This week my companion and I had the chance to work with the Assistants to the mission President. It was awesome because one used to be in Treinta y Tres with me and we are good friends! I got to work with him all day in one of the most dangerous parts of our whole mission and we survived! We started the day doing some service for one of their investigators, painting their house. I got to talking to the teenage son, and he explained to me that the stains that I was painting over on the door were from his blood because last Sunday he got stabbed in that house! Haha! The family was super great and the son is doing fine, he just had to go to the hospital for a little while.
Then we worked like normal until 8:30 pm. We still had a half an hour and had run out of plans, so we decided to offer a quick prayer in the street asking the Lord to guide us to find one more person to teach that night. Then we took off looking. We knocked a few houses and they all rejected us, but told us to go to a specific house, where a family had recently moved into. When we finally knocked that door, they weren´t interested. By this point we had lost a lot of our motivation, and because it was so late we started to walk home, but as we left that house I felt the impression to knocked the door next to it. A little old lady answered and said she didn´t have time right then, but has been waiting for us to come by. She said that years ago she was just about to be baptized and her life fell apart and she lost everything she had. Now she wants to start talking to us again, be baptized and "come back to Christ" (as she put it). It was amazing! The very last door that we knocked that night ended up being the person that we had prayed to find! I have no doubt that the Lord answered our prayers and helped us find someone who as been looking for the Gospel!
We also got changes this week and I will be headed to a place called Rocha! It is pretty much all the nice beaches in Uruguay! My new companion is Elder Anampa from Peru! I got to work with him a little bit a while back because he was in my zone, he is super cool and I am excited to work with him!
Love y'all!
Elder Cole
Parts from the family email:
Hey Ma! I am writing today because we are having changes differently this week for Christmas! Hahah! Surprise!
This week was good! We got changes last night and I am leaving Maldonado.... I am headed to a place called Rocha with an Elder from Peru, Elder Anampa. I have worked with him before, he´s awesome! I am super excited!
Rocha is kind of notorious in the mission because it is a super hard zone.... they don´t baptize hardly at all and there are only elders in the zone not sisters, because they need the priesthood to run the church meetings. I am actually really nervous to be honest, but I am also really excited because this is my chance to see the Lord work through me and make a big change in the mission! I have kind of been wanting to go to Rocha, but I know it will definitely be tough! I am excited to see what happens!
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