Hi! Welcome to the Scoop de Coop!
This blog is all about Cooper Boice, who is currently serving a full-time mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He just entered the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah yesterday (March 26, 2008) and will stay there about 8 weeks to learn as much as he can before flying to Argentina, Rosario where he will serve until March 2010! Yikes! That sounds like such a long time!
I'll post his letters home, photos we get from him, updates on his companions and areas where he is serving and other stuff. I imagine most of the people who visit this blog will be family and friends, but if you stumble across this site we hope you feel welcome too! Please feel free to share your comments and photos too! It's going to be a lot of fun to watch his mission experience unfold.
Thank you for everything you've done for Cooper. We think he's a pretty amazing guy and we know you had a hand in shaping him into the person he is today.
2 comments:
BEST WISHES Coop!
You have a ton of people here 'Stateside' thinking and praying for you. I don't have a lot to say, other than to observe that if the Lord's primary intent for Missionaries was to merely baptize people, then they he would call professionals with years of experience.
Instead he calls young men, like yourself, to go into the world and 'wrestle not against flesh and blood ... but against spiritual wickedness' (Eph 6:12).
When I served in Longon, England, in the two years I was there, I baptised not one person. As a result I came to realize that a mission is about learning, it's about growing, it's about understanding both yourself, and the mind and will of God, to discover the great and wondrous potential each of us has inside.
So.. as you embark on the most difficult part of your odyssey (though many say coming home is far more difficult -- but in another way) remember not to judge yourself as the world judges, but by the spirit. Revel in the opportunity to immerse yourself in the Comforter. Take joy in the simple truths of the gospel.
Most of all, be patient with yourself, and take time to 'smell the Roses' of your mission. You only get to do it once. Ring every drop of spiritual nectar from the opportunity!
All the Best.
Steve Booth
BEST WISHES Coop!
You have a ton of people here 'Stateside' thinking and praying for you. I don't have a lot to say, other than to observe that if the Lord's primary intent for Missionaries was to merely baptize people, then they he would call professionals with years of experience.
Instead he calls young men, like yourself, to go into the world and 'wrestle not against flesh and blood ... but against spiritual wickedness' (Eph 6:12).
When I served in Longon, England, in the two years I was there, I baptised not one person. As a result I came to realize that a mission is about learning, it's about growing, it's about understanding both yourself, and the mind and will of God, to discover the great and wondrous potential each of us has inside.
So.. as you embark on the most difficult part of your odyssey (though many say coming home is far more difficult -- but in another way) remember not to judge yourself as the world judges, but by the spirit. Revel in the opportunity to immerse yourself in the Comforter. Take joy in the simple truths of the gospel.
Most of all, be patient with yourself, and take time to 'smell the Roses' of your mission. You only get to do it once. Ring every drop of spiritual nectar from the opportunity!
All the Best.
Steve Booth
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