People Change Everyday....

Hey dad

but wow fishman got his eagle hayden will be home and i will still be serving! that sounds like a great month to me. Hey it sounds like you have a lot of work to do, people need to realize that this gospel is a gospel of change. people change every day in order to partake of the blessings and align their ways with the lords ways. if there is not change in the boundaries of the churches that means that the member are not doing there jobs. but that is so great! it made my day when i heard that! the work is great, the people here are really nice, we are taken care of for thanksgiving, we are working on a few families, dealing with unexpected problems like unmarried with 3 kids and polygamists. haha who would have thought right? i love ya dad have a great week!! Love Elder Cache Summers

Hey momma!! that is so cool about the new wards! it is gonna be weird coming home and seeing all of the changes, but i wouldnt want it any other way, the church needs to grow so that the lord can come back, so many people are slipping through the cracks. wow mom this life goes by so fast! he doesnt even know what hit him, i bet he still feels like a brand new missoinary. haha i know that i do still. my understanding of this gospel is so much better than it was but i still feel small compared to my mental image of a missionary :) Can you believe that in a matter of months it will an entire year that i have been out? that is so crazy! I went on exchanges with the sign language assigned missionary and we taught 2 deaf lessons. haha let me tell you that was awkward! :) your facal expressions are part of how you talk, and they cant hear themselves, so they grunt and moan when they talk! and the kids started to fight and that was so funny!! they were agressively signing to each other :) really better go now! have a great week i love you.

I Think I Am a Doctrine Nerd....

thanks dad, it is great to here about home.. I still remember passing Tracy going to work and he had his shoes and socks off and had his foot up on the dash and he was all kicked back driving on the icy highway! haha that was really funny. I love the people here ! there are so many people that take care of us. i have been here so long that people are now joking with me and almost treating me like i am a permanent part of their stake. it is so nice being a dilligent missionary. the people always can tell if we are working hard or not, and it is so nice when they know that you work hard. there has been so many times that people here have given me somebody to go talk to because they trust me to do this work. and you are way too right. the mission is going by really really fast. these last 9 months have felt like a dream. it goes by in a matter of blinks. I have learned not ever to waste any time. i hear about missonaries that slack off and dont work hard, and for them it is a miserable time. but for those who just put their shoulder to the wheel the time just scoots right on by, i think that is a tender mercy of the Lord i think this is going to be the first time that i will be moved. i am excited. anyways i better go, i love you dad. have a great week! Ill talk to you next week!  love Elder Cache Summers

Hey momma!! but one thing that bugs me is everybody says and thinks that we have FREE agency, but was agency free? Was it free when Adam used it to trangress? haha nope, so our president taught us this, for every choice there is a consequence, and for every action there is a reaction. if you look at D&C 101:78 it says "according to the MORAL agency which I have given unto him" our freedom to choose, and saying free agency are 2 completely different things. yes we have the freedom to use our moral agency whenever and however we want, but we cannot use free agency because it doesn’t exist :) anyways sorry for the tangent. i hope that that makes sense, and in the scriptures it talks about agency and how it is and came to be and that is in 2 nephi 2, i love the scriptures momma!! as for people getting offended, they are using that moral agency to hurt only themselves. i really don’t like when people think that they get offended at church. i think people should just man up and get over it. Christ offended people, he told them how it is, we should be able to take it and learn :) as you can see i havent changed too much :) I am still very opinionated, but hey the mission is going great, i do honestly feel like I’m am converted to this gospel, i know too much to ever be able to fall away, and people can tell when you are converted or not.

 what it means to be truly converted is when you literally would do what the Savior would, and the better understanding you have of the atonement the more converted you are :) sorry mom i have learned so much about the gospel. :) i think i am becoming a doctrine nerd :) I love you!

                 love Elder Cache Summers!  

Satan Tempts You More Than Ever...

Hey momma!! the year before you go is for sure the hardest time in your life, satan tempts you more than ever, hey mom the gospel is so amazing, the book of mormon is a book of miracles and it is magic. I have learned so much about the scriptures from studying them every day! i would almost consider myself a scripture nerd :) anyways i better get back to the work and get my president an email! I love you mom!!love Elder Cache Summers

A Kick To The Face With The Spirit....

Hey dad, thanks for the letter! I have a little bit of time to write but not too much, I really appreciate you guys and the support that you are giving me. there are so many missionaries here that dont have a supportive family and they all struggle. It makes a mission when you know that you are loved at home. I was watching conference and i thought it was so cool that you were looking at the same exact place that i was sitting in front of and hearing the exact same words at the same time. I was in the second row closest to the front, on the right side of the podium if you are looking at it straight on. so i was about 50 feet from the prophet! it was something else! i couldn’t believe how powerful he is.  just looking at him is a witness that he is a true prophet of god. We had an investigator go and he is probably going to get baptized because he got to see the prophet and feel the spirit tell him he is a prophet. that is so cool. anyways i gotta go, find the chiasmas in 1 nephi 17 5-6. it starts with and we called the land boutiful because of its much fruit and its much honey. I love you dad. have a great week..

Love your son

Elder Cache Summers-

Hey momma!!

 There is nothing better than watching the prophet enter the room. everybody was silent, we were all standing until he sat down and it was a kick to the face with the spirit. I got to shake hands with and talk to Elder L. Tom Perry! he and i stand eye to eye, it was so cool! the spirit was so strong in the room when the prophet announced the new ages for missions. I knew he was going to do something with missions, (I have an inside source) but I was afraid that he was going to shorten the time served on missions. i was a little worried. I am so excited for fish! he has a little over a year and he can be on a misson! how great is that.

i love you momma!! have a great week! 

             Love Elder Cache Summers

I Am Serving Everybody.....

So i was on an exchange because my comp was at temple square and we were up working on the mountain, and we both felt prompted to go somewhere else so we started to drive down and elder clark, our DL said lets go see mellissa, so we went to her house, and when we got there she had just pulled in the driveway. we asked if we could teach here a lesson and she agreed, of course :) so we got her neighbor and started to teach her and she just started to cry. and than she told us what happened to her that day, it is probable like 2pm last thursday, she had been driving to salt lake and being with a man that she said that she has loved for a long time, he has been in and out of jail for a long time and he is really addicted to a buch of different drugs, as you can suspect, he got her into them also. So they did these drugs that morning and they made him lose his temper and he started to beat her, so she got in her car and he got in also and she was driving him to the tracks (the train transportation system here) to drop him off and the entire time he is yeling and screaming at her and hitting her. she had bruises all up and down her arms and legs and who knows where else. so she drops him off and starts to drive away when she gets about 2 blocks away she gets a flat tire. so she calls here brothers and sisters and friends and she got so desperate for help that she even called this guy that she just dropped off. but nobody would help her. so she is on here knees crying with the manual out trying to figure out how to change her tire when 2 missionaries come up. they change her tire and talk with her and send her on her way. miracle #1. so as she is driving home she tells heavenly father that the first thing that she will do when she gets home is call the missionaries. so her tank is on empty and somehow she makes it home, and right when she pulled in we were there. miracle #2. She didnt need to call the missionaries because god had already called us. so we listened and i said mellissa do you believe that god loves you? She said yes and i said you are absolutely right, he walks with you and watches you and he loves you. he is there for you when you need him. you needed him today and he sent you 4 of his servents. you are his daughter and he loves you. she than started to beg us to tell her what she should do. she wanted direction. so elder clark said that we cant give her direction but god will if you ask. so we had her say a prayer, she is crying so hard you can hardly even understand her but it was the most beautiful, sincere prayer that i have ever heard. and when she was done, after she said in the name of jesus christ amen, she stopped crying and the lord answered her right there. she said everything that came to her and she said, i need to call my parents and tell them what i am doing, i need to go back and live with them and get out of utah get rid of my friends see missionaries ........... and she listed a few more. miracle #3. she recieved an answer right than and there for the 3rd time. I know that god sends us here for people. I am not serving in utah, i am serving the people in draper utah and not just in utah, but i am serving everybody that is placed in my path and everybody that will let me. I love this work momma! there is no way that could have happened if god was not at the head of this church and leading this work. I love you momma! have a great day and a great week! hopefully that story will bless you and others this week and answer your prayers! the lord will always answer when we ask. I love you!!

Yield Does Not Mean Stop.....

 i miss the weather that you are having, you guys dont know how good you really have it, i would give anything for that. Our mission is doing a bom challenge that they want you to participate in with us to build unity. we are asked to start it on wednesday, that is our transfers. we read 7 pages a day and we are asked to indicate all of the doctrine of christ. everytime that you come across a reference to having faith repenting being baptized recieving the holy ghost and enduring to the end in any form, highlight it. so come unto me is included. they say not to do it in your actual scriptures but to go and get a new copy, i recomend the 3 dollar hard back copy of just the bom that we missionaries use.  it is the best thing that could happen. it takes about 30 minutes a day to read 7 pages. so it isnt that bad. i think it would be good for the family, i took a film of me dunking in my prosoliting clothing and everything. we measured before to make sure it is 10 feet and there are no strings attatched. there you go, if you freeze frame it my hand is completely over the rim, i just need to work on throwing the ball down like a boss. anyways all is well here, maybe i will be transfered this time? but who knows? we will just have to see. i am doing my best here to do what the lord wants me to do. you know me, i always get things done and work hard Peace! 

Hey momma, this week has been pretty good i am really excited about next week, it has been long enough in this area but i dont know if i will be moved, honestly i would like to be, it is good to have change, i am the only missionary that has come in within the last 7 tranfers that hasnt been tranfered yet :) haha it is all for a reason, we knocked on a door and this man started yelling at us that we woke up his baby because we knocked like the freakin police! (those were his words) then he proceeded to come at us till he realized that I am 6 inches taller and 60 pounds heavier, so then instead he got even more mad and asked who we report to, so he can call them and tell them how terrible we are, so i said we report to God and you can get a hold of him anytime, he got even more mad but my statement was 100 percent correct :) so i gave him a number and he called it and got madder because the other missionary said the same thing :) the man doesn’t want me to ever come back so in a  few weeks ill go back and ring his doorbell :) i also got pulled over by a cop today, i was going 40 around a round about, because we were late for a teaching appointment, and the cop was on the other side. so he gave me a warning and i have to call the court because i was speeding and i failed to stop at a yield sign. first off yield does not mean stop, and there was nobody to yield too. haha stupid police man :) o well though. i love you!! have a great week and remember that i pray for you everynight! I love you Bye!! :)

I Love Work.....

Hey momma!! so thank you for the letters i know that i can always trust that i will have something from you guys. It means a lot to me to get letters and emails. I am glad that fishman is doing good. I really hoped that our example would help him out. even though it is terrible to lose at football, the games matter at the time but later on they are just memories. I am sorry that you have snow on the mountains. I miss that so much, the summer here has been long and like record hot still. it is poop. I wish me and you can trade but i am just happy that there is a hope of it cooling off. the work is going like always. my comp has no desire to be here, but i am just running him into the ground with work. we never stop and it will either make him or break him. I am going to ride him like a wild horse until he either gives up and leaves, or he mans up and serves the lord to his true potential. He has started to come around a little bit but we will see :). but i am determined to make him a great missionary. that is why i am doing what i am doing. :) but ya i am so happy that we found ryan and that he is getting baptized on the 22nd. It is going to be great! I love you momma!! Love your son, Elder Cache Summers

Hey dad!so when it rains it pours doesnt it. haha sorry to hear that alaska got hit with another yearly hurricane that nobody cares about. I miss having those storms i actually enjoyed them. I miss a lot about alaska. I will never be able to live anywhere else in the world. it is like 80 degrees today and people are already starting to complain that it is cold. i am standing there sweating and they are in a sweatshirt. ha it is funny to me how week the human race is. I consider our family a super sayon race but that is just me :) I have been working on my hops because i am bound and determined to throw down a basketball in haydens face!! haha i can dunk the basketball now but it needs to be better. Sorry about the football games. you know that if I was playing the game would have ended up different. haha jk, but it is good that the team loses sometimes, it will put a fire under their butt. So i told a story in a few wards about the tie that we all wear on fast sunday so that we are one a family no matter where we are. and everybody down here thinks that is the coolest thing in the world. we went to a members house and the mom was like hey thats your fasting tie! and then she said that her daughter who is like 9 prays every night that elder summers (me) and my family will all be wearing the same tie so that we can be together again. haha if that doesnt bring a tear to your eye than i dont know what will. I cant believe how much the members here love missionaries. i think the hardest part of a missson is going home and leaving the people here that love you so much. I never thought that i would have little kids praying for me. It is a really humbling experience when that happens. Those little kids show the most pure form of love. there is a family that i really really love and she has 4 kids all under 12, and the little kids love me so much. at the last transfers they didnt want me to leave (this is before we found out that i was staying.) so the 7year old and 3 year old grabbed my legs and wouldnt let me leave the house. haha it was great but i felt really bad having to leave. they really missed me until i came back because i wasnt transfered :) thank you for all that you do for me. you taught me everyhting that i know. thank you for working me so hard so that i could become the man i am today. I love work. i want to just never stop. Love your son Elder Cache Summers     

Never Be Able to Stop....

Hey Momma,

the new comp is testing my patience. he says he doesnt have a testimony and that he doesnt know why he is here and he is counting the days till he goes home. It is slowing me down in the work but it is all part of the work. I am constantly having him tell me what he believes in the gospel and am trying to build his confidence. We all have trials but i am not letting it get me down. i got him for a reason and nothing else matter. i will teach him everything i know about baptizing. we have put spanish on the side until a testimony comes first :) but yes all is well, i love the gospel more than ever. have a great week!! Love Elder Cache Summers

Hey dad!

but ya we had a miracle this week. a man called us and asked to meet with us, so we went and saw him and i asked him what his expectations are for meeting with us and he said that he wants to live with his family for ever and that he will do anything he can to have that, so we taught about baptism and extended the committment to be baptized on september 22, he said absolutely! we are now setting it all up and it is good to go. the lord will always bless the dilligent and faithful. it really goes to show that the lord is preparing people to meet us and we are led to them and they are led to us also. I love this work and will never be able to stop! have a great week and i will talk to you later! love you dad.

Elder Cache Summers

Down To Celestial Weather......

Hey dad  I am really jealous of you guys, it is still in the 90's in this place but it should slowly get down to celestial weather here in another few weeks. haha so football sounds amazing!! i miss that to, i prayed for wasilla to lose and i will once again pray that junea will have a hard time with the knights too. I always pray about you guys everynight. and i will report to you next week!  have a great week!! peace!!

Remember Who You Are...

Hey dad I listened to a man talk who was the 2 time all american reciever from byu a while back and his son came in who is #85 on byu for football right now and they talked together. the mans first pass he ever caught was a td and he was in the news, and in the papers and signing autographs, then he talked about a lesson that he taught to a family on his mission and the feeling that he had. he said if he had to pick between the 2 experiences, he would have chose to be in a little house in a different country teaching that lesson. He said later that he watched his son come down a ramp in a byu cougars jersey following his footsteps in the stadium, he said the feeling he had as he watched that was unbeatable to any father. but he said he also saw that same son waking down a ramp in an airport 2 years ealier and he has never been more proud of anyone else in his life. he said that if he had to pick one of them, he would have picked his son returning honorable from a mission. go to alma 20:23. this is where ammon is going to free his brothers and the king of the lamanites stops then, and tells his son to kill ammon and his son says no, so the king is going to kill his own son and ammon steps in and smites him to the ground, this is what the king says while ammon has his sward to his neck, he says he will give up half of his kingdom if ammon will spare his life. later on aaron teaches this king the gospel and in alma 22:15 this is what the king says he will give just for a testimony of the gospel. the gospel has a more powerful effect on the hearts of the children of men than does the sword. I cant wait untill i get home and have the oppurtunity to speak with you in church dad. i couldnt have asked for a better father. even though i probably wont be walking out onto a football field when i am home, i know that i have done everything in my power to make you proud of me. have a great week.

Elder Cache Summers

Hey momma!!, i have seen it so many times that people are afraid of what their family would think and just scared, but once they get baptized, all of those doubts and fears go away, I think my friend will be sealed sometime in the next 3 or 4 weeks, i need to find out for sure, but it is going to be freaking legit!! i dont have time once again or ii would expound some crazyness up in here but i guess we will just have to wait till i get home before i start blowing peoples minds with doctrine!! keep reading and praying! i love you! "Remember who you are" I loved when you said that to me, thank you mom!

I Have Made One Eternal Family......

Man i cant believe that fischer is that old, your guys letter brought me to tears when i read that fish is using the priesthood. it truly is the power of god. I am glad that you are selling the boat, we have used too many blessings on that :) I will miss it to but there is always bristol bay that we can go to.. I am called to be a trainer again and am learning how to speak spanish. i really feel like i have  an understanding of this great gospel and that i can use the scriptures well, i am working on a book of mormon that i want you to read with all my hidden treasures of great knowledge. yesterday we had dinner with a family and they invited 2 non members. i felt like we needed to talk about testimonies so i bore mine on the importance and power of a testimony and one of them is going to talk to his parents because he want to be baptized and the other girl said that she has wanted to be baptized for a long time now. the power in members inviting their friends is amazing. being a good example is the most important thing that we can do outside of our homes.. anyways have a great week! i love you dad.

Hey momma!! thank you for always getting me a letter. so tranfers were last week and nothing really big happened to me. president told me that i am one of the best missionaries that he has right now. he said that ever since the day i got here he hasnt lost sleep over me, worried aobut me or wondered how he could help me. he said that i am obedient and a blessing in his life and he thanked me. because of that i get to take steve through the temple as his escort and then get to see him and his wife get sealed. i have made one eternal family since i have been here! this work is so awesome mom!! My new comp is from oklahomo and is a spanish elder. president wants me to teach him how to baptize people and him to teach me how to speak spanish!! so i could be reassigned after all, i am picking it up really really fast. anyways all is well here, we are coming up on a few more baptisms that are well needed. i love this gospel and i will never stop being a missionary. I love you momma!! have a great week!! I LOVE YOU!! 

Time Is Sailing By....

Hey momma!! That is pretty freakin cool. I knew that the lord would provide a way for those books to find there way for you. just like the stripling warriors, 'their mothers taught them not to fear for the lord would provide for them. You have taught me that everything will run its coarse and plus those books are material things. but wow that is so cool I dont have much time today mom but i love you!! have a great week, i will write you more next week, i promise! I love you!! Bye momma!!

Hey dad my companion thought that he broke his arm so most of the day was spent in the hospital so i cant write very much, but his arm is fine. i called him a panzy.. one of my ward mission leaders is coming up in 2 weeks hopefully the fishing is better. time is sailing by faster than i thought. I cannot believe that i am 1/4 of the way done. it makes me want to cry because i never want it to end. I prayed today that i could be a blessing in somebodies life and while we were shopping a lady pulled us in her line and paid for all of our food! she will be so blessed as i keep her in my prayers and as she goes through her life. It was great. i love you dad! have a great week! PEACE!!

Be Exactly Obedient.....

Hey momma!! I love you! i hope that you never forget that. :) so thank you for the quote, if nothing else, i have never been more humble in my life. humility is the key to success. as we are more humble to the lord than he pours out blessings on us. and the best blessing other than the holy ghost is knowledge. the apostles do know their stuff  i want to throw some numbers at you :) Steven R Covey said that if you read for 20 minutes a day, than you will achieve exaltation. so lets do a little math on this. there are 10080 minutes in a week, and if you read 20 minutes a day that is 140 minutes. that means the lord is only asking us to give him 1.38% of our lives to the lord. and the promise of exaltation is 100% of everything that the lord has. WOW!!!!! That shows how much the lord really loves us, he wants 1.38% of our lives and that is all he wants. so on a mission we give him 100% of our time for 2 years. so if you do the math on that, if you study the scriptues or give 20 minutes to the lord every day for 80 years, you would be at 55% of what we devote to the lord. so it will take close to 160 years to give as much time to the lord as faithful obedient missionaries do. Here is one of my favorite qoutes. " Obedience brings blessings, exact obedience brings miracle." that was said by our mission president at the beginning of my mission 6 months ago. And i promise that that is true because i have done it and i have seen how it works. as i have been exactly obedient to the lord, he has blessed me with helping others lives. If you want a miracle be exactly obedient to everything that the lord asks of us. i love you momma!!! :) 

Hey dad that is great news about the boat selling, i had a feeling everytime that i prayed that you guys would do good so it doesnt surprise me that you caught some fish. It has been at least in the 90's here forever!! it is really hot but i think my body is getting used to it a little bit. i would give anything in the world to have a summer next year of 52 degrees! i really need that right now. i am tanned and i am not sure if i like that... i love you dad and im glad that you enjoyed the corn. i knew that you would. Have a great week!

Lost Books.....

Hey mom thank you for the email!!  satan has such a strong hold on this state so the more possitive remarks and encouragement we can get form awesome people like you the better :) thank you so much momma!! :) I wish i was there to help dad but i know that he will be led to the fish by the power of prayer and by the holy ghost.  i started to be Joe’s friend because he was so much more rightous than i was and i wanted to be more like him, as i got to know him, the better man i became. i am not sure if he knows that or comprehends that. but in a way he saved me from falling into a path that was bad. i just got caught it before i fell. joe is more important to me than he knows, let him know that, that will help him. I love you mom!! you are awesome! i have made friends with a new investigator that will probably last forever also, i love meeting and helping people!! keep being awesome mom and hayden is a complete goof! Your present was a book for you and me signed by elder oaks. but i gave it to someone to hand deliver it to you and say happy birthday, but the bag it was in on the plane up there got ripped in half and the books are lost. :( I am so sorry, but if we pray that they will get to you than they might find their way home to you. keep that in your prayers, the relative feels horrible about it. anyways i love you mom and i will write you next week!! i love you!!  

Hey dad! so you got a little taste of fishing for a month in bristol bay!! staying on th boat for a while, fishman probably should be in football anyways, that is great, i have been praying for you everynight that you will be able to find that fish and it is great that the prayers are being answered. I am also praying that the boat will sell,. I wish i could come and help you get more fish and give you a little break. i think if i was there you might be able to sleep a little bit and we could still be fishing. but ya anyways the misson is still going great, i have really gained an uderstanding the book of mormon and i am starting to be a very bold missionary. one of the apostles said that if we give 20 minutes to the lord each day, either reading, praying, or service than we will be saved and have everlasting life. so if you do the math there are 10080 minutes in a week, and 20 minutes a day would be 140 minutes per week, that is only 1.3% of our week we are asked to give to the lord. How hard is it to give the lord 1 percent of your life. we have all these distractions that stop us from doing this.  but if you think about this, if we give the lord 1.3 percent of our life here on earth, than the lords promises us 100 percent of his power and his kingdom. that is how much the lord loves us and how easy he has made it for us to live with him. I love you dad, give the lord 20 minutes so he can give you everything that he has. I love you dad, tell gpa hi, love you have a great week and catch the poop out of those fish. Ill talk to you later! peace!  

Mission miracle about the books: 
I received a call from someone in Utah tonight who was looking for Cache.  I said I was his Mom and could I help?  He told me his wife works for Delta Airlines there in SLC and she noticed the lost and found had a couple of books by Dallin H Oaks, so she took them hoping to find thier owner since they were signed by Elder Oaks.  Cache had written our home phone number in one of them:)  The gentleman is a temple worker at the Draper Temple (Cache's temple)  I told him Cache was serving there and he has invited Cache to come find him next time he is in the temple.  Another cool thing was that this gentleman was looking for someone who had helped him while he was fishing in Alaska last year.  They had searched and searched for some way to contact this lady to say thank you....she just happens to be in my old ward!!  I hooked him up with address and phone number.  He said we had a double blessing tonight and he was so thankful his wife let the spirit touch her and pick up those books:)  Awesome!!!  Can't wait to tell Cache his prayers were answered!!!

I Miss Near Death Experiences......

Hey momma!!! but ya how was your week momma? and happy late birthday, so I learned how to play nearer my god to thee and hymn 26 and can you feel the love tonight on the piano!! haha i am getting pretty good, and i learned how to read it myself by playing it an dhearing if it sounded right than memorizing it!! it was pretty cool! so ya umm, the heat is making me have some zits again because i am always sweating here. it was over 100 almost every day this last week!! i am trying to send you some heat but i dont think it is working, utah is burning to the ground in a ball of burning waistland. haha jk but it is burning pretty good. I love you momma!! you are amazing!! have a great week!! can you believe that i have almost been gone for 6 months? o and i lost 20 pounds since i have been here! :) I love you!! bye momma!! :) 

Hey dad!! it sounds like you had some serious blessings going for you this last week, sorry about the alternator. those can be expensive. I pray every night that you and fish will have he strength and the faith to catch the fish. i ask heavenly father that he will guide you to fish and that the fish will be led into your nets, just get them out there and than let the lord direct the fish to the nets. i really wish that i could be with you to show you how to fish and be with you guys as you try to die! i miss near death experiences. They are really fun  My comp got sick this week and i had to spend 2 days stuck in the stupid house! but i got a lot of reading and studying done, and i also went up to the piano and taught myself how to read music so i can now play 3 songs on the piano, if i knew how easy it was to learn the piano than i would have a long time ago. so ya sorry that this is gonna be short,. and all missions are hard no matter where you go. they are all challenging in their own special ways. so thank you guys for the salmon and halibut, we are eating some toninght. It actually went to our neighbors so they just brought it over to us, haha i told him if he knew what it was than he would have just kept it. and he agreed, so ya good luck with fishing, the lord will provide, i love you dad, ill talk to you later! Peace!

Slay The Fish....

Hey dad, thanks for the email. so every night i have been praying that you and fish will be able to find those slimy little buggers. i have asked that if you have faith and are living all the commandments that he will bless you and fish in where you go and that fish will find your nets. so read pray and go to church, and the fish will be there according to yours and his faith. expect the lord to bless you and have faith that he will, and if you do all that you can than he will bless you abundantly. I really miss you guys, but i use stories about you guys to help convert others. so the things that you have taken me to do is helping others come to christ. So we fasted the other day and we fasted for a new investigator and a member to tell us about a family that we can teach and that the non members will be willing to investigate the church. so that day this happened, we had a member text us and tell us he went and asked his neighbor to meet with us and him and his family agreed so we are gonna start teaching them, and than the 2 non members we saw both agreed to investigate the church, and we found a new investigator that day. fasting works so well so maybe fast and pray for the fish to come so that it can help our family. anyways thanks dad, your awesome!! you are the best example that i had and still have here today, i love you and thanks for saying you are proud of me. i worked my entire life to hear you say that you are proud of me and i got it a few times, it made me feel like all i have done has been worth it. i love you dad! jeremiah 16:16 that is you. have a great week and slay the fish!! PEACE!  

Hey momma!! it was so great to hear all of the stuff that you wrote me. I am really jealous that i am not fishing right now but i will fish in 2 more summers :) mom you are just awesome, nobody will ever be able to surpass your level of awesomness :) not even Goku can do that and he is a supersaian :) haha i am so funny and a nerd to. :) Thank you mom for all that you do! I love you mom!! have a great week and i will write you in 7 days! I love you!!

I Am Still Here.....

Hey mom! i am doing great!! so the big news is this, i have stayed in
my area still so i was not transferred, i am still training

 and i am still in the salt lake city south mission. :) i am
 I am really sorry about ben. maybe you and dad should fast for him
and than go to the temple and ask heavenly father to heal him? that
might work. but heavenly father has a plan for him and he will do
great. all we can do is have faith in the lord to provide for him. but ya

 thank you for the emails momma!! i Love you!!
your the best momma ever!! have a great week! i always pray for you
everynight. I love you!!

Hey pops, man it sounds like you guys had a very spiritual week! that
> is really cool that that happened, and i am glad that you had a great
> time. the lords work is the best thing that has ever happened to this
> earth. there is no better joy than serving the lord. Hey so elder
> senethip is now in my district. he is doing great but still doesnt
> have any letters or mail for support. i think he would really enjoy
> having an email or a letter sent to him. he is a great elder. i know
> that he will be here his entire mission. he got to baptize a family of
> 3 and it was great for him. our mission almost set a record for
> baptisms in the month for the last few years, our goal was 200 and we
> got 199 souls to be baptized! it is so great to have this blessing,
> elder ferguson and i contributed with 5 convert baptisms last month
> and 6 baptisms total. we are so blessd to be serving in this valley
> that is truly ripe and ready for the harvest. i will continue to pray
> for you and fishman that you will have success! if you and fish and
> mom really turn to the lord this next month than he really will bless
> you with bountiful amounts of fish. I love you dad, keep up the great
> work and i will do all i can to continue to make you proud.

 pray for help and the lord will always provide. i love you all!

have a great week and i will talk to you guys later! Peace!!

Sorry That I Went All Missionary On Ya.......

there was a talk in the last general conference that is titled stop it. what happened in the past happened and is done and all we can do now is make the future and present better. I know what you mean that it is the biggest regret that you have but everything happens for a reason. all that can happen now is to press forward with faith. serving a mission in the best thing in the world, but as far as i am concerned you made the right choice to marry mom. i needed to be here in this area in draper utah at this time and none other, if you were to serve a mission then Hayden and I wouldnt have been here at this time to bless the people that we needed.  people that needed me have now come to christ because you decided to have me on january 28 1993 and no later. the missionary work that you have created is a title wave that you cannot comprehend. dad you will be able to serve a mission with mom in a few years and that way you can have it all, a mission, a family who loves you and the blessing of serving the lord :) dont regret the choices you make, because the lord understands. we have a letter our prez wrote us that is bloom where you are planted. you are beaming right now in the ward and you are doing the best work you can be right now as you serve the bishop and the ward. when you are in the service of others you are only in the service our your god, dad you are awesome and the best dad in the world. the greatest blessing in my life that i ever could have recieved was to be born in a family that was led by you and mom because of your example, i am here right now helping people, you made it possible for hayden and i to be servants of the lord :) discouragement is the greatest tool that satan has, and you can stomp your size 10 shoe right on his dirty little face and laugh at him when you feel discouraged. haha sorry that i went all missionary on you. thank you for all you have done and continue to do. I love you dad!! have a great week and remember that you have done all you could have so far for the lord, and all you can do now is press forward with unwavering faith. Love your son Elder Cache Bartley Summers

Hey momma!! i am bummed that i missed that encampment thingy but i like serving a mission better than they will like it there. tomorrow i find out if i am reassigned to the new mission or not. it is exciting stuff! I am willing to be anywhere that the lord puts me because i know i have to find people here in utah. there is nothing better than having been giving this mantle of being a missionary. So something cool to think about is this, everything that was created had to have some sort of intelligence inside of it, all the earth and trees and water was created in heaven and placed here. so this along the lines of patience. when christ created the earth under the direction of our heavenly father, he commanded the elements to form into the earth but he had to wait for them to use their agency and obey. because the elements knew christs voice they knew that they can trust him and they obeyed, but they had to obey and christ had to wait for them to. isnt that interesting to think about, all the miracles like the parting of the red sea, in the name of our god the water was commanded to part, because the water can trust gods will it parted till its task was fullfiled. isnt that pretty cool? anyway wow 80 degrees!! i wish i could feel 80 again!! its been like 95-100 for the past week and it really sucks. anyway all is well i love you guys!! love you mom!! have a great week and i will talk to you soon!! I LOVE YOU!!! :) 

I Have Become More Humble...

Hey momma!!!! umm so all 5 baptisms went sweet! i have a new friend that classifies as best friends, and i know that i told him i would find him before we came to this earth, he looks like he can be my brother and i already volunteered our house for him to come up and stay with us for a little while when we get back. he is so legit. the mission is going great so far. still is the best decision of my life. i pray for you guys all of the time and miss you guys a lot. but yes it is hot down here and it is not cool. i am melting but slowly getting used to it. i have lost some weight and am now down to about 213 so that is cool. i  might have grown to? but ya i love you guys you are awesome!! Have a great week!! I love you momma!!! :)

Hey pops! so that is sweet that you got to go to 2 baptisms. they are truly the best thing on earth, the spirit is always so strong there no matter what and they fill up your spiritual fuel tank. we had 5 people get baptized on saturday and it was amazing all day. the people that came to support were awesome and the wards really stretched out to accept them in with a warm welcome. that is how it should be. congrats on the king, i miss that a lot. if i was there you know that i would have had the biggest most and first. :) haha jk i have become more humble so i would have let you have one of those. Happy fathers day dad, i hope you liked the name tag. i knew that would make you guys happy, this week was full of the spirit and i hope this next week will be as good or better.  i always am praying for you and the family. you guys should be getting all kinds of blessings. so look for them. I love you guys but my time is up. the greeny has fallen a few times but I am always there to pick him back up. That is why we have companions so when one is down the other can pick them up. I love you dad! have a great week and catch a big king for me!!

Miracles Happen...

it is really hard to deal with the emotional aspect when you put in so much prayers and effort and people still chose to not listen, but that is where the
dilligents comes in. thank you so much for being so awesome to me!!
ha the tie has become my favorite tie! thank you for that. So it says
in my patriartical blessing that i am a valiant spirit and because of
that i was born in a good family that is strong in the church. I was
blessed with the best parents in the world because the lord loves me :)
It also says that my parents happiness will come form my rightous
living. it is my goal to make you guys happy :)
 I will see you in like 19 months :)Have a great week mom!! i love you so much! your the best!! :)

So these last couple weeks have been really hard because lessons have cancelled and we have felt like we were doing no good. so we fasted and prayed for a miracle to happen, it has taken 7 weeks but we have 5 baptisms coming up this weekend. one of them we met yesterday. He has been waiting till he turned 18 and we met him yesterday, and i asked him what do you think about baptism, he said i think it is cool, so I said wade, will you follow the example of jesus christ by being baptized? he said yes, and i said sunday is fathers day, will you be baptized on saturday the 16th, he said yes. miracles happen when you are diligent and faithful. I love you guys! keep your head up i love you dad! Ill talk to you next week! keep praying for miracles! have a great week!! love you! Peace from Elder Cache Summers!

Keep Your Head Up.....

hey dad this one is gonna have to be short, but the fish arent there because i am not, they are small cuz you have no competition and i hope you get a bigger one. thank you for always writing me, i am really jealous of you guys and fishing, i am really gonna need to fish with you a lot and do crazy outdoor things, i am melting here but i am gonna make it, maybe, the lord will help me. Keep being the good example that you are for me. i am here because of you and mom. you two are the best in the world!! i love you and always will dad. thank you! have a great week and keep your head up, the boat sounds amazing. ha ill write you next week! catch a big fish for me! peace from elder summers 2

Hey momma!! thanks for the letter! mom you are so amazing, look at the title wave that you and dad have sent out, from alaska clear to argentina, from the top of the world to the other. so i am putting the pictures on my planners that i carry and that is a way that i have to get people to talk with me. i have a few of fish but its time for a football picture and a snowmachine. :) thanks for the prayers, we need them more than ever! i always pray for you and dad and fischer . thank you for the fast sunday tie, everytime i wear it it brings me to tears because our family is together on that day. thank you so much! i love you momma!! you are amazing! have a great Week!! I love you!!!! :)

Go Forth and Be Awesome.....

Hey mom!!! how are you doing! thank you again for the emails! i really love them. life goes on. its good for fish to have to be forced to do his eagle project. he will never ever regret that. now he just needs to put his papers in asap. that way he doesnt do what i did and wait till the last minute. hey mom you are amazing and i love you so much!! have a reat week! the mission is going by fast and soon hayden will be home. I love you!! have a great week!! Ill write you than! go forth and be awesome :)

hey dad!! this week was good we had some success, the lord is really testing my patients to, we have a had a lot of our baptisms fall off this month and it hasnt been very fun but that happens. it has actually been like alaska this last weekend. it was awesome! everyone was complaning that it was cold and it still felt warm I was happy, people here are kinda pansy im not gonna lie. i dont think they could last in ak for a few days. but ya, so in one of or wards we have a 18 year old boy is has down syndrome, and he really wanted to bless the sacrament but nobody would let him. but yesterday one of the priests decided let him do it and so he did. the boy got to bless the water and the priest knelt down with him and said the words to him and made sure that he said every one of them. it took like 2 minutes but the spirit was so strong the entire time, not a kid cryed or moved there wasnt a noice as he blessed the sacrament. i think that the holy ghost calmed all of the children because a very special elite spirit was talking to the lord. It was one of the coolest experiences that i have had. I have a soft spot in my heart for those challenged like him but when others go out of their way to help them it is amazing. thanks for writing me and leting me know how life in alaska is going. i really miss it, i hope that you catch a fish but you have no competition or motivation anymore, you would still lose to me anyway though. ha i love you dad,keep on pushing along and the lord will bless you. have a great week.

Peace from Elder Summers 2

Real Intent.......

Hey mom thank you so much for the pictures and stuff, i cannot watch the videos but i bet they are great! dad actually got some gold? it doesnt surprise me because he usually finds a way to get what he wants. But good for him, he is an awesome guy, the best dad in the world. Thats cool that fish made it to state, that doesnt surprise me either, he is a little beast just dont let him know because his head is already too big. but i am really glad that you got to feel it be hot. I am kinda adjusting a little bit but it is still really terrible to be in the heat, but i am trying to send some your way. another reason i hate the heat is because nobody wears any clothes. I feel like I have to repent every second because the girls here are so immodest. but I will live with it for the next little while than live in a place where it is too cold to be immodest :) I have a new comp from north carolina, He is a really cool guy, a convert to the church, he became like my best friend the second that i heard him talk, he is almost exactly like i am. haha and we work and teach well together. I am training and he got here on wednsday. All is well, i went from one accent to another but it was what the lord wanted,  my new comp is a very spiritual guy and we are already starting to see results from our diligence, remember that diligence is the key to everything in life, it helps you develop faith and charity, hope, determination, work habit, and everything that life requires.. Hey mom I love you so much!! you are awesome!! I love you! have a great week and remember that the lord always wants to hear from you and bless you! :) Ill talk to you later! 

Love Elder Summers 2 :) 

Hey dad thank you so much for the email i always love hearing from you, the things you write help me and my trestimony. so i know that your work is throwing all of these stupid rules at you but there is a quote that comes to mind when i read that. its obedience brings blessings, exact obedience bring miracles. we have a lot of rules that we have to follow. but all of them have a purpose that we might not now so all we can do is to be EXACTLY obedient. so if you try that work might go by easier and faster.

So I hear that you found a little bit of gold? that is cool, i want to com home and do that with you. I am really going to miss fishing to. That is going to be hard on me but i will live. This week we have had some prayers answered. prayers are answred through our real intent. Real intent means to intend to act on the answer that you recieve. as you pray this week try that, pray expecting an answer, and than have the real intent to act on what the answer is. try it with the grebe selling. if you do that than heavenly father will answer your prayer and than if you act on it than he will allow a miracle to happen. That is really cool about the guy down the road. he needs the gospel, my new comp is great, you would like him, he actually reminds me of gpa steve because he says things that are really funny all the time. I really like him and i can tell that we will work really well together, i went from a poopy english accent to a southern accent. haha it is rediculouse but whatever, i actually like the southern accent because it reminds me of a hick. but ya keep on keeping on dad, you are awesome and you are a great example, before you know it the entire family will be going through the temple together. I love you dad, have a great week.

Love elder Summers 2

I Am Staying......

umm nothing to much is up today, i did find out about transfers today though! I am staying here and i will be training a new missionary straight from the mtc! isnt that cool? I am pretty excited! but really hope that he is somewhat normal? but we will see? It was so nice to here your voice again! i think that it gave me a boost and refilled my desire to work really hard again. You always have that effect on me :) I love you mom!! 

Hey i jsut barely got your email :) but holy cow mom the fork was so perfect! I laughed so hard and it sits on my study desk so that i see it every day! haha it was amazing! but ya i hope the kings dont come so that dad has to suffer like i do. haha jk he needs to catch a big fish so i hope he does, and ya i would be fine with him selling the boat and doing whatever he wants for an ocean boat as long as we can keep getting to the rivers. But ya thank you so much momma!! i love you!! have a great week mom!! I love you!

-peace from elders Summers 2- 

thank you so much dad! i love getting mail from you and the family, i really enjoyed talking to you guys yesterday, i was hesitent to call because i felt like i was going to be disobedient. haha but its alright cuz i was allowed to! but ya it was nice! i love teaching people and it gets better every time i do. I have really grown to love the scriptures and preach my gospel especially! it is the best tool in the world. it was writen in the temple, so i heard that it was gathered and composed in heaven and was writen down here on the earth. so use it whenever you can. I am staying in this area for at least another 6 weeks then we will see from there but i am going to be training a new missionary which i think is pretty sweet! In missionary lingo i will have a son and be a dad. so ya i think it is sweet. but ya i will pray that your boat sells and that we can all eventually bo on the ocean again together. that would be awesome! Thank you for all that you do for me!! your the best dad in the world! love you you old fart!

peace -Elder Summers 2-

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Exercising Faith........

We baptized the most amazing lady that we actually taught with haydens ap when he was on a mission. it was the best baptism I have had so far. so as i was studying this week it was all about being pursicuted for the lord. I learned that we get blessings for standing up for ourselves and the church. Tell the deacons that if they are afraid of talking to people than they can never get anywhere. The purpose of the aaronic priesthood is to prepare younge men to recieve the melkezidek priesthood. being a usher is preparing them to serve a mission and talk to members and nonmembers. please tell the deacons that they are awesome and i miss them a lot. I wish that i could still teach them. They are great and i was blessed to be able to get to know them.. I am trying to grow those little egg things you gave me but it is taking forever. i will continue to exercize patience till it grows.  So the more i think about it, I have decided that we got ourselves into some really dumb situations when we all lived in alaska. but i think it happened for a reason and we needed to grow our faith. In every lesson this week I taught about faith. faith is the key to the gate and the path to eternal life. we all have questions that we dont get answered but that is where we need to excersize faith. faith is as simple as making a phone call. you dial a number with faith that a person will pick up. Gage your faith this week and see what you can do to increase it.  so ya study on faith a little and see how you can improve it. I love you Dad! have a great week and keep going. But ya ill talk you on sunday! love you guys!

love Elder Summers 2

Hey mom!  Thank you so much for writing me!! I really love it! If you ever need anything to say to people let me know and i will let you know. If you ever want a spiritual thought then go to a missionary. that is the closest you get to the best answer ever! :) So this transfer is on the 16 and I have a feeling that I will get a new comp and be training. we are getting 30 new missionaries. but i might be in the same area which is ok :) the big transfer is the next one on june 27th and that is where we will know if we are getting reasigned or not :) Fischman is a beast. i am doing a pushup workout every other day with the perfect pushups and it is really showing. i have also lost 10 pounds and weigh 215 pounds of pure muscle with some little bit of fat :) tell him i will always be able to kick his butt. But hey mom i love you! I love you momma!! Have a great week!!

How Cool Is That?......

Hey momma!!! how has your week been? Well i think i have bragged about you everyday of my mission so you and dad must have done something right :) haha jk you guys are the best parents in the world! But i am gonn dissagree that you have had 4 blessings. I talked to my mission presidet abotu miss-caradges and he told me something interesting. it is not found in the scriptures but an apostle told him that they are still part of our family, either so valient that they didnt need to be tried, or the birth of them would have been terrible for your health. but he tol that i have 4 siblings waiting for me in the celestial kindom, mom that means that you have 4 children that you will live with in the celestial kindon that are waiting for you to come. so our family has 7 kids :) how cool is that! :) but ya i felt like sharing that. now its not doctrine, but it made me feel the spirit so i liked it.  I love you mom!! have a great week!! Ill talk to you later!! tranfers are next week so i could be anywhere :) I LOVE YOU!!!

Hey dad! that is so awesome that lacy got baptized!! i am very happy for her, once i got to the mtc i knew that she would be dunked. the spirit of revelation is strong there :) fish is a beast, he ha so much natural talent that its not even funny. i expect him to baptize maddi, do great in football, serve a mission and be an amazing college athlete, but he will only be a good athlete if he serves a mission. i had a dream last night that i was fishing the deshka with you and hayden and we were doing well, the only false part of the dream was that you caught the bigest one. we all know  that that wouldnt happen. :) I think that will be the hardest thing in the world.  I am gonna need to fish with you like the summer i go back. I didnt realize but ithink the most fun that i have ever had is when me and you would go fishing. you taught me a lot of life lessons just by standing on a river.  I  tell people stories about alaska and now i have a bunch of utards that want to come up and go fishing. haha, well the work is going great here, this month has been slow but we are gonna have a rocking month in may. Can you believe that its may already? what the heck is happening to time? the more i submerge myself in the work the faster it goes. i think today is day 90 that i have been serving the lord. wow  it is really booking along. yesterday we felt prompted to knock on a door and we did, a man answered and i said hi my name is elder summers whats yours, how  are you? he said not to good, i asked if we could come in to talk and as i asked i promply walked in without a yes. we sat on his couch and he just started to cry. he was born in the church and baptized, he is 26 and messed his life up pretty good. he got a dui yesterday trying to get to church and was a mess. we taught him about the atonement and jesus christ, how he has suffered for everyting that we have and through him he can find comfort and support. he said that he was praying for help or a sign, than a few mintes later we knocked on the door. He wants to stop using drugs, so i gave him a blessing that he would have no desire to anymore, him and his girlfriend are going to start taking lessons from us and hopefully we will re-activate them. Dad all of us are entitled to recieve inspiration. God helps us the second that we ask. but if we get a prompting, and dont act on it, than the spirit will give us less promptings. the more we act on our promptings the more he will give us promtings and inspiration alowing us to bless more peoples lives. I have watched you recieve prompting and act on them, because of that we are all still here today, you,  me hayden grandpa and quinn would not be here if you hadn't recieved promptings that day on the boat.  God plans and expects us to be worthy to bless others lives. as we live rightously than we all will be instruments in the lords hands. I love you dad! thanks for the update and for the support. have a great week! love ya!  

Be A Little Bolder.....

Hey momma!! how is it going? is bishop holbrook the ney stake prez? haha that would be really funny!! I have been teaching a lady who is personal friends with elder dallin h oaks! and she is getting baptized ony 5th and she invited him to attend her service. Elder oaks said that he would love to be there so he might come to one of our baptisms. he has also been looking for a pair of missionaries to teach his mother in law and he asked her for our names so that he can get to know us!! crazy huh!? i am beside myself cuz i want to meet him really bad! anyways, i love you mom! i am trying to send some heat to you to but i dont think its working. i am sweating off weight and it is killing me but it will be a fast summer than it will be cold again. i hope! I love you momma!! your the best!. i had a lady ask about me and than she said you must have a great mom, and i said my mom is not great, she is the best most incredibe-est mom in the world!! :)  I love you!!

Love Elder Summers 2

Wow that is awesome!! the part that hit me most is that the way elder malm spoke to maddie and to fish is exactly the way that i speak to people. our mission president gave me a little river rock my first day in the field and told me that it is a little boulder. and than he said that we all need to be a little bolder in everything that we do. I walked into a house the other week and talked to a man and his wife. their kids are falling off the wagon and i wanted to get them back on. I looked at them and said, are you having family home evening and teaching your family, he said no. if that is not bold than i dont know what is. so the next monday night we went over and said well lets have family home evening. and we sat down and had a great meeting with the family. ha and yesterday there was a girl that came to church that i never had seen before but she sat with a less active family, so i walked up and didnt even say hi i just said, have you been baptized a member of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints? she was scared form the question and eventually said yes she has been, so i said great well who do you know that we can prepare to live with our heavenly father again? If we are not bold than we get nowhere. I am very proud of fischer and maddie. they are awesome. fish's number one goal should be to baptize her. he needs to ask the missionaries to come over for dinner and have maddie there.  than from there she will take the lessons and enter into the gateway to eteral life. That is an amazing experience! good for you guys! we can all be like Elder malm if we just have the eye to see, the faith to speak and the power of a pure testimony. it promises in the scriptures that we must first seek to obtain his word, than when we speak, the lord will pull out of you well of knowledge and bring to your heart what you need to say. the lord cannot draw from your well to bless others if our well is empty! well i am really glad that you had a spiritual weekend. there is nothing better than feeling the spirit. it is the ultimate warm fuzzy. thank you for the stories that you tell, it helps me. I talked in sacrament meeting and told to story of when our boat sunk in seward. the people here love alaska stories! but ya you guys are awesome! i love you dad, have a great week! i love hearing about the work back home, ill talk to you next week!

Love Elder Summers 2

Trying to Increase My Faith.....

Hey momma!!? But ya that rule for fish is pretty brutal but he needs to get it done, he
will never regret it, dad and i saw the turf that the cowboys play on and they had like 6 different fields in one room, it was sweet! I got to eat dinner with joe!! he called my district leader while i was with him and we had dinner at our land lords house! it was pretty awesome to see that dirt bugger again! I gave him my favorite tie and signed it for him :) tranfers were 2 weeks ago and i was tranfered out, but they changed their minds last minute and left me here. they were gonna put me in a tongan ward but they put a missionary that left for home, straightened his life and came back there  but  maybe next transfer :) I can be reassigned spanish and i want to but i dont know if it will or not? next transfer is in 4 weeksi Love you mom!!!!! You r the best! i pray for you every night! Have a great week! i love you!!!

Hey dad!! its great to here about all of the stuff that is happening,> I like to here about the ward! Tell fish good job for me, i couldnt> open his email so maybe next week i will get one from him.> This week i have been trying to increase my faith, so i wanted to> knock on inspired doors, as we walked by a house that we wald by every  day, i felt that i needed to go in the back yard, so i did and there> is a rv back there, so i went and knocked on it, a lady answered that> is 35 and and she was crying, i asked what was wrong and she said who> sent you, and was really stand-offish. so i said we have been sent by> the lord to help you out today, she looked at us and said, please come> inside i need your help. we sat down and she just poured out her soul> to us. everything about her and her life and her problems. she had a> really hard life and was forced to be a prostitute. she is in a very > bad position. but we sat there and listened. she said that she need my> help to make a decision, and the decision was to go to a bar or not> with the man that she is living with and she has a terrible feeling> about it tonight. if she says no than he beats her. so I said do you> believe in god. she said yes, i said do you believe that god answers> prayers. she said " I prayed for help today in making this choice and> for comfort. and you knocked on my door and have comforted me, so yes> i do. so i said " well lets get down on our knees right now and ask
> god what you should do tonight. is that ok?" and she said yes, as long> as you say it. so i did. I prayed for her right there and asked for> him to comfort her, asked that he would let us know what she should do
> tonight, what he would have her do. and after we sat back down. she> started to cry again and she said, well what do i do. so i said " don> go to the bar tonight, you have a friend that will come and help you,
> when you see your boyfriend tell him that you have a bad feeling about> tonight and that you will not go. tell him boldly and be strong and he> will not harm you. if you do this everything will be ok. will you do
> this?" she said yes. we left and she was on my mind all day. the next> day we went over and she was home. she invited us in and looked> better. she said, "after you left my friend came over and talked to me
> for a long time, when she left my boyfriend came home, i told him> exactly what you said and he got really mad and left. he came home a> little while later and i was really affraid. he walked in with food,> he layed me down and cooked me some soup, he than gave me a hug and> said that he trusts my instincts and that he is sorry that he left. > than we watched a movie together and went to sleep. the next morning i> needed to go to town and i didnt have a ride, and my neighbor came> over and gave me a ride and helped me pay for what i needed. i have> never met my neighbor before. everything that you said was right!"> everything that i told her to do she did and she had many miracles> happen for her. Faith is everything!! the lord will always answer us> if we have faith enough to recieve his blessings. That is what i> learned this week. I wanted to share it with you guys and hopefully > that story can bless not only my life and her life, but maybe somebody> elses life to?  thank you for all that you do for me! you are the> best dad in the world! I love you! i gotta go, give fish a hard time.
> have a great week, i love you guys!

I Ate a Cow Tongue....

Hey momma!! How are you doing?  The weather is so hot! its rediclous! we have walked a lot and ride our bikes every now and than. its so hot that i sweat no matter what. Its rediculous. but ya all is well in zion, we had a swat team have to take out a member and take him to jail, it was intense, and we also got to eat cow tounge. haha i thought that i wouldnt have to eat anything crazy but that goes to show how weird utards are. haha jk it was actuall really good. the only bad part was that i ate a piece that still had taste buds on it so it felt like i was literally kissing a cow. it was gross for a minute till i chewed it all up. I decided that i can understand mexican alright. so ya i really want to get reassigned to spanish speaking. that would be awesome. but ya the is how my week was. i love you mom. I love you momma!! have a great week!! Ill talk to you later! happy easter!!  love Elder summers 2! :)

hey dad!! hows it going? I miss the snow so much!! its so dang hot here.  I thought that the fog story with the boat was legit. i stood up and said that on sunday. it just came to me and i had to write it down cuz its good. So yesterday a boy got ordained to the office of elder. he is 19 and him and his 2 brothers and sister came to America from samoa and they are the only members in their family. He is going on a mission to west samoa. but he wanted me to help give him the melkezidek priesthood, so i stood in, than he stood up and his 12 year old brother that is like as big as fischer sat down and he gave his little brother the aronic priesthood. it was an awesome experience. I ate a cow tounge. I liked it but it felt like i was kissing a cow so that wasnt ok for a while till i chew it up. did you know that your pinky finger is the same consistancy as a carrot, and you can bite it off as easy as biting a carrot, but your mind wont let you. pretty awesome huh? haha but ya this week was good. we were taken care of for easter. no easter eggs but thats alright., i love you dad!
Peace from Elder Summers 2!!

All of us Humans are In A Fog.....

Hey old fart! happy birthday and congrats on making it another year, i had a few baptisms on saturday, 3 actually and i guess that is your present so you better be happy, what we as missionaries need to remember is that we are representatives of jesus christ, and a promise we give under the direction of the spirit is directly from the mouth of the lord and he is bound to keep his end. preach my gospel was composed in heaven and writen on earth, and in there it says to invite people to be baptized in the first time you meet with them. I have 3 investigators that i invited to be baptized within the first 5 minutes of the first lesson and all of them said yes. if we as members of the church dont invite people to do things, than we are taking away their agency by not giving them that choice to chose right from wrong and damning them, and that is why it is so importent to always invite. invite invite invite. by inviting people to choose the right, you are inviting them to repent. anyways so that is my little chastise for the day, haha so ya anyway consider that, the ward up there is a great word, the missionaies are amazing and its good to hear that they are doing good! i knew that they would get the ball rolling. I got to comfirm a 10 year old boy a member of the church yesterday and gave him the holy ghost. that was awesome! I love giving blessings and getting to use my priesthood, it feels amazing! so i was thinking about commercial fishing yesterday in church and had an apiphany, remember when we would get to the boat and it was so foggy that we couldnt hardly see the front of the boat? Ya well i stood up in sacrament meeting and said this... All of us as humans are in a fog like we were when we are on the boat. the first thing that we do is start the boat and turn on all the electronics and radar and gps, than when the boat is warm, we head out in that narrow little channel with barely any water. we drive off the gps with faith that it will guide us in the right direction. and as we stick to it, we always make it out there to the end goal which is fish. than i related this to gospel of jesus christ, its faith in christ, repentance, baptism, holy ghost and enduring to the end. so all of our boats are off when we come to this earth, we have faith that our boat is still tied up and waiting for us when we get to the dock, when we are baptized, we just started that boat up and its getting warm, when we get the holy ghost we just turned on all of our electronics, the gps and radio and lights and are ready to go and warmed up and we are starting to leave towards our goal, now as we have the faith once again to follow our gps, or the scriptures, prophets, families, pray, commandments ect, than we can navigate the waters of life and safely get to the ultimate goal of catching fish (returning to live with our heavenly father). thats pretty sweet huh? im not sure the concept stuch with the people of utah because they have no idea what its like but you do, you can share that in sacrament if you want, but ya i love you guys, i better get back to work, love ya dad, your the best dad in the world! keep being that great example and go ride your machine, it needs you, make the time :) love you dad! peace!

love elder summers 2  

Hey mom!! How is it going? tell the old fart happy birthday for me! haha i totally fojrgot but i baptized 3 people this week so tell him his birthday present from me is 3 souls! :) haha that better make his crusty butt happy :) ok so i am only allowed to email imediate family, so can you tell grandmas to send me mail so i can respond? Joe was more prepaed before i left than i was, he will be amazing as long as he doesnt let the disapointments of people failing the lord get to him. i would love to see him, maybe he can take me to lunch? is his family coming down with him? and that letter i sent with the temples got sent back because i had to much stuff in the letter, so i need to send you a box, and i have a bunch of other things that i need to send back, like one of my suits, but ya i will explain that all letter, the bottom line is that i need a box to send it in haha, but ya i will get it there soon. I had some amazing things happen this week and a huge disapointment, but as long as you turn to the lord the problems you have and the burdens you bare are lifted from your shoulders. please tell dad to smile, o and as you do the BOM challenge, i challenge you to find the word "feller" and see how many dragon references there are :) haha its pretty awesome how many there are that talk about dragons :) anyway, i love you momma!! thank you for the emails and i cant wait to see you guys in 2 years, this time has already gone so fast that its not even funny, sometimes i want it to slow down, but i am happy none the less :) I love you momma!! keep being awesome and o matter what you do you are always the best momma in the world, just look at how hayden and i turned out, because of you i am able to be here and be a great example to the people in utah. mom i know you said i would say this and i know your probably happy but it is true, i miss you and love you a lot, sorry for the wrinkles i put on you face but i couldn't have ever asked for a better mom, i love you!!! have a great time at work! ill talk to you next week!! i love you!! Peace!! 

love elder cache summers! 

Nephi Is a Beast...

Hey momma!! conference was amazing!! i have never been more excited to watch it than i was this time, i didnt get to go to it because i am no a senior enough missionary... haha maybe in 6 months i will be? :) we will see, today we can take our jackets off so the heat is killing me but now i dont have to wear my suit coat so it is a littl bit better, my face is tan and im really hot now :) haha jk but seriously its true :) I love you guys!! you are truely the best support i have, i pray about you every night and hope you are seeing blessings in your lives! You are the best mom! i love you!! have a great week!

Hey dad! how are you doing? this last week is like a blur to me! the mission is already flying by and i cant even believe it has been like 9 weeks already! but it will only go faster, the conference was amazing, make sure when you take notes you only right down what the lord inspires you to, if you write to much than the talks dont mean anything to you because you are to concentrated on writing, haha i always make that mistake but i did a lot better this time.. On a mission you get to see the best of people and the worse of the worse, we have a famiy that is realy struggling but we are making progress and we see the devil work on people so much, but its all worth it when you see there eyes light up with he spirit. I am finally comfortable teaching and leading out discussions, it will only get better form here as i get more and more experience, remember to be as nice as possible to every missionary that you see because when members love missionaries, it makes us work harder. we need to see the support of members before we can be the support to those who we invite to repent. I havent given a scripture to you yet for my plaque in the church. i want the scripture to be 1 nephi 3:7. it has been my favorite ever since the begining and i use it en every house. that scripture is the best in almost ever situation. when i need help i turn to nephi because he is a beast when it comes to faith and courage. I can wait to shake nephi's hand in heaven. Ill actually probably give him a hug. Feed off of the faith of others and your seed of faith will grow into a big beautiful tree. as we live others should be able to feed off of our faith. nephi has helped me my entire life much like you and mom and hayden and fish. As joe always says, Let your soul delght in fatness. Haha i love that kid. anyways i better go, i love you all. thank you so much for the support, i coudn't be here now without all the amazing friends and family that i have in my life! make someones week better at every chance that you get so the lord can bless all of our lives more. I love you dad! your a great example to me, I wouldnt be here without your great example to me. Your the best dad. I love you! have a great week! 

Peace form Elder Summers 2