Hola mi familia!!!!
Wow! This week went by so fast! And it was a great week too!
Full of fun surprises good days and we met lots of really sincere people as
well! This week we had a little more time to be in our area and it made me
really appreciate it a lot more! We’re blessed to have lots of members of the
church and they’re all so willing to help us and serve us! I love it! Tuesday
we had a lesson at the home of a sister who had a baby about 2 weeks ago, but about
5 days after the baby she was back on her feet and living life normal again
(she has 2 other small children ages 2 and 4). She definitely exemplifies a
mother’s amazing ability to win a perpetual wrestling match with the kids while
cooking dinner and doing 100 other things! We taught two of her friends inside
her home and the visits ended with her bear hugging one of her friends who was
in tears after praying the first time to know if God was real! It was a great
experience!
On Thursday we also had a huge miracle! We’d just finished
visiting the Ortega family (the wife was baptized about a month ago) and a car
pulled up and a lady asked us in English if we could come by sometime and visit.
She was in her 20's and her husband was driving and there was a young man in
the back of the car as well! She told us her husband had seen us outside a few
days before and wanted to talk to us! We set an appointment for the next day
and came back to teach the Reyes family!!! They are an awesome family and the
husband (Jorge) had tons of questions and it was fun to watch him find the
answers on his own as the Holy Ghost taught him through the pictures of the
Restoration pamphlet! On Saturday we introduced them to the Book of Mormon,
Sunday they came to church for the first time and during gospel principles he
received a call from a restaurant that wanted to have him come in for an
interview (he had been out of work for about a week and told us that he’d lost his
job because of some poor decisions in his life and wanted to change before he
lost anything else important!) He's a good example to me of humility!
Lastly: A few more things I'm grateful for this week:
-Warm South Texas days (woohoo! they’re back!)
-Elder Ayers got to eat menudo for the 1st time (Google it!)
-A few old TMM missionaries came back to visit
-We got to sing hymns for lots of the members
-A really good visit with the Leija family
-Reading the story of Captain Moroni and Pahoran this week
-Feeling better after eating healthier (we’re make
sandwiches from 12 grain bread...who knew they had that!)
- On Saturday as we pulled up to a house we saw a squirrel
on a birdbath do a push up. It was hilarious!
I know the Lord loves each of us and as we recognize the
blessings in our lives on a daily basis we’ll feel more peace and joy!
Have a great week!
Con amor y animo!
Elder Cook
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