Sept 2020

Sep 7, 2020 12:38pm
11Months
 
Hola a todos en mi familia,
 
Starting on Wednesday the 2nd of September. I have hit 11 months on the mission. Wowzaaz it has flown by quickly. I always thought two years was a long time. But as I am serving others and just sharing my testimony of the greatest message. I have found that time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana.
 
Now back to the day before the 11 month mark. We did service on the onion harvester again. This time we were able to meet a non-member and share our purpose and why we are far from home out on the onion harvester.  More of the food pantry service. Where we make boxes of food for people and load it into their cars. Another great way for the town to know missionaries aren't teaching robots but we want to serve and love helping all. We did some teaching with members and one of the families filmed our lesson. I will have to continue getting it so you may all watch me at work.

 

Friday was zone council, just some more training on what we could do better and how we can continue having hope in these hard times. Then Friday night we went to a member that owns a feedlot. We just talked about animals, and my time in Peru. I enjoy getting to know the people around here in Nyssa Oregon. I was able to make connections with them and talk about all kinds of different things in life. But what was the coolest is that we can always bring the gospel back into the conversation. It connects to all aspects of life.
 
Saturday there was a funeral we went to help set up and offer support to the family. As I listened at this funeral and felt the spirit, love everyone had, and the faith they will see him again. I was reminded of why I became a missionary. I came out on this mission to teach others that through Christ they can be with their loving family forever. That death does not separate us. Through the week I was reminded of my purpose and the desire I have to be here as a missionary for the Lord.
 
Later in the day we did some service with a non-member and it was so great to share with him and be a missionary once again. To have that face contact and initiate the conversation towards Christ. It has mostly been just members we have talked to about Christ.

 
Now on to our busiest day, Sunday. We started off with church at 9 to 9:45 ten 10:30 to 11:15 all still for the same ward. Since we went down to phase 1. Only 50 people could be in a building at a time. Then we had some meetings the rest of our day. Sunday evening there was a farewell party for a member going off to college. She had invited her friend to come to this party, but a couple weeks before this she gave him a Book of Mormon as well. We were able to meet with him and share some thoughts with him and see if he is interested in learning more. I was also able to connect with him since he is going to the University of Oregon. Go ducks. That's all I got. Ya’ll have a good week. And don't have too much fun.
 
Love Elder Cormack
 
 
Sep 14, 2020 2:34pm
Jovens
 
Hola mi familia,
 
This week I kept busy and tried to have less and less free time.  We did a lot of work with the youth and served the people around as well. This Saturday we had gotten the transfer boards as well. They let us know who is staying or going. I found out that I am staying here in Nyssa but becoming District leader and a trainer.
 
Tuesday we stayed out in Owyhee and just visited with all kinds of families and continue to get to know them. Wednesday we had our normal lesson plan with a new convert then service once again at the Food Pantry. We also had a fireside that we once again went and met with the youth. Thursday was service again at the food pantry but oh boy it was lots of work and very heavy boxes. 

Friday we did service with our ward mission leader in Owyhee and it was a lot of fun work that reminded me of back home on the farm. We had to pound t-posts and re-build a fence. Saturday was fence service as well. Then we had a youth fireside. It was a good time for us to get to know the youth and allow them to know us as well. We each got 15 minutes to do a game and then a spiritual thought as well. The youth are so amazing and are excited to help us in the work. They brought some of their non-member friends which was amazing. 

Sunday was a good one as well. I was able to give a talk in church as well about Coming unto Christ. It was such a beautiful talk. We must stay strong in the gospel before we can invite others. The best way we can bring others unto Christ is by the example we show.

 
Love Elder Cormack
 

Sep 21, 2020 1:19pm

Apples
 
Hola madre,
 
This week was a good week full of great blessings.  The Vale sisters had a Facebook ad for produce and someone from Nyssa contacted them asking for produce. So the sisters got in touch with us asking if we may drop off some produce and talk to her. Well as we went to drop it off we started to ask her about the gospel and if she has met missionaries before. From this meeting we were able to come back and teach her a lesson. We had the Vale sisters come with us because she is a single sister. It went amazing, listening to her tell us about her life story I was prompted to go over the plan of salvation. I have a cutout to where it spells love and taught that God loves us so much he gave us this plan. And she accepted a commitment and return date. Now in Owyhee we are teaching Nico, he is 10 yrs. old and we have been meeting with him for a while. When we last visited him we went over the plan of salvation with a focus on baptism and repentance as our purpose in life. We then asked if he understood what baptism means and if he would follow Christ and be baptized. He said YES. I was excited and happy to hear it. So we invited him to think about what that means for him and hoping that on our next visit we may put a date down and finalize his desire to follow Christ.
 
Besides all of the teaching I have been doing, service is the next biggest thing we have done. First off starting with moving irrigation pipe out of the hay fields, then we had service at the church apple orchard. It was so much fun picking apples off the tree and wearing the special buckets they pick them in.

 

Next big news is my new companion fresh out of the MTC. I am a trainer at the moment. He is a really cool elder. He is from Cheyenne Wyoming, and we are pretty similar we have found like family size, farming and being outdoors. I am really excited to teach him how to be a missionary and excited to show him a hard work ethic and how to love the people we meet. Not much else about the week besides all of these.

 
Love Elder Cormack