October 28 2013

Hey Y'all!

 

Wow! What a great time it is to be a live! I absolutely love being in the service of my God! I have never felt so close to my Savior. I know that we can all feel the Savior's love as we are serving those around us! This week has been an interesting one.. We were asked to contact all of the members on the "DO NOT CONTACT" list... They wanted us to find out if they still lived at those address and to see if they did want to be contacted now... Well you'll never guess what happened... ALL of these people still DO NOT want to be contacted! ...they made that very clear to us! And honestly it breaks my heart.. Because they have this precious gift, but they wish not to partake of the blessings.

 

I really love this scripture in 2 Timothy 3:12.. " Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." It is a comfort to know that through out all of history those who followed and lived for Christ were persecuted.. I know that I am not the first nor will I be the last! What a blessing!! It is so great "stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places" (Mosiah 18:9).

 

Well this week has been a little weird... First of the weird events that happened is that 5.. FIVE members cancelled their dinner appointments with us this week!! FIVE!! Crazy! ...I mean I didn't starve or anything.. But it was really a weird week..

 

So let me tell you about Susie! Aww! I love Susie! I told y'all about her last week! Well.. she is reading the Book of Mormon! We read with her and she reads on her own. She is super sensitive to the Spirit and has committed to prepare herself to be baptized! She has a few changes to make, but wants to change! We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End. She loved it! Susie has so much faith!! She explained that she believes faith is work.. That you have to want something so bad, work for it, and then you can achieve it with faith! She has so much faith! She is working to enjoy the blessings the Lord has in store for her! Susie came to church again this week and was tearing up! It is amazing to feel the Spirit and to see the Spirit working inside of someone else! Being a missionary is the best!!!

 

I love you all very much! I hope you are all enjoying the end of October! Can you believe that it is going to be November this week?! That is crazy! Life is just flying by! So thankful to have the gospel in my life! Vegas is crazy and it breaks my heart to see so many people lost and confused! The most comforting thing to me is to know that the gospel can bless all of their lives!! We just have to be that light to them!

Love you! Miss you! Keep it up! You are in my prayers!!

Love,

Sister Davis

October 21 2013

Hello!

Well I have to say the first week of the transfer is always a wild ride! But it is a ride I would take again and again to be in the service of my Savior. I am now serving in Quail Ridge and let me just say that I did not remember how noise a family ward was! Man oh man! It sure is different! The ages are so spread out and the area that we cover is SO small! I basically have everything memorized.. well at least the most important places!

So my mind is really scattered today, but really what's new? I have to say this week I was more homesick then ever, but not home sick for Texas.. home sick for Robindale! Robindale truly became my home these last six months and my best friends live there. I am only 15 minutes away from them, but 15 minutes has never felt so far! It is an adjustment, but I am growing a lot.

This week Sister Nilson and I taught a few different people! It was a blessing! One of the people we taught this week was Susan, not to be confused with the other 2 Susans we are also teaching... Yea it took me a little bit to get them all straight.. Anyways, this Susan has a little girl, 2 years old, named Sophie, we called her SoSo! We had dinner with her at the Barlow's home, which by the way they have 15 kids! ..Yes all from this one marriage, no adoptions...! Anyways after dinner we had a lesson and taught the Restoration of The Gospel of Jesus Christ! We also went into great detail about Jesus Christ, because she doesn't know really anything that He has done for her... She was crying as we talked to her about the Atonement! Really powerful! It was a great night! She came to church on Sunday with SoSo and stayed ALL 3 hours! Afterwards she told us that she couldn't wait to come back next week! Oh it was great!!

Also, just a random thing.. there is a guy in my ward here, David Brown, who served his mission in Atascocita Ward! So we've been able to talk about people in the ward! He's tight with the McCain's and baptized Julian Edmenson (or however you spell his name)! Crazy small world!!!

I've learned a lot this week! I know that there are some things that we can't change, but our Heavenly Father can. I know that our Savior, Jesus Christ, has His arms out stretched towards us! He wants to bless our lives, we just have to let Him! The priesthood, the power to act in God's name, is truly back on the Earth today! I received a blessing this week! And I know that the things that were said do come from Heavenly Father! He is aware of us and everyone around us! I love this gospel! I love being a missionary!

Thank you for all your love and support! XOXO!

Love,

Sister Davis

October 14 2013

Hello Family and Friends! I love love love you!

 

This has been an amazing week! The last week of the transfer is always full of miracles!!! I'm not sure where to start.... So I will just start with Wednesday!

 

Before 11am we had 7 people cancel on us!! SEVEN! Some were lessons and others were members coming out with us! It was a disaster! I couldn't believe it! We drove to our first lesson where a member was meeting us and when we pulled up the person we had the lesson with canceled! So thank goodness for back up plans!!!! We went to go see an investigator, Katie.. whom we haven't been able to see very much... When we knocked on her door a guy answered.. Michael. He told us Katie wasn't home, but he let us in to share a brief message with him!! We soon found out that Michael was Katie's new boyfriend, living with her and that he had just gotten back from being deployed! He has lost a lot of faith after seeing all that he has! He is so strong! He opened right up to us and told us many marvelous experiences he has had with God. We were able to see him on Friday also, with Katie there as well! They are going through a lot of struggles, but have been reading The Book of Mormon and finding clarity and peace. It is an amazing thing!!

 

Later on, on Wednesday, we went to see a less-active named JT! We visit with JT every Wednesday! He is awesome! This Wednesday, however, we didn't set an appointment with him, so we just dropped in... And that was so inspired! His cousin, Kia, just moved in with them from Cali and she will be here for 3 months... She isn't LDS so we were able to share with her our basic beliefs and gave her a Book of Mormon.. Her eyes lit up as she flipped the pages! JT bore his testimony to her, which he had never done before!! It was one of the most powerful testimonies I have ever heard! The room was just filled with The Spirit! It was truly amazing!!

 

Tender Mercy Thursday! This Thursday we were having dinner with a less active member! He couldn't feed us until 7pm so we agreed to wait and have dinner then... Well we confirmed the dinner appointment the night before and then when we showed up to eat dinner, after not eating anything since noon.. we find that he wasn't home and his mom didn't have a clue tat we came for dinner... We quickly left to try to find somewhere else to eat.. The Jex Family in our ward has always offered to feed us when we don't have somewhere to eat... They have two boys on missions so they love taking care of the missionaries! We went to there house.. they were excited to see us.. I said to them, "Do you happen to have some cereal?" "Yes of course" "Okay, because we didn't have dinner tonight.." "Oh well you aren't eating cereal for dinner!! Come in sit down we just made some soup!" 5 mins later we had yummy Mexican soup and ice cream to eat... As we were leaving they also gave us three boxes of cereal! They are the greatest!!!!

 

On Friday we spent more than 30mins of our weekly planning on our knees praying for one investigator, Amanda. We wanted to know who Heavenly Father wanted her to be fellowshipped by... We tried all different girls in our ward, but none of them felt right.. I had the idea to pray about this guy, Travis, he is leaving in December to go back to AZ, but he goes to UNLV right now and so does Amanda. Travis use to be good friends with a girl in our ward who dived on the UNLV swim and dive team.. and Amanda is on the UNLV swim team, so I thought maybe they may know each other... As soon as we prayed and asked Heavenly Father about Travis and Amanda.. Both Sister Berger and I were overcome with The Spirit. After the prayer we both talked about how we felt and both of us began to cry, because it felt so right and it had taken us so long to get that answer. We are excited to talk to Travis more about being friends with Amanda... She is very free spirited and Travis is a ranching, cowboy! Does seem like they would click as friends, but Heavenly Father knows better than us! What a Blessing!!!!

 

I have also started to read the New Testament with the rest of my Mission! We started 2 weeks ago and if we read 4-5 pages a day we will all finish together just in time for Christmas! I am loving reading about Christ and the miracles and parables! It is inspiring and helps me to know that with Faith ALL Things are Possible!!!

 

Now, I know that some of you are reading this whole letter and just waiting to see if I am getting transferred or not... Well on Thursday I hit my 6th Month Mark! And I am so grateful to have been able to spend my first 6 Months in Robindale YSA! Bishop Tuke, brother Jex, Brother Imlay, and Brother Richardson are amazing leaders in that ward. I love each one of these men and their sweet families! They have taken me under the wing and I have learned so much from them! I am also so grateful for Justin, my ward mission leader. He has made the work fun and productive! He is amazing and I am forever grateful for his example of selfless service. I am also so humbled to have met so many amazing young single independent adults! They have each changed my life and my desire to be righteous daughter of God has grown even stronger. They are truly my brothers and sisters and my best friends.

 

I will be serving in Green Valley Stake in the Quail Ridge Ward. It is a family ward! This will be a huge change for me! "But change is needed for more progression" that's what Sister Kriss Cardenas, my wonderful trainer says! My companion is Sister Nilson! All I know about her is that she is a visa-waiter here in Vegas and she has only been out for 1 or 2 transfers! I will have lots to learn! What a Blessing!!!

 

I also wanted to tell you about Brother Imlay, he was in the Robindale bishopric, but in June he was released, because he had cancer... He had a surgery and was doing great! He drove his oldest son to the MTC about 2 weeks ago.. And now has taken a turn for the worse! His cancer has spread to his liver and ribs.. Please keep the Imlay's in your prayers! They are an amazing family and my heart breaks that they have this trail.. But I know our Heavenly Father is aware of them and their needs! What a Blessing it is to have the gospel in our lives and to know that if we are sealed to our family with the proper priesthood authority in the Lord's Temple, we can be with our families forever!!! Not just death do we part!!! How amazing this gospel is! I am so grateful I can we apart of  sharing it with my brothers and sisters!

 

The Church is True!

 

Love,

Sister Davis

 

P.S. I will not have a new mailing address! Love reading your letters! Keep them coming! XOXO!

October 07 2013

Hello Everyone!!!

 

So much to say and so little time as always! Life is so great! The work is so good! I am so blessed. I feel like my mind is always so scattered as I try to relay the miracles and blessing to all of you! I am learning so much as I serve here in Las Vegas!

 

This past weekend was so spiritually uplifting! I loved every minute of it! General Conference truly is my favorite weekend of the year, especially as a missionary! Anyone who was not able to listen, or watch General Conference.. go to www.lds.org - it will change your life! I promise that! An those of you who are asking yourself "What is General Conference?" It happens every six months.. when the Prophet ( just like Noah, Moses, and others in the Bible) and His 12 apostles speak to the world! It is translated in over a hundred different languages and broadcast in over a hundred different countries! Currently there are 15 million members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! That is amazing! Last October there were 58,000 missionaries serving around the world... This October there are 80,333 missionaries serving around the world!!!!!!!!!!! I am so blessed to be one of those 80,333!

 

These were some of my favorite quotes and/or notes I took!

 

Robert D. Hales - Listen & then Live!

Ulisses Soares - Improve day by day! As fast as possible!

Carde M Stephens - The Sacrament renews ALL covenants!

Edward Dube - Never look back, look at what you have to do!

David A Bednar - Tithing brings significant, but subtle blessings!

Dieter F Uchdorf - Always have a daily walk with Christ! Doubt your doubt, before you doubt your faith!

Boyd K Packer - The Lord's blessings will come!

D Todd Christofferson - Bless others by service and sacrifice!

S Gifford Nelson - This is the greatest era in church history!

Arnulfo Valenzuela - Singing hymns change people's hearts!

Timothy J Dyches - Jesus Christ heals body, mind, and Spirit and it begins with faith!

Jeffrey R Holland - If the bitter cup does not pass, drink it!

M Russell Ballard - When missionaries and members kneel in faith and ask for opportunities, it is impossible for us to fail!

Henrey B Eyring - I gave them to you because I knew you could and would love them!

Dallin H Oaks - Courage not compromise!

Bonnie L Oscarson - You have to be converted - no one can do it for you!

Richard J Maynes - You must become the rock - the river can not wash away!

Richard G Scott - Repentance is not a punishment!

President Thomas S Monson - HE IS WITH US!

Quentin L Cook- The evils of the world will bring bondage - spiritual and temporal.

Neil L Anderson - 1 Nephi 11:17 - this is the scripture I gave him when I met him last month and he used it in his talk!!!!!!

David M McConkie - Your lesson will become the Savior's lesson!

Kevin S Hamilton - There will always be a "good" activity to go to instead of church!

Adrian Ochoa - Don't forget to look up!

Terence M Vinson - We need to use all of our strength - which means the Lord's strength also!

Russell M Nelson - True change can only come from the Atonement of Jesus Christ!

President Thomas S Monson - May we ever be found doing the work of the Lord!

 

Awww! Just listen to these talks! They are amazing! There were so many more things I loved, but that is just the one liners!

 

Also - so many other miracles! Jesse and Carlos came to watch General Conference with us and loved it! Katy went to SLC to watch it and loved it!

 

We met with Jesse earlier this week and taught him the Law of Chastity! He told us he wished he would have no about this before! He loved it and is trying to really be a great example for his son, Uriah - who is 4 years old! He is really turning around and is an amazing sight to see!

 

Okay - I have to telling you about the "Willing and Brief Invitation" It is amazing and truly inspired! So this is how it goes....

 

"Would you be willing to hear a brief presentation about _________ (Jesus Christ, How families can be together forever, why I am so happy ( you fill in the blank)) by two of our ________ (amazing, diligent, bright) young missionaries serving in your area?" If they say no, that is totally okay! We all have our free agency, just go on with the convo! But if they say yes, set up a time at your home or at the church and tell the missionaries went it is and they will make it there! We do this "W&B" Invite everywhere we go! As we talk to people on the street or in the store! It's super easy and really great! You don't have to be friends with someone to invite them to learn more about the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ! The Gospel is for EVERYONE!

 

ALSO! I just want you to know how much I love you and how much you mean to me! I am so grateful for all the love and support I receive from all of you! I could not do this without you or my Savior! What a blessing it is to have each other!! Please know you are in my thoughts and prayers!

 

All my love,

Sister Davis

September 30 2013

Why Hello!!!

 

It is always a great day here in Las Vegas!!! I have some pretty crazy stories to share with all of you!

 

FIRST- Let me tell you about Sheba Jr. - She is a GIANT Black Widow!!!!!!!!!! We caught her while she was chilling in our apartment! She is so gross and so scary! We put a Tupperware over her and then slid a paper underneath it and locked her inside... Then we took her to our Ward Mission Leaders house and left it as a present, since the Tupperware container was his! He did not appreciate that, but it was pretty hilarious! She is still in the container on his porch and she is still alive!

 

SECOND- Carlos!!! He was being taught by missionaries a few years ago... we went by to see him and last Wednesday we (myself and a member in our ward Amber) taught the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! On Friday we shared 1 Nephi 8 with him, about the Tree of Life. I asked him if he would follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized on October 26th... This was is response, more or less...

 

"You know.. Just before you asked me to be baptized... like a second before... I was just going to open my mouth and ask you about baptism... Last night I was thinking a lot about it.. And I was telling my brother... " You know it makes sense.. And it feels good.. There were prophets in the Bible.. Why would there not be a prophet now?" And then all of a sudden it just clicked.. And I asked myself... What am I waiting for? I know it is true! Why don't I get baptized?? So yes.. YES! I will be baptized on October 26th!"

 

I am pretty sure the Heavens opened and the Angels began to sing!!! It was amazing!!!!! One of the most Spiritual lessons I have ever been in. Sister Berger asked Carlos what he thought Satan would try to do the closer he gets to his baptism... His reply was.. "Oh I know! He is going to try to distract me!" And Carlos is exactly right.. Which brings me to my next story...

 

THIRD- Jesse... oh Jesse.. oh Jesse...... He is having lots of trials! He got his truck stuck when he was off-roading in the middle of no where and therefore missed church... He lost his job... It has just been a roller coaster!!!! Send Prayers for him!

 

Well, the work is good and the weather is cooler! Gotta love it!!!

You are in my thoughts and prayers! Miss you! Love you!

 

Love,

 

Sister Davis

September 23 2013

Hello my beautiful family and friends!

 

It is so good to read your letters! They bring me so much joy and comfort! I am so grateful for the love each one of you show to me. I always know I am loved every Monday!

 

This week has been a great week! We have met a few more investigators this week and a few less actives we are working with now. It is such a blessing to be able to meet so many different amazing children of our Heavenly Father!

 

Jesse is doing pretty good! It is amazing how much he has changed and grown closer to his Savior.. I know that he is feeling so comforted as he prays! He is a great example to meet. He told us that he finds himself praying all the time!!! Every time he gets in his car, when he is out to eat with his friend, before he falls asleep. He loves to pray! We watched Finding Faith in Christ with him and his friend the other night. It was such a special lesson! He told us all the things he liked about it and what stood out to him the most! It was amazing to hear his insight!

 

Katy, I think I mentioned her before, she is doing great and preparing to be baptized in October! She has been taught all the lessons from her boyfriend's older brother, so we are just going over everything to make sure she understands and has that true witness of the Spirit!! She is already in 2 Nephi and just loves the Book of Mormon!

 

Speaking of the Book of Mormon - It truly is another testament of Jesus Christ! I started over a few weeks ago and I am just loving the things that are standing out to me this time around! I have found so many different themes! It is just great!!

 

I don't have a lot of time today! But I hope you know that I am thinking of you and love you lots!!!

 

Take Care!

 

Love,

 

Sister Davis

September 16 2013

Hey Everyone!

 

It is so good to get your emails and your letters! This has been a very very busy week! We've had 20+ members coming out with us for the past three weeks and it is truly making a world of a difference in our area! We are getting to know the little details about the members, and are having lots of success as they get to know us!

 

On Tuesday, Elder Neil L. Anderson of the quorum of the twelve apostles came to speak with us - along with Todd R. Callaster, president of the seventy. It was such a powerful meeting. We were in the Nevada Las Vegas WEST mission. There were 500 missionaries at this meeting - which means there are 500 missionaries in Vegas alone! Pretty cool! Elder Anderson took the time before he spoke to shake everyone's hand! Since I was sitting in the front, I was one of the last ones to get to shake his hand... So I took a little piece of paper and wrote a scripture verse on it from the Book of Mormon, and handed it to him in my handshake! It was pretty sweet!! He was very grateful for it! And what an amazing thing it was to see that, though he is a servant of the Lord he is still just a regular guy! There were so many things I learned and loved from this meeting. But I think the thing I loved the most is when Elder Anderson talked about being in a competition with ourselves. We should always be trying to better ourselves, Often times we, and myself especially, look for recognition of others to feel like we are really moving forward. However, as we consistently strive to try a little harder to be a little better each day I know that we will be able to look back and see how far we've come. I am trying each day to be a little better. Christ truly was our perfect example, and I know that following Him is not always easy, especially in the time we live in today, but it is possible and it is worth it. It is so worth it! I see so many different people all the time, especially here in Vegas! And it truly amazes me to see how Heavenly Father guides them to be in our path.

 

Speaking of how Heavenly Father guides people to be in our path, this week and every week actually, I see Heavenly Father placing us at the right place at the right time. I think that truly is amazing. Yesterday we were able to meet a girl named Janice. She lives above some Elders in a apartment and the Elders told us to go visit her. She was very open. She told us that she is going to all of these different churches in the valley trying to find good wholesome people her age (in their 20's) to be friends with! Well what more young, good wholesome people can you find, than the LDS Robindale YSA Ward??!!!?!?!? She is so excited to come to church and to learn more about our religion and to meet some good people here in Vegas!!! It was a blessing that the Elders were put in her path and we were able to contact her as well! Heavenly Father sure knows and loves each one of His children!

 

Just a couple Tender Mercies I thought I would share....

 

On Tuesday are dinner appointment cancelled on us.. and two minutes later a recent convert we were meeting with later that night sent us a text to ask if we needed dinner tonight!!! What a blessing!!!!!!! Heavenly Father sure loves us!!!

 

On Wednesday we went out to lunch at Zupa's. my all time favorite restaurant! And as we were standing in line to order food, there were two young married couples in front of us who started to fight over who would be buying our lunch for us! What a blessing!!!!!!!!!!!

 

We had another great lesson with Katie! She will be getting baptized here pretty soon! She wants to meet with Bishop and was asking us all sorts of questions about the process to be baptized! She truly is so prepared and so ready!!!

 

Love, Love, Love, You All!!!!

Stay Strong!

 

Love,

Sister Davis

 

P.S. I hit my 5 month mark tomorrow!! Woah.....

September 09 2013

Hey Hey Hey!!!!!

Happy Monday! What a great day it is! I feel so blessed to be able to take part in The Lord's plan for his children! This week has been where The Lord is truly refining and teaching me. I have had many opportunities to rely on His love and guidance.

 

This week we were able to meet and visit many Less-Actives. It amazes me how many of God's children have partaken of the great fruit of The Gospel, but have fallen off the path. Some of them just need to feel loved and wanted and needed! Once they feel like someone cares and misses them they come running back! I think that is one of the greatest sights to see! I have witnessed so many of my brother's and sister's come back to His fold. What a joy it is to see that! My purpose as a missionary is really becoming more meaningful with each passing day.

 

Jesse is doing great! I just love him! He has such a desire to be a better person and a better father for his 3 year old son. He is truly understanding God's love for him as we continue to relate it back to his love for his son. He is struggling a lot with the influences of the world. Especially with the influence here in Vegas. If you aren't LDS or have good standards then you spend all your time on the strip or at the local bar... Jesse is striving to withstand those temptations and is so open with us. His openness with us just helps us to know how to help him and that he really wants to be better!!!! Pray for him!!!

 

We also started teaching Katie!!! Katie is amazing! AMAZING! She has been dating a guy named Stepheno, who is a member. She has been learning about the church fromStepheno's older brother who served a mission. She has come to church for the past 3 months!!! And is reading the Book of Mormon! She is now ready to meet with the missionaries!!! We met with her yesterday and she is solid!! She is already on 1 Nephi 15!!!! And LOVES the Book of Mormon!

 

Speaking of LOVING the Book of Mormon... I LOVE THE BOM! It is seriously SO amazing!! I am learning so much and relating every verse to the world we live in today! I just love how Heavenly Father continues to lead and guide us today through the words and testimonies of those that lived so long ago!

 

Prayer is SO real! I have spent more times on knees this week than I ever have before. The Lord  truly knows how to comfort each one of us! I am so blessed to have felt my Savior's love so abundantly in my life! He lives! I know that my redeemer lives!

 

Remember that He knows you!

 

Love you! Miss you! Always!

 

Love,

Sister Davis  

September 02 2013

Family and Friends!!

I love you so so much!

This has been a great week! We found out about transfers on Saturday! It was so stressful waiting for the news! I've been here in Robindale for 4 months now, so I was pretty sure I would be leaving.. BUT Sister Berger and I will be here another transfer together!!!!!!!! I am seriously in love with Robindale so I am so glad to be staying... That means I will be here 6 months! 1/3 of the mission! It's crazy!!!

So this week has been kinda weird.. I'm not sure why.. Just weird. But lots of tender mercies. The Lord truly is aware of each one of his children and it is so great to take part in this work! Sister Berger and I had the opportunity to do a training together in our Zone Training meeting. We were training on having our members become member missionaries. It was a great opportunity to help our Zone see the HOW in member missionary work. It doesn't happen over night, but it does happen! I have seen Robindale completely change and transform to be missionary minded. My companions and I have put a lot of work in over the past 4 months and we are seeing more and more results of our hard work! The Lord really is opening my spiritual eyes so that I can be refined.

So this week we met with Jesse again!!! First off.. listen to this... well read this I mean... Jesse came to FHE on Monday night.. Came up to us at the end and set our next appointment... AND asked a member to come to the lesson... YAHOO! Okay, this may not sound like that big of a deal! BUT this is every missionaries dream, that their investigator will set up the appointment, instead of us pulling teeth to set one up.. AND asking a member to come for us! Oh it was a beautiful thing!!! Fast Forward... We had an AWESOME lesson with Jesse on Saturday.. we taught The Gospel of Jesus Christ -Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the Gift of The Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End - Jesse really loved it... We set him for baptism on September 21st!!!! He accepted and wants to prepare to be baptized then! He told us that Sunday (yesterday) he has a lot of plans with his family, but he canceled ALL his plans so that he will be able to come to church this Sunday! WOW! That's amazing, and really shows a lot about him! And then on Sunday... HE CAME TO CHURCH! Cesar, this super awesome guy in our ward, picked him for church, sat with him, explained things to him, introduced him to other members, and took him to the classes.. Jesse LOVED church! He said he can't wait to come back next week! He told us he learned so so much! He is even bring his friend to FHE tonight! How cool is that?!! Our investigator is being a missionary! OH &&& I almost forgot... We set him for the 21st of September, because we prayed to know when he will be ready by and that is the answer Heavenly Father gave us... WELL... His birthday is on the 20th! The day before his baptism! How cool is that?!!! WAY COOL!

I am truly learning SO much from reading The Book of Mormon. I am finding ways to apply the teaching in my life as a missionary and in my life not as a full time missionary.. The words are truly the words of Christ! I feel so close to my Savior and my Heavenly Father as I read! I know that no matter what your troubles, worries, or concerns are that The Book of Mormon has the answers and will provide comfort! I wish I would have relied on it more and been a more devoted disciple of Christ growing up.. But I know that it is never to late to have The Gospel change your life and outlook! What a blessing it is to have the knowledge we do and to have the opportunity to share it with everyone around you. I know that as we look outward, that The Lord looks outward on us!!! I have seen this so much! 

I hope you have an awesome week! Look for ways to help and influence others for good! Be an example of the Believers! 

XOXO!

Love,

Sister Davis