Sup. So this week was actually a really eventful week. We continue to try to find new investigators and to make sure that Ozzi and Rawry are still being the two little bosses they are (which they are doing without a sweat). A lot has happened this week, but at the same time I feel like this week has been stretching on for a good while.

Oh No!

Again, like last week's P-Day though, we didn't really do much at all. There's not much to do around here for fun, and plus Elder Casil's favorite pass time seems to be taking naps in the flatt. I hate taking naps because they just make me more tired once I wake up, so usually when he sleeps I just kinda walk around the flatt bored out of my mind. It's fun though. Well, not really, but I tell myself that hoping that one day I'll believe it.

So Tuesday we had District Meeting over the phone using a conference call setting, and that was really complicated getting it all set up, and it's really echo-y too, so I'm not in all favor with the idea. The reason we do it is because there are Elders that live about three hours east of us, and the problem is that they are always having to spend basically the entire day in travel just to get to and from District Meetings. I think this week we're going to have another DM over the phone. Blech.

Wednesday night was pretty different. We met with an investigator named Paige who has the best

my left arm alone had about 60 mosquito bites

little red headed three year old son in the world! You would think being a red head would mean that he's got a crazy temper or attitude, but he's just the opposite: like when we came to meet with them, he answered the door, gave each of us a hug, and then gently and sincerely kissed the back of our hands: IT'S SO FETCHING ADORABLE!!!! Anyways, we met with Paige during the night so that her young kids were asleep and that we could teach properly. We brought Bazil along with us, and we sat outside and taught the Restoration. It was a really good lesson, and she understands that when the Holy Ghost gives her confirmation that the Book of Mormon is true, it means that she needs to be baptized, so she agreed to have March 12th as a goal for her baptism. But at about 9:00PM during the lesson, just as we were wrapping up and the spirit was strong, we started getting completely bombarded with mosquitoes, and they were attacking my feet and left arm pretty badly, and they were after Bazil as well. When we got home from the lesson I

Mosquito bites FOR DAYS!!! (This picture was

taken this morning. Looks like I got the stinkin' bubonic plague)

immediately took my shoes and socks off and saw that my feet and ankles were literally covered in about 100 bites, and my left arm alone had about 60. All of those bites were in a matter of about 15 minutes... Without a doubt those little demons were sent by Satan himself to disrupt us, which he did pretty successfully.

Thursday night we were FINALLY able to meet up with the Horvaths for another lesson. It was really good and the spirit was completely wasted on them. Brother Horvath and his wife had an interview with President Pollard about their activity and how they can get to the temple, and now their goal is not for the family to be baptized, but for them to be sealed into the temple as a family! They've been taught by missionaries for ages, and them FINALLY coming to church that one week really gave them the spiritual boost to keep progressing, and they agreed to work for a baptismal goal for March 19th. Brother Dwight Sterling, the Elders Quorum President, was there with us during the lesson, and he was astonished at how strong the spirit was during the lesson. It was a pretty awesome night.

I had to get a big pot and fill it up with cold water 

and put my feet in it so that the pain would calm down

So, Friday. We sat in the flatt and did nothing. And that was because my feet were screaming with so much itchyness. Literally that night my feet were itching so badly that in the middle of the night I had to get a big pot and fill it up with cold water and put my feet in it so that the pain would calm down, and I had to spend the rest of the night sleeping at my study desk so I could keep my feet in the water. Yeah, so all of Friday I had to just keep my feet in that water; I mean I couldn't even put socks on, let alone dress shoes and go walking around! It sucked pretty bad because of how bored we were (and hot because the flatt has no AC and the fan is starting to die because we use it so much). But luckily it only lasted for a day.

Saturday and Sunday we had Stake Conference. For the past 5 weeks Elder Casil and I have been going to the chapel in Cranbourne, which is about an hour and a half away, for Stake Choir practice. We have been practicing really well, and today was the day to prove ourselves as a Stake Choir! President Manny Valdez, the Stake President, was there, President and Sister Maxwell were there, and Elder Kevin W. Pearson of the Seventy was there too, so this was a pretty big day for us! We sang our hearts out, and Sister Pollard, the conductor, was really stressing that we do out best and use the spirit because Elder Pearson was there, and we did really well I feel. Elder Pearson though, I mean he is just nothing short of the man! He gave such great advice to the members, and luckily we were able to have Julie come to Stake Conference as well! That was the first church meeting she's been to, and for her to have been there for when a member of the Seventy was there to give an absolutely amazing talk!, wow, just a huge miracle. I hope that she felt the spirit with it, and I'm sure that she did because it was an amazing meeting. Ozzi and Rawry weren't able to make it because they get really car sick, and the meeting was about an hour and a half away from Moe, so that's completely understandable.

A lot of other stuff has happened throughout the week, but it's not worth the time it takes to email it, so I'll just have to tell you in April of next year. And hey! I hit my 10 month mark next P-Day! It's so crazy to think how fast time goes when you're out here serving the Lord. I always think about how fast it goes, and I know that once I get off my mission life will cease to slow down. Crazy to think about it. Anywho, I love all y'all's, catch ya layda mate, and as always, God be with you till we meet again.

-Elder Landon Cook

Ponderize: Romans 10:14-15

This thing was hanging outside the Zone Leaders 

flatt and hit Elder Steele in the face and scared the daylights out of him

Happy Valentine's Day! ♥

Faith Winfield helping me out in the kitchen
while I make dinner for the Winfield family

Quality morning missionary workouts