Wow! The 15th of January is my 6 month mark!! That’s so weird! I
feel like I just started my misión (sorry computer is autocorrecting in
Spanish) and now I’m a quarter of the way done! It’s super
sad! But this week was awesome!! I’m really enjoying my time with Elder
Warner! He is awesome!! haha We are SUPER similar and think the same way, so
I'm basically just living with a clone of myself! haha Super funny!
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| So hot!! Ice bath...water running on his head haha |
This week was amazing, but also sad!! We taught Nahuel
(the kid on the moto). So he wants to learn English so he can go to the
states, so we taught him English at first then we taught him the
restoration! Oh my goodness! It was the most spiritual lesson I
have had on my misión yet. We got to Joseph Smith’s experience and while Elder
Warner was relating the first visión, the spirit came into the room SOOOO
STRONG!! We waited in silence for a little while, and then asked how he
was feeling. He said "muy raro" (really weird). We asked
him to describe it and he said he couldn’t, it was just in his heart and he
felt really weird!!! We told him that it was the spirit and how it
testified of the truth of things. We finished teaching and asked him to
offer the prayer and pray to know if these things were true and the spirit was
so strong!! He said amen and we were just surrounded by the spirit.
We sat in silence for probably 2 minutes while the spirit was working in his
heart. He started to cry and said that he had never felt a feeling like
this is his entire life! It was amazing! We challenged him to be
baptized but he said he didn't know, and that he wanted to wait to see.
We went by the next day and he had read the chapter in the BoM that we left him
and he told us that the whole time that he was reading the chapter he had the
same "raro" feeling!! He said that he knew what happened with
Joseph Smith was true and the BoM was true! So AMAZING!! He said
he had never felt what he’s feeling right now from doing these
things in his life before. I have truly grown so much love for him
and I can feel the greatest joy in my heart!
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| Service |
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| We did service-built a house |
I remember my seminary teacher, Brother Christiansen, told me,
"You will experience the greatest joy that you can ever imagine" (in
my misión). I hadn’t experienced that joy until now. Wow I can’t
describe it!! It’s just a continuous joy and love!!! I’m so sorry I
want to write more but I’m out of time!! Just Nahuel is a miracle!!
We are just working with him on the baptism thing because he’s really
Catholic. So we have been praying and praying and fasting for him!!
That’s the miracle of the week. Sorry I can’t explain it
more. I will next week!!
The misión is THE BEST!! Experiences like these are
definitely worth any and all of the trials and hard times!!
Love you all!! Have a great week!!
Elder Cook
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