AHHH! i leave to nashville on monday! this is crazy hahaha. so umm i forgot to tell you but last week Elder M. Russel Ballard came and spoke to us. the main thing that he focused on was that we have to be happy and smile all the time. if we teach an investagator and we are showing that we are happy, then why are we going to listen to us? i was like... hmm that true. thats a good job Elder Ballard hahahaha. so yeah that was crazy that i saw him in person. and then this week on tuesday when we have fireside i was like hmm... i wonder who is gunna speak (bcuz they dont tell anyone who is coming) and we are singing a song and the doors open and BAM!!! Elder Bednar walks in! i was like WHAT!? 2 apostles in 2 weeks!? hahahah it was awesome!!! he talked about principles, application and doctrine. and he said not to answer a doctrine question with a doctrine or dont answer a principle answer with a principle. change it up. so that was really interesting too haha.
But these three weeks have gone by soo fast! i seriously cant believe that i am going out to the mission field in 3 days. My branch president handed me a grip of pass along cards and told me to pass them out to our district so we can pass them out to ppl at the airport. i was like, holy crap, its real now. hahaha. it was intense. OH we went to a TE last night (teaching evaluation) and he was like "soo what do you want me to teach you" and we said door and street approaches bcuz we haven't practiced that once. and our teacher served in Greece and he said that his entire mission was knocking doors and talking to people on the street. so he was PRO at it haha. so we talked about that and we practiced a little. then we get back to the classroom and me and Elder Perez decided to practice some more(elder perez is from las vegas and he is brown... thats why we call him "brown sheep" instead of black sheep hahahha) but i was the investagator and he sat next to me on a bench and kept saying "so how have you been?" and i was like dont say that say something else. but everytime we restarted he kept opening up with that question so we were busting up. then we finally started talking and i said that i was a grandpa yada yada yada. then i said that my wife died and he was "oh, thats good" even though he mean oh im sorry. so i just looked at him and made my eyes get all big, and we just started busting up. i was on the ground laughing and i couldnt breathe and i think i was crying hahaha. that was a good day.
OH ON WEDNESDAY I TAUGHT A REAL INVESTEGATOR!!! it was crazy! we do these things every wednesday and saturday where we teach for 45 mins to a random "investegator" who is really a member, but this time, ours was real hahaha. my teacher Brother Shumway threw a curveball right before we left to go and said, "oh by the way elder cawley, you might actually have a real investegator tonight" you should have seen my face, it was white hahaha. and we wanted to teach him lesson 1 the restoration but when we went in he was talking about after death and stuff ( he was old) and so it was goodbye restoration and hello plan of salvation. hahaha. might i tell you that i have only looked at maybe the first 2 paragraphs of that lesson. but i went in like a trance and i didnt know what i was saying or how i was saying it. and then before i knew it i was drawaing the plan of salvation on a peice of paper for him to understand and then the 45 mins was up. it was totally the spirit taking over and teaching threw me. it was amazing!! hahaha. my companion turned to me and was like... how did that just happen? i was like i have no idea hahaha.
Well i got 3 mins soo i will make this fast. my companion Elder Hutton is from Anahiem and he worked at disneyland for 3 years and wants to be a pilot. thats all he talks about. i dont think i can send pictures through here sso idk how i am gunna get pictures to all'yall. so mom set up that walmart thing :D haha
well i love yall so much! i hope you have a good week!!!
love,
Elder Cawley
P.S. mom i need a stake directory. idk where the one you gave me went haha. and i have tons of letters to send
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