HELLO!!!!!!! Oh my word reading e-mails makes me so happy! Sam e-mailed me back finally! Ha ha it was a pretty lame letter but at least he wrote me back!! I'll email him back and tell him to send me a non-lame email next time ha... So glad to hear the 4th of July went well!! I loved hearing about all your fun activities! It made me miss Henefer and the 4th! Rialto is wonderful! On the 4th there was a lot of drunk people and crazy parties and stuff so we had to be home early... So we did our weekly planning which takes about 2 hours... Then we went to sleep to the beautiful sound of fireworks or gun shots... I don't know which! ha just kidding...
My new favorite snack: Cigar Pretzels!
Ummmmmmmm.... soooooo we went to Subway the other day with the other 2 sisters, Sister Young and Sister Mucke and I have never prayed in a public place like that before... and I think it's kind of............ hmmm... Inappropriate!!! But! we all sat down and then were like ok who wants to say the prayer and I was like... Uh.... wait... people really do this??? No. I can't do this... That's what i was thinking. But we did it and I felt way uncomfortable. ahahahaha jeez... I probably shouldn't huh?... whatever... that's something I guess I will have to get used to!
ALSO! another awkward moment! we do these things called role playing ALLL THE TIME, where you act like an investigator and your companion teaches you or whatever. We had our first zone meeting this week and we all met. Then we had our district meeting where there are like 7 of us and our district leader made me and sister Busenbark role play in front of everyone!! And I was the missionary!!! Oh my word... i was nervous!!! it was pretty embarrassing i'm sure i was red.
Hiking
Elder Seiright is in my district! So I get to see him all the time. Our whole zone went on a hike today. It was REALLY hot! we were all sweating like beasts!! We hiked to a waterfall. Then Me, Sister Mucke, and a few of the Elders were dumb and decided to hike up even farther. It was really steep and scary and a weed stabbed my leg. It was really high annnnnnd rocks almost hit me and some of the elders got hit by rocks! Yea...we were really blessed that none of us got hurt! I took some pictures and a boring video of the hike.
Crazy Hikers
Sister Mucke from Germany
But I love getting to know all the people in my zone! We have elders and sisters from Germany, Ohio, Arizona, Utah, and Mexico! I keep finding myself wanting to go hang out and talk to the Elders all the time...... I guess i am just drawn to MEN! I'm sick of being around women all the time!! ha ha just kidding I'm not. BUT oh my word!! I've never hugged so many women in my life!!!! EVERYONE hugs you! At church this Sunday I'm pretty sure i hugged like 40 different women! Sometimes random women just hug me!! So yeah. I'm pretty awkward. Today I touched an elders hand. That was exciting. He helped me jump off of a rock. Cool.
Uummm... Sister Busenbark and I met a kid named Omar. He hated hearing us talk about Jesus and stuff. He said he felt way awkward, and said we could talk to his family sometime. So that sometime came around and we met his dad! who is AWESOME! He is a truck driver so he is gone a lot but he loves Jesus Christ and God! We talked to him about the restoration and he was SOOO feeling the spirit! We gave him a book of Mormon and he said he'd read it. But he was so nice he just let us into his house as soon as he opened the door! but the main reason he let us in was because he wanted us to teach Omar... but Omar wasn't having it... it got kind of awkward cause Omar got all defensive and started yelling at his dad and we were just sitting there... His dad feels really bad that he never taught his kids about Jesus Christ and he wishes they had them in their life. But... we didn't set up another appointment with him because the only day he was going to be home was Sunday and that was his family day and his family would probably be pretty mad if he blew them off for the missionaries........... =/ so he said just stop by again and see if he is home... i don't know what will happen but........ He wants the gospel! i can see it in his eyes!
OH! there is this sweet family they have 2 kids Alex and Allen. They are inactive members and we visit them every Wednesday to teach them and Alex (11 year old girl) teaches us about what she has learned (we give her something to study each week) this week she was teaching us about missionaries. She made a board game and I landed on the "bare your testimony at church" and of course it was fast and testimony meeting this week! perfect!!! So we committed them to come to church on Sunday... and..... THEY CAME!!!! and Alex and I bore our testimonies and she is soooo sweet. She loves learning about the gospel! In my testimony i forgot the prophets name... so that was pretty funny. Ha ha how did i forget that!?!? President Hinkley kept coming to my mind!
Wolf-Dog sitting funny!
On the 4th of July Sister Busenbark ran over a curb and we got a slashed flat tire.......... and there was this really nice young man who saw it happen so he helped us and totally changed the tire and totally sweated EVERYWHERE. I felt bad... because he looked all nice and then he was drenched with sweat after the tire change... we gave him a mormon.org card.. Mormon.org is awesome. Then we sat in the tire repair shop for like an hour.. and 3 days earlier Sister Busenbark turned too sharp flipping a U-turn and the back side of the car by the tire got all scratched and dented haha! So I might be the new driver after we meet our mission president on Wednesday! I hope not... i hate driving.
We arm Wrestled at a members house after dinner and they were all doing it and it was fun to watch. I don't really like doing competitive sweaty hand stuff so i was just watching then they were like sister Davis you have to!! so i did.. and i beat 3 other girls and the last one was really HARD! i was dying and our hands were DISGUSTING! I almost quit just because i was so revolted by the sweat we were sharing. Ick... me and Sister Busenbark have yet to arm wrestle..... it will happen. I am nervous.. I want to win. I don't know why I want to win because i never really care about winning... but i guess when it come to arm wrestling! haha... gross. I'm a man...
Sooo there are TONS of different churches here! the strangest one i have seen is probably the one called "first church of Christ". ok that's not even a strange name but seriously on every corner there is a different church with the most random names! there is a church here that teaches a bunch of anti-mormon stuff. Sister Busenbark ran into them like 4 weeks ago. She said they were bashing the church hard core.... so yeah... I'm excited for when that's going to happen to me. My Area covers Rialto, Colton, Bloomington and a little part of San Bernardino. I really like it here there are a lot of really kind people!
HA HA funny rejection story: So there is this older lady named Jan. Who apparently was in love with elder Seright... but now we are in the Bloomington area/zone whatever... so he isn't there anymore. So we went to visit Jan because she was a investigator and yeah that's what we do. We went over there, it was pretty late like 8:15ish we knock on the door and she comes to the door and says "Who is it?!" and we are like "It's the missionaries!" and we wait............ and nothing.... 3 minutes later... I yell, "Are you coming??" and nothing...... ha ha ha so that was funny. . i guess she really was only interested in Elder Seright...
Ummm... the hardest things out here are the mornings. They are DEATH! I have NEVER had such a hard time waking up in the morning!!! Forget about working out!! I can barely make it to the bathroom without layin' down on the ground! That's actually what I do now. I wake up, get on my knees to pray, and almost fall asleep. I have found that my morning prayers are really weird and random and I'm half out of it so they are pretty short. Then i walk to the bathroom, grab my towl, lay on the ground for like 5 minutes, do like one sit up, then think "yeah... I'm too tired to work out.. i will just make sure i don't over-eat tonight (never happens)", then i get in the shower! It's difficult ha ha but i always have just the right amount of strength to get me through the day!
I have also noticed my memory problems out here! I knew I had slight memory problems after all that testing at USU but haha wow! I've really noticed it out here! I, for the life of me, cannot memorize scriptures or numbers or lesson plans!!! it's pretty annoying, but Sister Busenbark understands =) She has reading and learning disabilities too so we just work through stuff together.. not that it a huge problem or trial...GO PEOPLE WHO LEARN DIFFERENTLY!!! I really like Sister Busenbark though, she's cool and we are getting more and more comfortable with each other everyday!
I am a mess! Clutter Central!
So our investigators are amazing! I'm just going to go by their last names because... yeah. Sister Brown is SOO excited to get baptized! she is way solid. we are teaching her about the law of chastity and the word of wisdom on Tuesday. I'm excited =D!! I love talkin' about awkward stuff like that! I know she will accept it! Her husband has been searching for a job and at the end of our last lesson we prayed that he would have good luck at his job interview and be able to put his best foot forward and whatever and after the lesson she texted us and said "He got the JOB!!! Thanks for the prayer!!!" She is so awesome and she has so much faith!! She is from Africa and her mom is a recent convert so we teach her on a weekly basis and she has dreams and visions all the time that are like warnings or answers to her prayers. It's cool.
Sister Martinez is so cute! she is 29 and she LOVED the plan of salvation lesson. She has a sister who passed away and she was really relieved when we talked about the spirit world and when we told her she will see her sister again. I love bearing my testimony about eternal families, the spirit world, and the Celestial Kingdom =)
Pat is also an investigator except she isn't keeping commitments... Not coming to church. but this week we went over there intending to tell her that she NEEDS to keep commitments. And we did! We talked about grace.. and blah blah blah.. off topic.. then we talked about if she really wanted to get baptized and she said yes and we said well you have to come to church. We are not baptizing you into inactivity... BOOM then we asked her if she wanted a blessing from the elders because her health is really bad. she said yes. we left and felt kind of bad for being so blunt... but so two days later we called her and asked what she was doing at 4:30 we want to come over and have the elders give her a blessing. She said that she had to go to the store... then she said well... "I've been thinking about what you said on Wednesday and putting the store before God would be kind or rude wouldn't it? I need to try harder" YAY! so we went over there the elders Blessed her and it was AWESOME! As soon as they spoke one word of the blessing the spirit was SO strong! After she said "that was a real blessing" and she said she felt good. but.... she didn't come to church the next day =( she said she couldn't hardly walk... =( she is a crazy funny lady. she LOVES to talk. I love priesthood holders!! The priesthood is the power and authority God gives to man to act in Christ name for the salvation of mankind!!! AWESOME!!!! amazing. cool. LOVE. IT.
Umm.. I eat alot. I wear my leather bracelets like everyday. I pray a lot. I cry a lot. Just kidding, I haven't cried since I've been out here. I smile a lot. I'm getting tan arms. I shower a lot. I read a lot. Ok well I love you all! GO be member missionaries!!! BYE!!!!!!!!!
New mission home address..
7000 Central
Highland CA
92346
Love, Sister Davis
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