Elder Austin Cahoon's Mission: Happy Veteran's Day!

This one is going to be short ladies and gents. I'm just not feeling it right now. hahaha I want to begin by giving a shout out to my brother, Tyler- HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAN!! I love you!

This week was super good! We had a lot of wonderful tender mercies and had some SWEET lessons! It was a pretty fun week!

So we had some great exchanges and I got to go down to Tampa! It was great! I went on exchanges with the new Assistant to the President (he was in my first trio with Elder Cox and I when I was out only 6 weeks). I loved being in Tampa again- there were people everywhere walking around and we got to talk to a lot of them! I honestly miss that. Out here in the sticks (I love being out here too though) we don't get all those people just walking around.

But Lecanto is doing great!! We had a super good lesson with Melanie this week! We talked about her reading of the Book of Mormon and she is already in Mosiah 11!! She is killing the reading! Every time we go over, she has read more and has a long list of questions written down on paper. She keeps her paper beside her while she reads and writes down anything she doesn't understand or is confusing to her. We LOVE it!! When we get to her house, she pulls out her paper and I am like, "Ok. Let's go. Let's get into it!" We go down the list and answer all of her questions! She said she loves reading The Book of Mormon because she feels so good while she is readying it and she feels so much more joy during the time reading than she does when she is going about her day. We asked her why she was having those feelings and she said "Oh it's definitely the Holy Ghost." We also asked, "How do you think you can have those feelings more in your life?" She replied with a shockingly perfect answer. She said, "I need to continue to read and pray and go to church so I can get baptized and so I can get my family to the Temple!" Elder Hatch and I were so shocked! We testified to her that what she said was true and we promised her she would be able to feel the Spirit more in her life if she did those things! We also told her that she could have the Holy Ghost with her all the time once she is baptized because she will have the Gift of The Holy Ghost. She is so full of faith and wants to come to church so badly so she is working on getting off of work on Sundays.

I went on an exchanges to another area with Elder Martinez who is from Mexico and doesn't speak much English. He serves all over the Zone, working with Spanish-speaking families/people only). He is a great Elder and I really love him! We went into a p home and the family was from Mexico. They were speaking Spanish and since I only know a little bit, I didn't understand what they were saying. All of a sudden, Elder Martinez asks me if I want to eat and I say, "sure." Well, we sit down and I began to eat and then I ask them, "Is this carne asada?" They affirmed it was. For those who don't know, carne asada is my FAVORITE! The food was delicious! Along with the carne asada, I had some deeelicious beans and the best spicy guac I have ever had! I could have eaten a ton but we had to go so we didn't get to stay and keep eating. I enjoyed it though! hahaha The family wasn't interested in talking much about the church but they sure were nice and enjoyed having us join them for dinner!

Elder Hatch and I have been really busy since we are the only elders now in the area. We had 6 people at church on Sunday. It was so great! The members are so awesome to befriend and talk to them too! We had some other lessons this week that I don't have time to get into but they went really great as well!!