Week 5: Goodbye Phii Thai's

Ladies and Gentlemen! Children of all ages! It is time once again for the weekly email!

Can I first of all just say Mikaela your hair looks gorgeous girl! Work that updo! haha Looks like everyone had a great weekend lots of fun and Canada is lookin pretty green! Alright so Thai update: I can read! and more importantly understand! (mostly) it is awesome I started with 2 Nephi 2:25 and I read the name Adam like 5 times saying it different ways before I figured out what I was saying. It was hilarious. But, when I figured it out it was like a light bulb, Ding! We read in thai for all our spiritual thoughts. It is crazy hard. It takes so much concentration and you only recognize like 1 word in 7. You’re like exhausted from the effort but it is the coolest thing ever! Also this week we became each others’ investigators for teaching so we had to pick a convert that we know their story well and kinda pretend to be them. I really wasn’t sure how to do that but I decided to take Nanny’s story because I had heard it a few times! It is really interesting trying to be an investigator! So I have a request could you ask Nanny to write me and tell me more about her conversion story? I would really like to know the details of not so much when and where but how and what. For example, what was she interested in? What were some of her concerns? What doctrines really stood out to her? What confused her? etc. I really would love to learn of those things and it will help those that are teaching me and how I teach others!

 So I have got a great story! Yesterday our Phii Thais left. They endured to the end and were stoked on life to be leaving! We are defs going to miss them. They were so funny and such good examples and just great to be around and we really bonded in the 6 weeks! Sunday night they passed down a bunch of stuff that they weren’t going to bring and some items that have passed down from Phii Thai to Phii Thai for several generations! It was sweet I got one of those really nice mini basketball hoops like what Preston has with the metal breakaway rim and everything and a ball of course and the Belt of Zone Leadership. So, totally awesome, right? Then the next day (Yesterday) they take a few pictures with us and then say they will come say goodbye later. Well, they didn't! Just the sisters in the district came to say goodbye and we were like, How Rude! But, we figured they were just way too excited and somehow forgot! Well they didn't! At the end of our long day we go back to our room open the door and .....  They let themselves in through devious methods and left quite the surprise! There was a wall of boxes and a note that said "Welcome to your castle. Love the Phii Thais" and they had spread all sorts of like food and random stuff that is who knows how old and done silly string and caution tape they really went all out! It was so awesome I did a video tour of the wreckage (which took hours to clean up) Honestly, best day ever, it was like Christmas! Except like half the stuff was from Easter or older and some have been passed down for months, it was crazy! and then like 15 mins later our branch president comes up to our floor so we detoured him away from the blast zone! hehe

I do have some bad news to share I spoke with several people now and you cannot upload pictures to send in the MTC. It just doesn’t work. So, you will have to wait for pictures for 6 more weeks but then you will receive an outpouring of them for your patience! Unless you can think of any way to get them to you!

You asked about being a zone leader basically I am a problem solving tour guide! I get to do the orientations for the new district in our zone. So far I’ve done one every week and this week we get a district with 2 Canadians! No idea whom they are but nonetheless I am stoked! Also I have to solve any problems the DL's can’t fix and sometimes have to pass them on to Pres Robinson. We currently have 5 districts but we have one coming and one going every week! There is just Thai, which right now only consists of us, and then the rest are English stateside. But we are getting 14 new Thais (2 districts) next week and then we will be the Phii Thais! Crazy!

Which bring me to the Thai word of the week, Crazy. It’s kinda tough to say but a lot of fun! I will try to do it phonetically because Romanized Thai is really confusing so: pobop-obo all one word! Crazy!

Well, sadly my time draws to a close and I must tell you all goodbye! Ben that’s sooo awesome that you got a bumblebee transformer! And mum I laughed out loud when I heard you found those clothes. I would love to have them if you could send them with g+g! Oh, by the way, last Tuesday devotional was L Tom Perry. So awesome, he talked about the priesthood, since it was May 15, so cool! 3 apostles in like 5 weeks! Mikaela I am soo exited for you and for grad it is going to be a blast, just get out there and live it up! Olivia- is just the cutest thing ever Teddy- that ankle looks brutal, heal up quick k? Kenny- I love you sooooo much. Jeana- thank you for liking my tie and suit. I hope you have a ton of fun every day and learn lots! Tina- mane n tail Really? That’s hilarious! Thank you soo much Mum I love you a ton the updates are fantastic and I am really working on using those notebooks and such and I think you would be proud of my journaling thus far! and Dad- thanks for the advice, spot on, but don’t worry too much this is soo much fun I have just decided to hit everything with such a positive attitude and hand the rest to the Lord!

You’re all loved and thought about often!

Elder Cahoon

P.S. How are the Clippers doing?