It was pretty cool, this week we had zone conference and the rest of the mission got their phones. In one of the training's we had a cool prompting come to us. As I said last week we are getting lots of people who are interested but hard to meet with. So we were inspired to have the idea of teaching online. We send a Mormon message video or the Restoration video via text.
It was pretty cool. We came to the chapel so we could download the videos onto our phones and then we prayerfully wrote down a text for each person and sent the video. From all the people we only heard back from one. He was so excited though. His name is Ben. I was really disappointed when we did not hear back from Johannes.
It was fun to hear from Ben though. He was pretty excited to watch the video and said, “Hey come over on Saturday and we can talk about it.” That was pretty cool. I am so pumped. We sent him the talk One more Day. He is a really big thinker. If you ask him who he is he will rely back with who am I really. Deep down. So we thought if we get his mind going on one more day we could swing it over to preparing to meet God!! Saturday is going to be so much fun!!!
It has really been neat to see the Lord hasten his work. It is something I have continually said my whole mission. When he needs something to happen it happens. During our zone conference President McSwain shared with us that Elder Nelson on the mission board emailed him and said he talks about the ABM where ever he goes. I have seen on my mission the Lord’s hand in this work.
On Sunday Izzy came to church but we found out that she leaves to Denmark in one week. That is quick. We brought her up in our ward coordination meeting. This is by far the best ward that has done it on my mission. We all counseled together with the Bishop and thought it could happen. By Tuesday we just did not feel good about it. We don’t want to pressure her or even do something if she is not ready. It has to come from her. We want to respect her family and parents. She has a great family that will take care of her. Who knows maybe in 6 months when she gets back she will want to get baptized. It is just amazing to see though that this is the Lord’s work and he has it covered. We just need to trust in him.
During one of our dinner appointments we had eaten and just started talking. Not about bad things but just talking. We were having a great time and it was not until we stated to share our message that while we were talking the Spirit was not there. About half way through the message of the Restoration the room just went silent. We were trying to teach it in under five minutes. The timer was about to go off but the Mum stopped it. At the end of the lesson we asked why. She did not want the Spirit to leave if we got interrupted. Boy it was a strong Spirit. President McSwain always tells us maybe the most important lesson you will teach that day is our dinner apt lesson. Today that was the case.
We had another fun dinner where after we taught we challenged the two older kids to teach a five minute restoration lesson. That was so fun!! They did a great job and we challenged them to share it with a friend. It really is amazing how great the Spirit is in our lives. God truly does love us to give us His Spirit.
We have the funnest YSA parents in our ward. Bro & Sister Green. Every two weeks they throw a YSA fast breaker and invite us to come. It is so popular and all the YSA active, returning members, and at times non members come. Sister Green is the funnest!! She tells us go and talk and mingle with everyone. That is why we invite you to these. For reals she is like everyone's Mum. While I was talking to one of the YSA he wanted to follow me on Facebook. My front cover is of me wake boarding. I thought it was a pretty good picture but then Sister Green came over and said mine is better. We both thought she was joking but sure enough she was twice as high. It was so funny!!
This is just the best work on the whole earth. It is sad that it is coming to an end but I have done so much and been so blessed. I love the Lord so much.
I hope everyone has a great week.
Love,
Elder Cahoon
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