Here is a picture of all of the Zone Leaders in Cooper's mission. He's in the front row (3rd from the right)
Hi family,
Wow I can´t believe we´re already in December. We´ve made some plans and stuff for next year already and it looks super weird seing the numbers 2010. This year is going by at lightning speed.
But anyway, I´ll tell you about my amazing last week.
The last time I wrote was on Tuesday because of transfers. Well, later that day I started feeling pretty sick, and the next morning as well. I think that was the first time on the mission that I actually took some medicine. I had a fever and felt pretty crappy but the next day after I took some medicine I felt better and was able to travel to my new area. Luckily I only get sick on P-days of transfer days so I have yet to miss a day of work haha.
So yep, I arrived fine on Wednesday and met my new companion Elder Koch (pronounced Elder Cook). Something funny that happened that day was that we went and got food and when we got to our house we were inside and my companion thought there was a mosquito on the back of his neck so he brushed it off. I looked and saw him brush a giant spider off his neck onto his shoulder. So I was nice enough not to tell him what it was until I had brushed it off his back for him and he saw it on the floor. Haha so that was my experience from the first night that I was here.
The next day we did our weekly and monthly planning and did 4 baptismal interviews for some of the elders in our zone. We interviewed a couple and some little girls and they were all pretty cool.
Friday was a really cool day. It was really rainy, but we started off the day right. In our companionship study we decided to read 3 Nephi 11 together (when Christ comes to the Americas), and then to pray about it together and ask if the Book of Mormon is true. The Spirit testified as we read and very strongly as we asked that indeed the Book of Mormon is true. And so after that we went through all the teaching records of old investigators that we have. I felt really good about one name so I wrote the name and address in my agenda and then we went out to work.
We have to travel by bus for about 20 minutes to get to our area that we work in, so we travelled there and went to a few appointments that we had set up. All our appointments failed us, so after the last one I told my companion we could go by the name I had written down in my agenda. We looked at the address and it happened to be the exact house we were standing in front of. We had an appointment with the family that lives there but they told us they were busy just a minute ago, and so my companion told me I must have the wrong name written down cuz a different family lives there. But we had seen another lady behind the house so we went and asked her if she was the person we were looking for and she said yes. So we pulled some chairs and started teaching her behind her house and then a couple minutes later the husband got home and so we all went inside and taught the Restoration.
They turned out to be a great family and they´re fairly new to the city. The husband said that he used to go to church but they moved and he stopped going, and he was just waiting for God to call him to go back again. We said guess what, This is that day! And he said yep looks like it. Haha, so they turned out to be a really cool family and we were able to testify to them that we had just read in the Book of Mormon and asked if it was true that morning, and that we had received an answer, and we invited them to do the same. We´ll find out tomorrow if they´ve done so. :)
Saturday and Sunday were normal days I guess, just with lots of rain, and I forgot my rain jacket and umbrella in my last area so that stunk but I found a rain jacket hidden away in a bag in my new house here, yay!
So yep, I´m out of time to write now, but Monday was Mission Council which was fun. We talked about all our goals and new plans in all of the zones.
Oh yeah! One more thing. Last night my last companion called me and told me that a guy we taught once this last transfer ended up murdering someone a couple of days ago and now he´s in hiding. We never were able to teach him a full lesson, but he seemed like a normal guy. How weird.
Ok well everyone have a great week, everything is going pretty well down here. We´re doing our best to have a white Christmas (baptize). So I hope everyone´s enjoying the Christmas season up there. Just so you know, Christmas is WAY cooler in the states!
(Editor's note: I heard some reports of serious flooding in Argentina and read some letters from other missionaries down there who had to practically swim in the water to get around, so I asked Cooper if the rains were that bad where he was. Here is his reply:) No it´s not flooding where I am. When I was in Entre Rios a couple transfers ago I was close to the city of Concordia and it is flooded there, but the missionaries are fine. There´s definitely no missionaries that have had to swim as far as I know, haha. But this Monday all the zone leaders had our monthly meeting with President and he just told the elders up there to be careful, and apparently there´s problems with snakes coming because of the rain so to watch out for that too. That does sound like fun though I wish I could be up there.
(Editor's note: Cooper sent a box of cookies called "alfajores", along with some photos and letters.) Yay! I´m glad the alfajores made it through. The whole alfajor thing is pretty funny. All the Elders down here LOVE them and wonder why they don´t have them in the states. But then they eat a snickers and remember why.
love you all.
Love,
Elder Boice
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