Cate Mission Weekly Letters

Olááá a todos!  Another week flew by here in Corvallis! Because it was the start of a new transfer, we had our MLC meeting in Eugene where we receive counsel from our Mission President and his wife. They talked to us about ministering and always focusing on the needs of the people we are serving. Definitely applicable to everything we do as missionaries and something I am going to take with me after my mission as well. He also told us as a mission, this past month we messaged over 11,000 new people which is insane!! The work is still moving forward despite the pandemic! And at MLC I got to see Sister Warner my running buddy from Klamath Falls. It was probably the last time I'll see her until I finish my mission, because she goes home in March! So bittersweet for sure! We started to hear back from some of the people we are teaching which is really good! They've all been struggling with some things in their personal lives but we are hopefully going to get to see them sometime thi...

Oláá! First off I want to say thank you for all the birthday wishes! Crazy to think I'm 20 and no longer a teenager.  Well this week there was a lot of new to say the least. I said goodbye to Sister Moore who is now back home in Utah and now I am companions with Sister Bennett. She has been out for a year and was originally called to Iquitos Peru but never made it. This is my first time receiving a companion as a missionary, I've always been the one to get transferred. And she's never been a STL before so I'm also training her to do that, too as I've only been a STL for one transfer. So like I said, lots of new! But we are figuring things out! A few highlights from this week were helping a member of our ward prepare her flower shop for Valentine's Day, getting pie shakes with some of the Sisters, helping pass out free meals, and getting to see lots of my friends at the transfer spot. We are kind of at a stand still with teaching right now, all of the people that...

Olá meus queridos!! This week I hit EIGHT WHOLE MONTHS as a missionary. I feel like it was just yesterday that I showed up here in Oregon! This week also marked one year since I received my mission call to the Brazil Campinas Mission! Little did I know when I got my call that I would be serving in Oregon in the middle of a pandemic, but here we are and all I can say is it's a good thing God is in control! He knew how amazing Oregon would be for me so he made it possible for me to come here and hopefully also go to Brazil for a little bit too!  This week I got to meet with Jake and his wife who speak Portuguese and that was pretty awesome! They want to teach us how to make Brazilian food and help me improve my Portuguese! So that's going to be awesome. We also got to have dinner with our new friend Nicole! She is from the Marshall islands and is wanting to deepen her relationship with God. When she found out Sister Moore was leaving, she gave us both little purse things made fro...

  Olá!!!!! This was another solid week here in Corvallis! We started teaching another girl named Zoe and she's awesome! She has a lot of questions and we are excited to keep teaching her. Our other friend Zoe is progressing so well. We taught her about the Plan of Salvation this week and she loved it. She said it really aligned with the views she has of a loving and merciful God. She is so excited to be baptized and we're excited for her, too! We were also able to go out on exchanges with the other companionship of sisters on the coast which is always a good time. On Tuesday it snowed and I was so excited! Up until I had to drive our Corolla through the snow, and let me tell you those cars are terrible snow cars. Luckily, everyone in all of Corvallis doesn't know how to drive in the snow so we were going sub 15 mph everywhere anyways. But let's just say it took me 5 minutes to park the car outside our apartment because I couldn't get over a one inch snow pile in fro...