Elder Cook

Hey guys,

This week was a full week of good things happening. I am loving having Elder Cook as a Companion. He is from Cody, Wyoming, he is 6ft 4in and one thing that we have in common is that we both love music. He likes all the stuff I like, But we can't listen to all the good music that we want to. We would probably rock out and have too much fun. For now we will just have to keep rocking out to Mo Tab.
We visited a lot of members this week and they all fed us. So I think I am going to start gaining weight this transfer. We also had a Zone Conference at our church building in Bonita Springs. 4 zones came (which is a lot of missionaries) and Elder Cook and I had the opportunity to give a training about becoming Master Teachers. I was so nervous to have to speak and train 80 missionaries. In the end I loved it. We had a blast teaching them and sharing funny experiences when teaching someone and the qualifications to become a master teacher.
One thing that we have been struggling with is planning and having really full effective days. but we received more light on how to better plan and Since we started doing it this new way I have already seen a difference in our days. We have been following the promptings of the spirit more than just randomly filling up a space on a calender. Its a great difference. If you want to have a fulfilling day became a master Planner, that's where it all starts.
We have been trying to find a new investigator for a while with no success. So one day as we are down in Bonita we passed by a little festival that was going on. We parked somewhere and walked around to see if there was anyone willing to talk to us. People looked at us but they all seemed to shun us. ha! That's my life. So we left and as we were leaving a small, Hispanic man yelled out to us from a distance. We stopped to talk with him. His name is Edgar and he asked us if we were from the church. When we told him that we were, he told us that he saw us and wanted help. He said that he didn't want to drink anymore and he wanted to change his life. We testified to him that our message is what he is looking for and that it can and will change his life. We exchanged phone numbers and went our separate ways.
We have been teaching Little Scottie and it has been really hard to help him understand. But when we went over for dinner a couple days ago we used a cool example to teach him about sin and repentance. He understood it at first but than he got caught up in the example more than getting the meaning of it. Than as we taught about enduring to the end Margie brought up video games to help him understand. I than asked him," When you die in a video game or when it gets hard to you quit?" he said without hesitation,"NO, I can't give up till I finish and win." We all laughed and I thought that that was one of the best ways to describe enduring to the end.
We went over to the Vanegas's this week and we did some service for them. We raked their pine needles up and bagged them. One of the daughters got in an argument with her mom and it was not good. But everything happened to work out and we were able to get the mom to commit to read the Book of Mormon everyday. So that was a start.
Its great and I am pretty excited to see what we can accomplish this week with the help of the lord. Take care.