Last June - June 28, 2021

 
Last June
June 28, 2021
 
Hey Ma, 
 
This week was a really cool week! I had an exchange with the AP (assistant to the president). It was a really fun time, we talked a lot about different speeches and talks given by Prophets and Apostles. It was really cool to learn so much information. We also had some good lessons that brought lots of cool insights through my studies. The APs also live with the office Elders and it was fun talking to them throughout the exchange. 
 
Then the other great part of the week was a lesson we were able to have with a member referral. The lesson was so amazing. I felt the spirit so much and he was understanding the things being said. He
also believes that Joseph Smith was called to be a prophet. I really enjoy being a missionary at this time. 
 
That was the greats of the week. Love you all
 
Love Elder Cormack

Hey Familia - June 21, 2021

Hey Familia

June 21, 2021
Hola mi madre, 
 
Esta semana fue bueno, we had a lot of exchanges, some fire member visits and new people to teach. We went on three exchanges within the last week and lots of great things happened through the exchanges. One of the things that happened was the miracle of finding someone new. I was with Elder Parmenter and we had some open time so we went to the mission office and look for mail. We found some mail and of course delivered it. From there we found some grey dots that we could stop by and visit. Well one house was a no show and vacant. Second was home but lied about visiting with missionaries. Now the third was home and open to us teaching her. But the funny thing is my Spanish isn't that great so it was a short message. And then hard dedication in getting a return appointment mostly because I couldn't tell if she was saying no. That was really fun. The other thing we had was zone Conference which was fun. 

But nothing much else has happened besides the normal everyday life of being a missionary. 
 
Love 
Elder Cormack

Mission Conference - June 7, 2021

 Mission Conference
June 7, 2021

Hey Ma,
 
I really enjoyed this week and all of the meetings that came with it. I was able to feel spiritual witnesses to all that was said and done. MLC was a great start to the week and I enjoyed the trainings given on repentance. I think it is important to remember that we can always be better than we were the last day. 

Then the next day we had ZLC which was amazing. Following around the same kind of style of training we received earlier we gave it to our District leaders. It went great for our zone and all of the District Leaders had great council and ideas on how to help the zone be better. Then Friday was our Zone Council, it was great! I felt the spirit strongly that whole meeting. We discussed and taught our zone how we can do better and how we can improve. We still need to ask and receive feedback for how it went. I started off with reading my mission call. I hadn't fully realized that it can help strengthen a desire there and how the blessings promised if we do what we have accepted. Then we talked about principle based obedience instead of blind obedience and how there is so much joy to be found through this. And it all starts with repentance and that desire to be like Christ. To end the meeting we had the District leaders get up and share promised blessings for their specific District based on the mission commitment. Then closed with singing The Spirit Of God which brought the spirit so much more powerfully than before. 

I have a new love for that song, cause as we sing it on the stand waiting for Elder Gong I could feel the Spirit come over me and was just so amazing. The other great thing was all of the lessons we were able to teach as well. 

To share something from my studies goes back to the song The Spirit of God. In the first verse second line we read "The visions and blessings of old are returning," and it brought to think of the Book of Mormon especially the chapters where it prophesies of its coming forth. Which goes on to show that the visions of old have returned and more continue. The Book of Mormon is full of visions and blessings of old and now we can read them. While I was thinking on that song and those chapters. One prophecy came back up and it is in Chapter 27 of 2 Nephi where Isaiah says that a learned man won't be able to read a sealed book. That can apply to us today. If we read the Book of Mormon with just the intent to read and then call it good we won't truly learn something or with a secular mind it may be hard to understand certain chapters. But if we have the Spirit with us and a true interest then the Book of Mormon unfolds itself to us. I thought that was an interesting way of reading those verses and hearing that song.

 
That was the week of busy meetings 
 
Love Elder Cormack