Dear Cole Family,
I was on assignment in the Melo Stake this weekend and met your wonderful son. He is a terrific leader and is a blessing to the mission and his mission president! He is in a wonderful stake in a beautiful part of Uruguay.
You son is happy, healthy and working very hard. He has a terrific companion and that are doing great work!
Thank you for preparing such a sweet young man to serve Lord in this part of His Vineyard!
Elder Mark A. Bragg
Presidencia de Área
Área Sudámerica Sur
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Wow! A lot happened this week! This week I worked with 4 different companions and just saw a ton of little miracles! The cold has also definitely set in here in Melo. It is freezing some nights in the rain, but that´s when the miracles come!
Yesterday was stake conference in Melo and we were lucky enough to have Mark A. Bragg from the Seventy come and speak to us! It was great! We also got to hear President Eddy and Hermana Eddy talk as well! The whole conference was just super spiritually powerful and I learned a ton! Elder Bragg talked about the different stages that the church has gone through over the years. One thing that he mentioned was that after starting the Sunday School, Seminary and Institute programs the members now know so much about the Gospel that we need to start sharing it. We are so privileged to know so much about the Gospel that we need to start sharing that knowledge with others! He also said that as we share the Gospel our love for others will grow! Elder Bragg took a little bit of time to talk to all the missionaries after the conference and gave us some great advice and assigned us some homework to do before the next time we see him.
It was super great to see and hear from both Elder Bragg and President Eddy and next week Elder Jeffery R. Holland will be visiting Uruguay and talking to all the missionaries here! I am super excited to see all that we can learn from these 2 weeks of pure revelation! I have felt the Lord guiding me every step of the way this week. Whether it was hearing the speakers in stake conference, blessing an investigator or helping other missionaries in their work, I know that the Lord heard and responded to each of my prayers! My relationship with my Heavenly Father has grown unbelievably through prayer over these last 20 months! I wouldn´t trade this mission for the world! I love it! And I love the Lord!
Love y'all! Hope all is well at home!
Love,
Elder Cole
Parts from the family email:
Hey Ma! Today we were supposed to travel to the border of Brazil, but my companion got super sick and so we stayed home today and rested. My companion is doing good though, he`s feeling better. Haha!
Juan is doing alright... He didn´t like church last week and hasn´t really been straight forward about why... He didn´t come to church this Sunday. But we visited him last night and talked about it.
We are also teaching Nirian, she´s super cool and is super ready to get baptized!
We are teaching Mario. He is deaf and mute so it is almost impossible to communicate with him, but we are working on it and he is married to a faithful member and he has been coming to church every week for the last 7 years! We are trying to get him baptized by the 9th of June, but its gonna be hard!
This week we taught the youth how to give a Book of Mormon away to their friends and even made them practice with each other and then told them they had 24 hours to give away the book and that we would meet back up at the church in 24 hours to see how it went. It was fun!
Next week Jeffery R Holland will be coming to talk to the missionaries here in Uruguay and so I will be writing on Tuesday! It should be awesome!!! We´re pumped!
Picture Sent by Elder Mark Bragg
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