Teaching Tiny Toddlers

Hello family and friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes the area I'm in is fantastic.  The Ward is the biggest Ward I've been in and it's so much fun! We keep having dinners that it is hard to get in with the I's.  Elder Kap is loving Olean.

What!?!?!? It's already Monday?  Time flies out here!!!!!!! Especially when you are always trying to find something to do and you're working hard and having fun all at the same time. Seriously time just flies right out the window and drops dead!  Last Monday we are at the J's home (Do you remember Sister J?  She sent you the picture of a Elder Schofield and I). She is sooo cool, very perky, outgoing and is 110% missionary mom because her daughter is on a mission!!!! She has a son with Down Syndrome.  He is the funniest kid.  His name is Ty.  I'm so glad that I have Scott in my family because Scott is what makes the Cahoon family so special.   Special needs people can teach you sooo much. They teach you to slow down and smell the roses and to enjoy the journey as well as the reward in the end.  Scott has helped me to look at everyone as God would view them.  The love and compassion that Scott has for everyone helps me to care for everyone no matter their disability or weaknesses.  I strive to see their potential and what they will become.  I'm so grateful for you Scott for your example to me.  I cherish the time when you and I would go and see a movie on Saturday night.  We had fun together and I will never forget it!!!!  Those are some of the most memorable times I had in Farmington.   I love you buddy!!!!!!!  You also better believe that after the mission we are going out to see some movies- we've got a lot of catching up to do Hahahaha!!!!!

                                                                    

These kids were so excited to get anything about Jesus

So while we were at the Js.  I discover that Bishop J has a Jaguar.  It is really nice and FAST!!!!!!!!  I wish I had  gotten a picture but I didn't have my iPad on me😢 so I'll have to get it another time.  It was Pi day that day (3/14) so Sister J made us 3 pies!!!!!!  I had a slice of each pie cause I couldn't decide Hahahaha!!!!!!  So that was a lot of fun!!!  Then we helped at the Old Economy (it is probably my favorite service I've done on my mission so far).  It's actually a historic site and we help out on by leaning up garbage or pruning trees or moving furniture that's over 200 years old!😱  Crazy right!?!?  Well, you just wait.  So on Tuesday we were working with Dean (a worker there who's really funny) and we were out in the garden when we hear this screech and then crash.  We see this car coming to a screeching halt on the highway behind the Old Economy on the other side of the road.  We see smoke and we take off to look over the fence to see what happened.  We see this car parked on the other side of the road in the right hand lane with smoke coming from the car.  We run over- this time I did look both ways so I learned from last time- and it was a younger girl and she was already on the phone with the police.  It turns out that she hit the guardrail and her wheel came off and her car was driving on its rotor and that was the screeching sound we heard!!!!!!  As the car wasn't going anywhere, we offered to go grab her tire and by the time we came back the police were there and directing traffic.  After that there wasn't much more we could do so we headed back to Old Economy!  Strange things are happening in Ambridge where we are helping people. I love it- spiritual medicine but it's some pretty scary stuff!!!😬😬😬   After finishing our service at Old Economy, we went on exchanges and guess who I went with!??!?........... ELDER MINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  We finally were able to serve together.  It was sooooooo much fun!!!!!!!!!!  I was also leading out my area and I've only been here for like 2 1/2 weeks but it went well.  We even had a really cool experience:  we tried this one potential and they open the door and there were like 7 kids that came out followed by the potential.  We asked if we could come in but she said no because the kids had homework. Then all of a sudden the kids all yell and say NOOOO we want to talk about Jesus!  I was amazed!!!!!  We went in and all these kids were like "We love Jesus."  One of them said, "Jesus is my best friend!"  They even showed us a DVD of Jesus that they loved.  Then they asked if we had any pictures of Jesus and we only had a few but these kids wanted any pictures of Jesus one of them said " I'm going to put this one as my background screen for my phone!!!!!!!!!!!! How crazy is that!?!?  Then we taught a little lesson and left them with B.O.M.s and restoration pamphlets. They wanted anything we had so we gave them all that we had.  They grabbed it like it was candy!!!!!!!  So my favorite quote is "Jesus is my best friend."  

So we went from this amazing experience to a pretty pathetic experience.  Elder Mink and I had about an hour of exchanges left and we see this guy and we asked if he needed help and he said no.  But then he started talking to us.  He was a Catholic.  He starts to say how our church is wrong and it's heresy to believe that God and Christ are separate beings.  So instead of bible bashing and all that we just listen to his beliefs then we tell him, "thank you for sharing your beliefs but we have a testimony of these things and we are just here to share that with those who are willing to listen."  I think people having other beliefs and opinions is fine but it is wrong to tear down another's beliefs.  That's what he started to do to us.  

Another cool thing that happened this week was one of our investigators read all the way to chapter 15 in 1st Nephi and he is loving it.  We asked him if he believes the Book of Mormon is the word of God.  He said "yes I do!"  How exciting is that??!!!!!!!  The most fun we had this week was when we moved Sister R.  She's moving to Idaho.  Since I used to work for a moving company (good ol' Mayflower), I was ready and excited to begin.  I was once again able to let my talents be placed on a candlestick so that I could bless and help others.  Not only did we get it all packed but Elder Schofield and I even got all of the hard stuff out of the way so no one else had to deal with it.  I was excited I could use my talents and abilities to help others!!!!!!!!  That was an all-day task and a lot of work but we finally got it all!!!! 

The Ls took us out for breakfast and the Sisters didn't eat all their food so instead of wasting it, I ate their's too.  I had a gyro omelette, 2 plates of hash browns and 2 plate-sized pancakes.  I ate it all.  I keep telling people I'm a garbage disposal but no one believes me- but the Ls do now!  So this week I was spiritually and physically filled hahahaha!!!!!!! I love all you so muc.  Have a great week.  Bye!!!!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

Elder Cahoon the Baboon