Hey HEy Hey, so I am getting
changed. I’m going back to Bogota, haha Im just still here in Cucuta awaiting
my 18 hour bus ride that leaves at 3. Im glad its at 3 though which gives me a
little p-day and allows me to write you. BUT Im going to include the juicy
details later in my letter;)
Well first of all Cucuta is way more
awesome than just a little town that likes to drink beer, sure there might be a
lot of beer drinking and music blaring at all hours of the night but here the
people are just so chill, happy, and relaxed. Its awesome and I dont think I
will find cooler people in any other part of Colombia, I honestly love
Cucuteños lol. Alright so Saturday we had a baptism!!!! Remember the Elders
quorum president that baptized his son? Well we have been teaching his dad
since I got here and he finally got baptised! It was a very happy moment for
the whole family and I was so happy to be part of it and watch as a son
baptizes his father. Is there anything more beautiful than that? Afterwards
they both got up and bore their testimonies with tears in their eyes and the
spirit was just so strong. It will be one of the most precious moments of my
mission:) haha so my first Sunday here in Cucuta, the son (Agustine) and his
dad(also Agustine) were in gospel principles class and I recognized right off the
bat that the son was a member, but I wasn’t too sure who the old geezer was
seated beside him. I sat down next to them to share my scriptures and the next
thing you know Agustine(son) is playing with Agustine(fathers) ear. I think to
myself 'What is going on between these 2 men,' not knowing that they were
father and son. They noticed me kind of looking at them with funny looks and
started to laugh, they didn't tell me anything but just kept on playing with
each others ears lol. I tried to stop looking and focus on the class but it was
hard! Then after Agustine came up to me and said Élder this here is my father,
I saw you looking at us weird and know what you were thinking" "but
believe me it's not like that" We all started to laugh and I told them
that I too would always play with my dads ears in church. They always give me
crap now about looking at them weird that first day, but that was how our
relationship started off and I have grown to love both of the Agustines:) It
was just icing on the cake to see them both in the water on maybe my last Saturday
ever, in Cucuta.
Also I want to tell you what an
awesome activity we did last Thursday night in the church. The missionary work
organization of the ward council put it together. We called it Viaje a hawwaii,
ya I’m gonna let shay translate that;)
So we worked almost all day Thursday putting it together. So we first had the
'airplane room' where everyone started, we had a stewardess who explained the
flight plan and the emergency exits and stuff then we took off in the
plane.....and crashed!!! We did the big airplane crash and turned off all the lights then us 4 missionaries appeared
on the stage all dressed in our white baptismal clothes as angels. We then
divided everyone into groups and told them that they had died and were in the
spirit world. We then explained some of the plan of salvation and took everyone
on a tour of the 3 degrees of glory. We had decorated the rooms according to
our own interpretations and a little bit of what D & C 76 explains to us. We had a member in the telestial and
terrestrial kingdom who explained a few things then, 2 missionaries being the
tour guides leading the groups from room to room and 2 missionaries explaining
the celestial kingdom. The best was that we got all of the primary kids to
dress up in white and as every group entered the room they would sing a primary
hymn. I would have to say that this part was the best, I could tell that more
than a few people were impacted as they walked in the room where the baptismal
font is and heard all of the little primary kids singing a sweet hymn, I was
explaining the celestial kingdom so I got to hear them about 10 times:) It was
great:) we had a ton of people show up and it was a big success!!
Well my time is winding down but I
want to thank you again dad for helpíng me out on my talks, I have had quite a
few people come up to me and ask if I can photocopy the last talk I gave on the
sacrament, I had a few but I couldn’t do it for all of them. Also I wanted to
share with you a little experience that I thought was cool. So I had to teach
the gospel principles class yesterday, which was nothing unusual, I have had to
do it quite a few times now and actually I love doing it! When the teacher
doesn’t show up I usually always volunteer to throw something together lol. But
so this time I did the same thing and the lesson was on service. I gave the lesson
and it went well I thought, then afterwards it hit me "My first Sunday in
the field we had this same lesson, about a year ago...and I didnt understand
one bit of it" "And now one year later I just got done giving the
lesson in spanish!!" how completley awesome is that!!! Well it was cool to
see how far I have progressed as far as the language goes.
Ok I have to tell you guys, ask
Moises what Chinchuria is. One of my favorite families invited us over for
dinner cause they knew that I was probably leaving. So they said they had a
surprise and that they had to wake up really early in the morning to go buy it
from the market, they also said that I probably wouldn't like it. It is called
chinchuria and I have no idea how it is spelled but maybe Moises knows. The Ramirez
family didnt exactly know for sure they just told me it was a part of the
stomach of the cow or next to it. So they gave me a couple pieces and I had
them make a video of me chomping into it. It was one of the grossest things I
have tasted lol, but they knew that I wouldnt like it they just wanted to see
me try it lol.
Alright so yes I am going back to
Bogota, actually back to the Zone where I started called Suba!!! but they made
me zone leader this time!! I will be with and Elder Perez from Chile! my first
chileno comp!!! I am so flippin excited because my comp is awesome!!! I met him
when he was here in Cucuta, AND I get to go back to MY OLD HOUSE, MY OLD
CHAPEL, and my old area is right next to the one that I started in! I am so excited
to see them all and show them that now I can actually speak spanish! I am sooo
happy right now and sooooooo excited to go work my butt off with a comp that
likes to work his butt off too!!! Sorry the internet is way too slow to send
pictures, I have like 20 milllion now that I want you guys to see but next
week. Have fun questing it!~!!
-Elder (the curious meat man) Crook
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