Area: Udon
Companion: Elder Hunsaker
December 29, 2013
Hey Family and Friends!
Hey I got the Christmas package the very next day after I
skyped with y'all it was awesome! I felt honored to get the missionary
stocking! Burts Beeswax!!! oh my I was way excited to get that! Sis
Packard had some and I was kinda jealous haha but for real I love it! You know
me too good! My favourite part however was the gifts scripture study! I took a
full personal study to look them up and enjoy them they were way good! I have
also been using the lists of scriptures that Grandma and Grandpa sent for my
birthday its way good going through and studying each topic with a question in
mind to search for the answer summarize each scripture in a sentence and then
summarize the whole topic at the end its been really uplifting!
The past week and a half here in Udon has been the craziest
time! this week I have had the most lessons in my entire mission and in the
past 2 weeks we have 18 new investigators all of which accepted dates to be
baptized in January, basically we don't count them as investigators unless they
accept a date on the first time. Its unreal the blessings are being poured out
on us right now! We will be having 3 of our investigators baptized this weekend
and if all goes to plan another 6 next week! Its absolutely incredible and they
have all been found since I got here! Its absurd! I have never ever seen
anything like this before. We just laugh and praise God and then go teach some
more! I am so excited! I love working with Elder Hunsaker we have been tight
since the MTC and lived together in Chiang Rai and then now we are companions
so sickk! I really want to help lots of people to be baptized I really want to all 18 people to be baptized that we have just found and the cool thing is so
do they that's why I love just going and asking people all day if they want to
be baptized sure there's lots of rejection but you find people every day who
genuinely want to change their lives and be baptized!
We had a Christmas Miracle after P-Day ended on Christmas we
taught a new investigator with Brother Jack and then were waiting for the next
one to come after 20 mins it looked like they weren't coming and then a car
drives up and 2 young women get out and they ask us about the Christmas Party;
we told them it was the day before and invited them in to talk. So we find out
that one was a former that learned like 2 years ago and only stopped learning
cause she moved and lost contact but then she just moved back. She has been
praying daily for the past 2 years without missing and you can tell when she
prays in lessons. They both accepted dates and they will be getting baptized
next week on the 12th!
Its kinda of crazy right now because of new year everybody
goes home to be with their families and so a lot of our investigators are out
of town but when we get home from MLC on the 2nd they will be back and then we
are going to be hitting it way hard and helping them get baptized!
Hey Dad to answer some of your questions about the zone it
will be a lot less travel in the zone there are only 3 district instead of 5
and half the zone is in our district we have 12 missionaries in the Udon
district! We also have Elders in Gumpawapi, Nong kai and Sagon Nakon(where they
eat dog)!
The members here in Udon are so awesome! There are tons of
youth here and they are so solid! I swear they live at the church and they are
way good fellowshippers they are all so fun and such great members!
Love,
Elder Cahoon
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