Well things down here in the Valley are a little bit cooler
(it got down to 60 this weekend) and things in general are great.
Immediately after I wrote that sentence I had to get up and
go to the bathroom (Elder Marble got sick this morning...and I guess as his
companion I had to follow suit). Man, we
appreciate member meals but food poisoning is rampant down here. This is only
the 2nd time so far. Just kind of par for the course. Haha but no worries..things
are still great!
Back to weekly report! We had a confirmation yesterday of
Bro. Soto! Again it was such a good experience! I also gave a talk in church on
the sacrament and I'll share a few of the things I learned while preparing for
it.
1) Part of preparing for the sacrament each week is
repenting so that during the sacrament we can specifically feel the peace of
forgiveness and being spiritually healed during the sacrament
2) We can communicate with heaven, and heaven will
communicate with us if we have prepared
3) Bringing specific questions qualifies us to receive
inspiration
4) Bringing a shortcoming or weakness to the sacrament table
each week will help us more readily use the enabling power of the Atonement of
Jesus Christ.
So many times as we talk to people throughout the week we get
the "Well, we all worship one God, what’s the difference anyway" and
it gets pretty frustrating. I'm grateful for the scriptures and the lessons
Christ taught us about His doctrine and that if we love Him we will keep His
commandments. We did find a pretty interesting variety of people this week:
Mohammed, a humanist from India who was so respectful and courteous and wants
to read the Book of Mormon (he treated us like honored guests in his
home....after an hour of knocking apartment doors that really isn’t what you
expect), Asif from Saudi Arabia, and a Caucasian family as well (here in
Mercedes that's very rare). We had the chance to clean out Dalia's Yukon this
week (she’s the single mom with 6 kids!) and it was a strange but fun
experience to clean out a car so familiar! We went to a ward party celebrating
the return of a missionary (He served in San Jose!). This week we're putting an
article about local missionaries and his return in the paper as well as
advertising our community family night which will be the day after election. I
found out Elder Sanders best friend is training Elder Grant Mosley (Small
world!). Lastly, we're having a mission conference at the end of November and
Elder Gregory Schwitzer of the Seventy will preside over the mission tour! I'm
just as excited to see Elder Stott (from Budge hall) and Elder Hardin (we are stopped
by a woman he baptized just about every week). Life on the bikes is good. We
were going through the Indian Hills area book (Elder Sanders & Elder
Curletti..our neighbors..cover outside Mercedes) and it was fun to see Neil's
name again!
Hope all is well! Glad
the buckeyes are undefeated!Con amor,
Elder Cook
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