Hey family!
My companion is absolutely awesome. She´s from Mexico and her name is Hermana Zenteno. I´m her trainer. Holy Cow. I don´t feel like I´m doing anything right but I´m just kind of praying like none other and working with all my heart. There isn´t anything else to do!
I hope that you all got my pictures last week. I don´t remember what they were of... just that I liked the ones that I sent.
I have a Spiritual/scary experience that I´d like to share with you all.
On Saturday we had a cita with an investigator that we have just barely started to teach in a place called San Roque. It´s about a half an hour from here and we only go out there about once a week. But the Elders that teach indiginous out there found him and passed on the reference to us. So we go out there and there wasn´t a woman in the house so we couldn´t teach anything and one made another appointment and were getting ready to leave. Hermana Zenteno said really suddenly, ¨Well, we need to go make a phone call and we´ll be back to tell you when we pass by again.¨ I thought it was a little odd, but said, ¨yeah, we´ll be back.¨ So we left and she said to me, ¨I have the scariest feeling right now.¨
We walked up to the nearest phone and called the Elders that teach out there to ask if they could pass by with our investigators at some point later that night and they said that they could. On our way down to tell the investigators this, Hermana Zenteno said to me, ¨I don´t know, maybe I´m just being wierd, but I feel like we should leave. ¨ I said, ´Okay, we´ll pass by with these investigators and tell them the Elders are going to pass by and then we´ll leave.¨ She said, ¨I don´t know, maybe we shouldn´t leave.¨ I then started to feel the same thing, like we should leave. So I told her, ¨ The Spirit speaks to us through feelings, and if you´re feeling that we should leave, then we´ve got to leave.¨ We passed and told the investigators and then went to catch the bus to Otavalo, even though we still had a couple of citas to go.
We got to Otavalo, with no plan of what we were to do, but feeling a strong feeling of peace, like we made the right choice and did the right thing to leave. It was kind of scary and I don´t know what would have happened if we would have stayed, but I´m so glad for Hermana Zenteno to tell me that she was feeling that having so that we could avoid whatever it was that we needed to avoid.
So there you go. I now have one of those kind of stories to tell, when the Spirit saved my life and I don´t know what would have happened. It´s just another testimony to me that missionaries really have a lot of heavenly help.
Sounds like everyone has fun plans for Halloween. Tell me what you´ve all done! Mike and Julia: are you going to have an awesome party? You´ll have to sent me pictures with Carsen as a SWAT dude and Abby as a Pirate. In the pictures that you´ve sent, I didn´t even recoginze Abby... She´s grown up so much! Crazy...
Here, according to what I´ve heard, they drink a drink called Morada. It´s like a cider or juice made with blackberries and cinnamon and all these different fruits. You could probably find the recipe on the internet if you looked for Morada in Ecuador for the Day of the Dead. They also eat Guaguas de Pan. Which, being interpretted means bread kids. I´ve heard that it´s super rico, so I hope that I get some and I´ll let you all know how it goes.
That´s pretty much all that I have to say for myself today. I hope that everybody is going well and enjoying all the chocolate and candy of the Halloween season!
Love. Love. Love.
Hermana Cooper
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