Ok people

This was a good and bad week well actually more of a good week minus one thing that happened. So the only bad thing that happened this week was that the baptism of Mary got moved to the 28th of February cuz she wanted to clear some things up but she still is coming to church every week and literally knows more about the gospel or well the bible than me hahah jk!!! She like reads all of the time and is super interested and yeah just a golden investigator!! Also Demetria comitted to a baptism the saturday of Spring Break which is the Semana Santa here hahahah i thought it was pretty funny cuz it means the Holy Week!! Also we had a record 6 investigators come to church this week. Leyver one of our new investigators has come to church 2 times and is super prepared and has the desire to be baptized!! We also have this investigator  from a different ward here who is a girlfriend of one of the members but they dont like their ward so they are moving to ours and when they move here she will be baptize well after she gets married next month. She's only 16 years old but hey i guess if you love somebody.....hahah. But yeah a super good week as far as the work goes.

The mission life is good and i am learning so much about the gospel and literally is the hardest but best thing i have ever done. I am so glad that i made the choice to come out here. At first it was super hard and i literally wanted to come home but after some time it began to be easier and literally has been the greatest experience.

Now as far as the food goes, pretty much we eat cereal and quesadillas and breakfast burritos de sausage eggs ham and cheese and yeah just a lot of stuff like that. As far as clothes go i am still doing super good but to be straight up honest with you mom i have not washed my suit since the MTC....... sorry not sorry hahah jk. No its just becuase really we dont use our suits that much and it hardly gets dirty but i will wash it before i get transferred from La Cuesta.... if i ever get transferred hahaha jk i love it here!!!

Anyways sounds pretty crazy at home and literally cant believe all of the peeps that are getting married but thats cool i guess haha!! Anyways just know that i am doing wonderfully and am loving my time here in Murder Capital USA!!! (JK literally idk what everyone was talking about Juarez being dangerous!! The most dangerous thing here are the freaking borrachos and killer dogs) hahah love you alll!!

Love Cam

So two super legendary pics!! The first is of me under the barbacoa Guerro and it is super hilarious cuz Guerro is like a slang word here for white boy haha. And the other is of a mop that somebody hung on the telephone because yeah its mexico!!

Hey guys!
So we had a pretty cool week! To begin Elder Piper a member of the Seventies and like the 1st counselor in the church presidency of mexico or something like that came and spoke to us for 2 days which was super cool. He had some great advice and obviously nos planchó which means he threw down on us and told us we need to be better!! But seriously it was super inspiring and good experience. Also me and the comp went to the temple last week. We didnt get to go in cuz its against the rules here in the mish but it was still super cool to be there. Dont worry im sending pics. Also Mary came to church in this week and is  ready for her baptism next week which is super exciting. Demetria is recovering very well and can walk now a little bit and told us that she still has the desire to be baptized but probably not until March. Which at first i was a little sad about because i really wanted her to be baptized in this month. But i learned that really it doesnt matter if i am here or not to see her get baptized the most important thing is that she will be baptized and desires to follow christ and will be able to receive his blessings in her life.

Anyways so this week i ate something kind of weird. Here in mexico there are 2 types of pigskin. Chicharrón which is like pigskin which is cooked and really doesnt look that disgusting but this week we ate with our bishop and he gave me this other type of pigskin which is literally just the skin of the pig raw and yeah when he gave it to me i was like EN SERIO???? but actually it wasnt that bad and i think my stomach is getting stronger cuz yeah no diarreah haha!!!. But ya all in all super good week we are looking pretty good with investigators but hopefully we can start having people come to church hahah.

Anyways love you all and hope that you have a great week y tome lo fácil.
Love Cam

At the Juarez Temple with my comp!

Sick tats that i got haha jk they are just like arm warmers haha!!

Also we got to eat at Peter Pipers pizza last monday and it was literally the greatest pizza ever haha!!

Hello People!

So actually a pretty sad week. We didn't have like any success. A big 0 investigators came to church on Sunday which was really sad but we were actually able to find some new ones this week and so yeah not a total loss. Mary is also still progressing really well for her baptism on February 19 so im pretty excited for that.

But holy cow what a sad and crazy week back home. I feel terrible about Scott he was a really great guy and i hope the best for him and his family. Juarez life is pretty cool but i swear like 80% of the population are borrachos or drunk people and its super funny because whenever we pass them they always try to speak english with me and yeah there english is horrible haha.

That's sick that kobs basketball team is wrecking some day oh and im so sorry that Kaler had to meet Glenn........ hahah jk (still want my job when i get back). Anyways so not a ton actually happened this week we've been trying to work hard but we just aren't having a lot of success. But i read a scripture in the BOM that im pretty sure all of you know. Its in Ether 12:27 and it talks about how god gives us weaknesses and trials and why and how we can overcome them and idk i just really liked it.

Anyways sorry that i don't have any cool Stories this week but check out this sweet pic of me in my Mexico Jersey and America sunglasses oh and the river from all of the rain that formed in front of our house!! Classic haha! Love you all and hope you have a wonderous week.
Love Cam

Beloved People,

Ok holy freak where do i begin ok so good news is that i am staying in La Cuesta another transfer which i am pretty excited about. My new companion is Elder Almaraz, he is super cool. He has pretty much been in Casas Grandes his whole mission so he doesn't know like hardly anything about Juarez but a really cool guy. He is from D. F. or Mexico City and has been out on his mish 13 months. We get along super well but we need to work on getting up on time cuz 2 times this week we accidentally slept in.............. woops haha.

However this week was also kind of sad because Elder Birchett y elder Beltran my trainer went home because well yeah they finished their missions. Its so crazy because it feels like just last week that Elder Beltran and i arrived in La cuesta and now he is already headed home.

Our investigators are doing pretty good.  Demetria is still recovering so hopefullly all can be well with her.  Mary is still continuing to come to church and is excited for her baptism on Feb. 19. So yeah things are looking pretty good.

That is crazy that Andrew Flake is home like literally when you told me that i kind of freaked out haha not really. Nothing to crazy has happened to me except for some reason this week i saw an extremely large amount of dead dogs like everywhere so yeah idk what to think about that but yeah i dont know nothing to crazy has happened. I just want you all to know that i am doing great and yeah there have been a lot of hard times but i know that it is the hard times in our live that help us learn and that is when we grow the most. I love all of you and am still a little ticked that you waited until i left to jazz up the basement but ill get over it hahaha jk. Anyways keep it real.

Love
Cam

Hey
So sorry that i sent this early this week but crazy stuff is happening with the new missionaries coming in and transfers happening this tuesday. So i wont be able to email on monday because our email was moved to today but next week i will try to send pics and all that fun stuff. More than likely i will be staying in La Cuesta another cycle because my comp Elder Aguilar is headed to the offices and i will probably be getting somebody new but who knows cuz president changes things like everyday so we will just have to wait and see.

So we actually didn't get to talk to demetria this week because she is still recovering from her heart attack but we were able to talk with the Hna. Rubio and she said we could probably visit her this week so we are really hoping that we get the chance so that we can reschedule her baptism date for the 7 of February. Also we are going to visit Mary again today and she is still progressing really well for her baptism Feb. 19.

Something really cool that happened this week so that guy i told you about last week that asked us if we could come to his house is like a total golden investigator. So we visited him like 3 days ago and we taught him about the restoration and he was super interested and wanted his wife to be there to so we are going back tonight and going to watch the Joseph Smith video with them and yeah im super pumped.

Yeah things are looking great here. So hows life back home? I hope that you are all doing well and just know that i love all of you. To all of you i just want you to know that i know that this church is true and im not gonna lie to you at times my testimony is tested and there are times when i doubt but God always provides something for me in my day that helps to strengthen it. I know that as we will be faithful to him and seek to do his will he will show us miracles in our lives and will recognize his blessings in our lives more. But for now i have got to go so i hope you all have a great week!

Love Y'all.
Cam

Hey guys!

This week was a pretty solid week. So one of our investigators who literally is golden came to church for the first time this week. Her name is Mary and her parents passed away like a year ago,  She was super interested in the Plan of Salvation and we now have set a baptismal date for the 19 of February. I am so happy for her and just hope that she can keep coming to church and feel the spirit in her life. We also visited Demetria and she is recovering very well so we are planning on visiting her this week an rescheduling her Baptism but things are looking really good here.

Actually something really cool happened yesterday. So my comp and i were just walking down the street kind of depressed because all of the people that we had visited weren't home and we just like weren't able to do anything. But then this car stopped and the guy asked us if we could come by his house and teach him. And we were like "Heck yes" well actually we didnt say that but aparently his brother is a member and he is interested in learning more about the church and the gospel so we set an appointment for tuesday and im super excited.

As far as transfers go i actually think im gonna stay here because my companion will be changing to the offices so more than likely i will be staying here and receiving another comp haha. As far as the b day goes it was pretty cool. We ate lunch with a member and they actually gave me a cake for my b day it was pretty cool. As far as things that i need, really the only thing is the brushes to clean my shoes oh and if you could send a bunch of Snickers that would be amazing haha  jk.

I am doing really great and hope that you guys are to. Have a great week.

Love
Cam

Family, Friends and yeah i don't think anybody else reads this haha!

So im not gonna lie this week was another really tough one in the mission. So many of you know that my grandpa passed away this week and when i got the call from the mission president it was really really tough but i am so so grateful for the Plan of Salvation and know that i will see him again one day and that gives me peace. Also one of our investigators Miguel told us that he doesn't want to join the church because he really likes his that he is attending right now, he said that he liked it when we came and talked with him but that he doesn't want to right now but in the future he said he might. It is super sad because his bro is a recent convert and will be leaving on a mission soon and dang we really thought things were going well with him. But ya know its not his time and i know gods will is perfect and that everything happens for a reason. However on a happy note the Hna. Demetria returned from the hospital and is now in her house recovering we are going to visit her during the week and hopefully all can be well with her. To be honest this week was kind of a slow week and not a ton happened but we do have a couple investigators that are progressing and i think we are gonna have some success soon we just gotta keep working. Sorry for you people that read this for the crazy things that happen to me but sadly nothing crazy happened to me this week haha jk. Anyways i love you all and have a great week.

Love your Elder
Cam


We asked Cameron to write down a few thoughts and feelings he had about his Grandpa so that we could share those at the funeral.  Here is what he wrote.......

Dear Family,

So when i recieved the call from president on friday and he told me that grandpa passed away i couldn't believe it. And at first i was really sad and was just thinking about everything that has happened in the last month in my mission with my uncle rob passing away and now my grandpa gubler as well and i started to get a little angry because i couldnt understand why all of this was happening and why god would allow this to happen. But really what has helped me cope with all of this is the gospel and knowing that this life isn't the end and like it says in Alma 34 this life is a time for men to prepare to meet their god and to perform their works. I know that grandpa gubler was and is a great man. I will never forget the times when we would go to the farm and haul hay and pick up branches and also the times when we would go to beaver and we would get to work with him there. Even though in those times me chase and koby always complained that we had to do a bunch of work while everybody else got to chill. Now i am so grateful for those times, it truly taught me how to work hard and has been a huge blessing for me out here on the mission. Ican honestly say that I know that this life is not the end and that gods will and plan is perfect and even though it is sad, this was grandpas time and i know that he is doing great things on the other side of the vale and that one day we will see him again and be an eternal family. I love all of you and know that gospel is true and can help us with any trial we have in our lives.
Con Amor
Elder Imlay o Cam