Our Threesome!

Danielle was so lucky to be able to stay in Williamsburg and not get transferred out or to another companion. Instead she was able to stay with Sis. Sowards and they got a new companion, Sis. Moore. Danielle is having a great time with both of them. They get along really well.

She has just recently had a baptism, a 17 year old girl, that she was able to teach the gospel to. They have had great success in Williamburg and the surrounding area! Just recently Danielle, being Danielle, caught her skirt on a cactus in a large pot outside someones door. She about killed both the plant and the pot, but Sis. Moore was able to catch everything in time to stop the domino effect. We, here mom and dad, were just recently able to meet with her Williamsburg Ward mission leader in SLC. He is a student at a law school back in VA and was here on a recruiting trip. It was so fun to actually visit with someone who had just recently been with her. He couldn't give her a hug for us, so instead he gave her a hardy hand shake. I guess that will have to do. Also, I received a phone call from a member of her ward, who was with her at the time of the call. Oh how I wanted to ask her to put Danielle on the phone, but being GOOD, I didn't. Tempting!!!

They meet a couple who were just thinking that they wanted to get God in their lives. It was not by chance that these missionaries knocked on their door. This couple was just in the process of moving out of VA and we are hoping that the ward and missionaries will work with them and teach them in their new state. Anyone know anyone is Idaho, Boise area, who would love to bring this family into the church?

She will undoubtedly not be able to stay in Williamsburg, or keep her wonderful companions for too much longer. Who knows what will happen with the next transfers? But for now, all is well. She couldn't be happier and knows that the church is true, loves to teach people about it and wouldn't have traded these experiences for anything!

SIs. Sowards and Me

Wow, could anyone be a happier missionary? Sis. Cox, aka Danielle, loves her companion. They are a great team. Both love to jog and workout, both love to do hair (her companion is actually a hair stylist) and both love the gospel. They are both from Utah and so when 2 - 4 inches of snow fell last week, Yikes, they didn't know what to do, ha ha. Actually they can't leave their apartment when it snows because they are not equipped with road plows or cars that drive well in the snow. The humidity causes the roads to ice over rapidly and they have a lot of accidents, but to true Utahns it was weird being snowed in!



Danielle said in her last email that if she had to leave her mission today she would feel like she had completed it. They have introduced the gospel to so many wonderful people. When they get these investigators to a baptism the spirit is so strong that they want to know more about the gospel. It is true that the Lord places missionaries just where they are needed at the right moment. This has happened so many times in her mission that it is no doubt that the Lord is not working through these 2 sister missionaries. I would love to tell everyone about everything, but some things are just too sacred and private, however the gospel is REAL. Never doubt!



They have had an opportunity to be in the old colonial towns, the fun ones with all the historical things, etc. She was able to go into a church that was built in the 1700's , like 1710, where George Washington and the founding fathers went. She said the spirit there was overwhelming and it just felt wonderful. So, they do get to actually talk to people in these areas as well as tour them on P-Day.



She was so worried about having to leave her first area so soon, so when she had an interview with her Mission Pres. she was anxious. When the phone call came she was so excited. They are going to leave her there and just add a third sister to the companionship. Now when they are teaching a man they don't have to find someone in the ward to go with them. I don't know what the rules are, but she said this was going to be a great thing.



The ward members are great and feed them often and look out after them. It really must be like a big family in the ward there. Her ward mission leader is coming into SLC tomorrow and we have been in contact with him and are going to meet him. He is on a trip out here, he attends post graduate school at William & Mary. I am so excited I can hardly wait. Not that he can bring us to her or her to us, but just to be able to talk face to face with someone she is working so much with right now it exciting.



Some of the "Men" they have contacted have had the wrong idea about sister missionaries and want to date them before they will go to church with them, but missionaries don't date. Thank Heavens for that! And because of this it shows what some investigators are really thinking! We are just grateful that the Lord is watching out for all his missionaries.



Well, thats it for now. Will update this as we get more pictures and information.