...Unto The Ends Of The Earth: Brother Bo and District Talent Show

Area: Roi-Et

Companion: Elder Yuen

September 30, 2013

Hi!

Right now I’m in Bangkok I had to come down to renew my visa and so we get to spend P-Day down here because tomorrow is Mission Leader Council with President Senior!

We had a baptism this week Brother Bo got baptized! He was so prepared I have never seen anything like him before he got baptized only 25 days after we first met him on the street! He is so solid! He reads and even more than that he studies the Book of Mormon he takes notes in every meeting. When he was baptized there was such a special feeling the spirit just blanketed the room, and there was such joy in my heart! He is going to be a great leader soon! In his testimony after he had changed as he finished he said that he was going to offer his life up in service to God in his kingdom, it was so sincere I know he will!

Yesterday we also got to go to a family dinner a lot like our potlucks that we have where the big extended family gets together each Sunday and has a big meal it was so awesome and so like what we do back home except Thai style! And so we got to meet their whole extended family and we are going to start teaching the sisters uncle he is really interested in the Book of Mormon. It was also Sis Gift's 18th birthday she is so good at English its ridiculous when Pres Senior came to visit he told me I can only speak English with her so she can get into BYU Hawaii!

Another awesome part of the week was the District Talent Show it was in Khonkaen so our whole branch rode in a tour bus for two hours and watched Mormon messages the whole time! The youth had 2 awesome dances and the two heartthrobs of the branch played two songs on the guitar and totally rocked the house, the Relief Society did a way cool traditional Thai dance and for part of it dressed all us missionaries up in traditional Thai wear from each of the 4 parts of Thailand. My costume was from the south and it was so cool! I looked pretty legit! It was so much fun I am in the coolest branch ever I love them all so much! And I really miss them when we are away in Bangkok or on switch-offs!

Elder Yuen's Chinese grandpa is getting baptized on Oct 12th!!!!!!!!!!! Such a miracle!

We are way excited here for conference too! Let me know about school stuff I am allowed to do that on P-Day yep still sciences! That’s so cool about our ward wooh! Yes I think teaching the kids poems is a great idea! I love you Mum you are such a fighter!

I have never seen a monkey! I ate this one vegetable that looks like lettuce but it acts like wasabi if you eat a whole leaf it goes up your nose and makes you cry but then goes away immediately and it’s not hot! Its wayyyy fun to eat! Longboarding is siccckkk! atta girl Kenny! I love you Jeana! can we !!golf when I get back? Ben that is going to be such a sweet season with Tommy! That’s crazy that you are going to graduate soon! Do you want to go to BYU with me? haha wouldn’t that be legit?! Here in Thailand you can’t get your license until your 18! but that’s alright cause everyone rides motorbikes anyways!

Love You!!!!

Elder Cahoon