Howdy again

Yeah, the ysa stuff has been kind of crazy. We're not technically the YSA missionaries, we're just getting things going on campus.

There's surprisingly a lot of legal stuff dealing with proselyting on campus but as long as we're promoting LDSSA we can do whatever....

It hasn't been too crazy of a week.

Sam, I can't remember if I've told you about her already. Her and her husband are living with a member. We've been teaching Sam and she's soaking it up. We set a baptismal date for Feb 21st, the only thing that might hold her back is her husband. He's not a big fan of the church. What's sad is that Sam is actually moving in a couple weeks so she'll be baptized in a different ward. Its kind of crazy, all of our progressing investigators seem to move :( but I'm sure they all go to where God needs them.

We had a neat experience last night when we dropped by a former investigators house. she started talking about her mom who just passed away and how she feels like it was her mom that originally led her to the missionaries. She was kind of emotional because a couple minutes before we dropped by she'd been praying for help to get through some of her problems...then we showed up :) Heavenly Father has great timing and I think her mom is really working hard on her.

Weather here is crazy. It was raining for half the week but the other half was really nice. I like it when its nice weather because we can ride our bikes and talk to people as we go from appointment to appointment. Sometimes when were in the car I'll see people in there yard and want to pull over - its not as natural as just pulling over on a bike.

I'm okay with flying to Reno. The drive from there to here doesn't seem like a whole lot of fun :) but I think I'll extend my mission an extra 6 weeks, I just found out that you can actually do that!

Well, I love you! Have a great week :)

-Sister Davis

Just kidding about extending for an extra 6 weeks :) I think its too late to do that....

Howdy,

So my new companion is Sister Nielsen and she is great! She's from Bluffdale Utah and has been a missionary for a little over a year. She was just serving in the YSA ward so she's pretty familiar with the campus scene.

The baptism went really well! She had a joint baptism with her uncle whose been attending the spanish ward so most of the baptism was actually in spanish. There were a fun words spoken in english but luckily most baptisms follow the same format so it was pretty easy to follow along :) I'll try to attach a picture.

Being on campus was pretty fun. We're on the Lonestar campus in tomball. There's a couple different lonestar campus's around Houston. This week the campus had a club fair and so we had a table for LDSSA. Right now the elders and us are the ones trying to start ldssa up but eventually the students will run it and most of our efforts will be focused on actually proselyting. We did have a few people interested in actually taking the discussions so we're pretty excited about that. President has the standard that if you find them you teach them, it gets a little confusing when trying to figure out what ward they go to if there not in our boundaries but we're still teaching them....yeah confusing.

We've started to teach a girl named Sam, her and her husband are living with some members but the members attend a different ward. Sam's actually been going to church with them, hopefully we can swing her and her husband into coming to our ward. Her husband, Cody, doesn't actually like mormons but part of the living contract is that they come to church. The members they live with have a son and they don't want the son to think its ok to not go to church. Anyway, Sam is really cute and very willing to learn. She's had a pretty rough life but has a great attitude. We're excited to continue teaching her.

It seems like this week a lot of the investigators that were kind of stagnant have started to re-surface. It seems to happen a lot when there's a transfer. Its nice because our teaching pool is looking better now.

That's a funny story about jack....poor little guy. And I can't believe Cedie is having a baby. That is pretty crazy.

i love ya! And I hope you all have a dandy fun week :)

-Sister Davis

Howdy,

So I'm staying here in the parkway ward and Sister Correia is leaving :( I'm sad but she'll bless many lives in her next area.

Yeah, its been pretty chilly here but we're staying warm. And I got your shoes, thank you very much :)

We taught Nathalia all this week so hopefully she will be baptized this saturday! Her uncle also happens to be getting baptized that day so they're going to do a joint baptism. Its kind of crazy because the hermana's in her uncles ward have it planned already....it feels like we kind of tagged on.

On friday we went up to College Station (I just can't get away from that place :) ) and had a big training on YSA stuff. I'm pretty excited because now instead of just focusing on the parkway area we'll be proselyting on campus and teaching YSAs. I'm still a little confused on the logistics of it all because if we find people that don't live in our area (which will probably be the case most often) I think we'll hand them to  whose ever area they are in...it'll be a lot of fun though.

I'm pretty glad about the YSA thing because I was feeling like I needed something more than just the parkway ward to work with....I guess I just felt unsure about what else to do to improve the area.

We've been doing a lot of finding lately but not having a lot of success. I've pretty much memorized Alma 26:27 

                     Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said: Go amongst thy                                     brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success

Success is promised when we have patience and faith in the Lord, so I'm not worried as long as we keep trying our best.

I love you! I hope y'all have an excellent week!

-Sister Davis