Dear Family and Friends,

We email at the local library. Hmm that's weird that my email isn't getting there until late!! I don't know how to fix that!

I ran out of funds because we came here and we had little food so we would have to buy food to last the week. The only reason it's like that is because we are opening an area and we are trying to stock up so we have more than 3 things to choose from to eat every meal. I did like the pictures! Thank you!

Haha! Yeah I carried both packages on thursday! The medium one in my backpack and I rode my bike with one hand while holding the large one in my other arm! It was heavy but I made it alright! The packages were great! There were a few cans that got dented, but that's ok! Everything survived!

I haven't bought food with it yet, we are going to do that when we get done here emailing! I think we will be good on food for now, we will get more money next week and I think the food we have and the food we will get will last us the week! We usually eat at Village Pizza twice a week, on Monday and Thursday!!! And we finally got desks!!!!! It's great! It clears up the couches and helps us have more room!!! And we got the correct legs for our table so we were able to put it together so we now have desks to study at and a table to eat at!!! Thanks for the thought though of buying us desks!

 

Sounds like y'all had a good week!!! Congrats on getting the job Laura!!! That's awesome!! :) JAMIE'S COMING HOME IN A WEEK!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!  That's crazy!!! That's ok if y'all want to hold on to my mp3 player til then! Hopefully I can find someone who will let us Skype!!

 

Well this was an ok week. Elder Chapman's back has been hurting him and we haven't been getting to everything we have planned to do because it's hard for him to ride a bike very long right now. We are going to try and get him to a chiropractor and go to the gym. Speaking of which, Elder Chapman has asked me if y'all would be willing to send me money each month to pay for going to a gym, we aren't sure how much it costs but we will let y'all know. We haven't checked out the place yet, but when we do I will let y'all know!  We are still going to the nursing home to read the Book of Mormon to Joyce (I'm not sure if I have said her name yet or not) and we still get people to look at us funny and give us weird looks, but it's ok! We gave talks yesturday in Sacrament meeting!!! It was the longest talk I think I have ever given!!! I talked for about 15 minutes!! On the first half of the Plan of Salvation!!! It was great!! I was still a little nervous but I prepared well! Malcolm is out of town until possibly Wednesday so we weren't able to see him this week! :( Well I want to let y'all know that I know this Gospel is true and I know that Jesus Christ lives! Remember that always!!! He loves y'all! And I love y'all! Have fun with Jamie coming home!!

 

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams

Cameron's Letter April 15, 2012

Dear Family and Friends!!!

Yes I did get my package!!! Thank you very much for it!!! Yeah I could use some more gravy and mac and cheese and any other food you would like to send because we are running low on food and funds, after today we will be almost out for the rest of the month, so if you could send some more food that would be great!! :)

My apartment is small and there will be pictures (unless I forget to load them, but I don't think I will)! The bike riding is fine for me but Elder Chapman has difficulties at times! He is a 20 year old in a 40 year old body! No joke! Haha! He will admit to it too!

We have had members to drive us places but this county has the highest welfare users of any other county in the state! So alot of the members don't have a ton of money to take us places! And the closest places we want to get to are at least 15ish miles away! But we will do what we can!

Malcolm is doing good! He took having to wait to get baptized very well! There was a little miscommuniaction and he went to feed some horses when his ride came for church so he wasn't able to come to church! :( The average church attendance here is about 32 (not very big!). We are working with Malcolm to help him quit smoking and drinking coffee! So it's a good thing that he isn't getting baptized as soon! Gives him more time to quit!

That's awesome that Laura got a job interview!!! Good luck!! ;)

Sounds like y'all had a good week!!! :) Did y'all get my mp3 player? We did end up putting 2 recordings on if y'all didn't find them! Elder Chapman is a comedian!!! I love this Elder!!! He cracks me up!!

Well this week has been pretty good! For the past week and a half we have been going to a nursing to read the Book of Mormon to one of our investigators there and we have a less active resident joining us in the reading and we are creating alot of buzz being there reading! There is a less active who works there that says there have been alot of questions flying about us and she said we could try and do a Bible study there, and we are going to look into that! And we have been doing alot of little things to be noticed! Biking around helps, going to the nursing home, eating at Village Pizza, and just going anywhere we get people to notice us! It's great!! We are planting alot of seeds!! The members here are still working on getting us things for our apartment but they are doing the best they can!! We love these people! Well that's about it for my week.

The computer is being very slow and we need to be going, so I will load more next week and I'll get a different computer, but I'll leave y'all with a cliff hanger on what my apartment looks like! Haha! I love y'all and I can't wait to talk to you in a month!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams!!

Cameron's Letter April 9, 2012

Dearest Family and Friends!!!

HAPPY EASTER My Easter was pretty good! It was better than last year, but we didn't get a huge meal for dinner. We did have Easter lunch with the Branch President and his family, that was really good! Roast beef, veggies, green beans, rolls, and pudding and cookies! We went with a member to pick up our investigator (Malcolm, who has accepted the invite to be baptized!) for Church and we went to Church and afterwards took Malcolm home and went to lunch at the Shawcroft home! Then we went and visited a bunch of people just like any other day, we honestly kept forgetting it was Easter! Haha! Which I feel bad about, but it was still a good day! I haven't gotten my package yet, I wasn't home when they came by so I am going to pick it up today at the Post Office.

My first full week in McRae was alot better then I was expecting it to be! I'll "splain" why in a minute! We have Subway, McDonalds,and Dairy Queen. Those are all the fast food places in town! But there are a few sit down restaurants! None that are nation wide chained places.

Sounds like Laura did good in the pageant!! That's ok that she didn't win! As long as you had fun! Sounds like yall had a good Easter! I miss Easter back home!! There was a lot of good memories!!

Well this week was great!! Malcolm is a great man who wants to change his live for the better! And he loves to joke around too which makes it fun to teach him! We are teaching a lady named Joyce, she lives in one of the nursing homes here. We are reading the Book of Mormon to her and she is LOVING it!! It will probably be a long process with her, but we will still teach her! This week we have been going around contacting former investigators and a lot of them have allowed us to come back! A lot of them were "dropped" by past missionaries because they weren't progressing fast enough, that was one of the mentalities of the Georgia Macon Mission which was disolved last year, but we are excited to work with them! And we are finding new people too! This week has been awesome!!! The Lord has blessed us greatly!! We know that if we continue being righteous we will find more success! I know that Jesus Christ lives and loves all of us! I love yall and I will try and send one of my mp3 players home for you to put Conference on and there will be a recording (just to for warn you, Elder Chapman and I will do one together and he may sound crazy but he is great!)!

Once again I love yall and tell everyone I love them! Especially Bro. Hutton!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams

Elder Chapman & Elder Williams

Cameron's Letter April 2, 2012

Dear Family and Friends!

McRae, Georgia is great!!! It's a small town like Alma but it has a more friendly feel to it! We got here Thursday morning and meet the Branch Presidents wife (Sister Shawcroft) and see showed us to our apartment, it's a bottom floor apartment and is a little small but that's ok we don't need a ton of space! My address is :

98 S Third Ave Appt 2

McRae, GA 31055

I'll get pictures and send them next week!

Well Elder Chapman. He is AWESOME!!! He is from Farmington, New Mexico and he is very outgoing and is alot like me! So we get along great!!! :) The picutre is of Elder Chapman and me back when I found out I was going to Crestview and we didn't know how long we were going to be apart! We are best friends! If you have any question about him feel free to ask!

I was able to watch Conference and I thought it was AWESOME!!! We loved Elder Ballards talk, Elder Evans (especially when he talked about writing to missionaries and others! hint hint to everyone that hasn't written yet! ;) ), and all of it was great!! Those men are inspired and called of God and it was great to have them teach us what we need to do!

Sounds like yall had fun and stayed busy! Take luck Laura! Kick Butt at the pageant! Emily keep being awesome!!

This week was pretty good, not a whole lot of spiritual experiences outside of Conference but that's ok Conference was great!!! But I said goodbye to everyone in Milton and came to McRae. We came and found out there isn't a phone for us yet but it's now in the mail and we are a bike area right now, but we feel that evenutally we are going to need a car because McRae is a small town and there is alot of work to do outside the city and we won't always have members to drive us to these places, but that's ok we keep going even though we have been handicapped a bit! Oh! And guess what!?! They have a pizza joint here called Village Pizza!?!?! It's awesome and it's owned by a member so we can eat free there!?!?! It's my dream!?!?! In fact we are going there for lunch today! We met with President Shawcroft (Branch President) to talk about what we should start doing and people to see, he gave us a list of people and... yeah! We are really excited to be here and we think there is alot of potential! The members we have met are great!

Well I think that'll do it for now, sorry it's a shorter letter, but I love yall and tell everyone that I love them!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams