Week 65

Hey everyone!

This week was a great week! We have been busy busy and loving every minute of it! Sister Doxey loves to tract so we have been doing a lot of that! And we have been meeting a lot of really cool people that way too! 

We are teaching Rochelle and the Brown family still! And things seem to be going great for them! They are all planning on being baptized in December! So keep them in your prayers! They are some amazing people! We are also still teaching a lady named Donna- I don't know if I mentioned last week about how she was working on her prayers, but she gets so excited every time she prays. It reminds me every time how special it that we can say prayers and have the communication with our father in heaven! We are so loved by him!

So lately we have been going over to the Canterberry's house- a sure cool family in our ward- to read from the Book of Mormon with them. We are doing the 21 day challenge with them. Well last night Sister Canterberry pulled us aside after we read and she told us how grateful she was that we chose that family to read with them because she has already started to see how much happier they have been. And how they get excited to read as a family! 

Guys the Book of Mormon is so cool!!!! 

It seriously changes lives. Even those who are already members. So READ THE BOOK!!!!! Really test it out. Give it a try.. do it!!!!

I'm am also so excited for this week! I get to see the Williams!! And talk to Bill and Kathy!! AND meet one of Sister Doxey's recent converts! It will be a great time! I am looking forward to this week.

Also transfers are next week so stay tuned to see if I stay of if I go!! (Pray I stay) 

Much love!! Make good choices!!

XoXo-

Sister DeCamp

Week 64

Hey everyone! 

This week seemed to FLY by! It was crazy! It was a good week full of learning though! 

On Tuesday we had Zone Conference, it was a good reminder about the Book of Mormon. There was also some pretty good quotes. "eyes up do the work" and "Let God fight your battles" 

All in all it was a good conference! It helped me and Sis. Doxey out a lot. 

On Wednesday and Thursday we had exchanges. I freakin love Sister Giles! That girl is too funny and a way good missionary! 

We had a super cool experience with fasting and praying this week! We have a lot going on but not a lot happening here and we wanted to change that. So we prayed to know what to do with the investigators we had and who to focus on. Some of our "solid" investigators actually told us that they wanted to slow down, another one was able to recieve personal revelation and things started to click in her head and so she is focusing on certain things to work on to improve. But the coolest thing is that there was a family who we taught last week and hadn't had contact with them this week, and they showed up to church! And LOVED it! and as a family are working on getting better and looking for a baptism date and praying about it! It was really cool to see how God was able to show us where our focus needs to be. (I actually don't know if that made any sense now but just know God answered our prayers)

Saturday was Sister Doxey's birthday and she wanted to tract for it... so that's exactly what we did.. we spent about 5 hours that day tracting.. She had a good time and we actually met a really cool lady out of it! 

It was a good week! Remember that God does answer our prayers. Sometimes we don't take the time to listen though.. So take a minute after you pray to be still and listen. 

As always a friendly reminder- Read the Book of Mormon! It's amazing and it's changed my life so I know it will change anyone's!! 

Love you all!!

XoXo-

Sister DeCamp

Week 61

Hey everyone!

I am now in Long Beach Mississippi! It's the coolest! I am loving it! I am less than 2 miles from the ocean..so lets hope another hurricane doesn't come! My new companion is Sister Doxey! She is a sweetheart and hitting her 11 month mark TODAY! So that's exciting! She is a stellar missionary and a super hard worker! That girl isn't giving me anytime to breathe! It's great! We have a really awesome investigator name Rochelle! She is planning on getting baptized on November 4th! We are so excited for her about that! When I first met her I thought she was already a member! She is bringing the gospel to everyone she meets! It's been a blast getting to know her this week! I'm super looking forward to being able to work with her more!

Something SUPER AWESOME that happened this week! They reorganized the Slidell Louisiana Stake and so ELDER CHRISTOFFERSON of the Quorum of the 12 was here! The spirit he brought into the conference was incredible! Every single person the spoke talked about the Book of Mormon and the strength that it gives us. It's so true! The Book of Mormon is powerful and it can help us in so many ways. I have been able to strengthen my testimony and grow closer to my Savior and Father in Heaven by reading it! 

So I have been studying a few of teh recent conference talks this past week and one really stood out to me. It's called Do we Trust Him? Hard is Good- And I love this talk! Do we trust the Lord? Because he trusts us! And hard times and trials are a blessing. Sometimes we don't see it that way, I know that I definitely don't all the time. But those hard times help us and can make us better if we let them. One thing about this that i loved was that it said that hard was the constant. and if you think about it it really is, things will always be hard for us or can be hard for us. But the variable is how we react to that hard! hard is part of the plan. We just chose how we react to hard! Something good to ponder on this week! How will you react to hard?

Well I hope that you all have a great week! And don't forget to do the simple things like pray and read your scriptures. The simple things are what help us overcome out weaknesses! 

Love you!

XoXo-

Sister DeCamp

18400 28th St. #336

Long Beach, MS 39560

Week 59

Well Hello There!

This week was a great week! We have started teaching a guy named Antonio! But the cool  thing about him is that we are also teaching him english and he is teaching us random spanish words. It's pretty cool how the spirit works though! I know that there is literally no way I could be teaching him english and from the gospel if I didn't have the spirit with me. He called us Chucho colochos and then showed us what he meant... he showed us a picture of a curly haired dog..and could not stop laughing. so now that is what we call each other! Shoutout to Antonio! 

Also how cool was General Conference this weekend!! We were lucky to be able to watch it with some fun members. And we also watched it at the church! It was a great conference! I honestly cannot even tell you what my favorite talk was because I loved all of them! Every single one stood out to me in a different way or answered a question I had. So I just loved all of them! I highly suggest watching, rewatching, reading, studying, and pondering all of the talks. And also Read and STUDY the Book of Mormon. I have learned that there really is a difference in reading and studying. And studying is way better! 

I hope you all have a stellar week! Make good choices. Write me a letter (thats a really good choice)

XoXo-

Sister DeCamp

Also Sister Abril came back to the mission and I got to see her!

And I just love the Williams family! 

Week 56

HEY EVERYONE!! 

- Last Monday was like the zombie apocalypse in Walmart, you guys probably are more informed than I am because...you know...#NoInternetLife... but Hurricane Irma is hitting Florida and it's not going to hit us (hopefully) but years ago that's what they said about Hurricane Katrina and it still hit here-so everyone is paranoid about the storms all around us haha. But it's all good here!! Praying for those in Texas and Florida though!!

- I GOT A SOUTHERN GOSPEL MIXTAPE! We were talking to this kid who works in the grocery store in Sumrall, and he told us he sang, so we went to his car and he played his mix tape and sang for us, then gave us a copy of it haha I'm so stoked about it!

- This week we knocked on this lady's door and she wasn't interested, so I asked for referrals around her neighborhood, and she goes, "I don't think people like it when you knock on their doors.." (and Sis. hunt just stared at her..lol we were so done) and she's like "Don't you guys run into that?" and I said, "NOPE! People are actually very nice when we knock on their doors!" And she was caught so off guard, and she was just all like, "OH. Carry on then." and shut the door haha. Tracting is the best....

- We also got dropped by 3 of our investigators which is really frustrating and discouraging, but GUESS WHAT!? Terry is getting baptized next week!! So we are still blessed and very thankful that we can physically see our work efforts going forth and are able to see changes people are making in their lives because they come to know the truthfulness of this gospel!!

Seriously, this is the true church. I would NOT be here on a mission for 18 months in the middle of no-where Mississippi if I didn't want to share the truth with others who don't know about it. It's hard, but so rewarding. I LOVE the people here in Mississippi, and the weather is getting cooler too! Hopefully it stays that way!! Because we love being outside right now! Sis.Hunt and I are doing awesome!! I am so grateful for her and we never want to get transferred and taken away from each other haha. She makes missionary life the best.

p.s: We proselyte at football games in our town on the weekends. No, we are not on dates with other missionaries lol.. that's dumb. Passing out Book of Mormons at a football games is where it's at though!! @ MJMmissionaries

Love you all! Talk to you next Monday!!

XoXo, Sister DeCamp

Week 55

Hey everyone!

This week was a good week and really funny! It started out with both of us getting sick though and we felt like we got hit by trucks. But we made it though! 

On Wednesday we were doing our personal study and randomly checked our phone. We were under tornado warning and a tornado had touched down about 15 miles from where we live! So that was nutty! There were 4 tornadoes on Wednesday in the Hburg area! So that was crazy!! Sis hunt had bever been in a tornado warning.. we ended up hiding in the tub haha it was so funny!

Thursday we went tracting and this man was so anti it was funny and we turned around and his lamp fell over and shattered... he looked at us like we had devil powers.. it  was pretty funny actually we were trying really hard not to laugh.

Saturday we tracted all day long and around 4 we headed into the city for a dinner appointment/ to visit some members. Well we went to a members donut shop and and they werent there but we both felt like we were about to fall asleep because we had taken some nyquil the night prior.. and yeah that stuff is strong.. well anyway we decided that we would take a quick 5 minute power nap. And a member came and knocked on out window and scared us so bad! It was so funny. But then we went to our dinner appointment and had Filipino food! Sis hunt was in paradise (she is half Filipino) 

Sunday was a struggle! We had to be at the church at 7 and we live 30 minutes away from it. But we made it on time! We also had an awesome appointment after churh with the Trussll's ! They are one of the most amazing families I have ever met! They are really missionary oriented. They have 2 kids out on missions- I actually met one of them in the MTC- And at dinner they brought the cutest lady and we had a really good lesson on the Book of Mormon and then after our lesson she told us she wanted us to come and read with her weekly and wanted to learn more about it. So that was amazing! And Then we had some other appointments with a lot of people that have a lot of potential! It was a good week! A kid bore his testimony about his mom and said " she is like the spirit, but louder!" It was funny but I sat there and thought about how true it was. Mom really is like the spirit but louder.. ha! Thanks for that mom! Sometimes I need to be told in more than just a whisper.

Last night was fun as well! We got invited over to the Duff's home for dinner. It was really fancy for labor day but hey I'm not complaining! It was also one of the most spiritual lessons I have had on my mission. The spirit was so strong there. We talked about sacrifice and that led into us bearing our testimonies and we had a mini testimony meeting with everyone there. And everyone participated. It was really amazing. It is so cool how much the spirit can work on people and how present it can be when you are talking about Christ.

I know that this church is true and that is is Christ's church once again on the earth today. I am so thankful for my testimony. I know that without it I would be lost. But with it I can have joy. And that is a pretty amazing thing to know. That even in our hardest and darkest times, we can still feel joy.

I know that the Book Of Mormon is the word of God and it is the truest book we have on this earth. I challenge anyone that hasn't read it to read it and pray about it and find out for themselves if it is true or not. 

I hope you all have a blessed week!

Much love,

Sister DeCamp

Week 41

Hey y'all! This week was a great week! There are some changes being made in the QC ward and it's awesome! The new bishop is really trying to pump up the ward with missionary work! So that is great and he is mixing almost everything up. It'e keeping us on our toes, that's for sure! 

This week we had both Zone Conference and exchanges! I loved it! Zone conference always gets me pumped up! And I love being able to see all of the great people in the zone! At conference we watched a video that I will attach to my email. It was so good! And so powerful! 

On exchanges I got to go with the lovely Sister Latimer! She is so fun and such a great example of charity. She is a stellar missionary and so it was a lot of fun to work with her and see the way she does things. You can learn a lot from exchanges sometimes! 

Y'all! I have a serious testimony in the Book of Mormon! We have an investigator named Dorthy who has been coming to church off and on for ever!! But never read the Book of Mormon. And so when she came it was for a friend or something. And she would never come if it was bad weather. Well since she has started to read the Book of Mormon she has come to church on her own. And yesterday she came and we had a really bad storm! It was awesome! She's the coolest. Also if anyone knows of a good single Mormon man ages 73-75 for her to date. Please let me know. She is looking (; haha 

Have a blessed week! Remember to read from the Book of Mormon! It's the best!!

Love,

Sister DeCamp 

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