Hola mi familia!
Alright. It was an interesting week...but a great week as
well! Things were still kind of a little unusual with the holiday season and
lots of people out of town but we spent a lot of time with great people! A couple of interesting experiences: I went
on an exchange with Elder Root and it turned out he had to get an ingrown nail
operated on. I watched and have promised myself to take care of my feet for the
rest of my life to avoid that experience! I got to play piano in
church...because the pianist was running late...it was humbling...Spencer Ian
and Claire....learn all the hymns and keep practicing!
For New Year’s Eve we had a group of about 70 missionaries
at the building at La vista. We played basketball and soccer during the
afternoon, followed by a cookout and then we watched Forever Strong (it’s a
rugby movie about Highland High School- in Utah). I got to see Elder Marble,
Elder Sanders, Elder Curletti (they’re all doing great!) as well as Elder
Hardin and all the other Elders and Sisters I went to church with! It was fun
and just a good reminder about where the time was going and how fast you get
accustomed to new things! I found out that someone we taught in Mercedes
started coming to church and wants to get baptized after he had an accident that
chopped off the fingers on his left hand (not exactly the way we anticipated an
answer to our prayers that he would make it to church sometime!). But Elder
Marble said things in Mercedes are great and it was fun talking to his new
companion that he's training and hearing his perspective on the town!
On Sunday we were chaining up our bikes and as I went to put
my helmet on my bike I heard a crash and Elder Rodriguez saw two cars crash. It
wasn’t too serious but the cars were both damaged pretty well. The people who weren’t
at fault turned out to be from Ohio and while we waited for Police I had fun
talking to them about Upper Sandusky, Marion, Mount Carmel University, and the Buckeyes!
Pretty fun!
Scott! We were able to use Alma 7:7 with a less active family
and we had a really enjoyable discussion about the atonement. Their 10 year old
daughter had some really good questions and its always amazing to me how much
more the kids understand. We also found the Contreras family! The 13 year old
is a member but now the parents want to start coming to church as well! We're
still trying to help Lucia progress as well (she's 38...pays tithing...delivers
meals for relief society...started coming to church about a month and a half
ago again after divorcing a member a year ago...but still wants to be 100%
about everything before she gets baptized!).
Still lots of Spanish and I learn new things everyday! I'm
grateful for the New Year! I sat down and setting some missionary and non
missionary specific goals really gave me a good chance to look forward to a
great year as well as be grateful for all the wonderful things that happened in
2012! Hope everyone has a great week!
Con amor,
Elder cook
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