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