...Unto The Ends Of The Earth: Be That Friend

Area: Warin

Companion: Elder Gilley

Helooooooo!!!

Hey guys another solid week has gone by in Warin; worked hard, had fun, served others and were greatly blessed by the Lord! And we found out that none of that is going to change! I am staying in Warin for another transfer!! And even better Elder Gilley is staying with me! Man I love that guy! I don’t have to go to Bangkok for my visa so it is business as usual around here.

Now with that out of the way we move onto the next most important and anticipated item of business namely: the Christmas Skype! First off thank you ever so much for setting me up, secondly we will be calling on our Christmas day the 25th your Christmas eve the 24th! The earliest any internet place open over here is 11:00am so about 9:00pm Christmas eve! Its kinda late especially for the little kids but that’s the earliest we can get in Warin. According to the white handbook we have 30 to 40 mins and every second of it is going to be straight up awesome sauce!

Next thing I need to report on is Chrissy I got the letters from your seminary class and as promised I recorded myself reading them and they were absolutely hilarious! The one with the lions mouth was way funny and the scriptures. Your scripture in Proverbs I had marked in my scriptures I love that one! The one with the pickup lines was hilarious though and the rhyme inside tooo funny! You can tell sweet Sis Spirit I checked yes twice actually haha it was my only option!

It sounds like everyone is getting ready and gearing up for Christmas the lodge is going to be way sweet! We are gearing up over here too! Last week Elder Gilley and I went and helped build the nativity set and in our branches rendition I am going to be the angel Gabriel, beautiful imagery; I am an angel announcing good news to the world in the nativity and in real life nbd haha I will stop before I get a big head. Our Christmas activity is going to be on the 22nd and we are also going to have a little bit of a talent show and Elder Redd is going to be Santa our district is also been asked to do something too only problem is we don’t know what yet, haha.

This past week we have been doing a ton of work on less-actives finding them and helping them come back to church and we got one back! A Brother Amphon who hasn’t been to church in 4 years! That’s as big as a baptism we were way excited and he was really happy to be back and the members really treated him well also. There was another Brother Somphian who we went and found and he lives way out in the country like 10+ km (we went and visited him on Saturday and when we looked at our day that night we realized that we had biked around 40 km! (in one day!) But we got to visit him and he is a way nice guy and hard-working too just a little too much cause its stopping him from going to church on Sunday! But yesterday he came to church too!!!

So all of this LA work mixed with the Christmas season has got me to thinking. And this is what I have come up with: Is there a less-active in our ward that our family can help return to enjoy the blessings of the gospel in their life again? I have found that a lot of these people just need a visit, they need a genuine friend not someone on an assignment and they need love, both ours and the love of their Savior! Will you be that person in their life that helps them back into the fold? Will you take the time out of a ridiculously busy hectic schedule to find and care for one family or even one person? This is my Christmas wish for my family, for you all to find someone to love them to care about them and to help them come back. I really want you all to be happy and have joy this Christmas season. This joy is unlike any other. The Lord promised us that our joy will be great when we bring one soul unto Christ. He didn’t specify that they had to be a non-member there are many people that have lost their way that merely need a friend to take them by the hand and walk beside them and help them find their way again. Will you be that friend?

I love you all sooooo much see you in a week!!!

Elder Cahoon