This week was a good
one, however with my new responsibility as district leader I am finding moments
when some missionaries just don’t want to be obedient.
Elder Ramos and I had a
great week however. I am learning more
and more about one of the greatest gifts God has given his children. Albedrio or in English, agency -
which is the power that we have to be able to chose what we want.
People will use their
agency to obey or disobey, missionaries will use their agency to obey or
disobey.
As missionaries we are
not perfect but you know what is? The
message we have to share, so if you see some missionaries ask them what that
message is. Because the message is
perfect and will answer every question you have about God and His work and His
Glory.
In this photo it is of
me and my pentionista mama Bethy. You
will notice she is holding a cake, because it is her birthday. Mama Bethy is one of the most charitable,
loving people I know. For her birthday
she made us all breakfast, lunch, dinner and made the dessert, she also
fulfilled her other responsibilities as a pentionista as well.
If you will look closer
you will see the scratch on my left arm, story time!
On Wednesday we went
with our young men’s president to go and teach his niece (she is 16 and less
active and we as missionaries cannot teach her alone, it would be inappropriate
and uncomfortable so we went with the uncle to go teach her). We showed up to her door as a surprise, and we
couldn’t enter because she was busy. So
we just talked to her for a bit outside of her door. I was standing up on a hill looking down into
the house and my left arm was posted on a cement block that acted as a wall for
the house, however the cement block was not very tall but yeah I was just
chilling and talking. Then the uncle
told her to go and get some grapes, (she brought us some really good grapes)
however while she left to go retrieve them I put my weight on the cement block
and the rocks under my feet slipped out and I almost fell, but Elder Ramos
caught me. Falling on us though was the
cement block!! Elder Ramos and the
president of the young men used their shoulders to stop the block from falling
and I scratched my arm.
It’s funny because the
scratch was hot and burning…. but during our following lessons I couldn’t feel
the pain, only before and after the lessons. During the lessons, when we were speaking of
salvation, no pain. Something special
about this work.
Ask the missionaries
about the message they have, if you’re a member or not, we all need to charge
our spiritual batteries when we are running dry.
Have a great week!
chaooo
Elder McCook
words of the week:
agency- albedrío
grapes- uvas
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