I Would In A Hearbeat....

5-13

I am so happy that i got to call you yesterday! the next time i call you i will probably have my flight plans. i love and hate that at the same time. if i could serve a mission for the rest of my life i would in a heart beat but i know that i have to have a family sometime. you need red head grandchildren. :) mom you look amazing! i cannot wait to give you a big hug when i get home. But hey my zone leader is about to eat my shoulder so i better go and get him some food. sometimes he gets a little cranky. Love you mom!! your the best mom in the world!! Love your son Elder Cache Summers

Hey dad it was great to see you guys to! It felt like i was back home and it was Hayden that we were all staring at instead of me, haha but you guys are amazing! i remembered how much i missed you and loved you. Our family is so cool. anyways i better keep going, thanks for all you do and keep helping the missionaries, they need the blessings. we all do ":)

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

But The Work Must Go On...

7-8

Hey momma!!!  but the work must go on!! I am glad that you had a great time and that you enjoyed the weather. :) It has been a long time coming for you and i bet all of your family was super excited to see you again after so long! I am not sure why but i felt really stongly that i needed to write grandma hardy so i am glad that she got it and that it made her happy. I hear that she needs more happiness in her life right now:)  Hey i got to watch Toy Story 3 on the 4th of july!!! They locked us in again so we couldn't get in trouble and than we got to watch a movie! I miss movies! Well momma thank you for all that you do!! O ya they changed our dress code and we can no longer have backpacks so i need to have a side bag. So i just wanted to let you know,  i will be getting one of those today. :)

I LOVE YOU MOMMA!~!! I dont know what i would do without you!!!!

Love your Son,

Elder Cache Summers!!!!!! :)

Hey dad!!!! thank you for writing! It sounds like you survived the states. I had the worst allergies for like 3 or 4 weeks but now they are all gone. The other moring all the people here were in coats for excersize and it was like 65 degrees and i was loving in outside, and than when i tell people that i wore a short sleeve and my suit jacket all winter and that is it, and than they crap and think that i am crazy :) is it weird not having the boat to worry about? I bet it is a huge load off your your chest. And i was just thinking about it, after this fall we can go moose hunting because we will not have football to be a part of. wow that is a crazy thought. But it would be great to stick a big old moose with an arrow wouldn't it? Sorry that the fishing has been bad, but we have to go through the hard times to get to and appreciate the good times. the fish will come back. haha we can just blame it on the commercial fisherman now right? haha jk we know all they do is help it. But ya thank you for all that you do!! You are the best dad in the world!!

I Love you dad!!

See you guys later, Love your son Elder Cache Summers

It Is Good.....

Hey momma!!!
 I love you!! yes we had a big change this week but it is good. I decided that change is an eternal principle. Obviously god is an unchangable god but we are expected to change and align our will with gods will as we are here on earth. without change we would be at a stand still and there would be no eternal progression. So i am very glad that this change happened. i love and miss president and sister miller but i also love and know that president and sister chambers need to be here right now for this mission!! All it did for me was let me know how inspired the prophet is and all of the leadership in this church. And also that the church is  true!!!  it has just been a great week!!  I am glad that you are in the heat. I have a picture on my camera of our thermomiter in the car reading 118 degrees farenhite. mom i think that i literally might die of heat this year. It is way too hot in this desert for me. I just stand there and sweat all day. O ya this weekend we had 2 baptisms!!  Anyways momma I love you!! I better let you go and have fun with the family!! I only have 7 months :/ it is going way to fast. I love you!!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers!

 Hey dad!!

The life of a missionary is very unpredictable but today has been busy :) man i miss fishin a lot! next year at this time i will be out on a boat commercial fishing again. haha out where i belong. But i realized that all the fishing that we did just helped to prepare me to be a fisher of men. and that truly is the most important work. hopefully next year is a big year for kings, it is about time to lace into one of them again. It is hotter than satan down here and i think i have almost died of heat like 3 times this week. I don't know how people do it here. It makes sense why everybody lets their daughters run around naked down here. i would too if i wasn't a missionary :) Anyways dad i love you and thank you for all the support and all that you have done for me!! have a great week!

This Mission Has Taught Me How To Love......

6-24

Hey dad!!! you are right on that one.  people think it is the end of the world to have to travel for 2 hours in the car. they will drive for 2 hours saturday night, get home at 11pm and miss 1 oclock church the next day because they are too tired. haha i laughed and told them that there were times where you and i would barely get 8 hours of sleep a week, and then when i told them that i would work with Justin for 4 days without stopping or having a nap or sleep of anykind they think that it is impossible. :) but no we got the missionaries whipped back into the fold of god, no worries :) Dad if nothing else this mission has taught me how to love people. I know it sounds weird but when a missionary causes so much problems you would think that i would be really upset with them but i am not like that anymore, i feel this love for them because i have no idea where they came form or what they are going through. It is weird.  No i didnt get to go the the marriot thing but we had a mission conference instead. and our president and his wife and daughter bore there departing testimony to us as a mission. in there 3 years they took care of over 800 missionaries that have come and gone through this mission. crazy huh? I dont think we will get any technology here for a while either? who knows though. I hope that you dont get too bored up there catching fish? :) It is so weird to think that this winter i will be home and watching the superbowl with you. I only get to serve for 7 more months. man that sucks to think about. If i could have a wife on a mission i would do this for the rest of my life without any questions. there is no better thing in this entire world than building the kingdom of god here on this earth. I love you dad! Dont have to much fun this week! Im excited to here your adventure on the trek. I love you dad

Love your son Elder Cache Summers 

We Always Have Our Guard Up.....

6-17

Haha i think it is really funny that you wanted to make a lifesize cut out of me! I think that would be pretty cool, but it doesnt really matter that i am not there. haha it doesn't matter who is there, as long as they make the covenant. that is all that matters! hopefully i get the mail today, it has been a while since i got letters, so that is always nice :) I am glad for Hayden, i just cant wait to come back and kick his butt at everything that we do :) haha im just playing around, I miss you all a lot, but it is weird because i know that i miss you but at the same time that has never worried me before on my entire mission. maybe right at first, but before we all know it I'm going to be home and life will presume almost exactly how it was before. haha I am not looking forward to being awkward around everything for the first couple of weeks, but i will do it. Mom i love being a leader! It feels nice to help investigators and people, but i think that it feels better helping the missionaries, because than your reach extends to hundreds of people. I did an baptism interview for a 21 year old man and he is planning on going on a mission in 1 year when he can go through the temple! It is so cool seeing that the missionaries we help help others who that one person can effect so many other!! But i got to see the ugly side of it this week. We had some trouble with a missionary, i dont really know but it was evidence to me that we must always have our guards up. Satan will tempt even the strongest of people, and if they allow him to win than he will bind them with his chain. than he gets us and tells us to lie. Satan is so powerful mom. But he has no power on us until we list to the will of the flesh, which than gives him power over us. He is only as powerful as we allow him to be. Anyways momma, I love you so much!!! this time is going by really fast, and I love this Mission and the choice i have made to come!! have a great week momma!! I love you!!!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers!! :) 

All You Have To Do Is Rely On Him....

6-10

my last week went like this. Stress out because working ysa  is like highschool drama all over again. we had 2 weddings, and 2 baptism to take care of. So we were busy all week preparing for all of that. wednesday a couple we have been teaching got married and than the husband got baptized on saturday, than we went to Joes wedding and that was awesome!!. We also had 2 leadership trainings and a lot of other meetings for other things. an area seventy came and destroyed the leadership in our stake because they haven't had any baptism this year till this week, so hopefully that will light a fire under them a little and start to help us out. :) That is one bad thing about being in utah, if your ward isnt doing its job the prophet sends seventies to your meetings and an apostle might stop in to let you know that they are watching you :) kinda scary but what can youdo.  But ya the mission is flying right by! i cannot believe how fast it is going. 

 Ok well i better get going. I love you momma!!! I just want you to know that i am happy and safe and i am where i need to be :) Your the best mom in the world! I LOVE YOU!!!!

 Love Elder Cache Summers  

 the weather here has been in the 100s the last 2 days. i am sweating my little jingle bells off and i am not excited for july weather and august. But it is all part of the experience right? haha we have been having more success, we saw 2 weddings and 2 baptisms this week. what is better than that. You guys let a king spool you? man that is unheard of, haha he probably looseded his bail so that it made the fish look big. it was probably a trout also :) I love you dad!! good luck on the trek, make sure you let the lord help you because he will. all you have to do is rely on him. 

Love your son Elder Cache Summers  

Life Is So Crazy......

6-3 

Hey momma!!!

 mom life is so crazy, and it gets crazier everyday, haha i thought that i had no time when i was a district leader, man it is even harder now that i am a zone leader. I dont understand why people aspire to be here. haha it is not like it is the greatest thing in the world. you definately get blessings from it but man i feel like the days go so fast and there isn't enough time. Well mom i am very gratetful for all you do and especially for how you raised me. I watched a family where the kids were out of control and the parents were trying to discipline them, but i learned that if you don't discipline them at home, than they will not listen to you at church. So thank you for beating me and letting dad beat me so that i wasn't a little freakin turd to you in public. mom this church is true and the lord loves us all so much!! Have a great week!! I love you so much!!

Love your son, Elder Cache Summers :)

Hey dad you look good on that new boat, You like the blue boats dont you? Is it gonna do the job? we are gonna run to whittier and shark fish on that thing right? I sure hope so. It is so hot here but it is good for the people, they complain too much in the winter :) now it is my turn to complain, I had a lady try to tell me that it wasn't hot, i laughed at her :) haha it was funny because we were just messing around. I cannot believe how fast the mission is going dad. it feels like yesterday i was writing you and here we are again. It is going to be really weird going home. Thanks for all that you do dad! you are amazing!! Have a great week!!

Straight to Business....

5-27

hey momma!!!!

I am going to get straight to business today :) haha so yes i was transfered to sandy and i am a zone leader over the sandy west zone. I cover a total of 17 wards now, We have a family stake and we also cover all of sandy in the YSA stake. haha i can see this being a fun experience, so i am very excited. My companion is elder niupalau from california. He is a tongan :) haha pres likes to put me with the polys :) We are in charge of 20 missionaries and we take care of all the behind the scenes stuff.  I just wanted you to know how much i love you :) you really are the best mom ever!. I met a missionary who served in alaska and he knows all the same missioanries that we know, that was cool. Anyways momma i love you!! have a great week! Everything down here is just great :)

Love your Son Elder Cache Summers!

Hey dad!!  

I figured you were busy or fell asleep or something so no big deal. I was transfered to sandy and i am a zone leader here over 2 stakes and 20 missionaries. we have a total of 17 wards that we serve in. haha crazy huh? one of the buildings we cover is the same exact building we have at home. that is weird!! i keep think i am going to walk aroung the corner and see you guys. haha it is weird. anyways dad i love and i wanted you to know that i am happy and safe and that everything is going great. I am very thankfull for you letting me become who i am and also thank you for getting me motivated to pay for my own mission. too many people don't pay for their mission. thank you dad it has change my life bigtime because you did that for me so thank you. I love you dad!! Your the best father in the world and i am more and more thankful for you every day! Have a great week! 

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

It All Starts From The Home....

5-20

Hey momma!!!!

man there is something about a letter from your momma :) Nothing beats that. thank you.  Mom i definately know what you mean. I have been on a very short temper this last 2 weeks and i am still working on just trying to laugh at the things that happen :) haha it is super hard but i just remember that they are children of the father too and that he loves them just as much as he loves me and then that helps me. I also pray and ask to feel a portion of the love that our heavenly father has for them and that is a very cool experience. :)

 the weather here was way too hot and than the lord blessed me with rain the last 3 days!! It is nice, the only problem is that when it gets wet smells like dad's rear end. man it smells like crap!! haha i guess i will never ever get away from the stench :)  So ya you got to see part of our sundays. haha we start church at 7am with meetings, and we are done in the building at 4pm. than we continue to do jesus work :) that is what i have been calling it. :) hmmm what else? o yes our transfers are on wednesday, I have not the slightest idea what will happen but our mission is going to be split in 5 weeks so this transfer will most likely be a big one. Mom i have never loved the lord more than i love him now. i am so thankful for all that he has helped me with and the love that you have helped me feel from him. It all starts from the home and the quality of our parents. I was blessed with the greatest parents in the world! thank you. It makes me feel bad because i know that others don't have parents like you and dad but than again i wouldn't have wanted it any other way :) Thank you momma for being the person you are :) you truly are a daughter of god and it is very apparent that he loves you. :) can you imagine how pleased he will be with you when you stand in front of him and he thanks you for helping so many of his children come back to his presence just because you were a great mom :) the most important calling and you magnified it to the fullest so far :) I guess what i am trying to tell you is that I LOVE YOU :) have a great week mom!! You can do it!

Love your redhead son,

Elder Cache Bartley Summers :)

ps you are beautiful to, just to add to how amazing you are :)

Hey dad! just wanted to say hello! hope all is going well with you. i wanted you to know that i am doing great and that all is well. i am healthy and I love the work and I am still going strong. thanks for all that you do! have a great week, i love you dad! i will talk to you again next week, keep pushing forward!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

The Most Challenging Week....

5-6

Hey momma!!! thank you once again for all that you do for me. All is well here just like always, i had a member of my district go into heart surgery this week but it was successful and he is doing great, we got a new visa waiter to take his place temporarily and that has been a challenge in and of itself, nothing that i cannot handle though :) The crap seemed to all hit the fan this week and to top it all of we lost our phone (well it was stolen) so we lost every contact that we had in the stake so we are having a hard time getting back onto our feet after that. I can honestly say that this last week has been the most challenging week on my entire mission. haha but it has some good memories behind that. :) We ate dinner with a family and their 3 year old daughter asked to say the pray by herself, so she closed her eyes and started to say the pledge of allegiance :) haha it was the funniest thing ever! She was super cute, i printed out a picture of her and she is going into my journal. haha  Anyways momma happy mothers day! o ya also go and visit www.utahslcsouthmission.com there will be a mothers day picture on there for you sometime at the end of this week. Anyways momma!! i love you! thanks for all that you do! your the best momma in the world! Love your Son 

Hey dad! 

  I miss the snow, it is like 70 degress here today and i feel like its gonna be a hot summer again. just one more summer and then i can get back into the celestial state :) man what is going on with the salmon? maybe they are just waiting for me to catch them? Man it is so great to hear that missionary work there is hopping. if the wards here were doing that i wouldnt have time to do anything but teach. that is how it should be anyways. We took an investigator to church who was planning on getting baptized this next weekend. but somebody who is a member of the ward council decided that it was her place to go out of her way to tell our investigator that she was not dressed right to be a part of the congregation. She might not get baptized because of how much pride and the lack of charity that exists in the church. it was shocking to me. to say the least we will not be the stakes best friends this week. they get to see a whole other side of elder summers and elder brown that they have not yet tapped into. We will see how it goes. I got to remember that the lord loves all of us the same. haha maybe that will help me to help the members of this stake.  Have a great week!

Love your son

Elder Cache Summers

The Spirit Comes So Strong....

4-29

Hey momma!!!!

    We decided to have some fun this morning! :) so yesterday night some missionaries in my district thought that it would be funny to put trash and tape all over our car. so this morning we borrowed a jack from a member, and took off their back 2 tires and set the car down resting on the layed down tires and than wrote with carmel and strawberry and whipcream "just married" all over the car and left them to deal with it. haha it was really funny! That ought to teach them not to mess with an alaskan when it comes to our car :) So hopefully we will have a lady get baptized on the 11th. do the missionaries up there teach the restoration when the people are changing after the baptism?  the spirit comes so strong, and because of that we will have another lady getting baptized in may sometime. Mom I wanted you to know that this gospel is true and that there is no other way to live with our families forever other than following the gospel of jesus christ found in the book of mormon, d&c, pearl of great price, new and old testiment and the words of our living prophets. mom I love this work and i know that it needs to progress now faster than ever before our lord comes and reaps his harvest. I love you momma!! hang in there, Celestial glory will come sooner than we all think :)

Love your son Elder Cache Summers :)

I Just Had To See Hayden To Remember....

4-16

hey momma!! it is great to get a letter from the best mom in the whole wide world!!! :) Thank you for all that you do for me! I just had to see Hayden to remember that we were best friends. He looks really good. I did not get transfered, the people here needed me for a little bit longer but i know that next transfer one of us will be out. we are going to be companions for 4 and 1/2 months.! it is a good thing that i am poly huh? haha that is what the mission is calling me because i eat everything with mayonaise and maybe the fact that i am the only white guy in my district. hey elder senethep is in my district now! I missed that kid. he is the alaskan :) so i have samoa hawaii hawaii alaska new zealand and alaska in my district. pretty awesome huh? i will send a picturs soon. I love you mom! Study the words spoken in conference. they are as good as scripture :) Keep it up momma and hang in there! Love you

Love your son Elder Cache Summers :)

4-22

Hey momma!!

please dont apply to byu-i I will not got here. haha but can you apply to byu hawaii for me? but we will see how i feel about that later. Thank you so much for getting that video! now i can show it to the people we teach and things.

Here are some if my favorite quotes right now.

"Dont be afraid to stand alone when it is time to stand alone." "fan the flame of your faith" Faith is power, power is priesthood"and "Baptize weekly, not weakly" :) Anyways mom I love you so much! you are always in my prayers. I cant wait to give you a big old hug when i come home. but until than I am going to bring more people to christ :) I love you! Your the bomb!

Love your Son Elder Cache Summers :)