Hey Family
Time goes so fast in the office! I feel like it was just P-day. We had an awesome week! We’ve gotten to see some of the fruits of our
labors in the last couple days. We put a
fecha [baptism]
with a few people we've been working with!
I also learned that sewing is something way harder than it
looks. My pocket ripped off one of my
shirts a couple weeks ago so I used a safety pin to fix it. But then I washed it and the pin disappeared! I tried using super glue, but that only
worked until I walked to church and it fell off again. So I decided to sew it. It was going pretty well and had some super
positive thoughts like opening up my own sewing store because I was so good at
it. The other elders were gathered
around, and then I finished and it looked great! One of the Elders said, “Hey I think
there’s something wrong there.” I lifted
it up, and realized I had sewn three different parts of my shirt from various
locations into the pocket. Sewing career
ruined! Mom, Grandma Young, Grandma
Halls, I am so proud of you guys. The
ability to sew is something to be admired, and I have been humbled a lot by it.
Let me tell you about one lady we are teaching.
She is around 65 years old and super funny, she’s like our grandma. When we were first visiting her, she
always hid. One day a couple weeks ago
something changed and she came to a ward activity and loved it! Then, she went to church! She accepted us to teach her, and then
accepted a fecha! We were so excited and
grateful that the Lord had softened her heart. But now she’s not sure if she wants to be baptized. Pray for her
please! We love her a ton but can’t
figure out what to do still. We are
pretty worried about her.
Another girl we are teaching has a fecha for the 28th of
June. At first we were only teaching the
mom, but we invited her to listen one time and she loved it. She has been
reading the Book of Mormon every day.
She is come to all the activities and came to church. She said that what she felt there at
sacrament, she’d never felt in her whole life in the Catholic Church. She said she didn’t know what it was or why
she kept having it, and said it was the same feeling she got when she read the
Book of Mormon and every time she did, it made her want to read more and pray
more. We explained that it was the
spirit testifying that the church is true and challenged her to baptism. She accepted right away and is excited. Every time she heads out to a church
activity or to church, her mom always says, “Okay you can go, but don’t go turning
Mormon on me.” So we are praying really
hard that her mom will support her decision to follow Christ.
My comp is awesome. We see a lot of little kids begging for
money, we see that way too much here, it is hard to see The
other day when we got back in the car my comp said to us gringos, “You guys have
never seen that before have you?” We
said “What” he said “The begging children. I guess the closest you guys have gotten
to that are the paparazzi that have followed you around.” We told him paparazzi didn’t follow us
around. We started going through his
other myths about the USA, like we mostly just walk around on red carpet, and
poor people don’t exist there, and all we eat all day every day are
hamburgers. I almost had to pull the car
over, I was laughing so hard. I think we
might have broken him a little when we explained the real USA. Love that kid. Well I guess I’ll be writing in a few days
again.
Love you!
Elder Cook
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The Tegucigalpa Mission office and the Comayaguela Mission office are both within the Tegucigalpa Mission boundaries. Elder Cook and the other Comayaguela Office Elders live within their mission boundaries and drive to the office each day.
