Letter from 9-23-13

Alright first of all pa, I have to say you are WRONG!!! Hahahaha, I am

laughing in your face right now because I told you Elder Perez was from

Chile in my letter titled BBBB BACK TO BOGOTA BABY. Yeah you might

have to put those scripture searching skills to work (or buy better

glasses;) cause I had already told you!!!! What now pa;) I actually

really like my haircut! I look like a stud ready to kill with my

spiritual power. The only bad thing about it is that it got cut so

short that my dome is fried right now. Haha I have never had to put

sunscreen in my hair to protect the dome but there’s a first for

everything haha. A few days ago I was standing in the sun and could

just feel my poor scalp cooking like a fried egg.  Yeah it’s pretty

burnt lol. Sometimes I feel like Josh Line, and we all know that he

could be a contract killer lol. Anyways we did have our zone

conference and the president didn’t say anything to me but his wife

did. I was helping her with the lunch stuff and she kind of told me

that it was unacceptable to have it this short. But I just told her

what dad says,  ¨Well it won´t make a difference in a few weeks¨ then

last night we had to take a missionary to the President’s house, and

she saw me and told me that it looked a lot better now. Haha dad

maybe the food I´m eating here does make my hair grow faster. Oh by

the way, I think I weigh more than you now;) Mr 173, well I´m Mr 84 in

kilos, yeah.....convert that! and then get ready for a smack down!

I´ve been practicing with a few of my latino friends lol;) if anything

I´ll just give you a double nalga pin!! haha nalga or nalgas is one of

the very first words I learned in the MTC, 19 year old humor lol. As

for 19 yr old humor I´ll have to take a picture of a Colombian dog

doing the shake shake shaky!!! I was laughing so hard when I read that

letter it almost involuntarily made me start to shake shake shake, so

I ran to the b-room but it turned out to be a false alarm. But I´ll

take a picture and then Shay can attach it to her descriptive essay to

describe wobbly legs:) Believe me I´ll send you one!

Ok on a more serious note, I got a few letters from old investigators

that I was teaching in Cucuta.  We had a family there that the son and

the mom were baptized before I got there and we were focusing on the

twin sisters who are about 29 and the Dad. It´s cool because E´ Perez

started to teach them all because he also served in Cucuta Barrio

Atalaya about 6 months before me. So we both got e-mails telling us

that the twin sisters are getting baptized! And the dad has started to

go to church! It made me and E´ Perez from Chile (just in case that

dad has already forgotten;) sooo happy we both wrote them back and

hopefully they will send us pictures, they will be getting baptized

the week after conference. It was so funny because when I was there,

we had the twins accept a baptismal date but only if they received a

confirmation from God. Well the day later one of the twins´ boyfriends

dumped her, so she took that to be her answer and spent the whole week

in her room crying. Which turned out to be my last week in Cucuta, I

went and said bye to all of them exept her lol.

Well Pa your story about carrying the icy bag of water up the hill made

me think of something to tell you. SO our house is like the center for

all of the material that the zone needs, all of the Books of Mormon

and pamphlets come in big boxes that weigh like 20 pounds. I have been

converted into the best box carrier ever. Man it’s just awesome to have

2 boxes on your shoulders and then get on the transmileno that is

packed with people. At least they move when the see a freaking buff

mob boss get on the bus lol. Usually you have to push and shove which

is no problem for me due to the amount of soccer I have been playing

lol. But then sometimes we need to carry stuff to the other

missionaries houses which are about a 20 minute walk, so I´m pretty

sure that Dana White will choose me for the next fight with Brock

Lesner, Pa you´ll have to fight in the featherweight weightclass, haha

just a few  weightclasses down. Too bad you’re so skinny or we´d both be

duking it our in the championship fight for the light heavyweighters;)

I also have been dedicating more time to my abs, and am starting to

see those chocolatinos (6 pack) pokin through there haha. It was

pretty much invisible for a while there but if you cock your head and

if the light is just right you can see a wicked 6 pack haha.

Alright so we had a cool experience this week.  So Tuesday night I

wanted to do everything we could to have 3 lessons with a member on

Wednesday, so we planned good and got members for all of the lessons

and stuff like that. It turns out that after 8:30 we had 2 with a member

and 1 normal lesson without a member. We went to pick up the member with

whom we had confirmed the night before but he canceled on us. So we

headed to the lesson kinda bummed talking about how tommorrow we would

have to make up for it with 4 lessons with a member. So we got to the

guys house, and started normally and halfway through the lesson, the

elders quorom president shows up telling us that he felt the need to

come and talk to Orlando (our investigator.  We were amazed!!! It was a

great lesson and we ended with a prayer and left and the member stayed

and talked a little. But It was a super awesome experience of faith

vs. works.  We had done everything to have 3 lessons with a member and God knew that, that’s where his hands came into play a little bit more visibly,

and sent the Elders Quorum president our way. I love those little

spiritual confirmations! It wasn´t by all means a huge miracle, but

those are the things that strengthen me most! and the things that I

will never forget and will be able to look back on and be able to act

with more faith in my life. It was super cool and uplifting:)

Well I´ve got to end, but Shay!! go out with the sisters more!!! I

promise it will help you with every aspect of your life if you go out

with them more. When I always went out with them I always felt such a

strong spirit!! I encourage you to take a little more time out of your

super busy schedule and do it more. Also have a great weekend!!! Man

am I geared up to hear some spiritual wisdom from the men that are the

closest to God here on this earth. It´s got me so excited!!! Hopefully

we can transfer this excitement to the investigators so that they can

go and feel the spirit!

LOVE YOU ALL SOO VERY MUCH heres a little español for ya!!1 LES

QUIERO, LES AMO, Que les vaya bien, que estén bien, que Dios les

bendiga y un montón de otros dichos:) ohhhh y bien hecho tootsie tu

puedes correr tan rápido aun cuando estas en lluvia y barro y truenos,

QUE TE DIGO, ERES LA MEJORA;)

UN BESITO HAHAHA   -Elder Crook