Hello friends and family!
It's been a while since I have written (don't worry, I have still called my mom on Mondays and Thursdays). Due to COVID, my mission allows the missionaries to call twice weekly. To get you up to speed,my companion and I have been teaching people and meeting them at the church for in-person lessons. We have put a guy on-date for baptism so that is exciting! We still have video lessons with members and with investigators. It is fun serving in the Young Single Adult Branch.
I do have got some crazy news though!!! A couple of days ago, we get a call from some Elders in the District. They tell us they have a referral for us (the guy they were talking to is 25 years old so we are the Elders in-charge because he is YSA age). They then tell us they needed to have us join them in a lesson! But the kicker was when they said the referral was from a guy they talked to and who said he wants to be baptized!! How cool is that?? That rarely happens and it has happened 2 times to me in the past couple of months!
So backstory: the Elders received an online referral from a guy who wants a Book of Mormon. They call him and the man says he already had a Bookk of Mormon, had read 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, 3 Nephi, 4 Nephi as well as some other books in it. He had read Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price (another book of scripture we have and use). He tells the Elders that he knows the Book of Mormon is true and the church is true and he wants to be baptized!! The man is such a genius! hahaha The guy has a friend that is a member of the church. The member gave him the Book of Mormon and has talked to him about the church and invited him to pray about the Book of Mormon to find out if it was true. So he studied a ton about our church and took the invitation to pray about it and he knew it was true! Now he just wants to get baptized and be apart of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! We did join the lesson and it was the craziest lesson I have been in because he talked about his testimony and testified of many truths! All of us Elders just had dropped-jaws as he told us his story!
I have never met anyone so prepared to be baptized in my life!!! So we set a baptismal date for August 30th!! I hope to be able to return for his baptism!
So that is the next crazy news I have to share. Sadly, I will be leaving the area. I am being transferred back to Brandon! This is the area where I began my mission! I'm excited for that!! I am excited to get back in touch and talk to people that I had known before. I am looking forward to learning about what they are doing in their life now a little more than a year later. I have plans! I haven't told the Hursts yet. I want to surprise them!
So the last crazy news I have to share is that I was released as a Zone Leader! This will be only my 3rd transfer in my entire mission that I don't have any responsibilities! I have been a Zone Leader for over a year. It will be a weird feeling not having responsibilities but I am looking forward to just being a "regular" missionary. hahaha
I love you all! Have a great week!! I want you to know that miracles happen, God lives and He most certainly loves us!
Elder Cahoon
