Month 7 (28 Weeks)

Tall ladies! whahoo! This is my friend and investigator Emily (left) she is 17 and he sister Sara who got baptized about 9 months ago. She is 21 and is getting ready to go to boot camp to be a Marine! they are so funny I love them so much! Emily is a really good swimmer! she is looking to swim in college

ok.. I accidentally deleted my long email again... AHHH! what is wrong with me! ticked... Anyway.

Hello all! I'm still in Yucca Valley, can you believe I've been here for 6 months!? not for long... transfers are next week and I'm sure I will be shipped out and I will cry my eyes out! Everyday I have a moment where I think " am I really a missionary? wow.. I can't believe it!?" I am so blessed to be serving my Brothers and Sisters of California. Being a missionary is the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, but I still find myself thanking my Heavenly Father Every night for the opportunity to serve. I am truly grateful for the opportunity God has given me to grow and help others. Everyone GO ON A MISSION!

This week has been AWESOME! Our zone and our companionship had reached out record of lessons and finding investigators! numbers don't really matter but it helps us continue to work hard! We receive a referral from a man named Bob this week. We call him Bob tractor (because he has a lot of tractors..) he isn't a member and isn't interested but he gave us 2 referrals after we talked to him a few days ago! one being Donna. She is 94 years old and the happiest person I know! she also just got her license renewed for 5 years! WHAT!? So now she is a new investigator. Yahoo! She is adorable. She gave us 2 grama skirts ha ha

One of my outfits =) if any of ya’ll wonder what I wear...

Funnies/randoms

We ate at a Spanish families house last week and they had HOT pepper seeds/corn things.. Carne Assada we decided to play dare and eat them plain... Everyone did it except me... I was scared! I have a sensitive tongue! Finally I fell into peer pressure and I did it and my mouth went numb and I almost started crying and I couldn't stop eating ice cream. But it was funny watching everyone eat them!

Ok.. so a member gave me permission to text his girlfriend EVERYDAY to ask her if we can come visit her and teach her. so I did it! everday this week.. I felt SOOO annoying...she never texted us back.. I figured we would never really meet her... THEN we got a call from sister davis and she says " yea so we have dinner with you guys sunday and we invited Riky (that's her name)" HA HA HA  oh my gosh.. so we met her last night and I felt so embarrassed.... but she said we could come over somtime! so it turned out good! I plan on apologizing for being annoying the next time we see her...

We yell "I FEAR NO MAN" everyday before we walk out of the door.

I look extreme sister missionary in this picture.. NOT a fan haha. BUT this is Dillon and Jovina they are in the Sunrise singles branch and I LOVE them. Dillon was baptized 2 years ago and he is AWESOME! he is working towards going on a mission and just got kicked out of his house.. pretty much because he is Mormon.. he is so strong! The young people here amaze me!

Chelsey: I don't know if you still watch the bachelor... but we were in big o tires this week (because out jeep is falling apart) and tv was on and they were talking about the bachelor and how a girl really embarrassed herself. She thought he called her name and started coming down but he didn't really say her name so yea.. ok that was pointless.

I found a part of the bible dictionary definition of pray that I really liked: The object of prayer is not to change the will of God, but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is already willing to grant, but that are made conditional on our asking for them. 

This past week I have been trying to pray more sincerely and from the heart. The prayers are much longer and take a lot more effort but I know that I feel a lot better and more inspired when I pray with all my heart!

My new RAD RING!! It is Garnett and I am very obsessed with it. Brother and Sister Richards gave it to me =) they pon jewelry and antique stuff. They are so cool and make me laugh all the time! I love them and will miss them so much when I leave this area =(

We had lots of investigators at church this week! 5 total between us and the elders. We also had a inactive show up that we did NOT think would be coming to church anytime soon! It makes me so happy to see the pews full and to see unfamiliar faces! leaving is going to be hard...

we spoke in the singles branch this week. it was fun! I love speaking to young people! I love my friends in the YSA branch. It sunday school class we learned about the pre existence we read this story... it's amazing!

The following event took place in a ward in Salt Lake City in 1974. It occurred during a sacrament meeting and was told to me by a Regional Representative of the Twelve who was in the meeting. A young man, just before leaving on his mission stood in sacrament meeting and bore in essence the following testimony:

Brothers and Sisters, as you know, the past two weeks I've been waiting for my mission call. During the time I was waiting I had a dream. I knew it was not an ordinary dream. I dreamed I was in the pre-existence and awaiting my call to come to earth. I was filled with the same anticipation and excitement that I had before I received my mission call. In my dream I was talking to a friend, and I felt a special closeness to him, even though I've never met him in this life. As we talked a messenger came and gave me a letter. I knew it was my call to go to earth. In great excitement my friend and I opened the letter. I gave it to him and asked him to read it aloud. It said: "You've been called to earth in a special time and to a special land. You will be born to the true church and you will have the priesthood of God in your home. You will born into a land of plenty, in a land of freedom. You will go to earth in the United States of America."

My friend and I rejoiced as we read my call, and while we were rejoicing the messenger returned. This time he had a letter for my friend. We knew it was his call to earth. My friend gave me the letter to read aloud. His letter said: "You've been called to go to the earth in circumstances of poverty and strife. You will not be raised in the true church. Many hardships will attend your life. Your land will be fraught with political and social difficulties - which will hinder the work of the Lord. You will be born in Costa Rica."

We wept, my friend and I, as we read his call. And my friend looked at me with tears in his eyes, and said, "When we are down on earth, you in your choice land and me in Costa Rica, my friend, please come and find me."

The this young missionary, with tears in his eyes, said, "Brothers and Sisters, I have received my mission call. I am going to Costa Rica."

There is a sequel to the story. About a year after the sacrament meeting, the bishop received a letter from the missionary in Costa Rica. The letter had one sheet of paper in it and on that sheet written in capital letters were four words:

I FOUND MY FRIEND

We are all foreordained to do something, weather that be serving a mission, raising a family, sharing the gospel with a friend I hope we are all living in a way that we can fulfill those things.  

I love you all! gotta go!

Love,

Sister Kersey Davis