May 26, 2014

This week was really slow. Heaps of people were not home, and it was wet and cold. Yesterday we woke up and it was freezing in the flat, when I was getting ready in the right light I could see my breath inside the flat.  I think Albany might prepare me for Provo after all, but two different colds, Provo is dry and it is really humid here. For the most part it is not actually that bad, but some days I really just do not want to get out of bed. We saw Colin again this week but he did not come to church. I was not surprised because he is a nice old man who invites us around because he is lonely, not because he is really interested in the message we have to share. We will probably drop by in the future, but he is not someone that we are going to spend a lot of time on. Also our Persian people were not home, but I still had a cool experience. The only things we have in Persian is selections of the Book of Mormon, not the whole thing, and Gospel Principle books from the 80's. After staring and comparing them for a couple hours I can now know what parts I am reading. I borrowed an old copy of Gospel Principles from the library here because the new ones are set up a little differently. I can now read the numbers in Persian and can identify words like Nephi and Mormon. Persian is also weird because they read right to left and I was confusing myself switching between reading left to right and then right to left. I was struggling for a while, but then it just started to make sense being able to read the chapters and find the paragraphs that we can teach from. I was sad I was not able to use it but this week hopefully I will be even more prepared and the lesson will go way better than the first two. 

My companion is great. He reminds me of myself at the beginning of my mission. It has been so weird serving with him, but in a good way. I have really began to realize how much I have grown and changed in the last 21 months. I am pretty sure that is one of the reasons I am serving with him to help me see that I have changed, and how much I have changed.

This week will hopefully be better

Love,

Elder Cook