No Amount Of Rain Or Lightning Can Stop Me!

Hello Family and Friends!! 

Hope you all have been great!! It's been great to hear from some of you!! Thank you for the letters and emails!! I really appreciate them a lot! Well, here in good ole Florida it's been raining and lightning a ton!! It is kinda nice because it hasn't been super hot lately because of the dark clouds! 

Lecanto when sun is shining! 

Yesterday, we biked and got soaked!! It was a pretty crazy lightning storm!! We were talking to a guy outside and it started to pour on us and it was lightning all over the place!! It was cracking really close to us and it about burst my ear drums! Nah it wasn't that loud but it was loud! We biked home so that was sketchy because our bikes are metal. So we said a prayer that we would be safe and we biked home with no problem. It was super rainy and we got soaked but that was actually pretty fun! I love biking in the rain here! It feels SOOOOOooooo GOOD!! It's nice and chilly in the wind so that's a huge blessing when its happens! 

Well besides the rain and stuff, this week was AMAZING!!! GOD IS GOOD!!! He is great to his children and blesses them when they are Obedient!! So last week we met that one lady Donna! Well last year she was going to be baptized but didn't end up doing it. BUT she came back to church and she is READY!! She is awesome! She is so excited to be baptized so she can enter the Temple! She already loves the Temple and is way excited to enter It! We didn't want to push a date for baptism on her (because we didn't want her to get cold feet like last time) so we had her pray about a date to be baptized and told her we would be visiting her again to get her answer.  She is going to be baptized on Aug. 24th!!!! We are so excited for her!! Remember the  two recent converts we just baptized?  We they are coming to the lessons and are fellowshipping her.  They fellowship each other and they get along so great! It is pretty awesome to see them talk and get along so well!! 

We also taught Maddie this week and it went great! She is doing fantastic! She had an experience this week where her friends wanted to go see a 'R' rated movie. She explained to them that if it was 'R' rated she would not go!! So her friends changed the movie and they all went and had a great time!!!  Maddie is awesome!  In our lesson this past week we taught more in-depth about God's Plan of Happiness (aka The Plan of Salvation) and what happens after death! So it went great!! 

We did some service for Karin this week as well!! She is awesome and it's great being able to be her friend and teach her!! She is super kind!! 

We weren't able to meet with Ozzy this week so that was a little sad. He got sick and had some things happen so we felt bad for him. But we are excited to see him this week!! 

For Family Home Evening (FHE) with the Young Single Adult group here, we had a super fun activity with silly string!  A mission is great for mixing it up with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, people you don't know, spiritual lessons, personal growth and fun times!  You get the best of everything on a mission! 

 

I have been thinking a lot about obedience and serving the Lord in the mission! I was pondering about how I can help others enjoy the mission as much as I enjoy it. I have this scripture on my study desk:

Mathew 16:25 

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

I love this scripture and it helped me at the very beginning of my mission when I first came out! I shared some concerns I had with my trainer Elder Cox and he read this scripture to me! I absolutely love this scripture and Elder Cox! Well he is "Rio" now since he has gone home and is no longer a full-time missionary. Oh! I don't know if you know mom and Dad but Rio got engaged!!! That's crazy! He is going to have a great marriage! What a great man! 

On my mission plaque at home I have my favorite scripture of all time! (FYI, the plaque has my picture, the following scripture and the name of my mission on it. It is hanging up in the church building on College Blvd because that is my church ward I left from.  It will be presented to me in church when I return from my mission).  Anyways, this is the scripture on my plaque: 

Doctrine and Covenants 4:2 

Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.

At the End of my mission I will stand blameless before God!! And just so each of you know, I have been serving (and will continue to serve throughout my mission) with all my heart, might, mind and strength!!! I love my Savoir Jesus Christ and my Heavenly Father!! I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be here on this earth and serve him!! Thank you all for the prayers and support!! I do appreciate it! 

Love you all have a great week!! 

Elder Cahoon

Boy that sun is bright!