HELLO!!! This week has gone much better than last week =) there were still difficult days but it wasn't everyday so... yeah. =) On Monday
we had our first family home evening with the young single adults ward
and it was really fun! slash really weird being with people my age. And
especially weird because we had an activity where we went to like… a
road house?? Ok no.. I don’t know what you call it.. it’s where people play
music and you listen and eat.. it was really fun! We had someone in the
ward performing so we all went and supported him! Oh but before we left
sister Mickelson and I had the opening thought/lesson thing. Anyway we
played the cup game and other fun games like that and talked and it got
too late for us missionaries before it was the guy in the singles ward
to sing so he just did a little performance for us and it was AWESOME!!
He’s going to be famous someday and I’m going to buy his CDs! I haven’t
heard love songs for like 2 months so it was really strange listening to
his lyrics! Ha ha!
Me and Sister Mickelson
Ha
ha Sister Mickelson and I had a scary/startling experience… We were
going around meeting the members and the ward council gave us a list of less-actives and recent converts to visit so we decided to go visit this
family with a less active mom and a recent convert son (13) and a non-member father (marine). Sooo we go over there and park in their big dirt
parking lot area and we go knock on the door.. No one answered but we
heard someone talking on the phone. We knocked again and no answered so
we went back to our car and tried to figure out who we are going to go see
next and we made some phone calls and we hear this pounding on the hood of
our Jeep (yes we have a jeep) and we look up I’m sure with deer in the
head lights eyes and it’s an ex-marine and he comes over to my window and I
roll it down and say HI!! =) and he is says “ you know you are
trespassing don’t you!!” and we are like……. Oh..no… sorry… =/ and he
talks about how his 13 year old son is freaked out inside and almost
called 911 because we are so scary……….. and he was being all hard and
like trying to freak us out or something but by the end he settled down a
little big and shook my hand. Ha ha it was a strange experience so now
we are all paranoid to park anywhere (there were no trespass signs
ANYWHERE at his house).
This is Yucca Valley, my new area. DESSERT
The
members here are AWESOME. I told you about sister Hobbs in my last email
the one from Uruguay. She came with us to visit a recent convert this
week and she was sooo great. She is such an amazing example of charity.
She is ALWAYS looking for a way to serve others. That is seriously ALL
she does is serves people all day. She cooks food and takes it around to
people all day, she gives rides… she comes out with us to appointments and
she is such a wonderful comforter. She always bares strong testimony and
always relates to people. I want to be like her someday!
This is a Joshua tree
We
had a restoration lesson this week and we had a member couple come with
us it was pretty funny trying to get to the appointment because it is
located in the middle of NO WHERE so we were extremely late but he
didn’t care so that was good… the restoration lesson is my FAVORITE!!!
It just makes sooo much sense to me =) I felt my heart POUNDING though
my shirt when I was reciting the first vision it was CRAZY!!! I know
that Joseph Smith restored the Gospel that Jesus Christ established
during his earthly ministry. And I am SOO grateful for his strength and
everything he did and went through for us to have the gospel in this
dispensation. Jacob understood everything, we asked him to pray about it
and ask God if it is true. He’s been reading the Book of Mormon and has
been coming to church and feels like God is directing him in a good
path. We will definitely get a baptism date for him tomorrow =) having Brother and Sister Mecham there was
soo perfect! There are two types of conversion… social conversion and
spiritual conversion! It’s your responsibility as members to take care
of the social conversion and it’s us as missionaries to take care of the
spiritual conversion. So get out there are go out with the
missionaries, don’t wait for them to ask you =) I promise you can
experience the happiness and joy that comes from being a missionary too =)
This rancid picture is the result of me cleaning the drain in my bathtub. GROSS!
Ha
ha so yesterday we spoke in church with two amazing recent converts.
Nora was baptized in April and she is on FIRE! She actually got engaged
a few days ago and is planning on getting married in the temple next
April! We have met with her several times and have had dinner with her
and her testimony is so strong! She gives us hope. Her talk was sooo
professional! She sounds like she is already relief society president or
something! I was sooooo nervous to speak for some reason!! It was sooo
weird. Probably because I only had like and hour to prepare for the
talk so I didn’t feel prepared at all.. I was shaking and I don’t even
remember what I said! I also forgot to write down a scripture I
meant to share so that was an awkward few minutes trying to find it, then
trying to recite it ha ha. I talked about the atonement and how it’s
central to our Heavenly Father's Plan for us. If there wasn’t atonement and
if Jesus Christ didn’t endure through the temptations, the beatings, the
humiliation, the abuse, and the bleeding through every pore we wouldn’t be
able to return to our Heavenly Father. We wouldn’t be able to repent!
We wouldn’t be able to ask for strength from our Heavenly Father. This
life would be hopeless. Because of Jesus Christ we can be families
forever.
This is what they call a "wash"
This
week we met a monk from Thailand. He was really kind! He reminded me of
my Weber state coach Tommy =) I am so bad at understanding people with
accents… I have to say what like 40 times or I just misunderstand
completely.. he was wearing an orange robe and everything! He lived very
simply, with a one room house and very little inside. He has a few monk
friends that live close to him and they are planning on building a
temple! Crazy! There are so many people out here that have sooo little. It
makes me think about how blessed I truly am! I have already decided
that I don’t even care anymore about having a nice house or nice things I
just want a happy family and the gospel and I will be totally fine!
BEAUTIFUL! But... I don't know how people live here!
Yesterday
we were teaching a member family. Half are from Africa and the other half
are from the south or something but the teenage boys were soooo annoyed
with us being there and talking to them! Ha ha it was sooo mmm… I don't know...
one of the boys kept making faces like… rude faces when we were
talking and I said y’all once and he totally chastised me! Ha ha he
was soo rude and everything we were saying he was being a smart aleck,
every comment! We have realized that asking families for referrals does
NOT work so we created a family mission plan and that is what we are
planning on inviting ever family we see this week to do. It is a plan to
strengthen relationships in the family and friends so that you will
eventually be able to share the gospel with them. The first step and
first thing we invite them to do is pray and fast to know who they
should focus on, then the second step is to write down the names, then
the 3rd step is to write down goals on how you will do
whatever. We have ideas on the back for them to look at how they
can introduce the gospel or befriend people and get them interested or
whatever and every family that we have invited to do this has been way
excited! Except those two teenage boys…… but oh well.. everyone has
their agency to choose =)
One of our investigator's closest neighbor is 3 miles away... We get lost a lot and go off roading a lot. Ha ha!
Well…
I don’t know what else to tell you about. I love you and hope everyone
is doing well =) endure to the end! Key word… everything ends! Rest will
come. If you endure to the end you will be exalted on high!
AH CHELSEA GETS MARRIED TOMORROW!!! Take pictures so I can look at them and cry my eyes out!
Be courageous! Have faith.
Our Heavenly Father has a plan for you.
Ester 4:14
Love,
Sister Davis
Let the Savior Lead you to….
………happily ever after
p.s. one of my favorite Mormon messages:
AH! I love love =) We watched this with Nora this week... I know that one can only experience eternal happiness through a celestial marriage. I see so many part member families and it breaks my heart that they aren't sealed together... they don't even know that families can be together forever... but! That's why I am out here. To help families achieve eternal happiness.
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