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

Hey everyone. So this week will again be another quick one because there's lots to talk about and no time. Again. Holy crap seriously as a Zone Leader it's just go go go go go and there's no time to rest: even our P-Days are full on as it gets with stuff that needs to be done.

So we'll start from the beginning where I left off last week: Zone P-Day. That was a FANTASTIC

Zone P-Day photos volleyball

Zone P-Day, probably one of the best I've had on my missions. It was great because usually we go back to proselyting at 6:00PM, but we got permission to do a Family Zone Evening from 6:00PM to 9:00PM because we had Zone Meeting the next day and everyones areas are AGES AWAY, and we got to have a Thanksgiving-ish dinner at Sister Naylors place, a senior missionary in the Zone!!! During the day we played volleyball, foosball, ping pong, and a game that's like Werewolf and Mafia, but we put a Book of Mormon twist to it and called it Gaddianton Robbers which everyone loved. The next day we had our Zone Meeting, and usually they only go on for a few hours but because there was so much that needed to be covered it went on for like six hours. All goods though because it was great and spiritual. Elder Van Wagoner is a really smart guy when it comes to getting things done in a way that actually WORKS, so I'm learning lots from him.

one of the lights hanging off of the ceiling because
Elder Porter hit it with a volleyball, no one was hurt
and we fixed it but needless to say we were done for the day

We're also teaching a guy named Neil. He's an excommunicated member who's married to someone who was baptized a year ago or so. He's probably one of the most prepared people who's ready for baptism. He's been coming to church regularly for a while now and is totally humbled and wanting to come back... the only problem is that he's struggling with drug problems, but he's getting over it. It won't technically "count" as a convert baptism, but I don't care, I want to help him get into the fold of God all the same. We've gone on a few exchanges with a few Elders in the Zone, but man, every time I meet with the missionaries I think "everyone in this Zone is on top of it". Literally, ALL Zones and Districts usually have that one "headache" missionary EXCEPT this one. I love it!!! And so does Elder Van Wangoner and Wi Neera. We are also teaching a part member family couple and they come to church pretty regularly, and they only need to get married. They went ring shopping on Thursday which is apparently a HUGE step for them, so they'll get married pretty soon hopefully. As soon as the husband can afford it.

Since there aren't any missionaries in the Finley area about an hour north, we now cover them as well. It's cool because the branch up there of about 100 active members is AWESOME!!! And plus, the whole of them are VERY on top of it with missionary work. There's a girl in her mid 20's or so that is keen to be baptized, but because they last missionaries were kinda "strange" around her, if you

Our Zone

know what I mean, she really had no other option than to back off. We spend the weekend in Finley and met her, and she's REALLY excited that there are new missionaries. The last ones creeped her out. But she knows like everyone in the branch and they know her, so I can assume she's be baptized in a couple of weeks. I just hope she doesn't drop out like the OTHER investigators I've had that I've said that about in the past. Most of the rest of this week has been just me dealing with schooling stuff which has been a real headache and stress causer since the deadline is in like three days. The stress will all be gone come December 1st which is the deadline.

Again, so much to talk about yet so little time. I'll just have to send tons of photos, but hey that'll do. Love you all, congrats to my older sister Danielle for getting married this weekend, and as always, God be with you till we meet again.