Hello Family!So today for lunch we decided to eat the mystery can of beans and sausage. It was a little wierd so I don´t think that I´m going to suggest to anyone that they buy it.
I hope that you are all well and happy. I´d also like to let you all know that there are only two dogs in all of Ecuador that I´m fond of. One is the Familia Loor´s dog. His name is Espike. The other is this dog that lives by the church. Whenever he is going anywhere, he always does it with much determination and it´s awesome. I think that I´ve finally figured out how to send pictures. I don´t know what order they´re in, but one is of me on the way to an investigadors house, the view of Quito from the investigador´s street. The view of the buildings from my apartment window. The can of beans and sausage that we ate for lunch. Me and Heramana Grosebeck with our awesome scarfs and gloves we had bought at the market that day.
We had an exciting experience happen to us this last Saturday that I´d like to share.
We´ve been teaching this guy Mesias. He was an investigador of the Elders before we came in. He and his lady aren´t married, but they´re working on getting her a divorce from another guy so they can get married so that she can get baptized (it happens alot. The marriage is cheap and the divorce is super expensive). He has almost read the entire Book of Mormon, they go to church almost every week, and he´s stopped drinking and the only problem is that they aren´t living the law of chastity. The thing is though, he´s always told us that he loves what we teach and loves is all, but doesn´t want to get baptized because he´s Catholic. I was getting super frustrated with him and I just wanted to drop him. I thought that he needed to be humbled and wanted to chew him out about how hell fire and damnation and all that, but Hermana Groesbeck (who obviously is a better person than I am) was patient and was determined to figure out what the real problem was. Well, last Saturday we were talking and he told us the real reason was that he was afraid. He knew that if he prayed, he´d get an answer. The thing that scared him, was that what if it was right: he´d have to change his life. What if it was wrong: he´d have to tell all of his Mormon friends that they are wrong, and he didn´t want to do that because it brought them so much happiness. We promised him that he´d recieve the answer that it was true, that we had, that his wife had, and that his friends had too, and that´s why it makes them so happy. I learned a really great lesson that day: that every thing has a deeper story. I didn´t know what was going on in his head and I was too hard-hearted to try and listen. We can´t give up on people. Just taking the time to let him know that we cared and that we wanted the best for him helped him to recognize why it really was that he hadn´t asked God. It sounds you guys have a super fun summer ahead of you. When it gets super hot, just wish you were in Quito, where it´s only hot from noon to four, then it´s freezing. This place is pretty crazy.
Love. Love. Love.
Hermana Cooper
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