Lecanto Is Awesome!

Hello all my family and friends!!! 

It's great to hear about how y'all are doing! I am grateful for all of you!! Hope y'all are continuing to do great!! This week has been awesome!! 

So out here in the country is way fun!! All the folks out here are sweet!! Especially the members!! We have met some super cool people! They are all country and love their property!! I have never seen so many "No Trespassing" signs and "Private Property" signs! I love it!! It makes me smile when I see them posted all along the fence and the front door! Even though they have these signs, the people are all pretty nice! 

We met the super cool veteran guy this week!! He had a bunch of American flags everywhere and he had a goat in his yard!!! I don't know why he had a goat but he did!! It was fun to talk with the goat a little bit!! I will send a picture of the goat!  Well, the guy answered the door and asked who we were and we said "We are messengers of Jesus Christ the missionaries!" He allowed us in right away! He gave us water and then began to ask questions about who we were. We told him about us and where we were from and why we are now here in Florida! He became pretty interested and has always had a belief in God but doesn't really know how to build on that. We explained how Christ has called a prophet again and His church has been restored! He was pretty interested and told us to come back! We will be seeing him this week!

We also met a wonderful lady that lived across the street from a member's home. She has been coming to church for a while but hasn't been meeting with the missionaries. We introduced ourselves and we will be going this week to her house to help her out in her yard. She is super kind and we are going to try to teach her!! 

We also had an amazing lesson with the lady that is preparing for baptism!! She kinda got cold feet and wasn't sure about the baptism.  We met with her and had a super spiritual lesson.  I truly felt the Spirit teach through me.  As she felt the Spirit, she began to receive courage and strength.  In the lesson, we talked about how we don't need to be perfect for baptism because God doesn't ask us to be perfect.  It was awesome!  Tithing was another area of concern for her.  It was hard for her to think about paying a full tithe (10% of her income which is what the Bible also states).  A member friend of hers talked about her finances with her and now she feels confident that she will be able to pay a full tithe.  She has been doing great!! She is super excited for Saturday!! So are we!  

We rode our bikes a couple of times this past week even though we have a car.  We thought it would be fun.  The bike paths here are dirt. We go in between trees because the paths aren't really marked. It was fun!  I love my bike- a lot of the missionaries here have one similar to mine.    

Elder Dye and I have been having fun! He is super funny and has some great stories!! He is a country boy from Idaho and loves it here in Lecanto!!  We are enjoying teaching and finding together!

I got to hear Elder Anderson (one of the 12 Apostles) speak in the Stake Sacrament meeting and I shook his hand afterwards!  I still haven't washed my hand. hahaha  The 2 women that are going to be baptized came to the Sacrament meeting so they got to hear him speak as well!  They also went to hear President Nelson (the Prophet)  and Elder Uchtdorf (one of the 12 Apostles) a couple of weeks ago.  How lucky are they??!!  At the Stake Sacrament meeting, I was able to see my new Mission President but I haven't been able to meet him personally yet.  It was so sad to see President Cooper leave (he is so loving and personable and spiritual) but I am sure my new Mission President will be awesome.   

Life has been great and I absolutely love the calling of being a

Elders Cahoon and Dye

full-time missionary!! I am studying right now in the Isaiah chapters of the Book of Mormon and I absolutely love them! I have never really understood them (and never really tried) but they have been some of my most favorite chapters to study!!  I know we read and talked about them in family scripture study and I studied them in Seminary but my desire and personal studies now are so different!  

Love you all and hope you have a great week!! Thank you for all you have done for me and for your prayers!! I promise they are not going to waste!! 

Elder Cahoon 

Lecanto Spider