Elder Acor: 6/19/23

 

Exchanges and Sicknesses

Cooper Acor <cooper.acor@missionary.org>

¡Hola a todos!

This week was just a little crazy. Lots of stuff happened and at the same time no. I was able to do a ton of different exchanges and also do tons of online work cause my comp was sick again.

Tuesday I did exchanges with Elder Rockwood. He is from Missouri. He is super cool. He just got here this transfer. I was able to go to his area to see how it's going and to see how well he knows his area. It was a bit difficult. We ended up walking a ton but hey sometimes that is the work.

Wednesday in the morning we finished our exchanges and then we went out and worked. It was honestly such a solid day of work. We were able to have three very good lessons. One was with our friend José and we taught him the second lesson. He is reading and seems quite interested. We invited him to church and told him a member would go and pass by his house to remind him and walk with him.

That night my companion was feeling pretty under the weather. Then we woke up on Thursday and he was feeling quite sick. Luckily for me though we had plans to do exchanges with our Zone Leaders. I got to do exchanges with Elder Allen. One of the best Elders here on the mission without a doubt. He's from Utah too, he's from Layton. He's actually my grandpa because he trained my trainer. He is awesome and has lots of time here on the mission so I was able to learn a lot from him. I learned how to be a better District Leader. I was also able to do a baptismal interview for them. We had a blast during our exchanges.

Friday morning we finished our exchanges and we also had a long training call about technology. We should all be getting our own phones so we got training on that. The rest of the week was a bit tough. My comp was just pretty dang sick so we were in the apartment the rest of the week. I was able to find some good ways to work online and help people through that way. I can definitely say this transfer was the transfer of sickness because we have had like ten days where we haven't left.

My comp was feeling better Sunday. Thank goodness we were able to go to church. We started sacrament meeting and we actually had a lot of our members there. That was good. At the very end José showed up! It was awesome. I honestly haven't had someone come to church in such a long time so it was good to have it happen. He stayed for the second hour so that was awesome. The members were so nice to him. Then we went back to the house because my comp was still feeling sick.

This week I should find out transfers. I believe I am heading out from Encarnación but it has been super good. I may not have gotten a baptism or anything too crazy but honestly I have grown so much here and I have had such a fun time training all three of my transfers here.

Thank you all so much for reading my email and I hope you all have a wonderful week!

¡Adíos!

Love, Elder Acor