Faith Building Finding Experiences

Area: Pak Kret

Companion: Elder Richardson

Hi!

I have a question, before getting into everything else, and that is why do the emails say they are sent from an iPad? We don’t have an iPad! Unless you left out some vital information in this last email.

Waterton looks gorgeous. Wow, that must have been a pretty sweet boat ride! And the hike sounds way sweet too. Is Abby really getting that old? sad day! Good to hear that everyone is still liking school. Oh Tina I LOVE New Zealand accent they’re so sweet! Mikaela - those plans sound way awesome I think that you would be a great nurse and I am going to need a pic of that Chevy when you get it cause that would be soo sick you gotta do it! Mum - AWESOME! You go girl that sounds like quite the workout! haha so good to hear things are going so well. The scrip would be Alma 26:22. 

Well, you have heard correctly about the weather here, every morning is scorching hot followed by an afternoon/evening of pouring rain! There is tons of rain and we get pretty soggy riding our bikes but it is pretty fun. I must say that I love riding in Bangkok traffic. It’s so much fun. It’s like a video game and it’s a different level and map every time sooo much fun! We also love that brownie recipe it was amazingly delicious! You just can’t find stuff like that over here at least not on a missionaries budget.

We had a sweet week; it was pretty exciting. We almost got a new companion from an emergency transfer but our district leader got him instead. It all happened while I was on switch offs with the district leader (who by the way is Elder Clark; he is way funny and humble and just a ton of fun and was Elder Richardson’s companion in the MTC!) We also had Sis Faay's baptism which was stellar! Man I love baptisms! The next day was the baptism of Bank and Mai! And we taught them their first lesson! We decided to give them to Elder Clark because at the time he had no one to teach and because Bank lives in his area. They are so awesome. We could tell just off of that first lesson; we got out of it and went; “Wow, they are really good!” So it was sweet to see them baptized! Between the 6 elders here in Pakkret I’m pretty sure that we have had at least one baptism every week of this transfer! It has been wonderful the work is really going well!

Well, transfers is in 3 days and speculations are running rampant there is an AP and 5 ZL's dying. It’s another really big transfer that will change the landscape of the mission considerably but I will get you the down low next week; as for now everything is up in the air but whether I go or stay I’m going to be stoked. I absolutely love it here and well moving is always exciting too!

The language is coming along pretty well. Elder Richardson is a boss at Thai and he has also had 3 khonthai companions which helps a lot as well! I really love reading in the B of M in Thai, it’s so cool that I can read it and understand what is going on, it’s great! I have had a couple lessons this past week where I have understood almost every word that was said. It was way sweet, sooo much easier to teach when you understand exactly what is being said not just the general idea! 

We had some awesome faith building finding experiences in this past week. One was on switch-offs, we had an appointment cancel so we had like 30 mins till we had to go to the next one and Elder Clark was like well the Lord didn’t bring us here to waste his time he brought us to find someone. So off we went and the first house that had anyone home invited us in and we taught a lesson, it was soo cool. The other one was another appointment canceling so we went inviting and we prayed first and were like we want to teach a lesson, we know that you have prepared people for us and then we started and the first door we knocked on let us in and we taught a lesson and so as soon as we got out we said a prayer of thanksgiving. It was amazing, that prayer was answered immediately! It was great and was definitely a faith builder!

Well, next weeks email should be very exciting. We are waiting in anxious anticipation for the transfer phone calls telling us who is moving, and they come tomorrow!

I love you all bundles, lots and bunches,

Elder Cahoon