Dearest Family and Friends!
What a wonderful wonderful week!! I hope yours was as great as ,ome!!
Monday - We had a great lesson with the Urquilla Family about the Book of Mormon! The 10 and 9 year old girls read so much of the Book of Mormon already! They had things highlighted and questions and great comments! I was so impressed!!! We also received "QRidge" Tshirts from our Bishop! They are sweet!!!
CHRISTmas Eve - A day full of fun and service!!! We went to a brunch at Ma and Pa Jones' home! It was great fun!! Sister Tucker and I brought the best gift!! We filled a pill case with candy and put scriptures to read for each day! We also included a stack of Mormon.org cards and an Emergency Scripture Assistance Sheet! Pa Jones got this gift and was sooooo excited about it!! Sister Tucker and I sang Called to Serve and did a cup stacking race at the same time... It was a tie... Kinda... ;) Then we went to the Ballard's and helped her make homemade fudge and toffee! It was sweet!! Later that night we went to dinner with the Marten's and then went to the Morris' Families Christmas Eve Party. We got there just in time to watch them act out the Nativity!! It was sooo funny!!! We opened up one gift that night.... Sister Tucker and I got HOODIE FOOTIE PJS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! With the LV Mission Logos on the back!!!!!!! SOOOOO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHRISTmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
6:30AM Morning workout... OPEN PRESENTS!!! :) But the best present I received was when I got to FaceTime with my Family!!!! The time flew by so fast!!! Afterwards we made sugar cookies and delivered them to Less-Actives, Members, and Investigators. And did some Christmas Caroling! They were so excited It really made there days and our too! It is so awesome to be able to meet so many wonderful people as a missionary!
Thursday - IHOP with the Moessers!!!! SO great to see them! We had dinner with Bishop and his wife! He gave us "QR" (Quail Ridge) baseball caps! They are awesome! We were able to talk about our lesson for Sunday and work out some details!
Friday - We had exchanges.. So Sister Hill was here in Quail Ridge with me! We had a very interesting morning... A PIGEON CAME DOWN OUR CHIMNEY AND WAS FLYING IN OUR HOUSE!!!!! Crazy!!! I have it on video don't worry!! But I won't be able to show you until after the mission! Try to hold it together until then!! We had a great lesson with the Allen's! We talked about Lehi's Dream in 1 Nephi 8.. And about holding to the rod!! We also were able to teach Christine the Plan of Salvation just on the spot! It was a great exchange!!!
Saturday: This was kind of a Polynesian day. We had a lesson with Tee. She is Polynesian and has felt a lot of draw to our church. She drives by the Church to and from work and she wants to learn more. Her husband is kind of against it because he has wrong ideas about our church. Bummer.......but we see her about once a week and we pray for her every day. We also had dinner with the Genabagas. They are from Laie, Hawaii and are so loving! They are still on island time though so we waited around for dinner to be ready for 2 and a half hours!!!! But it was so good :)
Sunday- This was a miracle day for Sister Tucker and I. We had the opportunity to teach the combined fifth Sunday during third hour with the Relief Society, Priesthood, YM and YW. We were super nervous, but we role-played a lot so we were prepared. Our goal was to inspire the ward and lead them to action. We introduced the family mission plan and we showed a video. I think the best part was when the Bishop got up and endorsed our message with tears and all! At the end of our lesson a member stood up and testified. He said it way better than we ever could have. And then that evening for dinner the members told us that they really were inspired. Mission accomplished! We also had a lesson with Max and Karla! Max is a pretty logical guy but we think we touched him and Karla a lot. You can't deny the spirit.
I love missionary work! I love sharing the gospel! And I love helping the members get excited! Things are only getting better and better here in QRIDGE!!! I know that this is Christ's true gospel! This week we also found a lot of persecution. Grown men talking down to us and telling us how blasphemy we are. I am comforted to know that all of Christ's true followers were persecuted, even Jesus Christ Himself. What a blessing it is to know that what we are called to do is the Lord's work! It cannot fail!!!!! I love this gospel!
I love and miss all of you!
Love,
Sister Davis
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