I got a package from Mom on Tuesday and was so happy that I decided to open it while walking out of the chapel. While checking out what was inside I seriously ran straight into a pole. Good thing I hit my knee first, otherwise it would have been a complete face-to-metal almost-from-a-movie hit. It was hilarious and we basically died laughing.
Yesterday we found a new family that we were teaching. Hermana Reid was asking them [Are you religious people?[ but instead of understanding religiosas the lady understood grasiosas, which means rude or badly educated. She started talking about how sometimes she yelled at her kids and got mad at her husband and stuff. I realized what she understood and almost couldn{t keep myself from laughing. It was killing me. Poor Hermana Reid was so very confused as to what in the world the lady was talking about. After the lesson, I almost fell over in the street I was laughing so hard. Oh man, that was quite the hilarious experience.
A family gave me liver the other day. Man that stuff is nasty. It has the texture of chewed up gum with crackers in it.
Now for the miracles:
Last Monday I washed the scripture cover that I have for my triple because I{d never done it and after like, ten months of being in the rain and dirt and nastiness, it was pretty in need of a wash (I also washed it for my Bible. I{m not one of those silly missionaries who don{t use their Bible). I set them on the ledge of the open window of our apartment to dry and forgot about them when we when to the super market. When we got back, only was there the one for my Bible. I was pretty upset and we said a prayer for finding it. We left and looked everywhere in the complex to find it, but we couldn{t. I was pretty upset. We told the guard there that if he found it, that he could keep it for us. The next day in the night when we were coming home, I was thinking about that maybe I{d never find it. We were making plans to go to the offices to by another one even. Then all of the sudden it was just sitting on the stairs when we got home. I was so happy! We went to tell the gaurd thanks the next day, but he was like, I have no idea what you are talking about. It was just a little miracle that I had in my life to help me remember that God answers prayers when we pray with faith.
The center of employment in Quito is basically the best place to get referrals from. We got a reference for the flia Males (please pray for them everyone!). The Elders were actually helping us out that day and found the house for us. When we went, they accepted to get baptized with no question in their hearts at all for the date we gave them. They told us that they wouldn{t be able to come to church yesterday, but all of them just showed up. They have the deepest desires to just change their lives and make a difference. It{s been so amazing to teach them. They are incredible and humble people that the Lord has seriously prepared for us to teach.
We also found a guy named Saul Nicolalde the other day, just contacting people in the street. We were waiting for a bus to come and he was there. We took out an appointment with him and when we went to their house and invited them to get baptized, they totally accepted it (pray for them too!). It{s a family of five (one is a little baby). They are so special!
God lives. I know it. It{s incredible to see the difference that the Atonement makes in the lives of people. It{s a cure for everything. It{s amazing to look back and see how far I{ve come from where I was. I feel like maybe in the first time in my life, I{ve started to become the person that I{ve always wanted to be, but was just too afraid to be it because of the pressure of friends or other people to be cool. Now I don{t care what people say. I just be who I want to be and change the things that God doesn{t like. It{s better to be popular in the eyes of Jesus than in the eyes of everyone else.
Amo esta obra. Amo mi familia y mi Salvador. Yo se que Jose Smith fue un profeta de Dios. Se que el Libro de Mormón es la palabra de Dios. Se que Cristo vive y que mi Padre Celestial vive también.
Love. Love. Love.
Hermana Cooper
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