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Oh yeah here’s a tack on for my email. Last night I had a Beatley dream.

It was preperation day and we were in Worland(Which is where we are going today for the day). We were going through some thrift shops. In the first one we went to there was a section of records, so I of course looked through them. I found this weird live Beatles record. Through dream logic I had previously bought a record like it, and so we went back to the house(Which in reality was like 3 hours away so this makes no sense) to grab the record and bring it to the store to see if it was the same record. It wasn’t the same one so I bought the other one as well. Then for some reason I hid the 2 records under these shelves while I looked some more records. Then we left the thrift store and I forgot to grab my 2 records.

Then we went to another thrift shop and they had a section of 45’s so I scanned through them, and I quickly found the Beatles section. Then I pulled out a 45 with a picture sleeve for Paul’s song “The Man”. The cover looked like the Say Say Say cover, but it had a blue overtone over Paul and Micheal, and in the middle there was a translucent purple face. I’m not sure who’s face though, maybe it was The Man’s face haha. Anyway I of course wanted to buy this, so I went up to the cashier to pay for it. My companion was anxious too leave the shop because he was bored and he wanted me to hurry up, so in my rush to the cashier I dropped the 45 just as I got up to the counter. I picked it up and gave it to the cashier and he was getting ready to have me pay for it, but then I saw that the 45 had shattered when I dropped it, so I told him nevermind. Then I went to put the 45 back, and I realized I had left my other 2 Beatles records at the other shop.

I then woke up and realized that I hadn’t actually bought any cool Beatles records, which was a tab bit sad.

Anyway, I thought maybe you guys would be interested to hear my Beatley dream.

WSC

Hey!

Well it’s a hello to all of you from Montana. It’s seems the towns keep getting smaller and smaller, becuse this one pretty darn small. I’ve gone from 6 eating places in my area to 3.

Also thank you all for the birthday wishes!

Monday: We went to Cody one last time for preperation day. In the evening we went and said goodbye to some people, and I worked on packing

Tuesday: I packed, we said goodbye to some people, then I had my last lesson in Lovell, then my last dinner appointment, then we went to the church and I was off to Billings for the night.

Wednesday: Wednesday morning at 5 o’clock, as the day begins, I headed off to the Mission home to start my trek to Fairfeild. We arrived to Helena and I met my new Zone Leaders. One of them has a sick first name, and the other is into collecting vinyl. We had a good discussion on the way to Great Falls about our record collections. At Great Falls I met my new companion. He is pretty cool. I drove to Fairfield because I am the designated driver for the area. This is my first time being designated driver on the mission. I don’t know why they thought it was a good idea to put the Vegas kid in charge of driving through the snowstorm that is Fairfield, Montana, but who am I to argue with the Lord.

Thursday: We went out tracting around as the wind began to blow and the sky began to snow. Around lunch time we went back to the house and decided to drive instead. We went around and met people in the ward, then in the evening I drove to the other side of our area and back for dinner in a descent blizzard. I can now say that I have driven through my first blizzard and survived. Hopefully but now likely it will be my last.

Friday: We went and attempted to make contact with some people in the area book. The weather was very nice compared to the previous day. I the evening we had a nice lesson with a less active member.

Saturday: We shoveled the snow on this lady’s walkway in the morning. In the afternoon we helped this guy chop some wood, and his family fed us dinner. In the evening we had a lesson with a couple that were recent converts. They were pretty cool.

Sunday: It was my first Sunday in 6 months where I only went to 3 hours of church. It was pretty cool. Afterwards we went to lunch at a members house, then we shoveled snow at this old lady’s house. In the evening we visited people in the care center.

Overall it was a pretty eventful week. I’m excited to serve in Montana, but driving through the snow will be an adventure. I’m excited, and by that I mean I’m slightly scared

I hope you all had a great week.

William Shears Campbell

Some Beatly things this week, and there were a few.

So a friend of mine emailed me and told me that there is a new Beatles documentary on Netflix that I will most likely watch in 18 months. I don’t know if you all are aware, but I thought I’d let you all know. I’m not sure what the documentary is called. My friend is not a big Beatles fan, but she just let me knoe, because I am a Beatles fan.

I heard Beatles songs this week.

First was the Wings Over America version of Maybe I’m Amazed in a gas station.
The next was A Hard Day’s Night in Walmart.

Speaking of Walmart my new companion had a tradition with his previous companion where they would go look at and sometimes buy hotwheel cars anytime they went to Walmart. So we went to look at the hotwheel cars and I saw Yellow Submarine cars, so of course at 97cents a piece, I had to buy them. I found 4 there, but aperently there are 6 in the set, so I’ll have to look for the other two today.

We went to lunch in Helena at this restaurant, and they had a bunch of picture discs hanging from he ceiling. There were 4 Beatles ones. One was a cut out one, which I attached a picture of. Then there was normal picture discs of Abbey Road , Sgt Pepper ‘s, and the From Me To You /Thank You Girl single. Sadly those were in the middle and difficult to get pictures of.

So my new zone leader, the one that is into record collecting, is not into the Beatles, but wants to explore them when he gets home. He asked me to give him the necessities. Since he is a record collecor, I explained the UK US album thing, so he would understand why PPM –Revolver are like impossible to find this country unless you buy the new reissues. He has heard some Beatles stuff in the past and he really likes it, so I don’t think there is too much selling I need to do, which is awesome. That being said we might have a new blossoming Beatles fan in the so ming months.

That is about all

Side 2, here I come!

Pics

1. The Beatles picture disc
2. The Yellow Submarine Hotwheels. These are the John, Paul, Geoge, and Ringo cars. There is also a Yellow Submarine car and a Blue Meanie car.

I assume you mean this gem:

12 reasonable people on a jury.

After we made a decision on the case, we sat in the jury room until we were called back to the jury box for the decision to be read in open court. While waiting, we were just bantering about. One juror said that this country was going to need to come together, and the sooner the better. I said, “That reminds me of a Beatles song.” Twelve reasonable people started singing

Come Together, right now, over me.

We sounded fairly decent in that tiny jury room.

Hello everybody!

It’s a busy week in Fairfield with moving(details in the weekly)

Monday: So one thing I learned when I first got here, the house that we live in was sold by our landlord to this lady and we had to be out by the end of the month. Well in the morning we learned that that was shortened to Sunday, and then Friday. The reason we had to move out earlier was because the lady wants to paint the house before she moves in. She did say that we can move into the trailer she’s in right now, but she’s not moving out of it until she paints the house, so basically she expects us to live on the streets for 2 weeks. Luckily this family had just recently moved to the other side of the ward and they let us move into their old house for the next couple weeks before they sell it. It the afternoon we headed to Great Falls and hung out with our zone. Then our zone went to the stake president’s house for dinner where there was a chocolate fountain! Then we had a meeting to see how the work is going in the stake.

Tuesday: In the morning we went to shovel this lady’s walkway, and went to contact a few people. Then we packed for a bit. In the evening we contacted a few more people and got some boxes for moving.

Wednesday: We had district meeting in the morning in Great Falls, then afterwards dictrict lunch with our weekly free Dairyqueen. Then we went back to Fairfield and contacted a few people and then went to pack some more. In the evening we went and visited some more people.

Thursday: We moved out practically our whole house and took it all to the for sale house we are temporarily residing in. In the evening we had dinner in Sunriver, and then drove home extremely slow into he horrible whitout. Then we spent the night in our new temperary residence

Friday: We spent the day cleaning the old house and getting anything we left the previous day. Then we got dinner and contacted a few people in the evening. As of Friday night we are officially homeless and squatting in someone’s vacant for sale house.

Saturday: We did a lot of missionary work to make up for our moving and cleaning the previous 2 days. we spent a lot for time walking to save miles. We were gonna contact in the evening, but the weather was so bad that the visibility was horrid and we had to call it a night.

Sunday: Church was canceled in every ward in this stake except Cutbank. We walked around Fairfield and visited a bunch of people and then stayed in a members house for the evening.

Anyway I hope you guys are doing well. Watch out for those crazy landlords, because you could end up homeless. However of you do, make sure you know where the vacant for sale house’s are.

William Shears Campbell

Oh yeah, here’s what I found at Walmart last week. I didn’t find the last 2 Yellow Submarine cars, but I found another line of Beatles hotwheels These ones are based on the albums, and there’s 5 of them. I found A Hard Day’s Night Soudtrack, and Sgt Pepper . There’s also Rubber Soul , Magical Mystery Tour , and The White Album .

Hello friends,

And the transfer news is…I’m staying and my companion is leaving.

Monday: We stayed in Fairfield and hung out at the church to write emails. In the evening we were able to contact a few people on the way to our house from our dinner appointment.

Tuesday: In the morning we helped out a member in our ward deliver food from the food bank to people. We didn’t really do anything for the rest of the day because my companion was sick.

Wednesday: We had district meeting and then went on exchanges with our district leader and his companion. I stayed with his companion in Fairfield, and my companion went up to Great Falls with our district leader. Before returning to Fairfield, though, we did service at this art show. In the evening we had dinner and then went to visit a recent convert couple in Fairfield.

Thursday: We met in Vaughn to have lunch and end exchanges. Then we helped this lady break sticks and put them into this box. I also built a wagon. In the evening we had a lesson with this returning inactive who wants to put his papers in and go on a mission.

Friday: It was my Father Shears Campbell’s birthday. We had house inspections. Then we went to visit people in town in order to save miles. We contacted these investigators that we haven’t been able to see in a while due to their work.

Saturday: St. Patrick’s Day. We went around Fairfield and contacted some people most of the day. We were able to get in for a couple lessons. We had dinner with out Fairfield bishop for the first time in the 9 months that my companion has been in this area. They cooked us up a nice Irish dinner. In the evening we had a lesson with a recent convert couple in Fairfield.

Sunday: We went to church in Fairfield in the morning, then went back to the trailer for lunch. Then we contacted some people in Fairfield for the rest of the day.

So some of you might be wondering exactly what we of the LDS faith believe. There’s many rumors and what not, some true some untrue, about what we do and do not believe. In The Pearl Of Great Price, a collection of misc. scriptural documents named after the New Testament parable, there are the church’s beliefs broken down into 13 points called the Articles Of Faith. They were originally written by Joseph Smith in a letter in response to a newspapaer editor who was curious about what the LDS church actually believed. Those 13 points can be found right here: https://www.lds.org/scriptures…..1?lang=eng

Anyway I hope you all have a good rest of the week. I love you all very much.

Peace and Love,

William Shears Campbell

Hey All,

 

Today marks 8 months on the mission

 

Monday:  We went to Great Falls to do shopping, and then in the evening we went to the transfer dinner where the Stake Presidency gave us some insight on missionary work in the area.

 

Tuesday:  We worked on contacting people around Fairfield and had a bit of success, but not too much.  We were able to meet with a couple of people that we haven’t seen in a while and share and Easter message.

 

Wednesday:  We had district meeting in the morning, and then made our way back home visiting people along the way.  We got back to Fairfield in the evening and tracted a street, and then met with our ward mission leader.

 

Thursday:  We tried to contact people in Fairfield, then we worked our way to dinner in Vaughn contacting people.  We had some people answer, and we set up a couple return appointments.

 

Friday:  We planned to head to Augusta, and we almost made it.  We started out our journey while the weather was nice.  We visited old people along the way.  As we continued along the way a blizzard slowly started to form, and then visibility became zero.  We were able to have dinner with this member outside pof Augusta.  We then turned around and headed back home when then storm cleared a bit.

 

Saturday:  We mainly watched general conference.  This conference was pretty cool.  We were able to sustain the new church Presidency and hear of some big changes.  In the afternoon we knocked a few doors in Fairfield.

 

Sunday:  We were going to watch conference with a less active but plans changed and we watched it with an older couple outside of Simms.  They had more big announcements, including the plans for 7 new Temples, which will be pretty cool.

 

Anyway I hope you all had a good week and a good time watching conference.  If you weren’t able to watch conference, you can watch the recording here:  https://www.lds.org/general-co…..8;lang=eng

 

Peace and Love,

 

William Shears Campbell