I wish more people would want to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ…because it is true. The Book of Mormon and Bible, along with other inspired scriptures, have given me so much comfort and stability in life, and I couldn't live without it. I love this Gospel so much, and I love telling people about it.

So hopefully all my letters haven't made it into your junk mail.  So this week, yeah, just tons of meetings. Went on exchanges, had District Meeting, had Zone Conference, Zone Meeting, had interviews with President Vidmar, life is good. 

Friday it suddenly got really cold out of nowhere, but living on a peninsula does that. It is beginning to feel more "autumny" now, and that's good because I was getting kind of tired of the heat. But all’s good! P-Day was last week, and we visited a bunch of Buddhist and Cambodian temples, so we did some Buddha temple endowments….No just kidding no we didn't do anything like that but it was great to see Asian people go in there and actually pray and here we are just kind of taking pictures like a bunch of tourists. Whoops. Did a lot of meeting with investigators and other members, but as far as activities go, a lot has happened but really isn't worth using my time to type it out. I would rather use this time instead to talk about a couple of spiritual things that I learned about this week.

First of all, the Mormon.org website. Seriously, that website that the church has is amazing. First of all, they've completely revamped it for Easter, and if you haven't seen it yet then you need to go check it out! We've been encouraged to help members to use it, to share the Gospel with friends over social media, and I tell you what sharing videos that the church makes is probably one of the EASIEST and MOST EFFECTIVE ways to do missionary work as a member nowadays. It is SO great, and even though the website has only been up for the past three days we have encouraged a LOT of the members to use it in their daily missionary work, and it's just fantastic. I would encourage everyone who reads this to go to the website, watch the videos, tour around a little bit, and share it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, whatever, with the #PRINCEofPEACE that the church is doing. It's awesome.

And also, the other day I was reading in Hebrews 8:35-39. and wow that was a scripture that I needed to hear. I haven't been struggling with anything at all as of recently, but those words just filled my soul with peace and really helped me to see that there is great hope and joy that comes from the eternal light of Jesus Christ. I've been told by a lot of members "Oh, it's hard going home Elder!" or "Ooohhh you're gonna crash and burn if you're not careful!" Do they just plan for missionaries to fail, like there's some kind of satisfaction in it? I can't see myself failing, because on my return home I'm still going to study the scriptures, go to church, pray, fulfill a calling, and look for people for the missionaries to teach! I've been reading a book by Clayton M. Christensen that talks about member missionary work, and he says that the reason that returned missionaries aren't feeling the spirit as strong as they did on the mission is because they stop looking for people who are ready to hear the message of the gospel. I might be coming home soon, but I'm not even close to done being a missionary. I'll do what I always have, I want to feel the spirit, and this is the way to do it! SO that's my thoughts to that. 

I wish more people would want to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ…because it is true. The Book of Mormon and Bible, along with other inspired scriptures, have given me so much comfort and stability in life, and I couldn't live without it. I love this Gospel so much, and I love telling people about it. I love you and pray for you and your own conversion and missionary work back home, wherever you are, because I know that it will bless your life with the spirit constantly. And as always, God be with you till we meet again.

-Elder Landon Cook

Ponderize: Hebrews 8:35-39

P-Day was last week, and we visited a buncha Buddhist and Cambodian temples PHOTOS BELOW 

Panorama of the Buddhist Temple

Exchanges with Elder Cuenca, that was pretty dang fun

Elder Cuenca

McFaddens Family Home Eve introducing Church website.
Mormon.org  to the Young Singles Ward 

Family Home Evening at McFaddens
for the Young Singles Ward

Captive audience during McFaddens Family Home Eve

More games w/the Young Singles Ward
& the McFadden youngin

Fun Games

Lovely treats at the Young singles Family Home Evening

Family Home Evening w/ the McFaddens & YSA ward

What a fun activity

Beautiful photo from the backyard of the McFaddens

More Fun Games

Had four other missionaries spend the night
at our place, fun

I call it my Tim-Tam Teddy. 

For each day left of my mission there's a Tim-Tam,
and when they're all gone... BOOP!, I'm flying home

My mom posted this on Facebook i guess cause
she thinks Austin and I are so Awesome

It's ALMOST the Winfields, but not really :(
 dang..Miss them!

Zone Meeting,had some complications w/the TV.
 It was great.....said nobody

The Awesome Rach and Beth Haymes

Little did I know how sneaky they can be

Just some monkey business with Benny Haymes

More Monkey Business With Benny

message from Elder McFadden to my mom on FB

     Got caught playing piano hymns for sacrament

 "Doctor I think I have a problem" "What seems to be the problem?"
"I write too dang much" "Nonsense, there's no such thing-" *
Shows this photo* "Oh..."