Friday was awesome! We had our studies and then the ever so wonderful weekly planning! about three hours after that we left to go eat dinner with some of the service missionaries from Walnut Creek that serve in our branch, the Olesons! They took us to this place called Round Table Pizza, and it was super good. They are so awesome! They only wanted to talk about missionary work and it was a super fun dinner! After that we went over to Jonathan and Chantha's house to teach Jonathan the last lesson before his interview! We talked about the temple with him and Chantha, it was a great lesson! He said he just wants to never stop learning about the gospel. He understands everything we teach him and relates it to what is taught in the Old Testament, cause that is what he is really familiar with. He can see correlations in everything, it's amazing!
Saturday we had a lesson with a less active named Sareouth, and he is really similar to this one Investigator in the MTC named Om Tawn, except he has already been baptized. He Never wants to do anything because he thinks god doesn't like him and he is always sick and uses that as an excuse not to go to church, but he likes having us over to his house, so we aren't sure what exactly his real problem is, so we just need to keep working with him to feel the love of christ. Next we went to Yiay Sokham Pleks house! She is this super sweet old little cambodian lady, she is like 4'10 and is really funny and gets mad when we don't call her grandma haha! All her family are nonmembers, and she is the happiest little lady! Her 82nd Birthday is coming up soon too! Brother Oleson went with us to her house, it was really awesome! We talked about the plan of salvation with her, she loved it haha! after that we went to find some less actives, because our third lesson fell through, and after visiting some houses in Oakland, we drove to Walnut Creek for Stake Conference!! There was a dinner we were invited to go to at some other service missionaries house near the stake center, and it was amazing. They had an awesome Brick-oven pizza dinner with the branch right before the conference, and then we went over to conference! It was a great conference, they talked a ton about member missionary work, Which we loved!!
Sunday was day 2 of Stake conference! We got to go to the ISC next to the temple for our conference, it's like a mini Conference center and it's really cool haha! we were on the third speaker though, and in the middle of his talk, the Power went out!! It was hilarious! It was just pitch black and people started to panic a little, and then all of a sudden the speaker just yelled "Well I can't have been that bad!" it was hilarious. We just all started singing hymns and the stake president bore his testimony yelling and it was the best stake conference I've ever been to. I really wanted to take a picture or something, but I mean it was dark and you couldn't see, so I didn't. We went back to our apartment after that to finish our studies, then we had a lesson with Lyana at the Visitors center before the "Why I Believe" fireside. The fireside was super cool, cause this one guy told about how he got taken prisoner by the Russian Government and tortured because he refused to conform to society, and then he came to America and some sister missionaries found him and he got baptized! It was awesome. His testimony was awesome. The church is true. It has answers to every individuals specific questions and can help everyone know that God truly loves them. I love going and helping people find those specific answers they need and showing them that Love, theres no where I'd rather be!! I love you all!
Love,
Elder Cameron Tolman
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