Daylight Blues

Howdy,

I got the uke music, looks great! I think my companion thinks I'm weird because I have so many pictures of Jack. Its starting to kind of look like a shrine on my desk, we should make little ceramic statues of him. That would be a nice touch.

Ny, Ny sounds awesome. That is exciting news. Mandarin speaking....so he'll be in China town a lot?

It has been an interesting/busy/exhausting/really good week. I'm not sure if I mentioned this already but this years standards for our mission are to baptize weekly and invite 25 people a day to hear about the gospel/ask for referrals. Well, it has been pretty hard but have really been trying to meet those 25 people. The result of our efforts has been pretty awesome. Last week we found 7 new investigators and received two referrals from the elders in Katy. We've only been able to sit down and have a 'formal' lesson with two of the seven but I have faith that each person we found will progress.

One the new investigators, Erel, is eighteen and is really seeking for the truth. We taught him the Restoration on his porch and he really enjoyed it. He said it just makes sense to him; I love it when investigators say that. Anyway, since he is 18 he doesn't technically need permission from his parents but we're not really sure how they feel about us being there. We might try to teach him at a youths house. I think he said his parents are baptist but he doesn't feel like it is right for him. 

We also taught the Restoration to a 13 yr old, Katie Jones and she is awesome. She is friends with one of the young women and she used to go to church with her aunt who is LDS. We set a baptism date for April 19th with her but we definitely have to get her parents permission. I'm not sure how easy that will be, we've only met her step dad. Anyway, she is really sweet and I think she just wants some more stability/spirituality in her life.

We're going to go see Susanna tonight and we're pretty excited. She is super great. We didn't meet with her last week because she was busy trying to get homework done before spring break but she texted almost everyday. 

I'm definitely the most tired I've been since I started my  mission. Sister Heaps is super great and she likes to be obedient, which is nice b/c I like being obedient too. She is very thorough when it comes to daily planning so we will often be planning till after 10 pm. I think I need to be more patient because I just like to get things done quick. But really, she is awesome, I hope her Visa doesn't come. 

Texas is a great place, I love it here. Oh, also, I was thinking, I have been out for over 5 months. Can you believe that? I don't know where the time has gone. 

I love y'all.

-Sister Davis

Howdy,

Thank you for the ukulele tunes, missionaries can only use their email and church ran websites so I can't go on the link you sent. The url does seem promising. For some reason I can't open the downloaded hymns. I'll keep trying. If anyone just happens to send me a letter soon :) , can you put some of the songs in with the letter?

Yeah, being a missionary is pretty great. I think I will always be missionary. Sometimes nothing good will happen for several days in a row but then something super awesome will happen and it makes up for the slower moments. Oh, so Haley Stewart, my friend/old roomate/Harrison's co-worker, she just got her mission call! She is going to the Spokane, Washington mission but I don't know when she is reporting. 

So Shedrick, the investigator who's wife recently pasted away, is great. We didn't get to teach him a formal lesson this past week but we stopped by briefly and invited him to church. I definitely know that there are people all around us who are prepared to hear the gospel. The Lord is absolutely hastening his work.

We had another miracle find this past week. We tried another person on the potential investigator sheet from 2012, her name is Susanna and she was sure happy to see us. She kept telling us that she was so glad that we came by and that she has really been wanting to have more spirituality in her life. She has had the craziest past 6 months. Her grandmother and her father both pasted away in the past year or so which led her to depression, which led to alcohol abuse. Anyway about six months ago she got into some trouble and ended up in the hospital. Well it turns out that she had some crazy rare cancer that was spreading quickly and had she not ended up in the hospital that night she probably would not be alive today. So we showed up at her door a couple days ago and it really was  perfect timing. She has a lot of questions about life after we die and about our religion in general. She said everything that you would want an investigator to say, for example "I totally believe that Joseph Smith had that vision" and "I just really want to learn about the book of Mormon". Who (nonmember) says that?!?! 

So we are excited to start teaching her and hopefully her family as well.

Its really cool because these people that we have been finding from the old potential investigator record have  become investigators due to the events that happened to them in the past two years. The elders who wrote down their information had know idea what was in store for these people.

That's awesome that Harrison is doing all that cool stuff. Yeah, Norway sounds better than China in my opinion. How long will he be there? 

Are Rachel and Daniel still alive? What are they doing?

I'm glad to hear that Dad's business is going well, are they still working out of a trailer?

Christian should go on splits with the missionaries, I bet he would like it. I definitely wish I would have gone with the sisters while I was in Reno. I'm sure there are some elders around that he could go with.

We had zone conference on Tuesday and it was super good. President talked a lot about using family history as a proselyting tool. Its cool to think about how those that we are teaching have ancestors who are being taught the same thing just on the other side of the veil. Plus, people are much warmer to doing family history than hearing a message. 

We are looking forward to daylight savings, not many people like to talk to us once it is dark out.

I hope you have a good week. I love you!

-Sister Davis