Helloooo everybody! How are you all? I am doing pretty good!
We had exchanges. Elder Perazzo is gone, and now Elder Ferrin is training someone from Canada named Elder Dahl. We also have a new Zone leader. Elder Hall is gone, and now we have Elder Delgado with Elder Monsen.
I don't know if I told you, but we have another baptismal date. Theresa is set to get baptized on Feb. 13th!
Dan's is coming up on Dec 5th. And it was way exciting because he went home teaching last night, and he's not even baptized yet. We are working with this family called the Sungs. They have been inactive for about 7 years, so we are visiting with them. They have a 7 year old son, so we are teaching him and getting him ready for baptism.
Things are pretty dead looking here. The leaves are all gone for the most part, and the sky is always gray. It's going to be weird here soon because the ground will be covered in snow, so it is pretty much going to be a black and white world.
Thank you so much for the card! that was the most awesome card I have ever seen! It was huge! I opened it and the music started playing and I was just like, WO! President & Sister Talbot called me and sang to me :) that was pretty sweet. My birthday was pretty awesome! It was weird. I kept forgetting it was even my birthday haha.
Yeah, we have been really busy. It's a good thing! Things are going good here for the most part. Just another day on the mission.
For Thanksgiving we're going over to a member's house and maybe teaching people! They invited a whole bunch of their friends over. And then invited us haha. Sounds like a trap to me. We might not even teach too much at all there. We have to see how it goes. But it will be interesting nonetheless.
We actually cut our own hair as of now. My companion has clippers. But normally we just go to like Great Clips or something for it.
Got to go. I'll make sure to keep everyone in my prayers.
Love you all. Hope everything is going well back home. I miss you all and love you all.
Elder Cooper
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Hello Everyone!
How are you all doing? I am doing just peachy! Things have been pretty interesting this last week. A couple days ago we went on exchanges, so Elder Ferrin came to our area and I went with Elder Porazzo to their area which is the Young Single Adult Ward. So naturally their area is downtown by the college campus. The motto for that area is "Find all the time". They don't have a lot of people they teach so most of their time is spent finding which is the complete opposite of our area. So, needless to say, it was a different experience for me! I think we walked probably 15 miles that day. All we did ALL DAY LONG was go downtown and try and talk to people. It didn't work out so well. No one was rude to us or anything but we didn't get anywhere. So ya, that was a new experience for me.
What else is new? It seems like I'm forgetting something...Oh, yeah! Two people are getting baptized! :) One is this girl who is newly married, her husband is a member, but she wasn't. So ya, she's getting baptized! The other one is Dan. He has been taking the lessons for quite some time now. (That's the guy with the handle bar bike story). He's getting baptized December 5. We just set a date with him tonight! Big news and I am totally excited. But that means that things are going to get really hard here in the next few weeks. That's always how it goes. Trial of your faith and all.
So that's the update on the mission. Hope all of you are doing well. Love you and miss you.
-Elder Cooper
and from a letter to Sarah but I wanted to include the lesson it teaches here...
Atonement - Definitely our first reaction when we find out about stuff like that is to drop them like it's hot. But that is for sure not what Jesus would do. One thing we have to remember is that there is only one unforgiveable sin. And you and I don't know anyone who could even commit that if they wanted to. Denying the Holy Ghost is the one and only thing that you can do that is unforgiveable and you have to have a perfect knowledge in order for it to be unforgiveable. I don't personally know anyone with a perfect knowedge. So whatever it is this guy did, he can always turn back. Did he mess up and make things hard for himself and especially for others? Yes. Did the Savior promise to forgive him if he followed the steps layed out by Him? Yes. So is it totally outrageous for us to forgive this guy? Absolutely not.
How are you all doing? I am doing just peachy! Things have been pretty interesting this last week. A couple days ago we went on exchanges, so Elder Ferrin came to our area and I went with Elder Porazzo to their area which is the Young Single Adult Ward. So naturally their area is downtown by the college campus. The motto for that area is "Find all the time". They don't have a lot of people they teach so most of their time is spent finding which is the complete opposite of our area. So, needless to say, it was a different experience for me! I think we walked probably 15 miles that day. All we did ALL DAY LONG was go downtown and try and talk to people. It didn't work out so well. No one was rude to us or anything but we didn't get anywhere. So ya, that was a new experience for me.
What else is new? It seems like I'm forgetting something...Oh, yeah! Two people are getting baptized! :) One is this girl who is newly married, her husband is a member, but she wasn't. So ya, she's getting baptized! The other one is Dan. He has been taking the lessons for quite some time now. (That's the guy with the handle bar bike story). He's getting baptized December 5. We just set a date with him tonight! Big news and I am totally excited. But that means that things are going to get really hard here in the next few weeks. That's always how it goes. Trial of your faith and all.
So that's the update on the mission. Hope all of you are doing well. Love you and miss you.
-Elder Cooper
and from a letter to Sarah but I wanted to include the lesson it teaches here...
Atonement - Definitely our first reaction when we find out about stuff like that is to drop them like it's hot. But that is for sure not what Jesus would do. One thing we have to remember is that there is only one unforgiveable sin. And you and I don't know anyone who could even commit that if they wanted to. Denying the Holy Ghost is the one and only thing that you can do that is unforgiveable and you have to have a perfect knowledge in order for it to be unforgiveable. I don't personally know anyone with a perfect knowedge. So whatever it is this guy did, he can always turn back. Did he mess up and make things hard for himself and especially for others? Yes. Did the Savior promise to forgive him if he followed the steps layed out by Him? Yes. So is it totally outrageous for us to forgive this guy? Absolutely not.
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