Dear Family and Friends,

I am doing great!! We had a pretty slow, but great week! Our half mission Christmas party was pretty fun, it was in Tallahassee at the Stake Center, the first 5ish hours were kinda boring but the last 2ish hours were awesome!!!! It was on Dec 13th, and for the first 5ish hours missionaries took turns sharing talents and some missionaries were called on to bear testimony and then we had lunch, we got small portions but that's ok, I don't need a lot of food! And then after lunch we watched Brave and then all the missionaries that are going home this transfer got up and bore testimony to half the mission, so I got to do that too! It was pretty good. Thanks for the Christmas letters!!! I did get the card from the Thompson's! Tell them thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Well the puppies aren't born yet but they should be born by the time I leave but they have to stay with their mom for a bit so they would be ready by Feb I think. Haha!!! Me plan worked!!!!!! Plus he REALLY does need a playmate!! He has had a boring life!!! I know it will cost money to get it there, I just have to find out how much it is. 

 

Ummmm..... you could send some M&M choco cookies and some cheesecake cookies, but don't send a lot please!! I'll enjoy the rest when I come home!!! Oh I kinda is starting to sink in that I only have a month left!!! It's very weird!! I feel like I've spent my whole life doing this stuff!!!

 

Haha! In the Bristol Ward yesturday there was a young man who gave his farewell and he is going to the Provo Utah Spanish Speaking Mission. So maybe he will come out to Eagle Mountain!! haha!!! 

 

Well Becky is doing good, she's moving along slowly but she has picked Jan 5th as a day to work towards being baptized!!!! Rhonda is not really doing much right now, I think that since she can't come to church right now that has kinda put her on hold on getting baptized, she wouldn't mind being baptized but she can't get Sundays off until her work redoes the scheduling and there is no telling when that is.  
So on Wednesday we have dinner at a Part- Member family's house and he (Elvaro, el-var-o, he is from Argentina I think) has been investigating for 3ish years. She (Hannah) is the member, she keeps trying to get us to join the choir because she is the director and Elder Ogilvie felt that we should make a deal with them, if they read scriptures or pray 5 out of 7 days as a family then we would join the choir. She accepted! And then on Sunday she told us they did it and so we joined the choir. After the practice we went to lunch at her brother's house and Elvaro told us that as he was listening in Sacrament Meeting to a lady sharing her conversion story and seeing his family it all clicked in his head!! He told us that he was waiting on a sign but then the thought came, what more signs do you need and he told us he wants to get baptized!! And he even wants to try and do it before I leave!! And get this, he is a huge Star Wars fan!!!! So I think this will be my Star Wars fan convert!!!!! Thanks Richie!!! So we are going to start reteaching him the lessons about twice a week!! Well I think that will do for this email!!

Merry Christmas!!!! I love y'all!!!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams  

Cameron's Letter Dec 10, 2012

Dear Family and Friends!!
Yes I want a dog!! I like dogs, just not when they can't control their bladder. Since I have been here and known that this dog was going to have puppies. I will be about the size of a black lab, maybe a little smaller. We can make the dog a mostly outside dog except in the winter, we may have to get a bed for him in the garage or something. He would stay with yall while I'm at school. :) Emily would LOVE that!! And Buddy could have a play mate! (He NEEDS a playmate)

Ok sounds good! I will prepare for the 20th!

 

Emily it sounds like your getting pretty good at basketball!!! Maybe I'll get to watch some of your games!!!! :) That's good that y'all got the tree up!! Have y'all been counting down the days til Christmas??

Aunt Carol was in the hospital?!? That's not good, but that is good that she is now home!! Yes!!!!! GO BYU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who is BYU playing in a bowl game???

 

My week has been pretty good! Not too much happening, we had a couple of lessons with Becky this week, on Tuesday we watched the Prophet of the Restoration with her and she liked it, she didn't like how people were so mean to the  early Saints! And we then taught the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity and it went pretty well!!! She has committed to start living those commandments a step at a time!! We will continue working with her and hopefully she will get baptized before I leave!!! I would REALLY love that!! But if it doesn't happen when I am here as long as it happens I will be fine!! We had the Ward Christmas party this week and we had alot of fun at it!! There was alot of food!!!! Really good food!!! I think that's about it for this email! I love y'all very much!!!

 

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams    

Dear Family and Friends,

Well today is transfer day and it's official... I will be dying off in Hosford!!!! I'm excited!!! Elder Ogilvie is staying too! That's AWESOME that Rachael got her mission call!!!!  Our Thanksgiving was pretty warm too!! This week flip flopped alot with the weather!!! Some days were chilly and rainy and other days were bright and warm! You are going to have to show me some of those videos when I get back!!

Sounds like a fun week!! Emily don't get down about losing to Lone Peak, mourn for a time and look at what you can learn from it and then get back up, move on, and don't look back!!!

I do have enough Christmas music to listen to! Thank you! I did get to watch the Frist Pres Devo, we watched it at Bishop's house after dinner! It was really good!!

 

Well before I forget, there is a member here in Hosford that are going to be having half black lab/ half hound puppies around the time that I will be leaving and I wanted to let y'all know that I wanna try and get one! He said he would just give me one or all if I wanted, but I know I can't have all. This wasn't a planned event! But yeah, he will probably have to ship the puppy to me because they might not be ready to leave their mom when I come home! 

This week was good! We had to patch up a big misunderstanding between Becky and Rhonda and the members we have trying to fellowship with them. Over a small thing. We were able to smooth it out! Becky has been struggling a bit this week, her ex-fiance took too much money out of an account and left not enough to pay the bills and she is dealing with alot of crap right now!! Satan is trying to work on her really hard because she is progressing towards baptism!! She has also been struggling with reading the Book of Mormon and keep the commitments we ask her to do! This week we are going to try and fix that and help her realize how much doing these small things will help in the long run!! Well that is about it for this week! This upcoming Friday Elder Ogilvie and I will be the narrators at the Primary Program for the Ward Christmas party!! It's exciting!! Well I think that'll do it for this email! I love y'all and I pray for ya everyday!!!

Love,

Elder Cameroon Williams

Dear Family and Friends,

My Thanksgiving was really good!! I did get your package! Thank you!! I got it Wednesday I think! Our Missionary Sacrament meeting was alright, one of the young women spoke, we spoke (the ward mission leader was suppose to speak but he wasn't able to!! So he dumped it on us!)and the bishop spoke. We were the only ones to bring a nonmember (Becky came!!), we expected that to happen (nobody bring a nonmember) but we were hoping to be proved wrong. 

 

Well I'm glad that y'all had a good Thanksgiving!! Did y'all take any pictures?? If you did, you should send some!!!  

Our Thanksgiving was pretty good!! On Wednesday we had a lesson with Rhonda and Becky and it was pretty good! Then we went to dinner with the Wahlquist family (HUGE family), they have Thanksgiving the night before Thanksgiving so that they can hunt on Thanksgiving! I ate a TON there!! The food was AMAZING!!!!!!! It was awesome!! And then on Thanksgiving Day we went to another HUGE family (Peddies) Thanksgiving dinner at their camp grounds! It was awesome!!! I had squirrel, dove, ham, and chicken!! Did I mention that it was awesome!!! After we ate a member took us and showed us where he liked to hunt and he showed us a HUGE tree! It was awesome!!! After that we went over to the Lawsons for Thanksgiving dessert type thing! It was pretty fun! We didn't have a whole lot of luck with people being home or them being busy with Thanksgiving! Yesterday as we were biking back into Hosford we saw a live hog!!!!!!! It was awesome! It ran away before I could get a good enough picture!!  We are getting some progress with Becky, after church yesterday she hung out with the members that took her to church and she went with them to an ornament party (a bunch of members go and make ornaments) and she told us that it was awesome!! So we are just about there with Becky!!! 

Well that's about it for this email, I love y'all very much and hope y'all have a great week!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams  

Dear Family and Friends,

I will think about those options for school, right now I'm leaning towards coming back and doing the online classes, but I will think about it and pray about it! Thank you for looking into that!

I'm glad that ya'll are having a good start to the break! Eat lots and then sleep much!!! Hehehe!!!  

"Go, fight, win..." Emily!!! Become the best you can be!!

I can't think of anything that I need right now, but I'll let you know!

Dad that's awesome that you talked about missionary stuff!!!! There is nothing like doing missionary work!! Maybe next time you can keep mom awake!! Haha!! Use some hand gestures or something! Haha!!!

 

Rhonda and Becky are doing good!!! They have both agreed to be baptized but we are in the process of setting a date with them! Rhonda is trying to get work off on Sundays so she can come (so we are holding off with her until she can come to church), and Becky we just gotta get her to Church, she wasn't able to make it yesturday because she accidently made plans forgetting that she was going to come to church. haha! But she and Destiny (her daughter) should be coming next week!!! It will be good! Pres. Jensen has asked all the Stakes in the Mission to have a missionary sacrament meeting where basic truths of the gospel will be taught and where members are encouraged to bring at least a friend, and that is going to be on the 25th. Hopefully that goes well for us!!! That's about all that was exciting about this week. We are still struggling to get new investigators, but we keep trying!! There's a member that wants us to try some of her friends, but we haven't had a chance to talk with her yet. But yeah! That's our week, we are still getting fed alot and it will keep coming!!

Keep going and being examples to others of righteousness!!! I love y'all very much and pray for you daily!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams 

Dear Family and Friends,

I am emailing at a members house, I wasn't planning on it, but oh well! :) I only have one coloring book right now, it's a Star Wars one!! Things are going well!! Transfers are on Dec 5th, I'm 99% likely to stay here!! 

That's awesome that Jonathan is going on his mission!!! I figured he would go Spanish speaking!! That's unfortunate that he will be in the MTC during Christmas, not gonna be able to call home, but I guess that won't be too bad because he will have only been in the MTC for a week! But that's awesome!!

Keep working hard Emily!! With the "height" that people say you have you will be a great asset to your team, you just need to learn how to be a big man!! Maybe Laura could give you some pointers, and I will be home during the middle of the season most likely, I don't know how your season is going to be since there is only 2 teams?!  

Haha!!! voting! alot of people around here were very surprised that Elder Ogilvie and I aren't registered to vote, many people got after us a little bit! 

Well this week was good, we had some good lessons with Rhonda and Becky!! They said they would be baptized, but we are going to wait to pick a date when Rhonda can get Sundays off! We taught them the Plan of Salvation and they both said that they REALLY liked the lesson!!! They are coming along good!! (Keep praying for them!!) We also did alot of service this week!! We tore up the top boards of a ramp and layed down new boards! It was fun! We are both on a no letter streak from friends for the last couple weeks!! But we are making it!! On Friday we had Zone Conference and it was great!!! We found out that by September next year the Florida Tallahassee Mission will have 100 sister missionaries, as compared to the 12-15 that we have now!!! And the rumor is that soon there are going to be 2 missionary companionships per church unit because of the inflex of missionaries submitting their papers!! We now have councilors in the mission presidency! It was awesome!!! Well that pretty much does it for now!!

I love y'all!!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams

Cameron's Letter Nov 5, 2012

Dear Family and Friends!!!!

My week was bitter sweet! I got 2 packages Monday and the other I got Wednesday I think. The bar doughnuts  got a little squished but that's it! The presents were AWESOME!!! THANK YOU!!!! The Yoda light thing was AWESOME!!!! I'll tell more about my week and my birthday in a minute!

 

Sounds like y'all had a fun Halloween!!!  That is a great idea to sit outside and let them come!! Emily didn't trick or treat?!?!?!?!? That's odd!!! I woulda thought she'd do that!! Well I guess that streak had to end eventually!  It's sad that it did! But life moves on!

Where are the doors going downstairs? Are y'all puttin in more than 1 door?

 

Ok so Monday was MY BIRTHDAY!!!!! And we had to spend the day in Bristol because they didn't have enough miles to get us back to Hosford and we waited for our ride to dinner to pick us up, we went to one of the family gatherings celebrating many things and a one last party before some move out to Idaho (I'll talk more about later) and there was a fire because it was cold, and it we had a great time! We get home and Elder Ogilvie doesn't have the keys!?! He looks in his backpack and can't find them, so he calls the Bristol Elders and asks them to look there, they find them. So now the trick was figuring out how to get them from Bristol to us! We called to see if the Lawsons were still at the party (The party was about 5 milesish from Bristol), they were still there and Bro Lawson went to get them and bring them to us. In the mean time, it was COLD!! Then I realized  hey! I have a ligther, I have paper, there is a bunch of wood around here, let's build a fire!! So we use our Eagle Scout skills and built a fire!! We almost didn't have enough paper to get the fire going but we checked the mail and there was some adds that we don't use so we use it and got the fire going!! We waited about 20 minutes, but hey! It makes for great memories!!!! Building a fire waiting for our keys to get here and opening presents! It definately was an eventful day!!

We did a TON of service this week, we helped our ward mission leader load up a trailer for his exodus to Idaho, he is moving there for work, and that took up alot of time Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday after we helped him move he took us to the church for the Trunk or Treat (By the way thanks for the candy!! We used it all and then another 4 bags of candy(provided by the ward)!) I was going to be a cowboy but one of the Bristol elders was going to do that too! So I just wore jeans, t-shirt, and a jacket, I latter thought that I should've dressed up as one of the men in black!!! But alas it be too late!  There were at least 700 people come to the Trunk or Treat!! There were alot of costumes and cool trunks!! I didn't get to see much because we manned the trunk most of the time! But it was great!! We passed out alot of Bibles, Book of Mormons, DVDs, and pamphlets too!!

All the times this week we tried to meet with Rhonda, Becky, and Billy didn't work out so we didn't see much of them this week! Aside from all the parties and Elder Ogilvie being sick this week was very slow!! But this week will be better!!

   Oh mom!! there is a member here from Sterling, Alberta (At least I think it was Sterling, but she knows Magrath and Lethbridge)! She's in her 30s. We haven't talked Canada yet because we haven't seen her much, but she and her family moved from there to Tallahassee at least 10-15 years ago and then she got married about 10 years ago and moved here! That's about all I know. I'll tell more when we talk Canada!

Well I think that'll do, I love y'all!!

Love,

Elder Cameron Williams