Ok, I'm pooped. ha ha! Last night we had
no water and I couldn't shower after a hot humid day. SO I stayed up
fixing the water pump and talking to our neighbors about it until way
late and of course all the people on the block love us so there was like a
party going on outside of our house. It was terrible. Then we had to get
up even earlier today to go get Elder Borgersen's documents done. It
took four and a half hours of waiting in lines!!! One of our neighbors
came with us though. That was nice! But besides all of that, I haven't
slept and I am still way happy! :)
This past week wasn't all that great. We found some
new investigators and had a few great miracles, but it wasn't very
packed with a lot of things. So, new years was so much fun! We stayed at
the pench, but all of our fun neighbors were home and we stayed up
talking to them until the fireworks went of. Then we went to bed, super
tired. Also, that same day, my companion just about broke his ankle
playing basketball. He jumped and then landed on my foot and it gave him a
really bad high ankle sprain. He got so inflated! He's now making it by
with my ankle brace. That thing has come to a lot of use! who knew that
when we bought it, that it would help several elders on the mission?!
But my comps recovering quite well. He's got a good foot and ankle
specialist as a comp! Ha ha!
So, something miraculous from last week was during
our weekly planning. We were planning and worried about being able to
baptize when all of the sudden we got a text message from Griselda
saying that she wants to get baptized on the 12th! That's this coming
Saturday! So we get to baptize again!!! :) Elder Borgersen is going to do
it because he's a lot stronger than me and Griselda had a stroke a
while ago. She can't have too much movement of the head nor can she
change temperature very quickly. So, It's going to be an interesting
baptism. We almost decided to baptize her with the two of us in the
font, but we don't wont to cause any unnecessary attention. That was a
sweet, tender mercy from above.
We didn't see too much progress in anyone this past
week. Karina is still amazing. Yesterday at church, she organized a
volley ball activity! She's only got a week as a member and she's taking
control and being super fun! She's amazing. She's going to be going to
the temple to do baptisms on the 22nd! She also finally told us that she
is engaged to Edgar, her "friend" from Chile. So it's official. We'll
be having a sealing in a year from now! :)
So I'm starting to realize that I'm really old on
the mission. . . We had a zone leader meeting on Friday in the office
and afterward all the district leaders showed up for another meeting
after ours. It was odd because there's a lot of new, young, district
leaders and they all look up to us. And it was odd because only the zone
leaders were in suits, so we stood out. Also, the time is flying by.
I'm almost entering into my last six months of the mission. It's kind of
sad. . .But at the same time it frightens me because the real world
seems so scary! I like just helping people and not having to worry about
myself.
Well, I'm out of time. I need to write my president.
I love you all and am so glad to be on the mission. It is truly the
best time of my life! I never want it to end.
Love,
Elder Blake W. Cowan
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