Alysha Cox's Missionary Blog

  Hi Everyone! It was a busy week, not as crazy as last week though.   This week we met with Ashley and Rusty and Winston again! They had their kids sit down and listen, plus an X husband. Yo! Kinda like a little park gathering. But the family is reading the Book of Mormon, and it's helping them get through a tough time. They don't actually live in our area, so we'll work on transitioning them to some different sisters but until then, I will love them so much!   Just had a quick call with Pattie to invite her to pray about a date to be baptized so she has a goal for when to stop smoking. Also had a lesson in Spanish with Eduardo. Our ward mission leader did almost all of the talking since he speaks Spanish. It was chill. The Spirit still is powerful even when you don't understand the language.   We celebrated Sister Stanley's birthday 🎂 .  Our ward mission leader invited us over for dinner and she got to blow out the candles! 😊 1. Living the park lif...

  Hi Everyone! We got questioned by a police officer, went to the hospital, and I got a tattoo. Haha, let me explain. No. There is too much let me summarize.  We were out by the library, then as we're leaving, a cop pulls up, points at us to stay put and starts telling our license plate number to his shoulder communicator thing. I guess the fire alarms had started going off in the library, and they thought we might have had something to do with it. Haha, he then got a message that it was a false alarm and we were good to go. So funny.  Also, there was a bug in my shirt, which I found while I was driving, and I grabbed it between the fabric of my shirt, and not knowing what kind of but it was, I squished it. I was so scared I had squished a fire fly. That would have crushed my soul. Instead it was actually just an ugly bug. But that ugly bug stained my fingers! For like 5 days I had a little tattoo on my thumb!  And then the Hospital, we went to the hospital to visit ...

  Hi Everyone! This week was interesting. We got kicked out of a music store, Got fed a lot of member meals *literally every single night. Haha, we also had Zone Conference. It was so sad to have out last conference with President Page. When it finished, someone turned on God be With You As Until We Meet Again. We stood there and sang, and cried. I love these two leaders so much!  I'm going to miss them a lot.  We had a meeting that talked about finding by the spirit, and used the story of how Peter cast his net all day and caught no fish. But then, when he makes a simple adjustment after Jesus's direction, his nets are so full they're about to break! Well, right after that zoom meeting we decided to knock for a minute before heading to a member's house. Well. We knocked one door, and Joyce answered! We talked about the restoration and had a good conversation, she told us, that sounds true. We are excited to have a second lesson. You can spend hours knocking or on faceb...

  Hi Everyone!     My new area is amazing.      Okay I don't even know how to describe this. Well, Tally, our ward mission leader put it pretty good when he described it as "celestial".      What the heck?     Okay so first we go into the apartment that doesn't smell like weed *meaning it's a nice one*. Then we go to the grocery store and this lady stops us before we even enter and asks, well if we're Amish. It was so funny. But we explained that we were missionaries and she asked if we could get a bible. So we ran back to our car (We have our OWN car!!) and got a bible for her. What? This area really is so cool. We ran into so many people out here in contacts who we were able to share a message with. I'm so excited. Also, there are no Spanish missionaries covering this area, so you might as well call me Hermana Cox now. We're doing our best with the Spanish we know, but if people are interested, we'll teach them, even if it's throu...