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Tuesday, June 14, 2016
June 13, 2016 ~ Week 102
Well here it is:
The last full week of the
mission has past. Full of interviews with the mission president, a zone
conference and just packing my bags, and self-evaluations. I’ve been
thinking to myself, "man its really over?"
Not that it passed
quickly, but just thinking. I’ve looked forward to my mission my whole childhood, and
now it’s over. Who would have
guessed it.
I can’t express it in an email, you’ll just see from this Saturday and on how this childhood dream has been accomplished
We had a baptism this past week to make it a 3 peat. We left the font running as we went to lunch and the font FLOODED. We walked up to the church after lunch and water was coming out from under the front door. Good thing the service started at 5 because we were there for 3 hours with no mops, just brooms. The branch president and young men’s president surprisingly showed up early and helped us.
I can’t express it in an email, you’ll just see from this Saturday and on how this childhood dream has been accomplished
We had a baptism this past week to make it a 3 peat. We left the font running as we went to lunch and the font FLOODED. We walked up to the church after lunch and water was coming out from under the front door. Good thing the service started at 5 because we were there for 3 hours with no mops, just brooms. The branch president and young men’s president surprisingly showed up early and helped us.
The same thing happened a
week ago as we woke up to no water and left the shower knob on as we went out
for the day.
See ya soon
Elder McCook
See ya soon
Elder McCook
June 6, 2016 ~ Week 101
Doesn’t feel like 11 days
I don’t even know how to start this second to the last blog so I’ll just skip to the work.
BACK 2 BACK.... Saturday we had the baptism of Jack Leandro. He is 9 years old and is in a family of active members. They are going through some hard times right now and so we are trying to activate the mom. After the baptism of Jack his mom Belinda bore her testimony. She cried and the room was filled with the spirit. Saturday morning was a bit rough because we had to fill up the font twice. The first time the water came out nasty and it was so dirty that we couldn’t even see the bottom. We emptied out the water and tried to fill it up again and the second time you could barely see the bottom but it was still a greenish looking color. We didn’t have time to do it again but the baptism still came to pass and we had a baptism for the second straight week.
Sunday was the day of elections. We still don’t know who won but to me it doesn’t really matter haha. We didn’t have church because everyone was voting and so yesterday was a pretty laid back day.
Planning to have another baptism this Saturday so please pray for Rivaldo.
Paz y amor
Elder McCook
I don’t even know how to start this second to the last blog so I’ll just skip to the work.
BACK 2 BACK.... Saturday we had the baptism of Jack Leandro. He is 9 years old and is in a family of active members. They are going through some hard times right now and so we are trying to activate the mom. After the baptism of Jack his mom Belinda bore her testimony. She cried and the room was filled with the spirit. Saturday morning was a bit rough because we had to fill up the font twice. The first time the water came out nasty and it was so dirty that we couldn’t even see the bottom. We emptied out the water and tried to fill it up again and the second time you could barely see the bottom but it was still a greenish looking color. We didn’t have time to do it again but the baptism still came to pass and we had a baptism for the second straight week.
Sunday was the day of elections. We still don’t know who won but to me it doesn’t really matter haha. We didn’t have church because everyone was voting and so yesterday was a pretty laid back day.
Planning to have another baptism this Saturday so please pray for Rivaldo.
Paz y amor
Elder McCook
May 30, 2016 ~ Week 100 ~ Pictures
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Went to Camana for a multi zone conference!! |
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| Elder Nichols birthday dinner!! |
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| Dana and Rosaleen after their baptism!! I was able to baptize the mother and Elder Nichols baptized Rosaleen her daughter!! |
May 30, 2016 ~ Week 100
QUE ONDA FAM BAM
On Monday we didn’t really do anything throughout the day because there isn’t much to do in Pedregal, however we had a great lesson with Dana, Roselyn, and their family.
Tuesday we had our district meeting and Elder Nicholls and I taught the class because we are in charge of the zone and one of the districts. We talked about love and the importance of contacting.
Wednesday was Elder Nicholls 20th birthday, we had one of the assistants with us. We taught double the amount of lessons that we normally teach in a day and the assistant was also able to do some baptismal interviews. They ended up passing their interviews and after we went and had some big hamburgers at the food truck by our room.
Thursday we went to Camana for a multi zone conference. The beach air felt nice returning after 16 months. It was a conference with about 40 missionaries and it was probably one of President Zobrist’s and my last conferences.
Saturday was the baptism of Dana (the mom) and Roselyn ( her daughter). They were baptized at 4pm Saturday afternoon and it was probably one of my coldest baptisms. The water was freezing however it was a spiritual experience. Dana cried during her testimony and her family attended the baptism and they are from Camana (about 1 hour from Pedregal).
Sunday they were confirmed and received the holy ghost. There was a very good attendance at church yesterday. It was our branch conference and we had 5 investigators and 8 less actives at church. We also rescued Richard Garay who was less active for a good time.
We are being so blessed right now. We have seen a huge change in our area this month of May. It has probably been one of my best month’s numbers wise. We finished with 2 baptisms and 6 rescues this month. We still have tons of investigators and less actives to teach that are
progressing.
Pray for Leandro this week as he prepares for his baptism on Saturday. We won’t be going to church this Sunday because of Peruvian presidential elections.
On Monday we didn’t really do anything throughout the day because there isn’t much to do in Pedregal, however we had a great lesson with Dana, Roselyn, and their family.
Tuesday we had our district meeting and Elder Nicholls and I taught the class because we are in charge of the zone and one of the districts. We talked about love and the importance of contacting.
Wednesday was Elder Nicholls 20th birthday, we had one of the assistants with us. We taught double the amount of lessons that we normally teach in a day and the assistant was also able to do some baptismal interviews. They ended up passing their interviews and after we went and had some big hamburgers at the food truck by our room.
Thursday we went to Camana for a multi zone conference. The beach air felt nice returning after 16 months. It was a conference with about 40 missionaries and it was probably one of President Zobrist’s and my last conferences.
Saturday was the baptism of Dana (the mom) and Roselyn ( her daughter). They were baptized at 4pm Saturday afternoon and it was probably one of my coldest baptisms. The water was freezing however it was a spiritual experience. Dana cried during her testimony and her family attended the baptism and they are from Camana (about 1 hour from Pedregal).
Sunday they were confirmed and received the holy ghost. There was a very good attendance at church yesterday. It was our branch conference and we had 5 investigators and 8 less actives at church. We also rescued Richard Garay who was less active for a good time.
We are being so blessed right now. We have seen a huge change in our area this month of May. It has probably been one of my best month’s numbers wise. We finished with 2 baptisms and 6 rescues this month. We still have tons of investigators and less actives to teach that are
progressing.
Pray for Leandro this week as he prepares for his baptism on Saturday. We won’t be going to church this Sunday because of Peruvian presidential elections.
So have a good week and Sunday.
Love ya’ll
Elder McCook
Love ya’ll
Elder McCook
May 23, 2016 ~ Week 99 ~ Pictures
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| Small, but getting the family history activities going in one of the branches in the zone!! |
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| The Majes zone! |
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