March 30, 2015

hello,

how are all yall doing? yall comes from an english phrase: you all, which is primarily used in the southern united states of america, where my companion, elder hattaway, was living before going on a mission for his church. 

this week was great. we got a new investigator! how sweet is that? its pretty cool. his name is ange uriel and he is from haiti. he is 16 years old and super open. he has been taught in the past but never came to church so we are going to see if we can help him change that. anyways super excited for that! 

we had a good zone training meeting this week. we talked about the pathway to exaltation. all of the things necessary for exaltation are available to us in these last days. how neat is that. we can have the knowledge of a celestial life here on earth. i think that is amazing! 

one of our investigators finally came to church. his name is apolinaire. he works a lot but we were able to get him to church. he brought his 2 year old daughter. i basically played with her for all of sacrament because she is hyper. so i read her a book and played with some animals that were lent to us by another young girl sitting in front of us. that was fun, tiring though haha. 

we went to the easter program. that was great. we heard about 10 songs from the wards in our stake. it was very well done. i love music so much. it is amazing to hear the talents of so many members in canada, all together to testify that Jesus is the Christ. 

I am well mother i am coming home 28 of may. i will watch conference at the church. spring is almost here. not quite for us. it snowed this morning but turned into rain. so that is nice. 

i love you all so so much. hope all is well.  i hope all goes well 

Godspeed
Elder cameron

March 23, 2015

Hello all, and thank you for your prayers on my behalf. they were felt. I was feeling very sickly for monday tuesday and most of wednesday. but i am doing great today. i spent all of monday and most of tuesday in bed and the the beginning of wednesday was hard but after that i was great. I dont know if it was food poisoning or not.

mommy great talk. wow i always knew you had a great gospel knowledge but this was incredible. Very good, spirit is strong in the talk. i loved it. 

man we did some pretty cool stuff this week. after we were feeling better we did an exchange with the elders in our district. I stayed in Gatineau and we went with our ward mission leader and a 10 year old less active boy to the museum of war. it was really interesting. i think it was great for the boy. he doesn't have many friends and he had a great time with us. He is funny, he goes to school in english and speaks french at home and creole with his grandma so he is all mixed up all the time haha poor kid. 

we had the soccer activity this week also. lets just say elder cameron still has it in him! but he is not in shape at all! boy i am still super sore. It was so fun. we had maybe 30 or 40 people there.  a lot of them were african. 2 investigators came and some of their friends. it was a great contact for sure. they asked to take a photo with us at the end. Man i have never felt more complimented in my life. they all said i play well. Coming from these guys i felt so honored haha. 

i even scored! yeah its true. i chipped the goal keeper from 60 yards haha. good stuff. man life is great. 

not too much to report because i was inside all day for most of the week. but i am having fun. i am working hard. I love you all 

i will send pictures later in the day i have  a lot

elder cameron

March 16, 2015

sorry family this is going to be quick. elder hattaway and myself are pretty sick. we both woke up throwing up. so we are going back home to rest. 

all is well. i did finally get the package, thank you so much it was greatly needed. I am doing well besides today haha. i am not feeling very good at all so i am going to go back to bed. i hope all is well for everyone at home. please forgive me for not writing too much

nat why did you run over a squirrel 

elder cameron

Godspeed

March 9, 2015

hello everyone. my how time flies. doesnt it seem like it was just monday? boy oh  boy  what a mighty fine week it was.

we had some great lessons and a lot of cancellations but you know that is just part of life. but we had the craziest stake conference i have ever been to. lots of changes in the stake. a new ward was even created right before our very eyes. it was really quite something. the Lord is hastening His work right here is our part of the neighborhood. stake conference was avaliable in 3 languages. how neat is that. so the gatineau elders, thats us (the only french elders at stake conference) sang with our french members in french haha. a little prideful of me but it was fun. I enjoy speaking french. this is something i will miss a lot.

i hope you enjoy these pictures i am sending home. i got sick of my desk so i taped all these pictures i found to the walls. how neat is that. we put up all the latter day prophets too. thank goodness i have that primary song memorized or putting them up would have been a challenge! latter day prophets are number one!

this is the river by our home. it is large. and frozen at the mombent. yes that right still frozen.

and the last one is sister gagnon. she is the sweetest old lady in the world.

so this last week i read a lot about the apostle peter. He was an amazing man. I love his story so much and we can learn a lot from his life and the change he went through from being a fisherman to one of the greatest leaders in the church. After Christ was resurrected He came to Peter and asked if he loved Him. We all know the story. Feed my sheep is the response 3 times. After Peter received the Holy Ghost he was a changed man. He was sanctified. We knew he had the Priesthood and he had the faith that with it he could do all the Lord required of him. A lot of people didnt like him. there were some that wanted him dead. No one has ever said they want to kill me but there have been some who made it know that they did not like mormon missionaries. Peter taught me a great lesson this week. In Acts 5 peter says

41 ¶And they departed from the presence of the council,rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

What a strange thing to say in the eyes of the world. I have been trying to think like this this week. to be worthy to suffer for the Name of Christ. His name is on my chest everyday and because of it a lot of people stare at me and look at me in a strange way. But i love it now. Now i understand a little how Peter felt. I love being a missionary of Christ. I know he loves me and He helps me everyday!

i love you all very much. I am working hard and i hope you are too!

elder cameron

Godspeed

 

March 2, 2015

Bonjour a tous et a toutes, moi c'est toujours elder cameron

How is everyone doing? moi je vais tres bien. i am actually typing a letter that i wrote last night. I have decided to do this because often times, sunday i remember what has happened during the week. however come Monday when i sit down in front of the computer, i forget some of the grand things i was going to say. This prevents such error, and will give you more details , thus making my mother more at ease. the next thing i wrote was to respond to questions.

mother, i am actually a huge fan of yoga. i dont know many moves. but the ones i know i do some times hahaa. i dont really need anything. 

first i will begin by giving you an outline of how this email will be presented. first we will hear about some fun anecdotes that would make one smile, following this we will be reading about some spiritual experiences or as i like to call them, the "highlight reel". If there are no further questions we will begin. Thank you for your support and considerations. And now the week.

it was wednesday when we decided to visit sister Gagnon. I am sure i have talked about her already but just to make sure . let me describe her to you. Imagine if you will and 80 year old woman, about 5' 0" who has a very thick quebecois accent. She is a classic grandmas, meaning she knits, cooks, tells stories, loves to talk, and loves us! Back to the story, as my knitting mentor she  has been giving me knitting advice for the past couple of visits, so when i told her that i had finished my project she said, with a proud grandmother look in her eye "bien fait" which translates to well done.  we then discussed the importance of Joseph Smith , she then retold us her conversion story. The spirit was defiantly there before leaving. She told us she loved us. I was so happy haha it was great.

On this same day we decided to visit Steve our investigator. We had a good lesson. He had just come out of the hospital again. We told him to call us if he needed any help, and then he said, "you know i will guy, I love you two" i was so happy again! haha 2 people told us that they loved us in one day!

we got a new investigator this week! yeah for member work. Horteuse was a member referral from a member in our ward. She is from Cote D'ivoire.  We took a recent convert with us who also comes from the same country. It was perfect. He is so converted. He was able to share his testimony with this woman and it touched her. The spirit was so strong. I love being a missionary. 

Next some spiritual experiences.
We went to visit. We were able to give a blessing to a less active and her non member husband. I asked when the last time she received a blessing and she said it had been a long time and she had been praying that the missionaries could give her one. so we did. it was awesome for sure! 

well family i love you all. I hope you are well. I pray for you all the time. you are great. 

Godspeed

elder cameron

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

January 26, 2015

That's right folks. holy water freezes just like regular water. haha we had an investigator give us holy water. we left it in our car and sure enough just like normal water it froze. I think the lesson is clear for all of us. Holy water is just water. I guess it wasn't that holy. They probably should have boiled the hell out of it..... hahahahahahaha ok that was pretty funny right? 

oh man life is good.

the cold north is very cold. but it hasn't been too bad as of late. it hovers around -15. I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit. so my nose hairs are fine. they actually have froze before. but not this week. funny that you mention that mother. I am well thank you, my asthma is doing just fine. I am not in need yet but I think it may be wise to get one ready to send because it may take a while to get to Gatineau. No rush. en francais on dit, t'en fait pas! don't worry relax if I knew how to spell acunamatata I would write that. 

well this week was just swell. I already told you about the holy water. that came from an investigator. her name is echo. we passed her off to the sisters because she is a single lady and it is hard for us to visit her. Build the kingdom as I like to say. I met a great African family this week. Oh man I just love Africans and hatians. we work a lot with them. they are so nice, humble, and funny. This family has 3 girls that speak English French and Spanish. can you believe that?? Their English is much better than my French too. they are recent converts of about a year or so. They are struggling coming to church so we were able to talk about missionary work and service. that kind of rekindled the flame. so hopefully they will be coming back more regularly to church. 

each week we do service at a homeless shelter. we make beds, and sweep floors and such. It is quite amusing. we go with our friend steve. he is an internegator but we love him all the same. he is a great guy, just doesn't really know exactly what he wants right now that's all. I don't know if he will get baptized while I am a missionary but he will be baptized one day. of that I am sure. 

hey do you remember the willy waller 2006? well I saw it again this week. Our ward mission leader loves this film so he showed it to us at our correlation meeting. haha the other missionaries in the ward are really young. I am the oldest by a good year and some change. So they didn't really understand the video but elder hattaway and myself and our ward mission leader were just laughing so hard. Elder hattaway is great. he is a football player. he played for his college before he left of the mission. His French is really good for where he is at in his mission. he came in with elder draper my last companion. so he is still pretty knew but he works like an experienced missionary. he is awesome. a great missionary in every sense of the term.

all is well in zion. I am doing just great. I hope all is well at home. I am praying hard for every one of yous! that was a good Canadian phrase. they say yous when there is more than one you. how neat is that?

Godspeed. 
elder cameron

January 19, 2015

what a week! it had its ups and downs. and sometimes up out number the downs, but not in Nottingham.

I will tell you all a little bit about my companion ELDER HATTAWAY. He is an allstar. i am serious. he can play every single sport, quite well i might add. He was companions with elder shumway in the mtc. So he has had to deal with two elders from the 32nd ward. How neat is that. I really like him. he is a hard worker. We have already had a great time together. He hails from the land of Georgia. The peach pride state. He is extremely good at puzzles. i have found a new addiction. Puzzles my friends are dangerous. once you start that is all you can think about. Dont worry we were still working hard doing missionary work but once planning was over we were attacking some puzzles. It is great for clearing the mind. I have really enjoyed myself while doing puzzles. Anyways my comp is great and we are having fun

this week was a fun one. we had a couple discouragements but you know those come and they make us stronger. A wise woman once sang, What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I think she was singing about lifting weights and such, but it relates to the mission as well. Sometimes things come your way and they make you sad. But even when we are sad we can be happy because we know that these things are given to us for our good. We learn and grow and become more like our Father in Heaven. I have learned this time and time again on my mission. 

I went on an exchange with a really young missionary this week. It was fun. It made me think of the beginning of my mission and how i felt. I have come a long way! i can speak french now that is kind of cool. I may not know the answer to every question but i do know that God loves His children and that answer is good enough for me. 

I received a strange call yesterday. A woman called and asked if she could talk with me for a little while. I had no idea who she was. She asked me some doctrinal questions and i was able to answer them by testifying. That was about the only thing i could do was to testify. She then asked if we could visit her and discuss more about the nature of God. It was really interesting to see that i did not have to have a perfect answer. I have never really been good with words. I try my best but more often than not i look back on what i said and wish i could have changed it. But as i looked back on this particular instance the spirit told me that what i said did not come from me. It came from Heavenly Father and that His answers are perfect for the woman with which i was speaking. That was a really cool experience for me. 

I hope you are all doing well. You are all in my prayers every night. It has been just swell to be a missionary. I am so glad i am here. Thank you for your support

Godspeed

Elder cameron

aka logy bear

 

 

January 13, 2015

Hello how are you all

yes i know today is tuesday and pday is usually on monday. but unfortunately we have from time to time something that is called zone training meeting. and when president cant make it to ottawa any other day of the week he chooses monday. so that is why my day of preparation in on tuesday 

well i suppose i shall respond to questions before giving an account of my dealings with my fellow men this week. 

first answer, i am well thank you for asking. Mother you are very close to the spirit always remember that, i had a couple rough days this week but i felt the prayers. Thank you for all you do, insert smiley face

second I did receive grandmas package and i sent them a thank you email, but i guess they did not receive it. pity. i shall send another

Man i almost died this week, usually i wouldn't tell these kinds of stories to my mother but it was quite humorous therefore i cant help but share. I shall do so by recounting my story of leaving sainte foy 

I woke up tuesday the 6th at 5:45 in order to catch the bus which would take me from quebec city to montreal at 6:30. After preparing my self, i said goodbye to my fellow missionary friends and i left the beautiful land of quebec. It was a sad farewell but full of love. I left with one other missionary who was going home. We made it to the bus station after a very long and cold ride. we arrived at the station Berri Uquam. now for all you who know the metros of montreal you would realize that this place is a very busy and stressful station, for it connects 3 different lines, the heart of montreal. I had to drag my luggage through the station and get on a metro to go 3 stops to laurier, drag my luggage up the stairs and across the street to the mission office. then after about a half hour i did the exact same thing, but this time i got on a bus to ottawa. after on the bus i sat and stared out the window. I was pretty sad i wont lie. I loved being in quebec. it was a great 6 months. But when i got off i met my new companion! elder Hattaway. He is great. Seriously one of the funniest guys i have met. We get along just fine. the are is good too. a little bizarre but i am having a good time. my district is a really young one. i am the oldest by over a year, in mission time that is. my comp is actually older than me. you know that is an interesting fact i have never been older than any of my comps. 

anyways so i meet him and this other man named steve. he is an investigator of ours. he is really nice and willing to help us out. he gave us a ride back to our place because we have no car, yet. hopefully this week. 

So this is the part where i almost die. as much as i love steve he is  a terrible driver. i was trying to get to know him a bit, and maybe this was my fault, but i asked him some questions and then he started to turn around to talk to me while he was driving! the red jeep in front of us got closer and closer. He swerved out of the way just in time, and managed to visit 5 lanes with out touching a single other car. After some profane language, he offered a prayer of gratitude to thank the Lord for getting the two elders home in safety. now that is a man! 

we have had a great time here thus far, with many adventures to come. I have found a new love for puzzles. i think i am going to have to get some. We just finished one today. good stuff, great for stress relief. 

I love you all very much

Godspeed

elder cameron

January 5, 2015

I am getting transferred! how weird is that. there are still 2 weeks left in the regular transfer but there are some missionaries going home early for school and so there were some things that got switched around and i am going to Gatineau. Which is in Ottawa. so i am going to the opposite side of the mission! how crazy is that? this will most likely be my last area. For i only have 3 transfers to go after this one ends on the 21st.

oh no buddy, i always knew that he was part wolf. What a dog! we should make a movie about him. Man i am kind of pumped that he got a bird. how did we lose so many others? we only have 2 left? i am not sad or anything just curious haha, they were not my favorite creatures on the block. Once mine died i would have no part of them, for if you remember correctly it was the rest of them that teamed up on my fragile hen, she never stood a chance against the raging talons. So maybe i am still a little upset about that whole fiasco. 

we had a great new years celebration. we ate at our branch presidents house again, and then at the casanovas house for new years day. they are so kind, in fact the are so kind that brother casanova gave me a vintage 1960 electric guitar! how neat is that. there are some minor repairs that need to be made but that is going to be a fun project when i come home i am super excited to play it. it is packed up in my suitcase just waiting to be fixed. 

i am really sad to leave sainte foy. i have loved being here. i think i have grown the most in this area. i have learned a lot. I was able to be the district leader for 3 transfers, and i was able to hear a lot of miracles from all the missionaries in our district. it has been just splendid to work here. I will leave a piece of my heart here in quebec city. but i am sure that gatineau will be great. The Lord has need of me there and so i will go and do the things which He commands. It is crazy how fast time is flying. 

unfortunately i am going to have to keep this one short. i have a lot of work to do to prepare to leave on tuesday. I love you all very much and here is a picture of yours truly, Le Roi!

 

 

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

 

November 24, 2014

hi family, mom dad, sisters brothers, dog, uncles aunts, cousins, grandparents, distant relatives that we dont know of that somehow have access to this letter i am about to send home,

how are you?

you know i am just dandy, sorry it is a little late to be emailing. We only have one computer that functions... so i said i will go last because i dont really have too many people to write.

I am doing great. weather is getting colder! i dont really need anything for the moment. though if you were to buy me a shirt could you get a size smaller? yeah thats right i have lost weight! i guess not having a car is a blessing...... haha

Dad you are one inspired man, i will tell you why. I read that very talk this last week and i was so touched by the spirit. I have been studying a lot about the Prophet Joseph Smith. I listened to one of my all-time favorite talks, "Profile of a Prophet" if you havent read it.... (as President Monson would say) READ IT!!!!!!!!!!! lets just say you cannot listen to this talk and not know that Joseph was indeed called of God to be the Prophet of the Restoration. My favorite part of the entire address is the end. Elder Brown says:(and i am paraphrasing here) but undergirding and overarching all the rest I know that Joseph Smith was a Prophet. By the wisperings of the Holy Ghost one can come to that same knowledge.

Dont you just love that? It is the same for me. I have learned so much about him on my mission. But all these things that i have learned can neither give nor take my testimony away. I know that he is a prophet because i have heard the Holy Ghost say to me that he is. I know it and i cannot deny it, and i shall never be able to do so. 

this week was great

remember when i told you about Sergio? well he has a date to be baptized!!!!!!!!! wooooohhoooooooo yeah i know how great is that! It was a great lesson. his son even sat in and so next week we are going to commit him too. I am so happy for him i cant wait to teach him next week. thank you for your prayers on his behalf. 

Mommy thanks so much for all you do for me. I am very grateful for you. I just felt like i needed to tell you that. i am sorry i dont write too much. I have never really been good and expressing what i feel inside but i want you to know that you are the best and have always been the mother that your children needed. i talk about you often so the lads must think that i am a wus or a mommas boy or somthing like that! 

You are all amazing. Happy thanksgiving. May you all remember that the greatest gift we have been given is He who was born in a manger, and He who died on a cross. It is Jesus the Christ, the Son of God. I will always be eternally grateful for Him. 

Godspeed my family

all is well in zion

elder cameron

 

November 17, 2014

My friends,

life is beautiful. especially when you find 3 new investigators in one week. that is what i like to call blessings from the Lord. Fantastic isn't it. 

I am doing well 

i just have to say thank you so so soso so sos o s much to my sister nat and my brother justin for sending me the best little gifts that i have received in a while. You know how much i love music. 

It was so great to read some mumford and sons lyrics. in fact i convinced my 4 man to sing timshel with me. it didn't sound like mumford haha but we tried our best. 

It is snowing pretty hard here. we have got a ton of snow everywhere. It is completely white. i love it. for now. haha

i am doing good on advair and other supplies. thank you for everything

I will now tell you about our new investigator. his name is Sergio. he is from mexico. He is so cool. i gave him a call because we got his information from a team in montreal. He said we could come on over. we had such a great lesson with him. i asked if he wanted to be baptized on the first lesson just like a good PMG missionary should and he said yes!! next lesson we are going to give him a date to be baptized. he could be a member by the end of the year! please pray for this guy

we had another great lesson with 2 other new amis. We gave them a book of mormon and they said they are going to read and pray about it. so we are excited for them as well.

we got to go to montreal for a new missionary training for my comp. it was great. i got to see a lot of missionaries i haven't seen in a while. and we even got to have an interview with president. it was so cool. we both wanted to talk to him because we had some concerns so we went into his office and talked for a while. it was great. 

he told us both that we are going to be bishops and i laughed and he said thats what i did when my mission pres said the same thing on my mission. haha

all is well i love you all  very very much

elder cameron