What a week! What a week! Mine was so great!! How was yours?!
It has been a blur of lessons with Matt (we saw him everyday :)..... twice a day), exchanges, revelation, preparing for the baptism, and stake conference! We also have a new mission challenge from our mission president to read all of preach my gospel before the new president comes in July. Sister Tucker and I are starting in the middle and reading a chapter a week! WE ARE SO EXCITED!
Monday we saw Matt and had a short, but powerful lesson about prayer! This was an important week for him, so we wanted to make sure that he went to his knees for help! I love what Gorden B. Hinckley says, "When life gets to hard to stand, kneel!" I know that is true! We were able to also meet with Dustin & Maddie, and read a little in the Book of Mormon. They are such a cute family and I know that this gospel will bless their lives so much! We had dinner with a couple in our ward, the Honeycutt's! Sister Honeycutt is so great! She is the one who gave us the Christmas tree! She has been sending Sister Tucker and I cards every couple weeks! She is so great! We also dropped by Chermayne's apartment! She went to church on the way other side of town with some friends she works with, and really enjoyed it! She is excited to come on Sunday with us!! We had to rush to meet with some other sisters to go on an exchange, and switch companions for the night/next day!
Tuesday Sister Hill and I were here in Quail Ridge! It was a pretty great day! We met with Matt in the morning to read with him and then that night we were able to see him and talk about faith! He is so excited for Saturday and is truly living the gospel! It's amazing to see his change! We also were able to have a prayer with an 82 year old lady named June, who lives in the apartment under some less actives in our ward. It's always interesting to talk to the older people. They have lots of interesting stories!
Wednesday we read with Matt and later had a great lesson about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, reviewing Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End! We used those eggs with the faces! It was really fun! Matt loved it! We read with Jacob, he is really trying to find out if God is really there. Hopefully the more we work with him the greater his faith will be. WE had a great lesson with Dustin & Maddie about three things.. the importance of reading scriptures, praying, and then Dustin guessed the third was church! Brilliant! These days just seem to go by so fast! But they sure are packed full of many miracles!
Thursday we met with Matt at a member's apartment that literally is diagonal from him! He is really getting to know so many people in the ward, and they all love him. He tells us he feels like a celebrity and he doesn't know why everyone is so nice to him. We got Matt started on his Family History so he can take names to the temple! So exciting!! Afterwards we taught Dustin while Maddie was a work.. We were able to introduce him to a few members and talk about prayer and reading once more. The biggest struggle is having him consistently do these things. He recognizes they are good, but as soon as he starts to do something good he has trails that discourage him. He just needs to hold on! We also met with Jacob again, and watched Finding Faith in Christ! It was amazing!! He really liked it and loved how forgiving Christ was towards others!
Friday we had a wonderful Zone Training Meeting! The topic that were trained on was exactly what I needed to hear! We were able to get some good ideas about our area and how to continue being successful! We were able to have a great one on one lesson with Chermayne and help her overcome some concerns!
Saturday......MATT WAS BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY AND IT WAS THE BEST EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday we had a wonderful stake conference. It began with the new member meeting at 8:30am. President and Sister Neider were there and they were awesome! Matt was there! He is the newest member of the Green Valley Stake! Lots of new members bore there testimonies and it was really inspiring for us missionaries. Then we had a wonderful Stake meeting! The spirit was so strong!!!!! Chermayne came and she loved it! The best part was when we sang "The Spirit of God" as a stake! So powerful :) We were all crying! Then we had a wonderful lunch with Bro.& Sis. Jones!!!! It was so so so tasty!!!! For dinner we had steaks at the Klabacka's!!!! They invited their nonmember friends over too and we got to teach the first lesson to them :)
Missionary work is the best work! I love seeing the gospel impact members, nonmembers, missionaries, just everyone! The church is true! The gospel is real! It can bless our lives if we let it! I just finished reading Helman today in the Book of Mormon! It was so great, I've been learning a lot about Repentance... I feel like every chapter I've read lately in the BoM talks about Repentance. I read these scriptures today in Helaman 15:7-8 "...believe the holy scriptures, yea, the prophecies of the holy prophets, which are written, which leadeth them to faith on the Lord, and unto repentance, which faith and repentance bringeth a achange of heart unto them—Therefore, as many as have come to this, ye know of yourselves are afirm and steadfast in the faith, and in the thing wherewith they have been made free." The scriptures truly help us to have greater faith, a desire to repent, and then truly have a change of heart, and truly, truly become more like our Father in Heaven!
Love you! Have a great week!!
XOXO!
XOXO!
Love,
Sister Davis
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