Area: Udon
Companion: Elder Hunsaker
January 5, 2014
Hey Guys!
Wiw and Ping Pong got baptized this week! Saturday morning
at 11! It was so awesome! I had met them at the park only 16 days before that
on my first day in Udon and yesterday they were confirmed! They are so solid!
It was cool the first time we taught them it was after the Christmas Devotional
and Sis Senior helped us teach them and so we got to call her before the
baptism and she talked to them and congratulated them it was really cool! Also
Ping Pong said the prayer in the first lesson and it was the best first prayer I have ever heard! So sincere and she just told God everything that was on her
mind it was so pure and beautiful. Also we had forgot to ask Ping Pong her age
before she was interviewed turns out she is only 17 all of us were like what??
She is way mature and doesn't even look 17 so finally this week she went to Young Women's and she loved and the teachers came out and were like wow she's
good!
We have another 3 people lined up to be baptized this
weekend one has already passed and then we have 2 more for the 19th! Miracles!!
I can't believe the outpouring we are seeing right now!
We had Mission Leadership Council this week on New Years Day
and it was unforgettable! I got to see Elder Wilson, Sis Painter and Sis
Packard that was way sweet I miss those guys! Also at the beginning of the
meeting President was talking about his shoes and but some of us couldn't see
them so he footed the whole council way funny although one of the Thai sisters
was so shocked but then after she laughed so Sister Senior made president
apologize haha! Pres Senior trained us about baptism and just dove into the
scriptures. He is an incredibly knowledgeable man it blows me away! The
highlight though was President asked Elder Saunders (one of the Zone Leaders)
to train on finding the elect. Now Elder Saunders is an incredible missionary
everywhere he goes he baptizes many many people and even before all this
inviting on baptism and really focusing on baptism he was doing all of it and
some people really did not like him for it, but recently the mission has
changed a lot and he has got even better and finally we are all realizing just
how great a missionary he is! He taught us for a half hour and by the end the
room was in tears it was so powerful! At the end Pres Senior got up still in
tears and said "that was the greatest discourse from a missionary I have
ever heard." It was wow. I can't really put it into words. But it motivated
us so much!
Lately I have just been studying baptism and there is so
much to learn about it I have been marking the word baptism every time it pops
up in the scriptures or PMG its way cool! I want to just baptize everybody and
help them all become clean help them all return to heaven! It is such a
privilege to have that be my entire purpose and focus to go out and help others
be baptized all day long!
The members here in Udon are
way boss they just live at the church we refer to them lovingly as Jack and the
Gang! Jack is our branch counselor/branch mission leader extraordinaire! He is
25 and single and every day after work comes and helps us. Then there is Sam
who is a dance instructor and RC of like 2 months he loves farang music and
wearing flat brimmed hats he's in his mid 20's up next Sis Nam who is Sis
Carter's RC she's like 20 in university and helps us all the time ad seems to be
the butt of all Jacks jokes. Sis Bi is way nice and is Sis Nam's friend and
confidant and teammate when they gang up on Bro Jack, and lastly Sis Tey who is
the baby of the group only 15 but still holds her own around them and is just
way solid! I love these guys so much here they are so faithful and funny and
kind and just all round awesome!
Love you lots and bunches!
Elder Cahoon
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