Monday, March 14, 2011

HEY! Hope all is going well with everyone, it sure seems like it. It's great to hear all the temple blessings that people are experiencing. Well this past week was awesome; we had the baptism of Jesus this past Saturday. After Elder Jensen performed the baptism Transito Trejo, a recent convert gave the talk on the Holy Ghost and then Jesus bore his testimony. Then at the end of the baptism we hugged and he reminded us of the day we met. We were biking around when he pulled up in a van behind us and jumped out of the passenger’s seat. This past Saturday he told us how they almost drove another way but he felt that they should drive that way. It was definitely a testimony to me how the Lord places his prepared servants in the way of those who are prepared. Other than that, we went to court this morning. We had to testify that a member was coming out with us for community service hours so that was fun. This past week we were able to teach a lot of lessons with members present which is definitely a blessing to both the members and the investigators. The work goes a lot better when the members are involved. Anyways, can't really remember much beside the baptism, oh yeah, I got to confirm Jesus, it was awesome being able to do it in Spanish. This past week we have set the goal to always speak Spanish, and if we're talking to other missionaries who don't, then we translate each other. Anyways, hope you all have a great week!
Love Elder Cooley

PS. New mission office address is:
Texas Houston South Mission
602 Eldridge Road
Sugar Land, TX 77478

(Please be sure to let family and friends know that our address is changing as mail arriving to the old address will be returned to sender. The post office has informed us that they will only forward mail addressed to the mission- not mail addressed to individual missionaries. You can likely remedy this problem by having the addressee be: Texas Houston South Mission, Attn: [your name]. However, friends and family should be careful not to send mail to the new address before March 25 as it will be undeliverable)
PPS. Happy birthday MOM! Hope you have a great week! LOVE YA!