Natalie March 31, 2014

hello everyone!

Thanks so much for all of your great e-mails and messages. I sure did miss you during the Women's conference and thought about you. Wasn't it powerful. Me and Soeur Richards looked at each other through our tears and for the first time in awhile we realized that we're not alone out here! Sometimes, it feels like we're alone because we're the only members out here sometimes. But we are a worldwide sisterhood with women of all different ages who are unified in our faith of the Savior. Women are powerful! And I'm so grateful for that. With the priesthood, that's what makes us complete. I'm grateful for that truth in my life. I have grown to love the priesthood so much on my mission!

This week was so great! So busy, and it's crazy it's over because I can barely remember what happened. We had exchanges this week with our STL's Sister Finneran and Sister Wade. They came here and both equipes went out and did work. We got so much done and saw a lot of miracles! Right now in our mission we're doing Easter miracles! I think i explained it a little bit but we're doing specific things to prepare our amis for Easter. When we contact people we straight off tell them about Easter and how we're here to share a message about miracles. We then ask an inspired question and ask them if we could teach their families and children more about why we have easter. It has been absolutely incredible to see the response of people! We have found more amis this week then I have here. It's amazing! We taught more lessons than I ever have on my mission and we have so many potentials. We were just running around like crazy and it felt good. We are trying as a mission to get 125 baptisms before our new mission president comes in. President Poznanski made that our goal. It made us all cry our eyes out. It's going to be a hard day in France when they leave. They have changed this country forever and I won't be surprised if he's called to be a General Authority soon. I am so grateful for the power of the message and miracle of easter!

We taught the combined meeting for the RS and priesthood yesterday at church. We talked about this adn shared the quote from elder holland's talk "none were with Him" about how Christ walked the path alone, and now, we have the sacred charge and challenge to never let Him walk that road alone again. That's really what missionary work is! Is helping others along their covenant path too! just like we learned in teh Women's conference yesterday.

We have met with our cute Jacqueline everyday this past week and we are seeing huge improvement and progression in her! I love her to death. Yesterday, we went to see her in the Afternoon. A nice little Sunday afternoon walk. Side note, she lives in a little old folks community little foyer type thing and I feel like I'm a part of it now. All the old people know us and I'll walk in and be like," hey barb how's the cat doing, your arthritis acting up again? man we gotta get that fixed don't we?" "Glenda, how are the tulips? Are they coming in alright? Can't have what happened last year when Barb's cat trampled them all now can we?" I kid you not, that's pretty much how it goes; i'm one of them. I'm officially 90 years old. Well, anyways, we came to our little community for a walk with Jacqueline; She's kinda like the cool grandma on the block. She has a little jump in her step if you know what i mean and all the other kids look up to her. We walked out with her and felt pretty cool. She walked us around Valenciennes and showed us some really old things and churches and such. And told us what it was like during WWII. Then she asked us if we wanted ice cream. We explained to her again that to keep the sabbath day holy, we don't buy things or go into restaurants; Well, she wouldn't really have that as an answer, so she walked up to no less than a BAR. A classy french little brasserie and ordered us some fresh ice cream. WE WERE DYING! We told her no, and the dang man at the door looked us like "like really? you're going to turn your grandma down? who are you?" So we went in and got ready to be struck by lightening...haha turns out it never came, but we sure got a good laugh out of it. really? neither of us can figure out how she got us in there. But she's so dang hilarious. Mom you would love her. She's a little irreverant sometimes. Anyways, as you can tell she's progressing just fine! i'm an awful missionary.

So, who else is SESTATIC for conference LIKE ME?? Anybody! Oh my goodness! I cannot wait. Here's a quote from Elder Erying to get us excited, "Ponder deeply and diligently in the scriptures and in the words of living prophets. Persist in prayer for the Holy Ghost to reveal to you the nature of god the father and his beloved son. Plead that the spirit will show you what The Lord wants you to do. Plan to do it. Promise him to obey. Act with determination until you have done what he asked. And then pray to give thanks for the opportunity to serve and to know what you might do next." Isn't that incredible? One of my dear friends sent me that this week, and it really touched me! That is what conference is. So get ready to learn, become and ACT! With the Holy Ghost, we can become new people this conference. I don't know about you but I'm sure ready for that! (especially after the bar...just saying...i'm really sorry....)

Well, everything else is going fabulous. We LOVE our lives and I love my mission! We're having so much fun and seeing the beauty EVERYWHERE. Went to Le Quesnoy for the last time and explored some cool bunker tunnels from WWI. I love France so much. Ah I love it all;

Thank you so much for your love and support. it means the world;

LOVE,

Soeur Cameron

100% No regrets I've promised to give MORE

Le Quesnoy, and a nice little outing of my people. dad guess which one is you?