Love People

This Week was so good. We received the list for transfers and I get to stay in the best ward EVER!!!!! This week I was so excited and took photos with so many people because I did not want to have to leave and it was so good because I get to stay here. 

This week we baptized another member of the Eich family, the mom is a less active member that we knocked on her door. Truly their family is a miracle. They are growing in the gospel so well Larissa is all ready to start on her personal progress and she is so excited to just do everything I love it! 

I am seeing miracles truly flow from the hands of God and it just amazes me how much he loves his children here on this earth. I am a testimony that he never leaves you alone, that the atonement is always there to help us correct the mistakes that we have made and to help us see how we can change ourselves and the world. I know that God is with us and that gratitude brings miracles. We should search to show gratitude to every person that is a part of our life even our enemies. Love everyone. 

¨You can not force someone to choose the right. You just have to love them into doing so.¨

              President George Albert Smith

Eu amo vocês,

Elder Cooper

Eich family

Me and my companion at the temple!

Revelation often comes without our realization

This week was so wonderful I got to see a little bit of the way revelation often comes without our realization. This week as my companion and I were walking back towards our apartment, I looked at the street sign to see where we were at. I remembered that I had made a few contacts with some people that had lived on that road and started to look at the addresses. I looked at one of the numbers I had written down and then looked at the house in front of me. There sat the exact number I was looking for.

My companion and I we clapped at the gate and a little girl called inside the house to her mom. Her mother came out to the front gate with tears in her eyes and the keys in her hand she said ¨Elders I was talking with my first bishop about how I felt so sad and was missing my sister who had passed away. He reminded me of the phrase that famalies are forever, then I heard your clap. Enter.¨

We entered her house and found out that she was a less active member who had recently moved into the ward 6 months ago, but know one  in the ward knew that she lived here. We found out that she has 4 daughters that are not baptized and the best part is they already have grown up with the knowledge that this is the church of Jesus Christ.

We started teaching their family and they seem to not get enough of the church they went to almost all the sessions of general conference and are willing to keep all the commandments without even doubting why they need to it is amazing. I truly know that we are in the last days and this is the last round of the gathering of the vineyard. We must bring others to the master. Don´t forget who you are.

Eu te amo,

Elder Cooper

The Power of Member Missionary Work

This week was good and I got to see the power of member missionary work. We planned a family home evening with a family to talk about the strength and unity we gain from our famalies and being together. We invited some investigators who have been have difficulties accepting the invite to be baptized because they are not sure if they want to mary each other or not. We have been working with these investigators for a while and as I said to another missionary ¨They want to be together they just don´t know they want to be together.¨ We have been calling and talking to them a lot during the week to keep in touch because they don´t have to much time during the week to meet with us. The miracle of their story is after the family night and they listened to the testimonies of parents and children. They have started to make goals to better their relationship and move forward together. The family night was simple, but was so strengthening.

I truly know that when we meet with our famalies and strengthen one another, there is no room for Satan to weaken our faith. We as members of the church have the knowledge to know where true happiness comes from and it from love in the home and faith in our savior. I am so excited for this oppurtunity to listen to conference this weekend and the words of the prophet. May all of us find the words we need to strengthen our faith. 

Eu amo vocês,

Elder Cooper