Week 102 Pics

Week 102

I did it!

I don't feel like writing anything today, if you really want to know how my week was, talk to me in a couple days, or shoot me an email (: 

My mission has been un-matchable. I love the gospel. I love the Lord for what he has given me while I've been here. I had my exit interview about an hour ago, we have dinner with our bishop tonight, then we will go proselyte one last time, then that's it. I'll be in Oakland for 24 hours, then I'll be home. (:

I don't have anything to say. Hopefully I'll see a lot of Y'all this next week! If you want to see me before Sunday, sorry, you'll have to talk to my Mom. Alright. Deuces.

Love,
Elder Cameron Ellis Tolman

Week 101 pics

Here's last weeks pday...

we went to the Hayward shoreline trail, it was neat. 

 Here's a picture of elder Gomez doing our Monday morning call in the Chinese elders house.

Week 101

 This is if folks!

Days. I feel pretty good. This will be pretty brief.

So this last week we worked super hard. We had a lot of preparation to do for this week with going to the temple, stake reports, and MLC, so we had to take full advantage of what time we had! 

In the end, we didn't see the results we wanted from our work, to be totally honest last week was really slow in regards to finding. Three of our investigators dropped us, we are probably going to have to pass off our only investigators that are progressing to the Oakland Elders so that they can get taught more, and we didn't find anyone new, so this next week we will be hard pressed to find and teach. We had a really good talk with the high councilor for missionary work in the stake this week about what's going on in our ward, and we have some solid goals right now for what we want to see happen! I have a goal to find 15 total investigators this transfer (that's a lot in our zone) and we are at 10 right now, so we will be in search of miracles this week! I hope everyone is doing well! I love you all very much, I try to say that every week because it's true. I appreciate all your letters and support over the last two years. I'm excited to see everyone soon! I have to go, we have short email time today because we are going to the temple tomorrow! Have a good week!!

Love,
Elder Cameron Tolman

PS- I don't remember if I've said this yet, but my homecoming talk is on Sunday June 18th at 

2:50. The Address is 14550 Juniper Crest Rd, Herriman, UT 84096

Week 100 pics

Here's a few pictures...

We found these shoes at our chapel.

Waiting for James and Geri. 

The end of our bike day.

 Rainbow pizza.

Week 100

Haha! The Lord is good ladies and gentlemen...

Monday we had a zone musical number practice for zone conference, but we don't need to talk about that.

Tuesday we had THE LAST APPOINTMENT for Elder Gomez's teeth. It's all finished and he is totally fine now. thank goodness. We ate lunch with the walnut creek zone leaders elder henson and elder Tu'ua after. that was a nice treat. next we headed back to our area and ate dinner haha, then we tried to go see the Assyrian family, but they ignored us... we were really sad to say the least. The rest of our night followed the same pattern of getting ignored.

Wednesday we went out on bikes for the day, president asked us to test sacrificing one day a week to only ride bikes, so we did. the problem was that we only had one bike because elder gomez's bike finished getting fixed that day, so we had planned to pick it up after our service that was close by. It started out really off track, because one of the spanish elders was sick, and they needed to go to a baptismal interview for their investigators, so we walked to their apartment, and I stayed with him while elder gomez went to service and to the interview. After that we walked to the feiks house to grab the second bike, and then brother feik told us they will probably move when he quits his job soon, so that was sad to hear for the ward (everyone in our ward is moving to utah right now, we have lost 43 members since I got here in February). Next we went to put together our training for Zone conference the following day, then we ate dinner with the wonderful Vaioga family, and after that we started to go visit a nearby member when we got a call that two men from afghanistan had just walked into the chapel and asked how they can feel the spirit, brother kelley asked if we were anywhere close to the chapel (which we weren't) and then asked if we could make our way over to teach them. We managed to get there in ten minutes, and then taught them lesson one with lots of Islamic interpolations in between. In the end it all worked out and we got a return appointment for the following day. Cool. Next we had to go back to where we came from and teach james and Geraldine. We got there 20 minutes late because of our mulsim friends showing up and our lack of a car. We went up too the door (with their new home teacher brother Jones) and didn't receive any answer. hmm. Very odd for them to miss an appointment. We waited for them to come, and no one came. It was really strange. anyway, that was sad, but we headed home and worked into the night to finish our training. 

Thursday was zone conference. It was alright, It was all about acting and understanding the spirit, which I love, thats one of my favorite things to learn about, I mostly got to teach about it though, so it was just really long, a blessing nonetheless. After we went out to eat with the Tarbuttons and the San Mateo Zone Leaders. Good times. Then we went tracting and found yet another family! the olnly problem was they speak spanish, but not too big of a problem for elder gomez. Woo! after that  our day was pretty much over.

Friday was stake reports and then we ate dinner at a members and then nothing happened the rest of the day and I feel to lazy to write

Saturday was pretty much the same as the rest of the week, just on exchange with Elder Habel, so it was especially fun.

Sunday was crazy, our bishop set a baptismal date with our investigator again, so that was a problem, but then our investigator came to church with his fiance and his baby mama, and we added the baby mama as an investigator. THEN he was asking us about polygamy after, so we are really scared. Luckily he is only having the baby mama (sorry her name is tasha) around because she was diagnosed with cancer and then his fiance invited her to live with them, so none of it was his plan. Either way, he still needs to get married before he can get baptized, we don't really care to who as long as it happens. Then at the end of church, an entire Indian family walked in and asked if we believe in Christ! We told them yes and that our english meetings were over, and that we could come to their home and meet with them and teach them about Christ, so that was the miracle of miracles for the week. The Lord rewarded us at the very very end of the week greatly. Almost all of the measureable success we had happened on Sunday, it was awesome. I am three investigators away from reaching my new investigator goal for the transfer, and I couldn't be happier. I hope everyone has a great week! 

Elder Tolman

Week 99 Pictures

Here's English class on exchanges

and the Overtons!

We went to Sonic today as well.