November 26th, 2010

Letter by email:

Forward this to everyone in our family , Kenzie Courtney.Thank you so much for all of your prayers and also you words of support and love. I have felt the spirit so strong these past two weeks while i have been here. Our sunday fireside was awesome and it made me feel great.When we sang the opening songs we got to sing like four hymns and i thought that was pretty dang cool because when i sing now the spirit is so strong because all of the words hit me so much. When the songs speak about how much our savior loves us and serving him and how he is there for us i get pretty emotional and im not able to sing becaus ei cant get the words to come out but i just keep reading as the words go by on the screen. In class wednesday night our teacher was a sub that we had had once before and he taught us how to commit our investigators with power and he gave us hints on how to accomplish this. He had us practice with our partners and my companion isnt very good with speaking and when we teach he struggles for words a lot but when he invited me to read and pray to find out if the book of mormon is true and promised me blessings then testified of it he did this with out struggling for words and it was powerful and i could feel the holy ghost burning inside of me and i thought it was incredible how he did this when he had trouble before. Then it was my turn to testify to him and i had the spirit so strong i was so confident and i looked him in the eyes and told him how blessed he would be and i testified how it has blessed my life and that i know wihtout a doubt of its truthfulness and then i said to him Elder Justesen will you read and ponder specifically third nephi 11 and pray to know if the book of mormon is the true word of God.When i said this it felt as if the holy ghost was burning out of me as if flames of truth were coming from my body i felt so incredible my joy was so great i was so happy and i knew that this is what im supposed to be doing and i cant wait to be able to look my investigators in the eyes and promise them this and testify to them and see changes take place in their lives it truely had made me so happy once i had done this i was so thankful that he had challenged us to do this. Then we had elder Per g Malm speak to us and it was very uplifting and his accent was way awesome he is sveedish ha ha but he was also funny. Then thursday morning we had a devotional and we were singing and i was feeling the spirit strong again and danget i was getting emotional again around all the elders but all the sudden durring a song Elder Jeffrey R holland Walked into the building and we all stood and a rush of emotion hit me and i felt gods love for me so strong again because he loved us so much that he provided an Elder to speak for us on thanxgiving it was awesome. After our devotionals we have a review on them and we all bear our testimony on how they affect us and what we think of them in our district and the spirit is strong. But it makes me so happy to see that even though i have seen the 12 elders in our district almost all get teary eyed probably from being homesick they all love there heavenly father so much because they show it in there testimonies. The last thing i will share is that one kid in our district had a bad past with law and such and his friends werent the best but i didnt think he would make it and i couldnt figure him out but i felt so bad but also so loved that when he bore his testimony for us he said and i just like to say that all of you are my friends and he got teared eyed and then so did i it made me change my whole view on him and he is a great friend also. I love you guys so much again thank you for your letters and your dear elders they are awesome i am doing great here at the MTC love Elder Christoffersen

November 20th, 2010

Letter by email:

The Mtc is pretty cool here the food is pretty good i like how we can eat as much as we want. My first day was pretty rough and the only thing that is keeping me happy is the comfort of the holy ghost and your letters. Im doing good right now i can bare testimony in spanish and also pray in spanish. My companion at first had way bad homesickness and i prayed so hard for him to be able to have comfort. I have never had that strong of a burning inside of me when i prayed for him. He got a blessing and decided that he was going to stay and not go home he was way close to leaving. Me and him get a long pretty well but he doesnt like to study as well as i would like. My p day next week is going to be friday so ill be emailing around this time or a little bit earlier. I did have dads debit card ha ha and i mailed it home today so it should be there monday if not watch the account i need a picture of our family and also the one of kenzie in my room on my dresser. We study almost all day but i like it because it brings the spirit and i need it almost as much as i need air. Gym for me is usually at 635 am ha ha so its hard to get good for a bit but its pretty fun. 650 missionaries came when i did because of thanksgiving week so it can be crouded. but its way awesome because me and 3 other companions in my district are going to santa cruz and i think im leaving around the 6th of december to peru. Keep sending dear elders they bring me great comfort and thank you for the heart letter it was so precious. Dont take the spirit for grannit its worth more then anything to me right now i cant stress that enough. I look forward to emailing you next week and i hear sunday is way awesome so i cant wait I miss you and hope for the best for all of you guys ill respond to your dear elders its easir to do that then to try to read emails while i have 30 minutes to type love you so much!

Elder Camron Christoffersen

Contact Elder Christoffersen

Here is some of the many ways you can contact Elder Christoffersen.

Good ol' Snail Mail:
Elder Camron Christoffersen
MTC mailbox # 289
BOL-SC 0126
2005 N 900 E
Provo, UT 84604-1793

Super Easy and quick: http://www.dearelder.com/ , they will print your letter and deliver it the same day you wrote it.

Or you can email him: camron.christoffersen@myldsmail.net (he likes hard copy letters better than emails since he only gets 30 minutes on the computer).

Once Camron reaches the MTC in Peru, (approximately Dec 1st) his mailing address will be:
Elder Camron Christoffersen
Peru MTC
Centro de Capacita Missional
Melgarejo 159
La Molina
Amazonas 12
Peru

In the Mission Field in Bloivia, Camron can recieve letters through pouch. That address is:
Elder Camron Christoffersen
Bolivia Santa Cruz Mission
POB 30150
Salt Lake City, Utah 84130-0150

Hope that helps you to contact him as soon and as often as possible. He loves your letters!

MTC

Dad wanted to have a blog for Camron with the letters and pictures that he sends home. So here it is. These are the pictures that were taken the day Camron was sent to the MTC.

After breakfast, we went over to the Provo temple to take some pictures.

I love this picture. You can tell how much Payton loves her Uncle Camron.

Carli really had a hard time with Camron leaving. They are such good buddies.

They have the MTC set up to get the missionaries in and and the families out as fast as possible. They do it so fast that you don't have time to even think about crying.

Here is the last we saw of Camron as he was led away.

Camron is going to be such an awesome missionary. We all ready miss you cam!