You Must Choose

December 18, 2017
1. Thanks for Sharing my Love
2. A Gift
3. Words to Continue
1. I love seeing pictures of the family! It is a huge blessing to have met together once again!  I longed to be there all week.  I am glad that you shared my love with our family and with those I love and care for!
2. The month of December is hard yet amazing. We have to look for opportunities to work and grow, yet, it is also relaxing and fun.  The reverse is also true, I miss just being able to go work and not have to struggle with it and not worry about relaxing.  It is a gift and a curse but I am loving it!  It's the first real kinda amazing time I have had.  Most of the time I have been working but this week and the upcoming week have almost been given to take a step back and relax and prepare to work hard again.  In times like this it is hard to forget yourself and go to work, yet, I have found times where I do not care about my own well being and just long for the truth to touch another's heart.  I love that feeling and have been wanting to feel it more often!
3. I am trying to get ready for Christmas.  I need your information on Skype and I need to create an account.  I am working on that right now but I need to get your information ASAP so I can call you on the 24th.  I do want to talk to you and see your smiling faces!  I love and miss you all! - Elder Cazier
To Dad,
1. You Must Choose
2. Love
3. Fear
4. The Bolder Vs. The Mountain
1. I was looking for an idea to talk about in this letter and it came to me in the form of a movie quote.  I have been thinking that I, as a person and as a missionary, look like Indiana Jones.  This is his quote, "You must Choose, but choose wisely, for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you."  I can't help but look at this and see that this is truer than I thought before.  As we go through our lives we struggle and often lose track of who we are and what we stand for.  I have noticed that in this week, that just because it is hard I tend to avoid work, but I have found that as I  just put my 'Shoulder to the Wheel' and push life becomes easier.  This is applied in this quote as we choose wisely what we do for there are no second chances, you can make a different choice later and change your path, but you can't go back and change the past!  I believe very strongly that I am destined for greatness, as a matter of fact, I know I am.
2. I want you to know that I love you and respect how hard you are working.  I want you to know that I stand ready at a words notice with anything you need!  Our Heavenly Father has called me to be away, in this your time of need, and it is a challenge for me.  I long to be there to help.  You and our family have been on my mind a lot as of late and it has been hard staying out but I know that I am where I am meant to be.
3. My fear for the outcome of our family is the greatest fear in my mind now.  Yet, I fear not for I love you and it's dumb to say but love conquers all.  I miss you and want nothing but the best for you!
4. Before I came on my mission you shared a story of a man pushing a boulder up a mountain.  I urge you to remember that sometimes the boulder rolls back and crushes us.  We have to get up and restart.  This week I have had that happen two or three times.  It has happened so many times on my mission, I can't even count.  But don't worry, it always works out for the best.  Don't let yourself stay down!  -  Elder Cazier