April 1, 2011

I apologize for this being late... you know how life gets!
-Camille

Hey! Thanks for offering to help, but some kids were playing on the keyboard in the chapel and it broke, so there is no more piano playing happening in our branch for now haha. As soon as the books come in from the office, I will be teaching a music directing class though! We are teaching an English class every Saturday morning and we´ve got about 20 students, so cool! I love teaching!

I love conference so much. I always get answers to questions I didn´t even know I had, but things that I really needed to hear. It amazes me every time. I was walking down the street after it ended thinking about how many people have never felt the kind of joy that I have just from having the Gospel in my life and having the privlidge of feeling the Spirit as strongly as I do in my life. I´ve realized more and more how important the skill of learning to recognize and follow the Spirit is, and how the most important thing we can do to develop that ability is to ACT! I believe it was Elder Bednar(?) who talked about that.

 In our zone meeting on Friday we read a scripture in Mosiah about the warriors who "Fought like dragons... fought like Lions for their prey" and talked about why we as missionaries want to fight like dragons. It was really cool for me to think about how many times I know that Christ has fought valiantly against all sorts of adversity to protect and save me from both physical and spiritual harm, how I depend on Him to do that constantly, and how I should, in return, do that for Him to the best of my ability.

We have some really awesome investigators and are enjoying teaching and helping other people take the next steps in building their faith in Jesus Christ. It is amazing the ways that my testimony of Him has grown through having the opportunity to use it to help others everyday. I started writing down at least 3 reasons everyday that I´m glad to be a missionary, and that seems to be a reoccuring theme, how I am so grateful that I have ample opportunities to bear my testimony, because it gets stronger and firmer every time.

Anyway, that´s what´s been going on with me. Love you!