Howdy,

I got your package, thank you very much! Those fleece-y ones are nice. I guess its suppose to get really cold this week because of some tsunami by Alaska....I'll be really loving the tights.

Sister Correia is a sister training leader and exchanges are way easier plus we can just go to meetings together instead of having to split with other missionaries. Sister Correia is super funny, she makes me laugh all the time but she also a really good missionary so we stay focused. She wants to make a title of liberty for the ward to help them become more excited about missionary work. I'll take a picture when its done.

Elder Corbridge came and talked to the mission on Tuesday. It was pretty awesome. He talked a lot about teaching the doctrine (destination), principles (route), and conclusion (application/commitments).

On Wednesday we biked a lot, looking back I'm not totally sure why we didn't just drive because it was pouring rain for most to the day. It was still pretty fun but we were totally soaking. Sister Correia would say to past companions (when they didn't have a car) "the spirit doesn't stop working when its raining!"

We started teaching a kid named Shaun, he is 19. He is the nephew of one of the members but is leaving with his uncle because his original home was pretty rough. He grew up hearing a lot of anti-Mormon from his parents but since he's been in Texas (he's been here for a couple month) he's been coming to church. We taught him the Restoration and he agreed to be baptized. He said that everything he's learned makes him feel really hopeful.

Melissa is doing great and she has completely quit smoking. Yay! A lot of people smoke over here, even the people who you would never expect to smoke. Anyway Melissa has been doing family history like crazy. The first time we started her on it we couldn't really find much but in the past two weeks she's been able to feel out most of her 4 generation pedigree. I'm not sure what's going on in the spirit world but I'm sure her ancestors are helping her out.

I love you! (when I say that I'm talking to the whole family)

  

-Sister Davis

Howdy,

Wow Harrison is living the life. That is a pretty cool picture! I looks like it should be in some outdoor/travel magazine.

So it has been a wonderful week. I mean, I just feel immensely blessed every day! I've heard a lot about this area because I've had two past companions serve here and they both talked a lot about how hard it is. This past week however, we've had a couple people accept to be baptized and on Sunday three members gave us referrals for people they said are "ready to be dunked". Its been awesome.

Melissa is super great. We're thinking her baptism will probably be on the 22nd because she still need to quit smoking. She's really close but not quite there. Her daughter was in town this last weekend and she's a recent convert so we were able to teach a couple lessons with her there. What was really awesome was last night there was a fireside for investigators and new/returning members. Elder Corbridge from the seventy came and spoke about how to bring Christ into our daily life/how to prioritize. It was great! Melissa and her daughter went.

A member from a different ward gave us a referral for a lady named Sharon, who lives just up the street from us. We went over on Saturday and oh my, I think she's probably the sweetest old lady (she's probably in her 60s) I've ever met. She was super accepting of the Restoration, she kept saying how happy she felt about it. There was no hesitation when we asked if she'd be baptized when she found the truth out for herself - she's totally on board. Her husband died about a year ago so when she found out we believed in eternal families (her friend took her to the temple grounds awhile ago) she was pretty thrilled.

Being on a bike is really fun and its way easier to talk to people. Its also nice to have a car for people who live too far away. I'll try to take a picture of us on our bikes this coming week.

I like this part in Jesus the Christ "Such then is the need of a Redeemer, for without Him mankind would forever remain in a fallen state and as to hope of eternal progression would be inevitably lost. The mortal probation is provided as an opportunity for advancement; but so great are the difficulties and the dangers, so strong is the influence of evil in the world, and so weak is man in resistance thereto, that without the aid of a power above that of humanity no soul would find its way back to God from whom it came. The need of a Redeemer lies in the inability of man to raise himself from the temporal to the spiritual plane, from the lower kingdom to the higher."

I love you! I hope your week rocks!

-Sister Davis