So wow this week has been pretty good but for the most part I'll let the pictures I'll send do the talking. It's been really hot this week except for today and it's cold and rainy, so of course the weather waits until now in order to get cold. And it'll probably get hotter than snot tomorrow so it'll be hot AND humid!!! Last P-Day was good we just kinda sat in the flatt and messed around, but only semi-literally.

Tuesday we had Mission Leader Convention and it's always good getting together with the missionaries. Elder Poulson, who's one of the best, came in with me and is going home at the end of this transfer, so as of right now my intake is starting to die off, but luckily I'm one of the longer lasting missionaries who survives the mission-visa problems. Elder Poulson and I have plans to be roommates in either BYU Idaho or Provo, depending on which one we get accepted to (he's still waiting for the news too), and that made me suddenly excited for returning home #NotTrunky. I've got jobs waiting for me, plans with other things, and for the most part I've got schooling set up for me (kinda), so I haven't got anything to worry about. But being a roommate with him will be awesome, he's the greatest. We've always seen each other in passing throughout our entire missions and were always like "Bruh, when we gon' be companions???" but it never happened, and now since he's going home at the end of this transfer it doesn't look like it'll be happening. Sad day, but hey college with him will be fun!!!

So we've got a couple of people we're working with still, and the most exciting one is Meredith, and she's actually in the OTHER area we cover! She's about 25 or so and she knows a lot of the members up there, and basically she went to a Young Single Adult convention last week and knows the church is true. She's been taught by missionaries in the past but one of the previous ones before her would flirt with her and just scared her away for a while until we came into the picture. She's getting baptized on the 21st and has already told one of her friends, who's a member, that she's getting baptized in two weeks. We're REALLY excited for it, especially since we made plans with her that we're gonna have TimTam slams for days afterwards. She's awesome. We've got a couple of other people and part member families, but I haven't really got time to talk much about them.

We also had interviews with President Vidmar this week, and that was pretty cool. Apparently the brethren are in Utah are finding that missionaries are "too stressed" according to the mental health people, so there may be a slight schedule change the way that we operate as missionaries through our daily schedules. Not sure what it is, but it sounds exciting. This doesn't get really officially announced for a couple of weeks, but that's the perks of being a Zone Leader!!

So that's it for this week!! I guess there actually was a lot to talk about. We had a bit of a miracle this past week while we were shopping, and while we were looking there was this one five year old kid with his mom looking at Pokemon cards, and being me, I look down at the boy and say "You like Pokemon cards? Man, Pokemon's the best isn't it?" And the mom started talking to us all nice and cheery, and then we end up talking in K-Mart for like 20 minutes!! As we were talking she asked who we were and we told her we were missionaries, and since she didn't live in the area we said that we have some other missionaries from in the Zone she could contact if she ever needed help. Who knew that Pokemon could produce miracles like that? Thanks Arceus!!!

All three of us have the first name of Landon, 

and we're the only Landon's in the entire mission. 

Aren't we great

I love you all, and it's been an amazing week. Still don't have iPads but we're really hoping. It would make our lives so much easier and the work progress faster, oh well, I doubt I'll ever see iPads in this mission. But I'm not bitter. But I love you all and will keep working hard! I ain't one to fizz out the last bit of my mission: ain't nobody's got time for that! Love you all, and as always, God be with you till we meet again.

-Elder Landon Cook

Ponderize: Psalms 91:11

We found these two huntsman spiders in the Finley 

flatt and we used aerosol spray to get them in a corner together

Elder Howell and Elder Bennion, our Assistants,

attending our DLC meeting with us during interviews

Elder Poulson is the man and I love him 

and we are brothers always and forever

Elder Howell and Sister Vidmar playing mad ping pong

 (Elder Howell served his entire mission playing ping pong 

with little Vietnamese people so now he's a pro)

Elder Van Wagoner made cinnamon rolls for a 

few investigators we have

The Viddler family up in Finley always feed missionaries 

for free, since we're only in Finley every now and again we 

always make sure to stop there. They love it and it's awesome

You put on these funky glasses and they make colorful

lights turn into snowmen. 

Don't ask me how it's just how science works

See what the glasses do to the lights... its great

Finley, nothing to really do, it was so dang hot, but we 

found these airplanes and we had to take pictures next to them.