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

Week 25

Hey y'all!

Transfer calls came bright and early this morning and I will be leaving the City of Gold tonight! It was a bittersweet call but I could not be more excited as to what is in store next! 

This week was a really cool and spiritual week! On Saturday we were able to travel to Jackson Mississippi as an entire mission and meet Elder Jeffrey R. Holland! He truly is an apostle of the Lord! He is also very passionate about missionary work. And his testimony of it is incredible! It was such an amazing and spiritually uplifting experience I will never forget it!  

Also this week we had some amazing progress with a cute couple! Their names are Dustyn and Dakoda and they are just the coolest people ever! We started teaching them about a month ago and this week we talked a lot about baptism but they said they wanted to pray about it and see if it was right for them. Well On Saturday night they took us out to eat and said they were feeling good about it but wanted a little more time to pray and really make sure. On Sunday they came to church and I told them I was leaving. They told me that I had to come back for their baptisms which I think took us all at surprise, because they had received their answers! It was the coolest! So hopefully this week they will have a date set and I will be able to figure out a way to make it back for that. (:  

Remember that the Lord ALWAYS answers your prayers, even if it's not exactly the way you thought he would. He is so mindful of us and cares and loves each of us so dearly! 

Have a Blessed week! Don't forget to pray!

-Sister DeCamp

Week 24

Hey y'all!

So this week was a really good and busy week. We have been working really hard and it is slowly starting to pay off! This week we were able to find a lot of new investigators. One was a miracle/ tender mercy of the Lord. We have an investigator named Dustyn and he was progressing really really well, then all of a sudden we hit a wall where he was always telling us he was too busy to meet with us and couldn't make our appointments because he would have to go to Louisiana. We were getting really confused. So we decided to just text him and see if he would have time to meet with us for 30 minutes and the ice cream shop in town. He said that would work great and he could do it. Well when we walk up we see him and a girl. We were excited to meet her and found out that is was his girlfriend who he had been helping move here from Louisiana who is really interested in the gospel and has actually taken lessons before! The Lord is great! 

 We also had a pretty neat experience this week with a family! We went tracting and decided to knock on a really pretty house, usually nobody is home or they aren't very accepting, but hey why not try. Well we knocked and they told us to come back is a few days. Usually means no in a kind way. Well we went back and were welcomed in. We got to talking and he said that he had a weird experience when we knocked on his door, That morning he had been looking at moving to Utah of all places and as he was googling it, he happened upon the Church's website and was looking at it. Then we showed up on his front porch! So that was pretty neat! We are now teaching them and they are a really awesome family!

Yesterday we had zone conference and it was such an uplifting day! It's always good to get those nice spiritual boosts!  We were talking about how we can find our answers through the Book of Mormon and it is true. You really can! So if you have a question pray about it read your scriptures write down your answer, pray read some more, revise your answer and apply it to you life. The Lord is mindful of us all and is waiting to bless us! And he will!! 

Have a blessed week! Love y'all!

-Sister DeCamp

Week 23

Hey Y'all!

So this week was a week of highs and a week of lows. But it was also a week of learning. We had interviews with President Olson and those always go great, and then we went on exchanges. I was down in Monroe with Sister Saunders and we got the cops called on us! That was really funny. And it has never happened to me yet. We ended up waiting for a while for them to come and they never did so we just left. We went to see one of their recent converts and she is AWESOME! Her name is Chelle. Probably one of the coolest people I've met and she told me that I needed to come down and be one of her missionaries. So that was exciting.   One of our elders ended up going home which is really sad but on the bright side we got a new one yesterday. He seems like he will do good for the area. 

It snowed here! And it was FREEZING! Humidity in the winter is not my favorite thing in the world. Ha. One super cool thing that happened this week was on Saturday both Sister Gunther and I were having bad days and we were at salvation army doing some service and we ran into Dianne! The lady that we met in the store at the beginning of December. Well she ended up telling us just how much we have influenced her life for the better and how because of what we did for her, her whole perspective has changed. And the crazy thing is that you could see the change! 

We were also walking down the street home and some random ward member from a different stake stopped us and gave us 20$ and told us to g get lunch, and then another ward member form our ward saw us walking and gave us a ride. It was a day of blessings. And we both really needed to see that the Lord loved us as much as he does. 

The church is true! The Lord is so mindful of all of us and he really does love each one of us and knows our needs. He hears our prayers! 

Remember to Trust Jesus- Jeffrey R. Holland.

Have a blessed week y'all! 

-Sister DeCamp

Week 22

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 

This year I celebrated in the New Year by going to some ward members house and watching them launch fireworks. It was a fun time with good company. In Relief Society we talked a lot about goals that we all set at the beginning of the year and how sometimes by 2 weeks we forget them or have already ruined them. It is so important to set realistic goals! So this year my goals were something that I thought would be challenging and still something I could do and if I mess up then I can restart on them. 

  Something great and exciting this week is that we set Dustin with a date! He is so cool! We have been meeting with him for about a month now and we asked him this last week how he felt when he prayed and read from the Book of Mormon- with tears in his eyes he said that he felt Joy. And it was a feeling that he wanted to keep and wanted in his life. It was such a cool experience.

 Also this past week we met with one of our investigators named Tat ( like tater tot) She is super cool. She is so sincere and just wants to improve her life. She says that every time we come over we bring happiness to her life. And then we have another lady we are teaching named Doris she is older and loves the Book of Mormon, we asked her if she had prayed about the Book of Mormon and she had and she said that she knew that it was true. She is also always talking about our light that we have. This past week so many people have pointed out the light that we have and that we are sharing with others. It is so amazing to hear because we are just being us. We are examples of Christ. So we are radiating with his light. We need to make sure that we are always setting a good example to others so we don't draw them away from the church. I was reading in Alma chapters 3-4 yesterday and it talked about how the pride of the people of the church made it a stumbling block for those not of the church. It was because they were not setting forth a good example. We never know who is watching us so we need to make sure that we are always being a good example even when we think that no one is watching. 

I hope y'all have the best week and make sure to set a good example to everyone you see! You never know who is watching you!  

-Sister DeCamp