Month: September 2019

Sorry, today has been a crazy day so I don’t have much time to write at all! Campus is popping! School started this week so we had a booth on campus on Friday which was super fun! We were able to meet lots of people and get a lot of return appointments super fun! The past two days have been insane but moral of the story, I’m now in a trio and covering Avery Park and College Hill ward!

Love you all and have a great week!!

This has literally been the fastest transfer of my mission!

On Friday afternoon we were sitting in a lesson talking about God when our phone starts ringing.

Drum roll please….. 

To preface: Sister Griffitts and I really weren’t expecting a call because we have both only been in the area for 1 transfer

Sister Griffitts is staying in Avery Park and getting Sister Young and I am transferring 15 minutes away to be a campus missionary! Which means all my work will be on Oregon State University campus with the young single adult ward. I am stoked! And I’m getting Sister Healey who is coming from Santa Clara and so technically we’re whitewashing because neither of us has been on campus before.

Anyways, this week simultaneously flew by and was the longest week of my life! On Tuesday, we went out to the coast to go on exchanges with the Waldport sisters. Tragedy struck however because I left my phone in Corvallis and wasn’t able to snag any pictures 😦

Thursday is our weekly planning day and so we stay in a lot of the day and plan for upcoming lessons that we have. The whole day I felt like we should go see this one family who we had been trying to reach literally all transfer. The only problem with that was that the YSA sisters had the car and it was over an hour walk and about the same bus ride. So we sat and stewed and decided to go tracting instead. Sister Griffitts however was struck with inspiration and we called a member who was available and was able to give us a ride to this family’s house. When we pulled up we both got super disappointed because there was only 1 car in the driveway and it was the same car that was always there whenever we stopped by before. But we decided to try anyways and miracle of miracle they answered! And we are going back on Wednesday to have dinner with them!

One night, we were wrapping up and heading to bed when Sister Griffitts spotted a spider. The end.

We ran into some Jehovah’s witnesses at Panera Bread on Saturday 🙂

This week I’ve been studying a lot about humility and learning with a balance between heart and mind. I think back to when I have learned the most and it is always when my mind and heart work together. If I am too passionate about something then it clouds my judgement and if I think about a subject for too long I can usually talk myself into circles. But it’s a struggle finding a constant balance between the two. There’s a great talk about this called “Humbly Combining Heart and Mind” by Legrand R Curtis Jr

Humbly Combining Heart and Mind

Also if you haven’t seen it, the church just released a video visualization of the first two chapters of the Book of Mormon. It’s SO good! 

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-episode-book-of-mormon-videos-series

Love you all!

-Sister Cook

There’s a spooky half-finished baptismal font in the basement of the institute

One of our friends introduced us to this Sushi place that is literally so good! We definitely did not go back a couple times this week and I am definitely not broke. 🙂