Getting a New Companion: 11/28/2011

WHAT?! camille has a boo?!?!?! when did she grow up?! and who is it?! JT?! how old is he?! this is just too crazy... im fixin to jump on a plane and come do a PPI with JT... 

well tomorrow is transfers... and my companion is leaving. he is going to Fairview to be district leader. He isn't too happy bcuz fairview is pretty small like linden haha. but he is closer to civilization thats for sure!! 

im getting Elder _________. I hear he is a pretty good missionary. although he is the one that got in the crash up in Leitchfield when i was his zone leader. but its a good thing that i will be driving haha. im pretty excited to work with him though, prez told me to just make sure to continue to be exact in obeidence and the baptisms will follow... so i reckon ill hold him to that haha. 

This past week has been pretty slow... again. We had leadership training (which i saw bert alert, deenie, bil, and jakey) haha. and then district meeting the next day, in a town 1 hour and 10 mins away. so it was alot of driving... and it put us over our miles :( as of right now... we are over 400 miles... it isnt going to be a fun phone call to president... but it has to happen :( 

i loved the food that cristine and scott and bert brought me :) it tasted gewd! haha. and it saved us!!! we started to play bingo... but then just ended up eating all the candy hahaha. thank you so much!!! 

sorry this is so short... but i gotta get running. i love yall!!!! its fixin to snow here pretty soon :( uh oh haha.

Peace out girl scouts.

Elder Cawley

Happy Thanksgiving!: 11/21/2011

Well, this week is Thanksgiving!! :) and i hate to say it, but we are going to spend thanksgiving in our trailer. We didnt get invited to anyones house :( but thats okay. i think we will just do what mom said and buy some stuff and cook it ourselves. 

This past week has not been a good one really. I think its safe to say that we walked a good 5 hours each day... and didnt see a single person. its been frustrating lately bcuz of all the miles we have gone (zone conference, exchanges, district meeting) since we live out in the middle of nowhere. So we are basically stuck in Parsons and all we can do is walk around. its kinda funny though, bcuz we have 105 miles left for the month... and we just got informed that i have to drive to franklin tomorrow for a leadership training. so... bye bye miles hahaha. and we will for sure go over miles... not looking forward to that. 

On the bright side, our recent convert that we just baptized 3 weeks ago or so, basically already knows more then me in the gospel haha. its crazy. She was concerned that her husband isnt a member. But i think her husband will join anyway. he has heard the lessons a good 2 times now. so he knows his stuff too. 

A random thing... this person had this cool looking picture thing on their porch and i asked them what it was and they said they didnt want it and that they would give it to anyone. so i hinted if we could have it and they were like... "do you want it??" and i said, "sure!" haha. so we took it home to our trailer, and its a good 3 feet long and its a picture of a waterfall... and you flip a switch and there is a light in the picture that makes it look like the water is running. so we call that our TV now haha. and we put next to our beds hahaha. its great. 

OH! we did get invited to a baptists thanksgiving dinner though. its on wednesday at their church. we are tight with the penecostals and baptists here haha. but i reckon thats all that happened last week. nothing too exciting. that is way cool about grandma and grandpas fireside thingy. i would be super nervous if i had to do that. its gunna be pretty cool to have them working in the LA temple when i get married in there :):) haha :)  

i love yall!! HAPPY  THANKSGIVING!!

peace out girl scouts.

Elder Cawley

Good Things Happening in Linden: 11/14/2011

So this past week has been a pretty good one, kinda. There are both ups and downs. the Ups are... that we found a good 5 people that we could baptize next month. WOOHOO!! We were in Hohenwald on thursday, and we found this part member family, and the dad wants to get back into church, and he wants his two lil girls to be baptized :):):)

Another one is _______ ________. She has been taught for awhile by other missionaries, and then she called us about 2 weeks ago wanting a blessing bcuz her health wasnt good. So we gave her a blessing and she felt so much better she said in like 30 mins. haha. And we went overon wednesday and she had her quad out with the gospel principles book out and she was just studying. She told us that if she could just quit smoking, that she would be baptized! :):) 

And then the lady we just baptized last saturday, her husband is now interested. So we could baptize him :) and also, ______ and ______. They just recently got married, and their baby was blessed in church. so we could baptize the dad too :):) 

Lots of good things are happening in Linden. They havent baptized that much here, but we are going to start too! haha. i guess the downs are... that its only the 14th and we only have about 200 miles left haha. It takes us about 45 mins just to get to Hohenwald. and the other missionaries in my district are both 1 hr 30 mins away. so that makes exchanges hard... and district meeting too hahaha. but its all good. 

the Lord works in mysterious ways, bcuz we got a new car about 30 days ago, and our 30 day temp. lisence plate expired. so we cant drive our car until we get the new one haha. so thats a bummer :( and thats kinda hard bcuz we live in the middle on no where... and it takes us 5 miles to get into town.... so that is... no bueno! haha. i got all my winter clothes out :) i need some gloves though, these ones didnt do the trick last winter. i hate that I have bad blood circulation in my hands :( they are always cold hahaha. and idk where we are going to eat at for Thanksgiving yet, hopefully we find some place soon :) all the members just live so far from our trailer, but we will find a place. i love yall!! stay safe!!

Peace out Girl Scouts. 

Elder Cawley

First Time Confirming: 11/08/2011

So this past week was pretty interesting. I went on exchanges with the Columbia Elders. It was a lot of fun. I went with Elder _______ in Columbia, and Elder__________ came here to Linden with Elder _______ (my companion). 

So while in Columbia, we had the impression to go to the Mall... weird haha. And we are walking around and we run into _________ (one of their investigators) and we start talking to him and it turns out that he needed help working on his house. So we told him that we would stop by and work on his house with him. 

(oh btw, while at the mall, we were walking out of JC Pennys to the car and i saw this table full of ties that said all ties are $2.97. so i ran over and checked and they are usually 40 or 30 dollar ties, so i bought 7. hahahha. and saved $22 :):) woohoo!!)) 

Then the next day we went over to _________ (investigator we ran into at the mall) and just helped him haha. We were like his assistants. whatever he said he needed, i would just hand to him. So we did that for about an hour, then went and I got to do a Baptismal interview :):) I love those! Its my favorite part :) Except they had cats all over. And i got alot of cat hair on my suit hahah. Then I got back to my area the next day. 

And we had a baptism on Saturday!! woohooo!!! Her name is _____  _________, and she is the most golden lady ever. She was just a dry Mormon... but now she is fully Mormon :):) and the best part is... is that I got to confirm her on Sunday :):) woohoo!! That was my first time ever doing that (super scary might I add) So that was pretty fun. 

Then also on Saturday we had a photoshoot hahaha. With a member in the ward who wanted to take our pictures and put it on his facebook. So that was pretty fun :) I wish i could talk longer, but we gotta run to Lawrenceburg which is like 1 hr 30 mins away for exchanges. I love yall!!! Take care!!!

Love,

Elder Cawley....

Peace out girl scouts :)