Dear Family and who ever else reads my e-mails home,
Hello! I survived my first transfer! (A transfer is 6 weeks if you're like me and my fam and don’t know mission lingo) I can’t believe it! It went by sooo fast! This week we received 32 new missionaries and only 5 are going home……. Soooooo President Van Cott has been busy opening up new areas! 18 new areas!!!!
Bishop McCutchens and his wife and 2 grandkids. He has an awesome story! He went through 8 sets of missionaries! Finally a missionary asked him why he hasn't been baptized yet and he said "because no one has asked me!!!" He has served as bishop for 8 years! (he is not the current bishop) he is so kind and funny and he loves missionary work =) wonderful family! We ate corn beef at their house (whatever that is) I was a little scared to eat it.. because it looks... not civil BUT i did and it was YUMMY!
AH! It’s crazy…. I have been called to the Yucca Valley….. area??? City??? I don’t know much. BUT I am serving in a YSA (young single adults) ward! So that is way exciting! I am leaving Sister Busenbark though. =( I am really sad… we have become really good friends.. I know this is where the Lord needs me though. My new companion will be just like me! She has only been out for 6 week like me. Hahaha so we are just… yeah... Next transfer we will have 27 new missionaries coming out and 7 going home. So this will probably be the only time I will ever not have to train an MTC baby. I will probably be training for my WHOLE mission. Anyway, I am really excited to meet my new comp on Wednesday and to get out there and meet my new ward family!
Brother and Sister Romos. Brother Romos is the ward mission leader. He is awesome and so soft hearted! isn't their baby the CUTEST thing ever!! he looks like a cabage patch kid! He has been a member for like...3 years!
This week has been pretty great! I have been extremely happy all week long! The only time I was having a hard time was Friday night and Sunday, mostly all day. Friday night I was just missing my family and wondering what they were doing and Sunday was just... Really frustrating. I will leave it at that.
Brenda and Bryant the Amazing!!!!!
Bryan received the priesthood yesterday and will baptize Brenda this weekend!!!
Bryant got baptized on Saturday! It was one of the most amazing baptisms! Brenda and Bryant are living proof that our Heavenly Father is preparing his children to receive the gospel. They are so cool and I can’t wait to see where they will be in 17ish months. Bryant received the priesthood yesterday =) and he will baptize Brenda on Saturday =D I hope I will be able to go to her baptism, if not….. I will be VERY SAD. They are both so smart and have so much to offer I can’t wait for them to get involved with the ward! They will be such a great addition to the ward.
We were at the temple walking around and Brenda and Bryant disappeared...
We found them doing this =)
It felt good =)
So I LOVE the Book of Mormon! Why haven’t I ever really read this thing!?!? It is so great. I love the stories and what they teach. On Wednesday we met with a less active family and we brought along with us two awesome members to help us out. They are both recent converts actually! One of a 1 year and the other 2 weeks! The spirit that they brought was perfect. They were able to relate in a way that sister Busenbark and I could never do! Any way, we were talking about something and it went silent… and a Book of Mormon story popped into my head! One that related to what we were talking about! I told the story of when Alma tried to teach the Zoromites the gospel and they did NOT listen, no one wanted to listen. Alma was sooo concerned about the salvation of these people that he was heart broken when they wouldn’t except the Gospel. Alma prayed for the STRENGTH to endure not for Heavenly Father to fix his situation. I told that story! I felt so cool, I have never been able to do that before. The Book of Mormon is AWESOME.
Brother Proctor served his mission in Utah and a little bit of Wyoming! He's awesome! He was inactive for a while and nobody ever contacted him.... THEN the missionaries found him and invited him to come to church and he came back! Sometimes all we need is an invite. Now he is an amazing Sunday school teacher and a huge asset to the ward!
So I told you about the Hill’s and their store, how it burned down. Well sister Hill bore her testimony in sacrament meeting this Sunday and testified that she knows that her Heavenly Father Loves her and that he has a plan for her and that she knows she will be able to get through this trial because of her savior Jesus Christ. I was so amazed at her FAITH. It inspired me to have more faith in the trials to come. Our Heavenly Father has given us this chance on earth to grow through the trials we face. If we don’t have trials in this life we won’t grow nor will we appreciate the happiness we receive. Because of the atonement of Jesus Christ we can find comfort and strength to endure anything in this life and if you think you have the hardest trials you should also believe you are one of Gods strongest Soldiers. “We can not sink lower than the arms of the Atonement can reach”. Watch this video:
As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints we are responsible for sharing his glad messages. People have their agency to accept the message or not =) I am so blessed to have the Gospel in my life! AH! Love it! It’s so awesome! Ok, when you watch the video above, check out Elder Holland. He usually wracks my soul with his booming voice and authority but in this video he is calm and soft it is really cute it makes me want to cry! Great video. We have amazing leaders of the church.
Alright… well I have nothing else to say. I hope everyone is doing ok. Email me please!!! Even if it’s just a little…. Ok bye!
Love,
Sister Davis
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Let the Savior lead you to happily ever after!
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