Happy New Year! It's amazing to think about how I'll be on a mission the entire year of 2017! I definitely want to improve all I can as a missionary, so hopefully by the end of this year, I'll have things figured out! On a serious note, I really do feel so blessed to be here, and I can't believe that I'll be back in a little over a year. So, for New Year's eve we of course weren't allowed to go out and proselyte, or on New Year's Day. So we mostly just hung out with our zone and with members, which was great!
Last Tuesday, when we met with our new investigator, we invited her to be baptized on Jan. 28th, and she said she would prepare herself for that date! We will also have two baptisms set for that following week, which will be such an exciting day! I feel like now that I'm looking for those miracles that occur everyday, I'm starting to see more and more of Heavenly Father's hand in the work. Just yesterday, we received a call from one of our Bishops, telling us that he had talked to this young non-member family that moved into the ward a few weeks ago, and they are in a point in their lives where they just feel like they need direction. They also have had very little interaction with the church, and so he has slowly brought up the subject of religion, and just recently he invited them to take the discussions from us, and they said yes! Also, apparently for the last two weeks this other non-member family has been attending their ward, which is again just amazing.
So, here is a fun story from this week. This one home we tried (they ended up not being home), like 10 cute little puppies came out from the back yard, and they just kept jumping on us and yipping like crazy, which was adorable and all, until we had to go- so it was hard to walk with a swarm of puppies around you, and when we got in the car (which was a struggle in itself), they were all just still jumping up and down, and we didn't want to drive away and maybe squish one of them. So Sister Camarena got out to have them run after her, and I would drive away a bit, and then she would run and jump in. But she couldn't out run them, so we struggled for a good 5 minutes trying to figure out how to get the puppies off our our backs, when finally another car drove by, and the puppies followed that car, which helped us make our escape! I never thought I would have that kind of dog story on my mission! Although, we had a good laugh about it. :)
-2 Nephi 4
Shortly after Lehi passes away, Nephi writes the things of his soul, in which he talks about in verse 20 how the Lord as been his support. One question that I thought about to go along with this, is just how has the Lord been your support through your own afflictions? I have found that it really is through those hard times and trials that I realize just how aware Heavenly Father is of me personally. I would just invite everyone to think about how they can draw closer to the Savior this year, and see His hand more in their lives.
I love you all!
-Sister Cottrell
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