It was so darn COLD this week! Tuesday was easily the hottest day of my life
and I was drenched literally all day from sweat, and then the next day a cold
front hit and I thought I was going to freeze to death! Sheesh it was crazy. Never thought you’d be hearing that from your
Honduras kid huh? Don’t worry, I’m still
in the same country I think. I’m not sure how cold it actually got but I was
pretty sure snow was about to fall. And
all the Hondurans were bundled up like it would. My sheet on my bed is not made for crazy Honduran
climate changes. Ah man showering was
the worst! You could walk down the
street in the morning or at night and hear screams once in a while from the
houses as people started to shower. One
time that we entered into a house at night Elder Jose and I looked at each
other a little freaked out because we thought someone was being killed inside
from the screams they were making, but then we heard them curse and say
something about how cold the water was. So we calmed down, really makes you
stop and think about how bad you smell to see if it’s worth it to shower.
We have been working our shoes and knees off in these last
couple weeks trying to find and pray for new families. In this week and the last we’ve found almost
15 new families, but only have a few really progressing. This week we went all out for those families
we brought members to their home, they the branch president, and tried to eliminate
any doubt of problem that would stop them from going to church, but they still
didn’t go to church! Even after over 20 months,
I struggle to understand why it’s so hard for people when they get so excited
to go and completely commit themselves to going and then in the morning they don’t
go to church! We promised a pizza to the
companionship that brought the most families to church today, and instead of
raising the amount of families that the zone brought, didn’t get a single one
there! We are going to study about how
we can help more families get to church this week to help the zone in the zone
meeting. This Friday we hope the Lord revels to us how we can get better at
that because for right now, we feel like we did all we could.
Hey guess what? I
think my soccer abilities are getting way better. Because we had a lesson, one night I played
one on one with this one 7 year old kid outside his house and I totally won. We’ll see if I can move of a level play some
12 year olds kids next time.
Love
Elder Cook
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| Random stairs in the middle of nowhere |
