30 September 2013

Hola,

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Another amazing week, and a mission changing week. This work is always growing and progressing. It never is stagnant, especially now. We will quickly get to all of the excitement! 

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Monday was a slower day, well a slower night because we only proselyte at night.  It was good. The good thing about it was that we found a friend of Marychuy's. I do not think I have explained about Marychuy before. Her real name is Maria de Jesus but the way people make it a nickname is Marychuy. She is the only really strong member in Davis! She is amazing and powerful. She has such an interesting life story and I loved getting to know her! She is awesome and just got called as a ward missionary. She comes from meager means.  She is strong! We met her friend just by being in this certain apartment complex. The work of missionaries completely changes when a member is tied to the work! Sadly the women works everyday but Monday, so we don't know what will happen but we have hopes!

 Tuesday is where the life changing stuff occurred. So as I mentioned Elder Aidukaitis came to help out our mission! We had an over 4 hour long meeting with him in order to get his counsel and help. Here is a little overview of what he said. He told us to take every opportunity. When we see potential with a person in the street or an investigator to always take it never to miss it! His very big bit of council dealt with inviting friends and family of investigators to baptisms. We help by writing lst and then we, as the missionaries, go and invite them and then try and start teaching them. I wish I could do it justice, but he really made it seem like the easiest thing and he told us that our potentials will just grow. He said it is hard work and that it will take a while to get good at it, but that we will see great fruits from our labors. He also told us to be busy, but also be productive. I never really thought that there was a difference.  Now that I think of it, there really is! Then he focused a lot of time on the attributes of a good missionary. They are mostly just the Christlike attributes in Chapter 6, but they come from D & C section 4! The first was Faith.  There is the acting in faith, and the power of faith. You can act in faith, but to see real progress and miracles we have to have the power of faith. Also this faith leads us to be exactly obedient and to make goals that are the desires of our hearts. He then mentioned Knowledge. Then Love. One thing that he mentioned that I just loved was that he said there will be no dislike in the celestial kingdom. When we are in the presence of Heavenly Father, you can't look at your neighbor and say, I don't like them I want to move.   Then Patience. This is one I have thought about a bit on my mission already. Patience is the ability to wait and hope and keep working hard. It is active and we are doing things not just twiddling our thumbs. Then Virtue. Sometimes I underestimate virtue. As a missionary it applies by controlling our thoughts of the world, our past and our family back home. Also that we need to trust in the Lord and have faith instead of doubt. He told us to learn to control our thoughts in order to be more dedicated in the work. The last was Diligence. He said we should be so tired at the end of the day that we need to ask the Lord for the strength to do it tomorrow! I find that when we truly do the work this is definitely true! He came back to faith and talked about Ether 12 - that when we pay the price with our faith we will see miracles, because God fulfills all of his promises. It was a wonderful meeting and a call to continue to live the higher law as a missionary. The miracle of the night was that after 8 we found a new family to teach. We just knocked on their door and they let us in and we taught them the first lesson. It was wonderful and we hope to see them again soon.

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Wednesday we had a pretty productive day with two lessons! One was a little odd because one of the women had to leave so we only had 5 minutes to teach the Plan of Salvation. We did an ok job and we hope to see them this week. Then we taught Hilda. Hilda is a friend of Marychuy (our golden member) and she lives out in the middle of the fields on one of the edges of Davis. When we turned on to the dirt road and just kept driving and driving I couldn't believe it.  It was really exciting! We taught her the first lesson, with Marychuy and it was awesome. She was so willing and open to be spiritually uplifted! We hope to see her this next week too!

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Thursday we had an exchange. The different thing about having a Sister Training Leader as a companion is that I don't get the training I just get to be the fun exchange. For me it is fun to learn from others and just be able to figure things out together! I had a nice time just helping in small ways. It was with Hermana Harris. She came out the transfer after me and is still a little green. It was fun to help her in sly ways rather than the obvious ones and it was fun because we are pretty good friends too! We had some good time on facebook. The funny thing about facebook is that the time just flies! It is so easy to get caught up in the friend requests and the notifications and the status updates instead of teaching people! I hope that I will just get better and better at using it! Our wonderful part of the night was teaching Betty and her family. They were truly open to it! She said she would pray and truly ask our Heavenly Father because she didn't know about these things before. Another - we will see!

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On Friday we didn't have any lessons, but I felt like we offered a house blessing to those that truly needed it! There was a Muslim family that was surprisingly interested in the prayer. It was amazing for him to talk about what they believe and their life. I found it quite interesting to talk with them, but it was difficult to really teach them. Then we said a prayer with Cristina who was struggling with work and just needed some peace! Oh this work is truly amazing! I love being able to find those who have been put in our path!

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We had a few lessons fall through on Saturday, but luckily there is always more to do, because the whole world isn't converted yet! As an unplanned lesson we taught Marychuy's niece and nephew, who are kind of former investigators. Their dad was interested in the Church but doesn't want to leave behind his lifestyle.  They all really do have potential! Then there was the Relief Society Broadcast. It was so different to be a missionary.  It was great. I loved their focus on Covenants. I couldn't help but relate to the mothers she was talking to when I considered what we also have to do for investigators. Covenants are something I understand a little more each and every day and it is amazing to introduce them to people so regularly! I loved the words from our Beloved prophet, saying Peace is what we seek. In this work of turmoil this is definitely true! Our Heavenly Father is always there for us, no matter what! What a strength it is that we have a loving Heavenly Father whose whole world is us, so we need to make our whole world him!

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Sunday we had a meeting with our stake leaders talking about their upcoming, missionary focused, Youth Conference! For two hours, as part of the process they are going to go out with the missionaries. It all sounds so exciting and I can't wait to tell you more later in October, when it is going to happen.

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We ended this week with a woping 11 new investigators. That is incredible. I am excited to see their progression in the upcoming weeks. The Lord is really preparing those that are ready and I feel so honored to be able to find them. All my prayers are with you. I love you all so much, and don't forget that you are an essential part of this work too!

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Love ya,

Hermana Cornwall

23 September 2013

What a week. I never thought it would actually be weird to just be with a complete stranger, but it was finally a little weird to have a new companion. Before I had people that were around the same level or stage of the mission as me. We were able to take in the weirdness the same way, but now I have Hermana Brighton! She has been on her mission almost a year. She is a Sister training Leader and a very powerful, hard working missionary. It has been quite a week! 
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Monday was full of packing and cleaning with Hermana Kaiser. Then on Tuesday I got sick. A good ol' cold hit me, which of course has taken a week to recover from since it we never really stop to take a breath as missionaries. All of the packing and saying goodbye makes me not excited to leave my first area, but it is just part of the missionary life I guess. 

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Wednesday we had a crazy day. Our zone leaders decided it would be best if instead of go with our companions to Santa Rosa and then to just come back that Hermana Whitely (one of the missionaries from my district in the MTC) and I would be companions for the day.  We had a fun day doing studies and some tracting, and then we went to Sister Whitely's area. She works in Winters and Esparto. Where we were for our time was Esparto. It has maybe one or two stop lights in the whole town and some of the roads are of dirt. It was a different experience than my college town of Davis. We had a funny night, because the Sisters (our new companions) were coming back from Santa Rosa and they were running late. I had a meeting so I quickly picked up my companion, put her stuff in the car and we were officially together for the next 6 weeks! It was a little crazy but fun. The awesome part about Hermana Brighton is that she is committed to speaking Spanish. I have already increased a lot. how much I speak in Spanish  The cherry on top of all of this was that I was still sick - but it was ok! 

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Thursday we had a great day. The weird thing for me is being the one that knows the area. We had a great day talking to everyone and just really digging in with both feet. The fun part is that we have all of these referrals on facebook. We have so much work to do. We taught a few lessons and it was just powering through the work. One lesson was with Elizabeth. Her son has special needs and she just sees a lot of bad in the world, so sometimes she can be having a rough day. The great part about this lesson is that we were really committing to act and not just talking to her. It was a great day. The only problem is that when you do everything you are supposed to do, when you talk to everyone, teach lessons, and just do it all IT IS EXHAUSTING! Needless to say I had a good nights sleep! 

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On Friday we saw lots of people, but no lessons. It is so interesting just to go out and talk with others. Everyday we just try and talk to everyone we see and sometimes it can be super intimidating or seemingly scary, but it always turns out ok. 

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On Saturday we had 5 scheduled appointments planned! The fun part was that before we left the house, it started to rain.  I pulled out my little rain coat and we went! Our first lesson was with Brenda, I don't know if I have really talked about her, so I will give a refresher. She is 15 and awesome. She has been to lots of churches with her family and just can't understand that if we all believe in God why are there different churches. This week we talked about the Book of Mormon. Her house was kind of crazy with people coming and going.  By the end her mom was sitting down with us. We started teaching her mom too and then by the end we said a kneeling prayer with her whole family! It was wonderful. The best was that we set a goal date for her to be baptized. October 26! So we will see want is going to happen. It continued to rain. Our next appointment wasn't there. We did some contacting of former investigators nearby and then we taught Roberto! Sometimes Roberto has bad lessons and this was one of them. I felt so bad for my companion because she didn't understand.  We kind of just ended quickly and planned for another time this week. I hope our next is better! After dinner there was a crazy rain storm and when I say crazy I mean CRAZY! They were the biggest drops of rain I have ever seen.  They just started coming down harder and more of them. Then came the hail and after minutes the streets were getting flooded with water. Of course all of our plans were falling through so we just ended up contacting people at their doors. It was wet and cold, but fun. We met lots of interesting people and it was just a fun night of seeing the life of Davis. It is always so interesting to see peoples faith! Sometimes they can have a lot, but not want anything you have to say and sometimes people have none at all.  Sometimes we can't even find out about their faith because they see us and then try and close the door as soon as possible. It was nice to go home at the end of day, do our planning and then get cozy. Quite a change from having to leave our windows open in order to cool off. 

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Sunday was a good day. It is funny to now take the role of someone the members know. Out of 8 missionaries. Hermana Gonzalez and I are the only ones that have been here for two transfers. I am now one of the oldies.  I kind of like it!  The only difference to my Sunday schedule now is that Hermana Brighton has a meeting with the zone leaders and district leaders, and the other Sister Training Leader on Sunday nights. So, I go on a mini-exchange with Hermana Wilcox. It is great. Hermana Wilcox came out with me from the MTC and it is always fun to be around her!

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It has been a good week this week, just going and doing it. There is always something to do and always people to see.  The hard part is finding them. Oh, the work of salvation is not the easiest, but it is the most rewarding. So feel free to be part of it, because it is an eternal work!

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I love you all. Thank you for all your prayers, they are definitely needed.

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Love,

Hermana Cornwall

16 September 2013

Sister Kaiser's last Sunday in Davis

 Hola,

It has been an amazing week this week! I graduated from being a greenie! I am Staying in Davis and I am getting a new companion named Hermana Brighton! It is so funny how change just becomes part of us as missionaries. This change brings wonderful blessings and opportunities and I am excited to see what mine will become!

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So nothing too very exciting this week. Last Monday I bought new shoes (pictures below). Tuesday it was also kind of a slow day. (the cool part was using our 8873 devices. I don't know if I explained this too much, but one of our apps. is the Area Book! In this app it takes all of the paper work we used to have and makes it digital.  We have had to input everything from the old [system]. It has been a long, but fun process. It has taken a few hours out of our day, but it has been really fun.) 

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On Wednesday we had a fun experience because we went to lunch at a restaurant where an investigator works and he gave us free food. It was fun to have a fun, free lunch and to see him! Then we visited Yolanda, our 83 year-old, home-bound less active. She is wonderful and I always enjoy her visits. Then later in the day I taught a less-active on Facebook, trying to encourage her to go back to church and to not let her fear and worry overcome her relationship with her Heavenly Father. We had a just-sisters dinner at the Stapps, my American home away from home. Not that I am not in America, but it is nice to have a place where you recognize things and you feel comfortable. It felt like a pretty normal missionary dinner, for once. 

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Thursday we had another lesson with Roberto and reset his baptismal date for the 28th of September. I think that he is actually taking it seriously now, so we really hope that he can come to church in order to be baptized.  We had some finding time. Recently with the addition of facebook and having pretty regular investigators we have been busy but we finally had some extra time to go and find people. So we went to one apartment complex that had a few formers.  The amazing part was everyone actually opened the door! We don't have that happen very often. We set up a few more return appointments.  We will see how that goes. Later in the evening we just did straight finding at a different complex.  The miracle then was that people opened their doors and were willing for a house blessing. I don't know if I have explained it before but we are a test mission for 5 key phrases when contacting people. They are:

• " I am a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ" (instead of "missionary"), 
• "Can we leave a blessing on your home?", 
• "Who do you know that needs this message?", 
•  "Will you come to sacrament meeting?"
• "I testify in the name of Jesus Christ..." 

We have found that they are very effective when talking with others. With the blessing - we offer the blessing to bring the Spirit into their home and also to offer things that they need. It feels a little weird sometimes to say " can we leave a blessing on your home?" but it really is a small and effective way to get in. We just say a prayer and then hopefully set up another appointment/ I like it because it makes it less we are missionaries and then people slam the door in your face. On Thursday night everyone was willing to let us in, which was really nice. Most of these contacts are in English, but my favorite part is when we get to someone that speaks Spanish and they say "no hablo ingles" and we say "Esta bien Hablamos espanol." It usually surprises them a little but it makes me feel really effective. 

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Friday we did weekly planning, and for the first time in a long time we finished it all in one sitting of like 4 -5 hours! Then I had a facebook idea. Well actually I stole it from another missionary, but I like it. On our Mission facebook page an Elder posted that he had asked to be part of Ward facebook pages and then asked for referrals, so I decided to try it. It has been really effective to just post a message about what I do and that I would like referrals.  People are truly interested. I have gotten a handful of referrals so far.  I am excited to see how it goes. The fun part is that these referrals can be all over and that is great! Then we found out about transfers. So, as said in the beginning, I am staying in Davis, but my companion Sister Kaiser, is going to Eureka. That is the farthest you can go up in our mission for Spanish speakers so I am very excited for her!

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Saturday was kind of an end and continuation of a falling through week. A lot of our plans didn't always work out, but it worked out. We went to visit Brenda, but she wasn't home.  We looked for formers. (The cool thing about the app is that we are able to have our area book right at our finger tips. One nice feature is the formers and potentials are all just right there too. The problem is, in order to see where they live on the map we have to have internet. One day we will have an iphone and it will be all in there too!) On Saturday I was still trying to carry out all that I needed to for my facebook idea so that was fun and takes quite a bit of time! 

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Sunday was an amazing day for our branch. We got new counselors in the Relief Society and Elders Quorum. It was awesome 1 of the new counselors is a woman who has only attended sacrament meeting for a long time and the 2 new elders quorum counselors just got the Melchizedek Priesthood this week! It is so exciting and they both were wearing suits too. I love to see the branch progress right before my eyes. Then for dinner we have Sopes. They were amazing! They are a fired and thick dough patty and then you put beans, meat, lettuce, cheese etc. on top. It was really good!

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Well it was a crazy week, but this is truly a  wonderful work that I am a part of and I am grateful for it everyday. I love each of you so much and hope the best for you as you go forward and strong members of this church!

Love,

Hermana Cornwall

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Sister Kaiser's photo of the Sacramento Temple

SISTER CORNWALL IS HASTENING

This is posted on the Santa Rosa Mission blog a week ago.

The blog stated:

"The Brave New World of Missionary Work...To the 21st Century and Beyond!

On August 20th, 2013 our mission changed forever. What a time this, the California Santa Rosa Mission, is living in.  We truly are living in the midst of miracles and right now our heads are spinning.  We are the first 'total' mission in the world to receive the 'hastening' devices...which we call our 8873's for D&C 88:73... "For behold, I will hasten my work in its time." We are the first 'total' mission to have gone global.  We are the first 'total' mission in the world to teach to the four corners of the earth.  We have had the 8873's, which are mini I Pads, for about 3 weeks now and so far miracles abound. The windows of heaven have opened unto us in ways never before imagined. The time is now!"

09 Sept 2013

 Hola,

It has been another amazing week in the age of this new missionary work. I have seen success on Facebook and now I can truly tell you that it is an effective way of teaching the gospel! So how does it work? let me tell you!

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On Monday we had a lovely day. It was weird to have a holiday for everyone else and not us.  There were so many families outside and just loving the day off! We had a lesson with Ada, the one who makes papusas and she was good. We went over and finished the Plan of Salvation with her. Sometime as we teach people I wonder if they are really getting it. I hope she did because I know that for me a key part of the gospel is this plan that God has for us. It gives me purpose and hope for this life. I remember one day last summer mom and I were talking about those people that don't have any type of purpose and how eat, drink and be merry is a real philosophy of life. The fun part about being a missionary is helping them change that perspective! It is great!

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Anyway Tuesday is when the real Facebook miracles came! I had 2 lessons on Facebook! I just started a chat with two of the people that were online, a current investigator and a less active we met in our area and both of them turned into lessons! I can't believe it. I got so excited and I couldn't believe that all of the things that people have been talking about were actually happening to me. It was quite amazing how it all works out. The best part was that these two women were totally open and told us things that I don't think they ever would have said in person. It makes me excited to do more in the future! Then, we also had a lesson with Roberto. If you haven't figured out  - he is golden - or at least as golden as I have gotten thus far. He understands the importance and he is willing to do most everything but he just doesn't want to be 100% and end up a crazy person. Another big problem is that he works on Sundays.  Of course, we hope to get that all worked out.  It is turning into a long process, but we have a lot of hope!

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Wednesday we didn't have too much excitement, but there were two kind-of interesting things: The first was that I had spaghetti for dinner at a Mexicans house.  That was a little weird.  It was still super good.  We talked about making we sure we have an up-to-date Facebook page in our coordination meeting. It is crazy how central technology is becoming in the work! 

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Sacramento Temple

Thursday WE WENT TO THE TEMPLE! It was amazing to just take some extra, personal, spiritual time. The session was packed.  It is definitely one of those small temples President Hinkley talked about.  All of us missionaries realized that a packed temple is not a bad thing. The wonderful thing was that we saw the new temple video. I had heard a lot talk and was amazed at how much more I got out of it now. I love the temple, I am so grateful to be worthy to go inside of it! 

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Friday brought another lesson with Roberto which of course was great.  We are so close to getting him to change his job hours but it is pretty hard.  I had another Facebook lesson with our less active and she committed to come to church. The funny thing is I am not there to check up on her but I hope she went! Then we had our exchange! I went to Vacaville again.  I got the Sister Training Leader this time! 

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Saturday was really when we experienced the exchange because we did it at 8 on Friday.  It was a fun day in a new city. In the afternoon we taught Keila about self esteem and watched Johnny Lingo. I must say I quite enjoyed myself watching such a classic. Then there was just bustling around trying to see people with little success. Then we changed back a little early in order to go to our Saturday evening session of Stake Conference because Roberto agreed to come! One of the members picked him up and drove him and it was just so awesome to have an investigator there. It counts as a sacrament meeting attendance.  Since he works on Sunday,s he is that much closer to the waters of baptism because he needs to attend church twice in order to go! One of the nice parts of the meeting was that they had a recently reactivated member and a new member speak. It was awesome Then the Albas were also there. It is so fun to just know a Mission President. They have always sat there on the stand, but now I really know them. His talk was on 88:73. He gave a nice talk on the future of this work with ipads. I was so grateful for his ability to inform and uplift the members. He had all of us missionaries stand up and say some of the places they have been teaching around the world. There were some in Fiji, Hong Kong, and my own companion and I have started with a contact in Nepal! We haven't done much, but it is fun!  It was a great meeting!

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Then we all know what happens the Sunday after a Saturday session - there is a Sunday session! There were lots of short talks and it was great. It was fun to see the color of the stake all piling in. Can I just say the perspective as a missionary at Stake Conference is so different than a member?  I just loved to hear inspired words come out of the speakers mouths for the investigators. I was so grateful. I love the Church.  Not only is it true, but it is just fun to meet together! Then we had a miracle lesson on Sunday. We went to go visit an investigator who lives at her boyfriend's parent's house, whose sibling of the parents is one of the members of our ward. Crazy I know and I hope that made sense. So, we came and they were having a party.  The member invited us in.  We taught a general version of all 3 lessons to someone we met at the party! It was amazing and he is so prepared. The only problem is that he lives in Los Angeles and doesn't have a facebook.  We are going to get it all worked out to get the missionaries to him down there. I love having a worldwide church.  It just makes us seem so powerful. Then a random side note is that with the combination of facebook and all missionaries sharing their friends with one another is that we have 24 referrals! Which is quite a lot and we have a lot of online work to do. The work is hastening and it is through facebook! I am so excited for the future stories that I get to tell!

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Well I know this Church is true! I am grateful for the peace and joy it brings me that I get to testify of everyday! Without it I would definitely not be here and definitely not be as happy either. Though it is always a sacrifice to be here it brings me joy to help others and to share my testimony that just constantly keeps growing. My constant challenge to all of you is to continually share it. Even though you aren't a full time missionary SHARE IT. Because this gospel should be the most important thing in your life so be willing to let go of fear and make it the most important thing too. It is easy if you just take a baby step. Choose what your baby step is and do it. I promise you wont regret it! Keep up the good work! Love you all so much!

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Love ya,

Hermana Cornwall

 

Below are some crazy Davis/Sacramento weather photos

 

02 Sept. 2013

Hola,

So another week has passed with the ups and downs of missionary work always aparent. I love the work but it always seems like after success somes the tough times. The funny thing about following the path that the Lord has in store for you doesn't mean that it is always going to be easy or better feeling.  I know that it will be the ultimately rewarding thing. The best part is when we choose the side of the Lord we always win and we always feel the relief of what we have accomplished.

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After writing last Monday we had a wonderfully open lesson with Ada, the one that makes papusas, (we have two adas, so this is how I will diferentiate). She told us that she has not been coming to church because she feels uncomfortable because she is not married. We had a nice chat and set the goal to get her married by December. It was kind of a bummer, but we have hope. We had a good lesson with Roberto finishing the Restoration. It was a lot more open and happy and he seemed to be excited for his baptism.

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On Tuesday we had our zone meeting to train on using facebook and things. (we talked a lot about how to input our online area book. It was so different to just be watching videos typing notes and doing stuff all with technology. All of us had headaches afterwards, but I think we have all gotten use to it by now.) Then we had a rougher day with 5 scheduled appointments for lessons and every single one of them fell through. That is just how it is some times. 

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On Wednesday our one great thing was a lesson with Yolando our less active. She is wonderful and kind but is having some word of wisdom problems.  We are trying to get those all shaped up and then we can get her to be worthy to take the sacrament. Oh this work is so interesting there are so many different ways to invite people to come unto Christ/  There is always a lot of resistenct. I am thankful for all of your prayers to further the work! 

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Thursday brought many good things as each day does.  I don't think I said this last week, but our mission president called technology specialist missionaries who have their own area but also help us to further the work online. They really know their stuff and they gave us a lot of awesome ideas of how to get investigators on facebook. I am so excitied to learn more from them. We had an early dinner with the Rodas family and then we had a awesome spiritual thought about keeping the Sabbath day holy.  Sister Rodas seemed to really get it. Then we had a lesson with Roberto again. He is getting so prepared and ready I love it! The problem is that he works on Sundays.. We are just trying to get that worked out! We taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ and it really made sense for him. Then we had weekly planning! 

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Friday we finished our planning and then went to have our interview with President Alba. We have them everyother transfer so this was my first one. It was very quick and to the point. I didn't say too much. The funny thing was he started it in Spanish and then asked if I wanted to do it in Spanish.   I said no but from what I hear you do the rest in Spanish. Now I am a little worried. Luckily I have 12 weeks to bump up my Spanish. Sister Alba gave us special training on improving our skills as a missionary when we have studies in order to be more effective when we go out and teach. Then we had a miracle lesson. We contacted this nice woman in one of the complexes we frequent.  She was very nice.  We tried and tried after that and she was never there or never answered the door. We trued on Friday night and it opened and we taught the plan of salvation. It was AWESOME! We hope to have more lessons with her in the future. 

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Saturday we had a lesson with Brenda about lesson one. She is a new investigator and a high school student. Her family has been to many other churches and all she wants is for all of them to be combined. It was a great lesson and we are very excited for more! Then we had a blitz in Dixon. I was put with Hermana Harris one of the brand new missioanries in opur zone. We had this awesome contact named Juana. I did the whole thing by myself in Spanish and it was awesome. I felt so good about cluing her into the spirit and asking her if she wanted more of that feeling. I set up a return appointment this week.  I am exctied to hear what happens. We had a lesson with the other Ada on the word of wisdom. I was a little nervous because it was the first time I had taught it and it was in Spanish.  She accepted it and said that she would change and it was awesome!. In the evening we shared a mormon message with the Rodas family> Their 8 year old son really seemed to get it. It was on the Book of Mormon and we are just excited for their potential! 

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On Sunday we had a crazy day because we were trying to get Roberto to church in Davis. We went to our meeting in Woodland, left a little early and picked up Roberto to go to the last 2 hours of the single ward in Davis. It all worked out and everyone was so nice to him. We hope his schedule changes so he can go to all 3 hours but we know the Lord will help it happen. We just have to make him believe that. We went on facebook to be able to contact people. We are starting to go on facebook everyday, so it is really exciting to really get to use it effectively.

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Oh the work is good. Some people are nice and we continue to invite others to come unto Christ. I am so grateful for my own coming unto Christ. At times people sometimes think that you go on a mission to change others to help them, but in the end to have true success and joy you yourself are changed for the better to be more of a disciple of Christ. I still have a long way to go but I know that it will set me on the path that our Heavenly Father has for me! Keep doing the work. The members are essential, we can't do it without you! ALso if you have any facebook referals send them on over because I want them! I am eager to have success with those people who need the gospel online!

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Love,

Hermana Cornwall