Week 56

This week has been really great! I can't believe i have been in Fontana for 2 months now! Weeks are going by WAY WAY to FAST! it's freakin' me out! 

Sooooo hott....... one time... we were walking out side, just dying of heat! then we get in the car and i frantically search for a water... I found one in the back seat and pore it in my mouth and guess what!?!?! the water was so hot it almost burnt my tongue! ha ha! that's been happening alot lately.

I spoke in Church this week, it was really fun! I actually really love speaking =D maybe someday i can become a motivational speaker!!! ehhh probably not.... i don't have an exciting/crazy/triumphing enough of a life... EITHER WAY it i still enjoy it! i still get way nervous and shake the whole podium but..... who doesn't! anyway I spoke on D&C 101:77-80... go read it..... yea... i read that and thought "what the heck..........................." read it again "uh.................................." so i prayed to know what i should base my talk on and what the Oleander needed and I received that inspiration to talk about Agency. 

A member took us out to eat at a local Burger place. Sister Young and I dared each other to eat the peppers they had! ouch... i have a weak tongue!

God is our Heavenly Father, we are his Children and he loves us so much. He has created a PERFECT plan for us. A really important part of Gods plan is Agency. Agency is the freedom to choose. God doesn't want to force us to do anything. 

The way that we use our Agency determines our happiness or misery in this life and in the life to come. We are free to act, to do whatever! but we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. 

This is ALL part of gods plan, He wants us to LEARN< GROW> and to gain EXPERIENCE in this life. We do this by making decisions. 

We pick up trash almost EVERY day! I actually really enjoy it =) we have a lot of people approach us to see what the heck we are doing picking up trash in our skirts ha ha. This day i found 5 dollars!!! WHOOOOAAH!

In the Book "our Search for Happiness" (my favorite book...) it perfectly describes Agency. "We tend to think of Agency in a personal way. Ask someone to define "moral agency' and they'll probably come up with something like this "moral agency means i'm free to make choices for myself." But we forget that agency sometimes we are going to be adversely affected by the way other people choose to exercise their agency. 

One Exactly one year ago on Sunday Sister Tu Browne was baptized in rialto! She was the first person I have ever helped receive baptism on my mission =) and now she is in the ward i am now serving in! now Sister Buswell and i get to teach her the after baptism lessons. It has been a complete miracle. I love her! She glows with the spirit!

Heavenly Father feels so strongly about protecting our moral agency that he will ALLOW all of his Children to exercise it-for good and for evil." I love how it says God feels so STRONGLY about protecting our agency. I want to talk about a few people who's agency has impacted my life. . .

First my parents. Because my parents Chose to follow Christ, Chose to take us to church and Chose to try their hardest to teach us I am the person i am today. Because of my mom and dad's choices we were able to be sealed as a family for time and all eternity when i was in 2nd grade. Because of their choices i Now have a firth foundation in Christ. Because of the Choice my parents made I am now on a mission and my life has completely changed. I am so grateful to have such hard working, perceiving parents. I wouldn't be the person I am today with out them. 

By the end of the night i am just absolutely EXHAUSTED!!!

But i get up everyday and serve the Lord all over again because i love him =) 

Last the most important person in my life and the person who's agency has had the BIGGEST effect in my life is my Savior Jesus Christ. Read... Mathew 26:39. Jesus Christ had agency too! he could have chosen to give up. On one of my missionary planners it says " I am so grateful the Jesus Christ chose to endure to the end completing the atonement"  Because of the choice he made to ENDURE all that he endured I now know that i can repent, I can change. You can change. Because of him i will live again with my Heavenly Father. I love Jesus Chirst so much. He is my Hero, both literally and.... uh... idk... i look up to him. I want to be like him. He is the most amazing big brother i could ask for. I can't wait to see him again and give him a big hug. 

Well crap... i don't have any time to tell you about my week now... sorry! it was a great week! Many miracles =) and lots of sweating. I love you all!

Love,

Sister Kersey Davis