Miracles

Family and Friends,

I want to start today by just listing some of the miracles I have seen this past week. We had a region wide fast yesterday concerning the drought here in Southern California and as we were leaving our Relief Society President's house last night it was raining! I wanted to just run up and down the streets singing for joy, we were really excited :D.  We have also had the wonderful miracle of meeting with basically every investigator I ever worked with here in Diamond Bar within the past week, it has been really cool. Mike was called as a co teacher with Brother Arnold for the Gospel Principles class and taught yesterday! We have been extremely blessed in finding some cool potentials in our goal to talk with everyone. Sister Ott and I set the goal to meet with all the sisters we are over within these first two weeks and we have plans to do so. We have been able to stay extremely busy over the past week. I feel more exhausted after this week than I have any other week of my mission - I would definitely count the fact that I haven't crashed yet as a huge miracle!  I am sure there are so many more, but I will stop there. I feel so blessed to be back here with Sister Ott. President, in his e-mail to me today mentioned how he didn't even realize that he was sending me back to an area I had served in, he just knew that Sister Ott and I would do well here in Diamond Bar and he wanted us to be a strength to the zone. I have felt over and over again the past couple days how much the Lord trusts me. It is a wonderful feeling to know that the Lord has given me a responsibility that He knows I can accomplish. Although I sometimes lack in faith in myself I can always turn back to remembering that the Lord trusts in me. It is inspiring to think that although we are weak, the Lord does trust us, as His children, to help each other return to live with Him again. We have so many different ways to accomplish that work - Temple Work, Missionary Work, even everyday kindness and service. I can just see over and over again the wonderful example God gives to us of being the master Teacher. He gives us a hands on opportunity to help Him accomplish His work. We are so blessed to have such a marvelous and loving Heavenly Father.

I love you all and I am so grateful for the wonderful examples that you are. I appreciate so much all your prayers and can really feel your support every day.

Love,
Sister Cook