Logan June 9, 2014

hey y'all.

thanks so much for the package! everything is perfect. thanks so much. i love candy! thanks for the pants. they are great. and the shirt! just how i like it. 

well this week was splendid. kind of long but it was full of great activities. 

we finally got to visit an investigator we have named sylvia. she is from kenya. super cool. she wants to be baptized and has read a ton in the book of mormon. her husband is a member, also from kenya. He wants her to get baptized but he says over and over again it has to be her decision.

we had a baptism in our branch. a little boy got baptized yesterday after church. It was really tender. his dad was so proud of the little guy. I "got" to play piano for the occasion. I struggled through a couple hymns that i dont really know how to play but i think it was ok. i have to play in sacrament meeting for 2 weeks. our one pianist is gone on holiday. so i have been practicing a little bit. I am defiantly better than i was at the beginning of my mission thats for sure. if only i had listened to my mother and kept going with lessons. or if only i had never told anyone that i can play like 3 hymns. well lessons of life right? but the baptism was great. we had 3 investigators there. it was super cool. they all felt the spirit i am sure. 

rymilee, from jamaica, was there. she stayed for the whole thing too. even the food after the ordinance. we talked for a little about music and art. she is a great artist. maybe i will take some pictures of some of her work to show y'all 

things are going well here in Chomedey. transfers are 2 weeks away so we will see if i stay for another or if my time here is done. will keep you posted. 

i have been studying a lot about recognizing the spirit. something i have struggled with and still do. I think that most of us dont realize that we can feel the spirit all the time. if we are living worthy of the companionship of the Holy Ghost then we have the right to feel his presence. It is one thing to read Galations 5 and say if you feel this then you are feeling the spirit, and actually applying it. But something hit me this week. the spirit works differently for everyone that is true but one thing that is common to everyone is that when we can feel the spirit we feel the love of God in our lives. so i guess this week i am going to try to make choices that God would approve of, think His thoughts, and serve out of His love for His children.  so i invite you all to join me in this noble quest. Try to feel the love of God and to share those feelings with all we come in contact with.

 

this is the moon and the street outside my building at night and this is kellys car . 

quote of the week from Kelly: the western sun is going down but there is still some warmth in it. 

i just shook my head after we were talking about procrastination of his repentance. haha he is a good guy and really funny. but a little frustrating. 

we love him though.

so David, our recent convert, got a calling as building coordinator, a big name to say that he stays after for a little bit to help clean up. he does such a great job with it though. he loves having a responsibility. he stayed after the dinner after the baptism to clean. we said to him, "dave you're doing such a great job!" and he looked at me with that heroic look in his eye and said with a majestic voice, "thats what being building coordinator is all about" if we could all respect our callings like david does this church would rock!

well cats thats it for this week. i love you all

peace!

elder cam