Hiya Fam!!
So the best thing of this week was getting a whole extra hour of sleep Saturday
night. A whole hour! IT was glorious! Because America is not the only
ones who does silly time changes (who knew, right?-name that movie
KRisti.. I'll give you a hint:frying pans). So since we turned back the
clocks we got to sleep in an extra hour. However, our phone doesn't
automatically change time, which we didn't know and we use the alarm on
our phone. So we hopped out of bed at 6:29am only to find out that it
really was 5:29 and we got to sleep longer! Ok.. so this really wasn't
the best thing of the week, but it was pretty magical. However, I
probably could have slept for 10 more hours.
Zone Conference this week was MARVELOUS! We talked about the great
apostasy and how important it is to understand that in order to
appreciate and truly understand the importance of the restoration.
President Jordan talked to us about the history of gospel doctrine
during the great apostasy and it is so interesting to see the valuable
simple truths that Satan got the leaders to vote out of Christianity.
Firstly being who God and Jesus Christ are, and our eternal relationship
with them, existing before we came to this earth. Then we talked about
the Hastening the work of Salvation. In case you haven't heard, the Lord
is hastening His work. It was so good. The stake presidents from
Romford Stake and our stake, Canterbury came and spoke. I LOVE OUR STAKE
PRESIDENT. HE IS AWESOME!! He did such a fantastic job. And the best
part is that he leads by example. He shared with us a list of friends
that he is working with and the progress they are making. It was
inspiring to see him not just talking the talk, but taking real action!
He had so many ideas for member work that I am excited to incorporate
with the members. He did a really cool demonstration. Him and President
Jordan sang the first verse of Brightly Beams our FAther's Mercy. Then
they invited whoever wanted to join them to come up. Quite a few did,
and they sang the second verse. It was even better than when Him and
President Jordan sang it. So then he invited anyone else who wanted to
be a part of the last verse to come up. Everyone got up and sang the
last verse. The spirit was so strong. And he then talked about how that
is how we do missionary work. The stake and the mission come
together.. come shoulder to shoulder and get the work started. And then
we invited others to join us. And little by little everyone gets excited
about the work and wants to join in and be a part of it all. And the
results are even better than when we started. It was so powerful.
Then this weekend, we had Elder Dryden, an area 70 from Leeds come
talk to our ward and the other ward in our building. Our stake
president, PResident Hunt, came as well. It was all about hastening the
work of salvation. I loved it!! President Hunt did a similar
presentation in RS/Priesthood as he did at Zone Conference. It was
really neat. Elder Dryden shared some really amazing thoughts, as well.
And then he came into our Gospel Principles class. That was really cool
to be able to sit in a small setting like that with a man of God. He has
such a wonderful spirit. It was really amazing to get to have personal
conversation with him....oh, the perks that come from being a
missionary! But I am really excited to see the change that will come to
missionaries and members working together.
Missy is doing good, but we are still waiting to hear from her
mother... We haven't been able to make contact with Lakota, but we will
not give up! Rudy is doing pretty well. He has some Word of Wisdom
issues that he's struggling with. He did give us his tea and cigarettes
though to dispose of (that was weird.. SIster Larson and I felt like
sinner just holding the things: I realized that I had never touched a
cigarette before. Who knew the first time I did would be on my mission?!
haha) We are so excited for some lessons that we are teaching tonight.
One is the boyfriend of a girl in our ward. She's been good about
talking to him about the gospel and invited him to Stake Conference and
he's been going to institute with her (on the Book of Mormon). He has
decided that he wants to take the discussions!! It should be really
good!And the other lesson is also a friend of a member. The work really
is so much better when the members and missionaries are in it together
(we're all in this together! So get your H-E-A-D, head in the game.
Wookie, wookie :)).
Some days the work is really hard when just NO ONE wants to talk to
us, and then the ones that will talk to us feel the need to tell us
what we believe (which is always way off!) and then they won't even
listen to us explain our beliefs or answer the questions they have, but
it's amazing how that all just goes away and is forgotten once we find
just one person who we can have a quality gospel conversation with. It's
true that the work is not easy, and like Elder HOlland says it's
because "salvation is not a cheap experience". I am so grateful to know
that this is the Lord's work. That not only is He working to help His
children have an opportunity to receive the restored gospel, but He is
working to help me to be the disciple that He needs me to be, not just
for this mission, but forever. I pray that we may each rise up and be
the disciples that He needs as we reach out in love to his children, all
those around us. The gospel is true! IT is the way to true happiness!!!
I love you all!
Love,
Sister Davis
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