Doing "Great things!" Quote from Abbey Cannon (*see note below)

Things are going well. This week has seemed a little slow, though. Elder Davis said that he could feel a difference from our first few weeks. I think the best way that I can describe it is using a theater analogy. On opening night of a show, everyone is excited, nervous, focused, and ready to perform. Because of all of this they have a lot of motivation to do their best. They usually do very well. Once the second night comes along though, the performers have an attitude of, "I've got this" and start to let things slide a little resulting in a performance that wasn't quite as good. I feel like we are in a very similar situation, here in New Castle. We were relying so heavily on the Lord the first couple of weeks and we saw a lot of grace from it. One of the people that we found are getting baptized this weekend! We are really happy about that. But because we have had a bit of an "I've got this" attitude, we have let things slip a little bit. We need to be relying fully on Jesus Christ, because that is when miracles come!

There is a funny story that I want to talk about. We knocked on this door and we asked the woman there if she believed in Jesus Christ. She said no. I was curious what religion she was apart of, so I asked her. "I am a wicken," she said. I didn't know what that was and she could tell, so she said, "I am a witch and have been for 20 years." I haven't wanted to leave somewhere faster! I thought that was funny.

Thank you for all that you do! I love you!

Elder Hayden Cannon

*A little side note from home to explain today's title:

     Every night Elder Cannon's 6 year old sister prays for him "to do the great things". The other night she prayed - "please bless Hayden on his mission that he can do the great things, and bless me if I go on a mission that I can do the great things too".