Hola familia,
I will start of will telling you why I came on my
mission. I have been thinking about it a
lot this week. The things that happened
when I got sick, when I went home and why I came back out again on my mission
to finish the last 6 months when I could have just stopped and finished. I came on the mission initially because I knew
that it is what I needed to do. I knew
that from what has happened in my life and the person that I was and what the gospel
did for me to make me who I am now. I
owe my life to this gospel. I owe
everything to the atonement of Jesus Christ (Spanish version), for him suffering for my sins (Spanish version) and the
mistakes that I have made so often and all the hard times that I had. I am not perfect. It was a hard couple of years but through the
repentance (Spanish version) process I know that people can become clean again. I know that and that it why I am out
here. I got my testimony of this gospel
though repentance and through changing my life by the atonement of Jesus
Christ. That is why I am out here. I love this gospel and I love sharing it with
people. I love how happy it has made me. I know that it makes anybody that wants to
live it happy. I work hard so that I can
pay the debt that I have to him.
Yea so this week was an awesome week; we had a bunch of
success and fun. Elder Agine and I are
doing great and getting along well. We
are teaching a ton and working really hard.
He pushes me a ton. It is really
fun. I love being with him. I love the area and we are working hard to
improve the area and a little by little it will get keep getting better. It is just like life a little by little and
you will become better if you keep working hard.
So this week was hard.
We had two days where we didn’t teach anybody. We went with members but we just couldn’t
find anybody and it was just a hard two days.
But the other days of the week we found a ton of people and families,
which was awesome. We were also able to put
a baptismal date on John Gonzales, the 15th of May. We had a bunch of cool lessons this week.
We did a really cool service project. We went with some other Elders to the top of
a hill and moved some dirt and helped this lady clean some stuff in her
house. So we were coming down in a bus. We got off the bus and were walking to get
back to our area to change and somebody whistles at us so we turn around and it
is this little old lady with her little food stand. So we go back and its like ten in the morning. She asked how we were doing and who we were,
we said that we were missionaries but in our street clothes because we were
just doing service. She told us to sit
down and she gave us breakfast: some juice and a whole bunch of bread to take
with us. It was super nice of her and very
random. We saw what charity (Spanish version) was and the
real meaning of giving. I know that she
doesn’t have much and she works so hard but she was so willing and it really
impacted me.
After that we had our leadership council. That is where all the Zone Leaders, Mission
President, Assistants and the Sister Leaders get together and talk about the things
that we need to do better in the mission, things that we need to change, and
things that need to get done. It was
really cool. It happened Wednesday night
and Thursday morning.
The gospel is super cool because you can teach people and
see the hope from the gospel change them, make them better, and make them want
to become more like Christ. It makes
them start in the way to become perfect.
Everybody gets super happy and smiley when we come. You can tell that the Holy Ghost (Spanish version) is there teaching
and preaching to them. We had lunch with
the Ocone family and asked for some references.
We ate a noddle casserole it contains: noodles, milk, cheese, and eggs. It is really good and I really liked it and
ate a whole bunch. They are a really
cool family. Their son is leaving on a
mission in a month so we talked with them and they are sad but it will be good.
This week was voting so there is a new President of Peru. So there are two laws when voting here: you
can’t meet as a group, so for us we can’t have church, and you can’t drink
alcohol. It is called the dry law. So you can’t drink alcohol and you can’t meet
as a group. Hence we didn’t have church Sunday
and we didn’t see any drunks, which was a first. It was pretty interesting. We went and visited a bunch of new people. We went up to the family Pararez and we
taught them all because they were all here to vote. In order to vote you have to go back to where
you were originally from or where your papers are from to vote. So it is like if I lived in Utah then I was
living in Minnesota I would have to go all the way back to Utah to vote. If you don’t go back to vote you get
fined. A lot of people were traveling
and so not a lot of people were home but we went and taught them.
Honestly it was a really good week. I am super happy with everything that has
gone by and all the help that we had. We
also had interviews with the President and his assistants as a zone. It was cool to talk to the President and see
what he thinks about everything. It was
a fun day.
Everything is going great in the area. Time is passing by way too fast. But I’m just trying to make the most of it. Make sure that you keep reading and
praying. Just do the little things and
everything will be better. Some time the
stuff in the world comes by really fast and misguides us and blinds us. Make sure that if you didn’t watch conference
that you go back and watch it. Well I hope
that you all have a great week. I’ll
have a great week of course haha.
Well you guys have a great week and I love you so much.
Cho
Elder Cooley
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