Hey Familia,
Whew! We had a pretty sick week. It
started off crazy on Monday! I’ll start with this story. So we were at the
church emailing (every other week we write there instead of an internet place).
And some guy came to the gate. Our Zone Leader went out to see what he wanted
and then he came in and told me I needed to go talk to him. I went out and he
asked if I was in the Torocagua area, and I said I was. He said he was a member
and he pulled out his temple recommend like an FBI badge to prove he wasn’t
lying. He told me about a family that he knew and that the mom was in urgent
need of a blessing, like that second. So I ran in grabbed Elder Hafen and some
oil, and we headed over with that guy to the family’s house. We went up to where
the sick hermana was and found her pouring sweat and screaming from pain in her
bed. She was breathing super hard and in between yells and couldn’t focus
enough to talk. Her mom was there crying and told us to say the blessing I
looked at Elder Hafen as I gave him the oil and we were both pretty worried. I
could barely get off the oil cap my hands were shaking so bad. I couldn’t even
hear myself say the blessing over the hermana’s screams. When I finished we all
just stood around her, like waiting for her to jump out of bed healed or
something. Her breathing did slow down a little but she was still in a lot of
pain. So Elder Hafen and I sprinted out of her house and went to every member’s
house within a mile trying to see if anyone had a car to take her to the
hospital. We were pretty convinced that lady was going to die. We found out
only about 4 families in the ward have a car and they were all working. After a
good hour of running from house to house we finally decided to hunt down a
taxi. We grabbed one, got a hermana to look after the lady’s kids and paid for
the taxi going and coming. The lady’s sister went with her to the hospital. We
went back and couple days later to see if they were home yet, and they invited
us right in. They said they wanted to know more about the church. They told us
that God sent us to her house and God wanted her to go to our church. We taught
them the restoration and about baptism. They told us to come back to teach
more. P., the sick hermana told us she used to hate the missionaries and
kicked them out of her house. I guess God had other plans for her. It’s pretty
amazing to see how Heavenly Father works in people’s lives and we were humbled
to get to play such a vital role in not only that lady’s physical well-being,
but now as we teach her about Christ’s gospel, and her spiritual well-being as
well.
Love you! Conference was sweet huh? Yeah
we saw all of conference because we had investigators at every one! It
was awesome! Packer´s was my favorite. We had 8
investigators and 2 families come! Each time it was like the speakers were
talking to them. God knows exactly what they need.
Love
Elder Cook
