I Have Never Been More Happy....

Hey dad!

It sucks that the weather is bad there. it has been kinda cold here. i finally gave in and put on one of my sweaters that mom gave me. haha it was still sleeveless but it did the trick. it hit like -3 and everybody was freaking out :) Then when I told them that it will get to -30 at our house they wouldn’t believe me :) they don’t know what cold really is. all is well here. just grinding away. we keep running into brick walls but I honestly like that. It helps me to grow. I really do love this work! there is nothing better. we were told last night before we gave a lady a blessing that we are the best missionaries that they have ever had,  it helps us to keep pressing forward when we want to give up. have a great week!

Love your son -Elder Cache Summers-

Hey momma!!!

    you asked me how i feel about my time here? mom I have never been more happy about anything in my life than I am right now about the last year that I have served my lord and master! I have absolutely no regrets about anything that I have done and I am having the time of my life! You’re absolutely right though, being a leader is great but it is not always fun. haha I just laugh at everything. The worst things become funny :) I really do love getting mail and packages, anyways I better get going, thanks momma!! I love you!

Love your Son -Elder Cache Summers- :)  

I Really Do Love It.....

Hey dad!! There is no snow down here either, there hasnt been for the last few christmases so im not getting my hopes up. Leadership is really a lot different than i thought. haha But I really do love it. Like i said last week we have to go through downs to have the ups, haha this week will be one of those ups. it will fullfill my prophecy. My friends are getting sealed in the salt lake temple on thursday and we have a girl getting baptized on saturday! She was a refferal from our yw president and they all thought she was a member because she always comes to church, so we met her and asked if she is a member and she said no but i want to be baptized. haha that was on friday and 8 days later she will be a member  :) man i love this work. Some of the most spiritual lesson i have had have been with her. She is legit!! Peace form Elder Cache Summers 

People Change Everyday....

Hey dad

but wow fishman got his eagle hayden will be home and i will still be serving! that sounds like a great month to me. Hey it sounds like you have a lot of work to do, people need to realize that this gospel is a gospel of change. people change every day in order to partake of the blessings and align their ways with the lords ways. if there is not change in the boundaries of the churches that means that the member are not doing there jobs. but that is so great! it made my day when i heard that! the work is great, the people here are really nice, we are taken care of for thanksgiving, we are working on a few families, dealing with unexpected problems like unmarried with 3 kids and polygamists. haha who would have thought right? i love ya dad have a great week!! Love Elder Cache Summers

Hey momma!! that is so cool about the new wards! it is gonna be weird coming home and seeing all of the changes, but i wouldnt want it any other way, the church needs to grow so that the lord can come back, so many people are slipping through the cracks. wow mom this life goes by so fast! he doesnt even know what hit him, i bet he still feels like a brand new missoinary. haha i know that i do still. my understanding of this gospel is so much better than it was but i still feel small compared to my mental image of a missionary :) Can you believe that in a matter of months it will an entire year that i have been out? that is so crazy! I went on exchanges with the sign language assigned missionary and we taught 2 deaf lessons. haha let me tell you that was awkward! :) your facal expressions are part of how you talk, and they cant hear themselves, so they grunt and moan when they talk! and the kids started to fight and that was so funny!! they were agressively signing to each other :) really better go now! have a great week i love you.

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!!