Week 22

WELP! I'm in my new area, I was sad to leave, but I'm sure I'll find some good things about this area as well,

DAY ONE!
Spent most the day packing, getting ready to leave and such, kinda a sad day, really,

DAY 2
THE TRANSFER!
Drove to T-Point in Clinton, talked met all kinds of greenies, a lot of them being trained by people I know and LOVE! Elder Anderson is training in phili (lucky guy, a great place to be trained!) Elder Souter from Greenwood is training, 3 of the peeps from my MTC district are training! Elders Crump and Hinds, and Sister Johnson,
I got to see Elders Crump and BIRD! and Sister Johnson, good to see all of them, and other then that, it was a norm T-point.
Then I got on the van and said my goodbyes, and went on my way to Monroe, it was a fun drive, crossed the huge Mississippi river! that was fun.
then I arrived! met my new comp, (all 320 lbs of him) my new district, and part of my new zone.  After that is was off to our home.. we live in a house, its kinda cool.
then I watched our car drive away, yep, we don't have a car here.. well, its a shared car, so this week, we were on bikes, my knees are in much pain!

DAYs 3 & 4
BIKE! BIKE! BIKE! oh my hotdog! its was a lot of biking, painful, uphill both ways, biking, I thought it was the end of my life, We saw some people, and that was good, got feed, that was good, and Elder Hartwig, (my comp) told me I had a 20 minute talk to prepare for THAT SUNDAY! on the spirit of giving! yeah, its hard enough to write a talk when you are a missionary, at least give me a topic I can USE!

Day 5
You'll never guess what I did.. BIKED!!! yep, all over again, what a day, what a day indeed, this place needs a car,

Ima skip day 6 cause I  think you know what I did..

DAY 7
SUNDAY!! NO BIKING! We got picked up by a member for church, we both gave our talks. mine was more about forgiveness then giving, ha, I met a girl who lives in the phili BRANCH!! but she doesn't go to church there cause she is LAME! I told her that I would tell the elders there, and THEY WOULD FIND HER! and they will!
then we had a great lunch with a great family, very good, they invited us over for Christmas and we will be SKYPING! YAY!
after that we went a home teaching! good stuff! that was our day!

WELP! this was a crazy week, of painful biking and sad goodbyes,
WELP! I hope we all remember in this season of giving, the greatest gift that was ever given, HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS! and fill it with LOVE! and camcamian!

LOVE!
Elder CamCam Martin

Week 21

WELP! CamCam was right, I am being transferred to the Monroe Zone in LA, My area will be the Jonesboro... area... My comp will be 350 lbs... that's not a joke,

ANYHOW! I will miss this branch, I learned a lot here, like, how home teaching SHOULD BE! and how sad it is to not get it done every month when you only have 3 to 5 names! when the brothers here have 20!! and get it done!

Anyhow, that's my start rant, here is my week

MONDAY

it was just your norm Pday really, nothing fun to report,

DAY 2

A DAY OF RAIN!!! and I mean RAIN! and ALL DAY! it was the worst! ANYHOW! at one point we went out, and it stopped raining! PERFECT TIMING! and we did our thing and all that, and when we got home, like, the second we closed the door to our aprt, THE RAIN CAME DOWN!! more I mean it came DOWN!! IT WAS NUTS!! and once again, what timing! me thinks tis not coincidence!

Day 3

DDM as always, but this time we stuck around with the Greenwood boys and did some service, and also, found where Oprah lived, she was born is Kosi MS, KECK YEAH! so that was cool, then we all 4 went and had a good lesson and chat with a part member family, so that was cool, a few of them came to church this Sunday so that was even more cool! and then we drove home, and like a fool, I trusted my GPS!! and like always, it was on its "Must find creepy dirt road" setting, so, I think we almost died 4 times...

DAY 4

Greenwood was in town, cause they wanted to help us work.. I guess, anyhow, the day was spent tracting, which... I hate, and for good reason, people are not very nice here, "southern hospitality"? PLEASE!

Day 5

I GOT THE CALL! "Elder Martin, I think its time for a change, don't you?" "Well I guess it is Pres, I guess it is" "Great, you will be going to Jonesboro LA, your comps name is Elder Hartwig... He is about 350 lbs, and 3 times your size.. outward.. he's not much taller then you.. Lets just say he is built like a Bran" "um... ok,"

AND THAT WAS THE CALL! anyhow, it was crazy, oh, and Elder Anderson will be training here! YAY!!

After all of that we did our tucker thing! and as always had a good day there, ever raked so leaves, good fun!

Day 6,

We did all kinds of service, and Elder Anderson broke a window, YAY!

Day 7

the saddest Sunday ever!

Well, the branch pres had me speak for a few minutes, and I HAD NOTHING TO SPEAK ON!! he asked me 5 minutes before church started! so I told a story of faith and trust and talked about how without trust you can't really have faith, so that was a thing, and then for prob the first time in the branch history they had TWO!! youth speakers! both did a really good job! REALLY GOOD!

after church we taught a lesson to a young girl that came with her grandma, and it went real well,

AND THAT WAS MY LAST WEEK IN PHILI!!! Kinda lame...

WELP! I love this mission thing, I love it all, the end!

LOVE!!!

Elder CamCam Martin!

Week 20

So this week the branch had a REALLY early Christmas party, kinda weird, but that's how its done here!

 

DAYS 1 AND 2!!!

yeah.. I have no idea what happened cause its not in my journal.. so, yeah, I'm sure it was good stuff though!

 

DAY 3

DDM like always, and then we made our pearl river run, as always, went back to some doors we knocked the week before that said we could come back.. and well... let's just say, "they have their condemnation!"

Anyhow, later we helped a sister from the branch move a bed.. ha, old ladies.

THEN SHEPHERDING  I don't know if I talked about this last week, but a branch not to far from us closed! I didn't even know they did that, well, some of the people in that branch have been moved to our branch, so we went out with bro muse to try and find some, thus starts, my horror story!

So we go a looking for this one house, and when we find it, it is apparent  that it has not been lived in for YEARS!!! spooky! and we are already in the back woods of Mississippi, so even MORE spooky, so we ask some folks living not too far about it, and they give us some info, anyhow, on the way back out, bro muse spots something! he backs up, and shines his lights off the side of the road, and there it was, the creepiest looking old family/privet hidden cemetery EVER! now I'm thinking, "AWESOME!!" so I was about to get out and go check it out, I even took off my seat belt  and that's when I saw it! AN UPSIDE DOWN American flag! WHAT THE!!?? yeah, I didn't get out of that car. we drove away quickly! and then went to McDonalds!

 

Day 4

A day full of tracting, and as always, a day full of "oh, I'm already Christian," OH GOOD FOR YOU!! man, I love tracting...

anyhow, as we were scooping out an area to tract later, we found the COOLEST HOUSE EVER!!! it's just this HUGE house hidden, we never would have found it, but I saw the TRAIN that they have in their back yard!! so, we are totes going there, and I will prob try and get a ride on that train!

We also met with a few investigators, and that all went well,

 

Day 5

We went a "Less Active" hunting, found 4, tried way more! one of them, Justin Pfifer, cool guy, has a chicken farm, now, I have always smelled them, but never seen inside one, it was CRAZY! THOSE LITTLE GUYS WERE ALL OVER!! nuts! he also showed us the disc golf course he is making, pretty COOL! his dad is a pro! like, a real pro, I know its disc golf so not saying much, but still way cool. 

then the Branch Christmas party.. yeah, in November, odd, anyhow, it was the adult party, and it was a white elephant thing, it was fun, and I was the life of the party, but then, when am I not? FO-REALS! I came out of it with a cut in half 10 dollar bill, so yeah..

 

Day 6

The primary Christmas party! yay! they had us go cause, well, we are a blast, everyone had fun, there was a sad moment, of "all fun and games til.." in this case it was a choochoo train race gone horribly wrong, after lots of blood, an ER visit, and a few stitches, all was good! at first I was like "OH no!" but then I was like "this is a story"

anyhow they did have to take this poor kid to the hospital so that was sad, but the party did go on, and we went on ANOTHER train ride, but this time, no race, it was the "polar express  ha, fun stuff, it was just sitting on some chairs listening to a story, and then SANTA CAME!!! AHH! HE looks a LOT like Richard Jones, our recent convert, only, need to go on weight watcher, and shave.. but other then that, looks just like him! odd...

That was pretty much our day, not much else cool happened.

 

Day 7

another good Sunday  all kinds of good church stuff! Krystalynn Davis got up for testimony meeting, that was way cool, she thanked EVERYONE in the branch for their goodness, and not once said anything about the missionaries, this, made me SO HAPPY! really, now I know I don't have to worry about her! the branch is taking care of her, GOOD STUFF! she was the only one I was ever really worried about, now I'm good, I love it!

That night we went to the Jones' to watch the Christmas Devo, it was way good!

 

WELP! That's all I got for now, this time next week I will tell you ALL about how I am being transferred to Monroe Louisiana. probably..

LOVE!!

Elder CamCam Martin!