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Here are some photos from a specialized training for district leaders or trainers and their new greenies.

This is from a zone conference. I may have already posted this one...

Week 86

I am now in Hattiesburg MS, its a wonderful place and I love it here so much!! 

We are super exited for this week, cause Gladys Knight is coming to town! She is doing this really awesome thing at the Church where she and her choir sing and bare testimony of the church and such things! Its really exiting, cause people LOVE her down here, so we are expecting to get a TON of referrals from this.

She and her choir do this every year, they PRAY about where to go, and felt very strongly about here. Its kinda a big deal! 

I got bear hugged by a big Polly guy about 2 weeks ago, and I think he broke a rib.. My chest is really starting to hurt from that... Its no fun, I guess I will get it checked one day... 

WELP! That's all I got for now!

LOVE!

Elder CamCam Martin. 

Week 85

YES! I am on the move once again! After only 6 weeks here in West Monroe, I am getting Transferred to Hattiesburg Mississippi! 

My new address will be
2300 Lincoln road apt. 10
Hattiesburg, MS 39402.

I will be in a district with Elder Anderson, whom I love, AGAIN! AND Elder Rose, My zone will have Elder Christofferson, ALL KINDS OF FORMER COMPS! It will be some great times! That's for sure!

I FEEL like that will be my last area, even though I already said that once about this area! 

This will be my 8th Companion in 8 transfers... That's a lot, it will also be my 8th area! I like how I have had a completely different mission then Jason's lame 2 area mission!

This week was super slow, but we have been talking to a guy that is very interested in the idea of having a prophet! So that's cool!

I'm not sure if I already shared this story, but here I go!

We were tracting, and we knock on this door, that had another door right next to it, it was weird, kinda like as if it was two apartments in one building, but it wasn't.. Just one house!

ANYHOW! One door opens, and there stands a REALLY old man, who was probably not all there, Its Elder Clements turn to talk, (Its always his turn, cause he is green and I am gray!) And he is giving his shpeal to this guy, when suddenly the OTHER door opens, ahh.. awkward.. So I take the new guy, and really, just take over.. So this new guy says something like "Well, I think you guys are a cult!" My eyes narrow and its on! "Why is that?" I ask, "doesn't your bible say 'another testimony of Jesus Christ'?" Now first of all, I have NO IDEA how that would make you a cult, but I guess to him it would, but I ignored that clear flaw in what he was saying and took on the other one, and said "No.. It says Holy Bible..." He was taken aback, had no reply, so he said something about worshiping a different Jesus.. Not sure where that came from, but I told him, "OH, No, we worship the same Jesus that is in the Kind James version of the Bible, Our bible, that says, Holy Bible, and that's what we read and teach, from the Bible, so if that makes us a cult then we are ALL a cult!" To which the old guy said "Amen!" HA! Now he was really speechless, I think he squeaked out the word "well.." But he was struggling, I then ended with "All we do is teach people about Jesus, the same Jesus that saved us all!" The old man said Amen again, and we were on our way! 

D&C was not kidding when it said our "Enemies will be confounded."

ANYHOW! LOVE IS LOVE! AND CAM IS CAM!

LOVE!!

Elder CamCam Martin!

Week 84

Conference was great! I feel like we were mostly called to repentance, more then normal, I had a lot of talks that I really liked, there was also a lot about love! Love, obedience, and being better was what I took from it all.

On Sunday it rained, and rained, AND RAINED!! More then I have ever seen in one day ever! SO MUCH RAIN!!! 

I was scared that the bad weather would interfere with conference, but everything came in nice and clear, blessing!

This week, this guy at wal-mart stopped us, and said "Its the missionaries!" I joyfully replied "YES SIR!" He then got for reals and said "No your not. What church are you from" I said, "Um, yes we are! We are personal representatives of Jesus Christ! So we teach about His church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!" At this point, I already know that his soul purpose is to tear us down, so I was probably being a little condescending... (I'm not as awesome as those Sisters Elder Holland spoke of, but I will be doing better from now on.) He said "Nope! Anyone that changes the bible is not of Christ!" "OH!" I said , "I see the problem, you have us mistaken for someone else, we have done nothing in any way to change the bible." he want on to say YES YOU DID! And was about to say something but I cut him off and said "Wait, do you read the Kind James version?" He said he did, "Yeah! So do we, I read it every day! Same exact bible as you read!" He then told me that I in fact DO NOT read the bible every day! I told him that was news to me. He then proved his point with John 1:1... NO IDEA HOW THAT PROVED HIS POINT! But it SURE did! He then told us he was a Mormon for 40 years and then found the truth.. It took everything I had to just smile, and not call him out for the lie that that was, and say to him "No you weren't, You have never been a member of the church, cause if you were, you would know that everything you are saying is FALSE!" I however, bit REAL HARD on my tongue! He then told us to do the research and that we cant change the bible as he walked away, I should have let him go.. But I made one last "NEVER CHANGED A THING!!" As he walked away, I'm probably a bad example to my very new and young companion.. HA!

Another guy as we were walking down a street in the sketchiest part of our area, (our whole area is sketchy..) yelled to us "YOU CANT GO DOWN THAT WAY!!" I asked why not? He said,  "They kill people over there!" OH! Well then! I told him we had people to see, so we were going anyways, haha, the look on his face!

Another lady, and the other side of our area, STILL A FREAKY PLACE! Beckoned us over to her car and told us that we didn't need to be in that part of town, she was calm at first, everything CHANGED! She said, "AND WHEN I SAY THAT! I MEAN LEAVE!!! NOW!!! This is NOT a good place to be! I should know, my dad was a cop! GET ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS! (If I may just cut in here to ask a question, why do tracks always determine society?) AND GET THERE FAST! YOU WILL DIE HERE!!" Hahahahaha, awww, I know they are just trying to help, but I just want to say, "Get thee behind me Satan! You don't know who we are!"

Anyhow, enough about that, life is great! I LOVE WEST MONROE!

AND YOU!

AMEN!

Elder CamCam Martin  

Week 83

HEY THERE!!

Ok, so this is one of them weeks that I really have NO IDEA what happened, ITS GONE! From all memory.

A lot like the month of March, which some how comes to an end today! Not sure how that even happened.

It is to bad that Pday didn't fall one day latter, I could have had some much April fun!

This week we met some more normal people, so that's nice! We did have some random group of dude as we were tracting stop us to feed us food... They were having a BBQ!

Wives are the worst in the south! SO MANY TIMES THIS WEEK! We had a nice little lesson going, where the dude is all kinds of into it, and then out of no where, the wife just butts in and ruins everything, one lady was like, "we already know all this! We don't need you telling us any of it." and I was like, "Can I tell you something you don't know?" and then I went on to talk about how there is a prophet  and the such, and she again said "we know all of that" so I said "Well who is our prophet then???" She said, "Well! I know Jesus!" I told her in order to really know him she needs to know his true Gospel! (I'm not sure if I'm just getting more bold or more sick of the "I already know him" excuse) She still was not willing to listen, so I just bore my testimony to the guy about how we DO have a LIVING Prophet, and that the Lords Church IS on the earth, AND ITS OURS!! And after, she in a very angry voice said, "AMEN!" haha, ahh, 

I had to go on Exchanges with the Zone Leaders, I hate doing that, I just want to stay in my own area, and do my own work, ahh, I guess it has its purpose..

Church was good, this family sat by us, and will never sit by missionaries again on a fast Sunday, every one of them got up by the time it was over, ha, I'm pretty good at bugging someone to do something till they do it!

WELP! I love you all!

AMEN!

Elder CamCam Martin!

Week 82

Yep, I'm falling in love...

With the south! 

And that's probably all.

TEHE!

WELP! This week flew by! Not even sure where it went! I think its in New Hampshire somewhere..

I have gotten lots of random love this week, letters from people I have never met, random members of other words feeding us, and of course the young women doing everything in their power to talk to me! Good stuff, kinda needed it, cause it was also a rough week, what with the CRASH! No one wants to talk to us! .... And other not fun stuff...

But the Lord always finds a way to keep us happy! And he has!

My new district is GREAT! You have ME!! that's would be enough, but then there is my comp, Elder Clements, good young man from rexburg! Bless his little heart.

And my wonderful Sisters, Sister White, and Sister Craig, All other districts wish they had these Sisters! You would think that they would keep the two best Sisters ever away from one another, so as to help more of the mission, but NO! They put them BOTH in my district!  Probably cause pres knew this place would need all the help it could get with me in it...

We talked to a few more crazies! This place is FULL of nut jobs! I LOVE IT! This one guy, they call him Coach Cadillac.. No idea why. ANYHOW! There were times while talking to him that I had to look the other way so he didn't see me trying hard not to laugh! HA! CRAZY! Mostly when he was talking about how "hoot owls" are EVIL! And if you see one, "turn around! AND GO BACK INSIDE!!"

WELP! I cant think of anything else, OH! I got called fat a few times, yep, both by people that I knew about a year ago, and they saw me and pretty much said I am fatter!

PS! Haha,

LOVE!
Elder CamCam Martin!