I Believe In Christ

Dear Family,

Way to go on the missionary experiences everyone!!! I am so proud of you all! Keep it up! I'm excited to hear more next week!

Our new relief Society presidency really is the best! Sister Rogers isn't the one who makes 7 desserts (that's SIster Hawkins... we're going there next week!!!), but SIster Rogers does feed us every week and is a good cook. She's given me lots of yummy dessert recipes. She called her counselors yesterday: Sister Lingad (a phillipino sister who recently moved in who is a member missionary machine! We just started teaching her friend) and Sister Johnson (the bishop's wife, who is also a fantastic member missionary: she invited over 40 nonmembers to her son's baptizm and is working really closely with this one family whose children participated in the primary program!). It's going to be amazing to see how this change will help the missionary work move forward. We also had an amazing lesson with SIster Roger's neighbor Suzie this week! She is so excited for us to come back. 

I love England, but the weather really is stupid! Every time it starts raining, Sister Larson and I get out our umbrellas and about 2 minutes later it's stopped raining. So we put our umbrellas away and then it starts raining again a few minutes later. Over and over and over this happens. And we can't just leave our umbrellas up while it's not raining because then we just look silly and it's a hastle, but seriously every time once we put our umbrellas away it starts to rain again and once we get them out it stops. So weird. It hasn't been too unbearably cold.

This week, our investigator, Rudy, accepted a baptismal date. We started teaching him during the week because he takes care of his young children on the weekend and they are very distracting in the lesson. We took them to church on Sunday. WE were a bit nervous that they wouldn't be ready on time and how the kids might behave, but once we got there, the kids were all ready and looking out the window. Once they saw us they started yelling and getting excited,"Dad, Sister Davis and Sister LArson are here! They are here! They are here!" It was so cute! And they were so good during church. Our ward was really great about fellowshipping them.

Lakota gets back from holiday today. I hope he is still progressing and no strong opposition happened while he was away.

Missy's mom is softening her heart, but still hasn't agreed for Missy to be baptized. We gave Missy a new date with the hope that her mom will say yes this weekend. WE set the date for the 2nd of November. MIssy's birthday is the 3rd of November and would then get the gift of the Holy Ghost on that day. What better gift than that for her birthday?! She is so excited! Please pray that her mother will allow her to be baptized then!!!

We've had a good week. Time just is flying though. It's crazy how fast the weeks go, yet how LONG some of the days can be. But it's great and we are teaching such wonderful people, and pray that we will continue to find those that are prepared. People really need the gospel now more than ever! I just wish that all of them would realize that. It really is so scary to see how sneaky and deceitful Satan can be in keeping people from the truth. We met this mother and daughter yesterday. The daughter is 16 and she smoked 2 cigarettes in the time that we were there. The mother has been smoking since she was 9 and said she's tried to give it up but her children won't let her! How sad! I don't know if I've mentioned it before, but EVERYONE in England smokes. I really just don't understand why it apeals to people, but it just is so so sad. This mother was also convinced that because she is "a good person" that that is enough and she doesn't need Jesus Christ. If people could just open their hearts and really understand what Jesus Christ can and will do for them. Thankfully there are people who will listen and who allow their hearts to be changed, but it really is the saddest thing to see those who have just hardened their hearts so much to God and those things that would truly make them happy. 

I am so grateful that I KNOW that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that he came to earth and suffered and died for me. He knows everything that I ever go through and knows perfectly how to help me. Because of Him, I can be forgiven. I can be clean. And I know that is true for every single one of God's children! What a glorious, happy plan Heavenly Father has made for us! 

Continue to spread this wonderful message to all those around you!

I love you all so much!!! 

Love, Sister Davis