SOoo it`s been a pretty great week
here in the wonderful city of Bucaramanga. It actually has been a little cooler
this week especially in the mornings but no aguaceros like in Oregon:) I`m super
relieved and happy that you’re back to running Shay:) Honestly from the time I
learned about your achilles problem, the
first thing I thought back to was when dad was trying to convince you to keep
swimming and that it would be a good cross trainer. I chuckled to myself quite
a bit with that thought but as you know, we`ve all regretted not taking good ol
dad’s advice;) Who knows what would have happened if I would have listened to him
and would have taken those Kung Pau classes with all of the nerds in togas;)
I`m sure dad remembers standing at the elementary school next to Millicoma on a
rainy day trying to convince a bawling whiney kid to go in there and bow to his
sen sei. I would probably be the next Rex Kwon Doe if I would have listened to
him. And don`t even get me started on motorcycles!!!
So I would like to relate a series
of super weird experiences I had last Tuesday. These experiences came from
trying to talk to everyone in our path. So in the afternoon our lessons had
fallen through and none of our plan b`s were home. So we just started trying to
talk to people lol. We decided to start
walking to the lesson that we had that was at the bottom, most farthest part of our area and to talk to
the people that crossed our path. Well we went from having nothing to having
everyone basically contact us because they saw us talking lol. First, we taught a guy in a park that had committed
all and every kind of serious sin and for that reason had what I like to
nickname ¨the Jason Bourne syndrome¨. He
had lost the last 3 months of his memory, just like that! gone. We tried to
help him and then were up and off again. The next guy had read the WHOLE ENTIRE
Book of Mormon and he said he knows it`s true but he has to read in secret
because if his daughter finds out she will throw the book out. He said we couldn`t
meet again because if his family knows then they would probably stop feeding
him ( he was a pretty old guy.) Then we had an odd lesson with a young guy that
only believed in the Bible from Acts to Revelation because Paul was the only
true apostle of Christ, I still don`t really understand that point of view.
Then we ended up with a kid about our age trying to fight with us lol, he was
from some Christian Church and the only thing he did was try to pick a fight.
But ended up failing before he even started, he tried to quote a scripture from
the 10 commandments and yelled at me ¨OPEN UP YOUR BIBLE TO EPHESIANS 20¨ I
calmly said kind of confused, uhhh those are just letters and there aren`t 20
chapters. He yelled again ¨EPHESIANS 20¨ So I opened up to Ephesians and there
are only 6 chapters. So he said the heck with it and proceeded to cite the commandment
of not worshiping graven images. Then I said ¨ohhhh I think you mean Exodus 20
look here it is¨ - probably a little sarcastically. ¨ Then we let him finish and
all I said while shaking his hand was, ¨We respect your beliefs, now respect
ours or our conversation is done here¨ He tried to cite another scripture but
we just turned around and left.
Next thing I have to tell you is
that my poor nikon camera was dropped last Saturday and is broken:( I won`t
tell you how I broke the thing because it just gives me too much shame to share
it with everyone. So at first it turned on but the lens has pieces broken
inside because I could here them crunching around when the shutter tried to
shut. And now it doesn`t even turn on. So I know it will cost over 100 mil (50
dollars) to fix. Because my comp dropped his and had it looked at and the
damage is the same. So I was just thinking about buying a new one for myself
for my birthday. We have a few connections that are going to Venezuela in a few
weeks and told us they could find some nice ones for really cheap prices. So
we`ll just have to see.
Also we finished the week great!!
with our 2nd baptism here:) It made me feel really good because Sergios
girlfriend, in the last lesson that we had, asked us what we had done
differently because every missionary and his dog had taught Sergio and weren’t
able to ¨convince¨ him to be baptized. All I said was that it was the time that
God had prepared for him and he accepted. Then he said, “No but you guys really
helped too”. You guys all shared the same messages and had the same little
pamphlets. But you guys made me see things a little differently, made me feel
important, and actually care about me. That really hit me hard and I am so
grateful to our Father in Heaven for just how he does things and how perfect
his plan his. We were just there at the right place and the right time and God
did the rest. I love this work! Well hope you guys have an exellent week!!! LOVE
YOU ALL
-Elder
Crook
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