Sunday, August 5, 2012

August 3, 2012 Email


Hola!!!!
This past week was by far the fastest week of the MTC! But it was such a great week too! The Spanish is going along so well! Now we've begun focusing a lot more on teaching and refining our teaching skills as much as our Spanish. I'm so excited to go to Texas! One thing that'll be a little different for me than with Dad and Scott really is the language! Right now it hasn’t been to tough to talk to the native speaking missionaries here and the fact that I might be teaching in English just as much really has me excited! Can't wait! Today we got to go to the temple again and it was awesome! Afterwards we had breakfast there and there was a really nice Japanese brother who served us our waffles and drew smiley faces with the whipped cream on top! Being happy and sharing that happiness with others really has an impact! Our lessons with our "investigators" are still going well and it’s the time when we really find out where our Spanish needs to improve. It finally happened though! I've come up with a joke in Spanish! Better yet...it’s a pun...better yet....it deals with the Book of Mormon!

Donde vivio la familia de Lehi en el desierto?

A: En Tiendas.....entiendas? (Mom can explain!)

Hope you guys have an awesome time in Nauvoo! Im so grateful we grew up 'back east' and close to all the church history sites. As the only Elder in my district east of Utah I put up with teasing for actually knowing places east of Utah. It’s funny. Elder Steele leaves next week and so does Elder Smith so I’m trying to take advantage of the last few days with them! The mountains are so cool to look at and I'm still wowed by them on a daily basis. Sundays and Tuesdays are awesome days because we have devotionals , firesides, and then Sunday nights we watch the film of when apostles have spoken at the MTC! This week my testimony has grown a lot around prayer! I love the scripture in 2 Kings 19 talking about Elijah and the still small voice! (Go read Chapter 18 and 19 as well! So cool! ). Prayer really is the foundation communication of everything we know and everything we believe. Heavenly Father really does answer our prayers! We have so many examples of prayer in the scriptures and if even 1 of them is true then it completely changes things! Most importantly, the one prayer we need answered is our own and without that belief our faith can't grow! I'm grateful that we can have a real and personal relationship with our Heavenly Father!
Tell Elder Shannon...whoops...David hi for me and have him send me a letter when he gets the chance!!! Have fun in Nauvoo! Be nice! Be Patient! Have fun!

Con amor,

Elder Cook quien va servir en el pais de dios....Tejas!

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