Friday, July 9, 2010

Elder Cameron Summers:

Cameron will be home Tuesday, July 20, at 10:30 pm. Friends are welcome to come to the airport to welcome him home.

Cameron's "mission report" will be held on Sunday, July 25th, at 11:00 am at the Burton LDS chapel, corner of 4000 West and 2000 South.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Elder Cade Casper:

July 6, 2010
It has been a good week, I feel way blessed and am excited for what's ahead. I can't believe that I hit a year in two days.... crazy.

So my new area is Carnegie, which is the Zone Leaders of the Pittsburgh Zone, which is the zone Greenfield is in, so I didn't move too far, just across the rivers. It's also the ward the McKinley's and the Hannah's are in, ha pretty funny huh? My comp is Elder Bylund and I love him to death. He was up in Erie for a transfer when I was there and I am stoked to be with him. We are around a lot of awesome missionaries who I love. He is from Orem, UT, and is 25 years old, he is an awesome missionary and person who loves the people he serves. The Lord has blessed me a lot to be here. The missionary I replaced went home, and I grew close to him too, his name is David Smith, and he knew Emlen Birch really well when they went to UVU together, everybody loved Elder Smith.

There is an awesome family in our area named the Espesito's. They are SO great, and I love them so much already. They all came to the transfer meeting when I got assigned to here, and they love and take care of the missionaries. They aren't members, but the mom (Dianne) reads the Book of Mormon everyday, and she and her husband (Jim) have 6 kids: Alena(17), Rocco(16), Sophia(14), Cecilia (12), Amalia(10), and Rosina (8). They are awesome. Dianne is going through a very difficult time right now so we see them pretty often. The ward is great, and I have the privilege of speaking next Sunday on love and service. This area is awesome and it's a great place to hit my year mark. Being a Zone Leader isn't much different, but there are some things that I am learning and that I am trying to learn from Elder Bylund.

Sounds like a very fun weekend. We didn't do much on the 4th/5th besides take a nap on the fourth and go to the Espesito's yesterday. P day was good, we had some good basketball. I have thought a couple of times of "what was I doing this time last year" and that's when I remember the fourth was the big slap in the face that "this was the last shabang." It's going quick though.

Well, I better try to get to everyone else. I love ya Mom and Dad and hope you have another good week. Things are going well, thank you for you prayers. My new address is:

737 Washington Ave. Apt. #2
Carnegie, PA 15106

Love yinz!

CADE