Monday, November 4, 2013

Week 18



Hi everyone! hope y’all had a happy Halloween! My Halloween was pretty good... I didn't get to dress up though so that was kind of a bummer... it's ok though I’m a missionary! I can dress up on Halloween for the rest of my life!
 
ok so below is a chunk out of a talk given by Jeffery R Holland
(he frightens me!)


We were doing training one morning and on one of the "preach my gospel" DVDs it has Jeffery R Holland saying this:

(read this in his scary piercing voice. He was pretty much yelling!)

"For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history — perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands. Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius. None of these frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood examination because there is no other answer than the one Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator. In this I stand with my own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so"

WOW. Ok. I'm converted!
I wish i could just show that video of him talking to ALL our investigators! The Book of Mormon is the word of God. Joseph Smith did translate them into what we have today. The Book of Mormon is the evidence if this church is true. All we have to do is read it and ask God. If you have ANY doubts or questions about the church or rules... or doctrine or.... whatever! All one has to do is read the Book of Mormon and find out if it is true, because if it is true, then Joseph Smith DID see God the Father and Jesus Christ. If the Book of Mormon is true, then the word of wisdom IS from God. If the Book of Mormon is true, then the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored back to the earth. Seriously all you have to do is read it! JUST READ IT!!! Then ask God =) sorry ok I’ll stop preaching.

This is Halloween night, I didn't dress up =( =( we had a trunk-er-treat because it isn't safe for people to walk around by themselves here! So EVERYONE in the community pretty much goes to a church to do trick or treat stuff. Anyway that is the Davis Family to the right, aren't they so cute!!!? Landon the red head is so precious! and to the left is our neighbors, we are trying to get them to come to church with us. We just keep inviting them! Someday they will come!



Ok funny experience of the week. HA HA oh my.. This experience could be in a movie!! ok so we met this Korean guy. He kind of freaks sis Gardner and I out so we brought Bro Perez with us. Anyway we go to the door and ring the doorbell.. no answer.. rang it again... no answer.. we could hear him in there yelling in Korean so i pushed the doorbell like 6 times in a row so they could hear ha ha and he came out and talked to us... he was definitely under the influence of something.... so we wandered to his drive way and then an Old, short Korean Lady come running out the front door yelling Korean stuff and grabs sister Gardner and I by the arms and pulls us into her house ha ha ha... and hugs and kisses us! yes. kisses. like for real.. if i would have let her she would have kissed my lips. She motions us to sit on her couches then sits between us and is EXTREMELY touchy and is talking to us. I have no idea what she is saying and i am just shocked and flabbergasted and laughing my head off inside my mind. She then tells us about her husband then drags me (she is extremely short so i am all crouched over while being dragged) to a room full of her husband’s plane.... stuff... we try to talk to her about religion and she says she isn't interested. And during this Jay is hitting on me every chance he gets and his mom is kissing me and holding my hand ha ha ha ha it was such a fun/funny/uncomfortable/great/interesting experience! It was so chaotic! There were only 5 of us in this big room so i don't know why it was so chaotic! so yea... then Jay came to church on Sunday and was really loud.. and kept swearing and when the bread came around he took a big handful... and spilled the water all down his body.. oh my word... it was.. Interesting. Brother Perez is such a good man! He is sooo patient and Loving. He sees all of his brothers and sister here on earth with eternal potential!


So every week we have what is called "weekly planning" we plan our who we are going to teach and what we are going to teach and what member we want to come with us.. etc etc.. at the end of ever weekly planning we have what is called a "companionship inventory" we talk about personal goals, comp goals, how we can improve, what we are doing well... and if we have any conflicts to resolve so yea just awkward stuff like that. These are our personal goals for the week!



Things are going great here! Betty is getting Baptized this week so we are extremely excited about that =) She is SOO ready! She is already doing missionary work! She is so amazing. Go to bettykerr.com. That's her!! She has a lot of people telling her about how horrible the Mormons are and that she is joining a cult and foolish stuff like that but she stands strong and leaves when people act like that towards her.

I can't believe i have almost been out for 5 months! What.... crazy. I miss my family so much.... I miss your voices! I can't wait to talk to you on Christmas!!! it's probably just going to be a big bawling fest!! Sometimes i don't know how i am going to do this for another year.... Matt Treasure emailed me today!!! Made my day =D His mission is using Facebook what the heck! Why isn't my mission!?!? oh well. I like it the old fashion way.

hhhmmm... i don't know what else to tell y’all.......... oh we got a new district leader the poor thing has only been out for 3 months and he is now training, a district leader and he got doubled in!  OH! this week we got to do service for 3 hours it was soooooooooo fun!(what...?) we cleaned the church then we went to a members and deep cleaned their house! it felt good! After we got to visit a lady in the ward who just had a baby. Oh my word!!! the baby was SOOOOO cute! I forgot how cute babies were! it made me want to have a baby. For a minute. 

We had some extra time one night this week so we put on these mud mask things and memorized some spanish phrases! Dios es nuestro padre celestial, nosotros somos sus hijos! Nuestro Padre Celestial envio a su amado hijo jesochristo a la tierra! ha ha that might be spelled all wrong... but that's my best!



Ok well I don't know what else to say. I love you all and....... oh! KyLee and Cherie I got your letters this week =) Hopefully i will get back to you in a month or so.

 Share this video on Facebook =) you might change somebody’s life!

Love,
 Sister Kersey Davis

Let the savior lead you to...........



....... Happily Ever After


PS... when we were cleaning out the members fridges sister Gardner came across what she thought was a shriveled up grape stem.. She tugged on it because it was stuck in a crack and when it came lose she discovered that it wasn't a dried up grape stem it was a shriveled up dead lizard!!!!! AH HA HA H WHAT THE HECK!

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