Dear family,

Transfers are this week...and we're staying in Black Creek for six more weeks! :) We're happy because of what we've got planned with the fireside and the movie in the park.

We didn't get anyone to church this last week. We will make that part of our focus this week since if they don't get to church they can't progress!

Jose is doing well. He was working a job out of town and wasn't able to come back for church, but he's been reading and praying and has quit drinking coffee! He says he's also been praying about his date and is feeling more at peace about it. He is progressing well. The Diaz family didn't come because their son who's on a mission called during the hour of sacrament meeting. The wife has been reading a praying, but the husband not so much. Raul still hasn't been able to get work off on sundays. We're not sure what more to do with him to help him at this point, but there is still hope that he will make it to his june date.

Our recent converts are doing well. Two of them are coming every week and the other comes every other or so.

It was nice to talk to you all on the phone yesterday. Congrats again Jacob! and enjoy your time in Cali!

The weather has really started to warm up here so this morning we decided to take a jog for our morning exercise. It was beautiful. Many times at night we end up running the last stretch home to make it on time and last night Hna. Camejo said something insightful of how we were running to spread the news of the gospel. In the Bible after Christ's resurrection we see two instances where the disciples ran to tell others. At the end of Matthew, the women who had gone to the tomb were told by the angels to go quickly to tell the others that Christ had risen and was coming. They then ran back. Then we read at the end of John that Peter and John hear of the news and run to see the tomb. They arrive and they see the linens folded neatly and they believe. From this we learn that there should be a sense of urgency in the work. Our time is short, and it's getting shorter, but there's so much yet to do. We can't go about doing it with a slow gait; we must run as fast as we have strength. The Lord wants us to be "anxiously engaged" in a good cause (D&C 58:8-9). What better cause then that of declaring the glad tidings of the gospel of Jesus Christ? Start now, and just as you build up stamina as you run each day physically (which is what I am starting to do), you can build it as you do His work.

I love you all!

Yours,

Hna. Cottam