Natalie May 19, 2014

Well,

First I must give my younger siblings a birthday shoutouttttttt. Happy birthday EM AND LOGE, I sure hope that you have a great day. Canada, Utah. All over. I've been thinking about you all day and I hope that you can feel my love. Joyeux Anniversaire!

This week was really great and such a learning experience for me. It wasn't one of the easiest weeks of my mission, but I'm so grateful for the strength I gained, and the lessons I learned, to help me become the missionary I am 7 days later. Right now, our ward is suffering through a lot. Families being broken apart, members being offended and almost leaving the church, and other little stressful situations. I've taken a lot of the stress on my shoulders, and I've had to realize that I can do all that i can do, but ultimately it's the Savior that will heal their hearts. Not only the Savior, but His perfect and redeeming love."Do your best, forget the rest, angels do no more" right mom?

As I have studied, prayed, and fasted this week for inspiration to know how to help where I can, the same thought and principle keeps coming back and back. The answer is charity. I firmly believe that if everyone saught to focus on others, with Christ-like charitable love, then each situation would be different, and actually wouldn't be there at all.

Anne C. Pingree said, "Charity, the Savior’s pure love, is the “highest, noblest, strongest kind of love,”  which we “pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart”  to possess. Elder Dallin H. Oaks teaches us that charity “is not an act but a condition or state of being [one becomes].”  Our day-to-day offerings of charity are “written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; … in [the] fleshy tables of [our] heart[s].” Little by little our charitable acts change our natures, define our characters, and ultimately make us women with the courage and commitment to say to the Lord, “Here am I; send me.”

Isn't that beautiful? Charity is who we can become, written in the fleshy tables of our hearts. I have a dear friend out here named Soeur Bradley. For me, she is one of the ultimate examples of charity. We've talked a lot about it and have come to the conclusion that everything, everything! is about love. If love was our motivating force for every action we took, can you imagine the outcome? Can you imagine the kindness we'd feel, the hands we could lift, the smiles we could bring? It makes me sure want to fight harder to have more charity.

We had a lot of rendez-vous this week. We had one set up with the cute older french woman we met. We even had a member set up who drove over an hour to teach with us. We got to the door and she answered and said that she was busy. haha yep, you guessed it. prayed for a lot of charity then! So we prayed and felt inspired to visit a less active to not waste our member's trip. It turned out being incredible where we were able to share love and help her feel hope. Heavenly Father is so inspired. Everything happenes for a reason. Even getting fruged.

We also found a new amis. Her name is Denise. She is from Banat in Africa and moved here about a year ago. Her husband is still in africa so she is raising 4 kids all alone in France trying to make ends meet. We taught her the Restoration lesson and it was incredible to see her open heart, searching for help. She is progressing! And i'm excited to see where she'll go. We found a ton of new people this week! So many miracles and gifts from Heavenly Father. We are not forgotten.

I also was able to finish studying Preach My Gospel this week. For the past couple of months, I studied it all the way through and did every exercise and study inside. I have such a huge testimony of it and I know it is inspired to help us be the missionaries He needs us to be. Including missionaries who have charity and who LOVE everyone. That's what Preach My Gospel is about. That's what missionary work is about. LOVE.

Well I love you all and am so grateful for your LOVE. hope you can feel mine. I know the Savior Lives, and all we need is His love. Then we can truly love others.

Hope you have a happy birthday day and can feel me with ya!

Love,

Soeur Nat Cameron

100% No regrets I've promised to give MORE

This is a beautiful garden area in a little ville close to Belgium