A Baptism and NO A/C: 8/29/2011

woo!! baptism!! so _______ _______ got baptized :):) it was so awesome. we found her at the beginning of the transfer, and she was so golden!  we taught her everything in like 2 weeks, and she brought her friends to come listen to us and all this jazz. the RS just took her right in (as the should haha) and she fell in love with the church :) it was awesome. Elder Hill baptized her. super cool experience. Her friend (who we are also teaching) came to see her get baptized and she was crying the whole time. it was awesome! its always good when someone cries hahaha. 

but yeah, now on the down side, our apartment is horribad right now. the AC broke last monday. so all week our apartment has been 95 degrees and higher, no joke. we called the apartment peeps and they sent a guy out, we come back and our door was dead bolted so we knew that he was there bcuz we just lock the knob thingy. so we go in... still super hot. all he did was put the filter in backwards hahaha. i think its low on freeon. but idk, im just thinking thats what it is haha. we noticed something was wrong bcuz i opened up the ac unit and the coils were frozen. it was like a good 4 in thick peice of Antarctica haha. i thought i was gunna see penguins running around in there or something. so we have been sleeping at Clarksville 1s apartment and the Logans (senior couple here, they are military relations) 

oh! yesterday at church, bro allen gave me and elder hill the army scriptures!! so they are super tiny and i have them all: the bible, b of m and d and c and the pearl of great price. im so using them. they are awesome!!! 

thats cute that charlie and caroline are twins with the boots haha. and ooh la la wiff camille holding hands!!! thats gross. well i gotta run, i got like 3 mins left on the timer hahah. LOVE YALL!

Peace and Blessins'

Elder Cawley

P.S. tell cristine and bil and jakey to come find me! hahaha. but seriously, tell them :)

Hot!: 8/22/2011

DAG GUM ITS HOT! haha. well not so much now, but the last couple of weeks have been :( 

so on monday i went on exchanges in Leitchfield, KY. (that is the place where the accident happened) the missionaries that got in the accident were ETd to different areas not in our zone. So Elder Ferre and Duke are up there. This is Elder Ferres first time being district leader. so i went up there and showed him the ropes and all that jazz haha. 

Prolly one of the scariest things happened to me up there though. So back track a lil, Leitchfield is 2 hours away from our apartment in Clarksville. the whole ride up there this random person was calling and texting us not so good things. kinda gross. i just asked this person to stop, and they stopped for a lil. so we get to Hartford where we were all meeting (like 30 mins from Leitchfield) and we played football with a family that is investigating. and when we are done, i go check the phone and we have like 20 texts and 4 missed calls from this person. i was like, holy crap! haha. so we called our mission president and he called the person and just said to stop calling my missionaries and so he did. it was weird though. 

so then i went to Leitchfield and had a jolly ol time just walking 24/7 haha. we found like 10 new inv in 2 days though :) so that was good to get them a teaching pool. bcuz they had nothing. 

So the Hartford elders picked us up tuesday night, and we drove down to Clarksville and we slept there. Then wednesday morning we had Zone Conference at 9am. so we got there at 8. turned on the AC and set everything up. it was good. The theme was on Commitment. So i did the training of "a man without eloquence" and taught that we need to be bearing our testimony frequently. just like it says in chapter 11 of PMG (preach my gospel). President loved the video haha. he said he might borrow that someday :) woo! haha. 

then right after zone conference, i went on exchanges with the Hopkinsville elders. it was so weird being back in my GREENIE area haha. Bishop _______ fed us (totally planned that haha) and they all hugged me and his lil girls just loved having me back. it was a good exchange :) 

i saw __________________ (person i baptized) and he is so active. the ward is doing a read the book of mormon in 100 days. so they have a calender they gave everyone, and he is like 3 or 4 days ahead of everyone. he is highlighting the book and everything. And the cool part is that he is doing all of this with the very copy that i handed him on the street when we first contacted him. so awesome how the gospel works :) i love it :) that was the highlight of the week,

oh and also that we set a baptismal date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for this saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!! her name is______. she is 30, single, and loves the gospel!! haha. it was the most hectic lesson ever though bcuz her roommate wanted to come and sit in, and she brought her 3 kids and they were just all over the place. but somehow they felt the spirit and all sat down and we were able to set a date. and the roommate said she wants to get baptized soon too! yay!!!!!! i love when work pays off! haha. 

well i hope yall have a good week! i love yall!! 

p.s. CONGRATS SAM!!!!!! thats so awesome you got the aaronic priesthood!!! i love you!

Peace out girl scouts!

Elder Cawley

Investigators!: 8/15/2011

oh hi family :) and friends :)

So, this past week was fun :) It was a good one too. We went and saw this lady named ____. I guess the missionaries taught her and had a sweet first lesson with her, but she got into anti and called them and said that it scared her and to never come back. 

Well... I decided to go see her haha. So we stopped by, and it was about 8pm and I knock on the door and she says "who is it?!" and I'm like "uh... the missionaries." And she paused for like 1 min, then unlocked the door and opened it up. 

She had a big grin on her face and she thought that we had forgotten about her. She said that she has felt that she has gotten further away from Christ since we have stopped coming over. So we set up a time to come see her, and so this week we are gunna go see her :) I guess she has been through alot, bcuz she has the grim reaper tatooed on her arm. So that tells ya something. But she was so happy to see us :) So that was awesome.

Oh then at church, we had about 7 investigators at church, and they all loved it! So we are going to see them this week too and hopefully set dates with them :) We are teaching these 2 friends that are 24 and 23. They are roommates and they love when we come over. They want us to come over like 4 times a week, but they work haha. So we go over 2 times a week :) And they wanted to have meetings at the church so they could bring more people to listen to us :) yay! Its gunna be great :) I'm excited for what the Lord has in store for them :) 

Well I gotta get running :) We have a busy Pday scheduled. We are driving up to one of our districts to have Pday with them :) Oh and wednesday is zone conference, and I'm showing the "man without eloquence" :) Its gunna be great! I'm so excited. It's gunna be the best training ever! Well I love yall!

Peace out Girl Scouts!

Elder Cawley

Dinner with Mav Fans: 8/8/2011

Hey family :)

So another week in Clarksville. It's so different. But its aite :) I still think Franklin will be my farvorite area, I loved it there so much. But the work here in Clarksville is good. We found 3 families last week and we are teaching them :) 

Oh man, yesterday we went over to the __________ family's for din din. They are a young couple, that just got called to be ward missionaries, and they are HUGE Mavs fans. So once they heard I lived right next to LA, they gave me soo much crap for being a Lakers fan haha. In the middle of the table was a very nice Mav shrine hahahhaha. It had a Mav champ shirt, a picture of them, a fake lil trophy and just all this mav stuff. I was cringing! But they are an awesome couple, besides the fact that they are mav fans :) We did agree on one thing though, that everyone deserves a chance to win a ring, except Lebron hahahaha. So that was good. 

Man, Elder Hill and I are having way too much fun. I think its like almost illegal to have this much fun. haha. We are just going crazy with the music rule, I mean I can only take so much MoTab at one time. ZLC is tomorrow so we are trying to get the music rule changed to adding "The Nashville Tribuite Band" they are SOOOO good.A man named _______ (in franklin ward) founded it, and they are all members that are in the band. They have 3 CDs out now. They are called, The Trek, about the pioneers, the Joseph, about the prophet Joseph Smith, and they just came out with a new CD called "The Work" and it is SOOOO GOOD!! Its all about the missionaries! Go to http://nashvilletributeband.com/ and you can sample a song from the album. Its amazing. I think everyone will like it :) 

Well I love yall!!

Peace out girl scouts.

Back to Hopkinsville: 7/25/2011

So first off, this is going to be a short email, bcuz we are short on time due to transfers being tomorrow. so I'm running around like a chicky with its head cut off! haha. So yes, I'm getting transferred :( 

I'm going back to the Hopkinsville Zone to be a Zone Leader up there in Clarksville with Elder Hill (my long lost twin who came out with me :)) So that will be fun. But it is super sad that I'm leaving Franklin :( I love it here, I am totally coming back to visit here, and who knows, maybe I'll live here!! haha. It looks just like home, no joke. 

Man thats crazy that Beau is home. 

Oh geez. Well I'm sorry this is so short, but I'll email you a longer one tomorrow morning before transfers :)) I love yall! Stay out of trouble mkay??

Peace and blessings!

elder cawley

Elder Cawley eating breakfast with other missionaries at the Mission Home. 

Hola family!  

So, sorry about the short email yesterday - it was a crazy day running people here, taking them there, just all that stuff.  We did have time to play some bball and then the Germans took us to Buca Di Pepo as like our last supper haha - so that was fun :)   

Man, Sunday was awesome!  We had an NFL football guy we are teaching and his family came to church and he was sooo big compared to everyone else!   We also had a really cool Brother come to church. We have been working with him ever since I got here, and he just never came to church.  He served a mission and everything.  He is divorced, has a new girlfriend and he has 2 kids ages 18 and 14.  They are super cool!   This brother told us on Saturday that we wasn't going to come to church, but when we pulled in to the church parking lot I noticed his BMW and I was like NO WAY!!!  He looked super fresh in his suit and what not. He had a good time.   

During sacrament meeting, Elder Thompson and Elder Boyack and Brett Raymond (sings for the EFY cds) did a musical number, Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing - it was super good.  People were crying.  It was a great last meeting before my transfer as we had about 3 investigators at church and 2 less active members that we have been working with. Made me happy to see that :)   

So now I am all packed up, and in about 3 hours I will be in Clarksville starting my work there. I am gunna miss franklin, I love it here.  I'm seriously considering moving back here later on in life :) It is way swank here!   

Oh so me and Elder Thompson are starting a new fad. We found these watches at the shell gas station called Slap watches.  They are like those slap bracelet thingys that are straight then when they hit something, they wrap around it. So it's just like that with a watch in it. I have a red, green and blue one haha. EVERYONE comments on them and are asking us where to get them. We are going to be famous someday. 

So I saw that beau is home - I love and miss that guy!  Oh man, good times. Well transfers is gunna start soon, so I guess I'll get going. I love yall so much!!  Tell Beau and Ben I say hello!   Have a good week!

Peace and blessings!

Elder Cawley

 note: Elder Cawley has now been out for 9 months!

New Families to Teach!: 7/18/2011

oh... hey family.

So this past week was pretty fun. I had to go on an exchange with the assistants, bcuz President Mckee and 2 of the other assistants were doing interviews around the mission. So me and Elder McDermott stayed in his area and worked it. We made a goal, that the last day we weren't going to come into the apartment until we found 3 families to teach. 

So we headed out at 10am and we skipped lunch and dinner and at about 7 or 8pm 3 families just fell into our laps. It was crazy! One came up to us, and said they wanted to be taught, another one was a former family that was being taught awhile ago but stopped. So we went by, and they were totally prepared. and the other one, we were just sitting in the car, thinking of where to go, and a family walked around the corner going to the playground next to us. So we got out and talked to them and I got them all laughing (that helps alot haha) and they wanted to be taught. 

So we were all happy that we met our goal and we were starving! So we go in at 9pm and they had no food in the apartment! Except like 3 lil peices of chicken haha. But we couldn't go be disobedient and go to McDonalds, so we went to bed hungry. And in the morning we took a run to McDonalds and ate a ton! hahahha. We earned it I think :) 

Well I hope y'all are doing well! Tell Uncle Brad happy birthday for me! Give all the lil cousins a hug for me! That story about Camille is way awesome! haha. And mom don't throw your back out... that's bad for joo! haha Get better soon. love yall!

peace out girl scouts!

Elder Cawley

Famous People: 7/11/2011

Oh man this was a fun week :) So, there are so many famous ppl in my ward here. There is a country band of a mom and her 2 daughters... they aren't too active, but I will change that haha. They are like 34 on the charts right now, and they gave us a free CD. They are also filming a reality TV show soon, and I told them that they should feed us one day so we can be on it, and they said they would! woohoo! haha. 

Oh so, get this, type _________ into youtube and watch the first video that comes up... that guy is in my ward!!! He now has a country band, and they are pretty legit too. We were over at his house, and he wants to donate a guitar to us so we can learn how to play. He also gave us a free cd :):) I love Franklin!

We are also teaching this guy named _______ ( I don't know his last name haha) and he is a florist. Super good one. He does all the flowers for huge weddings, for Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, just to name a few. 

The work is going pretty good, we are still in the finding stage, as always haha. Oh a cool thing we can do now is pass a dinner calender around!! woohoo! Before we couldn't, our ward mission leader had to call less actives to have them feed us, and it didn't work too well, but now we got it approved to pass one around :) I love food!! hahaha. Well I hope all is well in Cali!! I love y'all! Tell Grandma Cawley that I love her!

Peace out girl scouts

elder cawley