Week 7 More Savior Like Thee

September 24, 2018

Events from this week
     On Tuesday I decided that I was going to live that day as if it were my last chance to do missionary work. Started like a normal day, but then it turned upside down and insanely busy in a matter of seconds. We were knocking doors in Gunn, and we got a call from another set of missionaries in the Palmerston area. Apparently there was Branch Council that night, in a meeting room, and nobody had gotten the key to the meeting room. They closed at 4:30, and it was 4:20. Because we were closest to the area, we sprinted to our bikes, and biked as fast and hard as we could. I even ended up drifting my bike around a corner on the way! We somehow got the key, and went back to door knocking, then we had to go get our meal from the members, and go to Branch Council and after branch council, there was a flock of probably 300 cockatoos flying overhead. It was cool. We finally got back to the flat at 8:30 and could eat the meal we had picked up 2 hours earlier. So yes. I got to live as if it were my last chance to do missionary work, and I loved it. 

     Wednesday was arrivers training number two. My companion and I went to Elder and Sister Clyde's flat, and it was broadcast up here to Darwin. The focus was on teaching people, not lessons, but baptizing converts, and not people. Also focusing on why the temple is the end goal. Anybody can commit to the follow the Savior for a day or 10 minutes. But the real test is following Him and His commandments for the rest of eternity. That is where the most growth comes.

     Thursday was my birthday so that was fun, the Clyde's got me a cake and some tim-tams (an Australian cookie) which are the best. We also went to a mexican place for dinner. 

Saturday we had trade offs so I was with Elder Hirro for the day! Such a cool guy and learned a lot from him. 

Time is short so there is a lot I am leaving out of this email, I am sorry. 

More Savior like Thee...
     Why is this the title of my email? Well any of you who have been reading my emails, or any other missionaries emails knows that missions are full of opposition. Here in Gunn, we have had no "number" success to report for nearly three weeks. When we do all we can and go to the edge of what we can do, and God still tells us to keep pushing, it is hard to do so. But that is where we are transformed. 

     That is where we catch a glimpse of what the Savior went through Himself. And that is where we learn to live as He did, and as He continues to live today. In these hard times in my mission where it looks as if the Gunn area is a dead area, I have been living to the fullest. I have become more charitable, full of hope, faith, diligence, and patience. I have only obtained these traits though relying on the Savior and His Atonement, there is no other way that I could have continued going, and no other way that I could have grown in the way that I have. Christ had the most opposition, so it would make sense that the only way to become like Him is to experience a small portion of the opposition that He faced. Life is meant to be hard, because when we experience hard things we grow and learn how to push through and to rely on the Savior more fully.

      Opposition also brings miracles. As Elder Nayusan and I have pressed forward through the tribulation, we have proven to God that He can trust us. And now He has trusted us with a man named Michael. Michael is keen to learn the gospel and is now on date for Baptism on the 27 of October. He is extremely friendly and understands what we teach and is willing to accept whatever God's truths may be. Another miracle is that another friend of ours, his name is Thorin, has reappeared out of the dust and showed up at church yesterday. 

I am out of time, but it has been an extremely exciting week, and God has proven to me that when I dedicate myself wholeheartedly to Him, no matter the circumstances, He will prosper me. (Thank you Elder Miner) 

And He will do the same for you.

Firm in the Faith.


-Elder Cozzens

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