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