Hello Familia!
I´ve been waiting all week to see your response to the news
about Beatriz and Kancho. I´m glad you enjoyed it as much as I did! I wish you
could have been there to see it! No, they are not married yet. In fact Kancho
told us it can take up to 6 months for all the paperwork and to get an
appointment and everything. I don´t know how since apparently no one around
here gets married, but that´s just the way it is. Is it one year after baptism
or one after marriage that you can enter the temple to be sealed? Either way my
prayer is that I will be able to see them sealed, like Kyle with his family.
I´ve always known that that is the greatest experience you can have in the
mission and the fact that it may be possible for me is something special.
That is so nice that people are asking about me. I´m glad
they liked the Bea and Kancho story too :) Tell Mrs Walker hi from me and she
is a wonderful person! How is Jeff doing in his mission? I think that´s great
that you and Mrs Otterstrom share mission stories!
That seems so weird that Kyle is home. It doesn´t seem like
he´s been gone that long. That´s great though and it sounds like he had an awesome
mission. Don´t worry, I´m looking forward to sharing my testimony in Spanish
and weirding out even the Spanish-speakers because of my Madrileño accent.
That´s good quote, I´m going to write it down in my agenda for next transfer.
It´s true that the Lord knows where I need to be and I´m so grateful that he
gives me the opportunity to make a difference in people´s lives and at the same
time experience a difference in mine. There is a scripture in D+C that says
that when we teach by the spirit both the teacher and the student are edified
together (D+C 58 something I think). It´s so true. I´m learning so much on my
mission as well as teaching other people. It´s amazing isn´t it, how God works
so that all of His children are blessed and that those blessings come through
other people.
Let´s see what news there is from the week. Daniela (our
perfect, golden investigator) is getting baptized this coming Saturday the
16th. It was going to be the 9th, but she missed church last week because of a
migraine (stupid Satan), so she had to wait a week. But she has had her
interview and is totally prepared. Also, we got the postcards she sent from
London this morning, which are super cool. So I´m super excited to end the
transfer with one more baptism and to see someone so prepared and so deserving
of the blessings enter into baptism.
We have found some new people this week. Another couple of
people who are very prepared for the Gospel, Maribel and her daughter Fatima.
They are people who are really looking for the truth. I´ve learned from them
that the investigator brings so much to the lesson. Because they were prepared
and willing to act to find the truth, the spirit was there so strong and we
taught one of the best first lessons I´ve ever been in. I see good things in
the future with them. We also taught a man named Eduardo who used to be very
active with his church, but a long time ago. In the lesson he told us that he
feels an emptiness, a hole that can´t be filled. He said he knows he needs to
find God again to fill it. Another person that God has prepared and then
blessed us to find.
Basically things are going very well here and I´m loving the
work and life as a missionary. I realized for the first time the other day how
hard it is going to be to go home. I feel like I´ve learned so much already how
to hear and follow the Spirit and I never want to lose that.
Thank you so much for writing me every week and telling me
about what´s going on at home. Thank you for listening and for making the
people here a part of your lives as well. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you
for always expressing your love. I love you all so much! Have a wonderful
week!
Love,
Elder Cousins
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