March 31 2014

Hello Hello!!

Can you believe I have been in Boulder City now for six weeks?! Time flies by so fast! I only have 6 more months left on my mission! It is unreal! We found out about transfers on Saturday via a text message during the Women's Broadcast! Sister Area will be leaving and she is actually going to be with one of my former companions, Sister Nilson. I will be here in Boulder City with Sister TBA! I am training and won't know who I am with until Wednesday when I meet her!!! She is coming straight from the MTC! I am a little nervous, but I've been praying for her and I know that I new my future companion before we came to this earth. It will be great!

Let me tell you about some miracles that happened the last week of this transfer!

Monday we had a great activity! This whole every Monday night at 7pm thing is going really great! The members and investigators love it!

Tuesday we met with the Gossard Family. They haven't been for a few years. They are young couple. He's a return missionary and she is a convert. They were sealed in the Temple and have a little girl now. They just got "busy" and lazy.. But we clicked really well with them and they want to get back to the Temple and become active! We are going to start practicing our lessons on them! We had a really neat experience when we were walking to see one of our investigators. We met a man named Bill and his wife Wendy. They had just pulled into their drive way when we were passing there house. We introduced ourselves and visited a little. They asked if we were nuns... ummm no! We offered to say a prayer with their family. They accepted and we prayed with them right in their driveway. We asked them if Jesus Christ were here what would they ask for and I had the opportunity to say a very specific prayer for their family. They told us that their neighbor could use a prayer as well. It was wonderful! We also were able to share short powerful messages with quite a few members! We had a member of the Bishopric come out with us for the first time tonight! We were able to meet a less active woman, Sister Marten. She talked to us about her troubled life and how she had lost her way. She would like us to practice our lessons on her and we think a door has been opened for her! It was such a blessing to have Brother Prestwich with us! He talked about his experiences as a missionary! It was wonderful!

Wednesday we had an incredible miracle. We went to visit a lady in our ward who has been the hospital for the past 7 months. She's in her 70's and had to have her right leg amputated above the knee. We just went to share a short message and to see if we would help her with anything. When we were almost done with our visit her CNA came to help her clean. We wrapped up our lesson and asked if we could say a closing prayer. Yasuko, the CNA from Japan, was so excited and asked if we were Mormon and if she could pray with us! We visited with her and she explained that she knows lots of Mormons. We said a closing prayer and then decided to teach the Restoration in 5 minutes. She had so many questions, like why are there so many churches that all believe in Jesus Christ. We told her this is the message that explains that! She was so excited! We gave her a Book of Mormon and got her information so the missionaries near her could bring her a Japanese Book of Mormon. It was a blessing to be able to share the message that we love so dearly with her. She offered the closing prayer. It was her first time to pray and it was so sweet! Later we saw Mikalina, whom we haven't seen in a week and a half! She has just been MIA lately! We talked to her and set something up! I miss her tons!! We had dinner with Bishop Taggard and his family. He found out that my favorite food is spicy chicken wings and that Sister Area loves Mac and Cheese! So you can guess what we had for dinner!! It was the best!!! Afterwards we dropped by mutual to set up a few appointments with the youth. They were doing the funnest activity! It was combined and they had the girls learn how to do boy things and the boys learn how to do girl things! They had rotating stations. One of them was that the girls learned how to tie a tie and the boys learned how to braid hair! It was a hoot!

Thursday we saw more miracles! We were able to visit with Sister Guyette a 93 year old lady in our ward who had just gotten out of the hospital. She is a sweet hard and it is so fun to see how up beat she is for being so old! We had Kennedy, one of the Young Women come out with us and had a miracle lesson! We went by to see a man named Lou, whom Sister Area had met in November. He is from Germany and has a sweet accent. He's 77 and let us right in. We shared the Restoration with him and gave him a Book of Mormon! It was truly a blessing. We set up an appointment with him on Saturday and invited him to read the first chapter! After we left Kennedy turned to us and said, "Do you mind if I come with you on Saturday?" uhhh... NO! We were so happy she wanted to come with us again!

Friday we had Zone Training Meeting! It was wonderful! I also learn so much from all the other missionaries! Just before we went out to visit people, Sister Area said a powerful and specific prayer that we would find someone to teach as we were walking between appointments. Well needless to say God does answer prayers! We were walking down the street and started to talk to this man, Kenny, who was working in the yard. We found out that he was helping his neighbor with her yard. He said we could come to his house and pray with him and his 17 year old daughter later that night. Miracles! We went by later with a member and it was so great! Kenny has MS and other health problems! He has been through a lot and we hope to be able to help him draw closer to the Savior! We had another Young Women come out with us, Payton. We visited with Wanda, our 88 year old investigator. We read the first chapter of the Book of Mormon with her and Payton shared a beautiful testimony of the Book of Mormon! I love having the youth with us! We practiced our first lesson on the Gossard's! It was great! They told us they want us in there home all the time! They feel better and more motivated with us around!

Saturday we met with Brother Solomon like usual! We read the first chapter in the Book of Mormon and had a great discussion about some of his concerns! Kennedy came with us to see Lou, but he didn't answer the door. We left a sweet note for him though! We got a ride with the Stake President's wife and daughter to the Women's Broadcast! If you didn't get a chance to watch it then check it out on lds.org - it was so great!

Sunday was wonderful, because President and Sister Neider came to our ward to speak and teach 3rd hour! It was amazing! They talked about missionary work of course! The members are really inspired! We will see great things in the next few months, I just know it! Sister Area and I went around to visit a few members and to say her goodbyes. This is her first area and I know it will be so hard for her to go!

I am excited for the adventures ahead! I know Heavenly Father knows each of us and our circumstance. He will lead us if we let him and if we ask! I am so  I will tell you all about my new companion next week! Pray for us!

Love and miss you!

Love,

Sister Davis