So, we switched our P-day so that we could go to the temple this morning! We went with my STL companion, Sister Settle, and with Sister Reupena :)
It is just such a blessing to have a temple so close by! Also, there is just so much excitement with the Idaho Falls temple open house coming up. This is just a huge missionary opportunity for the whole community, and we are thrilled to be a part of it.
Our mission President came to our district meeting this week, and we were totally spoiled by him! We were able to watch the new video for the Easter initiative (it will come out March 31st, so watch it then!), and he also gave the sisters some more information about the Temple open house! So, he doesn't want to close any of our areas, so we will have this complex schedule, and all of the sisters will get a couple of days to work in the temple, and then a couple of days to be back in our areas. They will have silent tours through the temple, and then there will be a few different stations that us sisters will be at. One of them is in the stake center there, where we will show videos and explain some things before people go on the tour. There will also be some of us at the end of the tour, but we aren't sure exactly what we will be doing yet. The poor Elders can only go if they have investigators, and won't actually be a part of giving the tours, so this is just such a neat opportunity for the sisters in our mission! We also will be able to have a special tour of the temple with President Nelson and Sister Nelson the night before the open house starts, so I'm just incredibly thrilled!
This week, I had exchanges with Sister Reyes who's a Spanish Sister, serving in St. Anthony! It was great, and on Friday, President and Sister Nelson joined us for booth at BYU-I, which was just a ton of fun! Both of them are naturals (of course!) at it, and afterwards they took us out to lunch. It was Sister Reyes' first time on Campus, so that was kind of fun as well!
One miracle that happened this week, was meeting Marisa, a mother of four kids. She had scheduled a time to meet with us and gladly let us in. She, her husband, and her family moved here to Rexburg in November, and she just started telling us all of these things that she likes about the LDS religion, and that she and her husband have questions, and want to learn and know if the Church is true for themselves. We were both blown away! We shared with her a message, and the spirit was incredibly strong. She even was the one who asked when we could meet again, and with the whole family, because her husband also has questions! She is just such a good person, and even mentioned that they would like to try and make the commitment to even at least go to the first hour of church. We are excited to go back and teach the whole family!
A quick update on David! He told us in our last discussion, that he's at "war with himself", for he has felt something while reading the Book of Mormon, and he believes that Joseph Smith had the first vision, but he's not sure we have the full truth. He is just a really neat person, and he's just going to continue to learn. At our last discussion, he even offered to even say the closing prayer. Malak also went to church with us this last Sunday, and told us that from what she's read of the Book of Mormon, she knows that it's true! She was telling us of the peace and the calm that she feels while reading it, and she just loved church. Malak also explained that her one problem is with Jesus Christ, because she doesn't know if he really was the Savior, or just a great prophet. I've never had an investigator with their concern on if Christ died and brought about the redemption before. It was a great lesson to be able to focus on Christ, and I just am so thankful for all that He has done for us.
“For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line and precept upon precept, gradually and almost imperceptibly, our motives, our thoughts, our words, and our deeds become aligned with the will of God. Conversion unto the Lord requires both persistence and patience.” -Elder David A. Bednar
In Alma 5:26, Alma the younger asks if we have felt the song of redeeming love in our lives, if we feel so now? Conversion really is something that is on going, and something that we need to be constantly nourishing. We meet a lot of people here who have fallen away because they don't keep feeding their testimonies. That is why CPR (Church, Pray, Read the scriptures) is so important. It's those little, everyday things that makes a huge difference.
I love you all,
-Sister Cottrell
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