Awesome, COLD week!

This week has been awesome! We have started teaching a new referral and we set another baptism date for the 9th of Feb! We are seeing so many blessings from the Lord! We are really excited and looking forward to having 4 baptism next month!! we just set a girl that we are teaching with a date, she is 13 and we are also teaching her mom. they are both doing great! and are way excited for the baptism. its has been really, really, really cold here. People keep telling us that it is -30 or in the -teens with the wind chill and someone told us to be careful when we go out at night because at those temps frostbit can set in within 15 min of exposure. We have been fine so far we try and make appointments at night first and that has been working out. i hope you all are staying warm and doing good. Have a good week! --Sister Cox

After Much Tribulation Come Blessings!

Hello everyone! How is it going? I hope you are all staying warm. It has been really cold here lately. We have had a really good week this past week! Like I said last week it was a hard week but the Lord is pouring the blessing down upon us this past week. We were able to set 2 more people with baptism dates this past week so now we have 3 baptisms coming up in February! We are so excited. One of them is a girl that we have been teaching for about 3 months we talked to her on the street just after I got to this area. We have asked her if she would like to be baptized 2 times before but this last week she pick a date and is planning on being baptized on Feb 13! I am so excited for her. The other person that we set a date with was a part member couple who just moved into the ward. They just got married 7 months ago and the husband is not a member. He got interested in the Gospel while he was deployed and someone gave him a book of Mormon. he read it and prayed about it and has a testimony that it is true. he told us that he wants to be baptized before he is deployed in March. we are very excited for all the wonderful things that are happening right now. I also found out that I will be staying here in this area for the next transfer!! YAY and my companion is staying also!! I am so happy about that! well, I hope you all have a great week and stay warm! ---Sister Cox

Hard Week

(e-mail from 1/10/11)

Wow you guys, this week was hard! We are struggling to find new people to teach and struggling to hold onto those that we are teaching. This week EVERYONE cancelled with us, yes everyone. I have never had a week as bad as this one. I felt like everything was falling apart! but on Sunday the Lord poured out his blessings on us! we were able to set a baptism date with one of our investigators for Fed 5th! I am so excited! I just hope I don't get transferred this transfer! they are coming up so please start to send all mail to the mission office! I think i will be staying but you never know so yeah send it to the mission office to be safe. anyway, we also had 2 part member family move into the ward and one of them wants to meet with us! and we got some really great potentials on Sunday also so that was good. we also did exchanges this week with the ********* sisters. I went to ********* and Sister ***** stayed in our area. It was really fun and I got to meet some real north folk. they are very different people in the north country. it was very interesting... yeeeeeaaaah. but it was fun working with Sister ******** for the day! anyway I hope you are all doing great! and I hope you have a great week! --- Sister Cox

Found Wallet!

(e-mail from 1/3/11)

Hello, How was everyone's New Year!? I hope you all had a good 2010 and are looking forward to 2011. I have good news this week! we found my wallet! i was found about a week later outside the house we ate dinner at on Christmas eve in the street. it was a miracle that we found it! I was so happy! thanks for all your prayers! we also had a baptism this week! it was soooo good! I love baptism. this week has also been a hard week. both my companion and I got sick this week. we both got colds and we had to stay in for a bit. we are getting better now but my companion woke up this morning throwing up... gross. she thinks that it was something that she ate and I hope so because I am tiered to getting sick! I can not get the flu! again! geesh. Satan has been working hard on us. good things are happening in the area but we have run into some speed bumps... sickness, lost wallets ect. we have been having a whole drama thing going with one of our former investigators. this particular investigator could be classified as "less accountable" she was always asking us to get her things from the store or find her rides places. we tried to help her out but she started abusing the situation and them members that were helping her and we just had to stop teaching her. well, yesterday she calls and said that she is all ready to go to church and if she can get a ride. my companion and I got her a ride and then she got up during testimony meting and started telling everyone that God had answered her prayers though a Lottery ticket that she had won money and that she needed to talk to the sisters after church because she needs rides places and groceries. yeeeeeah, it was horrifying. so we need to have a talk with her. we also are dealing with a boundary war in our ward. we have some members that come to our ward that are from Fort Drum but technically Fort Drum is in the Carthage Ward and is in the Elders area which means that it is out of our area. the problem is that there are members that like to have us over for dinner that live on fort drum and we have just been informed by our mission pres that we are NOT to leave our area. so we have to tell these members that we cannot come over and its just a touchy subject and I hope it doesn't blow up in our faces. Anyway other than that things are going well . I got to go. I hope you all have a great week. ---Sister Cox