May 27 2014

Hellloooo loved ones!

WOW! I've never emailed on Tuesday before! But I spent from 10:30am-5:30pm in the ER yesterday! Sister Barth is having terrible stomach pains. I promise I am not poisoning my companions! What are the odds though?! This has just been a really crazy month! Thank goodness it is almost over!!!

So, last Monday we had a the great opportunity to share our Book of Mormon challenge with a few members. It is amazing how many people have friends that they would like to give copies of the Book of Mormon too, but they just need us to invite them. I am really excited to see what happens in the next few weeks. We then met up with the other Boulder City Sister to do an exchange! I am the Sister Trainer Leader (STL) now and so I am in charge of the exchanges with several sets of sisters! It is a little stressful, but so much fun!!!

Tuesday, Sister Eagar was here in Black Canyon with me! We saw some really great miracles! We had our Relief Society President with us this morning at 10am! We had no appointments and one of the last house we tried was a lady named Brandi! She has never let us in and always blows us off, but today she let us right in! She shared with us all of these horrible things she has had to endure in her life! It breaks my heart! I know it is hard on our Heavenly Father to see His children suffer.  We talked to so many people throughout the day! Brother Hess came out with us for the first time. He is in his 30's and his daughters and his wife come out all the time. He is just so busy! But what made our time with him out even more exciting is that he never served a mission and so this was is first time ever with missionaries! We taught a couple for the first time and he was teary as he shared his testimony! It was amazing! We also met one of his buddy's while he was with us and Kurt, his friend, wants us to teach him at Brother Hess' home!! So many miracles!!!! I love exchanges! And sharing the gospel!!!

Wednesday we saw Lou, our German investigator, with Brother Caldwell and Kyle, a 12 year old in our ward. It was the best lesson we have had so far! We read in the Book of Mormon and after 2-3 verses we would show him a picture and read a caption about what was going on. We left him with this story book to help him read side by side! He really enjoyed what was said by Kyle and Brother Caldwell! It was wonderful! We also met with a few other people and had a great dinner with Bishop's family! I love Wednesdays because we always stop by the church during mutual to set up having the youth come out with us! It is the best!

Thursday we met with Sister Calvert, a lady who just had her leg amputated. She shared with us how grateful she is for the things she has in her life and it was so inspiring! She is such a happy lady for everything that she has gone through! We had a great experience with Zach, an 18 year old in our ward. We were walking down Wyoming Street and we saw this lady sitting outside on the corner. Her name was Gina. We visited with her a little bit and we could just tell she was prepared for the gospel. She told us she was baptized Baptist, raised Pentecostal, and her father was Catholic. She said "I don't know what religion I am, but I know Jesus Christ died for my sins." It was a simple but powerful statement. She allowed us to say a prayer with her there on the side of the road. We set up to go back and see her later. It was truly a blessing to meet her. Later we had dinner with a young family in our ward, the Benson's. They have 5 kids from ages 10-5weeks. We shared our Book of Mormon Challenge with them and they LOVED it! Keefer, who's 5, asked his mom, "Who needs scriptures?" when she gave him a name of someone he could give it to his face lite up and he ran to get a pencil and began to ask his mom how to spell, "I believe in Jesus!" It was so tender! After we saw the Benson's, we went to see the Werly's and the Sargeant's two young families combined. We shared it with them as well. They were very excited! It is amazing how many miracles we are seeing! Our ward is really catching the Spirit of Missionary work!

Friday we had Sister's Conference!!! I LOVE SISTER'S CONFERENCE!!!!!! It was our last time to be gathered as Sisters with President and Sister Neider! It was so bitter sweet!! I wish you all could have seen what it is like! It is truly amazing to have over 90 Sister Missionaries gathered together! I just love being a Sister Missionary!!! There is nothing else like it! Later on we met with the Hansen's! Our ward calls them Barbie and Ken, they've just been married for a year. We shared the Book of Mormon Challenge with them and Sister Hansen was so excited! More excited then Keefer, if that's even possible?!! She wants to order more copies of the Book of Mormon, because she wants to give out sooomany! Everyone is catching the fire!!!

Saturday all of our appointments canceled, except for dinner..... all of our members that were suppose to come with us bailed... But! The greatest thing happened! We went to visit Sister Goff, a widow in our ward. She has been stuck at home for 4 weeks because she had to have surgery and she will be stuck at home for another 6 weeks or so. Last week we extended the Book of Mormon Challenge to her, and she told us she had someone in her water aerobics class she wanted to give it to, but she wouldn't see her for 6 weeks or so. We went by to see how she was! As soon is she sat down she said, "Sisters, I did it.. I gave the Book of Mormon away." WE WERE SO EXCITED! However, the story she then told us of how she gave it away was even better. She said that she had decided that this lady from her class is who she needed to give it too. She wrote her testimony in it and then decided when she saw her in 6 weeks at this class she would give it to her. Well two days after we had come by this friend called Sister Goff and asked if she could come by and bring her lunch. She did come by and Sister Goff gave her the Book of Mormon. Heavenly Father knew that Sister Goff was willing and prepared and he provided a way for her to give the Book of Mormon away without even leaving her house! It was truly inspiring!!!!

Sunday, Sister Barth spoke in Sacrament meeting! She shared part of her conversion story and the ward just loved it! One of the members offered to pay for the rest of her mission. So many people wanted us to come over and share a message with them! It was such a blessing! We met with the Tobler family after church and shared the Book of Mormon Challenge with them! Apparently the Benson's, who are the teenagers Sunday School teachers, told them that we had an awesome challenge for them, So they were super excited when we came by, which made it even more fun to share it with them!

Yesterday, Monday, we went at 8am to the Hoover Dam for a special secret tour! It was awesome!!!! They showed us places where they shot Transformers, and we went to places that only workers can go to. I juts loved it! Then Sister Barth was in so much pain that we spent the rest of the time in the ER. We had to cancel the appointments we had set and called it a night.

Today I went to an appointment with another Sister Missionary and went grocery shopping, while Sister Barth was home with another Sister. We just went up to the Family History center to email, but I have a feeling we will be inside the rest of the day/night. The joys of having a sick companion! Please send your prayers! We need them!

On a side note, my finger is out of the braces off and on. They want me to do little finger exercises with it. It is sore and hurty, but it is the least of my worries! The game that we were playing when I hurt it is called Kanakie! (Ka-Nack-ee) We play on a field and split into two teams. We kick the ball and the other team grabs it, you can run with the ball, throw it backwards or forwards. But as soon as your tagged with it or it hits the grown the other team gets the ball and you run the other way. I'm not sure if that explanation makes since! But it is So fun!!!

Well that is my week + 2 extra days! I hope you all have a great week! Remember "this" (sharing the gospel) isn't another thing to do, it is the ONLY thing to do! Share it all the time and share with me your experiences!!! This is why we are here! XOXO!

Love,

Sister Davis