November 30, 2015
Howdy Family and Friends!!
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
Our Thanksgiving
was pretty good. It was a proselyting day. We tried to visit some less actives
as well as a few investigators. We were invited to eat lunch with the Willet
family, who have 8 kids. Brother and Sister
Willets grew up in Arizona. So I ate with Arizonians on Thanksgiving
day! We were invited to eat dinner with the Starnes family. They served us
fried turkey. It was way better than
regular turkey because it isn't dry at all. Mom and Dad, we will have to try frying
a turkey next Thanksgiving!
We found a couple new investigators this week. We
went to visit a potential investigator that we met a few weeks ago. We knocked on
her door and her husband answered. He called his wife in. When she came in she
told us that she was just praying to God for knowledge when we knocked on her
door. She is a hair stylist so while Elder Dickerson gets a hair cut on Wednesday, we will talk to her
about the Book of Mormon.
Araceli, Estela, and Maria are doing well. We
taught them for the third time this week. However, they will all be out of town
this week since they are helping their mom Estela move back to Mexico. One of
our investigators named Ricardo is also going to be gone for the next week or
so while he is visiting family in Florida. Everyone is just leaving this week!
We almost ran out of gas last night. We are supposed to fill up when the car is at
half a tank. We were going to buy gas on
Saturday but we got super busy and Elder Dickerson and I totally forgot about
it until the gas light went on while we were driving out to Grimesland for
dinner Sunday night. We figured that we would have just barely enough gas to
get to our apartment but not enough to go to some of our appointments later
in the night. Luckily, the member we ate dinner with offered to give us some
gas from a gas can that he had in his garage so we ended up making it back to
our apartment that night just fine.
I hope that everyone has a great week!
Love, Elder Cannon
December 7, 2015
Hey Family and Friends!
Well, my companion, Elder Dickerson has completed
his mission. He is leaving for Virginia
in a few hours and then he is flying home tomorrow. I got transfer calls. President Baker wants me to train
a new missionary again! I will be staying in the same area in Greenville.
We had a really good lesson with Maria, Araceli and
Estela. We asked them if they had read the chapters in the Book of Mormon that we
had asked them to read. Araceli and Estela hadn't read but Maria did. Maria explained
exactly what happened in 1 Nephi 1-4. She asked us some pretty in depth
questions like, "So Nephi and his 3 brothers who are Laman, Lemuel, and Sam
went back to get the plates from Laban. What are the plates, are they like
scripture?" Then, Maria bore her testimony to her sister and mother. She told them that when they start reading
the Book of Mormon, they won't be able to put it down. Then, the three of them started
to compare churches. Maria talked about
how she saw in us, unlike people from other churches, a hope and happiness. It
was the best lesson I have ever been a part of. Sadly, Araceli took her mom
back to Mexico. She will be gone for the
next week or two. The number that we had
for Maria is not working and we have no other way to contact her, so I'm not
sure what to do about that. Hopefully, we will be able to get in contact with
her soon or we will just have to wait for Araceli to return from Mexico.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Love, Elder Cannon
