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

Cameron's Letter March 26, 2012

Dear Family and Friends!!!!

My cough is doing better, I am fine in the morning but in the
afternoon and evening it comes back, well I think I should say this,
the mission doctor says that it was probably the beginning of
bronchitis (I don't know if I spelt that right) and he gave me a
subscription for Z-Pak and I took that. It will wear off on Thursday
and we will see how things are then! :)

Oh and I found out that I am being transferred to McRae,Georgia (it's
about 40 miles north west of Alma) and I am going to be with Elder
Chapman!!! :) I'm excited about that!!! :) And we will be opening
McRae so we will have some fun with that! :)

Sounds like yall had a fun busy week! And yet another week is gone!

Well this week was a slower week! The less active lady I told yall
about 2 weeks ago got evicted this week but the Church is paying for
her to stay in a hotel for a week so she has a place to stay while she
looks for a job. We helped her move into the hotel! I have begun to
love helping people move and helping people out in general! It makes
me feel good!! :) Oh! On Tuesday and Wednesday morning I went on an
exchange up in Jay and was with Elder Kirk! He is a funny Elder and he
sounds Canadian!!! Haha! He says "Don't you know" and "Eh" alot! Haha!
I'll get a picture with him tomorrow before I leave! :) This week I
have learned that I need to change my attitude for the better! I
haven't been the most excited to go out and actually start working but
once I'm out I do pretty good. So I need to more excited to do
missionary work! :) Well sorry that this is a short email but not much
else :/ But know that I love everyone that is reading this! Because if
yall are reading this then you care enough to know how I'm doing so I
am returning the favor the best way I can! I love yall! <3

Elder Cameron Williams

Cameron's Letter March 19, 2012

Dear Family and Friends,

First off sorry my email is late, we had a hectic day! But my week has been pretty good!! I'll tell more about it in a minute. My cough has gotten a little worse, I don't remember what I told you about it but I talked to the mission doctor and he says it sounds like I might be getting broncitis I got some medicine at the Walmart pharmacy today. My cough hasn't been bad in the mornings but it gets worse in the afternoon evening times! I have taken Roba Tussin, Dayquil, Cough relief stuff from Walgreens and Halls. Not all at once but that is what I have taken for it!
I got your letter, thank you for sending it!! Sounds like eventful weeks! Yeah we kinda said the same thing but the guy didn't agree!

Well I'm gonna have to be short. This week we have helped out alot of people, and we found a man named Clay and we taught him the Restoration! He accepted a Book of Mormon and said he would give it a fair shake! We are praying for him!! And this week was good! Umm on Friday we got some training from President Jensen, the Assistants, and the Zone Leaders. I learned that I actually am not suppose to email chat, so we aren't gonna be able to do that anymore! :( And we have been asked to not recieve news on sports teams because we are supposed to keep ourselves focused on doing the Lords work and not things back home. So no more of that either. I actually have to go now, don't worry I will write more next week! I love yall soooooo much!

Love,
Elder Williams

Cameron's Letter March 12, 2012

Dear Family and Friends!!!! :)

See I told ya I wouldn't forget your Birthday Laura!! I spent at least
5-10 minutes looking for the perfect card! And I thought that one
would be the best for you!!! :)
That's awesome that Ammon is back!!! I bet he did a good job!! I will
be in the position in 10 months! It's weird to think that in one month
I will be in the single digit months til I return!! It will fly by if
I do what the Lord wants me to do!

Well I guess my email will be shorter too because I don't have much to
respond to your email and I already responded to it, so on with my
week!

This week I got an annoying cough! I still worked but I didn't like it
(the cough) coming up so much! We found a couple of potentials this
week! Some didn't show up for their appointments unfortunately and
some forgot what time we were coming! I don't know if you remember me
talking about Dennis, when I was here last. We went by and visited
with him Saturday! It was a good time and we will see him again on
Saturday, we intend to teach him when we go this time! And yesturday
we were looking for a less active member and when we went to the
address he didn't live there but another member lived there and she
lived alone with her 3 month old baby. She had been through alot of
struggles and alot of betrayal by family and friends! She told us she
has no friends any more! :( She wants to come to Church and we will do
our best to help her! We have thought of ways we could get the ward
involved and we want to talk it over with her just to make sure she is
good with it! I'm excited to work with her! :)
We also ran into alot of people who believe prophets aren't needed any
more :( which is sad! One man asked why do we need prophets to warn us
of things when we have the Holy Ghost to warn us? I didn't know quite
how to answer without saying anything that might offend him. And I
found out that the 1st Presidency Message this month is on the
Importance of Prophets!! I'm excited to read it!!

Well I think that does it for this weeks report. President Jensen has
asked us to send home everything that could distract us, so I will be
sending a package home either this week or next week!

Well that does it for now! I love yall and I am eager to hear more
about this week!

Love,
Elder Cameron Williams

Cameron's Letter March 5, 2012

Dear Family and Friends,

The baptism was awesome!! Francis was really excited for it and really surprised at how many members were excited for him!! It was awesome!!! He also got the Priesthood yesturday which was very exciting!! I am doing very well!! we got alot of rain on friday and saturday but no tornados! We were told that there was alot of that kind of weather in the mid west. I think I still have another 2 boxes of contacts so I am good for a little while, but I will let you know when they run out or are close to running out!! If you can find somebody to fix it without losing the data on the thumbdrive that would be great, but if that isn't possible that will be fine too! I don't need a new one right now, but I will let you know. I actually took everything off my other one and put it on that thumbdrive because one of the DeFuniak Elders wanted a video and the only way I could get it to work would be to put it on my other thumbdrive and give it to him so he could get the video off of it. He mailed it back to me last week and it doesn't have anything else on it, so I am good for right now!

Sounds like yall are having another usualish week! Haha!! Laura I won't forget your birthday this year!

That's great that Sister Thompson is coming back!!! Kamber is engaged?!? That's nuts!?! I go away for 2 years and everyone decides to get married!!! Who are you going to say next week that is engaged? Rachael?!?!? Haha! I will have alot of catching up to do when I come home!!!

Well this week hasn't been too eventful. Other than the baptism not much happened. On Wednesday Elder Price was feeling light headed and had an upset stomach so we didn't do much that day. We found out later that it was because he forgot to talk his meds! I think he said he has insomnia and the meds help him sleep. When we have been out and about we decided to drop by and see some less actives, and we have discovered many who moved away (sometimes at leas 2-3 years ago) and others who aren't interested anymore. It's unfortunate about all that there aren't enough men in the ward to do all the home teaching so many people don't get visits and they move away and nobody ever knows about it!

Oh on Saturday we finally got to see Pam again! It was great to see her again! We now have to work on getting her to come back to church! She moved to another house, which is actually closer to us and in the move she lost her scriptures and hasn't been coming to church! We are going to go by and see her tomorrow! And when we were leaving her house there was a car parked perpendicular with the road! It didn't look like anyone was in the car, Pam went to go see and there was an old man in the car. She said that he looked like he wa crying, but then we saw him coughing. Pam went inside to get her phone and called 911. She said the man wanted her to get in but she didn't want to, so she called and in a few minutes the ambulence showed up to check it out. Police showed up later too and they ended up taking him in the ambulence. The cops came and said that he probably had low blood sugar and found it out that he was parked the way he was parked! All that happened while it was raining! It was an interesting experience! Definately journal worthy!

Well I want yall to know how much I love you! Everyone who reads this is worthy of my love! I will talk to you next week!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams