Surprise Visitors!

Hey Mom!

  So I will try to spell his name phonetically: Maunu/maulay/una. Does that help?

  So we think that the snake was a blow snake. It creeped me out pretty good too! The thing tried killing me!

  That is crazy y'all are getting so much rain! We are getting quite a bit, too. Yesterday, Gallup got so much that it killed the power in a good part of the city so we weren't able to get our oil changed. So we are gonna have to go in next week too. Its gonna be crazy!

  Dang 2 more years with the burb, huh? What are ya gonna get after that? The Grush's have a new Traverse. Those things are nice! That would suit you well, I think.

  That is crazy all the end of schoolyear things are wrapping up! Do you feel old having 2 kids graduated and one almost done with a mission!? Haha!

  That is real crazy having all those homecomings coming up soon! Sister Logan said she wanted to come up to mine! We will see. I would love to see them all again! That would be awesome! Speaking of which, we had a super awesome visit yesterday with them! They are so awesome! They remembered Elder Manu, too, so we all had a great visit and while we were visiting, the Tellers drove by so, they flipped around and we all had a great ward reunion right there at the Pinon Junction!

  Well, not much else exciting happened this week.

Love ya!

Elder Cade

 

Cade and Kaden

Elder M, Bro Logan, Elder R

Logans with Elder R

Elder R and Mama Logan

Elders M and R

 

Snake Encounter

The people we are teaching are Awesome! They all are doing really well!

That is awesome that Jerry has such great ward support! I wish we had more member support down here! But we deal with what we get I guess! 

Colty told me bout Ry's new Duramax. That is really cool!

Bishop Tureman huh? That is cool! He will be good for y'all! 

Smoked meat sounds so good right now! Just meat in general is a treat! Haha!

We are still setting up Gardens We have quite a few to do on Wednesday. 

When you only have one suit and the dry cleaner is 3 hours away in any direction it just doesn't get done! It is gross but that is life on the Rez, haha! 

That snake that I sent y'all a picture of tried biting my leg off, I almost stepped on him! But a large rock took care of the problem, haha! 

Elder Mabry is getting transferred tonight to Toadlena. I am getting Elder Manumaleuna! He served in Lukachukai while I was in Round Rock so I already know him pretty well. He super cool! I am really excited!

Well thats about all I have for ya this week! 

Love ya!

Elder Cade

Virgie's baptism last Saturday

Snake encounter

Post snake encounter

 

Awesome week!

Mom,

  Our week was awesome. We had an investigator pass her baptismal interview! The rest of our investigators are all doing good. The gardens are good and we spent a couple days helping out with those. I really like doing that! I get sick of a shirt and tie pretty easily!

  For Skype... idk! We might not get to Skype this time. Internet out here is terrible, so we will see! I will call again, on the morning of.

  It sounds like your week was pretty good. I am super excited to watch the Avengers movie!

  Our week was awesome!

Monday: We picked up 2 super awesome investigators that live with members.

Tuesday: We picked up 2 more really awesome investigators, and then had some really awesome lessons, one of which was with Virgie who is getting baptized this weekend.

Wednesday: We worked on gardens ALL day!

Thursday: We had a super good district meeting and then met some really awesome people that would like to get taught. Then had some more super awesome lessons!

Friday: We had a great lesson with this guy named Gilbert and his family. They are awesome! I wouldn't doubt it if they get baptized soon!

Saturday: We worked on gardens until we had to leave for stake conference, which was super awesome!

Sunday: We had stake conference, then interview for Virgie, then a great lesson with the 2 new investigators we picked up the Monday before, and we are going back to teach them again tonight!

So it was a pretty great week!

Hope your week will be just as good!

Love ya!

Elder Cade

2 Weeks Worth of Emails

Email from 4/20:
Mom,
   This week was good!

   We have these really awesome investigators named Virgie and Jodee and they are preparing pretty soon for Baptism! And yesterday we had scheduled an appointment with them for after church! But we couldn't find another male to go with us so we went out with the intentions of rescheduling. But when we got there they were determined to have a lesson so we set up some chairs out front in their little porch deal. Well right in the middle of the lesson, a little micro burst or something came through and was getting us soaking wet! So we asked if they would just want to finish it later but they again insisted that we finished our lesson! So that was like our highlight of the week! 

  On Saturday I broke a tooth eating lunch. I think I had cracked it long before hauling wood in Zuni so it was just like a ticking time bomb. 

  It sounds like yall had a pretty exciting week! 

That is so cool that you went to Swan Lake for former Elder Kay's homecoming! He is awesome and I miss him!

Well, sorry to cut this short but I am out of time...

Love ya!

Elder Cade

 

Email from 4/27:

Mom,

   Gallup was good! The Zone Conference was awesome! I learned a whole Butt-ton of good stuff. The dentist appt. wasn't too unpleasant. I hate dentists, but Bro Shaheen is a great guy! If I understood him correctly he is just going to bill the insurance for all that he can and then not charge us anything. But it will need a crown. I have a temporary one on right now and the real thing should be ready in a few weeks.

   That bathroom looks awesome! Good job!

   I just did write Noah a minute ago, so he will get it next week probably.

   Your little dilemma was funny! Torn in so many ways..... How are you gonna get it all done?!

   That is crazy Sam wanted to de junk! I thought he was a little pack rat.

   Well, our week went really well! ZC pretty well took up the first half of the week. Then we were able to help the Grush's put in quite a few Gardens. There is a gardening project down here to try to help with some self reliance. Then we had some really awesome lessons! A few with Virgie and Jodee trying to get them ready for Baptism here in a couple of weeks. And then some others with really awesome families! Saturday I ran over a prairie dog. And then on Sunday we had like 10 people we have been working with come to church! So it was a really great week!

 I hope you have a great week coming up!

Love ya!

Elder Cade

Back to the Navajo Nation

Mom,

  Sorry about the wait! 

  I didnt see anyone too exciting during transfers except Elder Lewis from my MTC district. He was called to be the new AP. Elder Timoteo and Elder Gielman are in my new district! 

  We live in a trailer next to the church again! The senior couple here are Named the Grush's. They know the Whitesides that Grandpa worked for. They are dairy farmers from Malta and they are way awesome!

   Elder Mabry is super cool! He is from Gaffney, South Carolina. He is 24 years old, but he has only been out for 6 months. He was Elder Van Ry's companion for a while, so that is cool we have something in common to talk about.

   This area is pretty similar to Many Farms but it is actually like way deeper rez! 

   That would be so cool to see the Logans again! I saw the Tellers on Thursday, so that was way cool!

   I did get my suit from Petersons. Thank you so much! It all fits good. The other slacks fit good still, so I hope I will be fine til I'm done! 

   Well our week was good. We started my first week here by being pallbearers, so that was an adventure! 

  The work seems to being pretty good! I am super excited to serve here as I missed and love the Navajo people! 

  In the 6 months I was away I lost a ton of my Dine Bizaad (navajo Language), but I am excited to pick it back up and learn some more! Elder Mabry got pretty sick one day and had to stay in so I spent a good chunk of time reviewing Navajo.

  So that is our week. 

Sorry again my email was a day late. It might be like this pretty often as the internet here is sketchy!

Love ya!

Elder Cade

Transfer News---Back to AZ!

Mom!

It is crazy that Elder Kay goes home this week! So weird! It feels like we were just comps like a month ago!

Well I am excited to go to Pinon, but sad to leave Zuni! It has been a lot of fun here, but I have been missing Navajo Land lately so I am undecided how I feel!

I did get the package on Friday, so thank you! Meet the Mormons is a great movie, I really like it!

So just to make sure you have it, my new address is:

PO Box 1152
Pinon, AZ 86510

I will be looking forward to getting a suit that isnt Rezzed out yet, haha!

That is way cool Spencer is coming to this mission! It will be good for someone to carry on the TF legacy after Elder Thompson and I leave! There has been someone from every class that has come here for 4 years now, haha!

I don't know what my favorite talk was, but Priesthood was by far my favorite session! We watched all the sessions at Our Branch Mission leaders house.

That is cool that you get to be the missionary mom again. Did you feel lost for a while haha!?

I was blown away that Riss was the first one awake! Usually she is the woman version of the Grinch !

I forgot my camera again today but I will send pics next week, I promise!!

Love ya!

Elder Cade

Super Short Non-Informative Email

Ok thanks!

I'm running out of time so this is gonna be short! Sorry!

Our week started crazy slow! Like we only had 3 lessons by Thursday but at the end of the week we were able to take the branch president out with us and he showed us some super awesome people to go teach! We spent all day Friday helping one of those families move from one side of town to the next. We had a super awesome Sunday where we were able to see a less active couple we haven't seen in a long time where we had a super good discussion about the atonement! I am glad that all y'alls week went good! There was a lot of awesome news this week that was fun to read!

Have a great week!

Love ya!

Elder Cade

 

On the up side, we got to meet Elder Loveless' family and had dinner with them! We are excited that our boys are companions and get to serve together! The Loveless' are AWESOME!