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A New Mexico license plate!

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

It is a party here in PA and people are amazing in Butler.  Its crazy what has happened!!!!!!! So many wonderful miracles and its been a baller time!!!!!!!!

On Tuesday, I got my homie, new companion, Elder English!!!!!!  I love this guy so much.  He is a ton of fun!  I like to refer to him as my "Bropanion."  He likes everything I do and its absolutley wonderful!!!!  Tuesday night we went to play volleyball.  The new sister, Sister Stimpson, is sassy and it's absolutley HILARIOUS!!!!!  We all had a blast playing volleyball and we were killing it.  Sister Kelley, the sister that was here when Elder Ross was here stayed in Butler as well.  She is awesome.  If I had known her back home she would totally be with our guy crew.  Elder English is wayyy cool!  He is from Butte, Alaska.  When we got back to apartment Tuesday night after volleyball, we tried going to bed but it wasn't happening.  We talked about ourselves and tried to get to know each other better.  He literally likes everything I like- its awesome!!!!!!  He loves Dragonball Z and Anime, working out, the same tv shows and he played football and wrestled in high school.  We stayed up laughing and talking so we got to sleep kinda late.  However, we got up early and worked out!  Then we had District Meeting.  The District Leader is young but he is a cool guy.  We talked about safeguards.  

Bro. Popa, Joe, Elders English and Cahoon

We saw Joe everyday this week.  We talked about the temple and about him serving in the church by holding callings.  He said he wants to be baptized for his father in the temple!  HOW AMAZING!!!!!!!  Fast forward to Saturday (his baptism day).  We got to the church at 7:00am and filled up the font.  When Joe showed up we took pictures.  Joe was so excited!  There was a pretty good turnout for his baptism.  Before his baptism, I started worrying that maybe he wasn't prepared enough.  At the end of the baptism, I asked Joe how he felt he said, "I feel great. When I went into the font I felt good but after I was baptized, I felt a warm feeling in my heart.  I felt power of the Priesthood from Brother Popa."  How amazing is that??!!!   My worries were immediately gone as I realized that he was truly prepared and he understood what he was doing.  The Holy Ghost witnessed to me that he was prepared and confirmed to him that he was doing the right thing! 

Filling up the baptismal font

On Sunday both Joe and Sara were at church.  As I began closing the Chapel doors prior to the beginning of Sacrament meeting, I saw Kevin walk in!!!! Remember Kevin?  He was the one that was having struggles and wasn't ready to join us at church.  Well, yesterday HE CAME TO CHURCH!!!!!!!!!! It was absolutley marvelous!!!! I was so excited and happy to see him!  It was an amazing day at church!  Kevin had a big smile on his face throughout Sacrament Meeting!  We had the opportunity to participate in giving Joe the gift of the Holy Ghost in Sacrament Meeting as well- Alan, a member who Joe likes, actually said the prayer.  We have yet to have an opportunity to talk with him about that experience.  We were so busy on Sunday. lol  Because it was the first Sunday of the month, it was Fast and Testimony Meeting.  Our investigator, Sara, got up and bore a powerful testimony!!!!!!!!!!! 😱😱😱  She said she had come to know that the Book of Mormon was true by praying about it to God.  She also said that she knows that God is a loving Heavenly Father and we are all of his children; that He will help us in life.  I WAS BLOWN AWAY!!!!!!  It was just BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!  

I haven't had a lot of these kinds of experiences on my mission but I am grateful I am able to have them at the end of my 2 years of service.  Miracles are HAPPENING!!!!  I'm loving being here and serving in the PPM.  I don't have too much time left out here so I am going to continue to work hard and love it all!  Man, it is going to be hard to leave and go back to regular life.  I LOVE IT HERE!!!!!!!!!  At some point, I am gonna have to start thinking about civilian life- that's gonna be weird.  Anyways, I love you all.  Take care.  BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤

Elder Cahoon the Baboon