Transferred!

Hey everyone, Hows it going? Things have been super crazy here! It has been transfer call week, AKA lots of stress not knowing whats going to happen week! haha, no i have had a feeling that I might be getting the boot here in Ithaca and and we heard though the grape vine that my companion's name had been brought up for training. We had interview with President on weds and I just confirmed my suspicions. I walked into the interview and he said, "how long have you been here in Ithaca Sister Cox?" I knew that he knew very well how long I had been here. I reluctenly told him 4 and half months and she said, "well, we normally don't leave people in there first areas that long,... any suggestions on where you want to go?" yeah, i knew i was getting the boot for sure! latter that day I found out that he basically committed my companion to be a trainer. So I knew that there was a very strong likelihood that I would be leaving Ithaca and it was hard for me because i didn't know for sure so i couldn't tell anyone. then to make things more stressful is that this week is was sake conference! it stinks that my last Sunday here was stake conference. some of the people that normally come to church were not there on Sunday because stake conference was in Owego. and also my companion has be sick so we stayed in all day Saturday. and I have been worried about getting to say goodbyes and getting pictures and packing! Oh yeah and this week Transfers are taking place on Tuesday, the normally take place on Wednesday but this week our Mission pres has a meeting out of town and they fly out on Tuesday so all transfers have to happen on Tuesday! so things have just been crazy! I am soooo sad to leave my area. We have so many good people that we are working with and I am not sure if i will ever see them again. that the sad part a lot of them are from China and are going back to China in less than a year :( Oh yeah, I am going to Watertown! it is the coldest place in the mission, yay.... can you sense the sarcasm. its right on the banks of one of the great lakes, lake Ontario, which is the reason it is so cold there, the lake effect. my companion just came from Watertown before she came here and she loved it. she has been telling me all about it, I know that it will be great and it is where the Lord wants me to be! the up side it that we have a car in Watertown so that will be nice. I am excited to experience and new place and new people, I know that the Lord has prepared people there to receive the gospel, and it will be wonderful there. I will miss Ithaca and the people here but I know its time to move on. I hope you all have a great week and I will write again next week and tell you all about Watertown! Love, Sister Cox

Seeing People Progress

Hey everyone hows it going? things are going good here we had a really good week. We had exchanges this week. We has some amazing lessons that day. Sister ****** and I split up and as it turns out we both set baptism dates for people. Sister ****** set one of our new investigators with a date on the first meeting with him, I wasn't there but i heard it was amazing. and I set one of our investigators from China with a date, Li Peng. he is an awesome investigator. we taught him the second half of the plan and when we got to the end i felt like i needed to ask him how he felt about gods plan for him. he said that he liked it very much and he said , "I want to be there (pointing to the celestial kingdom) how do I get there?" then the spirit was so strong telling me to explain baptism and how that is the first step to getting to the celestial kingdom. and before i knew it he was set for a baptism date for the 13 of November! it was amazing. i love seeing these people and there progression in the gospel. it really is a blessing in my life because I realize that there is no other time in my life that I will be able to experience this in this way right now. its amazing! its like a little taste of heaven when you get to see some one accept the gospel, change there life. there whole countenance around them changes, its so cool! we have three set for November 13th right now, I hope that I am here when that day comes and I can see them all be baptized! I don't know what is going to happen this next transfer. its all up in the air so i guess I will let you know next week if i am staying or going. please send any letter to the mission office for the next few weeks until i can let you know for sure where i will be. thanks everyone for all your support! love ya, Sister Cox

I Love Chinese People!

Hey, everyone hows it going? Is it cold yet? Are the leaves all changed? They are still changing here slowly but surely. This past week has been crazy but good. On friday we had all mission conference. It was so good, we had elder Grow from the seventy come and he is really great! We talked about goal setting and seting a goal to be baptizing every week! it is this amazing new goal system and I am so excited to start it and get more people in the water! this week was so good because the work is going well here. I love the people that we work with! We just picked up a new investigator this past week and she is so amazing. Her name is Yuxin, she is from China and was a referral from one of our other investigators. When we first met with her she had no religious background. She wasn't even sure what the word God meant. she walked away from that first appointment saying that she didn't think that she could believe in a God that she couldn't see. We just encouraged her to pray and see how she feels when she prays. we met with her again two days latter and it was amazing what the spirit can do. she told us that she felt good when she prayed and that she felt like someone was there. then we met with her last night again and she told us that the night before she went out to a club and was drinking and she said that she didn't feel right and that she thought that drinking was bad for out heath and also staying out all night partying. She told us that she never wanted to go to a club again. the whole lesson she was just a sponge soaking in everything that we were teaching here. and at the end she said the prayer and it was amazing! she said that the past few days that she had felt a new feeling and that she liked that feeling and she wants it to continue. She is really progressing and its really cool to see someone experience the joy of feeling our Heavenly Fathers love for the first time and to really know that He is there and that He loves her. I am so grateful for the experiences that my Heavenly Father lets me see. To see the progression of our investigators is a blessing in my life and I will never forget it! I love it! I hope you are all doing well and I hope you have a good week! I will write again next week! Love, Sister Cox

Loved, Loved, LOVED Conference!

Hey, hows everyone doing? is it cooling down there yet? it is here! the leave are still changing I will take some pictures soon and send them (Carrie I will send pictures next week, for sure!) The first part of this week I was still sick :( Yeah it was a bummer. It lasted a whole week! that is one long cold especially in missionary time! It finally started to get better so that we could go out an work and of course it rained, no it pored ALL DAY that day. yeah I was soaked i don't have a really good rain jacket but I did have a umbrella so that was good. it was mostly just my feet that were soaked. People said that it is unusual to have it rain like that all day. It is common for it to rain a lot in the fall and the spring but not all day. but anyway it was fine and my cold is mostly gone it is still hanging on with a cough and a stuffy nose but its severity has gone away, so that's good. the weekend was great! I loved, Loved, LOVED Conference!! It was so awesome I loved all the talks they were all great! it was so good and we had 4 investigators come to the Sunday morning session. they all loved it and the cool thing was that we were only expecting to have 2 investigators come and the other 2 just showed up with people from the Branch. it was a great day of Spiritual uplifting talks and lots and lots of food! we got fed for lunch and dinner both Saturday and Sunday. we actually had a few Lunches one those days, haha it was so good! the Wood's, the senior missionaries here helped us out a lot this weekend a fed us a few times. they are the best! they are like a set of parents here in the mission field. well I hope you are all doing well and I will write again next week to tell you all the exciting thing that will happen. Love ya
-Sister Cox