Hello family and friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for the Cheryl's cookies. That is a lot of cookies and I know my District will enjoy them very much!!! I am saving them because I can''t eat all of them and Schofield's trying to lose weight. Wow I cannot believe it's Monday. I swear it gets shorter and shorter and better and better. This was a week of service. It was back to back service and we just got another call about 10 minuets ago saying someone needed help moving so we are becoming service missionaries Hahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love service though- remember that's the spiritual medicine. I even have Elder Schofield saying that now. When we do service he says, "Time to go get our spiritual medicine." It's so great!!!!! I love this companionship!!!!!!! So many great things are happening in Ambridge I love it!!!!! So let's break this week down and let me share some of the things I've experienced so you can jump into my mission in Pennsylvania and see what's going on hahaha!!! So we helped 2 people move this week- Sister Rs brother and dad as well as the Ps. They were both big moves but the Ps was an all day task. Js and his dad's was just until noon but it was still pretty big. So with J, we just cleared out his house and stuffed it all into the truck. It was a disaster but we got it all in. The important part is we got it all in, not the way it looked Hahahaha!!!!!! So after that we got breakfast. We have Sisters in our area and we see them quite often because we have dinner appointments and they drive us a lot of places. Since we see them so often we thought we'd be nice and get them breakfast too. We go by to give it to them and after we knocked on the door, they open it and out of nowhere they pull out Nerf guns and start shooting at us! I thought it was hilarious!!! So those are our Sisters, Sisters Oliver and Nelson. Oliver is training Nelson right now and the 2 other sisters in our District are a trainer and a trainee as well. It's exciting to be around trainees and serve with them in a District. Then we went and did more service at Old Economy. We were more in our service clothes than our regular, missionary clothes. That's when you know the laborious work is getting done!!!!!!!👊
After Old Economy, we went a less active's house whom we do service with and whom loves the missionaries. We have been doing service with him for a while and he knows that I want to be a motivational speaker so he forced me to give a motivational speech on 3 things: 1. Why are brussel sprouts green? 2. Why do Mormon missionaries stink? 3. Why is Schofield's head huge? Hahaha Elder Schofield recorded it without me knowing. I will try to send it to you through email but if it doesn't work, I will tell you that J said he was impressed! 👌 We were in our service clothes from 7:00am-5:00pm!!!
Like I have said before, we get fed well here in this ward and. I am in tons of members' homes. So this one Brother F is a funny guy. He was making burgers and hot dogs and asked how much I wanted. I jokingly told him 3 cheeseburgers. He said I couldn't eat that much. Hence, I sensed a challenge... DUN DUN DUN DUNN!!!!!!!!!!! A challenge!?!?!?!? Elder Cahoon Gronk never backs down from a challenge! So I told him to make 3 cheeseburgers and just to up the ante, I told him to make me 2 hot dogs as well! We had eaten lunch that day so I was hungry but not starving. Well can you guess who won?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? Drumroll.........................It was ME!!!!!!!!! I did it!!!!!!! He was impressed. They were good burgers too! So I've been challenged twice on my mission but Brother Ps was the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will always remember that!!!!!!!!
That dinner was preparation for the next day because we helped Brother A move. We were in our service clothes from 9:00am-8:00pm!!! A long day!!!!!! We got him moved from his old house to a new one and took the furniture from his old house and moved it into his new house. We got it all taken care of. Being a former mover has really helped me on my mission!!!!! As a thank you, he gave us money to go out and eat so we went to Chick Fil A. After dinner, we got our transfer calls. I receive a call from President Johnson!!!!!!!! (Gasp!) He talks to me and asks how things in Ambridge are going then he tells me that he wants me to be the new District Leader for the Cranberry District. So now I have a leadership position. I'm nervous but I'm confident that God will help me to rise to the challenge!!!! Elder Schofield was an amazing ZL (Zone Leader) and he was a district leader to the most difficult District in the mission so I have much to learn from him!!! I'm ready for the challenge- nervous and anxious- but ready!!!!!
Then we had a great Easter Sunday. The spirit was soooo strong and the testimony meeting was sooo powerful!!!!!! I can't tell you how awe-inspiring the testimonies were. They really touched my heart!! So this week I received wonderful spiritual medicine and I felt so good!!!
Thank you for the pictures of Tyler and Hannah. I appreciate those. I love you. Take care. Bye!!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Elder Cahoon the Baboon
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