Month: May 2019

What a week. 

It’s been good just really crazy.

Being up in Cresswell was really fun. It’s crazy how God is always using you as a missionary, we were just walking to try to contact someone in area book and we walked past a house with a car parked outside with a Hawaii license plate and Sister Fenton and I just looked at each other and we were like “let’s knock it”. It ended up being this super sweet young mom who we talked with for a good long while and shared with her about the gospel and she was really interested. It’s just crazy how God is always looking for ways to further his work and it’s our job to recognize that. 

I finally met my trainee!! Her name is sister Johnson, she’s from Alaska! God is the best trainer there ever was, so as long as I don’t let Sister Cook get in the way, it’s hard to go wrong. Right? I was reading in Alma this past week particularly with Alma and Amulek and verse 18 in chapter 15 stuck with especially strong this week, its after all their preaching and lots of conversions and persecutions and it says “Alma having seen all these things therefore he took Amulek… and took him to his own house…and strengthened him unto the Lord”. Even after all his hard work and successful hard work, Amulek had to be trained by his senior companion Alma there was still more for him to learn and grow in. I think if I could have any goal for Sister Johnson for this transfer it would be to strengthen her unto the Lord and teach her how to work hard and recognize the miracles that then come. 

 Love you all!!        

-Sister Cook

This week has been literally so good! 

Literally such a good week! 

We had Zone Conference on Tuesday literally straight fire 🔥 Elder Stephen Bangerter of the 70 came to speak to us. It. Was. Amazing. W.O.W.! I literally do not think I have never felt so inspired in my life. One of the things that really stuck out to me from the conference was that the spirit testifies of truth. Any truth that you speak, the spirit will testify. Even when you just announce that you are a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the spirit testifies of truth. Literally so cool! 

Another cool story, we went on exchanges on Friday/Saturday with our STLs in Eagle Point. As we were going out tracting, Sister Hepler felt like we should go tract another street than what we had planned. As we were getting out of the car I checked my bag to see what kind of supplies I had and realized that I had two Word of Wisdom pamphlets, joking I turned to Sister Hepler and said, “we’re going to leave a word of wisdom pamphlet with someone on the doorstep tonight”. I’ll have you know I have never in my life left a Word of Wisdom pamphlet on a doorstep. But we laughed about it and promptly forgot, until we knocked on a door and I kid you not, the very first person to open the door in that night of tracting started talking about one thing she loves about our religion is how we don’t drink alcohol or smoke or drink coffee. And Sister Hepler and I just looked at each other and I left my very first Word of Wisdom pamphlet on the doorstep. W.O.W.

Lots of pictures for this week. You’re welcome

Love you all!!

-Sister Cook

1. Crater lake pictures
2.exchanges
3. Sister Clark and I showed up wearing the same dress one day
4. Zone conferences

Another week of sun!

Not going to lie, I definitely thought there was going to be a lot more rain when I found out that I’d been called to Oregon.

One of our investigators came to institute this week which was super exciting! 

Another crazy story, we were tracting and this guy was super interested and right as sister Dodds was bearing her testimony he cut her off and closed the door. It was the strangest thing. Then later in the week we were on splits with the other sisters because we had overbooked ourselves and had too many appointments and Sister Dodds and Sister Clark were walking down the street and this lady pulled out of her driveway almost hitting them but as they are walking away she calls out to them, “don’t forget to come back and see Shaun” it was really bizarre. But the next day we brought a member and came back to see him, as he invited us in and got to know him a bit sister Dodds and I both felt that we needed to invite him to be baptized. To which question he responded, “a worthy proposition” and then accepted a date in June. 

As I was thinking about triggers of faith that I talked about last week I realized that not only does God use triggers, but so does Satan. Think about that. Satan uses triggers to distract us from those Godly things.

Love you all

Keep on keeping on
-Sister Cook