Welcome to the beautiful city of Corvallis! I love it up here! The whole town in general is a lot slower paced than Medford. Probably because it’s a little college town and school doesn’t start until the end of September.
Our area is huge! It’s so amazing!!! We have basically the entire downtown of Corvallis plus campus plus all the tiny farming communities south of Corvallis so depending on our mood we could tract the far boonies or we have LOADS of college dorms and apartment buildings or we even have family house communities. It’s literally the best! A little bit of everything. While campus is technically in our area, we don’t cover campus. There are two Sisters and two elders assigned specifically to campus and the YSA ward so we see them a lot which is fun but it also means that any YSA aged people that we find we have to pass off to them :(.
This area is popping right now too, not only did they leave the apartment in really good shape (much to the surprise of the ward members) but they left us with a really good amount of work to do. We have 5 people on date for baptism this transfer right now, so big things are in store for this area! Keep Tiffany, Stephanie and the Mickulin family in your prayers for this week! Tiffany was the only one that showed up at church this week because Stephanie was sick and the Mickulin family is a little MIA but she’s excited to start doing family history and finding people to take to the temple after her baptism.
We had a lesson with a guy named Tim and he was asking us a bunch of questions and in the middle of it he goes ” every time I see the temple I look at the statue on top and I want to call it the angel Macaroni but I know that’s not right, but that’s all that I can think of!” We helped him out though. And then later on he was talking about “covenants and Pearls of wisdom and the Book of Mormon”. Let me know if you know what he’s talking about 😉
My new companion is named Sister Griffitts and we are having a blast and a half! She is from Mapleton Utah and is seriously amazing!!! We were tracting kind of in the farming communities in our area when we ran into a family that spoke Spanish and no English and after establishing that they don’t speak English in a perfect American accent, Sister Griffitts goes “si no hablo ingles”. The lady at the door kind of looked at her confused for a minute until Sister Griffitts realized that she just told the woman that she didn’t speak English.
Love you all
Love Corvallis!!
-Sister Cook
Get ready for some killer pics next week because we’re headed to Waldport which is on the coast tonight for MLC!!
Sister Griffitts (my comp)
Sister Crystal (the other stl)
Eugene Oregon: Sister Cook 