I Miss The Cold.....

Hey dad!!  It rained down here for the last 2 days. it was great!! I do miss the rain. I am not too excited to come home in the coldest part of the year but it is going to be great also. i miss the cold. It still is in the 90's here. I dont understand it though because it was september that things would start to cool down but I was wrong :) The temple is great. I was actually wondering if we could hit the temple when I get back? maybe for the first day that i am home? Before that happens though i need to Baptize a couple more people :) I think that this area is about to explode with people to teach. We are teaching a lot of less actives but we need to find non members. It is good to hear that all is well back home. I love you dad and thanks for the email!!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

I am living with an old man that has diabetes. He is almost blind and can hardly move around. He is problably one of the better land lords in the mission though. He does nothing but sit at home and dream of new ways that he can make our living situation better and better. Our house is very nice and clean. The only thing wrong with it is that we had a spider infestation, the basement where we live was full of hobo spiders and brown widows. That wasn’t very fun but we spent 2 hours today killing all of them and making the house spider proof. I really hate spiders. that is one thing I love about alaska is that it is too celestial for all of these nasty spiders and snakes and crap. Training is hard, but I love it, I don’t think they could put very much more responsibility on me as of right now, I just need t figure out how to keep moving forward :) I love the mission though. I am starting to love the ysa also, I think that I have finally figured out how to best work in the ysa so now we should start seeing an increase in all things. thank you for the shoes that you sent me. they are great and have lasted longer in the best condition than any others. It is probably because it is from alaska. :) I am banking on them lasting until I get home! anyways I better keep going. i love you momma!! you are so amazing!! your influence on me is spreading wider than you will or can ever imagine! Have a great week!! I love you!!

Love your son. Elder Cache Summers

I Have Mixed Feelings....

Hey dad!! i loved your email, and those pictures are great, I can’t wait to get to go and catch some of those big lings. I just can’t believe how big those things are! I miss catching big fish. Yes, things can get a little awkward teaching the girls that I should be dating but it doesn’t really bother me that bad. There are worse things out there, but I just want to keep teaching everybody. It is hard to now be finding families and having to give them to other missionaries, but we are all on the same team. I love both of my companions right now. I think we actually are having too much fun together. haha because of that one of us will probably get transferred. I cannot believe that the leaves are already turning and the winter is coming. It is still green and hot down here. I am excited that the weather is supposed to be cooling off down to some more celestial temperatures. I sure hope that the football team gets their act together, and by that I mean the coaches, the players have the talent, they just need to be pointed in the right direction that is all. Anyways I love you dad!! I hope that you have a great week! I will keep finding, teaching, and baptizing!

Love your Son Elder Cache Summers 

Hey momma!!

I have a lot of mixed feelings about the winter coming so fast. I still
think it is hotter than Jennifer Aniston down here so I want it to cool off,
but when the winter hits then it is going to really hit me that I have to
come home soon. And with that I have mixed feelings too. Obviously I miss you
guys all like crazy,  but I love being on a mission. I honestly think that it
is going to be infinitely harder getting on a plane to come home than it was
to come here. I think that Hayden will be able to hang out with me sometime
in my last week though? We will have to see. :) He told me that it is hard
for him to write because it makes him miss me more.  I miss him a lot too.

I  feel bad for Fish because he works so hard for no
reward. I think that that is just preparing him for his mission, because
this is seriously the hardest thing that I have ever had to do. You and dad
of all people know the hard jobs I have had  and the work that we have done,
 but this work is harder. Crazy huh? So this is good for him, he will be
a great Missionary. He better be better than both me and Hayden are, that is
the way it has to work, anything less is unacceptable :) haha

Love Elder Cache Summers
ps. can you believe there is only 1 more month till conference?

I Don't Want It To End...

You know how it is, the fourth quarter is my strongest quarter. I feel like I have finally figured out how to share the gospel and work well with the missionaries and the members so I am excited to just go out and do my very best until the end! I cannot believe how fast it has gone. I don’t want it to end but there is a season for everything right. That is too bad that the team lost. I feel like Fish comes out a winner either way. If he plays his best that is all that really matters. That is so crazy that everybody is either leaving or coming home from the missions! Time goes by fast. I still love it down here and I learn more and more every day! I am learning a lot about being a leader. I feel like this is going to be huge in the success of my future family. It is harder than heck, but it is great! I love you dad! have a great week and good luck catching some big fish. 

Love your Son Elder Cache Summers 

Hey momma!!!

 I am glad that Fishman is getting to play more, he will get to win at some point, and if it doesn’t happen than it won’t be the end of the world, Football is great but there are a lot more bigger things, I am trying to excersize so that I am not very much smaller than him when I get home. :) Lets see, I am still trying to adjust to the YSA stake, I love it but it is pretty difficult to work and catch them home and be around them without every person in the world thinking that we are flirting and stuff. That is one thing about Utah, they all watch everything that we do and call in to tell the president frequently how terrible the missionaries are because there was a companionship that got home at 9:01 and not 9:00pm. haha you would be surprised at how much that happens :) Its kinda ridiculous. But anyways I love you momma!! Today has been a tough one :) Have a great week momma!!! I love you so much!!

Baptism...That Is My New Favorite Word.....

Hey momma!!!

i loved your letter!! it was long but i can read faster now so it is all good, please write as much as you want! :) Elder Bednar is a boss. I think that word sums him up pretty good. I haven’t got to see him here yet but that is ok, I have been more blessed here than most. I was not transfered but my companion was. he is actually now training in my zone, i am his zone leader :) haha funny how things work, he hated me so much that he was put in my zone :):) My new companion is training as a zone leader, and we also have another companion, he is waiting for a visa to go to brazil, so now we as a companionship speak english, spanish and Portugese, we are well covered on the bases here. :) So yes I am in a way double training and being a zone leader right now, haha a little crazy but it is going to work great, and on top of that I have been assigned to only work in the YSA stake :) funny huh? So we are trying to make things work :) We had 2 people get baptized this week also, so that made everything better, after all is said and done when you are baptizing you are happy :) I love baptizing people!!!! BAPTISM!! that is my new favorite word. We need to be baptizing more people everywhere. I hope fishman is doing ok, he is a good little player. I cannot ever repay you for the love you have shown to me and the work you put into me, I guess I can keep pushing forward here and show you my love and appreciation by spreading what you taught me. The lord is real and he loves us momma!! i love you! Have a great week!!

Love your son,

Elder Cache Summers!!

I think many times we as members of the church think that our standing in the lords eyes is comfortable and that we are doing what the lord says sitting in front of him on his rock, but then we look at the ground and realize that we are really standing in the world and looking in the window at the lord, and there is a big wave behind us ready to wash us away.

This week we met a girl, she is a ysa girl and she is a big old samoan lady :) she is funny too, but her friend, (who actually came to the mission office with me on the first day of my mission, that is weird because I have been out and all the sisters with me are home, weird huh,) invited her to meet with us. We shared a thought and challenged her to not drink anymore and and read a chapter in the bom, she did so and 2 days later was still clean. This time she asked if we were going to teach the law of chastity, confident that we would say no and that she would make us feel uncomfortable.  haha think again. We shared the first part of the plan of salvation , helped her briefly understand who she really was, than we dropped the hammer. No more bars, no more sex, no more of this and this and this. Very bold as Jesus himself would say it, there was no sugar on that one. She sat there stunned as I challenged her on this. We met her again Sunday and she was clean of all those things, then she said jokingly that she didn’t ask for this change when she met with us, and how it is hard because we stopped her cold turkey right there. This is what I said, "We are just preparing you for the second coming. The Lord will come as a thief in the night. he isn’t going to say, next week I will be there, start to straighten up. He will come when least expected and that will be it, you will either be on his side or not.  Is this not what we did to you?  Now you are preparing for him.”  She was pleased with that answer. She is far more prepared right now, than most members of the church. interesting huh, how one small test of faith can show you where someones standing is with the Lord. :)

Anyways i got 2 new companions, they are great, a new zone leader and a new missionary we are training also, this should make for an interesting transfer. the new one is waiting for his visa to go to brazil, it might be a while for him. I love them both they are great! I will keep making you proud and I will finish strong as always, there is no stop button in the Summers family and that will never start with me. I love the Savior too much to slow down in his work. I will not get in his way. :) Have a great week dad! I am glad that you had the faith to obey the voice of a prophet and look, as moses said, look and ye shall be saved.  That is what separates the good and the best.

Love your son,

Elder Cache Summers  

Because A General Authority Told Me Too....

Hey dad!

Transfers are tomorrow, It is off because the MTC needs them out before Wednesday, which is the normal transfers. We will find out later tonight if we are moved and what exactly is happening, all we know as of now is that the MTC has 150 visa waiters that they have no idea what to do with, so each zone leader companionship will also be getting a visa waiter, so if i stay as a zone leader, than I will be training a new missionary all at the same time, I am excited about that! It is going to be a lot of work that is for sure but it will be fun. I think the visa waiters are going to turn out as really really good missionaries I am jealous that you are getting Elder Bednar, he is one of my favorites to listen to. I have learned that they all carry the exact same authority and there is no difference between any of them. That will be a great experience! . Anyways thanks for all that you do for me dad!

Love your son

Elder Cache Summers

Hey momma!!!!

  Something very cool happened to me this week and I want you to share this with dad because a general authority told me to :) We had a mission tour and Elder Arnold of the first quorum of the seventy came and talked about how we can do better as missionaries and how we can hasten the work. And he asked to interview all of the zone leaders, so I got my own personal interview with a general authority and guess what he said? "Elder Summers, tell me about your family, are they members? active? born in the church, tell me how you got here today." So I answered that I was born and raised by great parents who were not always active, but got married in the temple before having children. Active ever since. He than asked how was my home life and how centered on the gospel it was, so I told him about Amanda and how she is the glue that holds our family to the church and that I was taught my entire life how I can live to be with my family forever. He was eating his lunch as we talked and when I said that he stopped eating and leaned forwards and said I want you to write your mom and your dad and tell them that you were interviewed by me and I am thankful that your parents raised you how they did. I want you to thank them for their faithful service and sending you on a mission. He then said when you walked in that door there was a very strong spirit that entered with you. Thank you and thank your parents for me. Then after the mission tour he shook my hand, double took, grabbed me by my shoulders and said thank you for giving me time with you today, I will cherish that time.

  So thank you mom and dad for raising me in this gospel, that comes from a man that personally knows and is friends with the prophet and Jesus Christ. Have a great week momma!! O ya we had a baptism yesterday!

I love you momma!!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

We Might As Well Just Do It....

Hey dad!! We found a girl in her 20's on saturday who is getting baptized on sunday the 11th. it is fast but she is so prepared, she had been coming to church and knows that it is true already. She actually got up and bore her testimony yesterday about how she knows this is the true church and how she is really excited to get baptized. I love this work. I will endure to the end and push harder than ever before. I love you dad! Have a great week!! Thank you for all that you do for me. Your the best dad in the world!!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

Hey momma!!

I have been thinking about you a lot this week and I finally got your birthday present done. I am going to try to get it in the mail this week sometime so you should be expecting it. The goal is to make you cry. sorry but i just wanted to be honest :) So I was thinking about it a lot and something that you said in your letter hit me hard and it reminded me of something that dad said to me. He said being a member of this church is like having fire insurance on your house. He can explain it better than me, but basically this is what I got. If we live the gospel and everything involved in that and endure to the end and we die and there is no God, what have we missed out on? having a hangover? kids out of wedlock? Crazy music and harmful things to our bodies? sounds great huh? haha but what if we don’t live the gospel and get there and there is a God?  How would we feel then? This church is true, there is no doubt about that, but what are we missing if we are not a member and or not active. It is a win win on our part. So we might as well just do it :) Mom, we are having miracles left and right. It is so amazing to see the work of the Lord move forward. transfers are on the 14th so in 2 weeks you will find out what has happened :) whatever happens will be well. My companion and I got in a big old fight and now we are like best friends and we no longer have any problems :) haha I love you momma!!! The thing i need most is shoes. I love you!!

Love your son

Elder Cache Summers

It Has Changed My Life....

  We are going to baptize Taylor Steiners twin sister.  When she opened the door I was more than a little confused. I just stared at her until she reached her hand out and said  her name, but she is really awesome mom. Her parents are both return missionaries that hate the church but she feels the spirit and wants to get baptized really bad. She is preparing, But she talked to her parents and  told them what she is going to do and they got mad and told her that they would kick her out of the house if she didn’t change her mind and not get baptized. How messed up is that. I can see them reacting like that if she said that she is pregnant or something like that but trying to follow Christ as best she can? come on right? :) But she was an answer to prayers for me for sure. Teaching her the gospel is fun and it is exactly what i needed now. She is so prepared that it brings comfort just knowing that the lord touches people and prepares people and our job is just to create a spiritual experience and then let the spirit teach them what they need. Longest transfer in the history of our mission!! Dang it is an 8 week transfer, and the transfers are on august 14. I know that there will be a change in our companionship but I am not sure if it will be me leaving or staying? We will just have to see. I love this area though. The people here are nice. Mom i just love everything about this experience. It has changed my life and I cannot be any more thankful for this. The time is coming down to a close and really fast. It is going to feel like tomorrow when i am back at the house. I am not very happy about that because i love it here. But it will happen. Thank you for all that you do for me momma!! You are one of the biggest blessings in my life. I was the luckiest little spirit child in the pre earth life when i got to be with you :) Have a great week momma!!! I love you!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers :)

Hey dad!!

The pictures you sent of the ling were great! I bet they tasted good? So there is this lady down here that lived in Alaska for a few years and that is where she got back into the church. But anyways she went and got some salmon and asked me to cook it for her. (She is basically like a grandma to us as missionaries.) But I cooked it with the mayo and onions and garlic and whatever else i wanted to put on it and it was really  really good. Whoever invented that had to be inspired. But Elder Niupalau my companion said he didnt want any because he doesnt like to eat fish, but once I convinced him to eat one bite it was a matter of seconds before the entire fillet was gone. :) It reminded me of home and how we get to eat salmon every day if we want to. There is nothing better than a good old fillet of salmon and onions. o man. It is a hard thought to think that in 6 months i will be back home. We see missionaries come home here all the time and is looks pretty rough. haha but it is a natural part of the plan and it needs to happen. I just cant wait to see the fish that has been growing out there these last 2 years waiting for me to put a lure in front of its face. :) Hopefully he is ready for the fight that we are going to have. Is there any way that i would be able to get you down to Idaho to teach me how to catch a sturgeon? Anyways thank you for opportunity that you and mom have given me to come and bless other people lives. The other night I watched as part of my patriarchal blessing came true and there would have been no way that could have happened if I wasnt choosing the right and if I wasnt doing what the lord wants me to be doing. So as of right now I know with a surety that I was foreordained to be here at this exact time in this exact place to do what the lord needs me to do. Thank you for this chance that you and mom have given me by being my example and leader and most importantly you being my dad and father, and mom being my mother. I love you dad, have a great week!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

The Life Of A Missionary....

Hey dad!! Hope your week is going well! we had another baptism this week and she is planning on going to the temple on friday and doing baptisms for the dead. She is so legit, Looks like you are having fun on the water and with the family. It feel like it was yesterday that I was in those pictures and here we are 18 months down the road and it still feels like yesterday. I love you dad!

Love your son -Elder Cache Summers-

Hey momma!!!!

I love you mom! I hope that you know that. I felt like home with that family that sent you pictures. the man in that family is not a member and he went and caught all of the craw fish for one of my favorite missionaries elder grover, but elder grover went home last monday to repent of some things, that was hard. But ya we had to catch them which was fun, I almost stuck one to my companions ear but that wouldn’t have help the situation :) Then we cooked them and then we ate them! They were playing hillbilly music and I just felt like I was at home eating seafood with you guys. It made me a little trunky for the very first time in my mission but that passed very quickly as I was back to real life. The life of a missionary:) Thank you for all of the pictures! They were great, but i have not seen an updated picture of my sweet momma! I am starting a diet today that will hopefully make me nice and perfect for me to come home haha no I just am tired of being in between fat and skinny. I have to go one way or the other and it is going to go slim for now. We will just see though. Who knows what can happen. We had a baptism yesterday, here she is her name in Hailey and she is legit. We found her and 8 days later she was baptized. i love you so much momma!! Have a great week!! This church it true, the book is blue and God is a mormon. :) I love you!!

Love your son -Elder Cache Summers-

It Is All Part Of The Lord's Plan...

Hey momma!!  So I was thinking and had this feeling that i would get a Letter and sure enough i got one from my momma!! Yes i got the package from Grandma and it was great! they didnt even last the week because i loved them so much. One of our investigators tried to make them and she did not make them very celestial thats for sure. i havent gotten any fish pictures this year yet either??? I cannot even believe how fast the mission goes. But it is all part of the lords plan. hey momma I love you so much!!!! Have a great week!  I will keep trying to Write you a hand writen letter.  I love you momma!!!

Love your Son!! Elder Cache Summers!