Dear Family,
I didn't even know it was the
Olympics!!! I guess Brits must not be too into it :( But maybe it can
give me something to start some conversations. Enjoy the Olympics for
me.... although, I do love the summer olympics much more than the
winter.
Mom, to answer some of your questions, the visitors centre is the
Hyde Park chapel. The vc sisters always go out of the centre once and it
is anywhere from 1 to 4 transfers, so we'll see how long Sister Pagofie
(pronounced Pong-oh-fee-eh: her Dad is Samoan) stays here. Sister
Latham's Visa is here. It came about one day after she came to Ilford,
but her mission president wants her to wait to come until the new
transfer so we get her until the 24th of February.
Sister Pagofie and I are sad she will have to leave. We are already
trying to plan ways we can get her to stay. But we are enjoying it while
we can. And I would vote that you do two birthday dinners (although, I
guess one party would make less work for you to do- you just make too
good of birthday parties that it's the more the merrier).
Happy Birthday, Megan!!!!!
I love being a
missionary. It can be hard. And it is even harder when it's mostly up
to you to make the decisions and to set the good example. I am
definitely not perfect, but I know the Lord qualifies whom he calls and I
pray I can be the trainer these sisters need. Although they really are
already trained. They are amazing! We have been striving more to really
work with the members. IT's exciting for SIster Pagofie because she
doesn't get to work with members much or with families because she was
in a singles ward. We have a stellar member lesson we've been doing. It
helps us improve our teaching, help the members grow in their faith and
feel the spirit, and helps them see how easy it is to reach out to their
friends. And it's fun because we do a roleplay and they get to play one
of their non-member friends. It's fun to see the hard questions and
things members will present to us. It has really been helping me see how
much I know and how much I've learned to rely on the spirit. It's
great! I hope it continues to be a success.
Sister Pagofie is a crack-up. We are laughing all the time. And she
is soooo American!! It's pretty funny but I love how much pride she has
for our country. But the downside is her strong American accent is
contagious. before she came a member said that some of the things I said
sounded British but since Sister Pagofie came both Sister Latham and
myself have strong American accents. We're working to help Sister
Pagofie embrace England. haha. poor sister Latham will lose her English
accent before she even gets to America.
Our investigators are doing pretty well. We had a good lesson with Frankin yesterday
and he came to church!! There is still something holding him back but
we found the perfect member to help him and the other investigator from
Cameroon, Neli (who will be getting baptised soon!), came to the lesson
with Frankin and starting joining in on the teaching. IT was great! I
love Africans.
Oh man, we ate some Sri Lankan food this week. SO SPICY! I loved it, but boy was it spicy!!!!!!
It
has been raining lots this week!!! I just can't get over how strange
English weather is. IT was nice sunshine when we walked into the grocery
store today
and it was raining buckets when we walked out. So strange. But atleast
the weather is always something we can talk with people about!
I think my favourite miracle of the week is when we went to teach
Frankin one of the times. The member we had hope to take with us
couldn't come. We tried to call some others, but they were all busy.
There was one sister that I kind of knew who she is, but she had been on
holiday for awhile and I had never brought her teaching with us; we
needed a member and so we called to invite her since we didn't have any
other options really. There was a reason we had no other options. She
was perfect and her testimony is amazing! I think it was just what
Frankin needed. It is amazing to see how the Lord guides this work!!
I know the church is true. The Book of Mormon is the work of God. We have a prophet on the earth today,
Thomas S. Monson. Jesus Christ is our brother and Saviour. I know he is
always there to comfort us and help us stay on the path to return to
live with our Heavenly Father. This week I have really learned how vital
family is for God's plan. I'm sure that we would all have had a desire
to return to live with God even without our families, but because of the
veil we wouldn't really understand what that would mean for us and it
would probably be harder to stay motivated. But by having families here,
we can experience the joy and happiness that comes with being with
those that we love. It gives us tangible motives to work toward the
Celestial Kingdom and makes it easier when we face challenges and
temptations. I know Families can be together forever!
I love you!!
Love,
Sister Davis xoxo
I forgot to mention how crazy transfers were. There was a tube strike
and the tubes and trains weren't running as frequently and some weren't
running at all. We had to wait in a queue just to get to the platform. I
have never experienced that before! It was so busy and packed and then
on top of that we had all the luggage we had to lug around. But we
survived and it was an interesting experience to say the least. oh,
London!
Love you all!!
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