I LOVE miracles!

Area: Roi_Et

Companion: Elder Yuen

September 23, 2013

Helloo!

Thanks for the letters guys sounds like you had a way sweet weekend I’m glad LCI won (someones gotta beat Raymond!) That’s so sick that you guys can just take off and go do something like that Mum and Dad sure trust you! I’m sorry about the volleyball tryouts Teddy. Ben did you know that my son Elder Hill can talk to deaf people it’s so cool! He was teaching me a little but I want to learn more when I get home. I learned from Elder Hill and from my current District Leader Elder Tatton to really broaden my horizons and take a sampling of all that life has to offer. They have had so many experiences and have tried so many cool fun things like cooking, theater, singing, harmonica, martial arts, sports, sign language, Spanish, Chinese, there are so many things that I want to try when I get home! 

There were so many awesome miracles and way fun times this week! On Wednesday we went up to Udon for zone conference! When we got in we went to Central and ate at a sweet Japanese buffet called Shabushi! It is so good and we were so full! We stayed in another nice hotel (not quite as posh) with all the Elders in the zone and the Elders from Lao, namely Elder Murray! Super stoked to see him! He is doing great! Then the next day was zone conference! It was so great to interview with Pres Senior again I love that man! He is so inspired and he loves so much! It was funny we talked after and I told Elder Yuen that we just talked about him in my interview and how I want to minister and serve more like him and how I can learn so much from him, and he was like that’s funny cause in my interview we just talked about you! haha Elder Yuen is such a boss I’m so lucky to serve with him. The conference was about conversion and real growth and it was so good! I really want to become fully converted I feel like I am so close and that that will be the thing that allows me to serve with my whole heart and soul! There was an Elder Fronberg who I had served around before just in the same zone. But when I saw him at the zone conference I almost didn’t recognize him it was still the same face but everything was different his countenance had changed completely. It was kinda like how you had explained Braeden when he came back and I have seen it happen to many exceptional missionaries that have served, and it is the one thing that I want so bad to experience and to become, to have the Lord change me like that!

After zone conference we got in a motortricycle thing it does not translate to English. All 6 of us got in the back with all our bags and we belted out amazing grace in 4 part harmony (we were practicing for the special musical number for the baptism this week) It was way squishy and Elder Yuen was basically hanging onto the end that was until we wheelied the trike after that he dove in on our laps and held on tight till we got back! We ended up staying the night in Udon cause there were no busses back so we stayed with the Elders and Sisters their and Elder Gilley is ZL up there so we got to spend the night with him which was sweet!

On Friday when we came back we taught Bro Bo the law of chastity and word of wisdom and learned of a miracle 3 days after we taught him the first time he went home and threw away all his pornography, everything! We had never even said anything remotely related to that but he told us that he felt it was wrong and he needed to change! It was incredible he had been so prepared, he has also started to keep a study journal and records amazing thoughts and experiences I feel so blessed every time to go teach him. And Bro Det is such an awesome fellowshipper for him he calls him and chats all the time!

Another miracle was yesterday after church we still needed 2 new investigators in the week to get balanced key indicators but it was pouring all day but as we were biking through the driving rain to go teach some LA's we would periodically stop and talk to people that had shelter and there was one part after we taught a lesson we had to go through a bunch of rice fields and we found a nice hut (it wasn’t a house just a rest area for when they had a break from farming) and there was this big extended family up there chilling waiting for the rain to stop and they invited us up cause we were soaking too so we introduced ourselves and joked around to try and break the ice but nothing was working and it was starting to feel a little awkward so we played a game called 9 books with them and it worked like a charm! They loved it and after that we were able to introduce the gospel and talk about the importance of families and they were really interested and wanted to learn more! So we ended up with 6 new investigators! And we got balanced key indicators! I LOVE miracles!

Love 

Elder Cahoon