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Sunday, September 18, 2016

Melbourne Zoo Time with the District
What the heck, this week went by so quickly. Like seriously what the heck, it seems like just yesterday I was sitting here emailing you. When my dad said the last year of the mission goes by faster than "lightning on grease" he definitely wasn't lying. But this week although it has been fast-as it has been busy. But this week has been fast and raining ALL THE TOIME!!! So yeah, last Monday we went to the Melbourne Zoo which was pretty cool and I took about 200 photos and videos. Don't expect to be getting them all. But it was tons of fun, and there were a lot of animals. For some reason they have a lot of posters telling you to recycle your toilet paper, and they have like all these poop-themed jokes everywhere. I dunno, Aussies man.
Not certain why the facination

















Australian Red Panda







Tuesday we had District Meeting and exchanges, and I went with Elder Swenson. There are two Swenson's in this district which makes things confusing, but I went with the one that's NOT the Zone Leader and one I knew in Moe. That was pretty fun, and we went to the Coomber family for dinner. They challenge ALL new coming missionaries to this food challenge, which is basically these two MASSIVE pancakes with about a gallon of ice cream and three cups of chocolate topping and a packet of chocolate chips. I wasn't an idiot in trying to actually finish it all, so I only ate about 1/4 of it. WAY too much sugar in one sitting, but it was a fun experience. They have seven kids under the age of 16, five of which are autistic, so whatever the missionaries DON'T finish the kids attack it like flies on... yeah, it's sufficient to say they went ham on it when I was done.
Death by Chocolate Pancakes


Nah nah they've got it all wrong: it's supposed to be
the best two YEARS of your life, not the best two 
HOURS of your life. If they're gonna mock us,
 they better do it right"



















Friday we went on exchanges as well, and I went with Elder Chen in Glenroy. He's been out for about 7 months and is from mainland China, but moved to America a few years ago to get a degree in financing. He said he always thought religion was dumb and that there was no God, but after meeting the missionaries and reading the restoration pamphlet he knew he had to be baptized and go on a mission. JUST THE PAMPHLET!!! And here he is, the diligent missionary man, serving a mission. The church is true. Since Glenroy is a city area there was lots of traffic and stuff, and it always surprises me on how many of those billboards for that "The Book of Mormon" musical I see. I would expect people to see us and think we were celebrities, but nah, they still hate us like usual. Dang it. But it was a good exchange, and I love being District Leader because I get to do these exchanges all the time. We had dinner at a member family that makes and sells kangaroo pelt scripture cases, so I obviously had to order one. I've heard of missionaries paying like $160.00 for one, but even though it cost a pretty penny of $80.00 it was worth it. Come on, how could I serve in Australia and NOT get one???

I want to talk about a miracle that happened on Saturday though. So we were down in Kilmore, the land of milk and honey about 40 k's away from Seymour, and we went to go visit Kris and her family. Sadly she never answered the door and I think she gave us a dodgy number, so that was pretty sad. BUT we decided that since we’re already there we would go tracting. We prayed on where we should go and went to a street that Cuenca decided. Literally in driving to that street we passed by another street, and when I saw the sign to it I just had the impression "We need to tract there today". After tracting that first street we went and tracted the street I felt impressed that we should. So we tracted that street for a while and met this lady in her 20's. SUPER nice to us and has two young sons with FLAME red hair. We ended up talking for about half an hour about God and she told us that she's always believed in God but really wants to know more. Long story short she is really keen, and I even asked her "If we come back, will you listen to what we know about God?" And she said that she would and that it'll really help her in her life. Sweet-as miracle led by the spirit!!! So awesome

Tiger at Melbourne Zoo
I say this every week and I know that it seems like every week is just a buildup to another letdown, but this is gonna be another really good week. It always is. And it'll go fast too! Lots of things have to be done here, like getting the branch to do their home and visiting teaching again (which hasn't been done in MONTHS and has never been instigated, but now the branch is really wanting it after we talked to a few of the members). I love this work and I love my mission and I love this gospel. I'm just glad that I keep a journal though, because holy heck there is not enough time to talk about it all during emails. I'll let y'alls read my journals when I come back, and MAN do I have some gnarly tales that none of you have heard about yet! I love you all, stay safe and stay faithful, and as always, God be with you till we meet again.
-Elder Landon Cook

Ponderize: Alma 29: 16-17

Cute Red Panda
dang platypus swam at about 100 mph. So hard to photograph
Don't ask me why?

Croc

Elder Jenson wrestling this poor animal

Me and this cute Giraffe

Cook looking turtles at the Melbourne Zoo



only finished 1/4 of this heart attack

going ham on it after I left and let them have it
eggs were on sale for some reason. We ate them all and they tasted fine

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