This week has been such an amazing week! We had our first baptism on Saturday, and it was BEAUTIFUL. I had my best and worse day out here this week. On Wednesday It felt like everything was just not going right and little things where bugging me and I was being negative. I have had a few moments where I think to myself "What am I doing here?? I can't do this for 18 months, I'm not good enough." But, when I truly serve others and focus my thought and actions on my investigators and less actives and members and Sister Busenbark and etc, I recognize that I am SO happy and filled with joy and i'm not thinking of myself at all! I forget that I miss my family. I forget that I haven't listened to country music in 6 weeks. I forget that I can't flirt with a man for the next 17 months of my life. I forget that we are late to an appointment, again. I forget that I'm not as good of a teacher as sister Busenbark. The joy that I feel when I am helping others come unto Christ is so inspiring. The other day at church while i was running around doing things for people and telling people to go talk to investigators and introducing myself to others I thought "Wow, I want to do this for the rest of my life" ha ha what...? That is incorrect... I actually want to come home and get married at some point in my life, I was just feeling so happy and inspired at the moment ha ha.
Me and Anora the cutest hyper dog of all time!
Ok Random moments:
1. I'm not kidding, I look forward to hearing the beat of the copy machine on Sundays. It's a sweet beat.
The Church I go to- Bloomington ward
2. We were eating at a member’s house and it was storming. We began to pray and in the middle of the prayer lightening struck and the house shook and it was SOO loud! We all jumped and stopped the prayer ha ha ha then we were all confused.. like.. uh.. should we just continue with the prayer or do we start over.....? it was scary!!! i was shaking! the lightning hit the house or the power line right above it..
3. Sister Busenbark made me laugh really hard for the first time! It was AWESOME!!! She told me about this dream that she had the night before and it totally wouldn't have been funny to anyone else, i know it... I have the strangest sense of humor...
4. I called an investigator named Mario and this is what happened "Hi, is Mario available!?" Silence....... "Can i ask who is calling?" "This is Sister Davis." ....... Silence ........ "Oh... yeah... Mario isn't here right now." It was clearly Mario's voice.... "Oh..... ok....... thanks........ bye.." ....... Silence......................... and he hung up. Ha ha what the heck! People.......... jeez!
Eating cotton candy with Bishop Samford and his wife and Sister Busenbark
We don't have any baking stuff so we used a pan and we guessed the amount of ingredients... we made muffins for Sister Browne's Baptism
So this week one of our investigators who is getting baptized this weekend finally received her answer!!! She actually had a dream about the Book of Mormon! How cool! She has also decided that she feels good about Joseph Smith. She is so cool, she already lives like all of the standards that we do! We taught her Chastity last week and yea..... I'm not a fan of teaching Chastity... I thought i would be but... no. But maybe i just need to get better at it and learn some good questions to ask. She's 29 and i don't know ha ha it's just a different experience to talk to her about... that.
OUR FIRST BAPTISM!!!
Sending off Sister Browne's paper work to church headquarters in Salt Lake!
The last lesson we had with Sister Browne before her baptism (the lady in my pictures) was amazing! We went into the lesson planning on just reading out of the Book of Mormon, but our Heavenly Father had other plans... We started reading and talking about our favorite verses and how to liken those verses/stories to our lives we came to a verse that talked about forgiveness and Sister Browne opened up to us and talked about how she hasn't talked to her sister in 2 years because of stuff that happened between them. Sister Busenbark and I talked about the savior and how forgiving he is and was and we ended up watching the video "My burden was made light" and the spirit was so present I cried, she cried everyone cried! She loved it. We talked about the video and the last thing she said was "Wow, something i've been trying to figure out for 2 years you just answered in like 8 minutes" I just smiled because i didn't know what to say... then wonderful sister Busenbark said "It wasn't us, it was the spirit" The spirit totally took over it was RAAAAD.
Sister Browne, Sister Busenbark, and I!
ok i think i have to go......... i might get to email more... we will see... bye!
Sweet I get more time. ummmmmmmmmmmm...... where was I...? I don't remember. Random thought.. who ever is controlling my facebook will you go to the account setting and put in on very private....? so no one can see anything if they just search me. thanks..
Sister Browne (Tut), Sister Busenbark, and I
Sister Brownes Baptism went amazing! It was so beautiful and it was so early in the morning.. we had it at 8 am ha ha BUT our ward members are awesome and there was a good amount of people there. Sister Browne was soooo excited. We told her what would be happening and showed her how she would be baptized and I told her to make sure here knees were bent haha and i guess i didn't explain very well cause she was bending her knee's even before the bishop started the baptismal prayer. It was cute. The speakers were awesome. and She said she felt like a new person! we were able to go to the Pioneer stake party right after her baptism so that was fun. She really enjoyed it. So now she is a member, her daughter, her Mom and Dad and now we've got to get her husband! we are workin on it =)
Pioneer Celebration after Sister Browne's baptism.
HORRIBLE idea! My skirt was not staying down so i tried to stop myself with my heal and i got a rubber burn!
We have a Tongan or Samoan ward in our stake so they were singing at the Pioneer celebration. It was breakfast, games, and music. It reminded me of the Henefer 4th of July celebration.
Sooo before I came out on my mission I was sooo terrified that I didn't know as much as I should know about the gospel and I felt really un-prepared and just not good enough. I remember right before i came out i was with 3 of my friends and we were watching conference and I just wasn't feeling it. I wasn't receiving any answers or inspiration and of course after my valiant friends wanted to talk about conference and read the scriptures together. My friends are amazing and they are spouting off all this knowledge and experiences and great insight and i'm just over in the corner trying to keep my tears in because i was just soooooo mad that i wasn't like them and that i couldn't testify and speak the way they they all could. I have always had troubles understanding the scriptures and I just felt HORRIBLE that night and I was so angry.. I was dumb and went to my room and missed out on my last sleep over with them but i prayed to my Heavenly Father kinda of angrily... I said " I'm doing this for YOU!!, why do i have to feel like this!!! blah blah why me... kind of stuff......." then i felt really bad.. and I prayed again and asked for comfort and the strength to overcome the adversary. After the prayer I didn't feel any less inadequate but I did feel comforted and I was able to fall asleep and I woke up in the morning feel sooo foolish I was the night before...I’ve been praying to have more understanding and to remember the things i am learning and to have the ability to recall things i'm learning during lessons. In the MTC a similar situation happened.. we were doing "role playing" (not a fan) my companions were doing awesome and I was........ NOT. I felt horrible and like i would never be ready... but i continued to pray. and i still continue to pray for those things and guess what! I do know enough! I teach people all the time! yes. I still forget things but i know that my Heavenly Father is hearing and answering my prayers and i'm remembering things!!! and my testimony is growing! I know that through hard times we need to have faith, and look at the situation with an eternal perspective.
We got this approved in the last Ward Counsel meeting. YES. It has space for members to write down days and times they are available to come out with the missionaries. The members in our ward are awesome!!!!!
The man next to me is watching a Taylor Swift Video............. I am being tempted right now.................................................
I have been reading out of the Book of Mormon everyday (duh..) but i'v been trying to read them as stories. And I love it! It's so much easier when you actually read them as stories. My favorite so far (and... he's listening to my favorite Taylor Swift song now... gosh...) is Alma the younger. WHOAAHHHWW he is Awesome!!! I love Mosiah 27. He is extremely wicked then he repents and becomes a spiritual giant!! and chapter 28 is when him and the sons of mosiah become amazing missionaries. and then in Alma 1: he teaches about charity and service towards the needy. And in Alma 2 is the war against the Amlicites and Nephites and Alma is sooo brave and awesome and has soo much faith yea. I just love reading the book of mormon, and i love the book of mormon reader. speaking of that.. i need to go order stuff from LDS.org... ok i should leave the library now and go shopping or something. goodbye!! I love........... California!!!!
Love,
Sister Davis
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