A Super Great Week and A Baptism!!

Hello Family and Friends!! 

It has been a super great week!! And I hope all of you

Fun on the 4th!

have been doing great!! Thank you for the letters and emails! I love hearing from all of you and how life is going! Thank you Grandma J for the kind email!  I love you and I appreciate it.  I hope you had a good 4th of July because I did here in Florida! 

 Hope the good ol' Farmington, NM is doing good! It's good ol' brown state! Everyone here bashes on New Mexico and how it looks like Afghanistan but I honestly love NM!  I don't know if I will ever live there. It IS the land of Entrapment so who knows. For you non-New Mexicans, the state slogan is: The Land of Enchantment. 

Well this week was great! We had some really cool miracles!! So to start off we had a lesson with the Veteran man. And something super cool about him is his nickname is Auzi!!!! (For those who don't know, that is also my nickname.) So that was pretty cool to hear!! I can't remember if I said that last week.  He read The Restoration pamphlet we gave him but he didn't understand it super well so we taught the restoration in a lesson and also gave him a Book of Mormon. He thought the first vision of Joseph Smith was awesome! We are going to see him tomorrow.  We are excited for that!  

We also had an amazing miracle this week with a couple. We were riding our bikes down a street and we saw a man working (which if people are working we kinda leave them alone). But I had an impression like I needed to stop and talk to him. So we stopped and talked to him for a little bit. His name is David and he has belief in Christ. (Like everyone else over here😂) and we talked to him about the Book of Mormon and how Christ visited the people of Ancient America! He was astonished! He had never heard about that and loved it. We gave him a Book of Mormon and invited him to read the Introduction. We visited him and his wife yesterday. They are awesome!! We had a wonderful lesson with them! They allowed us inside and we sat down and right as we sat David said "You are not going to like this." And I got scared. I thought maybe he looked at the internet and found some false things about the Restored Church or just he was just plain not interested. But he said they asked their Pastor that Sunday about the Book of Mormon and the Pastor said, "They are a Cult." 😂 That had me laughing! The Pastor did however complement us missionaries on how we are good, young men. We explained how we are not a Cult. We shared several reasons why we were not a cult.  One thing we told them was that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Christ's church because He is the head of it. We shared the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith's Vision of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. The Spirit was there and it was a great lesson! The wife( her name is Wendy) was so excited to read the Book of Mormon after we explained it more! She is a strong believer in the Bible and knows it's true and she said in her own words "I am curious to see how the Spirit speaks to me about this."  She is excited to ask God about the Book of Mormon and if it is true- which is exactly what we want her to do! So we will be seeing them again this week!! 

We also had a BAPTISM!!!! It went great and she was so 

Baptism in Lecanto

excited and happy to be baptized!! She has been taught for a while and was ready to receive those blessings that come from it!!  There were 2 nonmembers there- one is going to be baptized next week.  We will be going over this week to visit and set a temple date with her.  She is very excited to enter the temple and the House of God. I had the privilege of baptizing her and it was a great spiritual baptismal experience!! 

Yesterday at church we had the lady that is going to be baptized there along with another, less-active member.  She desires to come back to church and really liked both Sacrament and Sunday School!  We will be visiting her this week as well.  

I have been thinking about repentance lately (probably because we are having these 2 baptisms).  I love being able repent and change everyday! I used to think of repentance as a bad thing and a punishment but it's the exact opposite. It's peace and forgiveness. It brings the joy and spirit back into your life! I love that I have the ability to pray and seek forgiveness because of our Savior Jesus Christ!! I continue to study Isaiah and boy am I loving it!  I am using the Institute Study Guide from the Gospel Library App to aid in my studies.  I love that book/guide!  

Love you all and love hearing from you!!  Hope all of you have a great week!

Elder Cahoon