Hellooo from Beautiful HOT Boulder City!!!
Well my emails are a little mixed up, because I already told you about half of my week last Wednesday when I emailed! So I will start us off with Thursday.
We had a great District Meeting, nothing to crazy! Afterwards we went on a half day exchange! I stayed here in Boulder and Sister Cook, one of the sisters I look after came here. We had a great day! It was a lot of fun! We had a great lesson about prayer with the Shattler's and the oldest son even sat in, which was unheard of! We also had an amazing lesson with Lou! Previously we had given him an assignment to pray, read Mosiah 18, write questions and insights, read it again, and then pray to know if what he read was true. He loved what he read! He even went on to LDS.org to look up more references, like the Seminary guide and articles about Mosiah 18! He is amazing! He was teaching us what he learned and I just loved it! We gave him a Baptismal date and he accepted! It will be in August! It is amazing to see how far he has come in just a few months!! I am so grateful to have the great privilege of teaching him! Later we met this girl Ameilia! She was 16 and said she is looking for a church, she has been to a few in town and set an appointment for us to come back! It was such a blessing!!
Friday we had weekly planning all day! Then we took Sister Woodbury, the Relief Society President out to a lesson with Emily. The lesson turned into us teaching her dad about the Book of Mormon. He is a less active member, who has never had is own solid testimony. He accepted a reading assignment in the Book of Mormon and to pray about it! We are going to meet with him later on and hopefully be able to help him return to the path and bring his daughter with him. Later on we met up with some other sisters to have a full day exchange. I went to the Lake Mead stake with Sister Hirschi and her companion stayed in Boulder City with Sister Nichols.
Saturday we had a few lessons in their area, but one in particular was really amazing! We went to go and contact this guy Larry. He lived in an apartment complex! (I have not been in an apartment complex in 6 months, because we have none in our area her in Boulder City) A cute girl in her 20's answered the door. Her name was Setari. We offered to say a prayer with her and she let us right in. We asked her if Jesus Christ were here, what would you ask him for. She said, "I would ask him why in the world He would die for me or for anyone?" We knelt and offered a prayer we told Heavenly Father about Setari's question and asked him why Christ would do that. An overwhelming Spirit came into the apartment. When we ended the prayer we looked at each other and Setari was in tears! The Spirit really touched her. We shared our testimony of Christ's love for her. We invited her to come to church and meet with us tomorrow. She agreed. I called Sister Hirschi last night and she said the Setari loved church and stayed all three hours! They also had a great lesson after church with her! I know that Heavenly Father placed us there, because He is aware of all his children. He loves us and wants us to always remember that!
Sunday we had a great time at church. Lou came and he just fits right in! Everything that was talked about in Sacrament meeting I know was just for him. It was the exact things he had questions about and the speakers were amazing! We taught Sunday School and tailored it to teach Lou about Tithing. The when we talked with him after church he asked if we had told the Priesthood teacher to teach what he did, because it was just what he needed to hear! He has a strong testimony that God knows him and listens to him!! I just love to see how the ward takes care of him. We talked with Lou and the Stake President after church. Lou said, "President Peterson, I have a secret hope that these Sisters, after their through with their missions, will move to Boulder City, so that I can see there future children." He is such a doll, I just love him! We have also been working with Riley a little 8 year old who's grandparents are active, but her parents aren't. She has been coming to church every week and is meeting with the Bishop so she can prepare to be baptized!! She is SO excited!!! We met with them after church! It is so fun to see their whole family get involved in our lessons with her! We had dinner with my very favorite family, the Lopan's! Sister Lopan made homemade noodles, for her homemade chicken noodle soup! It was sooo good! I just love being able to eat at some many different houses. It is always so good!
I sure do love being a missionary! It is such a blessing to serve at this time! I know that this is exactly where I need to be! What a joy it is to have that knowledge! I love the tender mercies of the Lord! I was able to see this Mormon Message this week and I just love it! Here's the link! https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2010-03-05-the-tender-mercies-of-the-lord?lang=eng If it doesn't work just YouTube "Tender Mercies of the Lord" It is amazing! I know Heavenly is aware of us each individually! I am praying for you and am so grateful for the prayers I receive from you! Thank you for your great examples!
Love,
Sister Davis
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