Well I just have to say, thats a pretty big complement pa, comparing

us to a black ops teancum lol. One of our recent converts said

something about us along the same lines while talking to one of her

friends about us the missionaries. She said ¨Do you know who these kids

are? No, they’re missionaries! Do you know what they carry in their

bags? NO, they carry the bible, preaching the good word of Jesus

Christ dedicating their lives fully to him, I don´t know what you

think about that but I think it´s pretty intense!¨ It was so

funny/awesome, haha it made me feel like a black ops teancum right

there lol. However I fully know what you mean about how new

missionaries do not have the same honed skills as the older more

experienced ones do. I find myself in intercambios wanting to tell

them tons of little things that they can do to be better. But I know

the most important thing is that they feel the spirit and have the

desires to get better, then they themselves will change and hone their

skills a little more. I feel like those little missionary tactics I

have really been able to develop here in Suba as a zone leader for 2

reasons.   One is my companions, we both have the desire to get better and

I feel like it´s so much easier to do it together.   With my other

companions I felt like all that we were trying to do was just make it

through the next day alive and well lol. Here I have learned a lot of

good things and have tried to put them into practice. The second is the

opportunity to go out with the assistants every change, they always

have something that they do that is new to me and I try to apply it.

So it’s actually been really fun to try and speed up that development

even though it has been a very slow process for me lol.

So just like you guys knew, my comp now is really grea.  He´s from

Peru just in case dad missed that in the last letter;) one more time

para mi querido viejo PERU haha. We´ve been getting along great, the

truth is that it´s not that hard to get along when you both have the

same goals and like to work hard, and we both have that. He is a

little more talkative than Elder Perez but I feel like God has always

put me with companions that don´t talk a ton and aren’t that outgoing

so that I can be the one that learns how to talk more and be more

outgoing. So far I have gotten better, but I feel like the rest of my

companions could be that way and I still wouldn´t be at the level that

I want to be. The only companion that I have had that was really

talkative and outgoing with everyone was Elder Da Silva. SO it is

going good, me and Elder Landa don´t have as much in common as me and

Perez but I know we will spend these next few months working hard and

having fun:) Actually it was cool because whenever I get a new comp I

just start to bombard them with questions about themselves to try to

let them know that I´m interested and to gain a little trust with him,

but this time it was the other way around.  I picked him up from the

airport and he just started talking away lol asking me every question

imaginable that I hardly had time to ask him questions haha. So that

was cool. We also got basically a whole new zone haha, there were only

2 other changes besides Perez so for a few days we stayed basically

the same.  Then there were 2 other emergency changes that happened in

Barranca, so 2 elders came from Barranca to work here in Suba. I met

all of them but 1 today and they are super cool so I´m excited for the

missionaries that are here now. I don´t know why but there have been 2

mexicans that have been here in Suba and they are both super cool! the

one thats here is Elder Torres and he speaks english and is just super

cool, we hit it right off today when I met him.

SO mom, one sugestion, you should learn how to make a soup called

ajiaco:) Moises knows what it is, so you´ll have to ask him or look

for it on the internet. You guys should try to make it one day because

it is my favorite soup here! People have given it to us twice this

week and my comp and I were in heaven lol. It´s a traditional soup

from Bogota I think, if I´m wrong Moises will correct me, but try it!

it´s really good. Haha so we also had 2 of our favorite lunches this

week from ¨los vegetarianos¨ haha I don´t know what happened but we had

vegetarian food 2 days this week. It´s not bad, it just doesn´t taste

like anything lol, we had soy meat, rice and lots of veggies lol:) So

those 2 days were interesting.

Also it has been raining like crazy here! so one day it was super hot

when we left in the morning, then we went to lunch and it got cloudy.

We left and I didn´t think to bring my rain coat when boom! it hit us.

we were walking up a big hill that’s in our area to probably one of the

most out of the way parts here to go to our ward mission leaders

house. So we were climbing up the hill, and I just had a short sleeve

shirt on so about 20 minutes later when we got to his house I was

soaked to the bone! haha he gave me a white shirt to put on so I dried

off a little bit and put it on, but he is a little smaller than I am

so his shirt did´nt fit to well so when I came out of the bathroom he

got up and started to imitate me doing muscle poses and just strutting

around all funny, he´s always making jokes like that lol. But so I

have been getting soaked a lot here but it´s all good because I always

remember what elder Da Silva would tell me when we would get caught in

the rain here ¨the more we get wet here on the mission the hotter our

wives will be when we get home¨ needless to say, I prefer not to wear

protective rain clothing;)

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Well Shay you’re awesome!!!!! way to go!!! I´´ll sure be praying for you

this week:) and I will tell you guys my favorite scripture next week

because I want to do some serious searching to find a really cool one!

-LOVE YOU GUYS Elder Crook