Hello wonderful family and friends!
Well it has been a pretty wild ride this last week! Last Monday we had all our appointments cancel! It worked out pretty good, because we were able to prep some 4th of July pass along cards. They turned out so cute! The Lopan's helped us stamp and glitter these cute cards! They got soooo into it! I love them!
Tuesday we had appointments every 30 minutes after lunch! We were sooo booked! I loved it! We had a total of 12 lessons! Amazing! We screened Caitlyn for Baptism and she is totally ready, we have her set to be Baptized this Saturday!
Wednesday was a lot like Tuesday totally booked every 30 minutes! 12 more lessons! I spent most of the morning in Missionary Leadership Council! I was one of the first to meet the new Mission President and his Wife, President and Sister Snow! They are very different from the Neiders, but still soooo great! We learned lots of great things, especially why it is important to bring members to lessons. Sometimes we focus more on why it is important for the investigator and not the member. I shared our experience of setting a goal of how many members we want to have out with us each week! The APs LOVED IT! They changed their whole training around setting a goal after my comment! It was so neat! Later on we taught Lou the Word of Wisdom! He grew up on coffee and tea so it will be a test of faith if he will truly be willing to leave it behind. He understands the commitment and that it comes from our Heavenly Father. That is a blessing!
Thursday was our catch up day! We didn't have as many appointments as the past days. We had a great dinner with Sister Slack and her nonmember neighbor, who the young men did service for the other week. It was such a great dinner! We talked about faith and the Spirit was so strong! It is so great when members invite their friends over for dinner!
Friday was the 4th of July! Boulder City does it BIGGGGG! There was a HUGE parade with over 100 Floats! Tons of people to talk to! We also had weekly planning so that took up a lot of our day! We had a BBQ with the Lopan's! Just us and them! It was the best! We joined with their scripture study! The Fireworks in Boulder didn't start until 9pm, and we had to be home by then. We thought we would be able to watch them from our apartment, but because of the angle and the trees it was not so. We heard lots of them! The show went on for 35 minutes straight!
Saturday we had Zone Training Meeting! Sister Stinnett and I gave a training on Diligence! It was the bomb! I love giving trainings! I was able to teach Sister Stinnett how to put a training together. We started off having everyone explain what comes to mind when they think of the word "Diligent". We then had a discuss about what it says in Preach My Gospel about Diligence. After an amazing discussion we asked them all to look in the scriptures and have a few of them share a scripture that helps them to be diligent or reminds them of diligence and why. That was powerful! Then we asked them to think of a time that they lacked diligence and how they over came that. Many tears were shed as they expressed how the gospel and our Savior lifted them to a higher standard. We then watched a clip from "Facing The Giants" the scene is called "The Deathcrawl" (Go on YouTube right now and watch it!!!) Then we had them share the thoughts and impressions that came to their mind! WOW! The Spirit truly touched us all! We committed them to write down what they were going to do to be more diligent. Then I read this quote, by Elder Jeffery R. Holland,
Well it has been a pretty wild ride this last week! Last Monday we had all our appointments cancel! It worked out pretty good, because we were able to prep some 4th of July pass along cards. They turned out so cute! The Lopan's helped us stamp and glitter these cute cards! They got soooo into it! I love them!
Tuesday we had appointments every 30 minutes after lunch! We were sooo booked! I loved it! We had a total of 12 lessons! Amazing! We screened Caitlyn for Baptism and she is totally ready, we have her set to be Baptized this Saturday!
Wednesday was a lot like Tuesday totally booked every 30 minutes! 12 more lessons! I spent most of the morning in Missionary Leadership Council! I was one of the first to meet the new Mission President and his Wife, President and Sister Snow! They are very different from the Neiders, but still soooo great! We learned lots of great things, especially why it is important to bring members to lessons. Sometimes we focus more on why it is important for the investigator and not the member. I shared our experience of setting a goal of how many members we want to have out with us each week! The APs LOVED IT! They changed their whole training around setting a goal after my comment! It was so neat! Later on we taught Lou the Word of Wisdom! He grew up on coffee and tea so it will be a test of faith if he will truly be willing to leave it behind. He understands the commitment and that it comes from our Heavenly Father. That is a blessing!
Thursday was our catch up day! We didn't have as many appointments as the past days. We had a great dinner with Sister Slack and her nonmember neighbor, who the young men did service for the other week. It was such a great dinner! We talked about faith and the Spirit was so strong! It is so great when members invite their friends over for dinner!
Friday was the 4th of July! Boulder City does it BIGGGGG! There was a HUGE parade with over 100 Floats! Tons of people to talk to! We also had weekly planning so that took up a lot of our day! We had a BBQ with the Lopan's! Just us and them! It was the best! We joined with their scripture study! The Fireworks in Boulder didn't start until 9pm, and we had to be home by then. We thought we would be able to watch them from our apartment, but because of the angle and the trees it was not so. We heard lots of them! The show went on for 35 minutes straight!
Saturday we had Zone Training Meeting! Sister Stinnett and I gave a training on Diligence! It was the bomb! I love giving trainings! I was able to teach Sister Stinnett how to put a training together. We started off having everyone explain what comes to mind when they think of the word "Diligent". We then had a discuss about what it says in Preach My Gospel about Diligence. After an amazing discussion we asked them all to look in the scriptures and have a few of them share a scripture that helps them to be diligent or reminds them of diligence and why. That was powerful! Then we asked them to think of a time that they lacked diligence and how they over came that. Many tears were shed as they expressed how the gospel and our Savior lifted them to a higher standard. We then watched a clip from "Facing The Giants" the scene is called "The Deathcrawl" (Go on YouTube right now and watch it!!!) Then we had them share the thoughts and impressions that came to their mind! WOW! The Spirit truly touched us all! We committed them to write down what they were going to do to be more diligent. Then I read this quote, by Elder Jeffery R. Holland,
"You only get one chance to serve a mission. It is your responsibility, your duty, to use it to its fullest; to give every last once of energy until you collapse in exhaustion at the end of it. All the hardship, all the tears, all the work will be looked back upon as the best thing you have ever done; not because you enjoyed it, not because you baptized everyone, but because you gave everything you had, especially when you didn't want to. Live you mission to its fullest. Work harder than you ever have before. Let people know that this is the most important thing in the world to you. If you do not run until you have nothing left to give and then keep going anyway; cry and pray and work and sweat and plead until you are so drained that all you can do is turn to the Lord - if you do not do this then these people will not come to this joy because of you. Their failure to come to Christ will be partially upon your head. Come out of your mission proud of what you've done and this experience will bless the rest of your life."
There was a powerful Spirit there. I forgot to mention that there were 40 missionaries at this training and the New Mission President and his wife just happened to come as well. It was truly an amazing experience. One for which I am so grateful for.
After our ZTM we rushed back to Boulder to get ready for Caitlyn's Baptism!!! The person filling the fount didn't come, but we had time to fill it! There was so many people we had to move into the chapel for the service. All the missionaries who taught her came and even President and Sister Snow were there. It was a great service. She was beaming the entire time. While she was changing we had everyone write her a little note and we put them all together to give to her at the end of the service. All the Young Women sang "As Sisters in Zion" - it was beautiful! She bore her testimony afterwards. It was the sweetest thing ever!!
After the Baptism we were all in the gym for a little munch and mingle. All of the sudden I thought I was going to pass out and I felt really nauseous. I saw a couple sister missionaries and told them I wasn't feeling well I made it to the bathroom and just fell to the floor. Everything sounds so tunnelly and I felt horrible. They went and grabbed Bishop Taggard and President Snow. They helped me off the floor into the Relief Society room to give me a Priesthood blessing. I didn't hear anything they said in the blessing. I was just trying to sit up and not fall over. They had me lay on the floor in the Relief Society room. Sister Taggard brought me some food and sat there with me for about an hour. Then we went back to the Bishop's house. I was throwing up the whole time and started to have a low fever.
That evening I went home and went to bed, but I was up every hour throwing up and tossing and turning. Going from freezing cold to burning hot. I stayed home from church on Sunday with a 101 fever that was only kept down when I was taking medicine. There was another sister missionary in Boulder City that was sick so she stayed in with me while our companions got to together to go to both wards and work that night. It was a miserable day. Lou came to church though! He stayed all three hours and LOVED it!!!
Monday I spent all day floating between the Peterson's and Lopan's home while my companion had her Pday and worked in our area. It was nice to rest because I still wasn't holding food down. President Peterson is our Stake President here. When he got home on Monday night he gave me another blessing. It was one of the most spiritual moments of my mission. I am so grateful for God's power here on the Earth today! I know that the Gospel truly has been restored!!! I am so grateful for the knowledge and to be able to share that with others!
Tuesday I was bounced around to different members houses. Still very weak, but holding it together.
Today, Wednesday, I have been home resting and going stir crazy! Still feeling weak, but doing much much better!!
That's my weeks update. Such great miracles and blessings happened! It's hard to be sick and be a missionary, but I am grateful that my companion has been able to work and keep the area going!
Thank you for all your prayers! I feel them and I need them! When times get hard, I remember all of you who are praying for me and it truly gives me strength! I love you and miss you so much!!!!
Love,
Love,
Sister Davis
P.S. I'll send pics from the 4th of July and the Baptism next week!!
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