Hello Family and friends!
Thank you for the Bike shop info!
Dang Westlake is in trouble! BYU bounce back and beat Utah!!! I would love an article, but I better not it might make me focus more on that than the work, but thank you very much for the selections you sent me! I read all of the BYU report and alot of the High school football report! I loved them!
That's good that Aunt JaNae is doing well! And that is a great blessing!! I was amazed at how much the bill was in the first place!! That's incredible!
Your email was short this week haha Emily's first missing of the school bus! I remember those days! I had many dreams about missing the bus!
This week has been just like other weeks here, I have felt the spirit most when I am studying, reading in the Book of Mormon, New Testament and Jesus the Christ! In Jesus the Christ I read about the apostles and where they came from, and many of them just left what they were doing (their jobs) and followed Christ! I just thought that was amazing that they were willing to drop what they are doing and just leave it behind! They were blessed for that!
We have been helping a member (Sister White) chop down trees and build fires and everything that is involved with deforestation! it's been alot of fun! We try to look for other service but nobody is willing to take us up on our offer to help!
The Alma Twig, I mean Branch is great! I love the people here! They are all very friendly and we usually have anywhere from 30-50 people in sacrament metting! The total number of members on the roster is around 130. We haven't been using members a whole lot because we haven't needed help from them yet :/ My favorite memeber is Sister White! She is black and she isn't afraid to speak her mind! She is very funny!!!
Alma is small, in town there are mostly Blacks but in the country there are more Whites. We can ride around town on our bikes in about 10-15 minutes. Alot of people we talk to will say yes to us coming back just to be nice, but it ends up falling through and I would prefer them just say that they aren't interested. Oh Friday a family we were trying to teach got antied and asked us not to come back, and they wouldn't even tell us what they were told so we couldn't explain anything. I feel really bad for them! I hope that they will change their minds!
And on Saturday I recieved a letter Ronald (a recent convert I helped teach in Milton)! He is doing AMAZING!!! He got his Patriarchal Blessing, went to do baptisms for the dead, and now holds a calling!! It is awesome to see how the Lord is blessing his life!!! I am EXTREMELY happy about it!!!!
Elder Horning is senior companion, the senior and junior companion is just a calling, so senior companion could be any missionary! We have talked alot about what we can do to improve the area! And we think we have it, but we need to put it into action and have faith that we will get results! That may be my problem, I don't think I have had enough faith in finding people here because we very rarely get a return visit. I need to do better at that. I do want to improve but it's not enough to just talk the talk.
There actually is one man that we are trying to work with, his name is George. And Elder Chapman and I talked with him on our tradeoff last week, he wanted missionaries to come by. So we did, we didn't really teach much then because we went to get to know him a little bit more, but before we left we left him a pamphlet on the Restoration! When we came back he said that he had read the first 2 chapters in the Book of Mormon and read the pamphlet and answered the study questions at the back of the pamphlet! We didn't really know what to do we were so amazed! After that though he shared his belief on MANY things! And they all were what we believed too! Except the tea. Right now he seems to just be doing this to gain more knowledge and not to better himself, but hopefully reading the Book of Mormon will change his heart! We are going to try and see him again sometime this week.
Well thank y'all for the prayers and everything! I love y'all and can't wait until I hear from y'all again!!!
Love Elder Cameron Williams
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