Dear Family and Friends!!

I am doing great!  I have been listening to Conference and reading along with it! It's been great!! I did get the package! Thank you for sending it!! It's not all eaten yet! Mom don't you remember me telling you that I was Elder Kirk's District Leader his first transfer? So yes! I have met him!  He is really goofy! He is in Albany, Georgia!

That's cool that Stephanie and Amelia had their babies on the same day!!

 

Wow sounds like alot went on this week! School here ended May 18th so yeah, it's weird that school is almost over!! That's great that Emily is feeling better! Emily can you ever stay better? Because it seems like you get sick the most! Laura you should go to the Pizza Pie Cafe!! Hehe!

That's awesome that Jamie got a half scholarship!! That's unfortunate about the Christians!  That's sad when that happens! Send my love to Sister Jenni and that I will pray for her!! 

Scary dogs!?! I've had more dogs chase us here in McRae than any other place!! Haven't been bit yet! I knew Jamie couldn't go long without watching Emperor's New Groove!!  

Go Dad!!!! Get the gopher!!! "Go-pher it!" Hehe!! 

 

Well this week was a little slow, but we are making great progress with Sister Anita!! We had a lesson with her at the Church on Friday and it was a good lesson! And we had alot of people say they could come to Church but when Church started nobody showed up! Towards the end of the youth speaker Anita and her 3 daughters came in! It was awesome!!! We finally had investigators at Church!! We were REALLY happy!! :) We have a lesson with them tonight and hopefully we will get Joe on board, he isn't too into changing right now! Saturday evening we had a Branch activity and it was learn how to make sushi! It was fun, but I reestablished that sushi isn't the best food in the world, it isn't bad but it's not my favorite. We invited alot of people to that but none showed up! :(

I have a few pictures and some of them might make Laura and Emily jealous! Hehe!!

Well I hope that everyone is doing great!! Keep going! Keep reading the scriptures individually and as a family!! And do the same thing with prayer!! The Book is blue, the Church is true!

I love y'all!!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams

 :Yoda made out of pipe cleaners (Elder Chapman made him).

 A snapping turtle we came across while biking.

My district this last transfer.

Dear Family and Friends,

It was great to talk to y'all again!!! Especially Jamie! It has been a while! Emily!?! Why are you sick?!? Get better, school is almost over, you don't need to skip out just yet!

That's great that Jamie is learning how to sew! Sounds like y'all had fun with Jamie and her Homecoming!

I have probably taken about a quarter of the picture that Jamie has. I just haven't been sending them, but if you want I can send pictures. One reason why I don't send my pictures is because the computers aren't very fast and take forever to load them, at least they have been! 

 

Well this week has been ok. We got to teach Joe and Anita (they are investigators that we have been working with for a little over a week) again! It was a great lesson on the Plan of Salvation! They had great questions and they understood most of it! They asked us why other religions don't teach the Plan of Salvation, we reminded them of the Great Apostosy and he alot of the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ was lost during that time! They have been reading the Book of Mormon, and Joe needs reading glasses, but we showed him on lds.org where he can have the scriptures read to him! He loved that! We keep working with Joyce and we are now in Mosiah with her! If we keep going with her I think we can finish the Book of Mormon the beginning of next transfer! That would be great! She has a harder time remembering things, but when we give some reminders she remembers things! On Saturday Elder Chapman wasn't feeling well at all and we actually stayed in the whole day! And pretty much did the same on Mother's Day except for Church and taking gifts over to the Branch President's wife (Sister Shawcroft) for Mother's Day. We also taught Malcolm this week! We taught him the Gospel of Jesus Christ! He understood it very well! Unfortunately he didn't come to Church this week! :( We have a hard time getting him to Church because someone from McRae has to go get him! But he is doing good! When we taught him he hadn't smoked for 4 days and he was going to keep going with it!

Well I want to let everyone know that I know that the Savior lives! And He loves us sooooooooooooooo much that we can't even begin to comprehend how much he loves us! The Book of Mormon IS true! Heavenly Father has again called prophets in the day! I am grateful for it!

I love y'all soooo much! "...know that." 
Love,

Elder Cameron Williams

Dear Family and Friends!

That is so weird that Jamie is now home!?!?!  I get $133 a month and I think it might be easier for y'all to read about it in the White handbook pg 43 because there is alot that it talks about us using money from the mission and money from home. But basically the money we get from the mission is for food, laundry (if needed), postage (if needed), and things for our apartments. Well the things about a Celestial Missionary that influenced me the most would probably be just doing all you can and always do your best! I wasn't being a Celestial missionary completely but I wasn't completely a Telestial Missionary. So I decided to step it up!

 

Wow!! It sounds like Jamie was a busy bee! Haha! I hope my homecoming will be just as jam packed!! Haha!! I am very jealous that Jamie went moontanning!!! I'm mostly jealous because when I come home it will be too cold to go moontanning!!  Haha!! That awesome that Jamie won Mario Party!! Even more hilarious that Laura's controler may or may not have been tampered with!! Haha!! 

 

Ok there are a couple things I wanna say before I forget them, they aren't important, but one is very funny!

Ok, so is there any way that you can send me an easy or medium copy of the BYU fight song please? I want to learn it and play it at my last Zone Conference! 
And now for the funny part! There is a lady that we are trying to teach, and one day she was talking about how much she loves to fish and how her son is so good at fishing that he talks to the fish to get them to bite, so I said his a "fish whisperer?" and she said yep! Haha!! I laughed at that alot in myself because nobody else would know it! :)

 

That's it for those things!

 

This week has been good, we are still going to the nursing home, and Joyce was supposed to quit smoking on May 3rd but she changed her mind and said she wasn't ready. It was just a bummer really because she is the one who set the date, but we figured she wouldn't be able to quit yet because she likes to smoke and it's hard for someone who likes to smoke to overcome it! And a cool experience that happened on Saturday is we went to see an investigator and enjoy a barbeque too! We get there and he is tipsy and he said he forgot when we were coming but said that there was some leftovers that we could have. He invited us in and we talked with him and his wife for a few minutes, then he goes over to the couch and passes out! We then talk to his wife and it started out us explaining what we as missionaries do and then she kinda told us about a miscarriage of one of her babies and how it was supposed to live but it didn't. She said she was angry with God and she turned to beer to overcome it, but she realized that it wasn't helping and right before the miscarriage she made a commitment to get saved and then it all happened. We taught her about the will of God and how these things do happen, but they can be overcome by the atonement of Jesus Christ! We also told her about families being together forever and I think that peeked an interest! After it all she said that she didn't know why she told us all that because she doesn't really know us and that something told her to tell it to us! We told her it was the Spirit! We are going to go back on Tuesday and we are excited about that! It all happened about the same time as Elder Chapman's brother going through the Temple for his endowments!

Well this week is transfers and we are both staying in McRae! We figured we would! We are both hoping that we can stay here a while! I just don't want to get transferred because then I have to pack up and leave again! I'm tired of moving around alot! So maybe I will be able to stay! 

I think that will do it for this email, I probably won't be able to Skype, but I will call around 4-5pm y'alls time. If I am able to Skype then we will set it up when I call!

The Book is blue and the Church is true!! Keep reading the Book of Mormon!!

 

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams

Dear Family and Friends!

This week has gone by fast here too!!! I did get the other packages and now we are stocked for the winter!!! :) Thank you very much for the packages! Especially for the blueberry pancake mix!!! I don't know why I haven't asked you to send some before now!! We bought food and we were actually given some food by members Monday evening (there was a good amount of deer meat they gave us!) We have enough food.  Elder Chapmans back is doing ok, he still has alot of sore muscles. And about the gym, we probably won't end up going to the gym because the one here in town has a very strict contract!! You have to give at least 7 days notice to cancel your membership and along with alot of other crazy rules! So I don't think we will be doing that.  Biking is going well!! I like it more because we don't bike very far! In Crestview we would sometimes bike for 5-10 miles straight without stopping and here the furthest we go without stopping has been about 1-2 miles, so it's not that bad! :)

We actually lost contact with Malcolm for a bit, he went out of town and ran out of minutes so we couldn't call him, but fortunately we were able to go see him yesturday!! So yes we are still working with him! He is funny! :) Going to the nursing home is alright! It's not the funniest thing to do, but it's not bad! Right now we are just reading the Book of Mormon with her, we are in 2 Nephi 27, I think.

By the sound of it, y'all are busy getting ready for Jamie's return! That is exciting!! :)  I think those suits are the ones from the Jensens. Yeah save them and I'll try them on again when I come back and see if they fit! That's awesome that Grandma Williams is going to be there when Jamie comes home!! What classes is Laura going to sign up for?

 

Well this week was good! We had Zone Conference on Thursday in Tifton and it was good! President Jensen has been talking alot about being Celestial Missionaries and made a handout talking about being Celestial Missionaries! It was meant to be a kinda lovingly rebuking thing because there are missionaries that aren't being very obedient, (don't worry! I am being obedient!) and it was an eye opener for me because I haven't been disobedient, but I haven't been doing everything a Celestial missionary should be! So it was good because it came me things to improve on! :)

Other then that not much exciting... Wait!! After Zone Conference (we had the office Elders drive us home so they can inspect our apartment) we took the Office Elders with us to a lesson, but it fell through. As we were walking back I saw a little that we had talked to before and had given her a Book of Mormon that we had fallen out of contact with ( her name is Tracy) and I felt that we should go see her. At first I shrugged it off but it came back instantly and I decided to act on it. I told Elder Chapman I saw her and that we should go see her, the Office Elders kept walking home while we went there. She saw us and came out. We asked Tracy if she had read from the Book of Mormon. She said she had read a little bit and then asked us to pray for her because she was going through a personal problem. We prayed and then we left because she was busy at the moment. But it was great to recognize the Spirit because that is something that I have been praying for! It was an awesome experince!! We saw her last night and she told us the prayer helped! So it was a good feeling!! :) 

Well I think that will do for now! Read the scriptures, pray daily, and go to Church, and you will be alright!! :) Trust me!!

I love y'all!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams

 

PS we are in a bit of a hurry today because I couldn't get a computer for a bit so next week I will send the remaining pictures of my apartment!  

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!!