Year Mark!

1 year down! Here are some stats of some things I have accomplished this year:

0 crashes on a bike 

1 pinch flat from trying to hop onto something

43820483920 bed bugs

1.0 watts/kilo (decrease in bike gainz) 

infinite amount of spiritual gains

1 dogs kicked that bit me

6-0 record for street ball games in my proselyting clothes 

20 houses mucked out

13 3 pointers made in a row

54 freethrows in a row

1 begotten son in the mission

2 bridges climbed on my bike

Thats just a short list of the many things that have happened this year. I have grown more this year than any other year of my life and I am so grateful for the opporunity to be out here. 

This week we had our investigators Jonathan Smith and Samantha Binder both get confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! We are working on getting them to the temple on September 14th with a family name so good things ahead!

Samantha's Baptism

We had an amazing lesson with this lady named Sister Turner. She isn't a memeber of the church but we had an awesome lesson and the spirit was super strong. After she said, "I am 5 steps away from converting" I thought well so is everyone: faith, repentance, baptism, recieiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end! But she is doing really awesome and loved church this Sunday! We just have to help get her husband on board and she and her family will get baptized!

We went on exchanges this week with the Assistants. I went with Elder Mills and he is just like me haha! He loves to mountain bike and he is from Heber UT. He will probably be one of my good friends for life. We had an awesome day and got to teach our investigator Carl. Carl has had 2 baptism dates and we filled up the font twice but he bailed because his family has been having a really hard time. We had an amazing lesson with him and he is praying about what he can do to help the situation. We brought him to the mission presidents fireside and had gotten his own quad with his name on it so I think he is doing pretty well. 

This week I finally just made time to memorize The Living Christ and it is such a profound document teaching about who the Savior is. Of all the things I have done this year the best thing is I have learned more about Him and His gospel which is the path to happiness in this life. I love you all and I'm looking forward to another great year! 

Elder Cameron Larson  

Mom’s Questions

In what way are you and your companion similar and in what way are you different?

We are actually pretty different in a lot of ways. He likes to plan things out a lot and I'd rather just get an outline and then just go with it. He is not a morning person either haha I like to get up early and work out :) We are both similar in that we want to work hard and get things done in this area so that is all that really matters. 

Did you get your package?

Yes, I got the package thank you so much! 

Did you do anything to celebrate your year mark?

We were supposed to have a double baptism so that is what I was planning on. We still had 1 of them go through though!