Another week has flown by! Things are going great here! The
Spanish....is coming along and its been nice to see improvement and I'm finally
just feeling comfortable when I speak. This past Monday we said goodbye to the
Advanced Spanish group that was in our zone! We were pretty close to them and
it was strange to be saying goodbyes 3 weeks in but we were excited for them to
be serving. I see Elder Steele at lunch and dinner pretty much everyday and I
pass Elder Smith as I'm leaving.
We had a great devotional speaker on Tuesday, Elder Stuer of
the 70. He shared some really cool insights about the power of words in the
Gospel and I learned a lot. One thing that really impressed me was his message
about prayer; we can at least teach the people in our missions how to pray and
even if they don't fully accept the gospel now, they'll have that link with
heaven to use for the rest of their life! Prayer was one of my main study
topics and I learned alot this week! Our prayers really improve when we view it
as two way communication and listen for answers! Today I'm emailing a bit early
because we're going to clean the temple from 1-4 today! we're excited for that!
Elder Tarr and I ran 4 miles the other day...it was hard! We'll probably start running
more often! Spencer...Thank you so much for the green notebook you gave me! I
use it all the time and take it everywhere! I use it for all the new Spanish
words I learn....and that's already been a lot of words! For our regularly
scheduled service we cleaned showers this week...it was kinda fun b/c we took
these huge hoses and just blasted them at the showers for a few minutes. One of
my favorite parts of the MTC is when we get to sing as a district. We start
each lesson with a prayer, hymn and thought...and our district is pretty
musical! Its a great way to feel the spirit. One Elder in our district loves to
sing Battle Hymn of the Republic and we sing it just about every other day. One
cool thing was when we sang the words of “Oh My Father” to “Come Thou Fount”!
When we do language study on the computers I usually listen to Come Thou Fount
and its quickly becoming a new favorite hymn of mine. Wednesdays are fun
because we get to see the new Elders. Yo tengo un chiste en espanol!!!!
Q: Que hace un pescado??? (what does a fish do?)
A: Nada!!!! (Nothing!/It swims)
Haha Mom is probably the only one that got it...but oh well!
Que mas...que mas....Its hard to believe we're almost halfway through the CCM
but I'm definitely not too sad about it. Oh...crazy thing that happened...one
of my roommates had leg surgery in the Spring and has had some more problems and
had to get crutches for a few days this week b/c he'd sprained his ankle...I
was helping him with his crutches when I saw a label that said "Cardinal
Health, Dublin, OH" I got pretty excited and even took a picture! Small
things bring us joy!
Thanks for all your love and support!!! Thanks Mom for your
letters and Dad you too! Miss you guys and hope the kids have fun with all
their activities!
Love,
Elder Cook (Western Hemisphere)
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