Thursday, March 6, 2014

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

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