Elder Cook Week Forty-One

Mission Christmas Program

Elder Cook & Elder Angulo

Elder Cook and Elder Pinto

This is half of Elder Cook's mission

Hey family

 

We had a sweet experience last night.  It might be a little long but it was cool so I´m writing it. Yesterday all our plans fell and we were having a rough time.  We went past plan B to digging in the numerals somewhere just for someone to let us in to teach.  We only had until 6pm because there was a Christmas ward devotional and we were down to our last half hour just contacting.  We knocked a bunch of doors, got rejected, and started to head to the church.  I felt like we should just knock one more door, so we turned back and did.  

 A gruff voice asked who it was and we said the missionaries, expecting to hear a get outta here.  He opened the door (that´s always a really good sign.  Most just yell at you from whatever room they’re in) and said he was sick.  We started to ask when we could come back and he told us pasen adelante.  My comp and I looked at each other with shock and went in.  We started chatting a little about his family and house, and asked him what he was sick with.  He said he´d just been in a coma for 8 days.  Probably the first person we´ve contacted who´s actually had a good reason for us not to come in, and still let us in.  Then we explained a little bit about what we do as missionaries and started in on the lesson.  When I teach I never ask questions about their relation to Christ because they just end up saying the same thing (Dios es el único, solo hay un Dios, Dios es poderoso, Dios me ama) or whatever their pastor told them, so it doesn´t really get us anywhere.  But the Spirit prompted me to ask it so I did, and he started crying.  He said that Christ saved him from his coma and that in it he had a revelation that he needed to start following Chirst and go to church.  I´ve never felt so guided by the Spirit in any lesson in my mission like that one.  We explained that Heavenly Father had sent us there for a purpose and that he was looking for what we had.  My comp and I love to share the Restauration as the first lesson that we teach because it´s the one thing that sets us apart from the rest of the churches.  I tried a couple times to start it up, using families first and then God´s love for us, but the words just kind of choked in my mouth.  I then went into the Plan of Salvation instead, and we explained that we all have a purpose in life.  He started crying again and we left him with the invitation to pray about what we had shared.  He told us that we could only come on Sundays because his family wouldn´t let him listen to us if they found out, and Sundays they were at a different church. 

  Elder Cook didn't say who this is, but he

did say he’s the tallest Honduran he’s met.

We left the house pretty humbled.  We felt so blessed to have been able to find this guy and we know it was because Heavenly Father wanted us to.  It was really a miracle.  For the rest of the week, we just worked hard and sweat a ton.  My mission consists of three parts.  It´s about 33% walking, 33% hiking, and 33% teaching.  And it feels like way less than 1% sleeping.  

Love you guys!  

Elder Cook

Brooklyn, I’m good, comps good, stay away from dumb boys!