DOING FABULOUS THINGS....

Family,

Hey, how is everybody doing? I'm doing great.... well transfer calls came last night. I felt pretty good about staying all last week until about Sunday, then on Sunday and Monday I had convinced myself that I was the one leaving. Then with our calls last night we found out that.... we are both staying. I am going to grace Craig, Colorado with my presence for yet another six weeks. I'm kidding.. I am VERY excited though. I love it here. I've grown attached to a lot of the people, they're great. Elder Plunkett (from Hawaii), one of the Craig First Ward Elders is staying also, he's been here as long as I have. He has been out one transfer longer than I have. He says when he gets home he'll stay in Hawaii for a bit but then go back to Orem, UT to school at Utah Valley University. And that when I get home I'll have to meet him there and we'll come back to Craig together sometime.. I think that'd be a blast.

Anyways... we do have one baptism soon. Her name is Terisa Weeks. She loves genealogy she is related to Lucy Mack Smith and Warren Foot who traveled with Joseph Smith. Her great-uncle was a member of a quorum of the Seventy in the 50s and 60s. We will set the baptismal date with her tonight when we see her. I am very excited. It was cool the way we found her. She used to take the lessons from missionaries about a year ago but she said she hasn't seen missionaries in over eight months...that was in March when we found her. Anyways I was looking through our Area Book and through the Former Investigators and I saw her name and read the description about her and couldn't understand why she has been dropped as an investigator. So I, after a while, convinced Elder Hendrickson to go and see her. I don't know why he didn't want to. But we went and we found her and the funny thing was that about two weeks before we showed up her uncle sent her a copy of the Book of Mormon to read. Then about a week ago we were teaching the "Welding Link" lesson; talking about how if they make this decision to be baptized they have the opportunity to bring the Gospel into their ancestors lives as well as they're posterity's lives, thus bring thousands upon thousands to Christ. That touched her a lot. I also told her that her ancestors and/or relatives who have yet to come to the earth are possibly the ones who inspired me to go and see her, her uncle to send her a copy of the Book of Mormon, and for her to continue on learning and applying the Gospel in her life because they need her to make this decision. That really hit her and I know that she felt the Spirit. It was great. The Welding Link is a very powerful lesson, especially to one who loves family history.

Another reason why I really am glad I am staying here is because of this young kid named Ryan Hitt. He's 9 years old and he's become like my little brother. We tease each other and play jokes on each other and just always have a good time. His mom and dad are divorced and his mom joined the church a year ago. She only has custody of him every once in a while so when ever she does we go and see him. His dad will not let him be baptized. But we're waiting because they go to court soon to find out more about the custody battle, its a long complicated story but there is a possiblilty that she'll get full-custody of him and his dad might spend 6 months in Jail and/or pay a very big fine because he did not follow the court orders with the guidlines to who has him when. So if April (his mom) doesn't get custody of him Ryan is planning on being baptized when he turns eighteen and I told him to let me know if that's happening because I am going to come back down to Craig, or where ever that is to be there. He also wants to serve a mission, and I said I'd come for that too. Anyways... Ryan is a neat kid... I gave him one of my ties and he really liked that.. I signed the back of it for him too, he was excited. I think I'll probably miss him the most if I leave Craig. He's such a cool kid.

So, Elder Plunkett has this book that I've been looking at and I am finding it VERY interesting and fascinating... its called The Trial of the Stick of Joseph. Its about this man who, in the 50s, was in law school and for his class they had to either prosecute something or defend something. So he went up against his whole class and defended the Book of Mormon. And our religion is the ONLY religion proven true by a court of Law. I've been looking at it and I think I want my own copy of the book. Its written by a guy named Jack H. West. Its really good. I am going to ask Jared to see if he can get me a copy of it.

We had the chance last Saturday to see one of our investigators, Irving Guzman, ride a bull at a rodeo. It was neat... I realized that I was from Idaho and had cousins in rodeos but that was the first one I had ever been too. And here I am in a town that is very small and they live off rodeos... it was a good time and I think it was good to be there to support Irving. He banged up his elbow and knee pretty good but he came limping in to the Branch building the next morning. We don't get to church up in Baggs that often but we got to speak in sacrament meeting that day so Irving got to here us speak. We spoke on Salvation. I think we both, Elder Wilson, did very good jobs... I spoke for about 20-25 minutes and still cut about a third of my talk out. I enjoy speaking now. But I still haven't got to sing in sacrament meeting yet, which I'd really like to do.

So with my gaining wieght ... I am sending back my two pairs of jeans because... they're too tight and I think I'm growing taller too because they're just a tiny bit too short. So I am going to get some more jeans soon... one for service and one to wear on P-days.


I love you all and thank you for everything.
I miss you,
Your son,
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-Elder Cameron Landon