her name is.... Sister Sprouse!!!
yeah so they split up my sister training leaders, sister allison is training and sister sprouse is my companion! haha its fun she is really chill and i am chill so we get along great! its really cool so because she is an stl we are going to get to go on exchanges alot so sister donaldson or i will go to one of our areas and the stls will go on exchanges! so i get to hang out with a rock awesome greenie alot!!
haha its funny just how a new perspective can change things, sister sprouse and i are working on talking to every person we meet and it has been fun because we have gotten some awesome potential investigators now!! also, so sister wheeler gave the stls a traning on dress as a missionary, and sister sprouse was sad because she was trying to be obedient and her skirts were just too short, so the day she told me we were stopping by a potentials house elders had found a while ago, so we stopped by and his wife answered and immediately let us in so my companion and i were like " well she is either golden or she is a member" turns out she was neither, so she has alot of mormon friends, some that have kids on missions, and she claims the title mormon adjacent she says she loves everything about the church, except for some of the teachings :( any way, she works for an lds company called lularoe so she GAVE us each a skirt that we could pick out! she said it was because she hopes that someone would do something like that for her friends son. so #miracle even if she isnt interested it was crazy!
second # miracle is that i have this hymnbook that has a whole bunch of quotes in it, i made it when i left so if a bishop or someone randomly asked me to talk i would be prepared, but i lost it and was kinda sad, but i was like oh well and forgot about it, then i get a call yesterday from brother stoddard (basically one of my favorite families) in magma ranch ward. that a couple who were looking for a house met him and he told them to not go to magic ranch (its out of his ward) but they went, and got in a wreck, so they were just walking around and they found this hymnbook sitting on the ground (turns out it was in front of an awesome womans house who is a member) but they started to look through it.. and this is where it gets crazy, just a few days before i put a sticky note with brother stoddards name on it because he always says "one fight one team" and i really liked it so i put it next to the hymn we are all enlisted. so they gave him the hymnbook and then he was like "who would do this... sister cordon" so yeah it was too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence.... heavenly father really wants me to have that hymnbook for something.... its really funny because i havent even used it yet! #igotthemessage
its really cool to see how heavenly father looks out for his servants, just in the little things. he wants us to succeed! its like nephi in the book of mormon " And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." 1 nephi 3:7
and its so true even just like.. you are trying to be obedient... heres a skirt, or, sister... why did you loose this, here have it back. he really does love his children!
oh so another cool miracle this week, we met with an investigator, mike, and he just sat down and was like here! this is all of my reasons why i am not on date to be baptized and then he answered his own concerns! he is not on date, but i think he will be soon, also, he has been struggling with smoking, but then he was like "i am going to be done smoking by next week" apparently he is taking this medication that makes cigarettes taste terrible because he was in the infantry in the army and he is sick of getting winded just from walking up stairs. so talk about crazy!
also the girls on date are awesome, their mom who does not want to be contacted by the church just wants them to write a 3 paragraph essay on 3 other religions... so yeah thats cool. they are sweet hearts, the oldest Skye is 12 and then kayla is 9 its really cool :)
so yeah that has been my week! I remembered to send pictures!!
whelp!
i love you each alot! just remember that i love you, Jesus loves you, Heavenly Father loves you.... and satan hates your face!!
Love,
sister (sestra, hermana, mckayla, whatever you want to call it) cordon :)
also my companion just showed me a meme of a dog wearing a cowboy hat with a confused expression saying "what in tarnation" that someone sent her
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yup this transfer is going to be awesome :)
1 am i a dork, yes
2 wally world
3 hats!! (brother sidenstrickers son made them for us)
4 they are thug life.. i am not #storyofmylife
5 a members daughter gave these to us.. i got a pug #puglife #hisnameispugmire
6 the zone
7 sistas of the flo zone!
8 sistas!
8 sistas!
9 another one of the zone
10 #dorks
11 the new house!! this transfer is going to rock! (also 3/4 of the people in this picture are beautiful.... guess who the one is? yup shes the one in the back by the blond :)..) but yeah sister donaldson is in front of me she is the new greenie and is a rock star!
also more pictures!!!
(arnt you just lucky ducks?)
1 we got zone t shirts
2 the back needs explaining so its a thing of solomon's temple. so the first box at the bottom is the temple alter that represents repentance, then the circle is the washing and anointing that they did which represents baptism then they pass into the first room that is like the receiving the gift of the holy ghost, then they go into the room passing through a veil to the holy of holies where they can be in the presence of god, which is the end goal and why we endure to the end :) the arrow is our faith so it is Faith in the lord Jesus Christ,because thats what we have to start with, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the holy ghost, and enduring to the end goal of being with our heavenly father again :) which is the doctrine of Christ and what our focus is as a mission! and the wings are just to look cool, also, we were challanged to THRIVE
anywho we were challenged to thrive with the new missionary schedule so that is our goal, also the elders are dorks
3 this is the member girl (she has a learning disability so we are teaching her the lessons so they can be sure she knows what the church believes... its a long story but she isnt an investigator) who gave us the stuffed animals
4 this is bishop packards wife and three of his kids with my comps
5 and this is us with Billy, (the wife) brother sidenstricker (our ward mission leader in the back in the red shirt) and his son Phillip who made us the hats, he has an awesome story, basically, they rock
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