12/17/2012

Hello one and all!

First of all, I cannot believe that Rissa is going to Honduras! I am so excited!!!!! You are going to so wonderful J I can’t wait to hear your mission stories!

Transfer calls came and Sister Bushman and I are staying here in the Idaho Falls Central area. Here is the really cool part…WE ARE GETTING A CAR! And I’m the driver. I don’t know if it’s cool that I’m the driver since everyone says I’m a bad driver, but maybe now that I’m a missionary, I will be better? We will see J Sister Bushman is in for a treat!

I can’t believe how fast Christmas is coming! We are spending Christmas Eve at the Pace’s. They do a talent show so I’m thinking about taking a dart gun and having a battle with everyone? I don’t know what else I would do. We are spending Christmas day at the Wahlquist’s. They do the dart gun fight too!!! I’m so excited. We are going to skype with family at their house and eat lots of food.

I guess we were supposed to speak and do a musical number in a ward this past week….but they never told us. Oops!

I saw so many people at the visitors’ center this past week! Teerah (My roommate at BYU-I) came in! She is leaving for her mission in Milan Italy January 16^th. It was great to see her and catch up! Then I saw Bishop Birch (My bishop from BYU-I that helped me with my mission papers), My neighbor at BYU-I Rebecca came in…she has her mission papers in!!!  Then I saw Cort, Chandler, Parker and Camille!!!! I was outside by the temple and I see Cort and a baby come around the corner and I got so excited!!! It was so great to see them! Rissa's roommate Melanie came in to give me a package from rissa. We chatted for quite a bit. She looooves rissa!

On Saturday, there were 12 weddings in the morning, lucky for us (not) we got to work at the VC! There was only standing room, and it was so noisy! And the newly -weds are always so mushy gushy yuck! One of Sister Bushman's friends got married, so we got to so see them after they came out of the temple.

At church we got to teach the young women about missionary work. We talked about why we went on missions and how to prepare.

Last night, our investigator Kyle and his parents, and a family from the ward (The Grimoud’s) came into the visitor’s center for a Christmas message J There is a guy named Brad that comes into the VC a lot and he was here last night. He came in to watch the movie with everyone and afterwards he asked if he could sing a solo. So I played silent night for him while he sang it. It was the sweetest thing! And he was so excited because it was his first solo ever. I just love the Christmas season! So much love and giving!!!

Yesterday, there was this 8 year old boy in here all by himself. His name is Chance. His parents let him ride bike here and he just has to be home before dark. So he will stay here for hours. I hung out with him yesterday and we talked a lot about the church. He really wants to get baptized, but his family isn't too keen on that idea. We will see...maybe he will just keep coming to the VC!

Well I love you all so much! Thank you for the Christmas cards! You are all beautiful!

Love,

Cam