I’m
turning into my Mother!!!
Gosh
darnit. Haha well I´ll explain you the title right off. Well
those
senior pictures of Shaylen caught me off guard. And reminded me
the
cold hard reality that when I see her again she will be graduated.
Honestly
I made a promise to myself to not cry during my whole
mission.
And the only times I have were in that last call home and
right
now. I mean I´m not bawling just a few little tears slipped out
ok;)
But toots you can count on a lot better of a brother now. Gosh I
love
you a lot and am amazed at what you are doing right now. Not just
with
your running, but with your whole self. Geez you have grown into
an
awesome girl!!! Man God had to send me away to a foreign country
just
to get me to change a little. You are growing and becoming into
the
person God wants you to become in HIGH SCHOOL. I really admire you
for
that. Honestly in high school I worried about stuff that wasn´t
important
at all and didn’t put enough attention to the things that
really
matter. So you’re a very good example to me. Congratulations for
running
under 18 minutes but I really like your attitude of making
that
time the one that you normally expect:) but you can celebrate and
feel
happy a little bit right YOU BROKE 18 MINUTES!! enjoy it:) oh
yeah
and I finally called Santiago haha, I actually called his dad
because
he had given me his number when they first met me when I was
in
Jordan. Haha I am still meeting people that remember me from a year
ago
here. OH funny experience, so the last leadership conference we
had,
I was walking on the bridge to go to the transmilenio bus with a
big
ol box in my arms when I see all of the young men, young
women
and young single adults from Cucuta. They were from barrio
motilones
(which I didn´t even serve in that ward, but passed almost
every
p-day playing soccer there) and they all almost mauled me. Haha
it’s
really cool how much the people love the missionaries because I
didn´t
even serve in their ward, and they were all taking pictures
with
me and talking and all excited to see me and asked if I
remembered
them. It was pretty cool and fun to get to see them all.
Alright
so we had another pretty sweet p-day today. It was a super
p-day
because we had 123 baptisms last month, so the president
organized
a super p-day. We got together with all the zones in Bogota which
are
5 with the zone of Duitama and the zone of Yopal. So I got to see
my
boy Albrecht again who is Zone leader in Yopal and we played a
little
american football baby! haha first we played soccer because we
made
a zone team with positions and everything and thought that we
were
gonna dominate. But when we got to the field I think it was a
real
full sized field! because it was huge, lets just say that us
gringos
do not know how to space ourselves and just chasing the ball
around
does not work, because it makes you super tired in very little
time.
Even though my comp put us in our specific positions I still
couldn´t
play on such big of a field. So there were a few gringos that
brought
footballs so I decided to go play a little 7 on 7 instead
haha.
It was way fun, and even though there was a lot of gringos that
played
football they weren´t even that good. I dominated for as slow
and
tubby as I am. My highlights lol were a pick 6 and another 1 handed
interception
lol. And a bunch of other touchdowns. We played with a
bunch
of young gringos who we didn’t know at all but they all knew each
other.
So at first no one passed me the ball but when they finally did
they
saw that I was decent lol and started to pass it to me. It
reminded
me how much I love the sport but just how incredibly
political
it is as well which is the harsh downside. Then me and
Albrecht
had a couple nice little talks here and there and me and him
have
definitley become pretty good friends.
Soooooo
I answered my own question! haha It made me feel good. So I
was
getting unfocused mainly while we were walking from cita to cita,
if
I wasn´t talking to my comp I was letting my mind drift. So I
figured
something out. If I do just 1 or 2
contacts on the way to the
citas
my mind stays sharp and focused on the work. I got it from the
general
authority that said ´if you want more people to teach you have
to
talk to more people each day¨ So I applied that and it has been
working
and I feel like I am more effective as a missionary. Then it
was
funny today because we had a little devotional after super p-day
and
the president talked to us exactly about the same thing. That we
need
to talk with more people every day so I was like QUE TE DIGO
REVELACION?
haha:)
Well
its hard to believe but we have cambios this sunday, E´Perez
thinks
that he is leaving, but I keep telling him that he is staying
lol.
So who knows if I will get another companion but he has been my
clear
favorite so far. Also thank you Nicole for writing me a letter,
it
is always cool to see what is going on in your lives´even though my
dad
does fill me in on all of Aarons funny projects:) hope that log
splitter
is getting some good use;) haha so tell Gage hi, and tell him
to
make a Preach my Gospel dating edition;) haha I have given him
some
GREAT ideas lol but who knows if he has been using them.
Love
you guys all, I really hope you have a great week, and mom learn
some
spanish from good ol ricardito or whatever his name is! tell me
how
it goes;) I already know that Dads knowledge is growing more and
more
everytime I tell him to translate a cool phrase in spanish
LES
QUIERO:)
-Elder
Crook
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