August 18, 2014
Hey Mom!
I love you and miss you!!!! I hope that all is well. I definitely have some interesting news! This week we had changes and I got changed! President Jordan made me a zone leader!! That definitely wasn't expected!! We also had 3 baptisms on Saturday! I will send photo's next week. My companions name is Elder Santamaria, he is from Yucatan and he is awesome! We are getting along super well!! We have a lot of great ideas we are going to put into play with the zone in this change and we are going to work super hard! In our zone we have 18 missionaries and we are responsible for all of them. This change is going to be awesome!!!
I need to send a box or two home so in your next email can you send me the address of our house. I can't tell you much about the area because I don't know it very well. It's the city of Madero. Interesting experience this week the baptismal font broke on Saturday and we still had more than half way to go to fill it up. So we filled it with buckets of water that we got from a cistern of water that the church has. We were filling up the font from about 10 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, but it was worth it! Thank you for everything Mom! I sure love and miss you! Be safe and take care of Dad! Trust in the Lord and all will be well! Love you more than all the buckets of water I lifted on Saturday haha! Love you best!
Love
Elder Cammack
Sunday, August 24, 2014
August 18, 2014
Muy Bien Papi! espero que se encuentre bien!
I love you! The baptisms went great! All 3 were baptized and the spirit was super strong! I got to confirm Patricia and Alexia on Sunday! It was a great experience! I got transferred Dad! I left the area with all I had and things are going well there! I received a surprise though when my zone leaders called me to tell me I was going to be a zone leader! President Jordan made me a zone leader in zone ampleacion. It's a zone in Madero city. I'm so excited but really nervous at the same time! I'm super excited for this opportunity and I will give it all I have! My companions name is Elder Santamaria and he is from Yucatan! He is a really good missionary and I'm super excited to work with him! It's interesting how hard Satan works to stop baptisms. On Saturday our baptismal font broke and we had to fill it by a bucket. So from about 10 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon we were drawing water out of a cistern and filling the font with it. It was worth it though! That is one thing I am really trying to do well is obey the spirit! When I have an impression I want to do it! I will give it my all! I am very proud to call you my father! I've been blessed to have you as a guide for me! Thank you so much! Take care of yourself Dad! I know this work is true and nothing will dissuade me! I love you bunches and miss you more!
Love
Elder Cammack
Muy Bien Papi! espero que se encuentre bien!
I love you! The baptisms went great! All 3 were baptized and the spirit was super strong! I got to confirm Patricia and Alexia on Sunday! It was a great experience! I got transferred Dad! I left the area with all I had and things are going well there! I received a surprise though when my zone leaders called me to tell me I was going to be a zone leader! President Jordan made me a zone leader in zone ampleacion. It's a zone in Madero city. I'm so excited but really nervous at the same time! I'm super excited for this opportunity and I will give it all I have! My companions name is Elder Santamaria and he is from Yucatan! He is a really good missionary and I'm super excited to work with him! It's interesting how hard Satan works to stop baptisms. On Saturday our baptismal font broke and we had to fill it by a bucket. So from about 10 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon we were drawing water out of a cistern and filling the font with it. It was worth it though! That is one thing I am really trying to do well is obey the spirit! When I have an impression I want to do it! I will give it my all! I am very proud to call you my father! I've been blessed to have you as a guide for me! Thank you so much! Take care of yourself Dad! I know this work is true and nothing will dissuade me! I love you bunches and miss you more!
Love
Elder Cammack
August 11, 2014
My best missionary Mom!!:D
My week was absolutely awesome! It was full of surprises! We had a great experience with one of our investigators this week! We had asked her to pray about Joseph Smith and she did it! She came back and told us that after the prayer a thought came to her mind that said trust what the Elders are teaching you and continue on with the gospel! I was super happy when she told us that! It was a great experience! Also next Saturday we have 3 baptisms!!! A family we have been teaching is going to be baptized on the 16th. I'm super happy!:D
I love you best mommy!!! Transfers are next Monday and I find out Sunday if I get transferred or not. I'm pretty sure I will get transferred because I've been here for 4 and half months. Thank you for your testimony Mom! I also want you to know that I have a grand testimony of this marvelous work that I am doing! I also know that Heavenly Father loves his children and he listens to them. We are here for a purpose and with Heavenly Fathers help we can have peace and joy in this life! We exist to be happy! (2 Nephi 2:25) The Savior is always there waiting at the top with a ladder lowered for us! All we have to do is just take hold of it and start climbing. He will help us in ANY situation! He loves us!
I love you more than all the leaves of the trees on the earth!!! Love you!
Love
Elder Cammack
My best missionary Mom!!:D
My week was absolutely awesome! It was full of surprises! We had a great experience with one of our investigators this week! We had asked her to pray about Joseph Smith and she did it! She came back and told us that after the prayer a thought came to her mind that said trust what the Elders are teaching you and continue on with the gospel! I was super happy when she told us that! It was a great experience! Also next Saturday we have 3 baptisms!!! A family we have been teaching is going to be baptized on the 16th. I'm super happy!:D
I love you best mommy!!! Transfers are next Monday and I find out Sunday if I get transferred or not. I'm pretty sure I will get transferred because I've been here for 4 and half months. Thank you for your testimony Mom! I also want you to know that I have a grand testimony of this marvelous work that I am doing! I also know that Heavenly Father loves his children and he listens to them. We are here for a purpose and with Heavenly Fathers help we can have peace and joy in this life! We exist to be happy! (2 Nephi 2:25) The Savior is always there waiting at the top with a ladder lowered for us! All we have to do is just take hold of it and start climbing. He will help us in ANY situation! He loves us!
I love you more than all the leaves of the trees on the earth!!! Love you!
Love
Elder Cammack
August 11, 2014
Hola Papa! te amo!
I hope all is well!!! My week here was wonderful!!! We had a lot of progress and we are slowly working towards our goals! This past Saturday I had a really awesome experience! I was on mini divisions because 3 of our investigators were in their baptismal interview so another Elder and I went out to make good use of the time and work in my area. We were able to do a lot of service and invite people to church! Just as we were heading back to the interviews a thought came to mind to go visit a man we had contacted but hadn't be able to find him in his house. So we immediately went to his house and I saw that his door was open. It had never been opened before when we passed by so we shouted out to him and he received us well!!! He now has a baptismal date for the 20th of September! It was a great testimony builder to see that it was inspiration from the Lord! I'm pretty sure that I have planted a lot of seeds. I've definitely seen that as the weeks progress maybe I don't reach my goal completely but I'm continually progressing and the day will come when I'll reach it! I believe that what I am doing is good. Thanks Dad for all your support! I love you lots! Miss you.
Love
Elder Cammack your son
Hola Papa! te amo!
I hope all is well!!! My week here was wonderful!!! We had a lot of progress and we are slowly working towards our goals! This past Saturday I had a really awesome experience! I was on mini divisions because 3 of our investigators were in their baptismal interview so another Elder and I went out to make good use of the time and work in my area. We were able to do a lot of service and invite people to church! Just as we were heading back to the interviews a thought came to mind to go visit a man we had contacted but hadn't be able to find him in his house. So we immediately went to his house and I saw that his door was open. It had never been opened before when we passed by so we shouted out to him and he received us well!!! He now has a baptismal date for the 20th of September! It was a great testimony builder to see that it was inspiration from the Lord! I'm pretty sure that I have planted a lot of seeds. I've definitely seen that as the weeks progress maybe I don't reach my goal completely but I'm continually progressing and the day will come when I'll reach it! I believe that what I am doing is good. Thanks Dad for all your support! I love you lots! Miss you.
Love
Elder Cammack your son
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Pictures from July 2014
Local Building
Mexican Hill Cumorah
Jon's Companion
Jeremy and David Archuletta
at Camp Lemonnier
Djibouti, Africa
July 4, 2014
Hola Mama!
I know you will be sad with all the kids gone this week. Remember all will be well and just be happy! I love you, your the best Mom ever! The months feel like days over here. I can't believe I only have about 10 months left.
This week was great! With the family we are going to baptize we have struggled a bit with tithing. It kind of startled them a bit and we were worried but we fasted that they would still go to church and they came Sunday! They even came early! It was so awesome. I love sharing experiences with you because you are part of it.
No worries Mom, the good thing is that you won't ever loose any of this if you live the gospel:) The happiness you have from our family you will continue to have, that's what Heavenly Father wants for us all. So don't worry because it will never end! I hope I can be like you when I grow up. I love you more than all the sand and dust in Arizona!
Love you mostest!
Elder Cammack
Hola Mama!
I know you will be sad with all the kids gone this week. Remember all will be well and just be happy! I love you, your the best Mom ever! The months feel like days over here. I can't believe I only have about 10 months left.
This week was great! With the family we are going to baptize we have struggled a bit with tithing. It kind of startled them a bit and we were worried but we fasted that they would still go to church and they came Sunday! They even came early! It was so awesome. I love sharing experiences with you because you are part of it.
No worries Mom, the good thing is that you won't ever loose any of this if you live the gospel:) The happiness you have from our family you will continue to have, that's what Heavenly Father wants for us all. So don't worry because it will never end! I hope I can be like you when I grow up. I love you more than all the sand and dust in Arizona!
Love you mostest!
Elder Cammack
August 4, 2014
Hi Pops!
Love you and miss you lots! This week was definitely interesting and hard but good at the same time. We had a wonderful experience! As a mission we have the goal to baptize every week here in Mexico. That is our individual goal as well. It requires a lot of planning ahead and we have to plan about 5 weeks out every week. Heavenly Father has really been helping us to reach our goal. My companion and I each week have a certain baptismal date that we are going to put for all new investigators we find in that week. This last week we were struggling a little bit to find people for the baptismal date and I remember saying a prayer and asking Heavenly Father for his help and instantly a thought came to my mind to go a certain direction to visit someone. Long story short we ended up finding a sister who accepted the baptismal date! It was really wonderful to have our prayer answered! We have also been battling with some investigators of ours that are going to be baptized in 2 weeks. They have been struggling with tithing and it scared them at first and we struggled to find them again and we almost lost them. At last we were able to explain it to them better and they calmed down a little bit but it definitely had us preoccupied.
Thanks for all your advice! I definitely needed that. Thank you for your knowledge. I know Heavenly Father is in charge and I should be content with where I am and it's true that the workers really do make things happen. Thank you so much Dad! I love you and I hope you have an awesome week! Be safe and do something fun with Mom! Love ya!
Love
Elder Cammack
Hi Pops!
Love you and miss you lots! This week was definitely interesting and hard but good at the same time. We had a wonderful experience! As a mission we have the goal to baptize every week here in Mexico. That is our individual goal as well. It requires a lot of planning ahead and we have to plan about 5 weeks out every week. Heavenly Father has really been helping us to reach our goal. My companion and I each week have a certain baptismal date that we are going to put for all new investigators we find in that week. This last week we were struggling a little bit to find people for the baptismal date and I remember saying a prayer and asking Heavenly Father for his help and instantly a thought came to my mind to go a certain direction to visit someone. Long story short we ended up finding a sister who accepted the baptismal date! It was really wonderful to have our prayer answered! We have also been battling with some investigators of ours that are going to be baptized in 2 weeks. They have been struggling with tithing and it scared them at first and we struggled to find them again and we almost lost them. At last we were able to explain it to them better and they calmed down a little bit but it definitely had us preoccupied.
Thanks for all your advice! I definitely needed that. Thank you for your knowledge. I know Heavenly Father is in charge and I should be content with where I am and it's true that the workers really do make things happen. Thank you so much Dad! I love you and I hope you have an awesome week! Be safe and do something fun with Mom! Love ya!
Love
Elder Cammack
July 28, 2014
Hi Mom!!!!
Okay how did Jeremy get that video? That was so cool!!!! Thank you so much for that!!! It meant a lot to me. The video from David Archuleta was the best surprise ever!!! I was so happy when I saw it and it brought tears to my eyes. He told me to keep working hard and he let me know how I'm blessing the lives of everyone here and to remember to forget myself and work for these people. It was awesome!!!!
We have found a lot of people to teach and we had such a great experience this week! The family I told you about last week, the sister has another sister that lives here close by and she has been working with her so she will accept the gospel. Finally she accepted to listen to us! She has a strong desire to change and in these last few days she has changed so much!!! There was a young single adult activity that was going to happen in another city and we were able to get her registered to go just in time and it literally changed her life! She was able to see that life can be fun and that Heavenly Father really does love her and she has changed so much!!! We have an appointment with her today! I know you want to help others, just give it the best you can every day and the Lord will help you. Every moment is filled with decisions and we can make the ones that will help us be better.
Thanks so much Mom for everything!!! I love and miss you a lot!!! I love you more than all the salt in the Great Salt Lake!!!!
Love you bestest
Elder Cammack
Hi Mom!!!!
Okay how did Jeremy get that video? That was so cool!!!! Thank you so much for that!!! It meant a lot to me. The video from David Archuleta was the best surprise ever!!! I was so happy when I saw it and it brought tears to my eyes. He told me to keep working hard and he let me know how I'm blessing the lives of everyone here and to remember to forget myself and work for these people. It was awesome!!!!
We have found a lot of people to teach and we had such a great experience this week! The family I told you about last week, the sister has another sister that lives here close by and she has been working with her so she will accept the gospel. Finally she accepted to listen to us! She has a strong desire to change and in these last few days she has changed so much!!! There was a young single adult activity that was going to happen in another city and we were able to get her registered to go just in time and it literally changed her life! She was able to see that life can be fun and that Heavenly Father really does love her and she has changed so much!!! We have an appointment with her today! I know you want to help others, just give it the best you can every day and the Lord will help you. Every moment is filled with decisions and we can make the ones that will help us be better.
Thanks so much Mom for everything!!! I love and miss you a lot!!! I love you more than all the salt in the Great Salt Lake!!!!
Love you bestest
Elder Cammack
July 28, 2014
Hey Dad!
I know how you feel about the heat, except it's worse here! The thunder is like 10 times louder and the house starts to shake! It really doesn't help you to sleep at all haha! Lately it's just been hot and muggy!
One of our investigators is now progressing well and has a baptismal date! We also met a friend of his that he introduced us too and he is interested. This week was full of surprises and learning experiences! I can see how the Lord is blessing us because we are slowly progressing towards our goals! Thank you for sharing your mission experience about always being honest. Honesty is always important and I do my best to be completely honest. I can say that now it's not hard for me to be honest. Wow what an experience! I'm really glad you told the truth Dad! You are such a great example! Thanks for all you do for me and for sharing these experiences with me! Thank you so much for your letter! I love and miss you so much! What you said is definitely true and I will do my best to be a consecrated missionary! Dad what do you know about perfectionism? How can I keep it under control and work with it? Love you so much!!!
Love
Elder Cammack
Hey Dad!
I know how you feel about the heat, except it's worse here! The thunder is like 10 times louder and the house starts to shake! It really doesn't help you to sleep at all haha! Lately it's just been hot and muggy!
One of our investigators is now progressing well and has a baptismal date! We also met a friend of his that he introduced us too and he is interested. This week was full of surprises and learning experiences! I can see how the Lord is blessing us because we are slowly progressing towards our goals! Thank you for sharing your mission experience about always being honest. Honesty is always important and I do my best to be completely honest. I can say that now it's not hard for me to be honest. Wow what an experience! I'm really glad you told the truth Dad! You are such a great example! Thanks for all you do for me and for sharing these experiences with me! Thank you so much for your letter! I love and miss you so much! What you said is definitely true and I will do my best to be a consecrated missionary! Dad what do you know about perfectionism? How can I keep it under control and work with it? Love you so much!!!
Love
Elder Cammack
July 21, 2014
Hullo favorite Mum!
I know I'm not in England but I just wanted to try that. This week was good! We found a great family that we had contacted earlier and they seem really interested! We have a really awesome family that will be baptized in 3 weeks!
I love the pictures of the kids, Kellston is growing up so fast! I am so glad that you help the missionaries when they ask you. Thank you for doing that and I know that you will and are being blessed! There are a lot of things happening back home. I'm going to get back and not recognize anything.
My week was good. I feel that I have progressed a lot in my time here and I have definitely noticed some changes in me. It's almost like discovering who you really are and it is so great! I have been blessed with really strong desires to be a consecrated missionary and Heavenly Father has been helping me to do it! He is helping me learn how to be a good missionary and he is preparing me for my future family. Something I have started doing is writing a gratitude journal. Each day I write down what I'm grateful for and the ways the Lord has blessed me in that day. It has helped me so much with my humility! I know how you feel about trying to change but prayerfully pick one or two things to start with and work on those and then you can move on to others! Focus on where you want to go but also make plans of how you will get there! Just keep trying!!!! Thank you and Dad for being my hero's! You two are awesome! Just keep on smiling and I will too :D I love you so much Mom! Thanks for everything! I love you more than all the humidity in Mante!
Love you best
Elder Cammack(peace out)
Hullo favorite Mum!
I know I'm not in England but I just wanted to try that. This week was good! We found a great family that we had contacted earlier and they seem really interested! We have a really awesome family that will be baptized in 3 weeks!
I love the pictures of the kids, Kellston is growing up so fast! I am so glad that you help the missionaries when they ask you. Thank you for doing that and I know that you will and are being blessed! There are a lot of things happening back home. I'm going to get back and not recognize anything.
My week was good. I feel that I have progressed a lot in my time here and I have definitely noticed some changes in me. It's almost like discovering who you really are and it is so great! I have been blessed with really strong desires to be a consecrated missionary and Heavenly Father has been helping me to do it! He is helping me learn how to be a good missionary and he is preparing me for my future family. Something I have started doing is writing a gratitude journal. Each day I write down what I'm grateful for and the ways the Lord has blessed me in that day. It has helped me so much with my humility! I know how you feel about trying to change but prayerfully pick one or two things to start with and work on those and then you can move on to others! Focus on where you want to go but also make plans of how you will get there! Just keep trying!!!! Thank you and Dad for being my hero's! You two are awesome! Just keep on smiling and I will too :D I love you so much Mom! Thanks for everything! I love you more than all the humidity in Mante!
Love you best
Elder Cammack(peace out)
July 21, 2014
Good Morning Dad!
Hope all is well in Arizona! This week was great! We had some great experiences! One of the contacts I told you about when I had listened to the spirit about the different streets has a baptismal date! When we first contacted him awhile ago he was mildly interested in our message and after that we lost contact with him for a bit because he wasn't home. This week we went back to see if he was there and we found him and he has changed! He is now ready to hear the gospel because of the trials he has been passing through. He says he feels the need to become closer to God! It was great!
We found 4 new investigators this past week and they seem really good. One thing we struggle with here is help from the members. The Lord doesn't ask for all of our time in helping the missionaries, he just asks for a little bit and blesses us even more! Thanks for sharing some of your missionary experiences with me. I love that you gave a less active member your coat it really inspired me. Thanks for sharing that with me Dad! Thank you for your example.
Where I am is a mix between Arizona and Georgia, really hot and humid. It's not very big. It's a really crowed city but my area is on the outskirts of the city. There aren't really many farms here inside the city, but there are a lot of trees. They have jobs like we do, there are taxis, businesses, farmers, and lots of people sell things in the streets.
Love you Dad and be safe!
Love
Elder Cammack
Good Morning Dad!
Hope all is well in Arizona! This week was great! We had some great experiences! One of the contacts I told you about when I had listened to the spirit about the different streets has a baptismal date! When we first contacted him awhile ago he was mildly interested in our message and after that we lost contact with him for a bit because he wasn't home. This week we went back to see if he was there and we found him and he has changed! He is now ready to hear the gospel because of the trials he has been passing through. He says he feels the need to become closer to God! It was great!
We found 4 new investigators this past week and they seem really good. One thing we struggle with here is help from the members. The Lord doesn't ask for all of our time in helping the missionaries, he just asks for a little bit and blesses us even more! Thanks for sharing some of your missionary experiences with me. I love that you gave a less active member your coat it really inspired me. Thanks for sharing that with me Dad! Thank you for your example.
Where I am is a mix between Arizona and Georgia, really hot and humid. It's not very big. It's a really crowed city but my area is on the outskirts of the city. There aren't really many farms here inside the city, but there are a lot of trees. They have jobs like we do, there are taxis, businesses, farmers, and lots of people sell things in the streets.
Love you Dad and be safe!
Love
Elder Cammack
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