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