Dear Family & Friends,
It's hard to know where to begin, yesterday was a very special fast & testimony meeting. Our new mission President & Sister Adams bore their testimonies as well as President & Sister Donnelly. Then there was a
continual line of people who wanted to share their testimonies. One man who has only been baptised two months blessed the sacrament for the first time and bore his testimony. He is going to be a great strength to the ward and the community. He talked about how the adversary was working on their family since they had been baptised and how prayer had helped them. After Church we hosted lunch for President & Sister Adams, the Donnelly's & Grays. We enjoyed getting to know this new couple. He is an oral surgeon from Fresno California. We had a fireside later that evening and he shared with us how they got their calling and how they knew that this is where they were supposed to be. He told us of his week with the apostles being trained and how they had gone to Church last Sunday with President Monson presiding. They both have wonderful spirits and will be a real assest to this area. We look forward to getting to know them better. After the fireside they couples came to our house and we played Chicken Foot, which is a fun game using dominoes, and we had a wonderful time. President & Sister Donnelly leave today and we are going to miss them a lot. They have promised to come to Cedar to visit us and we hope to see them at October Conference in 2013, when we will have a reunion. I want to share a story from one of our wonderful missionaries Elder Loose. He shared this story of a 6 year old boy who fell off the roof of his house on his head on a Friday night. The missionaries were called to go to the hospital and give him a blessing. When they arrived his head was super swollen and his arm was bandaged up. They gave him a blessing right before he was sent to another hospital. The next day they got a text from the father that said, "The doctor witnessed a miracle, Mamoun, the son, is fine and his head is no longer swollen at all. He will be coming home on Monday." The doctor found no fractures or anything wrong with him. The missionary said,
"This was truly a miracle from God. I truly know that the Priesthood is real and that God lives" This is just one of many stories that we have heard here. We will end with this great thought that our granddaughter Morgan sent to us.
 
Mis-sion-ar-y, (Noun) Someone who leaves their family for 18 months
to two years so that others can be with their family for Eternity.We
love all of you, Elder & Sister Cornelius