******* LANDON J. COOK ******* Melbourne, Australia Mission April 2015

Muy Buenos dias!! It's been a bit of a crazy week, but similarly not all that much has happened really, so this'll be a short email today. This week has honestly been full of just a lot of different meetings and planning things out, so in all honesty this is going to be a short letter. REALLY short.

Can you find Elder Cook

So last P-Day there was nothing that happened, so I kept myself entertained by putting pictures of my face all over the flatt in a game of hide-and-seek for future missionaries. We've also continued to do service tracting, and we've gotten only one person who wanted us to come and help them. Her name is Ding and she's in her mid-20's or so and from Malaysia, and we went to her place on Saturday to help her do her front yard and such. It was pretty good, and the cool thing is that she said she knows about Mormonism a little, but only from what Wikipedia tells her she admitted. So we talked a bit about the church and such which was cool, and we're going to go back to her place in about two weeks time to help her out again. We've been trying to do more service for members and non-members alike because that's what President Vidmar has advised me to do personally, so we are still doing that as much as we can, and we were able to help Sister Dudfield out on Thursday, which was really cool because her husband is in the Area 70. She seems to really trust us as missionaries and has had a hard time trusting previous missionaries in the past, and in doing so she said she has a family that she wants us to teach. AWESOOOOME!!!

But I just want to say how grateful I am for the changing power of the atonement and how the Lord works through us very carefully and in extremely small measures, almost to the point of not recognizing it. I love it and I love the person that this mission is changing me into, because I did NOT like the person I was before this amazing experience. I just wish that everyone could experience the things I'm experiencing right now, because I can't wait until the day comes when I can show everyone exactly what my mission has made of me, because I love it. This church, along with it's underlying principles, is so true like what the heck why don't other people want this?

So yeah that was our week. Lots of tracting, lots of street contacting, lots of going through former investigators, but still... NOTHING is coming out of it. I haven't entirely lost all hope for Eltham yet, but I'm just sure that this is a trial period for me where Heavenly Father is purposely withholding people to teach for this season to season my patience, which I really appreciate. Anyways, love you all, take care and I will talk to you later, and as always, God be with you till we meet again.

-Elder Landon Cook

Ponderize: Proverbs 16:32

Yeah it was a pretty boring P-Day... and these are the only photos that I took all week, so if that doesn't confirm it was a hum-drum week, then I don't know what does

Message from Landon's Mom: Please don't ask my why my son decided to do this and why he decided to pick this particular picture, but I guess that's his kind of humor.... Below he entertained himself by putting pictures of my face all over the flatt in a game of hide-and-seek for future missionaries. Each picture is a before and after he placed his hidden photo of himself... OH MY!