This is going to be the quickest letter
I'll ever write! I didn't have to opportunity to print off my emails
today because of the crazy storm last night that took out power in all
of our area. . . I'm in Montegrande doing cyber. But I have a few great
stories from this past week. It wasn't the best week but definitely not
the worst! We still were able to see a lot of amazing miracles and
conversions take place.
Alright, well, here's an update on the family of
Ana: They didn't come to church on Sunday because she was feeling
terrible and as she was trying to leave the house to get to church, she
just about fainted. Lack of water and sleep type deal. But anyway, we
started to teach her oldest son who is great! He's totally willing to
be baptized with the family and everything. There should be five
baptisms with this family.
With Irma, she is progressing really well except for
not making it to church. She went out to dance on Saturday and slept in
on Sunday. But she is reading lots of the Book of Mormon and having
very spiritual experiences with the peace she finds in reading and
praying. I think she's scared to go to church without a friend and
it's terrible because the member we are using to teach her has a
calling in the stake and can't ever go to our ward. So, that's a little
bummer, but she's an amazing investigator.
Alright, well, Lucas was dropped because his sister
came out and told us how much of a waste of time we are for her and her
family. Her mom is a member and I don't see why she is so mad at us. But
we have such a big investigator pool that we decided to drop him. Plus
he has addictions to drugs, alcohol and isn't married. We decided to
focus on the more prepared people and they live far away from everyone
else. We're going to be more efficient.
So with Edith, she came to church by herself on
Sunday and felt the Spirit soooo strong and we had a lesson with her
afterwards in her house and she explained to us her testimony and was
crying. She gained the strongest testimony and started to read from the
Book of Mormon and started to teach us about the blessing she can
receive if she is obedient to the commandments. Too bad she can't get
baptized because they're still waiting on getting the money to able to
get the divorce. Lots of money . . . They need to earn a thousand
American dollars. . . I decided I'd try to help them after the mission
if I can. She deserves to be baptized and is doing all she can to do
it! She's amazing.
With the inactive Zorba family, we had an amazing
lesson yesterday!!! We taught the plan of salvation and used the story from President Uchtdorf when he described an airplane flight only being one
degree off will cause it to crash into the mountains. We inspired them
big time! The spirit testified to them and they are totally committed to
come to stake conference on Sunday! They're way fun and even got a hold
of a ton of Mexican chiles for us to make really spicy tacos!!! :) I
love Mexican food!!!!
Umm, another family we taught a lot this week was
the family of Jesus and Magda. They are such studs! They read, pray and
even came to church yesterday! The bad news was that the speaker was
terrible. He mumbled for 20 minutes and it wasn't understandable for
anyone! Even the bishop was a little mad about it, but the poor hermano
was really nervous. But then during his talk, Jesus and Magda asked if
they could leave. . . That took a huge blow on us. They were only there
about half an hour. It was terrible . . . But we are going to get them
back by going to a few activities with them! Pray for those two. We
fasted on Sunday, but might fast again on Wednesday and then again on
Sunday for them. We need them! They're way too great to be lost!
Juan Andino had his baby last week! We were excited for them! Now they can go get married and he can get baptized.
Last
night we got hit with a terrible storm that woke me up at three in the
morning cause I was afraid to re-experience the storm from a few months
ago. . . My first thought was of our next door neighbor Pricila and her
baby Ama. Elder Borgersen and I got some cloths on and went out and
helped her. I feel like the Lord used us as a blessing for her and her
boyfriend, Dario. When we stepped outside we noticed they were trying to
squeegee water out of their apartment. We helped them for an hour and a
half doing that and holding their baby and calming them down. We finally
sat and watched the calmer rain for a few minutes with them for a
while. It was a precious moment. Made me think about having a little
family of my own some day and how much it would mean to me if two young
men came out and helped my wife and baby out at three in the morning
until 4:30. It was a way to gain their confidence a little more and we
are really trying to help them get married and get closer to baptism.
Well, we will be out of electricity and water for a
while. But hey, stuff happens and yet the work still goes on!!! :) Gotta
love the mysteries of the Lord. Well, I got to go write my president.
Surprisingly I was able to type really fast and tell some stories for
you all! Oh and I also taught a workshop five times in a row at the
interviews on Friday with President Stapley. It was cool! We got
everyone pumped to work and do their best! Well, love you all! Till next
week, and I'm excited to be able to skype my soon to be sister in law
in two months!! :) Kiersten, be prepared to meet your favorite
brother-in-law. . . :) Chow!
Love,
Elder Blake W. Cowan
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