Sunday, January 19, 2014

January 16, 2014

My dear loving mother

I want you to know that our Heavenly Father loves us with a love we can't imagine and that will never change it will only increase and increase.  There has been times where I can't continue praying and I just enjoy the amazing feeling he gives me.  Sometimes we have to stop thinking and saying so much and just listen.  Don't forget that Heavenly Father can help lighten your burden if you feel overwhelmed.  My week was absolutely fantastic!  I'm not in a ward right now, I'm in a branch and yesterday we had 64 people attend church which is a lot for this area!  It is so cool.  We also had 6 investigators attend church!  I'm so happy!!!!  With a lot of help from the Lord we reactivated a member who hasn't gone to church for a lot of years because he was offended and he was a counselor in the district presidency (its like the stake presidency) and has served in a lot of other leadership positions.  He finally came to church with us and wants to help us with missionary work and we had a great experience!  Also I have a really cool thing to tell you!  Well a lot of cool things but you get the idea.  I don't know if I told you abut Jorge our investigator or not but I'll give you an overview of what has happened.  I contacted him one day on the way to another lesson and we ended up teaching him and he wanted to continue to learn.  The cool thing is, this wasn't the first time that I contacted him.  In my last area, my first area, I contacted him for the first time at a bus stop and we could only give him a pamphlet and a pass along card because his bus came and after that I didn't hear from him.  When I found him in Tempoal, I didn't recognize him until he reminded me of when we met in Tampico.  I passed by him and it came to my mind to contact him, so I did.  I just didn't know that I was recontacting him.  But he wants to meet like everyday and has had so many sacred experiences with revelation and he wants to be a missionary with all his heart!  The cool thing is that he will be on his mission at the same time as me!  His baptismal date is for the 15th of February and he knows this church is true without a doubt!  After we taught him about following the prophet and President Monson he read a talk by President Monson and prayed that night to know if he was a prophet and he told us something really awesome.  That night he had a dream.  He said that someone dressed in white appeared to him and he could tell that it was a really good person.  This person told him to never doubt the words of  President Monson and the things written in the Bible.  He received an answer to his prayers!  Also he has been really tempted with the word of wisdom but every time he refuses and flees the situation like Joseph of Egypt!  He has a very strong testimony and believes everything!  I'm so glad I found him.  My next transfer is in exactly one week on the 19th but I don't think I will change.  It's more likely that I will be training this next change!  I'm really blessed to be in this family.  I love you with all my heart!  Thanks for all you do Mom.  Keep being awesome and a fantastic mom.  Love ya tons and tons!

Love forever and forever
Elder Cammack
January 16, 2014

Good afternoon pops!  love ya

I'm feeling great.  My body is getting used to everything here.  Parasites aren't fun but they aren't too bad either.  Some investigators are doing really good and others not so good.  We are continually working on finding new people here.  The Lord already has blessed me immensely and he continues to do so.  That is one of the infinitely many reasons that I love him so much!  I'm sorry that this is your last week in the Mesa temple but don't worry I'm sure you will work in the new temple.  I'm really glad you love it and it makes you so happy.  Keep being a great example and an awesome Dad.  Transfers are in exactly one week from today and I'm pretty sure I will stay here but I think my companion will go.  I think I will be training the next transfer.  Don't worry whatever happens it is the Lord's will and who knows, maybe he has something a lot more important for you to do.  You know it just came to my mind that maybe you might be called as a mission president.  I would laugh really hard if that happened but I wouldn't be surprised either.  I sure do love you a lot. 

Love for eternity your son
Elder Cammack
January 6, 2014

hola mama! te amo muchisimo

Don't worry you are doing fine!  You have grown so much and you handle it so much better!  Just keep giving it your all.  I'm always hugging you, just from Mexico right now.  You both are in my prayers everyday!  I love you both so much.  Heavenly Father does answer prayers, yours and mine.  Dad really is amazing.  I think the Lord has something really great in store for Dad.  One thing I have noticed is that he is the exact definition of humility!  I haven't ever seen anyone as humble as my Dad!  I really want to learn from his example and be better.  He is the kind of man I want to be.  The time it takes isn't important it's the journey you experience and what you learn.  I need to be more humble myself.  I think that constant prayer and reading the scriptures is the way to arrive at humility.  Humility is different for each person but Heavenly Father knows the way and he can guide us as we ask him in prayer for help.  Keep reading your scriptures, praying and going to church.  Also watch Dads example.  He is what I would call humble.  When we pray we are being humble by submitting ourselves to our Heavenly Father and seeking his guidance.  Seek for him and you will find the humility you want and always stay positive.  Life is always awesome when we are positive and happy.  I love being a missionary!!!  I'm so lucky to have you as my loving mother.  I love you so much mom.  Really I have all I need.  I'm just getting lost in the work and it is so rewarding!  I know you worry and that's ok just remember I love you and that I will always come back and that will never change.  The Lord promised you I would and I know he always keeps his promises!  Be safe and enjoy your week.  Love ya tons and tons more!!!

Love
one grateful and slightly tanned Elder Cammack











January 6, 2014

Hey Dad!

I love emailing you guys.  Don't worry nothing is going to happen to me.  You will always get emails from me!  I'm feeling great my Branch President is a doctor and helped me out a lot with my parasite problem.  We are actually finding a lot of new investigators.  I had an awesome experience!  One Sunday we were on our way to a lesson and I saw a youth in the doorway of a house and the thought came to my mind to talk to him.  So I did and we talked and things eventually went to the gospel and I invited him to accompany us to the lesson and he did.  We taught him there and he is progressing really well.  He has a baptismal date for the 15th of February.  I know this one will happen!  He is reading and praying every day.  He came to church, he has missionary friends in Texas and France that have helped him and prepared him.  He is prepared by God, that's all there is to it.  He has had experiences with the spirit too and he knows without a doubt that this is the only true church!  We have had such great success with less actives.  Great things are happening here and its picking up the pace.  It makes me happy to know I am changing for the better and becoming what my Heavenly Father wants me to be!  Thank you so much Dad.  I really love you and am so glad you are my father and that I can be with you forever!

I love you too Dad!
Elder Cammack (not so old man...haha)
December 30, 2013

hola mama!  te amo mucho!!!:) 

me encanta tu titulo para mi!  I was so happy to talk to you, you all look great!  My companion really is nice and I got to talk to his family as well.  They sent me Christmas presents too.  I've noticed I smile a lot more and I'm so much happier.  I just can't stop smiling.  My face hurt so bad yesterday because I couldn't stop smiling.  We had a really spiritual experience with a less active member yesterday.  We were talking in the beginning and all her remarks were so harsh and hard, not being mean to us but the tone in her voice.  Later I felt impressed to ask her is she wanted a priesthood blessing and come to find out she didn't know that she could receive a blessing of comfort.  She thought she could only get one if she was sick and I told her no and how I used to always get blessing of comfort from my Dad.  She told us that she would like one so my companion gave her one.  I couldn't help because there wasn't enough room in the doorway and we had to stay outside because there wasn't another man present in the home.  During the blessing I felt very strongly of the love that Heavenly Father has for her and she was crying after too.  Her tone of voice was so much softer and more gentle and she spoke with love!  The priesthood and the spirit are wonderful!!!!  I really believe she will start making changes in her life now and reactivating.  She told us she felt like she was in the Savior's arms. 

Everyone I have talked to in my mission including the missionaries have all told me that I speak  Spanish really well for the time that I have been here.  Everyone thinks that I'm older than I am.  Remember Satan wants you to worry, don't give into him.  Worrying is a destroyer of faith and trust in the Lord.  Always turn to him in hard times and all will be well.  Life is always better when we think positive.  I'm a strong believer in positive thinking.   You can still cry that's not a bad thing.  I've seen such a change in you Mom.  You are doing awesome and Heavenly Father loves you so much!  Keep being awesome and fantastic.  Missions are great for confidence.  Thanks for everything Mom.  Love you lots.

Love forever
Elder Cammack
December 30, 2013
hola papa!  te amo con todo mi Corazon!

I loved talking with you on Christmas.  I really hope you get to work in the Gilbert temple!!!  Who knows maybe the Lord has something bigger for you to do.  Everything is in the Lord's hands and that's how it should be because he is perfect and wants what is best for us.  Our investigators aren't really progressing.  It just seems like know one has true interest.  I'm sorry to say that.  I feel good knowing that I'm trying my best and planting seeds and lifting a voice of warning:)  I know we will find someone with a true intention soon enough.  But we have been really blessed to help less actives and I've seen miracles in their lives.  I know I'm doing what is right.  Just yesterday we were talking with a less active sister and her remarks or her tone of voice was harsh and hard.  Later I felt impressed to ask her is she wanted a priesthood blessing.  She didn't know that she could get blessings of comfort.  She thought she had to be sick.  I told her no and explained to her about all the many times I asked you for blessings and she said she would like one.  So my companion gave her one and it was so spiritual.  I couldn't help because there wasn't room in the doorway and we couldn't enter because there wasn't a man in the house.  I felt very strongly a little part of the immense love that Heavenly Father has for her and I told her that.  She was crying after and she talked with gentleness and so much softer.  She told us she felt like she was in the Saviors arms.  I couldn't stop smiling!!!  With experiences like these and just being here on a mission I can't help but be happy!!!  We may not be baptizing but we are helping people.  Oh about the parasite I got a little worse but started taking some medication and now I feel great!!!  All is well.  I love you so much Dad and miss you.  We have lots to talk about now and when I get back.  I love you sooooo much!!!

Love eternally
Your son Elder Cammack


December 25, 2013
Best Christmas present ever!!!!  Talked to Elder Cammack for an hour, love this missionary