Elder Austin Cahoon's Mission: This Week Went By So Fast!!

"Bravo six going dark."- Captain Price

Hello there mates!! It was a good week!!

Now the funny story behind why I chose the quote. So in Elders Quorum (Sunday class for all the men in my church that are 18 years old and over) we discussed how we should make sacrifices to come closer to God. I can't remember the comments leading up to one of the men's comments but this one old guy blurted out, "If that happens, the Millennials will need counseling." After he said that, I leaned over to the young man next to me and whispered, "This guy doesn't even know what's it's like to play Call of Duty!" He thought that was hilarious and we just started busting out laughing! I thought it was kinda funny.

See The Frog??

Well this week was pretty sweet!! We have had a good time! It went by so fast, I don't even know what all has happened! We do have some cool people we are teaching! The converts continue to be awesome! We also have been increasing our teaching pool and that is pretty sweet! The Ward has been praying for our success and for us to find people. Miracles have come because of their efforts and faithfulness (and ours)! We have been getting into so many doors!!

Last week we found Arthur! We knocked on his door and he was excited to hear what we had to say! We ended up teaching him a 45 minute lesson on the Restoration of the Gospel. He said "This is so cool! I have never heard any of this before!" We left a Book of Mormon with him with an invitation to read from it. Well, we have had a good follow-up lesson with Arthur this week! He was so excited to read the Book of Mormon and he has been reading it and loving it!! We are going to see him again tomorrow!

Part of my responsibilities as Zone Leader are going out with the District Leaders and learning how I can help them help their districts. I really enjoy this responsibility!

We had a fun game night party at the church this week! It was pretty fun we played "Attack Uno"!! It was a great time and we had some non-members there so it was good to fellowship!! It's been great to be here in the Lecanto Ward!! Transfers are coming up and I'm a little scared I'm going to leave this area! I haven't stayed in any area for long so that is why I think that.

Also we just got done going through some caves here in the area!! They were waaaay cool!!

Cave Opening

What a great week I have had! I love being able to serve the Lord!! Some random guy was talking to me and he asked me how I knew the Book of Mormon was true. I explained to him how have studied and prayed to God and asked Him if Joseph Smith saw Him and Jesus Christ. I told him that I received an answer from Him that He (God) did appear to Joseph Smith and Joseph did in fact translate the writings in the gold plates which were then printed to make the Book of Mormon. I truly know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is Christ's restored kingdom on the Earth. That is the truth and it has blessed my life to know that!