Dear Family,
Thank you for your letters!
No one here says "oh sugar". They do have
very strang sayings though. Sister larson and I were just making a list
of them the other day. I'll send some to the family. They say cheeky
here a lot. That is Sister Larson favorite one and she uses it all the
time. haha. They especially say cheeky monkey. There are different
accents. The farther up north people are from the stronger their accent
and the harder to understand them. I don't really have a favorite.
Sister Larson and I are working on our accents though. Every morning
when we read the missionary handbook we do it in our best English accent
(which for me most of the time sounds more new zealandy than
Brittish...)
Sister Larson and I do lots of fun things. We haven't done a
chocolate face mask yet, but we have a fun jar that we do every night.
They are weird, random things. One night we skipped around, one night
had a 3-minute dance party, last night
we played "this word describes..." with the dictionary and randomly
flipping open and picking a word. We have one that is to put up the Christmas
tree (we have one in our flat :)). So we have lots of fun!
This week has been pretty good. We desperately need to find more
people to teach. Lakota is doing well, but he's gone on holiday for two
weeks (what is with all our investigators always going on holiday?). The
weather here has been... well, English weather. We had an amazing
summer. And now it is over. IT has been downpouring rain most days. That
makes tracting fun! But atleast it causes people to ask us why on earth
we are knocking on doors in that weather and provides great
opportunities to testify.
We are having slow success with exciting the members, but success
nonetheless. We have started having a missionary moment at the beginning
of Relief Society and we had a WONDERFUL missionary lesson in RS
yesterday. We got a new RS President. It was one of the couselors from
before, Sister Rogers. She's amazing. And she referred us to two of her
neighbors, who we have appointments with tomorrow!
Pleas pray they go well! It's for Kelly and Susie. She will be amazing
though. She already basically was president, because the previous
president (who also was amzing) went on holiday for a month and recently
has been really sick. We also got a new Elders Quorum President ( I
wonder if it has anything to do with the issue of home teaching).
Hopefully we can really get the ward council doing missionary work and
that will inspire the rest of the ward.
We had an amazing sacrament meeting yesterday.
We have those special people who always get up every Sunday and do the
"did I tell you the story about..." kind of testimonies. They got up yesterday
as well, but then so many others got up and bore simple, pure
testimonies of the Savior. The spirit was just wonderful! Too bad none
of our investigators could make it :(
Mom, before I forget, I can't remember if I told you this already,
but a couple weeks ago I had a dream that the family all went to the
party for the queen. In the dream you gave Princess Kate a Book of
Mormon. And then she asked to meet with us, the missionaries! IT was
awesome!
We got the mp3 of the last session of Conference and have started
listening to it. So good!! I just love Conference! And the gospel! And
the fact that we have a living prophet! And the fact that I get to teach
people about our Savior! What a wonderful gospel this is!!
I love you all so very much! I pray for you and know the Lord is blessing you!
Love,
Sister Davis
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