7/9/2012: zone meeting

well this week was pretty good. we had a zone meeting to help push the work forward :) it is mainly just to excite the missionaries :) i trained on a program called Set to Wet. its 12 things that we should be doing with our investigators that will help them progress towards baptism. everyone came up to me and said that it was a good training and it helped them :) 

 

we fed all of the missionaries hot dogs and chips and soda on the 4th. (that was when our zone meeting was) it think it was pretty good :) the clarksville 3rd ward had 3 baptisms on saturday. it was awesome to see that family come closer towards Christ. 

 

In a couple weeks we will have our family of 4 baptized :) they have come to church the past three weeks :) its awesome to see! i love it!! sorry this is so short, but we are short on time! haha. i will try and write y'all a letter this week to tell ya more :)  love y'all!!

 

Peace out Girl scouts.

 

Elder Cawley

 

 

7/2/12: cold hands

hey familia :)

well this week has been awesome :) we had another baptism on saturday :) It was awesome too because his biological dad flew all the way from alaska to clarksville just to baptize and confirm him. they hadn't seen each other for 17 years... crazy!!! it was a trip teaching him too. he is the most chill guy ever! haha. he was just prepared. all we did was just invite him to do certain things, and he did them... without hesitation... and he found out that it was true. after that, he wanted to be baptized :) 

oh and on sunday our family that we are working with came to church again :) we sat right behind them. They have 4 kids that are not baptized... and after we sustained our newest convert a member of the church, the dad leaned over to one of his sons and whispered, "soon that is going to be you." so awesome!! these kids are hilarious!! on of the sons has a HUGE white fro haha. they all joke around with each other and are just super funny. they invited us over for the 4th of July to eat fewd and watch some fireworks. (i guess they bought the second most expensive package of fireworks.... oh boy) but don't worry... i ain't touching any of em! haha. 

sunday was seriously the best day ever... we had to go to 5 hours of church though... that was no bueno haha. we went to first ward (where the ysas meet) and then we went to the second ward too. Elder Hymas of the 70 came to the first ward and he taught the YSA sunday school class :):) it was awesome :):) before church we pulled into a parking spot, and elder hymas pulled up next to us, then our stake president pulled up next to him! we all walked into church together. he said he remembered me from my cold hands.... darn cold hands hahaha. last time i met him he said, "oh you got cold hands... but that means you got a warm heart" hahaha. i reckon so! 

anywho, this month will be a good month for the YSAs and also for 2nd ward. lots of miracles are happening!! :) i love it!! i love yall!!! stay classy!!

Peace out girl scouts.

Elder Cawley

6/25/2012: transfers...but not really

well another week down :O haha.

We got transfer calls on saturday too!! it was kind of a confusing call... so basically...the YSAs were meeting with the second ward as a magnent ward, but the stake moved the magnent ward to the first ward now... so, we moved the zone leader area to the 1st ward, and the 1st ward elders are now going to cover 2nd ward. we just flip flopped. so these next couple of weeks we are going to be working on transitioning each others' investigators and all that. kinda stinks... we lose our nice apartment, awesome ward, and all of our investigators... :( we were planning on having 8 baptisms next month too haha. but the Lord knows better.

Elder Lund is leaving. so it will just be Elder Adams and I working with the YSA this next transfer. on saturday we also had a baptism :):):) it was awesome. there weren't too many people there though :( but he still felt the spirit and enjoyed every second of it :) i had to conduct it since everyone is on block leave. clarksville is still a ghost town. Next week is ___ and ____'s baptism :) lots of em this next month haha. 

that is crazy that jakey is 1!! he is getting huge!! no bueno!! he aint gunna know me! haha. i love yall!!! make sure to stay classy :)

peace n blessins.

Elder Cawley

6/18/2012: carmel filled cupcakes

so bert alert survived!! (elder cawley's sister went on a humanitarian trip to ethiopia) woohoo. did she bring a monkey home? that would be sweet!!

 

so this week has been kinda slow. didn't see all the people that we wanted to... because almost everyone is gone on leave from the army. so the town is like... empty. it's weird. 

 

anywho. on saturday, we are going to have 2 baptisms :) it is going to be awesome. one is a ysa, so that will help with building the ysa program. the other one is a friend of a member. this member has seriously brought in almost 12 people to the church (she was baptized 2 years ago). every conversation she has, she brings up the gospel. pretty neat to see. 

 

tonight we are going to have FHE with a young couple that was baptized, and with 2 other ysas also :) its gunna be a party haha. oh so elder adams and i helped build that fence and stuff that i told ya about a while ago. well we had dinner over at their house on saturday, and she is a baker. oh man... she made some goooood cupcakes. carmel filled. tasty!! haha. anywho, they are so awesome. i love them. we get along so well. and we invited them to church, and the husband said that he would... and he did!! woohoo!! we were laughing cuz there was this baby sitting in front of us... that had sooo many rolls!! the dad started bouncing him on his leg and it was like chunk from the goonies doing the truffle shuffle!! hahaha. i just started laughing!! it was great. and he enjoyed church too :) hopefully they will feel the spirit and wanna follow those feelings :) 

 

that's exciting for daniel to be baptized!!! i miss that lil smile of his. well i hope all is well in cali. eat some in n out for me!! i love y'all!!

 

stay classy.

 

Elder Cawley

6/11/2011: baptisms!!

yay for baptisms!!!!

so the mother and daughter i talked about in the last couple of emails got baptized :):) it was a super spiritual baptism!! the dad has been a member his whole life, but not active. his parents are super active and have been trying to get missionaries over to teach them for about 6 years now. so ALL of his family were over there and we prolly had about 60-70 people at the baptism. it was awesome. the grandfather baptized em, and when he was in the font with his daughter-in-law, he said her name, and got half way thru the prayer, and just started crying. he couldn't even speak for about 2 mins. and then he finished speaking, and then baptized her. and then his granddaughter got in the font, and she is 11. and he couldn't even say her name, he was just crying. i think everyone in the room was crying. super awesome spirit there. then after like 4 mins he was able to baptize her. it was soo awesome!! i'll send pics of it when i can, i can't upload pics at this dumb library haha. 

oh then not this weekend, but next weekend we will have 2 more baptisms :) they aren't related, just wanna get baptized haha. :) then the week after that... another baptism!!! in total, we should have around like 4 or 5 baptisms in our area this month. it's so awesome!! i love it. 

i can't believe camille is at college and daniel is 8 and charzard is gunna be in high school. WEIRD! hope all is well back in california! sounded like the youth conference was a big hit :) tell lina that she can't talk to boys. love y'all!!

peace out girl scouts.

Elder Cawley

P.S. yesterday we held a fireside for our stake and guess who spoke???? Brother Freeman... who is the first African American to receive the priesthood after the revelation was given!!! and don't worry mom, i got a picture with him haha. it was so sweet to listen to him speak!! he told us his whole life story. i'll send it to ya when i can :) love y'all!!

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

5/28/2012: two more baptism dates!

So this week was pretty good :) 

We met with the family that we have been working with, and the dad finally got home from ranger school, so the mom and daughter want to get baptized!! woohoo!! it's awesome! the dad has been a member his whole life, but fell away in high school. He then got married and had kids, and the mother in law (dads mom) was trying to get the rest of his family baptized, but they just didn't want anything to do with the church. for 6 years this young family pushed the missionaries away in Hawaii... then they came to Tennessee. Now they are going to be baptized and all of their family is coming out for it. people from florida and kansas and everywhere are coming  to see it!! its awesome!!! 

then last night we had a lesson with a YSA who is investigating the church. he told us that he wanted to be baptized!! woohoo!! so next month is a good month. it was kinda funny. he told us that he is leaving for a couple weeks to go see his family and his girlfriend in Louisiana. so... we taught him the Law of Chasity hahaha. we told him that if he wanted to be baptized that he had to start living these commandments now. He agreed. it was awesome to just see this guy change. he is already in Helaman and we have been meeting with him for about a month. crazy! :) i love it. 

well i cant talk too long... only got 30 mins :( i hope y'all have a wonderful holiday!! miss y'all!!!! LOVE YALL!!! 

peace out girl scouts.

Elder Cawley

elder cawley is on the top row. 6th from the right.