Sister Laekynn Davis: October 14 2013

Hello Family and Friends! I love love love you!

This has been an amazing week! The last week of the transfer is always full of miracles!!! I'm not sure where to start.... So I will just start with Wednesday!

Before 11am we had 7 people cancel on us!! SEVEN! Some were lessons and others were members coming out with us! It was a disaster! I couldn't believe it! We drove to our first lesson where a member was meeting us and when we pulled up the person we had the lesson with canceled! So thank goodness for back up plans!!!! We went to go see an investigator, Katie.. whom we haven't been able to see very much... When we knocked on her door a guy answered.. Michael. He told us Katie wasn't home, but he let us in to share a brief message with him!! We soon found out that Michael was Katie's new boyfriend, living with her and that he had just gotten back from being deployed! He has lost a lot of faith after seeing all that he has! He is so strong! He opened right up to us and told us many marvelous experiences he has had with God. We were able to see him on Friday also, with Katie there as well! They are going through a lot of struggles, but have been reading The Book of Mormon and finding clarity and peace. It is an amazing thing!!

Later on, on Wednesday, we went to see a less-active named JT! We visit with JT every Wednesday! He is awesome! This Wednesday, however, we didn't set an appointment with him, so we just dropped in... And that was so inspired! His cousin, Kia, just moved in with them from Cali and she will be here for 3 months... She isn't LDS so we were able to share with her our basic beliefs and gave her a Book of Mormon.. Her eyes lit up as she flipped the pages! JT bore his testimony to her, which he had never done before!! It was one of the most powerful testimonies I have ever heard! The room was just filled with The Spirit! It was truly amazing!!

Tender Mercy Thursday! This Thursday we were having dinner with a less active member! He couldn't feed us until 7pm so we agreed to wait and have dinner then... Well we confirmed the dinner appointment the night before and then when we showed up to eat dinner, after not eating anything since noon.. we find that he wasn't home and his mom didn't have a clue tat we came for dinner... We quickly left to try to find somewhere else to eat.. The Jex Family in our ward has always offered to feed us when we don't have somewhere to eat... They have two boys on missions so they love taking care of the missionaries! We went to there house.. they were excited to see us.. I said to them, "Do you happen to have some cereal?" "Yes of course" "Okay, because we didn't have dinner tonight.." "Oh well you aren't eating cereal for dinner!! Come in sit down we just made some soup!" 5 mins later we had yummy Mexican soup and ice cream to eat... As we were leaving they also gave us three boxes of cereal! They are the greatest!!!!

On Friday we spent more than 30mins of our weekly planning on our knees praying for one investigator, Amanda. We wanted to know who Heavenly Father wanted her to be fellowshipped by... We tried all different girls in our ward, but none of them felt right.. I had the idea to pray about this guy, Travis, he is leaving in December to go back to AZ, but he goes to UNLV right now and so does Amanda. Travis use to be good friends with a girl in our ward who dived on the UNLV swim and dive team.. and Amanda is on the UNLV swim team, so I thought maybe they may know each other... As soon as we prayed and asked Heavenly Father about Travis and Amanda.. Both Sister Berger and I were overcome with The Spirit. After the prayer we both talked about how we felt and both of us began to cry, because it felt so right and it had taken us so long to get that answer. We are excited to talk to Travis more about being friends with Amanda... She is very free spirited and Travis is a ranching, cowboy! Does seem like they would click as friends, but Heavenly Father knows better than us! What a Blessing!!!!

I have also started to read the New Testament with the rest of my Mission! We started 2 weeks ago and if we read 4-5 pages a day we will all finish together just in time for Christmas! I am loving reading about Christ and the miracles and parables! It is inspiring and helps me to know that with Faith ALL Things are Possible!!!

Now, I know that some of you are reading this whole letter and just waiting to see if I am getting transferred or not... Well on Thursday I hit my 6th Month Mark! And I am so grateful to have been able to spend my first 6 Months in Robindale YSA! Bishop Tuke, brother Jex, Brother Imlay, and Brother Richardson are amazing leaders in that ward. I love each one of these men and their sweet families! They have taken me under the wing and I have learned so much from them! I am also so grateful for Justin, my ward mission leader. He has made the work fun and productive! He is amazing and I am forever grateful for his example of selfless service. I am also so humbled to have met so many amazing young single independent adults! They have each changed my life and my desire to be righteous daughter of God has grown even stronger. They are truly my brothers and sisters and my best friends.

I will be serving in Green Valley Stake in the Quail Ridge Ward. It is a family ward! This will be a huge change for me! "But change is needed for more progression" that's what Sister Kriss Cardenas, my wonderful trainer says! My companion is Sister Nilson! All I know about her is that she is a visa-waiter here in Vegas and she has only been out for 1 or 2 transfers! I will have lots to learn! What a Blessing!!!

I also wanted to tell you about Brother Imlay, he was in the Robindale bishopric, but in June he was released, because he had cancer... He had a surgery and was doing great! He drove his oldest son to the MTC about 2 weeks ago.. And now has taken a turn for the worse! His cancer has spread to his liver and ribs.. Please keep the Imlay's in your prayers! They are an amazing family and my heart breaks that they have this trail.. But I know our Heavenly Father is aware of them and their needs! What a Blessing it is to have the gospel in our lives and to know that if we are sealed to our family with the proper priesthood authority in the Lord's Temple, we can be with our families forever!!! Not just death do we part!!! How amazing this gospel is! I am so grateful I can we apart of sharing it with my brothers and sisters!

The Church is True!

Love,

Sister Davis