4/16/2012: "you wanna try the shrimp?"

brittany has a boyfriend?!?! that's unacceptable! haha jk that's cool. but i don't remember him... but that's still cool! i wanna meet him and also i wanna meet the rat thingy bert alert has. so awesome! 

this week has been nuts! we had ZLC at the methodist church and went and saw their sacred chapel. its called "The Upper Room" and i guess all methodists are supposed to go there and pray once a year. it was pretty. they have this huge wooden carving of the last supper. and it was like we were on a field trip haha. we had a tour guide explaining everything and all that jazz. 

Reverend Albin took us all to the Hilton, downtown Nashville, and we ate at the buffet. it was super good. they had a huge table set up for us, but we were one chair short, so me and elder _________ went and sat at a lil table and just caught up and laughed. it was fun haha. i asked if he wanted to try the shrimp and i put some on his plate and then i was like "umm... this is getting weird. its like we are on a date." we tried to eat all fancy. drinking water with our pinky out and wearing our napkins and cutting our lettuce hahaha. it was so much fun. 

then yesterday we had the "I Believe in Christ" missionary fireside again. except this time it was in Bowling Green. but guess what... this upcoming sunday its going to be in hopkinsville!! and then the week after that its going to be in cookeville!!! and then after that FRANKLIN!!!! its so great!!!! all of my favorite areas! and then ending with my favorite one! franklin!! :):) and yeah that's about it :) 

still really busy. had around 35 lessons this week. so yup. glad the dodgers are doing good :) bout time! :) i love y'all!! have a happy week :):)

Peace n Blessins.

Elder Cawley

4/9/2012: uh oh oreo!

so... hi :)

we are sooo busy!!! it is seriously crazy how busy we are. we leave the apartment at 10am and we dont usually get back until 10pm! this past week we had a total of 40 lessons and 21 new investigators... its nuts! everyday we split up with 3 different members in the afternoon and also at night. so each day we have 6 exchanges... lots of more ground to cover that way :) one of us always works the CV2 ward and the other two work YSA and we just take turns. its like we are all in our own area bcuz we are with members so much we hardly teach together as a companionship haha. and i set a date with a person that we have been teaching :) its pretty cool :):) 

It is weird being a zone leader again bcuz i forgot how to deal with situations when they come up and stuff haha. i'm like "ummmmm" haha but i love it :) i did move apartments... just up the road though. 

and oh get this! so tomorrow is ZLC and we are having it in the huge Church of Christ building in brentwood :) some missionaries are teaching the pastor there and he wants us to have ZLC there so he can watch us haha. should be interesting. also, one of my companions, Elder Lund, is in charge of a musical fireside thingy that him and sister McKee have made. so every sunday starting this coming sunday... we will go across the mission and go on tour haha. this week is bowling green, then hoptown, and so on a so forth. i'm most excited for when we go to Franklin! cuz everytime we go there i just feel like home :) i love it! :) 

oh i got a hair cut earlier today and well.... let's just say.... it looks like i have joined the army hahaha. she totally gave me a military hair cut... but its all good i guess. 

I came up with a companionship slogan... we are the UH OH OREO! cuz elder ______ and i are white... and elder ______ is black haha. and everywhere we go we are going to leave "uh oh oreos" on missionaries cars and door steps hahaha. so they will know that we have been there :) i think it'll be pretty fun. 

i hope y'all had a great Easter! yay for bert alert finishing college!! love y'all!! stay classy m'kay??

Peace out girl scouts.

Elder Cawley

4/2/2012: Wings & a Trio

Hey family :)

so i just got back from Buffalo Wild Wings. we were gunna do the wings challenge. 12 of their hottest wings in 6 mins and you get a free t shirt. well we got there and you don't get a free t shirt anymore... you get a headband. and i was like... "hmmm. PASS!" haha. i would have worn that shirt forever if they still had them... but a headband??? where do you wear that to??? the movies or something

so a couple other elders did the challenge and they were dying. Elder ______ was crying. i was making em laugh and they almost didn't eat it in 6 mins bcuz i was making em laugh so hard. but anywho... back to missionary stuff :) 

so saturday was transfer call outs... and guess what?! i'm getting transferred... again. except i'll still be covering the same area. let me explain... so i was finishing training Elder ______ for his last 6 weeks in CV2 ward. and the Zone leaders covered CV2 and mainly focused on the YSA (young single adults) in the stake. well... they are closing my area, and i'm going to be a zone leader in the zone, with elder ______ and elder ______. so i'll be in a trio and we will cover CV2 but mainly focus on working with the YSA. so i will go to institute and FHE and all that good stuff. it's gunna be pretty interesting. so all the YSA's in the stake go to our ward and hopefully we will have enough going that we can make a YSA branch :) that's the goal right now. So it will be pretty fun. 

And elder _________ (my companion) is going to Sparta, TN. which is like 20-25 mins south of Cristine and Scott and Jakey. and our family of 14 is doing good. we kinda did the silent treatment to em to see if they would reach out to us if they wanted... works every time hahaha. :) he texted us on wednesday saying to come over. so we were gunna go over on friday but his wife had to go to the hospital :( so we will go try and see them sometime soon. he doesn't know what is wrong yet. 

but that is pretty sweet bert-alert trained a rat haha. if only she did that with her turtle in her room.... haha BURN!!! jk... but seriously... that is pretty cool!! and i'll work on my passport when i get the chance :) thank you for sending the shoes :) and thank you for the Easter basket :) 

sorry this is a short email ( i'm pretty sure i say that almost every email...) but i PROMISE next time will be a long one. i love y'all!! stay classy m'kay??

Peace out Girl Scouts. (speaking of those... thin mints are pretty tasty... just sayin')

Elder Cawley