"I must obey, Amen"

Area: Pak Kret
Companion: Elder Siperly

Hey Everybody!

WHAAATTT???!!! Thats crazy!! I guess your right though I shouldn’t be too surprised I mean it is Dad after all! (I sent Michelle to England with 40 hours notice) But honestly that is soo sweet! I’m so excited and happy for you! Especially ‘cause like you've been dreaming about this trip forever you, Becky and Nanny! Awesome! Well have a ton of fun that sounds like a phenomenol trip and for 3 weeks too! I am just so happy for you Mum! (Notice the "u" in Mum haha) Don't even worry about the kids at home! They will be good and continue to have a ton of fun and this is like a trip of a lifetime. Enjoy everything! Don’t stress out and try a ton of new things. This is weird! It feels like a total role reversal. I swear I heard this advice somewhere a little while ago haha!  Hey while you are over there you can find out about the English football teams and tell me where our allegiances lie.

So, to you crew at home now falls the responsibility of the ward update and the crane info I expect a full and proper report next week.

As for this past week we had greenie switch-offs! It was Elder Cox and I in his area while Elders Siperly and Christensen were in Pakkret. What fun! Elder Cox is my Phii from the mtc so he has been here all of 6 weeks longer than me! It went really good though! We taught some good lessons and did a search and rescue and found some wonderful less-actives and we only got lost once! Haha! It was really good! No problems we couldn't handle with the help of the Lord and some of our awesome members.

This week we have had some really good success finding new investigators. We found 4 and they are pretty promising! One of the people we found was like right on the river’s edge. Basically his house is in the river built on stilts with wooden boards for walkways its soo legit! It is a lot of fun to find too! I mean it is long and hard and you get rejected and all the rest but on the other hand you see some really cool stuff, talk to all these cool people and sometimes you even find people who want to listen to you! How cool is that! 

One of the cool things we saw was this Chinese wat. Which is really different and kinda rare in Thailand. But the best part was that in the complex there was this place that you go to pray and stuff and it is this huge tower that is like at least 2-3 stories high with steps leading up to the top! Elder Siperly and I had the same thought: Chinese Rameumptum! Haha too funny! It was honestly like straight out of Alma!

We also had some KFC this week which was pretty tasty but the real reason that this made it into the email is that while we were eating there was music playing in the background (like pretty much everywhere else you go in Thailand) and lo and behold to my great astonishment and surprise on comes ‘Call Me Maybe’ by Carly Rae Jepsen! So crazy! So I just thought I would let you know that Carly is famous all the way on the other side of the world here in Thailand.

In other news today I will be getting my first thai haircut. But some much more interesting news is that our investigators had their baby and he is way cute! Although, he is pretty jaundiced so that was kind of a concern at first. But ugh being around a new born baby is killing me! It’s like everything I can to do to keep from holding him! I want to soo bad but it is against the white bible! So as nephi says "I must obey amen"

You guys will definitely have to keep me posted on your adventures in England and buy a ton of chocolate and other jolly good nosh! 

Love You All!!

Elder Cahoon

P.S. My district is as follows Elders: Siperly, Cox, Christensen, Gibbons, Osbourne, Oakeson. Sisters Roper and Wiganda (she is a khonthai so sweet) and we also have a Senior couple Elder and Sister Taber who are from charleston, virginia but were converted by two missionaries from Canada one of which was from you guessed it Taber, AB

P.P.S. Christina I weighed in last Monday and I have lost 11 of the pounds i gained in the MTC so not to worry progress is being made.

Hey Fam!

So I just sent my email and then I got all the pictures and the email from the fam. I was wondering where they were but I got a tiny bit of time left so I’m gonna reply really quick! Sounds like NBC (basketball camp) was a riot and ‘We Bought a Zoo’ was sweet too. I’m tons jealous of all the cousin time! Sounds like a blast. Speaking of being in the mall for 3 hours I haven’t done that but you girls would die if you could shop here. There is sooooo much cool stuff and it is soooo cheap! Our saying is “Everything in thailand is 100 baht” which is like 3 bucks. Bethany good to hear from you congrats on the license woot woot! Haailey thats nuts! Thats the first time i have heard about that!(Moving to New Zealand) What an amazing adventure! That will be like honestly amazing I’m so happy for you but I am going to miss you guys a ton! 

Do Chrissy and Mikaela have their licenses yet? Keep partying it up and look after each other! Go outside! My arms have got a sick tan!  Write Mum emails! Great to hear about things. I love you all so much!! 

Elder Cahoon

Tools of the trade

Sports Day Thai Style

 

The question we are asking, WHY?

 The answer is they were locked out of the sports equipment cupboard so they found a safe way to get back in. Everything was left the way it had been found, locked up tight.