". . . because I love you tons." January 27, 2014

First off this week with Elder Cook was amazing!!! He taught us so much.  One thing I liked that he said was work hard and the Holy Ghost will clean you of your sins. He said that by working hard we can work off our sins. He also left a blessing on our missions. Also he told us we have one of the most successful missions in the world!! So cool. President Cordon translated for him and he did it so perfectly. Our president made the other presidents look so weak. This week we saw how cool our president is. And after he finished translating Elder Cook hugged him at the end, but just handshakes for the others! Also Elder Amado from the 70 talked and he told us that if we look at our mission as an obligation or something we have to do were gonna have a hard time. But if we look at it as an opportunity, we will see amazing blessings. Also it was really cool seeing the other missions in El Salvador! I saw Jonba's cousin, Andrew there and we talked for a minute!!

Also this week, we met a family. Their daughter was baptized like 8 months ago but the parents never were. But they just had a one year old die.... so we went and visited them for the first time and they have a 5 year old kid named Guillermo. He is the cutest little boy ever. (I'll get a pic soon) he started talking to me and at first he was just telling me about how he misses his little brother, but that he knows he's with Jesus. I was trying not to cry... he was so sweet. Then we had a family night with them at a members house and we had to walk like 10 minutes to the house and he just held my hand the whole time. But there is a part in the trail that gets narrow so I told him that I couldn't hold his hand for a second and he was disappointed, but then I told him I will fall if he doesn't and I asked him if he wanted me to fall. He said, "No, because I love you tons." So then I just threw him on my shoulders and we walked like that. I honestly love that kid so much. 

But this week was great. It went by real fast. Love you all.

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