Cate Mission Weekly Letters

Olááá!!!! As the subject suggests, this week has been so so full of miracles. But the biggest miracle of all has to be our friend Zoe has decided she is going to be baptized on February 27!! We've only taught her for about a week now, but she is so prepared. We taught her the Restoration on Tuesday and I was able to tell her about Joseph Smith's first vision. Right after I finished, she looked at me with a smile so big I could see it through her mask and she said, "wow, that is amazing." Our next lesson with her was on Saturday and she told us she had prayed to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet and if the Book of Mormon was true and she had this overwhelming sense of peace. She read the Book of Mormon every single day since we'd last met, and she absolutely loves it. We invited her to be baptized, and she said yes!! She is beyond excited, and we are too!!  Another miracle from the week, we were on exchanges and Sister Laymon told me she knew this guy at a Gyro pl...

Hello everyone!!! This week was a pretty busy week for us! We got to go on our first round of exchanges this week with one of the companionships of Sisters who live out on the Oregon coast. I never thought I would get to see the ocean on my mission, but there it was! I got to spend the day with Sister Peterson which was a lot of fun. The coast sisters live an hour and a half away from us, so we don't really get to see them except for exchanges and zone conference, so it was nice to go out there for the day and see them. Unfortunately due to COVID we can't stay the night, but it was a good day trip at least! This week we also had Zone Conference! Sister Moore and I presented about Facebook Finding and we set some good goals for the zone that we are excited about.  In terms of teaching, we started teaching someone named Zoe! Zoe was in contact with the missionaries before I got here, but we had never been able to get in contact with her. We texted her on Thursday, and she finally...

  Hello everyone!! This week was a pretty solid week! I had the chance to go to my first MLC which was amazing! At MLC, all the Sister Training Leaders and Zone Leaders gather to receive training from our Mission President and his wife. It was a really great meeting, President Weekes talked a lot to us about differentiating between doctrine and principles which is something I am for sure working on in my studies! The other amazing part about MLC is that I got to see my friends! Sisters Warner and Merrill came up all the way from good old Klamath Falls so I got to see them and talk to them for a little while which was amazing. I love serving in Oregon because so many of the amazing missionaries I have met are going to be in Utah after their missions too so I will continue to get to see them! Tender mercies from COVID:)) In terms of teaching this week, we kind of had a slower week. We are over the YSA here in Corvallis, so most everyone went home for the holidays so it's been kind of...

Happy New Year Everyone!! I hope you all had a great time celebrating and got to set some good goals for yourself! This week was just full of adjusting:) I had to say goodbye to the other two Sisters I was living with and the great ward I was in. But now I live in Corvallis which is at the very top of our mission! I've slowly made my way from the very bottom of the mission to the very top. My new companion's name is Sister Moore and she is in the last transfer of her mission, WILD! So I will be her last ever companion, lots of pressure there. I have seriously learned so much from her already, she is a fantastic missionary. As I mentioned before, I am serving in the Young Single Adult ward up here which means we cover the Oregon State University Campus! Unfortunately due to COVID, not many people are living at school right now and we aren't allowed to go walk around on campus and try to talk to people which is unfortunate. So hopefully things will start loosening up and we w...