6/4/2011: chutes and ladders

hey family!!

 

so good to hear about eric's farwell and also that michael should be getting his call soon!! that's a good job!!  

 

now for a change of subject, this week was not so good haha. it just felt like one super duper long day. and a bunch of our appointments cancelled and a couple investigators dropped us. so that's no bueno. we were kinda just exhausted mentally, physically and spiritually. 

 

the good news though is that on saturday we will be having 2 baptisms :) it's a part member family :) the mom and the daughter are getting baptized, the dad has been less active his whole life. but it was awesome bcuz the mom said that she wants to go to the temple in a year... so they will be in white twice!! woohoo!! their family is coming from florida and kansas and like everywhere to see her get baptized. it's awesome. Then a couple weeks after that a kid named _______ will get baptized :) he is 11 years old. i was with a member (who is going on his mission in 2 months to russia) and we taught him the plan of salvation using chutes and ladders hahaha. it worked like a charm!! so i took the mount thingy off and that was us in the spirit world. then you put it on so your person stands up and that's your body. then you play the game, or you go thru life. every time we hit a chute or ladder we stopped and i explained a principle. and the bottom half of the board was earth, the top half was the spirit world and so on and so forth. the mom was like "cameron, do you understand everything??" and he explained everything back to her. i was like suhweeet!! haha. this kid also LOVES legos too. so after every lesson we take 10 mins and build something hahaha. last time i built a pretty sweet looking staircase. and he built a shark... mine looked cooler. hands down.  

 

anywho. something cool that i'm doing is going through the book of mormon and circling the word "remember" and also highlighting EVERY question mark (these ones ---> ? ) just cuz i wanna see how many questions are in the book of mormon. cuz that's how you learn the most, by questions. and if you don't remember what you have gone thru... you missed the point. so this will help me remember :) 

 

anywho, hope all is well at home!! sure love ya!! ill pray for brittany(...she barely survived when we did the trek thingy for like 2 days...) love y'all!! i'm gunna have a southern accent when i come home :) gotta have one for when i live in tennessee!! :):)

 

peace out girl scouts.

 

Elder Cawley