Welcome to the last week of the transfer! This week has been a wild one! We have had lots of impromptu service opportunities which has been a partay.
On Monday we were tracting and the air was getting bad so we were about to head in but we decided to tract one more house and then two huge moving trucks pulled up and people started unloading things to move them in. And us being the helpful people in dresses and a wrist brace offered our services. So we helped these people move in for an hour or so and then they tried to pay us but we made them take a couple pamphlets instead. So it was definitely a win win situation.
And then we were on exchanges this week and we went to go visit one of the 8th ward’s people and he was basically quarantined inside his house because he had this weird contagious disease so we bought his groceries at this cool little organic food market. Funny story, we were in this random little food market in downtown Medford that I’ve never been in before and we go to check out and just started talking with the cashier and he looks at me and says that he’s seen me around before. Definitely did not recognize him but you know you’ve been in an area for a long time when random cashiers at stores you’ve never been to before recognize you.
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Saturday day night we didn’t have a dinner appointment so we had dinner at our apartment and then decided to trust fate and started walking to see someone that had been on our mind but lived kind of far away. We hadn’t even been walking 5 minutes when a member pulls over and asks us if we need a ride, we graciously accepted and sat amazed that God obviously wanted us to see this person that night. We got there only to realize that she wasn’t home and our ride had left us. So we were stranded in our area and it was getting dark but we started walking and then Sister Johnson and I turned to each other and realized that the name of one of the inactive members in our ward had been in both of our minds and she lived right around the corner.
When she answered the door she let us right in and right away we recognized that it had been a rough week. Just lots and lots of experiences had left her in a bad situation Saturday night. I know that God guided our footsteps that night and that we were meant to be there. Simple miracles like that remind me that he always watching out for each and every one of his children no one is alone.
I read this BYU devotional this week that really struck me. It talked about the blessings of giving which was appropriate because we had so many opportunities to give service this week. It’s called Why Giving Matters by Arthur Brooks I’ll attach the link below, I love how true Christlike service has the potential to impact nations.
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/arthur-c-brooks/giving-matters-2/
Love you all -Sister Cook
Sorry I don’t have a lot of pics from this week..
The guy we bought groceries for
Exchanges
Eugene Oregon: Sister Cook 