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