Logan July 8, 2013

Hello my dear family, friends, 

i hope you are doing well. this week was alright.

being on the mission i see the strangest things and the coolest things that you would see no where else in the world. for example: romanions that speak english french and german, people rollar blading everywhere they go. a swiss man who plays guitar bugle cowbell harmonica and piano, who happens to be frere ochs. one of my heros.

let me explain the week to you on this lovely day. tuesday was our pday last week, and well it was a doozy. haha just messin. another thing i have learned is there are so many words you can only say with a certain phrase for example: jot and tiddle, sopping, doozy, and many more. sorry back to the story. so we had a zone activity. we showed up wearing the wrong clothes. we were supposed to be in civilians. oops. so we jsut went home. oh well. and played carcassone. the nerdyest but coolest game on earth. then i went on a split with elder hertato. he is hilarious. we had a good time. we knocked into a lot of anglophones (english speakers for all you anglophones out there) and so i could speak to them! it was awesome. we met a lady from england. and she had an accent. she was really old and she was born on Cameron street. instant besties. but she wasn't interested. we gave her our card though.

wednesday

Zone counsil today. we drove to the island early in the mornin. I am now a true montreal missionary. you may ask why i was not before. i will tell you. METRO CONTACTING. i met a man who kills people. it was a joyous occasion. we met the new president today also. Pres cannon went home. he was a really amazing man. i am sad he couldn't be my president for my whole mission. Pres Patrick is now. he has a family of like 8 children. and 5 are still in the home. crazy! he is cool though. his wife's parents are from af but they live in florida. so after that we went to a buffet! it was like chuck a rama but canadian style! POUTIN! it was fun. then we went home and knocked!

one of the things that i have started to do is after every door that isn't interested we sing. l.i.f.e.g.o.e.s.o.n. haha it is entertaining. probably because it happens often. i love it though. we talk to the coolest people that i would have never met had i not been here.

I missed home on the 4th of july i won't lie. i love america. and being in canada sometimes makes me love america even more haha. there are some weird canadian laws here that make me chuckle. and lets face it america is the best and has been for like 200 years. we didn't get any fire works though. instead we lit some paper on fire and sang God bless america. then we ate dinner.

Dad hows the car? you better be careful with that one. the chicks may dig it! haha don't worry mom i kid i joke je blauge. how are you all? how is the homefront? em getting that english packet done? you should. i procrastinated and it was a terrible last week of summer. well last 2 days. or you could probably get away with not doing it. i only did like half and look at me i graduated! but you shouldn't do that..... probably.

mommy? thanks for the quotes. i love that man. i hope i get to meet him in heaven. how are you?

One last funny story and then i will give you my spiritual thought for the week.

We were knocking and this guy answered and we were talking when all of the sudden a naked baby ran out. haha i was laughing so hard. we was chasing a naked baby.

ok spiritual. i was reading in 3rd nephi. Jesus comes to the americas. he wipes out a whole bunch of towns and people. but for some reason he saves this group of people. and after the 3 days of darkness the light comes, and as we all know the light of the world comes. He is the light and life of the world. the Prince of Peace, and so many other titles, but one of the most important is Savior. I know he is my savior and the message that we are sharing out here is that he is the savior of all the world. if we will but repent and come unto Him with a broken heart and a  contrite spirit, we can be saved.

may the Lord take a liking to you

Elder Cameron Diaz.

i guess that is my new name according to my zone.

tout est bien

and may the light of the stars shine brightly over all y'alls heads.

My new scripture case.

Natalie July 8, 2013

Hello dear fam!

Wow it was so good to hear from all of you. I missed you all a lot on the 4th but I felt you near as we did our own celebrations. We had quite the festivites. We wore red white and blue as you can tell from our pictures. We had American flags and even did an opening ceremonies and presented them. We sang every patriotic song we knew and even got a little verclempt during the national anthem. haha We love America! We ate American food and spoke english in our apartment. We missed the festivities in the great land of the US but it was fun celebrating it here. I'm so grateful for our country and the freedoms we enjoy! 

So finally I have some things to update you on with my amis! It is hard in France right now because school just got out and the vaccances begin! All of the french people here go to the south of france for vacations so it's been hard to get in touch with our investigators. 

So the picture:

This is my beloved Kehli family. I love them so much! Soleya (the one blindfolded) is getting baptized in August and we have been over to their home each week to prep her for her baptism. They are the most solid and  family here in Tours. They're always serving and helping others. Frere Kehli is in the branch presidency and is the funniest man alive. They have welcomed us into their homes and have treated us so well. This week we taught on the Holy Ghost and pulled out a few tricks from our childhood. (thanks mom) We set up a maze and assigned Perle (the youngest) to be the Holy Ghost and guide Soleya to the finish while we were yelling and saying other things. They did it and we were all crying we were laughing so hard! I loved it. And it felt like home. I needed that! They will always have a special place in my heart. Love them!

So we weren't able to contact any of our investigators. We would stop by and they wouldn't be home. We would call and they'd never call back. It was so werid and happened all of a sudden. We fasted this past week and prayed we'd be able to get ahold of them. We had a free night and decided to go check on Tessy once again. We've been trying for weeks. She's one of our baptism dates but all of a sudden she just dropped us. We'd called her and she never called back So we decided to try one more time. We went over and stopped outside her door and prayed our hearts out! We knocked, and she answered! We taught her a quick lesson and testified that the miracles she needed in her life would come through Christ. She smiled and said, sisters I've been praying to hear that. Then she commited to coming to church. That night during planning, we got our planners out and started calling everyone! It took awhile! We called every single ami and every one of them answered! And every one of them set up a rendez vous with us this week to meet with them. MIRACLE! I am so excited to meet with them and see their progression.

well I'd better go! But i love you all with all of my heart. Thank you for your love and support. I'm excited to see the miracles this week. They're coming.

Love,

Your Soeur Cameron

100% no regrets I've promised to give more

A beautiful mansion next to our apartment. Turns out this was Napoleon's home. It is so beautiful. 

4th of July festivities!

We even had our own flag ceremony. 

Mail!

American Food!

The Tour de France is coming through Tours.

Logan July 2, 2013

 Well Another week down. Crazy. sorry yesterday was another holiday. but the last one i hope. It was a busy day for us though. it was canada day and none of the quebecois like canada so they all just stay inside and sleep. it is pretty funny. 
 

ok here is what happened in the exciting week of Elder Cameron

Felix called us!!!  Who is Felix? well good question. you may recall a certain story from last week about a man giving us smoothies. that was felix. he called us and wanted to know if we could pray for him because i guess he is going to move with his family to start a new life up north. We said YEAH we can do that. and we asked him to call us when everything got figured out. He is pretty cool. maybe some day the missionaries up there will find him. HE would be a great young men's leader.

The same day we had a DA at Frere Ochs's house. He is my favorite. every week he comes up to us and gives us a hug. you can tell that he has genuine love for the missionaries. His wife has cancer but she keeps getting us to come over to her home for food. they are amazing people. I love them. we ate burgers and well dad they may hold their own in a fight with yours.... they were so good. my companion tried to say flavorful in french but they thought that he was complaining about the burgers. then he explained and we all laughed. good times.

Ok so there is this guy in our ward who looks exactly like the man from mary poppins who loves to laugh. and sings the song you know who i am talking about right? i know jessica does.  well he and his wife give us food every week. they are hilarious. well we went over to their house because they had a neighbor there who is not a member. we were told over the phone that we would knock the door and she would come to the door and we would say hello and she would ask if we had already eaten. we would say yes but then she would invite us in for  ice cream. it was hilarious she planned out what we would do to get in to talk to this guy. He was not interested at all but it was fun to go over there.

at their house we ate something called Sugar Pie. It is just that. Brown sugar, butter, and pie crust. it is heaven! i think i am starting to gain weight! haha just kidding you know i can't gain weight. it is a quebecois thing though. sugar pie and poutin. good stuff up here.

So this guy that looks like the guy on mary poppins asked us if we liked music. I said of course and then he asked if we played. again i responded of course. so he said do you play guitar. i said yes. then he said how about mandolin? then i said oh Yeah! then he went into his room and pulled one out and handed it to me. he told me to play. so i started to play and he grabs a recorder thing like a little flute, you know the ones we learn how to play in the 6th grade. anyways he grabs it and he starts to play along. at first i was thinking an old guy and a recorder hmmm. because he kind of squeaked, but then he just started shredding on this thing. it was incredible. i have never seen anything like it. so we jammed for a little while. haha it was so great

 

I keep forgetting to write about justin's song. my first day here sister cannon gave each of us a disk and said it had justin's song on it. i told her he is my bro and she almost started to cry. she loves that song so much and everytime she hears it  she almost cries.

and now the cannons are home. we now have President Patrick. i have yet to see him. we are going to the island tomorrow though and he and his wife will be there. so we will meet him then.

so then we had ward council. it went really well. we were told we were to take 15 minutes on sunday because it was the 5th sunday, to talk about ward missionary work. so we did just that. we met with the ward mission leader maxim. he is way cool.he is really young and is really funny. so sunday came and we had to give a lesson. i had to give 5 minutes of it in french. it was hard. but i did it.

Plastic money! its pretty cool. i have a picture that you will see.

This lady we had a DA at told me this and dad i think you will like it. if has something to do with seeds

got a really nice note from my great grandparents. i love them. they are great. go camerons!

 

"if a seed was content with being a seed it's whole life it wouldn't grow into a wonderful maple tree" maple tree because it's canada. haha

but i loved that. if we are content with where we are we will never see what we could have become. i think it was like that for me before the mission. if i was content with staying home and not doing anything i would never see this wonderful place or meet this incredible people, or share the perfect gospel. all of those things make me better and make me continue to strive to become better.

I was reading in alma when the stripling warriors fight the lamanites. And of course i read about how they were taught by their mothers. well mom i am now a part of that army. and i do not fear "death" because you have taught me. just as their mothers did you have taught natalie and myself to not fear but to have courage, and now 2 of your children are in the army of helaman, and 2 have already return. and one is preparing herself right now. so thank you mother. because of you lives are being changed.

well how is my family at home? sick rides! anything else new? em girls camp sounded like a blast. i hope you had a great time. dad any crops coming? this lady in our ward has a garden and is amazed on how much a teenager knows about gardening. haha all because of you. but i really didn't know that much.

Well i will talk to you all later. on monday next time haha.

i love you all

Elder Cameron

Tout est Bien

or as the quebecois say

Tout est beau le. tsais?

Natalie July 1, 2013

Dear fam,

it was so good to hear from all of you! Dad I LOVE the car. it actually looks like all of the cars here in Europe. Look at you all classy and stuff. Excited for you all! Em I'm glad you got to go to camp. it sounds like it was quite an adventure! I'm excited to get your letter. I've been saving stuff to send to you. can't wait! Mom it sounds like you're doing great too. Jess and Ammon you crazies running 10 miles! you blow my mind. I'll be cheering for you at your race next Saturday. Just and Shan, so happy for you in Logan. Just I'm so glad you got a job! I've been praying for you a ton. Thanks everyone for all of your love and support. Sure do love you all.

This week has been great! My companion was sick for most of it so we spent a little time in our apartment. It was great though and I spent a lot of time studying and pondering and thinking. I learned a lot. 

This week we also got a new investigator! Her name is Albertina. Her husband is a member and her son was just baptized in our branch and now she's decided she wants to take the lessons. We committed her to be baptized after teaching her and she accepted. My heart is full! Our total focus with them is the temple. We are trying to teach them about the chance they have to be together for eternity. I'm so excited for them!

Our other investigators are having a hard time committing to our engagements. That has been hard to watch. Our baptism dates are being pushed back and they're not progressing as much as we'd like them to. But it is testimony to me that this is God's work. and it will happen on His own timetable. I have faith that it will happen! If not while I'm here, someday.

On Sunday we were able to watch the broadcast and it was incredible! you were right! I will never forget it sitting in a small room in Tours, France with Soeur Miller, Elder Gibson and Elder Walton. I felt so much power coming from them. I love being with other missionaries and feeling of their strength. 

This week I've learned so much about that power and strength. The strength that comes from valient members of the church who understand their covenants. This week I focused my studies on covenants and what they mean. It was funny because I realized that the month of July for sunday school is covenants and ordinances! It was cool! I loved that the broadcast was all about member missionary work! This has everything to do with covenants!

     "Always remember and honor the covenants you make with the Lord. Then you will not need to be commanded in all things. You will be inspired by the Holy ghost, and Christ-like conduct will be a part of your nature. Your greatest hope should be to enjoy the sanctification that comes from this divine guidance; your greatest fear should be to forfeit these blessings" 

True to the faith pg 44

 By understanding our convenants and remembering them every day, we will come to know God. They are so simple yet so powerful. They are vital! Simply put, when we covenant with the Lord, we promise to give Him everything we have. We promise to give Him our time, talents, and resources to build up His kingdom. By doing this we become enlightened and empowered. As I've studied about covenants, I've realized that I was taught long before I actually went to the temple how to keep covenants. 

From watching others: set up chairs for activities, to going at 3 in the morning to give a neighbor a blessing, to spending a week in the freezing cold with 10 thirteen year old boys on a campout, going to girls camps, teaching school, holding screaming babies in nursery, taking a meal to a sick family, helping a neighbor move, sacrificing to help send missionaries out to the field. Time and time again I've witnessed others doing things like this. Giving of themselves constantly for the building up of His kingdom. And I'm not sure if I ever connected that they weren't just serving, they were keeping their covenants.

When we actively do what the Savior would do if He were here, seeking to glorify His name, then He will make us into something more. Something much greater than we could make of ourselves. As we do this we will be glorified in Him. We will be glorified through our sore muscles from putting up and taking down chairs and helping that neighbor move, or from our almost frost bitten hands from scoutcamp or singed eyebrows from a deacon campfire gone bad, bug bites from sitting outside all night from testimony meetings at girls camps, headaches from listening to your school class talk while they're supposed to be listening to you, we'll be glorified in the spit up on our arms from that crying baby in nursery, or from your messy kitchen and burns on your arms from carrying a meal to your sick visiting teaching family, or from sacrificing and going without so you could support missionaries close to your heart and help them serve. We will be glorified in all of this. 

All of these examples are evidence of a true keeper of the covenants. These are marks of a covenant keeper. I can't help but be reminded of the marks of another covenant keeper--the ultimate covenant keeper. Through the Savior's marks on His hands we can be reminded of the covenant He kept with His Father for us. And it can empower us to strive and desire to be better. To desire to have our marks on us. To strive with all of our hearts to be His humble servants. 

This is what a mission is really about--keeping our covenants and I LOVE IT. There is nothing than can bring more joy than helping and serving others. And teaching people about what you love most. I love it with all of my heart.

Well I hope you all have an incredible week and Fourth of July!! I will be thinking of you all on that day. Stay tuned for pictures from my celebrations with Miller. We have quite a day planned out. We are proud to be Americans (And we may or may not be singing "God Bless the USA" from our balcony when we wake up...and the Star Spangled banner) stay tuned...

love you all so much. let me know how all your member missionary work is going! voir les miracles!

LOVE YOU avec tout mon coeur!

Soeur Cameron

100% no regrets. I've promised to give more.

We had a rendez vous with a family in the next city over. So we took the train and walked for about an hour to their home. It was the most beautiful walk ever! There were fields of wild flowers and farmlands and beautiful old buildings. 

My companion turned on David Archuleta's cd with motab and this is what happened as a result.

We just found out the Tour de France is coming through Tours! 

Logan June 25, 2013

And so it begins another tale in my story. i am thinking about becoming a writer... never mind. ok where to begin. let me see. well got  nothing talk to you next week

ah just kidding. i know mom you would have come to my mission and wooped me good. Ok so here is the dealio with mail. my address is the mission office address. so i only get mail once a month pretty much.... kinda lame but thats the way it goes you know. so mom you should already have it. but if you don't it is the one with gilford road in it. i  can't remember it. which is probably bad. but that is it. because i can only get my mail once a month from this area (other areas are different like if i lived on the island i could get it everyday if i wanted). 

so this last week was great. a lot of knocking. i am getting pretty good at saying "bonjour ca va bien? on est missionaires de l'eglise de Jesus-Christ des saints des derniers jours." but we never can get any farther than that. hahaha good times knocking. i have started writing a list of things that happen during the week in my planner so i can remember the goods when i write home. so here it is. enjoy.

so we went to teach peter. back story: peter is really old and not all the way there. his daughter is a member and wants us to teach him. so we go over there and he is not getting anything. it takes him like an hour to respond. its frustrating so we keep trying to drop him but we don't want to offend sister de router. back story over. so we finish teaching and we are sitting at the table eating homemade doughnuts and sister de router asks if i will sing for everyone. SERIOUSLY? i thought but because i was wearing the badge i couldn't say that. so i sang a hymn for her. really supper awkward but i did it.

next portion of the week

mom the Elder Hollands talk was so perfect. loved it!

next

we went to Andre's house. he is a less active and wants to serve a mission but he has a lot of work to do. we go over and talk with him and he wants to change so bad. he is awesome, and could be a fantastic missionary. i want to see him succeed.

next we did some service for a lady named Elizabeth. She is not a member and we knocked into her one day. she is super nice. she is from france and a devout catholic but she is curious about our faith. ;) so we asked her if she needed any help. she told us that we could come and paint for her. so a couple days later we came and painted her stair case and the walls around it. It only would have taken a short amount of time but she didn't have any rollers so we did all of it by hand. it took so long and she wasn't really there a whole lot so we didn't get a chance to tell her about us. we have to go back to do a second coat so if we don't get anywhere we won't go back.

she is very nice though. and her french is perfect. i can understand her because she speaks a little slower and its so clear. quebecois on the other hand are neither of those. but it is coming. slowly but surely.

next

we were knocking in this city and we knock on the door and we hear some dogs. the lady comes to the door holding back these 2 dogs that looked like gorillas. i do not know how she was holding them back. they were giant. bigger than a small cow. huge. i thought i was going to die. it was so cool. then we knocked into another house with 1 dog about 1/3 of the other dogs size and the guy could barely hold it back it was hilarious. we laughed a lot.

next

so the broadcast was awesome right? FBO face book official. but before that we had a meeting with the bishopric. we were talking about member missionary work a lot and trying to get them to help us with that. They said that they have been praying for us 2 missionaries for a long time. that made us feel good inside.

next

we were knocking and this guy well guys. at first we thought they were gay but they weren't. yes.and so anyways he was like yeah i am atheist but i like you guys and he said come in. so we went in and he made us a smoothie. and we talked to him about what we beleive and a lot of his concerns we answered right away. and then he said, "do you come here to find a girl?" we said no. then he said you guys be carefully because i know too many girls who would want you to marry them. then he said quebec needs more of you guys. he was cool. and super ripped. like huge. not like tall but well formed i guess you could say.

next

we go and give sacrament to soeur bouvier. i think i mentioned that last time. but this last time she was talking about indians. i guess she loves them or something. she is hilarious. just a funny old old lady. so we were talking abouty sacajawea or however you spell it. and she could not say her name. it reminded me of grannys are pernoning nubes. hahah i was laughing so hard. she kept saying sacajawawawea haha it was so funny. good times good times.

well that is the end of my list.

everything is going great. Elder Rasmussen is awesome. he is teaching me a lot. Just got word from President Cannon quote this is a quote here people pay attention. He says to My Companion, "Elder Rasmussen take Elder Cameron to a Used Music store to buy him a mandolin!"

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats right you heard it. well i guess read it

em you can give hannah my address. mom thanks for everything. dad you keep on keeping on. I want to find out who said that. kodiak was so great. i still remember things from it and now am putting them to use. its crazy. If you can give a message to the priests I want them to know that i love them and i am praying for them while they prepare. tell them that it is not easy but it is not supposed to be easy. tell them to pay attention in class and really take in all that they can because already i have seen that everything taught in priests is applicable to the mission.

ok next item of business. the explanation of wizard. wizard is a word that you can substitute for cool dope tight narly groovy(from mom's era) genial(if you are french)

anyways i love you all and elder cameron is out!!! Peace!

They don't like Jehovah's Witnesses.

My personal favorite of the week. The Dog. I laughed so hard.

This is a padded door. So hard to knock, but guess who did? Ya, we did.

Natalie June 24, 2013

Wow can you believe another week has come and gone? It was so good to hear from everyone! And so good to hear from Loge. I'm glad he landed safe in the land of Canada. He's been in my thoughts and prayers tons!
This week has been a good one!  And i absolutely love being a missionary. Each day I learn something new and I feel myself changing. It's the greatest feeling in the world! Today are transfers and I'm staying here in Tours for another transfer!

This week we were able to start teaching a little girl named Soleya! She's the daughter of a family in our branch who is around 10 or 11 I think. We just started teaching her to prepare her for her baptism and she's so cute. We set her date for August and she's getting ready. We had a family night at their home on Sunday and it felt so good. It made me remember you all and all the times we had. With dad's voice in my head. "We need to have shorter showers. Please turn the lights out when you're not in the rooms." haha it made me laugh. It felt good to be with a family though! The Kehli family is incredible and they are such a blessing here in Tours.

I have learned that missionary work rarely goes as planned. haha All of our appointments this week fell through. It was hard at times, but it's testimony to me that this is God's work not ours. He'll put us where He needs us. I'm excited to find more people this week. They are all over here in Tours. We just have to go out and find them. For every 50 doors knocked there's 1 person! haha just kidding i don't know if that's true, but It kinda feels like that. I'm so excited to go knock 100 doors this week. maybe 1000! woot woot! I'm excited to learn more about the broadcast too!  I didn't get a chance to watch it. But it sounds like huge things are coming! Excited to be a part of it. And excited that you are all a huge part of it too! We're all doing this together. It's pretty incredible.

This week I have been studying the Atonement. In my studies in the Book of Mormon I came to my favorite chapters in 3 Nephi when Christ comes. Wow it was powerful reading this as a missionary and thinking back on all of the times the Savior has been there for me personally in my life. I was able to get a copy of that Holland talk that I shared with you last week. I have to share a quote with you from him because it's so much better coming from him. Me and my comp chant his name every morning. H-O-L-L-A-N-D! haha it's kinda embarrassing. He's the man though. for real. He has changed my mission multiple times. Love the man.
"Anyone who does any kind of missionary work will have occasion to ask, Why is this so hard? Why doesn't it go better? Why can't our success be more rapid? Why aren't there more people joining the Church? It is the truth. We believe in angels. We trust in miracles. Why don't people just flock to the font? Why isn't the only risk in missionary work that of pneumonia from being soaking wet all day and all night in the baptismial font?
You will have occasion to ask those questions. I have thought about this a great deal. I offer this as my personal feeling. I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.  Salvation never was easy. We are the Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him? It seems to me that missionaries and mission leaders have to spend at least a few moments in Gethsemane. Missionaries and mission leaders have to take at least a step or two toward the summit of Calvary.
If He could come forward in the night, kneel down, fall on His face bleed from every pore and cry "Abba, Father" if this cup can pass, let it pass." then little wonder that salvation is not a whimsical or easy thing for us.  If you wonder if there isn't an easier way, you should remember you are not the first one to ask that.  Someone a lot greater and a lot grander asked a long time ago if there wans't an easier way.
The Atonement will carry the missionaries perhaps even more importantly than it will carry the investigators.  When you struggle, when you are rejected, when you are spit upon and cast out and made a hiss and a byword, you are standing with the best life this world has ever known, the only pure and perfect life ever lived.  You have reason to stand tall and be grateful that the Living Son and the Living God knows all about your sorros and afflictions. The only way to salvation is through Gethsemane and on to Calvary. The only way to eternity is through Him--the Way, the truth, and the life."

Beautiful isn't it? I try to read this every morning before I go out to find people. I know that this is true. And as you begin your missionary work at home, I know that the Savior will be with you. Shoulder to Shoulder. I have felt a literal hastening in this mission. Miracles have been happening left and right. Elder Ballard came to our mission and said some pretty prophetic things about the Second Coming. It is coming and it is pretty remarkable that we get the honor to prepare the way for our Savior. I know it's true.

Well I love you all so much! I love France. I love the people of Tours and I love the people i have yet to meet. I know that this is the Lord's work! I know that He orchestrates it each week.

I'm excited to see the miracles that await us this week.

LOVE YOU WITH ALL OF MY HEART!

Sister Cameron

100% no regrets. I've promised to give more.

My First French Macaroon

Pat and Lindsey, they were in our branch for June. They took us to lunch for their last week. They've been so good to us. Such a tender mercy.

This is William. He is getting baptized in July. We let him try on the clothes to see if any of them worked. He tried on a white shirt and tie and was GLOWING. He felt so proud and excited. I wish you could have seen his face.

This is Solya and Perle Kehli. Solya is the one getting baptized. They are the cutest things ever.