May 25, 2015

wow, can you believe this. 2 years has come and gone. I have grown up a lot. and it is all thanks so you all at home. i could have never done this without you.

How can one describe two years of service. People ask me how was your mission? well i haven't really come up with an answer that can express what is in my head but i will try my best. 

the mission was so much different than i thought it was going to be. when i first got off the plane and met my trainer I had no idea what i was doing. I have come to realize that i am really good at hiding emotions. I dont know if you know this but i was so scared. I was terrified of leaving home. the longest i had ever gone without seeing my mom was a week. I had never lived away from home. it was so hard to leave everything i know to go to a place where they speak funny, the milk comes in bags, and they are not all members of the church! But week by week i started to get the hang of it. and then i completely fell in love with quebec. I love being a missionary. i love teaching the things i have come to know are true. Now i am at the end of it all. I feel like frodo returning to the Shire. I have a transition to make and i will need some help, but i am excited to do it. I fear no man, With Jesus Christ I can do all things. I truly believe that. there is no reason to be scared anymore. I have increased my faith and my testimony, and now i am needed elsewhere, so that is where i shall go. 

I could go on and on about things i have learned and people that have helped me change, but i think we will save that for a later date. I love you all so much. I can't believe that i get to see you on thursday. mom you don't have to go 4 hours early like we did for justin. 

finally i need to say one last thing. 

mom and dad. thank you. do you realize what you have done. do you know how many families wish and pray every day that they can have a family like ours. you have 5 children, all of which are extremely active in the church, you have 2 temple marriages and a third coming soon (nat get to work) a 4th in like 5 years, (em that one is you) haha ok ok i will be somewhere in the middle of that. you have 4 missionaries, and a 5th preparing, you have served with everything you have in every calling given you. YOU ARE AMAZING. seriously. there are so many broken families i have met on my mission. It hurts me so much to see their pain. I will be forever grateful for my best friends, my teachers, my cheerleaders, my doctors, my counselors, and most importantly my mother and father. I hope to be as good of a father as you dad. and mom i hope that my future wife is as patient as you are. You have lived the perfect example of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and have given me hope for my future. 

Godspeed,

Elder Logan Scott Cameron

“Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil.”