Week 32

Hey y'all! 

Spring is finally in the air here! We hit a cold snap last week but this week has been beautiful! Sunny and in the 70-80s just the perfect temp for tracting! Which is a lot of what we have been doing this week! I actually like tracting sometimes because you meet some WEIRD people and get some really funny stories out of it! 

I got a new comp this week! Her name is Sister Hope. She is really nice. Turns out somehow we are 4th cousins so that's pretty cool! 

I also got to go on mini-exchanges with Sister Hatch on T-day. She is awesome! 

Yesterday right before Sacrament started, we got asked to teach Relief Society! We were freaking out because we didn't have a book or anything. But we finally got one and when we saw the lesson was on prayer we were grateful. Because we both know of the power of prayer and how wonderful it is. This week I am so grateful for prayer. I know that God loves us and hears our prayers and he will answer them. 

Have a blessed week y'all!

Much love,

Sister DeCamp

Week 30

Hey Y'all!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful week! We have here in Texas! It has been a slower week, but good all the same. This week our focus was helping the ward build their testimonies and helping them get more planted in the gospel. The ward here is a very strong ward. So it was great! And yesterday at testimony meeting there were a lot more people who bore their testimonies! 

So some crazy things that happened this week:

Sister Frandsen almost got attacked by a dog! It was really scary but funny at the same time! Luckily the dog didn't bite her, it barely missed! But she's safe!

We went to see a less active and ended up talking a lot about the temple and the scriptures, well she got her scriptures out (they hadn't been used in a while) and there were roaches in them and she ended up flinging them at us- not out of rudeness- but it was horrible! I hate cockroaches! Probably the worst things ever! 

This week I have also come to realize how grateful I am for my family and How I'm thankful for all the examples that have been set for me. Families are so so important. I'm grateful that mine can me forever! 

Have a blessed week y'all! Count your blessing. Also enjoy these fab pictures of my adorable companion and me in are fantastic shirts and this cool picture of me, Elder Holland, and the best mission in the world ( the MJM)

Love,

Sister DeCamp

Week 29

Hey y'all! 

This week was so good! We had exchanges and Zone Conference AND Harley got baptized! 

On exchanges I was able to go with Sister Marble again. Shes' great! We always have a good time. This time we were able to go with the young women, it was a lot of fun! 

At Zone Conference Sister Olson talked a lot about trials and why we have them and how they are a blessing to our lives. It was a wonderful talk and it stood out to me because I had recently been studying about trials and how they are for our benefit. But when you are over your trial you should look back at what you learned and let all the grudges and hard feelings if you have any go. And I just thought that was pretty neat! 

Yesterday Harley got baptized. She is such an example to me as well as her family. Her mom who is not a member came up to us after and told us thank you and that she was wondering if she could start the lessons and that she also wanted to start coming to church as a family. It was the coolest and such a tender mercy! We love this family! 

I hope that y'all have a blessed week and remember that the Lord answers your prayers in lots of different ways! I love y'all! B happy and share the gospel! 

Love,

Sister DeCamp

Week 28

Hey y'all! 

This week was one to remember! Valentine's day, 6 months in the field, and 50 cent corn-dogs!

On Monday we were able to go fishing and coon trapping! It was so fun, even though we didn't catch any fish...and our trap isn't closing like it's supposed to ( we should have caught some possums and squirrels- but possums are gross so it's okay) Memories were definitely made! 

On Valentine's day we celebrated by tracting and made maps of our area! Later that night we went to an investigators house and she made us Fish and fries and told us she would give us corn rows tonight! So we are looking forward to that! It should be an experience for sure!

This week we met with Harley and she is all ready for her baptism on Sunday! She is the cutest girl ever! Her grandma called us after one of our appointments and told us that she said " I love the missionaries, I wish I could live with them!" So Sister Frandsen and I are planning to take her home with us, ITS FINE!   We also had a really cool experience yesterday! It was POURING rain and a holiday so we decided to go and try and see a lot of less-actives and people we didn't know off the ward roster. Every door we knocked on let us in talked to us, and invited us back. Come to find out later that they are all people that usually tell the missionaries to leave. #TenderMercies All in all it was a great week! I love the people here in Texas! I also love that I am taller than the stop signs here! HA!

Have a blessed week y'all! 

Love always,

Sister DeCamp

Week 27

Hey y'all!

This week was such a good week! We worked hard and were able to find a few new investigators and still managed to have a lot of fun! For P-Day last week we went bowling and I surprisingly came in second! It was a fun time! 

We also went tracting a lot and went to try formers and part member families! Those are the best! While we were leaving a part members house, I was getting in the car and accidentally slammed my foot in the door..really hard. But don't worry it isn't broken as far as I know! It swelled up so we put some ice on it and after a while the swelling went down and it is just a little bruised but I can walk on it just fine so I'm not too worried about it. 

On Friday we tracted a lot of the day and then had a Valentine's dance with the ward. It was a great turn out of ward members as well as investigators and a great way to introduce the ward to them! Our Investigator Harley was there and yesterday we were able to set her with a date. The last week in Feb. and we are really excited about that! 

We also had the privilege of talking in church yesterday. We were told right before the meeting started that the first speaker wasn't going to be there and so we needed to dig a little deeper into our talks and take up the whole time... Somehow we managed to do it! And it was a great Sunday!

I hope y'all have a blessed week and a Happy Valentine's day!

Love, 

Sister DeCamp

Week 26

Hey y'all! 

This week has been full of changes and adventures! I am now serving in Queen City/ Atlanta Texas!  The crazy cool thing is that I have now served in the 2 rarest states in the mission. My new companion is Sister Frandsen, she is from Springville Utah and actually came out with me, we met at the airport. She is the coolest! I also have a really big district now which is odd but really fun too.

The teaching pool isn't huge here but we are about to change that! We are teaching an older lady named Janice and we are also starting to teach a little girl named Haley. That is actually a really cool story! Yesterday we were fasting for someone to teaching and after sacrament a lady came up to us and introduced herself and her grand-daughter and said "Sisters this is Haley, she wants to get baptized when can we start the lessons?"  So that was pretty neat. 

I know that God answers our prayers and that he is mindful of us! Don't forget to pray and stay positive!

-Sister DeCamp