Week 6

YAY! I'M BACK AGAIN! this weeks topic! HURRICANES!

yep, ima die! as many of you know, there is a big ol guy COMING THIS WAY! yay! looting has already begun, people are already evacuating, and DEATH IS ON THE HORIZON FOR US! well, ok, that's all true, (other then the death part) but we are far enough away from the coast to have any of that going on here, BUT! we are close enough for it to effect us, and in some big ways, last time there is was a hurricane that hit the part of Mississippi that will be hit this time around ALL KINDS of trees came down, (some caused deaths) power was out for DAYS! no water for DAYS! and mostly just crazy murderous like weather the would strike fear into the bravest of wild dogs, so, yeah, we WILL be effected, but, we will also be a-okay! so no worries!

ok, as for the week!

DAY ONE! P-DAY

spent most of the day cleaning the car in prep for zone conference, so that was cool.. we then had FHE/Dinner/meeting with our ward/branch mission leader, Brother Wrich, (pronounced rick) so that was fun. and that was it.

DAY TWO! meh DAY!

another day of all kinds of appointments falling though! 5 of them, actually, cool stuff! anyhow! we did randomly find some people, a girl chillin' out in some parking lot in a wheelchair.. yeah.. turns out she can walk too, so.. AND then some drunk black guy.. who, was black.. and drunk, and kinda funny, so that went down, we also had dinner with sister braxton again, so two days in a row with dinner, YAY! OH and ah, funny, Elder Ashby fixed his bike up real good that day, which means he made the brakes work.. like, REALLY GOOD! and, sometimes I look down as I'm riding, and HE apparently likes to test his new crazy good brakes, and I like, apparently, like to run into people.. so, I collided with a random burning hobo, it was weird, and Elder Ashby used his brakes a lot.. ok I ran into the back of his bike! gosh! 

P.S peed three times that night.. new record.

DAY THREE!  BDAY

MY BIRTHDAY DAY! and that's all I wrote in my journal that day.. so, by memory.. I don't know, OH! we made cookies! that was about it, saw some less active people, in the south, people that are less active, (not active at all) are active in other churches.. so yeah.

DAY FOUR!  ZDAY!

ZONE CON!! it was so good, loved it, Elder Ashby and I were the center of attention for some reason, probably cause we are the best! um, saw two of the peeps from the MTC! that was real fun, Elder Crump, THE MAN! and Sister Johnson, THE MAN! also semi attractive, so I made sure to shake her hand ;)

we talked to Richard Jones on the way home, he is getting Baptized next week, so we just did all kinds of getting ready for that, so, it was not already a done deal and such when I got here! (SO I WIN CASEY!) yeah, anyhow, that's all really from that day,

DAY FIVE! AH DAY!

for the first time, I wanted to punch Elder Ashby in the face, I resisted and instead punched a very homely dog in the face, it promptly ran into the road and got hit by a car, so I laughed and quickly got over what made me mad in the first place, it was kinda a sucky day, but I DID learn a lesson, well, two, first, don't eat glass you find on the road, and TWO! be careful what you plan for, cause, it may happen, SO, we have these little planner things, all your RMs know what I mean, and at 5 o'clock Elder Ashby wanted to go talk to a preacher, so I put down "bible bash" saying how I feel that would have been the only outcome, WELL! we did not end up seeing him, BUT at 5, and promptly 5, we knocked on this door, of a Catholic, who, normally are my favorite, I mean, I love them, BUT he kinda told us we were doing very bad thing taking people away from the true church, and such, and that there was no need for a restoration cause they have all the authority needed, and the such of things, anyhow, it was clear he had read all kinds of anti stuff, which, became much more clear when he broke some of it out for us to read. good stuff, it was sad, I thought Catholics were better then that, oh well, (by the way the stuff he gave us was hysterical! it was all out to disprove the Book of Mormon, but did nothing of the sort, and instead just bashed it for 5 pages) and that was that day!

DAY SIX! TDAY!

T as in Tucker! YOU KNOW IT! ANOTHER PAINFUL DAY IN TUCKER! WHOOO! so, talked to Errol, the awesome guy, and his son Dalton, it was COOL! again! they are SO getting baptized, can't wait, they are so prepared! its the BEST! I love them, they do everything we ask them to do, its awesome! they love it! we love it! its just all kinds of camcamian! spoke to a lady Marry McMillan, she is such a good person, she likes us visiting, I don't know if she believes anything, but she will, she will. what else, OH, didn't see a shape shifter, but for sure heard one, either that or someone dying, well, more like 2 people and a dog all dying at the same very painful time, that was entertaining!  that's about it for that day,

SUNDAY!

gotta love Sunday! its my favorite, Church was great as always, we saw Will again that day, you know, the one that messed with a Ouija board? yeah, don't do that, ANYHOW! he is doing great! AND! asked us if he could "get baptized" AHH! it was so cool! we informed him that probably not, what cause of the fact that he lives in Mississippi.. ok, so that's going to happen, no idea why HE had to ask US about it, some missionaries we are, the worst even.

ok, I need to go, people are waiting, so, LATES

LOVE

LOVE

CAMCAMIAN!

LOVE

Pictures!

me and Elder Bird,

. pics at the temple.

. bunch of missionaries

. my dist and a few from the oldest dist when we got in,

. me at the Jacod Hamblin building!

. we found this on under one of the tiles on our roof, cool stuff

. ME in PMG

. our dist and Elder Barker, cool guy.

. our dist?

. our dist and teh best teacher ever, pic looks like crap, most seem to, makes me mad,

. dist

. benching elder bird, most of the whait on me!

. me and sister Mansfield, yeah, they all turned out bad, but if you could with the last one, cut out the random gut in the door way some how, and but that up on the blog, and maybe facebook.. all would be good,

. me and Elder Martin, make this my facebook profile pic,

. me runing up the wall like a beast!

the couch and the damage it did!

Week 5

This week, could have ended me.. TWI.. AHH!! sorry, some guy just came up behind me at random, one of our many less actives, he said he would see me sunday, so thats cool! anyhow where was I, CE! well not really, I could have just died the whole week, lets find out why!

by the way, if you decied you only want to read from one day, make it day six, cause, its crazy!

DAY ONE!

Pday, this was the day I sent my last EMAIL!! YAY!! other than that we did do some work. We met with these two kids, Chris and Cody. They are good kids, they have a lot to learn and a long ways to go, but we will keep on them. That's really all from Monday

DAY 2!

This was a quote straight from my journal, or as I like to call it, 'the book of camcam' "well, crap day" YEP! it sure was, we, KINDA got lazy, it was sad, didn't do much, it won't ever happen again, we did do one thing though... but, it MAY have involved food, so.. we went to dinner at a members house, Sister Braxton, she be nice, Diego came along (drove us) the Missionary friend guy. He really is a good guy, good heart, kind man, just stupid.We had a discussion on the Word of Wisdom! he won't listen till we find in the Bible DON'T drink coffee, the punk! other then that, lame day.

DAY III

long day, saw a shape shifter

DAY IV 

BACK TO TUCKER!! MY FAVORITE!! This time, Elder Ashby was DETERMINED TO KILL ME! I'm still here, so I win!

SO.. I hate bikes, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. my knees are the worst, so the burning pain of peddling is almost unbearable, and Im pretty sure elder Ashby does not know how to NOT peddle. He just keeps going. Something I am incapable of doing. So yeah, the bike rides are the pits. So last time I told you all about how AWFUL the ride to tucker is, it only got worse this time, mostly cause elder Ashby set up appointments to work out so we has to go all over tucker like three times!! could have made things easier by just making so we didn't ever have to back track! also, he is CRAZY! and set it up so it would be DARK by the time we started our horrifying journey home. so from now on, I make the rules when we go to tucker, cause I do LOVE tucker, its always well worth it.

I think I died... um, Ashby fell off his bike, funniest thing ever! we were going along on this road that's not a road, mostly grass and weeds, and holes... and he was CRUISING! I was like "slow down gosh, your gonna kill us!" I sadly said this to myself while looking down, and when I looked up, NO ELDER ASHBY! he and his bike where on the GROUND! I must have looked up just as he hit the ground, mad I missed it. that thing bucked him too! He was like 5 feet from his bike! IT WAS AWESOME! as I was laughing harder then I had in weeks, I noticed that he was in some kind of pain, (serves him right! making me bike all over the place like that) he hurt his wrist pretty bad, so I stopped laughing, but only on the outside, and only for a short time, I couldn't hold it in, that just made it even more funny.

We saw Errol, the guy I called arow, yeah, got his name wrong. He and his son were there, the daughter was not! lame! but THEY both committed to be BAPTIZED! YEAH! THAT'S TWO CASEY! EAT IT! so now we have 3 with dates, and I didn't get here with one already HAVING A DATE! I think I'm winning.

Then we biked home! (after going miles out of the way to another house only to find that THERE WAS NO ONE THERE!!) in the dark.. pure. dark! deep, thick, woods to either side, NOISES! of every kind coming from every which direction! AND we were just told that those woods DO have black panthers in them, AND BEARS! but mostly wild crazy dogs, BUT seeing as how I am FEARLESS! (though not with snakes, we did see one that day, about passed out do to pure fear... peed a little.. BUT OTHER THEN THAT FEARLESS!) I was fine, even though I could not see the road at ALL! unless of course there was a speeding car hurdling towards us with no respect for human life! in fact, one got so close that I was inclined to yell "YOU SONS OF PERDITION! HAVE YOU NO RESPECT FOR THE PRIESTHOOD! CAN'T YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ONE OF GODS ANOINTED AND A COMMON GENTILE!" but yet again, I was un phased, nothing can get me! (other than snakes, they are the devils pets) so in the end, that was quite the day,

DAY 5!

this, was kinda a sad day, it was weird, also, did a lot of biking, so that's always a sure fire way to make me want to die!

anyways, we had like 5 appointments, all fell through, LAME! also, Elder Ashby's bike tire blew up.. like, blew up, its was crazy, those poor old ladies that we were right next to, one of them might be dead.

so we got that all fixed up, cause i'm a McGyver! (or how ever you spell that) yep, I fixed it right up, with nothing but paper clips, an old shoe, and an extra tube from wal-mart, good stuff.

we did meet with this lady, Deirdre. she seems interested, but she is KINDA crazy, so we'll see how that goes, that was that day!

DAY SIX!

Crazy day, I'll start with the end of the day, cause the rest.. is. well, you'll see,

OK so, Richard Jones, he is getting Baptized on the 2nd, it's cool, we met with him, and some of his family, he lives in this like, compound, there are like 3 houses and 20 some people, a bunch of dogs and cats, and a mentally unstable horse.. so yeah, his mom is a member, his wife is a member, but I think that's it, the rest are not. BUT HE WILL BE! YAY! his daughter, Emily will be also, one day, its good stuff.

NOW FOR THE CRAZY!! we got this call sometime last week for a referral ! that's cool! cause those don't happen much, BUT LITTLE DID WE KNOW! so, we were sent to this place in a town called louisville (you'll notice that most the towns in Mississippi are just stolen from REAL cities in other states) anyways, it turns out that this place was a hospital of sorts, like, some kind of troubled teen place, THE KIND JASON WORKED AT! only, I think for more crazy people. um, we met this kid, Will, all seemed norm, all was going fine, then, he pulled out the big guns, the real reason we were seeing him, stuff straight out of a horror  movie! FOR REALS! like, it all started out like just another ghost story, no big deal, then things got real, so pretty much he saw, and spoke to.. well. a demon, yeah, for reals, it told him that he wanted to be friends, but THEN told him to kill his family, and that there was no God, but this kid is a BOSS and was like NO! you're stupid, i'm not going to do that, and there IS a God, and you're a bad guy! but, that didn't stop the thing from being evil, I think at one point he was some kind of possessed, and tried to stab someone, doesn't remember any of it, and that's why he's in this place, ANYWAYS! it was all so very real, no doubt he was telling the truth. It sent chills down my whole body. we have arranged for the house to be blessed, (it's not in our mission) and we also gave him a blessing on sunday, so, yeah, that was nuts, and that night, was kinda sleepless, there IS EVIL AFOOT FRIENDS! be careful, this whole thing can be traced back to a ouiji board, no surprise, so stay away from things that invite evil! cause, it will come!

SUNDAY!

yay, I love sunday, gave a talk, that was fun, Elder Ashby and I were asked to go talk to the young women, about dating.. and such, I really thought that would be weird, turns out there are all of two of them, and they are sisters, and the reason they asked us to come is cause they were supposed to have the young men come in so they could all asked questions and such, but they have no young men, so it was UP TO US! I, being an expert is such things, taught them all they need to know...

Emily, Richard's daughter, brought her friend to church, it was cool!

In the end, another great, crazy, painful, slightly creepy week,

let Camcamian fill your life!

LOVE!

P.S I don't know if I put this in the last letter, but this place is FULL of dogs, EVERYONE and their grandma have at least 3, the rest only have 1, and on the Indian reservations, there are wild dogs, EVERYWHERE! they are kinda nasty too, one, is with out a doubt in my mind, dead. it is a walking dead, dog, for reals. it's all gray, the only hair is on its back and its all, well, nasty! and it's skin and bones, it's dead! ALSO! elder Ashby, LOVES dogs, like, he can't get enough of them, so he stops to talk to every dog we see! SO WE STOP ALL THE TIME!

Week 4

OK! where to start? Phili! where I live, ghetto! like crazy! I MAY die. in fact, I will. the Branch has like 30 people, so yeah, it covers a HUGE area, one of the biggest in the Mission. I think the biggest, it's a monster! so there are NO MORMONS HERE! well, active ones. let's just start with day one.
LONG DAY! we didn't do a lot. we went and saw a guy named Ron, who whould SO get baptised, if it weren't for his darn wife. she wont have it. she wont bealive anything out of the Bible, which is all over here, but we won't be going back there, at least for a long time.
We then met a guy named Diego. Elder Ashby had not met him yet for reasons I will explain later, so, Diego, is a "missionary freind". This is a bad thing, and REALLY bad in this case. Turns out the Missionaries did NOTHING but spend all day at his house. In fact, they had keys to his house, they eat there, they mostly lived there, and he let it happen. So WE are going to show him that that does not happen, not with us. NOW! he WAS learning a LITTLE, so he WAS going to be baptized, then, one day, while feeding the missionaries, (like every other day) his mom, who lives with him like 3 months of the year, worked REALLY hard all day on the dinner, real hispanic food, and ONE of the missionaries, the one that I replaced, wouldn't eat ANY of it. He refused, like a punk, SO she was super offended, so that meant he was too, and they wouldn't let them come back till that Elder was gone. So now that he is, Elder Ashby and I went over and mostly heard horror stories of the old missionaries, and really just how bad they were. So that was fun. He said he was 90% mormon and now he is 0. he is coming around though, he lets us in, but its weird for him that we dont go there EVERY DAY! so yeah.
Day 2
It was a great day, met a lot of good peolple, BUT it was the end of the day that just made it,.Elder Ashby has a weakness, and it is the funniest thing ever, pretty girls! HA! oh, so, we were at the store, there was a girl there with big hair, she said hi and smiled, all nice, ok, yeah yeah, we went on. Then, as we were leaving, so was she, and Elder Ashby said he wished he would have given her a card, so I was like, here's your chance! little did I know. SO he started the convo by telling her how great her hair was, so, rocky start already, tells her a bit about the chruch, and the Mormon.org card, things are looking up. THEN she says, "ya'll should come to our church one day, it's real good" (she is pentacostal) and he replied, "it must be good if you go there" she fakeASpossible giggled and quickly went inside. on our way home, he stopped and asked "did I just flirt with her?" yes Elder, yes you did. He is no longer alowed to talk to pretty girls. I shall take that role on from now on, which really won't be too hard, cause, we ARE in Mississippi... so,
Day 3
kind of lame, all our plans fell through. no one was home. NO ONE! and it rained, like crazy! again! and we were on BIKES! so we hung out under a big tree. after it stopped raining it was so humid that I was SOAKED ANYWAYS! ah, we were on bikes all day, it was tough, but I had NO IDEA! you'll see, SO! the day was no good, till near the end, when we met with the Chip and Meagan family.. dont know there last name.. the spirit was so strong, and you could tell! we went through the lesson, and when I pulled out the BOM! and gave it to chip, he couldn't take his eyes off it and at one point said "I am GOING to read this book" when we were talking about something else altogether, kinda distacting, jerk, BUT, it was good,
Day 4, THE DAY!
ok, SO, we made the choice to go to a little town called tucker, about 8 to 10 miles from us... we biked.. (PS, we have a car, but becasue our area is so HUGE and we have to drive SO far for DDMs and Zone meetins, we have like NO miles, so yeah, its a bike area) so we biked, um, all day, ALL OF IT! ON A BIKE! you know the saying "up hill both ways" I am 100% sure, that that comes STRAIGHT OUT OF MISSISSIPPI! cause, never in my life, have I said to my self, "ok, this sucks, but at least on the way back, you will be down hill all the way" and then on the way back been like "WHAT IN THE %&*# (Missionary swear words) HOW THE *$@#^!? WHY!!!!??" so yeah, up hill, both ways, and all over, we biked probably a total of 30 miles, up hill, the whole time, BUT IT WAS ALL WORTH IT! AND! Elder Ashby is SO aloof on a bike, he just goes, lalala, no worries in the world, up hill, he is a speed demon. But the three times we had 4 feet of down hill, PRETTY sure he had his brakes on the whole time... yeah, so that made it one of the WORST DAYS EVER! BUT! it was all worth it, BIG time, cause it was the best day ever, so many people feeling the spirit, I cant WAIT to make that bike ride again, even though, once or twice I thought "should I just give up on life right now? cause, my body is about to give up on me," or, "ima die". I cant wait to do that again, I LOVE tucker, that place has been SO prepared by the Lord. Elder Ashby and I have been so blessed this week, in particualr, that day, was amazing! one young man named Dalton, while praying (for he said only the 3nd time in HIS LIFE!) paused and said. "I feel... something, I feel light" we lightly told him it was the Spirit, and he said "I like it" and finished the prayer, it, was, SO COOL! SO COOL!!
Sunday,
good meeting, for the most part, we got 5 investigators to church, which is like a record here, and we WILL double that next week. So good stuff, BUT they did sing one of the top 3 songs NEVER to sing with investigator present. um, also just a weird song in general, its called, something deseret, its, weird, and says something about coffee, so, yeah, anyhow!
Thats all I got for now. oh, Elder Ashby fell off his bike, funniest thing ever,
ok, NOW thats all I got.
SEND ME LETTERS! my Address is 513 Jefferson St. Apt 8A, Philadelphia MS, 39350
let Camcamian fill your lives!
LOVE!

PS! the Mish Pres asked us to remove a couch from our pad, and it was an ORDEAL! no idea how it ever got in there, SO we demolished it, pics are coming,

Week 3

SO! I arrived in Mississippi at 1130am, I walked outside and fell to the ground from pure fear of what I felt in the air. It took the next 45 minutes to build the strength to get on my feet again. I was then introduced to mississippi with THE most rain I have ever seen at one time, just about died, cause the Elder I was driving with is the worst driver ever, so thats a thing. Met my trainer, he is for REALS! Can't wait to get to work. I have NO idea why I have not yet gotten a dear john! make sure my anger for that is well known! more about my trainer, He is from a town in tennesse that is in Caseys mission! crazy. He went to BYU though. He will be a great trainer, he is a great guy, gonna love him, I can tell, he is a hard worker. My first area will be Philadelphia like the one in penn, so that's a thing. They have a small branch there, the work here is slow, not a lot of baptisms, but I will fix that right up! can't wait.

I went and tracked my fist day here, didn't have a lot of time to do so, cause of the CRAZY rain, but thats ok. Only two doors opened, and one talked to us, and, like a beast, I placed my first Book of Mormon, and to someone that WILL read it, cause, Im a beast, I will never see her again though, cause im not in this area. um, my last few days of the MTC were great, I loved that place so much. the last night I was able to sit by Elder Martin 2 at the Fireside, so that was good. Said goodbye to him that night, didn't see him again. Was also able to say goodbye to Sister Mansfield. so, yeah.. ANYHOW! the flight(s) where good, I slept, cause, I woke up at 2, in the morn, so, that was no good. ima try to send pics, but we will see, this is my Mission life so far, LOVE ya all, remember, always have Camcamian in your life!

Week 2

HELLO LOVED ONES!

today is Pday, which means I Email, so, that is what I am doing, right now.  This week has gone by SO FAST! It was just a great week though, so much goodness, and LOVE! Last week I had by far my two worst days in the MTC, but just as we are promised in isah 54.. I think, the Lord won't let us suffer too long. Those two worst days were followed up by the BEST day ever! it was great, anyways, after all of that, it has just been a wonderful week. We are officaly the OLD district, which is weird, BY THE WAY! we fly to Mississippi MONDAY! yeah! I have like 5 days left! its crazy! I can't wait, but at the same time, don't really feel ready. We have to be at the travel office of the MTC by 3 AM monday morning, that means we will have to be up at like 2, ahh, that's going to be no fun. We were also told that they MIGHT tell us NOT to sleep on the plane, so I will just never make up all of that sleep I missed, but I do as I'm told, so that's what will happen.

My teachers are the BEST! have I said that? they really are. One of them left us though! yesterday was his last day teaching in the MTC, so that was lame. Speaking about teachers, saw Paul Black the other day, he is a Spanish teacher here.

Let's talk about the best district ever, district 3A, thats us, we rock! COULD not have asked for a better group of missionaries, woudn´t change a single person. We GOT each others backs, and if it just so happens that a BRAWL breaks loose, we would just take care of that real quick. Speaking of brawls, we almost had one on the Vball court the other day with our new dist in the zone, THEY, ARE, GOOBERS! ALL OF THEM! there are 10, all goobs, I feel like they are all 12. So glad we have the district we have. Also, one of them went home, which, I didn´t think was a thing here, but it is, it is.

I haven't seen Casey in a week, so no idea how he is going to get those clothes you sent me, but that's on him. I have seen Sister Mansfield every day, which I am A-okay with, good to see a familure face,  

Have I told you the story of Martha (the elevator) Elder Crump, Sister Simms and a song? it is a GOOD one, Elder Crump is one of the Elders in my dist, me, Elder Bird, Elder Hinds, and Elder Crump, they are just great! the lot of them.

ANYWHO! im out of time, always remember that to have Camcamian in your life,

LOVE

P.S WHERE ARE MY DEAR JOHNS!!!??? not happy