Week 9

I have made it! 6 weeks down! a lot more to go! love it!

DAY ONE! Pday?

We started our first ever exchange! I stayed in Phili and got stuck with a feller by the name of Elder Jackson, Who, is going home tomorrow.. so he was super trunky! so that was a thing, also, he is just in general kinda lazy, so it seemed like we were going to have a FUN day!

DAY 2! Eday!

With Elder Jackson all day, he didn't get up till like 830! so we started off STRONG! thank goodness I had set up an appointment with someone at 10, so he HAD to get up so we could go to that... and it fell through.. darn! I spent a lot of time studying! had to. we did go out though, but only for one reason. You see, Phili.. was Elder Jacksons last area, so HE had all KINDS of friends we had to see, and that's what we did! it was.. fun!   One of his best friends was mister Diego! so we had Dinner with him, spent some time there, at one point they went out to put away some of Diego's MANY cars, (he has this big ol' 8 car port thing in the back of his house) as they were out there, I was inside for just a bit finishing some dishes, when I went out there, I found Elder Jackson in panic mode! (Oh no! is all that went through my mind) well, turns out that Elder Jackson is DEATHly afraid of all things spider! he saw me come out and he's like "ELDER MARTIN! WE NEED YOU!" He couldn't kill it cause he is a wimp, and Diego couldn't cause he is blind as a bat and couldn't see it to save his life! SO! I went to check it out.. BIGGEST! SPIDER! EVER! in history! I had to let out a gasp! it was no wonder Elder Jackson was ready to pass out!  So this thing is just chilling up in its web, (which, was also huge! and AWESOME!) all being big and scary, so I had Diego get some bug killer spray stuff, and he just so happened to have the most lethal of all sprays! Well as I was about to KILL it, Diego asked for a picture of it, so I took his phone got all close like and took some pics, but they were not good enough so Diego  wanted a closer look so he could see just how big it was, so I was giving him so light, as he is failing to see this spider that was right in front of him! when I randomly turn and BOOM! HUGE SPIDER NUMBER TWO! I gasped! and Elder Jackson had a mini heart attack and ran inside! Most, fun, I have ever had! so I sprayed them real good, they put up a nasty fight, but in the end they both fell to the ground, dead, this was not good enough for Elder Jackson, and he wanted them squished! I got a little 2 by 4 (cause I was not about to step on it with my NICE SHOES!) and it was like braking a shell or something! CRAZY! those guys were BEASTS! it was the best!...

and then.. IT happened.. Diego took us home, BLIND AND ALL! in the DARK! and when we got to the pad, I realized something was missing from my pocket.. YEP! the KEYS! good ol' Cameron STRIKES AGAIN! but it does not end there, the PHONE! was also in the pad! that one is Elder Jackson's fault! AHH! this was all very bad, SO after spending the next hour and a half trying to break in! (I may not be as good at getting in to houses as I am with cars) we called the Mish Pres and ended up staying and Diego's house.. I hated every minute of it!

day 3..

So we DID get in, got that all taken care of, and then went and got our Elders back.. and we MAY or may not have played some pokemon cards.. its a missionary thing, one that you will NEVER catch me spending money on.

Saw all kinds of People, like this guy that needs to go to Prison.. yeah. Saw the Agustos again! love that family he gave us some AWESOME riddles, this was one of them, a math thing,

You want to buy a 97 dollar shirt (no idea who would do that) but you have no money, SO you barrow 50 dollars from your dad, and 50 from your mom.  You buy the shirt, and get 3 dollars back. You give one to your mom, one to your dad, and pocket one.

Now you owe your dad 49 dollars, and you owe your mom 49 dollars. ok, 49 + 49 is  98, you have one, that makes 99. where is the other dollar?

we thought long and hard, couldn't figure it out there, but after we went to another less active home, the Stokes, I may have talked about them before, they go to some other church now.. its strange, anyhow, they LOVE us, and we will keep seeing them, but it will be awhile till we get them back to church, BUT with them we DID figure out that riddle thingy, so yeah, I know it now!

DAY 4.

the weirdest day of my mission.. we started the day off by going to this dudes house for lunch, he calls him self little Joe, and his house it an RV, ok, no prob, but I could not HELP but wonder if the drinks he gave us was just flat out knock us out! like REALLY! I was SO scared! I didn't want to drink, or eat anything he gave us! all I was thinking was, "which food item did he stuff the roofies in?" I did partake though, and it was all very good, up until he started rambling on about how.. he.. is GAY!  and that that started cause as a child.. he was molested.. um, the fear came back REAL quick! we couldn't get out of there soon enough! and right before we did.. he sang to us! AH! my only solice is that he is moving, and we can give him to the other Elders,

other stuff went down but I'm about to be kicked off, so I'll end,

We went to tucker, it was great, talked to a bunch of drunks

The Davis family FINALLY came to church!

and that's really the rest of the week!

LOVE

ALWAYS LOVE!

Week 8

SOOO! back again! and this time! I have my Journal! YAY!! so, first of all, in terms of "best letters home" I am WASTING casey! also, Stephanie is the only one who has yet to write me anything, offended!
OK! so kinda a bit of an overview of last week and this week! LAST week, so really two weeks ago, we got a call from the Mission Prez, it was the worst call ever! pretty much, he told us that Elder Ashby's driving privileges were being REVOKED! so, no more driving for him, (he got in a small fender bender 3 months ago and they finally decided to not let him drive) as for me, I had a bit of a record when I got here, and I guess I didn't qualify.. SO! an emergency transfer was IN THE WORKS! and that made me very, very, sad, BUT ALAS! I was able to take a little defensive driving thing, and now I am the driver, so all is well! always remember to PRAY! ok, now for the week.

DAY ONE! didn't write.. BUT! I do know that we saw CHIP AND MEAGAN! YAY! we thought they hated us and were avoiding us, but no, things just never worked out.

 DAY TWO! that's when I sent my last email, after the leadership training in which I was training to be AP!

 DAY 3!! DDM, that was really most of our day, but that night we went out with the brethren again, (brother muse) and went to a less active family, who live kinda far, and going there would take up the whole night, and I was thinking to myself "we should really use this time better, they probably wont even be there, no way are they expecting us, what a waste!" yeah, they were expecting us BIG time, I was humbled! they even made us cookies. it would have been the worst thing ever if we didn't go, so that was great!

day 4 biked... cause we had no car yet.. so far.. went to Peal River, another Indian reservation, only this one is twice as far as tucker.. AH! when I got inside, I sat down, and STILL haven't recovered! that, was a tough day, real tough! we saw a guy, who really likes what we are teaching, and we WOULD have him get baptized and such, but, he KINDA needs to go to prison.. he MAY or may not be running from the law. so that was cool stuff,

Day 5, YAY DAY! the day we got the stuff in the mail that made it so we could DRIVE! but we still biked all day.. even though I was still dead from the day before! so we went to the post office, to mail that thing that made me drive back, and right next to the post office is this gun and pawn shop, and I just felt the impression that we needed to be semi apostate and go in and look around, of course, Elder Ashby wouldn't have it, but I can be very convincing! so we went in! AND! turns out, it was VERY good that we did, cause as we were leaving, we ran into a less active guy that we had been trying to get a hold of for weeks! Brother Agusto! good guy, was very active all growing up, kinda stopped going at like 18, he is now 30 something, has not been back since, his wife is not a member, and knows very little about the church, and really church in general, which is CRAZY for the south. He invited us over for dinner the next day! Just goes to show, it pays off to be lazy sometimes! I will never let Elder Ashby live that one down.

 Day 6 TUCKER! So, a whopping two days after the worst bike ride ever! comes the ride to tucker, again! AHH! I had never been is so much pain by the end of the day.. BUT! it was still a really good day, talked to all KINDS of people, Indian people, black people, drunk people, shape shifters, even a white lady! who, is semi crazy, talking to the drunks was hysterical! thanks to good ol Canada! I know very well how to deal with drunks! Elder Ashby, on the other hand, not so much, making that meeting the funniest thing ever! he was so scared! It was great... don't bring expensive sun glasses on a mission.. in fact, just never buy expensive sun glasses.. That night we went to the Agustos! had dinner, and then had an AWESOME lesson! She said it was "very positive" and that she had never seen her husband (brother Agusto" open up that much, GOOD STUFF! so glad I went into that gun shop! GO CAMCAM!

 SUNDAY! welp, half the men in the stake were asked to go down to New Orleans to help clean up, so we only had sacrament meeting, AND we didn't confirm Richard Jones, so y'all still have a week to pray for me! after Church one of the few Brothers that stayed behind took us to see Will again, (along with all kinds of other people. but NO ONE WAS HOME!) The meeting with Will went great, again! He pretty much said that he wanted to go on a mission! BEST! THING! EVER! SO! after we got home, we got on our bikes (so as to make sure I NEVER recover!) and biked out to see some formers, met this awesome black guy, who's life story could SO be a movie! I kinda want to make it, he is very old, 82, which, is crazy! He doesn't look any older then 50, but that's really how most black guys are. anyway, he is old and does A LOT for his church, so probably not going to baptize him.. In this life. WELP! that was really my week, this is the last week of the transfer! it's CRAZY to think it has been 9 weeks from the time I left home! let camcamian fill your life! LOVE!

P.S everyone in the south LOVES to point out color of skin, its funny!


 1, we MADE COOKIES! for my bday,

 2, this is what my old belt did to all my shirts! does not really do it justice!

 3 and 4, BEST DICOVERY EVER!!!

 5 and 6 , this little guy found his way into my tire on the way to pearl river, I of course got a flat, we changed the tube but I never found why it went flat. we went on our day and had no problems, it was not till two days latter that I found a very small metel looking thing in my tire, and THAT is what we pulled out, it took some effert!

Week 7

SOOO! hello again! well, this time things will be different! I am yesterday. due to the holiday, we could not write emails, so we are doing it today. but, we are in Jackson, for a leadership training thing, (cause they are already ready for me to be AP) and we got here last night, and spent the night in the mission home... it is all very weird.. SO with that, I have little time, and I don't have my journal, so this letter will not be the norm.. at all,

 

OK! so.. how do I start, um.. that storm! lame! we were awaken be the sound of tornado sirens..  but I just rolled over and went back to sleep. and turns out there was not even really any high winds, so yeah, it was the lamest storm ever, it did rain all day though, so that was fun!

what else? so, we went to tucker again, good stuff as always, but on our way out we stopped by this house that we talked to a bit a few weeks ago. the lady there was about to leave, or as they say in the south (fixin to leave, or fixin to make some groceries..) ANYWAY! she said we could come back and all that, but as we were leaving the rain started coming.. like mad! we took shelter in the first car port we could find! it was great! and that was not our first run in with rain that day, the other one was a little more dramatic. imagine if you will...

Elder ashby is on the phone, being all aloof as always.. and I'm sitting there looking around just watching the storm a brewing, saying things like "um.. elder? wha.. um.. I think.. we might want to move.." and he is just in la la land, the wind is picking up, a little rain is coming down here and there, I'm phlipping out! (that's RIGHT, FLIP WITH A PH!) but no worries! elder ashby finally ended his call! YAY! WE CAN FIND SHELTER AND NOT DIE!! or so I thought, this was his response "oh.. is it raining? ahh, we'll be all right, lets just go, the house we are going to is not far" (not far for him is 2miles) SO we went on our way. it seemed to be going well for a bit, then I heard a strange sound.. imagine! riding your bike.. its windy, you hear a semi familiar sound.. now what could that be? you look back, and you see it! your eyes widen and the WALL of rain comes hurdling toward you! you bike faster! FASTER! the sound is just getting louder! THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO! IT WILL CATCH YOU!! ... now, Elder Ashby's point of view, imagine, if you will.. You are in lala land biking about, enjoying the view, not a care in the world, peddling along as if the time is paused, just for you, and then, a faint cry, (cause he was already so far ahead of me) that goes a little something like this "no! no! NO! NO!!!! CURSE YOU ELDER!!!"

so yeah, we both got wet that day, more then once, WELL i'm running out of time, this was a great week, a lot of good happened, for one, good ol RICHARED was baptized! it was great! this sunday he will be confirmed a member of the church! and, for what ever reason, he has asked me to do so! I need a lot of prayers to ready myself for that!

WELP! LOVE!

keep camcamian in your life always!

NEXT WEEK WILL BE BETTER!