Zone conference

From a recent Zone Conference.

Week 81

So my first week here has been quite the week, painful knees, flat tires, bike crashes, random meeting of members from Utah, RAIN! Blessings, white supremacy flags, hot, cold, a sister missionary going to the ER. a swarm of young women exited to meet the best looking Elder they have seen in years! Just to name a few of the things that happened this week.

Day one we biked, AND IT HURT! More then ever before! I could not even sleep that night! But it was gotten much better sinse then.

Our area is small, so that's a thing, not a whole lot to do, and we DON'T EVEN LIVE in our area! So we have to bike like 2 miles just to get there.

We have this Less Active guy, he is like a real life Clint Eastwood! He is a white guy that lives in the hood but takes no.... How does a missionary say this... flack? from anyone!

I have helped my comp who has been here for months discover that there are better ways to and from our area! And that we have more area then he thought...

We SAW JACE ROBERTSON! The fun son! IT WAS SO COOL! You all need to pray that the Lord will give me a second chance with that, 'cause we didn't talk to him at all! He was busy taking pictures with people.. Lame! We still should have said something, I WILL CONVERT THAT FAMILY!

I met the craziest person in the history of the WORLD! She was once a member and the missionaries talk to her from time to time, My comp brought me to meet her... One of the first things she said to me is, "I'm a witch.." Ok, that's cool, She was wearing a pentagram on around her neck... this email is getting red listed for SURE! 

Anyhow, she told us all about how people from mars came to this earth 'cause their planet was dying.. Cause they forgot how to love, and NOW they are the rulers of the world, And they are the ones that made the pyramids... And something about how there were 8 Presidents before Washington, which, kinda true, but I will let you look into that, but she said that "they" covered that up! So I asked, why? how would covering up that there were governmental leaders before Washington do anyone any good? She had no real answer for that! Other then "THEY DON'T WANT US TO KNOW!!" Oh! Right, why didn't I think of that? She also asked one of those "HOW BOUT THIS ONE!" Questions, thought she would stump me, She asked, "If we were created in Gods image, where did dinosaurs come from? " What? I guess she feels she always stumps the missionaries with that one, I think they just don't know how to answer a question that's not really a question.. I told her the same place Lions came from.

She was nuts! Lived in a trailer park, with all the other crazy people. 

One of the hardest times I have ever had not laughing when someone is telling me what they believe.

That night we got a call that Sister White, one of my Sister Missionaries, needed a blessing, found that odd, cause we saw her 2 hours earlier and she was fine, but I guess this crazy stomach bug thing came and came quick! She was throwing up all over the place! SO! We gave her a blessing, and went on our way, Then at 12:30 AM I get a call! From the sisters! They had tried to call the Mission pres AND his wife, which is what they are supposed to do before going to the hospital, but they could not get a hold of them, SO THEY CALLED ME! And that's fine, they asked if they could go to the ER, Sister White was throwing up still and now there was blood, I said GO! I think they only called me so that if they got in trouble for going with out permission (which would NOT have happened) I would be to blame, not them.. ANYHOW! She is doing much better now, poor thing!

We were out biking about one night, and it started to rain! So I said, lets go eat at taco bell. Maybe the rain will die down, NOPE! Got worse, BUT THE LORD WAS LOOKING OUT FOR US!!

As we were eating, this guy comes and sits by us and calls us Elders! When someone does that you know they are Members, He told us he was here on business and from Utah, And HE served in this mission 15 years ago! COOL! Anyhow, he gave us a ride home! SO THAT WAS GREAT!

Yesterday we had interviews with the President, on our way how to get ready for that, I noticed my brakes where not working very well... SO I was in a hurry to get home to fix that, (they still don't work) When crossing a street, I did not just go straight across I instead cut the corner and went into on coming traffic, when the traffic got close I decided it was time to get on to the side walk, my bike, was thinking otherwise! The difference in opinion mixed with the oncoming cars  resulted in a catastrophic event!! My near death! SOMEHOW! I ended up in a parking lot... My bike was with me, but turned to the side that I did NOT fall, not sure how it all happened, newton's laws tell me it didn't happen at all! BUT I KNOW MY TRUTH! 

My hand took most of the blow of the fall, luckily I was wearing gloves cause it was cold, they saved me! My hands would have been shredded if I was not wearing them!

WELP! I will have to tell you about the other stuff next time cause I'm out of time! 

MUCH LOVE!
Elder CamCam Martin!  

Week 80

SOOOO! I am getting transferred again! I'm going to West Monroe! LAND OF THE DUCK COMMANDER! I will have to convert them all! But mostly the cute daughter!

With only 4 months left, this will likely be my last area, I don't see me going anywhere else. It was weird to know your last area, a weird feeling. Not sure how I feel about it.

 

This week has been good, started out with an exchange, I went down with Elder Meyer to Coushatta... They live in a shack! No joke! It is heated by a space heater! So there as some cold nights! I spent two nights there, and it MADE ME SICK!! I think there was black mold growing under the bed as well, so that helped.

 

We had dinner there with a nice family, they are pretty red neck! He asked if I was a city slicker, I told him NO WAY!!... but kinda.. Then he started talking about guns, and said something along the lines of "you wouldn't know how to shoot a gun." WELL! I have never been so offended! SADLY I could not just say "Get one of your guns and we will go in the back yard and I will prove you wrong!" The reason I couldn't say that was NOT cause you cant just go shoot in his back yard, cause, remember, they are red neck, YOU COULD! But cause its against the RULES for us to use a gun! LAME!! He brought out an AR-15 to show off though, and said, "would you even know how to load this?" WHA!!! YES! How dare he!? I proved him wrong.. as best I could with out actually handling the gun. And talked a good talk about guns and the such, SHOWED HIM RIGHT UP! He never again called me a city slicker!

 

Other then that, this has been a LONG week, Tacted a few times, and really never had a real good lesson this week, kinda lame!

 

WELP! I will see you in WEST MONROE!

 

LOVE!!

 

P.S

My address is.

1912 N 7th St. apt #101

West Monroe LA, 71291.

Week 79

Its been a good week, other then the weird weather! All week it has been in the high 70s, even to the 80s, and then today! BOOM! 20s! And ice all over the place!

 

On Thursday we had Zone conference, I like zone conference. This was a good one, as always, learned some good stuff.

 

On Friday we had dinner with a family from the ward, and they had SOME FRIENDS OVER!! YAY MEMBERS DOING MISSIONARY WORK!!! We had a great lesson after dinner, and they are interested! They are from Cali so they have not had some other religion bread into them, so that's good! They have a faith is Christ but don't have a real religion, THE PERFECT PEOPLE!

 

Yesterday we went to an Elderly Members house, he had some limbs out in his yard do to some bad weather, so I told him we could go clean it up.  He said he didn't want us getting our nice cloths dirty, I then convinced him that these are our work cloths! And we were wearing work boots! I mostly said this cause I didn't see how we could get dirty just moving a few sticks! I ate my words.. His back yard was SO WET! It was more like a mud pool then a yard! We did get dirty...

 

Not as cool a letter this time, but that's all I got!

 

LOVE!

Elder CamCam Martin!

Week 78

SOOO! This week, though long, has had some high points, mostly the weather.. IT'S SO HOT!!

 

So remember that lady I talked about that we tracted into that said she had been praying for this and what not? And I said it would be my first ever testimony of tracting?

So she has disappeared, we will try her a few more times, but, we have done all we can do there, but that's ok, I still believe I will find someone from tracting!

 

We did meet another lady while tracting this week, only, she was a former media referral. We got this media referral about 2 months ago, when Elder Rose was still here, we called her and talked to her a few times but she seemed unwilling to set up a time to meet, so we moved on. Fast forward to last Wednesday. Before leaving for DDM I looked at our map to plan a place for us to tract on the way home, we had an early dinner appointment out that way so I didn't want to go back to the pad only to have to go back out there. I found a area that seemed like it would have plenty of tracting to do, put in my mind how to get there, and we were on our way. Well, finding the area I had planned to tract turned out to me far more challenging  then I imagined, I drove down the road that I was SURE the area was off, and found could not find nothing! I was getting frustrated and was about to just give up and drive to an area I was more familiar with and tract there. We soon passed a road that looked like it had a nice little neighborhood off it. This was NOT where I had planned to tract so I just kept driving. 2.1 seconds latter the very strong thought came to my head "turn around!" I quickly obeyed, and we went to that little neighborhood and strarted to knock on doors. Again, this was not at all what I had planned, but days in the mission rarely are, so we went forward in faith... Kinda, It was one of them fancy neighborhoods so I didn't expect anything to come from it. The tracting went as expected, mostly no answers, a few cranky old ladies, and one women that was very well aware of how she was already "saved"! Then we knocked on the car port door of a large home, and... No answer, from the door, as soon as I was ready to say "no one is home, lets move on" A voice from behind us said "Can I help you?" I kept my composure, but deep down I screamed like a little girl, she came from no where! Well, actually she came from the guest house right behind us that I DID not notice. We told her who we were, and she invited us in! COOL! As we were sitting down she said that she had tried to get us over there not long ago. I immediately knew who she was, I asked if she was Anita, (the referral) and she said she was. We had a great lesson about the restoration and the Book of Mormon, and answered some REAL questions she had! It was one of those, "These are the same questions a 14 year old boy had in 1820."  She said we had answered questions that no one else had ever answered. Its good to be a Mormon!

 

That there might be the best mission work story I have ever told, I'm getting good at this!

 

Other then that, we met this CRAZY family while tracting, all kinds of people in the house, all trying to get their bash on at the same time! IT WAS SO FUNNY! They thought Christ went to hell and back after he died, I didn't say anything, but they could tell I disagreed. They knew ALL kinds of things about Mormons... Well, they thought they did, the word cult came up, I just ignored that one, They rest of the "problems" they had with the church I shot down pretty quickly.. Then my comp would say something and they would suddenly have a very different problem.. It was mostly them trying to bible bash us and me saying "well... not quite" So we didn't stay long.

 

WELP! This letter is way to long!

LOVE!

Elder CamCam Martin!