Hola mi familia!
One of the things I love most about the mission is seeing
how much enjoyment comes out of the little things! Here are a few of the big
and little things that happened this week!
-We had 3 days of training in McAllen and boy did we learn a
lot!!! It was great to see former companions and missionaries I lived with and
we saw lots of great miracles during the night times (we were in training from
10-6 and then had 3 hours each night to work).
-Elder Ayers and I participated in 4 musical numbers...it
was super fun! One of which I got to accompany an Elder singing a solo for Be Still
My Soul, and then Elder Ayers and I sang a duet with guitar of "I love to
look for rainbows." It was great! Music and missionary work make such a
good combo!
-Saturday I was back in Mercedes on bike and we found some
really cool people to teach! We talked to a guy on top of a gas station roof
who was looking for a church, felt impressed at one point to knock on a car
window and that led to us helping a lady take in her groceries and then we
taught her and her sister, and then we also met a few people that knew some of
our members back in Alamo! It was really cool! I worked with an Elder Child who’s
from Northern Utah and he's been with me both in McAllen and Brownsville! He’s
a great friend and it was really good to spend the day learning from him! It
was great being on a bike too...we even got a little rain!
-Sunday- We had some really good talks at church on
forgiveness and charity!!! One thing one of the speakers said that really stood
out to me was the fact that charity is being able to see a need in someone
around us, then feeling a desire to help them and acting upon it in faith! I
have a long way to go!
One of my new favorite scriptures is in 2 Peter 1! Here Peter
talks about the process it takes for our faith to be transformed into charity!
Elder Ayers and I looked at this list of characteristics and put it into a
pyramid and it was interesting the progression!
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue;
and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience;
and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you
that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Orcharity
brotherly kindness
godliness
patience
temperance
knowledgevirtue
diligence
The higher we get up on the scale! The higher our love
grows! My favorite part of that verse though is the end where it says that as
we develop these qualities or "Christ-like attributes" the more we
come to know our Savior!!! What a beautiful thought! I know that charity never
fails and that people never forget the ones that love them! I know that the
greatest form of charity comes from the Atonement of Jesus Christ. He loves
each of us!
Con amor y animo!!!
Elder Cook!!!
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