Family,
Mom, Happy Mums Day! I thought about you all day yesterday.
I hope you felt especially loved and appreciated. way to go on
challenging Jimmy and Kristi to read and pray about the Book of Mormon.
It's the best. I had a great opportunity yesterday
in combined RS/Priesthood to talk about the book of Mormon for a few
minutes. In preparing I read a talk by President Benson about the
importance of the book called a new witness for Christ. I highly
recommend it. So many good points. Especially about how we need daily
spiritual nourishment from the Book of Mormon.
Elder Bruce R. McConkie stated, “Men can get nearer to the Lord, can have more of the spirit of
conversion and conformity in their hearts, can have stronger testimonies, and can gain a better
understanding of the doctrines of salvation through the Book of Mormon than they can through
because of the Book of Mormon than there will be because of the Bible.” (Address at Book of
Mormon Symposium, Brigham Young University, 18 Aug 1978).
I am drooling thinking of your strawberry freezer jam. Save some
for me?Still no word from Hassan. :( I will get to watch most of general
conference. I think all except for the last session on Sunday. I cannot wait!!!!!!!!! I LOVE conference!!
where is the time going? I can't believe it will be a year on Friday!!!
It should be a fun day though. Two of the Elders in our ward are from
my MTC group, so all of us Ilford Missionaries are going to celebrate
together. We're going out to eat at a yummy chicken restaurant, Nando's.
I'm looking forward to it. And I'm sure Sister Pagofie and I will come
up with other great ways to celebrate!
BIG NEWS..... Our mission is the first mission outside of the
38 pilot missions in the US to start facebook proselyting. Weird but
exciting! So Linda I don't know if you have been logging into mine at
all but please no one log into my account anymore because I will be
deactivating my home account and making a mission account. Also I'm not
allowed to be friends with anyone back home so no one try and friend me
here. It will provide great opportunities for missionary work though and
is a great trust from our leaders and the Lord. Hopefully it will
really help to hasten the work, especially in helping members in their
missionary work. It will be exciting to see the changes that come in the
work. However it will be very different to try and schedule in time to
use it. We found out we could use in on Thursday and we still haven't
had time to set up our accounts (well, just me because Sister Pagofie
already had one since they use facebook in the Visitors Centre) or use
it at all. Tomorrow we will though.
The work has been good, but we are continually trying to work to
help the members get more excited and involved in missionary work. Any
ideas?
We have seen some great success however in contacting
AUF- which is Address Unknown File or Lost Sheep. It is people who were
baptised but moved and the church found an address that they think that
person lives at. It's our responsibility to go to that addresss and
confirm whether or not that person does live there and see if they are
interested. Then if we have time we are to knock 20 houses around the
person and note how many people are interested around the AUF. We have
found quite a few new investigators from it this week. One was this
sweet woman from Ghana whose husband is actually a pastor. We knocked on
her door and after a brief introduction she let us into her home. She
said she was happy to hear anything that dealt with the word of God. We
were able to teach her the restoration. She was so intrigued about the
Book of Mormon and couldn't wait to read it. As we taught she asked, "So
what you are saying is that all the other churches are not the truth?"
we explained about the fulness of the gospel and about the great
apostasy more and she was just so sincere and wondered why she had never
heard about this message or the book of Mormon before. she said "Why
have I not heard this before when all my life I've been searching for
the truth?" It was so sad to see her sincerity of wanting the truth and
not being able to understand why she hadn't heard our message sooner. I
really pray that the spirit touches her and she reads and prays and that
she can know that this is the truth she has always been searching for. I
am unsure as to why she hasn't heard this message before, especially
because the church is so well known in Ghana, but "I know that [God]
loveth his children" (1 Nephi 11:17). I know he knows us perfectly. He
gives us the experiences that we need to shape us into who he needs us
to become. And I know that he loves all of us enough to give us the
chance to choose. I'm so grateful to know this gospel and to be able to
choose to follow Jesus Christ.
I love you!
Love, Sister Davis
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