Working Hard And Doing My Best!

Hello Family and Friends! 

Happy Mothers Day! Hope y'all had a good weekend and Sabbath!! This week was great! We out here moving the Lord's work forward! Monday is the day we find out about transfers- find out if Elder Hall and I will stay together or we will get new companions/go to new areas.  We have literally been praying that we stay together.  We do add in our prayers if it is God's will but we hope it is! I love Elder Hall!  (When Susan (me) was talking with Elder Cahoon on Monday, Elder Hall got on and said, "I am going to tell you this because I know Elder Cahoon won't and I know you want to hear stuff like this as a mom.... But Elder Cahoon IS ONE OF THE BEST missionaries in the mission and he has only been out 5 months!"  Yep, that melted my heart.) 

Elders Cahoon and Hall in South Tampa

We had some sweet things happen this week!! Okay, so if you know Guardians of the Galaxy, you know the guy that plays Drax (I think his name is Dave Batista). Well, he lives in South Tampa!!! And we drove past his house! It's sweet! I didn't see him, but before I came into the area Elder Hall said he saw him and tried talking to him. He was outside getting something from his truck and Elder Hall yelled to him and tried talking with him but he wasn't to interested! 😂 I hope one day when we go by he will be outside!! 

We had the opportunity to learn about the Islam belief a little as well. There was this Muslim guy that we talked to and he let us in and kinda showed us some stuff that had to do with his religion.  He told us a little about his religion- Islam. It was interesting.  We explained a little about our religion- we explained the role of prophets and how we believe there is a prophet on the earth today!  We decided to talk about prophets because it was something that our beliefs had in common and we felt he could relate to prophets.  We got super surprised that we believe that we have a Prophet (President Nelson) on earth leading our church! He was super interested about that and we gave him a Book of Mormon. We explained that the Book of Mormon is the words of God's prophets in ancient America! He was pretty excited to read it! We hope he does!  

We have had some great miracles happen this week too!! Especially this one man named David! Okay David is super solid! We had 2 lessons with him this last week and they went great! We had the first lesson at the church and for the second lesson, we brought a member of the Ward with us. David loves learning more about the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith and Jesus Christ!  He has a great desire to change to align his life more with Christ and His teachings!  And then to top off this week with him- he came to church!! He loved it! We are seeing him tomorrow (Tuesday) and we will be setting a baptismal date with him! Pray for him for this step in his life!  

We also had a great lesson with Heather and Joe! They are amazing! They read from the first chapter of Nephi in the Book of Mormon! They loved it and Joe wrote a summary of what happened to make sure what he read was right! How amazing is that??!!  They are progressing really well! We taught them the importance of the Sacrament and why church is important! We are going to be showing them around the church soon (taking them on a church tour)! We will be seeing them this week (on Wednesday) and we will be going over scripture study and the importance of it! I can definitely testify to the importance of scripture study because I LOVE reading the scriptures!  They have brought me closer to Christ and my Heavenly Father and I have found answers in them when I have been asking and searching for answers!  The decision to serve a mission came because I studied my scriptures (along with prayer and attending Mission Prep)!  So needless to say, I am pumped to have that lesson with them! 

I'm so excited to see more people grow their faith in Christ and have a desire to know Him! I invite you all to go to church this week! Even if your not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints- go to church!  Grow your faith!  I know Christ lives and loves us and continually helps us in our lives!  I promise that you will feel of God's love and the healing affect of Christ's sacrifice in your life as you put Him first.

I know I have said it before but it bares repeating- this bay area is pretty sweet! I love being able to see the water and the big city!! And...I love seeing the palm trees!  We walk by them everyday!  I also now have a gym in my building and it's been great being able to work out again!! Elder Hall and I get some good workouts in the morning! 

Tampa, FL 

Tampa Bay and The City! 

Part of the Bay

I love you all! Hope you're all doing good and thank you all for the support and prayers! I am trying my best out here! Hope all of you have a great week! 

 

Elder Cahoon