I tried to flip my hair out. I think it might be my new favorite hair due! I actually feel like this hair due makes me look like the president's wife. Like all sophisticated and wise. Haha and old.
Hello =) this week has been really good. There has been a lot of
laughter and a few tears. We have one more week until transfers! ah... I
don't know what is going to happen! I hope i stay... I am really nervous
that i will be training.... crap. BUT I know Heavenly Father is mindful
of me and that what ever happens is what he needs me to do! so.. I'm
just going to start off with a bunch of random stuff that has happened
this week =)
Jesus Park. Lame p-day activities planned by sister mickelson and sister davis.
We had the Sister Trainer leader come out with us one day and it
was really good to get some advice and feedback and to be able to learn
from her example. She has been out for 11 months and she is SO
passionate about missionary work! and she does NOT want to go home. When i asked her how long she had left she got all butt-hurt. Hopefully
that will be me in a few months! BUT we met this 12 year old girl named
Bonnie and we were talking to her on her door step and sister Jones is
just being awesome and asking questions and making her laugh and then she
is like "well.. can we sing you a song?" In my head I was like " uh..
excuse me..? sing... here? Oh... this is weird.. i feel awkward" so we
sung I am a child of God to her and the spirit was there but it was hard
to concentrate just because i was being dumb and feeling awkward. I
couldn't tell if she was feeling awkward or if she was recognizing the
spirit. Ha ha but after the song Sister Jones asked her how she liked
it and there was a LONG silence... and she said "I liked it, it was
pretty.." we set up a return appointment.. she wasn't there when we went
back.. but! we won't give up! I don't know if I will ever randomly sing
to someone ever again.. well... if the spirit tells me to i
will... but...........................
There were a bunch of Jesus statues or saints or apostles or something. They were pretty cool.
We ate dinner with the Marine couple this week (wife is a member
husband is not) and we talked about why we are on missions and the Book
of Mormon and I just got OVERLY excited when i talked about the
restoration and Joseph smith ha ha its ridiculous... I was like shaking
because i was so excited ha ha I was telling him how i came to know
Joseph Smith was a true Prophet and ha ha just talking about all of
that stuff gets me way excited and i start talking a lot and talking with
my hands and they laughed at me =/ ha ha it was ok because i was
laughing at myself too. This week we are going to watch MY FAVORITE
MOVIE with them "Joseph Smith the prophet of the Restoration". He has
had experience with the Holy Ghost he just doesn't recognize them....
but we asked him if he were to pray and receive an answer that this is
the true church would you be baptized....................? and he said
MAYBE!!! after she texted us and said that he has always said no and
that was the first time he has said maybe!! He is such a good guy, so
kind and humble! He is for sure a Mormon at heart! well... everyone
is... they just need to remember right..?
Some old rock church cathedral thing...
I had the WORST Charley-horse EVER! I woke up in the middle of the
night to my calf feeling like it was being....... i don't even know! It
was the worst pain i think i have ever been in! after i got it to calm
down a little bit... i went back to sleep and for almost a week my calf
was EXTREMELY sore.. i walked weird when it was really bad.
This picture is disgusting... Don't judge! It was sister davidsons birthday so before we went to bed we did face masks and it was really fun! I really like face masks!
ha ha like i said in the beginning of this email I have laughed
a lot this week. Thank you to sister Mickelson and my weirdo roommates.
Ha ha at the end of the night sister mickelson and I were ending our
planning with a prayer and we are really really tired at this point...
and she begins the prayer and totally messes up and says something
really funny.. and when she is low on sugar or high... i don't remember... her mind isn't clear... anyway! I try to hold in my
laughter but i couldn't so i start laughing during the prayer then she
starts giggling then we had to start the prayer over ha ha.. also in a
few of the prayers this week she threw in some words in English accents
ha ha ha and she doesn't even notice it!
ha ha sooo weekly planning is Sister Mickelsons most dreaded thing
to do. we were both really tired and we were trying to do weekly
planning and i was talking to her and she starts going cross eyed and
her head starts to droop... SHE FELL ASLEEP!!! while i was talking to
her!! HA HA HA HA it was the strangest thing. . y'all probably don't even
think these things are funny.. but... sister Mickelson made me bust a
gut this week! we were in a lesson at a less actives house and we were
just all sitting there and a man walks into the room and she SCREAMS! ha
ha ha ha ok.. enough.. these stories aren't as funny as i think they
are..
Haha Sister Mickelson pulling the face mask grossness off her eyebrow
ok last randomness... we met with the investigator in the YSA
branch and he had a question... and... sister Mickelson and I DID NOT
know the answer to it... we were like uh............................
DONE.
This is my hideous "sister missionary" hair due. Some days I just don't like doing my hair. Or makeup...
Ok So sister Mickelson and I spoke in the YSA sunrise Branch and we
talked about Member missionary work... I'm just going to tell y'all
about what i talked about.. I'm pretty much going to give you my talk
via email.. typing...
ok so there are several ways that someone can be introduced to the
restored gospel... today i wanted to make fun of one of them and talk
about the other... one way is through missionaries/tracting... and this
is how it usually goes.. I'm going to act out tracting... KNOCK KNOCK
KNOCK.. they answer the door. "HI MY NAME IS SISTER DAVIS I AM A
MISSIONARY FOR THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTERDAYSAINTSWE
BELIEVETHAT THESAMECHURCHTHE JESUSCHRIST ATABLISHEDWHENHEWAS ON EATH HAS
BEEN RESTORED THROUGH A PROPHET WE HAVE A MODERNDAY PROPHET WHO LEADS
US AND GUIDES US FAMILIES CAN BETOGETHERFORETHER!! CHASTITY...BLAH BLAH
WORD OF WISDOM..." Door... SLAM! awkward... and NOT effective.. people
don't let strangers talk to them or let them in their home these days...
and they don't like to be preached to.. there are so many more ways the
gospel can be shared... like through the internet! mormon.org..
Lds.org and pass along cards even tv comercials or adds.. BUT the most
effective way for the gospel to be introduced is thought MEMBERS.
Through YOU.
This is what happens when you try to teach people and they have 1,000 cats running around.
Spirit. GONE.
I've been a member my WHOLE life and I've never known my role in
missionary work... I didn't know i had a role.. maybe its different in Utah but.. i had no idea! I played soccer at Utah state where 97% of the
team wasn't LDS... i thought to myself these girls would be awesome Mormons! but.. i don't want to be weird and preachy to them.. one girl
in particular.. Kassi. She was from the south and had never really heard
of Mormons before and we were pretty good friends and i thought.. nah..
she wouldn't accept the gospel... plus i didn't know how to share it
with her so i just didn't... I have heard "every member a missionary"
but i never new what that actually meant?!?!
Haha an investigator has a book all about Mormons and I found this on one of the pages and it made me LOL and I thought it was so funny! I love humor... The Bible says it! Ephesians 4:5.
Prophets have been talking about member missionary work since
Joseph Smith times. President George Albert smith in 1948 said... " That
is your mission, my brethren and sisters of the Church, that is your
RESPONSIBILITY. Freely you have received and our Heavenly Father will
expect you freely to share with his other sons and daughters these
glorious truths. We will attain our exaltation in the Celestial Kingdom
only on the condition that we share with our Father's other children the
blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and observe the commandments
that will enrich our lives here and hereafter" Oh... it's a
responsibility....!?! Ok... i did NOT know that...! But now i do. And now
you do to.
So how do we do this? How do we fulfill this responsibility? well
if you notice president George Albert Smith used the word "SHARE" he
didn't use the word teach or preach. You as members have the
responsibility to SHARE the gospel. It's our job as missionaries to
teach. When someone is investigating the church there are two types of
conversion that need to happy before baptism.. there is a spiritual
conversion and a social conversion. Both are very important and both
NEED to happen.
We got home and our apartment was smoking and the fire alarms were going off! It kinda scared me. Sister Gonzalez left her noodles on the stove. They got burnt to a crisp! And we still can't get the noodles off the pan and our apartment STILL smells like smoke. We are very blessed.
It's my responsibility as a full time missionary to take care of
the spiritual conversion. To teach them that they are a son or daughter
of God to teach them to pray, to preach to them about faith, call them
unto repentance, to help them recognize the spirit, and to help them
have their own spiritual experiences! it's your responsibility as
a member of Christ restored church to take care of the social
conversion. People need to feel welcome and loved. All you need to do is
Invite them. invite them to church.. or and activity... INVITE. not
preach.. not teach... INVITE. answer questions.. be proud! Be true to
the faith. have pictures in your car or on your phone or computer of
temples or Joseph smith or something that might trigger a question and
then be prepared to answer!
This is Max! He is soooo cute! He is 200 pounds! He is adorable. Sister Mickelson screamed on this night because their other dog jumped on her. Ha ha! It was so funny! She hates dogs.
There is a scripture i want to share with you it's in Doctrine and covenants chapter 33 verses 8-10.. it says.. "open your mouths and they
shall be filled, and you shall become even as Nephi (COOL, would love to
be like him!!) of old, who journeyed from Jerusalem in the wilderness.
9. yea OPEN YOUR MOUTHS and spare not, and you shall be laden with
sheaves upon your backs, for lo, i am with you.10. yea OPEN YOUR MOUTHS
and they shall be filled (cool) saying: repent, repent, and prepare ye
the way of the Lord, and make his paths straight;for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand.
We checked my blood sugar with sister mickelson's diabetees thing. And I was soooo scared to poke myself! It took me like 5 minutes! But it didn't even hurt and I was 122. I am so grateful for a healthy body.
What do you think our Heavenly Father is trying to say to us
here??? OPEN YOUR MOUTHS! That's all you need to do, is open your mouths.
But.. why do we do this? because we have what they need. Everyone needs
the gospel. We want them to have the blessing that come from being
baptized into Christs church. The blessing from having the constant
companionship of the holy Ghost.. that guidance and direction that
everyone wants. My friend that i was talking about in the beginning, Kassi. Little did i know she was taking the missionary discussions.
She was baptized. (i begin to get choked up.. and am again while typing
this) she is now serving a mission. It changed her life. All because a
friend opened their mouth. All because a friend Invited her to
church. The gospel is for everyone. . don't judge like i did.. Our
Heavenly Father is preparing his Children all we have to do is find them
and ask them.
If there are any of you out there who feel like you can't share the
gospel because you don't know enough or you don't have a huge
testimony... i can tell you from experience that sharing the gospel is
what WILL strengthen your testimony. So go do it! go open your mouths!
go invite!
Someone's front yard!
Here are some statistics for the USA... 1 in every 1,000 people
contacted by missionary i.e (is this the correct way to use i.e...? idk!) tracting or street contacting get baptized. if you let the
missionaries use your name 80 out of 1,000 people with receive the
blessing of being baptized.. and if you invite your friend to take the
missionary discussions 340 out of 1,000 people with receive the
blessings... BUT if you invite your friend to have the missionary
discussions in YOUR home 660 out of 1,000 people will be baptized.
Uh....... MEMBER MISSIONARY WORK!! Member involvement is very
important.. President Spencer W. Kimball said (one of my favorites. get
ready!) "now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the
gospel farther than it has ever been carried before.. Many a person in
this world is crying, knowingly and unknowingly, "come over... and help
us." He might be your neighbor. She might be your friend. He might be a
relative. She might be someone you met only yesterday. But, we have what
they need. Let us take a new courage from our studies and pray, as
did Peter, "and now, Lord, grant unto thy servants, that with all
boldness they may speak thy word".
I know that I have a loving Heavenly Father. I know that I am a
daughter of God. I have a Savior and redeemer. I love this gospel so
much and i want the whole world to experience that happiness, joy and
peace that I have from living the gospel. That is why I am on a
mission. I say these things in the name of my savior, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
WHOAHHH.. this is the longest e-mail I've ever sent in my life..
But really... I am here to help others come unto Christ. I am here
because i want everyone to be happy and that's what this gospel allows. I
hope my emails home are helping my family and others who read my blog. This Gospel is true! Now go invite the person our Heavenly father
revieled to your mind as you read my talk =) and if no one came to your
mind.. go pray and as who you can focus on.. who is prepared. I promise
you he will make it known to you who is prepared.
INVITE.
Love,
Sister Kersey Davis
Let the Savior lead you to...............
............Happily Every After
Ps: I had a dream i got a letter from KyLee Adams... the next day I
got a letter from her!! AH! cool.. I love you KyLee =) also.. i had a
dream of Zach Stan and today I had a email from him! My friends are
seriously the coolest most spiritual rad friends i could ever ask for!
Thank you for all the strength you give me =)
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