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