Diligence and Obedience

Dear friends and family!

I am so sorry but this one may be a little short. I have no time! We had a bomb (awesomely amazing) Zone activity day today!!! So it's was way fun!! We played basketball, volleyball and Spikeball!!! It was great!! We also had ice cream and hung out!! So it was great to get the Zone together, get to know each other better (bonding time) and have some fun!! 

So here is a funny story about the new Mission President.  When us missionaries first met him as he came to the area to visit us, he was wearing disobedient socks.  You know the kind- brightly colored and patterned socks.  Well, the rule in the mission here is no wearing those kind of socks!  It is no bueno!   As missionaries we wear solid color socks (I wear black, blue and gray).  Well, at our Zone Conference President Hollingsworth stood up and told us he had repented.  He then asked us missionaries who noticed he was wearing disobedient socks and everyone raised their hand! hahaha  He then said that he was now being obedient and was wearing obedient socks and puts his leg up and pulls up his pants leg to show us his socks!! It was so funny!  I guess he even got an email from an elder asking him if he was going to change the rule so that the missionaries could wear patterned socks.  He said he told the Elder "no" and to keep being obedient because he was going to repent and wear the right socks!  hahaha 

Another story about Elder Hollingsworth:   I was at Zone Conference with President and Sister Hollingsworth and I was able to meet them personally and talk with them for a bit.  I told him that Hannah was my sister-in-law, that she was married to my brother Tyler and that he (Pres. Hollingsworth) was her Stake President growing up!  He loves the Fuller family and was so surprised and excited to hear I was related to Hannah and the Fuller family!  Side note:  Sister Hollingsworth had met Tyler one time when he went back to TX to visit. She didn't remember his last name so my name didn't ring a bell but she felt like I reminded her of someone.  Well, as soon as I said Hannah was my sister-in-law, she said, "Oh that's who you remind me of!  You look just like him!" (referring to Tyler)  It was so funny!! 

Some great, great things this week!!! We had some great miracles!! So Maddie committed to be baptized!!! The sad thing was we couldn't set a date. Some things are busy right now with her moving and college and then she wants to be baptized by someone in the ward and they will be gone for a few weeks so we are trying to figure out a date for her! So totally it's soon!! She has an awesome testimony of the church and she is pretty cool!! She has been telling a ton of her friends about the Gospel and the sharing some of the teachings she has learned!  She is a good missionary!  She has been losing some of her friends because of it (which is kinda sad for her) but she doesn't care and continues to keep the standards!! She is a beast!!   In fact, we are going over to her house for Family Home Evening and playing some games and eating! 

We had a lesson with Ozzy this week and it went great!! He committed to come to church and have a church tour!! So this week we are going to show him around the church and have some good lessons with him about God's Eternal Plan! He has been learning a lot and loves it!! 

A crazy miracle that happen is we had a women come to church that was going to be baptized a year ago!!! But she got cold feet and didn't. And she didn't come back for a whole year but yesterday she came back and wants to be baptized and take the lessons!!!! So we are really excited to get to know her and we have a lesson planned for this Thursday with a recent convert!! So I'm way excited about that!!!!

I had my first Zone Conference training and I think it went really well!  I talked/trained on diligence.  I will have to share more about that a later time cause I have got to go! 

It's been awesome being here and having such great support from the members!!! What a blessing!! I love the work and seeing great miracles from God!!! GOD IS GOOD!!! Love you all and hope you all have a great week!!! 

Elder Cahoon