Happy Thanksgiving!

What's up!! How is everybody? I hope you are all doing great! This week was a good week, we are still teaching some awesome people and they are going strong! there were 6 people at church this week! It was so awesome! I am excited for Thanksgiving, I cant believe that It is already that time of year. wow! oh and yes we do have a dinner apointment so no need to worry... mom haha :) we started teaching a woman named Janet and what I love about Janet is that she is just your everyday person who desperately needs the gospel in her life (which is everyone but you know what I mean). she doesn't have much of a religious background but she it willing to learn and act on her growing faith. she came to church yesterday and I could see the difference in her countenance she was happier and she smiled a lot more than I have ever seen her smile. I can see the Lord blessing her as she take those steps of faith into the unknown. I helps build my faith when I see our investigators exercising their faith. I love this great work and I am thankful that I have the opportunity to participate in it! thanks so much for all your support! have a great Thanksgiving! ---Sister Cox

Baptisms, Baptisms, Baptisms! (e-mail from 11/15)

Hey everyone, how's it going? I hear its cold there. it has been really nice here in the 60 and 70! :) I am sure our time will come, most likely sooner that later. the work is going so great here! we just had a baptism this past weekend and it was awesome! his name it David and he is in the army. He has such a strong testimony its so awesome to hear. we also have 2 more baptisms coming up in the next few weeks. we have one on the 27th and one on Dec 1st! we also are teaching this great family, Seth and Jamie. Jamie has already talked about baptism and has quit smoking. She said at Church to everyone that she likes this religion so we are going to stay! haha it was awesome. We also started teaching a part member family this past week. its a young couple and he is a member and she is not. her name is Mandy and you can tell that she it so prepared! she has already started reading anything that she can get a hold of and is really interested in learning more. The Lord is really blessing this area and I am so grateful that I get the opportunity to see the progression of all these wonderful people! its the greatest thing ever!! I hope that you are all having a great week! --Sister Cox

What A Week!

hey everyone! how has your guys week been? I hope its been good! this have been good here for the most part. half way through the week I came down with the flu so that was not fun. I spent most of the night in the bathroom..... yeah not pretty. the rest of the week was really good. we have a baptism coming up this Saturday so we have been preparing for that and then on Sunday we had a girl call us and tell us that she wants to be baptized! she has already been going to Church her dad is a convert and she is only 15 her and her dad don't get along so she is living with some other members right now (i don't know whats up with that situation) but she said that she was ready to be baptized. We are planning on her baptism a week from this Saturday. we are also teaching an awesome family they have come to Church two times and the wife is already talking about getting baptized. she need to quite smoking first. her husband is progressing but a little slower, he is in the army and has been through a lot! he just got a purple heart and they are waiting to be medically discharged. so the work is going really really good right now! the Lord is blessing this area and these people! I hope you all have a great week! Love Sister Cox

Watertown! (e-mail from 11/1)

Hey, everyone how are things going? this are, well... different here. I am in whats is considered the north country AKA cold and snowy. It has snowed a few times this past week but it hasn't stayed on the ground although it has been really really cold and windy. Everything its going well for the most part its hard to adjust so many new things. new people, new area, new members, a car! its alittle frustrating to me because when i got here i just wanted to get right in and go to work but its hard to help plan the day out if you don't know any of the people or where they live! I guess its will just come with time. My companion seems nice her name is Sister Ream, she is also from UT. she is really quite and sometimes when i ask a questions she just dosent respond, its kinda annoying. its hard to learn the area when she just dose everything with out explaining how to do it and then i ask and no response, (sigh) Oh, well i guess i will just have to figure out something. she really is a good missionary, and very good at talking to people on the the street and teaching. I went real tracking this past week it was exciting! In Ithaca we never really needed to go tracting because so many people were out on the streets. Oh and we had a golden investigator just show up out of nowhere. he has already had all the lessons and wants to be baptized so that was pretty cool, other than that not much to report. I hope you are all having a great week, Love Sister Cox