anne-Marie Lily. We invited her to come to church the next
day, and much to our surprise, she came. We continued to teach her and
her son William throughout the rest of my time in Tours. We set many
baptisimal dates and she accepted, but always backed out last minute. My
last week there, little they decided to be baptized. We met them in
town to go with them to the church. Anne-Marie met up with us and told
us she wouldn't be baptized, but William told us that he would be.
Anne-Marie had to go get off the bus to come to the baptism later. We
were on the bus with William devestated. We asked him if he wanted his
mom to be baptized and he said yes! We asked him what we could do to
help her. And with his 11 year old faith, said, "I will get baptized,
and I will receive the Holy Ghost. My mom will see the difference it
will make in my life and she'll want it too." And so he did! He was
baptized that day, receieved the priesthood not long after he turned 12
and has been passing the sacrament in Tours ever since. I got a call
yesterday from my trainer. It is her last week on her mission. She told
me that
Saturday,
exactly 8 months to the day after we found Anne-Marie, she was
BAPTIZED!!! Words cannot express how happy and overjoyed I am! This work
is real and it's on His timetable, not ours. The spirit is the true
missionary and we are just His hands. I love Anne-Marie Lily! And I
don't know if I will see her again in this life. But I know I'll see her
in the next. With her husband and little William by her side. Oh how
beautiful it will be! President Monson said, "Through your dedicated
service at home or abroad, those souls whom you help to save may well be
those whom you love the most" Oh how true that is!
This week has been full of that! We went and worked with our
member Soeur Trouillard all day again. Each month she gives us a full
day! Her only day off. She comes and drives us to our rendez-vous and
teaches with us. She's incredible! We had a rendez-vous with an ami who
is struggling because she just lost her father to causes from his job.
She was mad at God. Soeur Trouillard's uncle was literally going through
the same thing that very day! And she was able to testify to our amie
and bring hope to her heart. It was incredible! and such a testimony
that God sends people in our lives at specific moments to help us.
We also found a lot of great people this week! We found a girl
last night who was so impressed that there are young people who believe
in God! We will be teaching her this week. Man the work is on FIRE here
in Valenciennes! I'm so excited for the new bleu coming in and for all
that is in store for her.
Life is great! And i'm so happy. I'm so grateful for this
opportunity and for all that I'm learning. My life will never ever be
the same! Well I love you guys. Hope you have fun celebrating dad's 70th
birthday...woops...;sorry bout that. Know that I'm singing to you from
over here! I'll eat crêpes in your honor.
LOVE YOU
Sœur Cameron
100% No regrets I've promised to give MORE
the shire and le quesnoy!
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