February 23, 2015

Hello everyone!

how are you all doing!? I am doing just fine, just fine indeed. How cold did it get? i am just so nervous for the summer, we may have no water! 

I am glad you are all done with jury duty my mommy. This is pleasing. It is a darn shame that these people had to disobey. they are going to be so sad in the prison. but that is the way that it must be i guess. 

there is going to be another member of the cameron family soon. this is also pleasing. Any votes for future cameron names? i think the child will be a boy, and he shall be called, Logan, or frederic, or perhaps orvil, i like edmund too. there you go just! 

this week was a great one. you know i have been doing a lot of studying on charity because sometimes there are some missionaries that i dont get a long with, and so elder hattaway and myself (dont worry it is not him. we do get along really well together) struggle loving these other missionaries. so i am trying to look at them as God looks at them. I have learned a lot about my relationship with him. It is amazing how much he cares for us. He is always there, and He sends us people or scriputres or anything really to tell us just that. 

One thing that i have come to understand a little bit more on my mission is Agency. it may seem like a simple thing to understand, when we think that it is just the ability to choose right or wrong. but there is so much more that comes with it. we must accept every consequence that comes with our agency and the agency of others, because that is part of mortality. Now if we choose to give our agency to God then we receive freedom in return. the opposite would be death and captivity  by giving our agency to the devil. Something that i have realized is that being a missionary requires exact obedience, not just because we need the spirit, but people have to see in us, the representatives of the church, what real freedom is like. Then with the whisperings that come from the Holy Ghost with testify of the validity of the message of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

So for the rest of my mission i want to be that kind of example, that when people look at the way i live my life they will be able to see freedom, through obedience to the commandments of Christ. 

We had Zone conference this week. It was great. President taught us about working with ward council. True it was to help us right now but i think that the training was more focused on preparing us for the future councils that we will be a part of in our home wards. I got some really good ideas for our current ward and we are going to work hard to see that some things happen. 

Life is good as a missionary. I have found a new talent for making crepes. it is more of an obsession at this point. we have them at least 2 times a week. they are quick easy, and i feel sophisticated while eating and preparing them. haha 

my family, Godspeed. I love you all very very much. I pray for each one of you by name every day that you may have a missionary opportunity. I hope you each have the chance to testify of what we know to be true often. I will be forever grateful for the sacrifices you have all made to help me be where i am today. I love being a missionary. I love speaking french. and i love the Gospel and the freedom it gives me. 

Elder cameron

February 16, 2015

hello all,

I am doing just dandy, my back and asthma are about the same. But all is well. We had a pretty good week, i am content.

my valentines day was great! not too crazy, we ate dinner at a family's house. it was really fun. we even got to play a game with them. they had family in from out of town. Their step father who is not a member was there. this guy is hilarious, he is anglaphone from ottawa. his name is jc. oh man this guy is a hoot. let me tell you. He reminds me of dad when we are playing a game and he says weird things. yeah it was just like that. he turned to me and asked if i wanted to see his goat impression. then he grabbed both lips, pulled them out, extended his tongue and made a retched noise. it was quite humorous indeed. 

We visited one of my favorite old ladies in the world soeur Gagnon. she is an angel. she loves to talk. so we just sit down and she tells us stories of when she was young. she showed us all the photos of her childrens weddings. what a lady. good news she made a goal to come back to church in March. I am so pleased with this information.

Yesterday the young mens president came up to us and with a hopeless look in his eye he asked,(translated from french to english) "elders, i was wondering if you would be able to teach young mens today. The theme is the plan of salvation and we have gone over it 2 times already. it is just not working out. the boys need something else. can you help?" 

"why of course!" we responded, thinking that we would have just what the boys needed to inspire them. For it has only been 3 years since i was their age. 

So class starts and we present ourselves. After which we started talking about the plan of salvation, and boy, lets just say that i had the greatest desire to go to everyone of my leaders i had growing up and apologize for my behavior. Good grief this boys were terrible. I like to think i wasnt that bad. We tried everything we had to get them to pay attention and participate, but nothing was working. those poor leaders. 

Later that day we went to the Bishops house to eat dinner. After we ate and shared our lesson, he asked if we had to leave. we sang hymns. Bishops brother in law was there. i think is not a member or just really less active. but he was loving the music. The spirit was surrounding was as we lifted our voices to the sky in our hymns of praise. haha it was really fun. it reminded me of singing with my family. 

well that is all from elder cameron this week. I am healthy and trying to get wise. haha life is good, cold but good. 

i love you all very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very much

elder cameron

February 9, 2015

well i`ll be. my mother is going to be the next person to send someone to prison. I`ve never been more proud! my mommy is growing up. good luck mom you will be great. just remember the constitution of the united states and the bill of rights was ordained of God. You can`t go wrong! I will be praying for you. let me know how it goes.

I cant believe you are wearing short sleeves and such. It has snowed almost everyday this week. there is so much! we are going to la balle de neige today. i think justin went to it. it is a gathering of sorts, with ice sculptures, queue de castors, and loads of other things. i am fairly excited for our trek to Ottawa today. 

Thanks so much in advance for the valentines day package. that will be just swell. i am in need of a reeses peanut butter cup, and i have a feeling that these were included. thanks so much you are all too kind. i think that it would be good to get some asthma medicine on second thought. i have been having  a bit of trouble this past week. Also i think my back is getting a little bit worse. It isnt too bad. I will be fine, but i think maybe when i come home it may be wise to have it looked at again. 

Kamwonn. this is how we spell our name in Haitian Creole. we work with so many haitians and so we have been trying to learn a little bit. It is super cool. We are learning so much. It is actually really easy i can read it already. If you read it out loud it is like french mad gab. I love it haha. I am thinking a lot about french. I think i may want to study it when i come home. Yesterday i translated the meetings for a Chinese woman, whom everyone thought was a man. I felt so bad. everone kept asking where he was from, and the lady she was with said, not he! she she she! the lady is japanese. not really sure how they ended up together. But i sat next to her and translated sacrament meeting and the 2nd hour. it reminded me of when i was in ste foy and i had to do that almost every week. it was tiring! 

anyways back to kamwonn. rosie our less active lady we work with made us a haitian meal this last week. it was so delicious. boy let me tell you it was divine. We had a great lesson on the restoration of the Gospel. 

I am a knitting machine let me tell ya. I am in the process of knitting my very own pantoufle. they are just the most comfortable things in the world let me tell ya. a lady in our ward made me a pair and i wear them everyday. 

our investigator apolinaire had us over. unfortunately (or fortunately :)) he was watching the final for la coupe d'afrique. cote d'ivoire was playing ghana. it went to penatlys and so he kept saying after the game we pray ok?? we got there at about 85 minutes, so they went to extra time and pks. the good news is that he is very happy because his country won! the bad news is we had to leave so we couldnt teach him. but we do have  a return appointment and the cup is over so we should not have any more distractions. haha. i hope. 

Overall i would say it was a good week. Life is good. La vie est belle. We are surrounded by tender mercies of the Lord. They come every day. If we have trust in the Lord everything will work out. It is a great time to be alive. This work is the best kind i can be doing right now. I love you all. Christ lives. He loves us!

Godspeed

Elder cameron 

February 2, 2015

bonjour a tous et a toutes!

hey y'all, this is what my companion says, he is from the south. he says y'all. this means you all. how are you doing on this fine cold februrary morning slash afternoon.

tiff is right. it is dark all the time, also the stores on saturday close at 5. so that is lame. where is she at? if she is close to ottawa i could totally see her. you should tell her to come to gatineau and take the elders out to lunch hahaha 

this week was fun! i will grant your request mother by telling you what we did on saturday.

6.30 wake up, pray, pretend to exercise while my comp is looking haha. 

7.00 shower, prepare myself for the day, look in the mirror and say, hey logan its going to be a great day, good lookin

8.00 study personally: this week i studied in the book of mormon. I am reading in alma. you know alma was such an alstar missionary. He cared so much for his people. Such a great man. 

9.00 comp study, start with an uplifting bluegrass riff on the merlin. following which we pray and prep for our lessons for the day

10.00 l'etude de langue sometimes we listen to coffee break french. a great language tool. Other times we read in the french book of mormon

11.00 eat

12.00 we leave the apartment! yah! we visited the nzewandro family. they are from the congo! great family! they have 3 little girls. the youngest said, "je peux pas telecharger je suis trop petite!" i cant down load things i am too small! haha

we had such a great lesson with them. the spirit is always so strong in there home.

1.00 pass by some former investigators. none were successful 

3.30 eating with our investigators. apolinaire and grace. Ok this meal was very african. We even ate with our hands. it was scary. i ate half of a fish. When i say fish i really mean fish. it was crazy. bones skin. eyes. and cous cous and tomatos and other stuff. it was kind of hard but i ate it all. 

that one took a while haha

later we visited steve in the hospital. he was in the hospital for his heart so we visited him. he is such a good man. really funny guy. i asked him how the food was and he said, honestly, its excellent i love it. He just loves being there. haha i dont really know why but he does. haha he is 69 and his heart is not serving him very well. another lesson for us to live the word of wisdom! he lives it now but before he smoked for such a long time. and he didnt eat very well. now he is paying for it. it is sad but that is what happens

then we had correlation meeting and that was the day! 

most days are similar in some way but everyday is different with all sorts of adventures. 

well thats all for me

i love you all very much

bisou

elder cameron

Godspeed