9-13-11 Tuesday
Last day of the transfer - I will be starting transfer 13 or 16 tomorrow. Crazy. We had a lesson with a girl from Roy, UT at the visitors center. She's pretty much athiest and just wanted to give us a sales pitch for a pyramid-scheme job to do after our missions because she heard we were going home soon. Bummer. Some peoples children... We said goodbye to all of the missionaries leaving tomorrow - that didn't make me home-sick.. uh.. yeah it did. Oh well, they put in their time - I still gotta do mine - with a happy heart. I can do that. We had an FHE with a less active family and taught them about faith. It was awesome. We called out the transfers to the zone - not a lot of changes this time around.
9-14-11
Old folks home service today - highlight of my week. The lady I took around the farmers market was named Lorraine. She is Jewish and has about 6 teeth - she just turned 93 on monday. Bless her heart. Her grandson is a model for american apparel and told me about it the entire time - it was pretty interesting. She even bought me a strudel and called me handsome. Sugar mama. We ate lunch with a great member family and had a good lesson on prayer. It's time to build our teaching pool.
9-15-11
We didnt leave the apartment today till 4:15 due to weekly planning - that was tough. But we gotta do it. We helped bro. ramos and his wife move a couple of things - they really are the happiest couple I have ever seen in my life. She is pregnant and due in Jan. - they are so excited 'they could bust'. ha, get it? We ate with a member in the singles ward - he's about 30, an ingineer and loaded up to his eyeballs in money. BUT he's single. He sort of reminds me of Erik. He's a really cool guy - just got back from a surfing trip in Beliz. Anyway, he's one of the best members in the ward. We committed him to find someone for us to teach by general conference and he accepted - no questions asked. He's a solid guy.
9-16-11
District meeting day. Everything went well - I trained one of the districts on using the pamphlets affectively in lessons. We found out that one of the sisters in the zone had a sister pass away. She is in a part of her mission that is extended - she would have gone home last transfer - so she decided to go home for the funeral. Really really sad.. Sister Parra - pray for her. We had a lesson with Awah - he went to church last sunday - they talked about Kolob.. that was fun to explain. We had a baptismal interview tonight at the V.C. for a brother the sisters are teaching in the spanish ward - he passed and will be baptized sunday.
9-17-11
We had a mission leadership training today at the office that went super well - i'm becoming immune to long meetings and actually learning things from them. Neat huh? We had an FHE in the spanish ward. Ourselves, the ward mission leader, a recent convert and his mother are the only ones that showed up haha it was embarrassing. We still had the lesson though - we taught on the holy ghost and played a game with them. Funny.
9-18-11
Possibly the craziest sunday of my mission.. We had our 7:30 meeting - some of the sisters didnt show up. I tried to contact them but they wouldnt pick up - they just said that they werent coming. A member came into the room and said that he saw their car on the way over - they got in a wreck. President Baker called us and asked us to help him give a blessing to one of the sisters that was in the crash. We went to the emergency room and did it. She didnt break anything but is badly bruised. Right when we got back to church, before we sat down, a lady asked us for a blessing. She was complaining of chest pain and soreness in her left arm.. I told her to chew an advil and go to the Dr. right then... we gave her a blessing first though. We went to the singles ward and had another guy come ask us for a blessing - just a random guy in another ward. He was having alot of internal problems as well as work problems. We were more than happy to help. Church went great - awah and william both came! Bonus. We went to the baptism later and that was the week!
I love you all and hope you have a great week - keep reading, keep praying, keep the faith.
Love, Elder Cottrell
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