Finder, Teacher, Baptizer...

Hey momma!!!

So we have a lot of moms in the area that i am in now, that have children that are out serving so they all want to call you and send you pictures hoping that they will get one from someone from theirs sons area :) So sorry if you have been bombarded with them but we really can’t say no to that so it happens. Yes i got to go to the conference center. I was the group leader so i was stressed about having 20 missionaries to be in charge of. but all went well, the highlight of the day, as we were walking out we walked behind a legit midget in a midget suit!! and while that was happening a door opened and elder Perry walked by and brushed my shoulder! so i touched an apostle while looking at a midget!! Best day ever!! We get to go through the Draper temple today at 1 so that is going to happen, and we found a complete non member family of 6 who are going to get baptized on the 2nd of November, so once through the temple the week will have been one of the best weeks ever! I am so happy that Fischer won his game! I am really proud of that kid and i miss him. And i am glad that i could help Hayden out to, i miss them both. Anyways I love you momma!! I am so happy that I have more time to serve the lord, i am excited to see you all when i get back but there are people here that need me until then :) I Love you!!

I love you momma!! have a great week!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

I loved conference as well! I cannot believe that it has come and gone already. Time just goes really fast. I talked about you last night in front of all 6 ward councils in our stake and told them how great of an example that you are to me. Thank you for all that you do for me dad! I couldn’t have a better dad.  Have a great week! I love you dad!!

Love your son, Elder Cache Summers

Finder, Teacher, BAPTIZER

Chill In The Celestial Kingdom...

I wish that i could see Fischer play football!! dang, we are just going to have to chill in the celestial kingdom, put his senior year up on the big screen and just watch :) Yes I was transferred this time and i feel like it was huge blessing. I love the Ysa but I did feel like certain people were getting too attached to me as I was there and things were starting to get a little weird. I don’t know why people do that but it was for sure the best thing for me to be transferred :) So i am still a zone leader, and i have been called to open up a new zone. My new companion is elder clark, this is his first transfer as a zone leader so i am training him to be a zone leader. i have been directed to make him better than I am, which won’t be very hard because he is a great missionary. I feel really spoiled, they gave me a brand new 2013 ford focus, and the house we live in is massive. I would go as far to say a mansion. There is a huge place we live in and then behind a door there is a huge family room, then behind another door is a theater room with vibrating seats and a pool and ping pong table. :) I will never have a car this nice or a place this nice ever so I think I am just going to soak it all in :) I love the new area, we are going to have a lot of baptisms!! I am glad Hayden likes the bike, it is a sweet bike that’s for sure. I love you mom!! Anyways i better go, i love you mom!! Have a great week!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

Hey dad!! That would have been so cool to see them butcher the whale! I dont even know how I would go about that? That would be intense. And dang they beat them! I actually prayed for that to happen so i guess it is safe to say that the Lord loves his football :) I am glad that palmer lost. i enjoyed beating them more than i enjoyed spanking wasilla on their field. I do miss football. We will see what happens after the mish huh? I was transferred the people here are very wealthy, but i love them. There is so much potential here. i love my companion and all of the other missionaries that i am working with. We finally have sisters back in the zone, i am still a zone leader and i love it!  President and sister chambers called us on saturday night and they wanted to just come join us in the work, so we worked with them from 6pm to 9pm on saturday, that was so much fun. Every single door that we knocked on opened and let us in! That was the first time that that has ever happened to me. And he got to see us work with the members in the area. I thought it was great. i got to ask him questions and he answered them for me. I love my mission president. I get to go to the priesthood session of conference!! I am stoked! I love you guys! thanks for all that you do for me dad. Have a great week.

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

I Will Continue To Make You Proud...

Hey momma!!

wow you had a lot to say last night! I am so glad that fischer won his game, i was praying for that to happen! Mom i miss that little kid. It is all good though, he will be fine, and i will get to see him kick butt in track. I will do my best to get the bike to him, we have transfers on the 25th this month so if i have a car still i will make sure to arrange a way to get the bike to him. He is a great guy. I miss him a lot to. It is diffecult knowing how close he is but i must stay obedient :). I love you mom!! Sorry time today is short. If i have a car still than he can use the bike, it is doing nothing as of right now. Keep being amazing momma! i dont even know how you do it!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers :)

Hey momma!!

Did you get the box that i sent home with all the stuff i am gaining on my mission? I might send home one or 2 more boxes just  of the paper weight. Books and planners and such? It will be nice though because whatever i want to leave here i can just give to hayden and holley for a while. they would love that huh? :) How many kids does any have now? twins, haha that is going to be so funny! i will have to ride fishmans sled though, because i dont have one anymore :/ I actually have no idea if i will get one for a while? The mission is still great. I had a bishop have me stand up in church and tell everybody about me and the family and they started asking me questions, than they started asking me what characteristics I want in a wife. Haha super awkward being a missionary in the young single adult ward. I felt like i was in a market and or being sold. haha it was great, and our companion elder Ashby got his visa and he is heading down to Brazil as we speak. It will be good for him and i am going to miss him. I went over to his house the other day and met his mom when he wasnt with me. that was nice. A friends son bo got baptized on saturday and he asked me to do the confirmation, so i got to go down to draper and confirm him a member of the church! That was great! I love that family! They will be friends forever. Anyways mom i love you! Thank you for being there for me!! I couldnt have been blessed with better parents! Have a great week and hang in there!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers :)

What the heck!? you got to see them kill it? Or did you just get to see them drag it up on the shore? Bret has been emailing me recently, it has been great. Is he on the high council of his stake? He knows the scriptures pretty well. We were talking about 1 nephi 8 with why the rod is made out of iron and a few other questions, one being why didnt lehi throw the fruit to laman and lemuel, and why did lehi not notice the great and spacious building untill verse 25 and 26? those are some good questions to ponder about for a little while. That is crazy seeing that whale, but it looked like a baby one? How big was it do you know? I sure hope that fischer gets to go to the playoffs this year. he really does deserve it. How come we have such great youth teams but we cant ever win it all up top? I still love the mission. we have transfer calls tonight so it will most likely be super busy for us having to call 25 elders and tell them where they are going. :) I love you dad! It looks like i need to come and show fishman how to catch a little bit bigger fish huh? Have a great week dad! I love you and i will continue to make you proud!

Love your son Elder Cache Summers

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