It has been a great week. There are a lot of good things happening here in the Bridgeland ward. 

I can't remember if I told you about Jackie Yarngo or not....she is a less-active member that we tracted into. She is super nice and she is from Libya. She took the lessons in France and then got baptized when she moved to Minnesota. Her testimony is still super strong. We've actually started to teach her 10 yr old daughter, Ikelynn, and we're planning on meeting her husband tonight. He's not a member so we're hoping we can start teaching him too. Her daughter is super cute. Last time we were over she said that she would like to be baptized so we're just waiting on her dad's approval.

We had some interesting lessons with Phyllis this week. On wednesday we taught some of the commandments but it turned out that she had read some anti-mormon things. It was actually pretty cool because she thought it was really disrespectful and said she'll never be looking at that stuff again...only mormon.org and lds.org. A lot of people shun away pretty quickly once they've been exposed to anti-mormon stuff but because Phyllis has been reading the Book of Mormon and praying she had that spiritual booster to recognize it as bad news. We helped her download the gospel library app on her ipad and she loves that. Every time we go over she tells us how much she loves that app.

She wasn't able to make it to church because she got pretty sick with a sinus infection. Well, we told her about priesthood blessings and she said she would like one. Last night we read 3 Nephi 17 and then Brother Brown and Brother Allen came over and gave her a blessing. It was so great. It was Brother Allen's first time giving the anointing. The really cool part was right after the blessing, Phyllis expressed that the pressure in her head was gone and she was just so happy. I don't know if I've ever seen someone so cheerful. The blessing was just a simple blessing but the effect was truly great. It was really awesome to see someone who has never had the priesthood in her life be able to witness the power of the priesthood and see how it can bless her life.

We taught seminary on Tuesday. It starts at 6:00 am here, that part was unfortunate but overall it was pretty fun. I couldn't believe that some of the kids were falling asleep but then I thought back to my seminary days and I'm not sure how awake I was everyday.... I guess 6 am is pretty early. The ward likes us to do different stuff like that. Last Sunday we taught a little bit of priesthood, I felt a little bit out of place during that class. Next Sunday we are teaching Young Womens. 

I like being a missionary. Sharing the gospel rocks.

I love you! Have a wooonderful week! I hope those fires get put out. I'll do a rain dance, actually I don't think missionaries are allowed to dance....Christian can do it instead.

-Sister Davis