Alright, so one of my goals is to be better at sending out an e-mail with more of the miracles and the events that happen each and everyday! So here it goes :)
On Monday, I would have to say that one of the miracles was that with this family we are teaching, the mom for the first time said that prayer! She actually volunteered and asked to say it as soon as we mentioned that we would like to have a prayer, and it was so wonderful. One of the things I love is being able to see how the change in others, which occurs when your faith in Jesus Christ expands and grows! One other neat thing that happened was actually while we were shopping during our preparation day, we ended up talking to this lady, and we found out that she used to meet with missionaries, but hadn't in awhile and we happened to know the missionaries in her area and encouraged her to reach out to them. She felt that it wasn't a coincidence that we ran into her, so she said that she would :)
Tuesday I felt like we did hardly anything, because I had a mission council meeting and so Sister Ekenstam was on an exchange in another Sister's area, and then we worked all the rest of the afternoon, but we had to be at a church building as a zone by 6pm, and we couldn't leave until 9pm, so we were kind of in a "lock down" ;)
The next day we had our first District meeting as a new district, which was really good! We discussed the power of using the scriptures to become better teachers, and I can honestly say that there have been so many experiences when the things that I studied that very day, we end up using to help answer someone's concern or question! We also had a powerful few discussions, one of which one of our investigators told us that they do believe the Joseph Smith was a prophet, and I know that that testimony really came through their personal study of the Book of Mormon! Someone also was really excited to learn about how there is a pre-existence, and I just thought about all of the different times that we have taught the plan of Salvation, and how so often many people don't realize that they lived with Heavenly Father before they were on the earth, as Spirits. I know that I've taken this knowledge for granted.
We were able to contact/teach a variety of people I felt like on Thursday! One lady in particular was from South Africa, one (a young family) just moved from North Virginia, and she let us in after we were able to teach her the first discussion she agreed to learn more, and she set up a time for her husband learn as well, so that was a miracle right there :) We also met with this really nice lady who gave us water, because she used to be a Jehovah's witness and understands what it's like to go proselyting. Those were just a few of the things I remember!
So, Friday marked my 15th month mark, and I'm just can't believe how fast time goes by, I was talking with another Sister who actually goes home the same time that I do, and we discussed just some good memories and what we've been doing to make sure that we continue to just stay as focused as we can! This day was really, really good and we were able to make some really great contacts. I can honestly say that Idaho has some of the nicest people I've ever met, and people here will seriously just let you right in, it's amazing. Sister Ekenstam was having a hard time, but I know that it's all an adjustment, and she had such a neat experience and an answer to her prayer, that built her testimony just yesterday, it was great! We've been having a lot of fun working hard together :)
Saturday, it snowed and was bitter cold, but you just have to love Idaho :) We've been finding a lot more people, and lately because we've been working closer with the members, it's been great to me to see ways that we can strengthen them as well, and they just love to do missionary work as well!
Okay, a few really amazing things happened Sunday, one of which was that we found a new investigator, a young mother who actually also just loved the plan of Salvation, and just mentioned how the three kingdoms of glory actually made a lot of sense to her. We also shared a message about missionary work to a member family, and what blew me away was that they actually had a family that is newer to the area, who live nearby, and they feel that they might accept the invitation to learn more and are planning to invite them to meet with us! It really is such a powerful thing when members and missionaries truly work together like that. We also ran into several others who we know have been prepared by Heavenly Father's hand!
I know that miracles occur each and everyday! Sister Ekenstam and I are for sure witnesses of that. I know that Heavenly Father is looking after us all, and that He not only has a merciful plan for all of us, but that he also is very much a part of our personable lives.
With love,
-Sister Cottrell
Pictures: I totally spaced taking many pictures this week, so the first one is just us in the family history center in our stake building. The next was taken Halloween night!
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