Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Camping on the mission?

Hello family!
How is everyone doing? Thank you soooooooooo much for your prayers and fasting. I have felt them a ton this week. The sickness has left, I can eat now, which is such a blessing, but the allergic reaction still continues. I will be going to my 3rd doctor soon, he's an "allergist" who knew there were such a thing. I got the number for the doctor right after they closed for the weekend last thursday and i just tried setting up an appointment this morning and they don't have anything till the 16th of July. I......almost cried. They told me they would call if someone cancelled and i called a different doctor so hopefully no later than next tuesday they can get me in and run all sorts of tests and figure this out. I have had so much energy this week though.. it's a complete miracle because i can't sleep much at night, so thanks to your prayers, I am still able to do the work! Thank you thank you thank you! Love you all. 
We had two special training this week. One for Spanish speakers and one for the sisters. They were both really good! I learned a lot and got some really good, new ideas. At the sisters training one of the sisters said something that really made me think, she said "now is the time to pick the fruit, not plant the seeds" She's so right.. we're in the last days and soooo many people are prepared, we just need to find them. We dropped like 4 investigators this week as we realized that we were wasting our time with those that aren't progressing. It felt pretty good. In response we found Marta.. who is paying tithing, going to church every week and signed up to feed not only us for the 4th of July, but the Elders too. Also we found Maria where we got a baptismal date in our first lesson. People are out there! We also met a girl named Catie over chat about a week and a half ago and in she got baptized YESTERDAY! How crazy is that. She's been researching religion for many many years and she was more prepared than anyone i've ever met. We almost thought it was a joke. She said (before we taught her anything) that she felt like she lived with God before she came to earth for some reason and that she has always felt like there were parts of the Bible missing and she always wondered why we don't have a prophet on earth today if God is the same yesterday, today and forever. WE DO! Wow. So cool. She's from Washington and she's so amazing. Her "dula" (someone that helps with pregnancy) is LDS and told her about mormon.org. So cool. 
Wanna hear something cool? I went camping! okay, so not overnight or anything- but our ward had a ward campout in Pacen and we got to go for the day because we got Marta to go with us. We couldn't find any investigators to go, but at 10 pm the night before Marta pulled through for us and wanted to go. So cool. We were jumping for joy because it was only in the 80's there. We went on a hike with Marta and the bishop and his wife and skipped rocks and played games. Plus we had a lesson with Marta on the way back. Win win. 
So anyway.. that's about it this week!
Some quotes i liked this week were:
"As God is your friend and you hold hands with Him, you can do the work"
"As you look for understanding with anything... Go to heaven"
"Lower the volume"
"Open your heart and your area will be"
"We can't be sad if we are doing the work with all our hearts"
Thank you again for all your thoughts and prayers. I am doing so well and loving the work! Next week is transfers AGAIN, can you believe it? Time is flying. I'll for sure get a new companion and maybe change areas for the first time.. so that should be interesting to see what happens. It would be nice to go to a new area if the allergic reaction has something to do with where I live.
Love you allllllllllllllll! 
SFTE
Sister Cottrell

1 comment:

  1. sounds like a blast. Glad you got to escape the heat for a bit.

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