Singing, Teaching and Preparing People!

Hello family and friends!

This Monday we ate out at a place called Andies. We went there after district council and we went to celebrate Elder Oren's (my District Leader) birthday. We had the whole place bumpin "The Birthday Song" for Elder Oren and he was embarrassed- it was hilarious!  Last week we went to the Lake (we are not allowed to go in the water) and it was a blast!  I made sand castles.

We set a soft baptismal date with Harry this week. His family are members but inactive and they want to start coming to church again. Elder Ferry and I talked about baptism with him. And he said, "Ya I have been thinking about baptism and I think I need to be baptized by the proper authority." it was sweet!  You see, the previous Elders had taught him about Priesthood Authority  At the time, Harry wasn't ready to accept the truth about the Priesthood and Priesthood Authority.  We have talked with him a couple of times so far.  Well, this past time we were teaching him, he told us that he had been thinking about Priesthood Authority and felt that he needed to be baptized with the proper authority! We were so happy when he said that!  We asked if he knew the Book of Mormon were true.  He said no.  We asked him if he would read it with a desire to know if it was true or not.  He said he would.  We read with him a couple of different chapters and invited him to read with his family.  He said they would definitely read together.  We invited them to church an will be coming next week because they have both gotten Sunday off of work.  We had a kneeling prayer at the end of our lesson.  We prayed about the Book of Mormon and to know of its truthfulness.  Afterwards, we knelt in silence and allowed Harry to feel the Spirit.  He said the Spirit spoke to him and it was incredible!

Steve, the one that was baptized last week, is doing awesome!  We are getting Steve to the temple with his family this week and he was so hype! We got him signed up on Family Search and showed him how to do family history.  When we showed him, he was like a little kid on Christmas morning! He was screen-shotting his family tree and sending it to everyone! What a stud! 

It's been great here and I have been loving the Ward members! We have been seeing great, tender mercies from God and it's been amazing! 

I love all of you and hope you're all doing great! Have a great week! 

Elder Cahoon