crazy awesome week

Area: Chiang Rai
Companion: Elder Hill
August 4, 2013

We had a crazy awesome week so much happened it was ridiculous! Way fun way buzy!

Saturday - We went on a 30 km bike trip to go teach our investigator Somkhid it was supposed to be only like 20 but we took several wrong turns haha it was such a gorgeous ride through the Thai countryside! its where we took all these cool pictures it was a pretty hot day too but it was totally gorgeous and so much fun too we were just like belting out hymns the whole time too I made a pretty good mix Brightly Beams Our Fathers Mercy with Lord Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing. We got pretty fried. That night we had a fun activity we did towel volleyball it took them a while to get the hang of it but it made for lots of laughs! Then we went and passed out English cards at the way cool market they have sat night and a couple girls that we gave cards too came to church the next day and were really interested in learning the gospel.

Hey gotta go looooovvvvveeee you!!!!!

Elder Cahoon

A way sweet parade on the queen mothers birthday. Happened to be P day as well!

Elder Cahoon and Elder Hill (father and son, day 1)

Thai fruit called Ngoh (yummiest fruit in the world we are told!)

Missionary Activity

Towel Volleyball

With the youth, once they got the hang of it it was a blast

I LOVE THAILAND!

So Pretty

Thai Dance Aerobic Class and an old farang trying to do it too

Yep, this really is a dog. They use hair color!

Pure focus

We hung up the other Elders bikes so they could dry, 555 mine is the bottom right

"Nice" Hospital in Chiang Rai (had to go for blood work for Visa)

Dinner Time

Finding the Joy in the simple things

Area: Chiang Rai
Companion: Elder Hill
July 28, 2013

Hey XD

This week was lots of fun! I don’t think I ever told you but Elder Hill gave a talk in sacrament meeting last week and he did awesome! he talked for like 10 mins! he’s such a boss. Hey other news I bought a ukulele and its way nicer than my last one but it was even cheaper I scored a sick deal. Elder Hill is quite the gifted musician and he’s teaching me a bunch cause he actually knows what he is doing! He is going to buy one today and then we are going to have a P-Day jam sesh! This week we found an orange dog some one took like their lap dog and died it bright orange! It looks hilarious! Our street contacting is going way better and we found a couple solid people and . . . A FAMILY! so excited I love families so much! We also had a guy just walk into church and he’s interested and he stayed for all three hours it was way sweet! We had a way good activity on reading the book of Mormon before Christmas and we are planning to do a mini trek like we did in our stake except do it all in only 3 hours! It is going to be awesome I have never ever heard of anybody doing anything like a trek in Thailand its going to rock!! BTW it has been pouring, like coming down in sheets for like 12 hours straight! There has been soo much rain this week we have been soaked for the past 3 days! Oh ya I just took a mid email bathroom break and in the urinals here they put slices of lime to deodorize it soo funny! Oh Thailand! That’s our new thing whenever something crazy happens or something that doesn’t make sense we say "because Thai" and laugh! We started a new thing too the P-Day tie its quite simple but brings so much joy you find an absolutely hideous tie you know the one that looks like the machine exploded and you wear it all day! We are definitely finding the Joy in the simple things out here and it’s so fun. We also went and cut sis A's grass again with machetes so exhausting but she came to church and this time brought her whole family and we got to give her daughter a blessing! Love you heaps!

Love

Elder Cahoon

Teddy at a girl! Nice work on your math you girls sound like you had the sickest weekend down in Magrath like ever that’s so sweet that you are spending so much time with family that is really the best and we have the coolest cousins!

Bethany - I miss you tooo! Who is RD? I’m so out of the loop haha jk Bridge jumping is soo sick! I’m having a blast out here!

Ben - numbers look like this 12345 haha but there are Thai numbers that they use lots and they look like this๑ ๒ ๓ ๔ ๕ ๖ ๗ ๘ ๙ pretty cool right! Dude your reading is so good everybody in Thailand has a goal to read the Book of Mormon from cover to cover before Christmas to be gift to Christ and so I started over where I was in the Thai Book of Mormon and I’m going to do it and I’m almost finished first Nephi again but this time I understand so much more!

Jeana - What an awesome fun day! That is sweet! Sparklers are fun! Did you ride the baby horses?

Chrissy - that sounds like a pretty fun date! I love bridge/cliff jumping so much fun!! So who his best looking R..., C... or M...? and more importantly which one is crushing on my sister? haha That’s so sick that you guys have a car and can drive an stuff it’s like the epitome of freedom!

Kendra - I LOVE chilling in cars driving around and just cruising to awesome music! You never want to leave southern Alberta its way fun!

Mum - That’s so awesome that they are back! Alexander sure is growing up. I love Great Grandma too tell her I miss her! That’s good that she can just relax now. hahaha That is the best gift I have ever heard of that is hilarious! That is crazy about the Brooks tons of stuff happening all so exciting! No way I had a dream about you guys too last night actually. I was back home and it was my first day back and I was pretty miserable everything made me Thailand and I just cried and cried and I couldn’t speak Thai to anyone and I was so happy when I woke up and I remembered I was still in Thailand and I still have the better part of a year before I return. I really do love my family and I think of you all and pray for you often but I really love it here and thinking of going home just makes me sad. However this dream and this email have motivated me to record better my stay here cause I want to remember it for the rest of my life even when I am oceans away.