Can I just tell you how much I love being a missionary?!! It is the greatest thing anyone could ever do! What a blessing it is to be able to serve my Savior and my brother and sisters here in LV Nation!
This week we found NINE new investigators! NINE! Everyday we found one or two! I love each one of them so much! Each of their stories and how we found them are so precious and unique! I won't get into all the details, but I will tell you their names! Pray for them!
Shi! (friend of a less active)
Fabian! (we met him on the street)
Amanda! (friend of a member)
Katie! (less active's girl friend)
Tony! (referral from other missionaries)
Mauricio! (referral from other missionaries)
Jesse! (we met him on the street)
Eva! (we met her on the street)
Alec! (we met him on the street)
I wish I could share everything with you! One day I will! We can read each of these letters together and I will tell you all the things I left out! What an awesome time that will be! You will be able to see alllllll of my pictures, journals, and planners! You will really know how things are! Because they are just so great!
Things I've learned this week...
Goal setting is SO important! The goals and numbers we set are not just random. They have names and faces behind each one. A goal not written down is just a dream! We were able to exceed our goals! ONLY BECAUSE we had The Lord on our side. If you set a goal and don't go to The Lord for his affirmation and help to achieve it you won't achieve it! It doesn't matter the goal! Spiritual, Temporal, Physical, Emotional... etc. The Lord HAS TO be involved if you want to accomplish it!!!
When you pray for Christ-like Attributes The Lord will pour opportunities for you to develop it! This week I prayed for patience! I was given many opportunities to be patient! What a Blessing!
The Lord will give you just enough strength to get through the hard times. I was not feeling very good several times this week.. But the work must go on! As soon as we would get into a lesson or start talking to someone on the street I would instantly feel better! But as soon as we left or got into the car that sick feeling would come rushing back to me.... I know that The Lord gives us strength to be an instrument in his hands. I am grateful he gives me the strength and then takes it away, so that I can recognize He has a hand in all things.
I am just so full of gratitude. I know that my time here is but a blink of an eye. I hit my 4 month mark on Saturday. It's hard to believe! Only 14 months to go! It will be over so soon and I want to look back and know I did what The Lord asked of me. If anything I want to know that my service was not wasted. I have become a better person. I have realized that we have no other option, but to rely on The Lord and His timing! I am so grateful that I can only call home twice a year and write letters on Monday. I am more focused that way. I do miss all of you! But I know that we can overcome even the hardest trials with our Savior on our side! Thank goodness He knows us better than we know our selves. I look back on where I was a year ago.. where I was two years ago.. where I was 5 years ago... The Lord truly provided a way and guided me so that I would be worthy and prepared to be refined. So that He could mold me into the daughter he wants me to be! The daughter he NEEDS me to be!
I am so grateful for this sacred time I have been given.
I love you all & pray for you!
Love,
Sister Davis
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