Happy Monday!
Don't you just LOVE Mondays! I do!!!
Things are great in Vegas Baby! This week has been a roller coaster! So lets just start with last Monday....
We had a lesson with Barbara - who came to the Gladys Knight Fireside - we taught the Restoration and it was amazing!! She rally wants to make changes in her life so that she can know her Savior more. And she is excited to read The Book of Mormon!
It was a great lesson!
Tuesday morning at 6:35am.... Sister Nilson and I were at the church playing basketball with our Zone and what does she do... she goes and tares her ligament!! Another Sister and I had to carry her off the court and into the car... Her ankle swelled up like a balloon!!! Just a couple hours later we had interviews with our Mission President. Interviews were amazing, but boy having a companion with a broken leg is quite an adventure!!!
On Wednesday morning we went to the Temple! I love the Temple! We only can go ever y 3 months, so it is such a treat! It's amazing how you can just leave the world behind when you go to the Temple! What a blessing!
After the Temple we went to the Doctor for Sister Nilson's ankle... They did some X Rays and then put a big green cast on her ankle! So crazy! She has crutches and it's just a pain for her.
Thursday was our weekly District Meeting and Elder Johnson asked me to do a training on finding people.. Lots of people have given training to the missionaries on finding and I didn't want to do the same ol' same ol' stuff... So my training was called "ASK and Ye Shall Find" I had everyone find a scripture that they love about prayer... They each shared their scripture and why they choose it! It was really powerful and everyone likes to hear the sound of their own voice... So it was a hit! Later on that day we taught this lady Clara - she is in her 80's and hasn't been active in the church since her husband passed away 15+ years ago... We are practicing the lessons on her.. We taught the Restoration and she shared her experience visiting the sacred grove many, many, many years ago... She cried! And kept trying to shake off and avoid the Spirit.. But she felt it! She felt it!
FRIDAYYYYYYYYY!! November 15, 2013 - Carlos Monsalve was baptized! It was an amazing baptism! Carlos looked so sharp in his suit! Sister Berger talked on Baptism and I spoke on The Gift of the Holy Ghost! Oh it was awesome! I shared Sister Berger and I's experience on how we followed the promptings of the Spirit and ended up on Carlos' front doorstep. I also shared 3 Nephi 19:9&20. This is when Christ is in the Americas and he tells his 12 disciples that they can have anything they desire. "And they did pray for that which they most desired; and they desired that the aHoly Ghostshould be given unto them." The next few verses describe how they were baptized by the proper authority. Christ then prays to our Heavenly Father and says, "Father, I thank thee that thou hast given the Holy Ghost unto these whom I have achosen; and it is because of their belief in me that I have chosen them out of the world." I bore testimony that Carlos was chosen to receive the gospel at this time and to share his knowledge with others. Bishop Tuke baptized Carlos and when he came up out of the water, Carlos just stood in the water and prayed.. It was so powerful! I am so humbled that Heavenly Father would allow me, someone so imperfect to share this message which is so perfect! Carlos bore his testimony after he was baptized. He spoke of how great it feels to be clean from all your sins. He is amazing! He signed the inside of my scriptures! And I gave him a drawing of the Tree of Life! It looked pretty cool! Well just when I thought my Friday night couldn't really get any better.... Something pretty cool happened! - We had a lesson with JD and Lily (who is less active, coming back!) We were at a members home! We had everyone write down a question on a note card.. No one shared their questions.. Then we asked Lily where she was reading in The Book of Mormon.. She was on 1 Nephi 10:11.. So we told everyone we would starting reading verse by verse and by the end of our lesson all of our questions would be answered through the Spirit and The Book of Mormon! We read and read and ended on 1 Nephi 11:2! Out of 6 of us that were there ALL 6 of us received an answer to our questions!!! The Spirit was so strong! And I know that our prayers were answered! We all discovered what is hold JD back... So we were able to help him begin to work through his concerns. It was such a great Friday!!!!
Saturday was really great also! We went to visit a less active member, Nubia.. She has 3 kids, and her husband Valentine is not a member. We shared a Mormon Message with them! Valentine tries to play the "I'm too cool for this" card... He asks like he's in Highschool.. But he really enjoyed the Mormon Messages! So that was like at 11:30am... Fast Forward... We were walking back to our car after a lesson/dinner in their same apartment complex... Valentine was pulling out right as we were walking to our car.. He rolled his window down and invited us to come have dinner with his family... We told him we would.... He started to drive away and then he backed up his car, jumped out and said "I forgot something.. I'll let y'all in." So he walked us to his door and let us inside, he told us he was going to get drinks and asked us what we wanted to drink.. The crazy thing is.. he didn't forget anything... He just wanted to make sure we got to his apartment door safe. They have a son Ethan, who is 6 years old. I gave him his own Book of Mormon, he was SO excited! He grabbed a red marker and asked if I would read it with him so he could marks his favorite parts just like me!! We read and then ate dinner with them.. Valentine said he wouldn't come to church, but that we could bring the church to him.. So we are going to start teaching him!! He's a good guy, just got into a lot of trouble growing up in Cali. Which is the reason they moved to Vegas this past Summer. Good things to come with this family!
Dinner with Nubia and Valentine was our 2nd dinner that night... We also ate with Stephanie and Tony... They are so great! And Stephanie's biggest concern is about "authority" She doesn't understand why God would only give the authority to the LDS church. We are trying to help her understand that any worthy man can hold the priesthood authority, but that God is a God of order. That the authority can only be found in the church that has the fulness of the gospel. She is reading The Book of Mormon and really searching, I know Heavenly Father will answer her!
Yesterday was also a great day! It was my 7 month mark... CRAZY! 7 months already??!! That is hard to believe! I was able to go to the Why I Believe Fireside, music and testimonies! As I was sitting waiting for it to began.. my sister Amanda touches my arm and says "Hey Sister Davis!" Needless to say I was SO thrilled to see her!!! She's so amazing and even brought me cookies! I was able to introduce her to Carlos, and ask Carlos how is Confirmation went! He was sad I couldn't be there, but he says he feels so good! Aww I just love him! And Amanda! What a great way to end a great week!!!!
I am so grateful for all the love that our Heavenly Father has for us! He truly is waiting to bless us! We just need to ASK! I know that as we strive to increase our Faith in Jesus Christ, we are blessed more than we can imagine!
I love this work! I love The Lord! I love and miss y'all!!!
Love,
Sister Davis
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