Camron's letter.......July 2, 2011

Hola Familia, This week was pretty good but kind of sad because my comp got sick because he didn't have his wisdom teeth taken out before his mission. He is now paying the price for it. Fortunately he's doing a lot better today but he's still swollen. It does seem like the medicine he took really helped him out. We are going to Santa Cruz Tuesday to go to the council meeting with President, so we'll be able to go to the dentist to see what needs to be done with his teeth. But it was kind of cool because I got to go work in Brazil for two days because one of the missionaries in that area got a stomach bacteria. So me and his companion went there because they had some pretty important appointments. It's crazy because pure Portuguese is a 100 percent change in language. I felt like a new missionary again, ha ha. I couldn't hardly teach at all, but I did bare my testimony in Portuguese. But what was really cool was that the spirit over came me and I could bare my testimony with confidence even though I know that I probably said some things incorrectly. One of the investigators said "amen" after I'd born my testimony and helped me to understand that the holy ghost carried the words to his heart and showed him that it was true. It is so awesome to feel the spirit when the words come from a different language. But you can tell that Brazil is a lot better off economically because the area the missionaries have is a poorer area in Brazil, but it's still a whole lot better off than the majority of the places here in Bolivia. But we were very blessed to have a family come to church this week. It was the same family that came to church last week (because they had to go to La Paz ) But this family really shocked us when they came. For the last 5 months, only the son had been going to church, but he always came. Even when he had to do a parade thing for school as an assignment he still came to church and I'm sure it helped his family out a lot to gain strength to go to church. It just comes to show how important it is to be an example at all times. Especially if you want to help out a loved one. If you truly put God first and do his will, He will be able to bless you and those around you. If we always decide to put Him first, we will always be able to see and receive precious blessings in our lives. We really hope that we can be able to help out these families. We also hope that we will be able to be tools in the Lord's hands to help bring to pass His work and his glory for them. I have truly understood this week one of the biggest tools to success is humility. You always need to understand that everything depends on the Lord and every blessing we receive depends our desire to receive His help. I hope you all have an awesome week and try to depend on the Lord by doing everything possible to get to that point.   Love, Elder Christoffersen