Getting Transferred to a YSA Ward!

Hello everyone! 

These emails just may get shorter and shorter. 😂😂 It's been a good week! Good things are happening in the area! I just found out that I am getting transferred to the Tampa YSA ward and I am gonna be sad to leave!  I will be getting a new companion and new Zone Leader companion.  

I have enjoyed the Zoom Sunday School meetings with the ward members.  Currently, we are teaching a 9 year old boy.  We talked to his father (who is not a member of the church) and he is super cool and is excited to do lessons with us! We are super excited to teach him until we are transferred!  

I know it is short- sorry.  We have to go grocery shopping and then we are going to play some basketball.  Everyone have a great week! Love you all!! 

Elder Cahoon

Sweet Missionary Miracles!

Hello everyone!

Okay so it's been crazy with some sweet miracles! I wish I had the time to tell them to you in full detail!!! Okay so the first sweet, amazing miracle:  we pull up to Taco Bell to get some grub and then we start munching.  We get a call from a random number. We answer the phone and a man asks, "When is your next baptismal service?" So we tell him we are having one on the 20th of this month (which is part of our other miracle that I'm about to explain) but back to the first story.  The man then states that he will call us later to be baptized on that day.  And so we explain to him a little bit of the baptismal process and we figure out his situation. Well this guy wants to improve his relationship with God and wants to be baptized! He called us because a member gave him our number and told him to call us and that's what he was doing!!!  After we hung up with Will, we called the member who sent him to us and the member explained a little more about the situation.  Needless to say, we set up a lesson with both Will and the member on Thursday!  We are really excited for it!!!!  This is a perfect example of the Lord answering my prayers!  I pray everyday in every prayer that I will find people that are ready but ALSO pray that if I don't find them, they will find me.  This is exactly what happened with Will!  This has happened so much in the past months it is unreal! Heavenly Father certainly blesses those who are sincere! 

So now for the 2nd sweet miracle:  the reason we have a baptismal service on the 20th is because we received a call from our Bishop this week and he told us about this family in the Ward that has a 9 year old boy who would like to be baptized!  So we talked to the family and had an awesome lesson this week with him and set a baptismal date for him on the 20th!!  His dad is not a member of the church but he might be interested in talking with use and in learning more about the church!! We are so excited to invite him to the lessons as well!! 

As you can see all is well and much fruit is being produced!! God is preparing people and it's been great to see people come to us for knowledge!! I have said it before but as we have been praying to find people who are ready to be baptized and also praying for them to find us, our prayers have been answered and I know all of yours can be as well!! 

I love all of you!! Have a great week!!! 

Elder Cahoon 

Two Companions and Gulfport

Hello Everyone!

This weekly is going to be short. It's been busy and a little stressful lately. We have gotten a lot of new missionaries lately! I now have 2 companions. I am training both of them.  One of my companions is brand new out of the home MTC and my newest companion is a reassigned missionary.  He previously served in Australia and he is pretty cool he is also 6'8"!!! So y'all ready know we balled up!! 

My trio has moved to Gulfport which is by St. Petersburg.  We are doing zoom meetings to get to know the members and teach people.  I continue to have my weekly video meetings with the Mission President and Stake President.  I love my Mission President so much! I am also loving Elder Thompson- he is a beast!!!  I'm hardly training him- he is basically already trained. We have been enjoying each other!  We live by a preserve and we even saw a Gator this week! That was pretty cool. We balled up today and afterwards it poured rain so that felt great!!  It is hot here in FL! 

Well everyone have a great week and Love you al!!! 

Elder Cahoon