Monday, April 17, 2017

Hello Everyone and Happy Easter,

I hope that you all had a great Easter and a remembered the true meaning of Easter and enjoyed time with family!! This week was good.  This last week it rained everyday for most of the day. That is great. It was really dry here, but now it is starting to turn greener. We had a good work week and have a good group of people that we are teaching and helping. We were able to get 7 investigators and 2 in-actives to church yesterday which was so great. We are really excited to help them and see where things go with them. Here in Brazil the week of Easter is Semana Santa or the holy week. On Thursday everything starts shutting down, all but the grocery stores. They have a tradition to only eat fish and white rice and no meat for the week to remember Christ's death. So a funny story about that: a member asked if in the US we have this celebration and I told him that we didn't.  He responded by saying, "só doido brazil tem esta tradição" which is, only stupid Brazil has this tradition. He went off because he doesn't like fish. It was hilarious. I guess you had to be there, haha.  We were able to spend time with a family in the branch and eat with them for Easter and it was great. There was great food and a great dessert so I loved it.  I would encourage you all to read in the Bible in the book of John 3:16 a great scripture I found for the past week.

 With all the rain the river isn't all the way dry, it has some water in it and is flowing.

Junior opening his mission call.

Mom: Hey Cam, I may not be able to e-mail you as much today. You are a third of the way done with your mission Cam.  That seems so crazy...

Cam:  Ya, I got your letter that said you may not be able to e-mail the whole time.  It sounds like you had an eventful week. 

Mom:  I surely did.  I am glad Mine and Annie's flat tire situation didn't turn out any worse than it could have. Tell me a lot about this week so I don't get as sad not being able to e-mail you very much.

Cam:  President and Sister Gomes came to our branch.  I am going to the doctor this week.  I talked to one over the phone.  It was an American one.  But they don't have what I need here to buy.  

Edinaldo was called as 2nd counselor of the branch.  He has only been a member for two years.  He is so great.  He always helps us.  I am so happy when he got called.  Junior got his call and he was called to Manaus, Brazil which is the Amazon.  It was a great meeting they had for him opening it.  Everyone said something about him.  I just said how great he will be and then talked to his parents because they were crying.  They aren't members and I just told them of all the blessings they will have and I ended up crying.  Everyone was crying talking about him.  Everyone loves him.  It was so great his parents could feel the spirit and cry. 

Mom:  Cameron that is so awesome!  You were meant to be there and you will do great work!  I love you so much...

Cam:  I love you mom and have a good time with the Elders.  Have a good week. I love you!

*Cameron told his dad that Leticia asked the mission president if they would be able to baptize her in May.  So, hopefully she gets married.  He asked for some money to be transferred to his account so he could help out Junior (some $ for his mission)