Hola mi familia!!
This was a great week! We had 2 or 3 days of meetings still
but it was still full of cool things! We’re getting lots of training on the new
teaching methods and it’s fun to have such a big change up!
It’s been raining and coolish still (we thought the heat was
back) but it still feels like February here! My testimony grew a lot this week
in the power of prayer and I'm really grateful that we can help others to gain
answers from their Heavenly Father! Here are a couple fun highlights as well!
-In our apartment we realized that in the Mexican
culture..."graham crackers" don't exist! The Elders we lived with
bought some this past week and it was a good sentimental snack of our "old
culture".
-Presidente Maluenda really likes using math or the
principles of math to teach us about missionary work! Ha-ha it really helps me
to understand things better as far as measuring quantities of things (like
love, obedience, hard work, attitude) and I feel like King Agrippa before Paul
..." Thou almost persuadeth me to be a *student of math* " (in the
scripture it says Christian.) But it’s been fun to see something that before I
thought was outright unpleasant have a useful function in my life....to put it
short and with a pun... I’ve started to see the absolute value of math in
life....har har!
- This week we had a week of the Breakfast of Campiones!!!!
(Champions!!!...although ironically that word also means mushrooms in
Spanish....no Spencer...I did not eat mushrooms for breakfast this week!) A
couple of days I got ambitious with the cooking (had to prove the last name)
and we had breakfasts of tortillas, bacon, hash browns, eggs, smoothies and
toast (if you’re not hungry reading this you probably had a good lunch!) Stock
up on tortillas for this summer!
Alright! One cool miracle as well! Saturday night I worked
with Elder Merrill in his area on bikes and we talked to some really great
people! About an hour or so left before the end of the night we saw a lady
outside with her kids! We started talking to her and I shared with her how we
took Sunday walks back at home! It turned out that she actually has been coming
to our English ward for the last 3 months and the Elders just didn't know she lived
in their area! Her husband is a member already and we met him too! We sat down
for a lesson and at the end she prayed to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet
and received an answer that he was! The Spirit was so strong and after her
prayer she told us she wanted to get baptized! The next day at church they had
already planned on having the baby blessing for their new born baby and then
her brother in law (who was in the Lesson and is 16) got up and bore his
testimony! It was super great and such a huge tender mercy! The thing she said
that stood out to me the most was when she talked about all the little ways and
miracles that have helped her feel God's love and how she feels like God is
telling her exactly what she needs to do! We had a great ride home that
night!
I know that our Heavenly Father hears and answers each of
our prayers and that His plan is the best plan!
Con amor y animo y ahinco por lo bueno!!! (ha-ha)
Elder Cook
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