Dear Family,
Well, guess what. . . I'm sick. AGAIN! This time it's because in one
week it dropped 15 degrees Celsius! And I think I can finally say that
I'm going to die in the winter months that are coming!!! I'm a major
wuss to the cold now that I've had two summers back to back. It's barely
into Fall and I'm so cold! ha ha! Humidity + cold wind = one freezing
missionary!! ha ha! Let's hope that my pench during the winter months
has itself a good working heater!
Well, with the changing weather, here comes Conference again here in
Tomàs Flores! This ward has really grown to love me a lot! They are
always saying how they don't want me to leave! We've been huge
re-activators here! And at church we had three investigators! DANIEL
FINALLY WENT!!!! Yes! Por fin! I'm so glad! That means we'll be having a
baptism soon! and also, an inactive family came to church and to the
ward family night. Awesome! I'm so glad that we're stating to have
success again! We also have found a part member less active family that
we are going to baptize the daughter and maybe reactivate the parents! I
am praying hard for some miracles to happen!
So, here comes my confession of a life time. . . I'm actually really
glad I got my eagle scout back home. Thanks to that, I was able to be a
helping part of initiating the scout program in the Avellaneda Stake!
Elder Porter and I were given time to speak at a big public meeting in
the stake center and we were the only eagles there! People came up and
congratulated us all day!! My prayers have been answered to start a
program to help the youth and here comes a way to keep them away from
all the drugs, alcohol, and evils of this worldly place. I love
recognizing the blessings of the Lord.
Poor Elder Porter. We have had a lot of public speaking lately that has
been stressing him out. We spoke at the scout meeting, then we spoke in
church yesterday too! I also had to prepare the gospel principles class.
All of those opportunities were really rewarding though! At the scout
meeting, Elder Porter meant to say that missions are hard but thankfully
we have companions to help us, but in his messed up Spanish he managed
to say an unexpected joke and told the whole stake center that in the
mission he has a companion and he's difficult! ha ha! He threw me under
the bus but it made everyone laugh! Then, as I went up to speak, I told
him that I loved him really loud and gave him a big hug and everyone
laughed! It was great! We get along pretty dang well. Another thing,
during the gospel principles class, I taught about the Atonement and the
people really learned a lot! They kept saying how they don't want the
teacher to teach it anymore because they understood it soo well! It was
a strengthening moment with the language. I'm continually astonished at
how fast I learned the language! I always new it would come to me faster
and easier than other missionaries, but I honestly learned this language
in just about no time!
Well, this past week had not a lot of teaching because we had tons of
meetings and interviews and all types of things! But some of the
greatest lessons we had were with this couple Flor and José. We had the
shortest lesson ever with them. It was probably ten minutes, and they
accepted to be baptized! The only problem is that we can't find them
anymore. . . They're really young though and I think we need to get them
married.
Another great lesson we had was with this guy named Tito. He is an
ex-pastor that can't trust in any church because they aren't in
accordance with the Bible! He brought up so many things that he'll love
about the the Church of Jesus Christ. He just has one problem with
accepting a book that isn't the Bible. He would totally love the
teaching of the Restoration if he would listen a little more and not
share so much. He is a great old man. We just need him to read from the
Book of Mormon and feel the overwhelming Spirit it contains.
Also, I'm really starting to fear I'm going to need an operation soon.
My foot, where I had surgery two years ago, is hurting me a lot. Every
step I have a sharp pain and I'm walking with a big limp now that even
worries my companion. It doesn't slow me down but sometimes it makes me
stop for a second and shake my foot for a bit. I think I need to go get
it checked out.
Alright, I'm out of time and out of stories for this week. I love you
and miss you! I love hearing from you all! I'll talk to you in a week! Chow!
Love,
Elder Blake W. Cowan
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