Hola
¿Que Tal?
Well there was no church
yesterday because Peru had elections again, yup the same old same old. When elections are held every single store is
closed and every public building except for the building where you can vote. There is also a 1000 sole fine if you get
caught drinking. So it was pretty nice
to not see any drunks in the streets yesterday!
This past Tuesday Elder Atencio
and I did divisions, where he went with one of the young men from the ward and
taught some people, and I went with a young man named Edwin Mayo who is a
member of the church and is 16 years. We
went and taught the Romero family. I was
very nervous for the lesson that I was about to teach: the Law of Chastity. I don’t know exactly what to say when teaching
this lesson in Spanish let alone talking about it in English. So what I did was teach with authority and
through the Spirit. At the end of the
lesson I told the Romero family, that I am here to help them and that I would
like them to have a goal of a date to be married.
What happened next to me
was a scene from a Disney princess movie. Piter Romero grabbed Fransica’s hand and said
tomorrow? She was unsure…so he said the
25th? She was still unsure… he said the
31st? She was still unsure. They agreed that they would pray for a date to
be sure. I told them that I do not want
them to be married because Elder McCook is cool and “he” wants us to be married,
but I told them that they should be married because of the love that they have
for each other and for the love of God.
They agreed that they
would pray for a date, and I cannot wait for their answer :)
This past Thursday we
had a noche de misional in the church, and we had it all planned out as
missionaries. We planned to talk about Christmas,
watch some videos from the Bible, eat popcorn and then to conclude the night by
watching “He Is the Gift” video the church made. Well, gotta love Peru, the entire city of Camana
had a power outage, aka no electricity, it was very funny, so we sang 4 hymns
in hopes that the lights would eventually turn back on, well that didn’t
happen. So my companion Elder Atencio
read the story of the first Christmas that can be found in the bible in Luke
2:1-40. It was a very great experience
and the lights came back on as we left the church and locked the door. It was a very funny and yet Very, Very
spiritual experience.
I want to start a new thing that I will start
doing every email, (if it happens during the week), called “Mess up of the Week”.
The mess up of this week
was: when I was teaching; instead of saying “They Stopped” in Spanish, I ended
up saying “They Gave Birth”.... the words for the two are very similar... I was
laughing... everyone was laughing... oh Spanish how I love you.
Love you all and thank
you for your prayers, support, letters, and emails!
Chao
Elder McCook
Word of the week:
Navidad- Christmas
Elecciones- Elections
Matrimonio- Marriage
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