September 10, 2012

One year ago tomorrow I was set apart as a missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. How crazy is that???  I think it is pretty cool.  I am so grateful for the things that I have learned while being here and the ways I have grown. 

In the last year I have spoken in church five times. means I won't have to give a talk for like 3 years right??? Hahah. I WISH!  but no I spoke yesterday and it was really awesome the Spirit was totallllly leading what I was saying. It was so cool. I don't think I have ever felt that confident while giving a talk in church before. It was cool!! 

Then we had some less actives at church!! Soo cool! :D  We may have bribed some of them because we were speaking... that's not wrong! 

One thing I don't understand about this area is how we are always let in while tracting! It seems crazy to me.  But countless times now people have said come right in!  We have been able to teach lessons and have really good experiences.  This past week we had a really spiritual experience with meeting the one woman we met because we were completely 100% led by the Spirit to her door. I think it is such a miracle!!

Anyway. I don't know why but I really don't have a lot to say this week. I just can't seem to come up with anything that I think would be interesting to share. But I love you all and I am so thankful for all the prayers that are said in my behalf.  I honestly think that is how I can wake up and face the hard days and the times of complete discouragement. So please keep praying for me. Pray that I will be able to overcome all the challenges I face. Cause none of us can win the battles that lie ahead of us without the Savior's help.  That's a lesson I keep learning again and again. 

Anyway I love ya!!! 

September 4, 2012

So transfers were this week... I'm staying in my area for a 5th transfer. I feel like I am never going to leave! haha. But I will next transfer. Sister Romero will for sure be training. She was going to train this transfer but the sister who was supposed to come delayed allowing me to stay here for another transfer. Which I am excited about. I love the people here!!! We keep seeing so many amazing miracles. :) 

We got two new investigators last week. it was awesome!! One came out of no where and the other we had tracted into so we were anticipating to see her. The one we tracted into told us after the lesson that we came at the perfect timing.  That's exactly what I want to hear as a missionary!!!

Then we met another lady tracting last week as well. She was really quick to tell us that she wasn't interested right after we knocked on her door and somehow we managed to continue having a conversation with her and she told us about her hobbies.  She makes dreamcatchers and she is going to make them one for each of us. Wahooo! I'm excited. But yeah then we ended up being able to testify of the plan of salvation and give her a pamphlet and a book of mormon. It was amazing. It was a completely unexpected blessing.  Then she also told us that us being on her front porch at that moment in time was exactly what was supposed to happen. and it was just so cool!! To see how things change so quickly. I am super grateful to have a companion that is determined to keep talking to people after they express disinterest. 

Something that has been really cool to feel is how my life and missionary work have started to become effortless things. Like I don't have to worry about them constantly. I am really liking myself more with not worrying so much. I need to squash the worry gene I inherited! Don't tell grandma that. I like her the way she is even if she worries! :) I got her card and it made me smile on the outside and the inside.  I pasted it in my journal. You can tell her that. 

Oh my goodness. I'm 10 days away from my year mark. It is so crazy to me. Things have changed so much. My perspective on life has changed so much. It is just amazing to see how much things have changed!! 

We played Frisbee golf with the elders yesterday and I am sore!! it was a lot of fun. I want to play again. It was really cool we were able to borrow some discs from someone in the ward just randomly when we stopped by. It was a small miracle for us. It helped us have fun on P-day! hahaha.

Anyway. I gotta get running I need to write my mission president. And all that jazz. :) LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!

Yummy Pennsylvania dutch food. :) 

  woah my legs are short!!!

 once again... another funny sign that I love here. 

 intercourse, pa. :) It's a fun little town. 

 cute hats!! 

  I love this picture. It was fun. It was at a little shopping place in intercourse,pa.

 Chair reserved for santa. 

 District Picture!!! Elder Lubbers, Elder Alsop, Elder Moulton, Elder Crabb, Elder Adams, Elder Brutinel, Sis Romero and me! 

 potatoes I dug up!!! It was fun! I'm growing my own potatoes someday!

 fun companion dinner! :D 

Love Sister Davidson

August 27, 2012

We had our mission tour this week. Elder Porter from the 1st quorum of the seventy came. It was really cool.  He told us to ask any questions we wanted.  And it reminded me of the stories that Dad always tells about how they went to the temple and were able to ask any question.  But it was so amazing!!! I really was edified so much!! I know that mission tour was meant for me personally.  Well it was meant for all the missionaries but that I personally really benefited from it.So it was amazing to me to see how much more I understood the Atonement and the gospel of Jesus Christ after the mission tour.  I feel like the things that I learned there are things that are helping me personally but more especially with helping some of the people that we are working with.  We had some really powerful lessons with some less actives in our ward about the Atonement.  One of them came to church yesterday.   The other less active told us the real reason she doesn't go to church and she hadn't told any other missionaries before us.  

I once again had my testimony strengthened of timing and how much better things seem to go when we are on the Lord's timetable.  I know that He is leading us in every phase of the work.  It's just cool to be able to see a glimpse of how He's helping and prompting us. About a month ago we were talking about plan a and plan b in Relief Society and since then I have evaluated my life in how much of it tends not to go with plan a.  Or that parts of it go with plan a but a lot of things go with plan b or c or d or whatever. It has been really interesting to see and to learn.  I've really been having to learn how to trust in what the Lord had in mind and truly following the Spirit to do that.  It's been really neat. This happened the other day when we were going to go follow up with some potentials but neither of us felt like that was what was supposed to happen.  And so prayed and we sat there for a minute and we both were thinking about the same person we needed to go see.  Then we were able to go see another person that we needed to see (one of our less actives)  And ahh! I can't even explain at how perfect everything was.  We pulled up to her house right as she was out walking her dogs and she invited us in.  And if we had gone before or had gotten there later we would have missed her. 

We are still finding a lot of potentials and even though not as many as I would like are becoming new investigators; I am grateful that  more people are being placed in our path.  We are trying really hard to make sure that we remember all the people we meet so that none of them are forgotten!  It's rough. We're being kept pretty busy. Which is good. I want to keep running as a missionary and doing as much good as I can!! And we are getting so many good ideas for our area that we can't exactly get everything done everyday. It's crazy. 

So we went tracting in a little town called Falmouth last week. Cute little down. funny name but cute town and oh my goodness I just fell in love with it. I want to go back. I don't even know why I feel such a pull to go to that area. Maybe it's because of the people we found there that I feel are totally ready to accept the gospel. but even before that I feel such a pull towards it. It's awesome. 

So even though once again a ton of things fell through. This week was a good one!!! I am so thankful for the ward here and I am so blessed to be able to be serving this mission. yeah!!! 

hahaha I loved the air mail box.

 Falmouth sign!!! I want to go to the goat race! We'll see if I get to...

 Mission tour with 2 of the zones. :D  can you find me?? heheh. 

Love from your favorite sister missionary serving in Pennsylvania,
Sister Davidson

August 20, 2012

Well this area has continued to improve which is really exciting to see.

One thing my mission president has told us to do is encourage the use of mormon.org.  It is such a great website!! I really appreciate it. Family, if you haven't created a mormon.org profile you should do it. I know that as we use media the church is going to grow phenomenally. Because it helps non-members connect to members.

We keep seeing miracles. Just some of them this week were that we ran into a guy we wanted to see only because he had a flat tire or else he wouldn't have been there. It was really awesome!! Then one of the less actives we've been working worth who was at a point where she wasn't going to go to church because of some things. But last night she told us that she was thinking about going to church in a couple of weeks! It's really exciting!! 

 

We also had more lessons this week than we have had in a while. That was exciting!!

 

Sister Romero and I keep getting inspiration on how to improve the area.  We have a lot of good ideas and hopefully things are going to continue to go forward and get better.

 

Sorry this weeks email is going to be short. A lot of things  have been going on today. Anyway. Thanks for all your love and prayers!!!

 

Love,

Sister Davidson

August 13, 2012

So this week I am going to start off my email with my pictures rather than make you wait until the end. Partially because you'll understand the context of my week if you see the pictures first.
752- us with all our medicine and me with a thermometer. and basically it's what we looked like part of the week... we were so sick!!!
753-  Me with a roll of toilet paper to blow my gross snotty nose. 

Okay for the first time ever in my life I had a bad reaction to getting a flu shot.  Pretty miserable I had a fever.  We went home the evening after I got the shot and I couldn't stop shaking because of my fever going up!! But thankfully it went down within a day.  I was going to be worried if it didn't.  But then I got a cold hence the picture with the toilet paper.

So onto other things...This week was excellent!  A lot of things fell through which was really disappointing in the moment but overall things were so good.  Sister Romero and I both battled with being sick but the number of miracles we were still able to see was incredible!

We have a goal that we are going to try to do at least an hour of finding every day and we have been doing really good on reaching that goal. It's awesome!  We have been able to get a lot of potentials and it is exciting stuff.  We are hoping that as we keep getting all these potentials that they will turn into new investigators.  We have faith that they will!

Last week we had a discussion with our ward mission leader about D&C 29: 7 which says: And ye are called to bring to pass the gathering of mine elect; for mine elect hear my voice and harden not their hearts.  So we are trying to find the Lord's elect in the sense of those in this area who are ready to accept the gospel now.  In verse 6 it talks about asking in faith and being united in prayer.  So we are working on increasing our faith and also being more united in prayer and also fasting.  We have seen a lot of good things come from this. It is really cool!  As we are trying to increase our faith we are trying to think of ways that would help have the Spirit more in our life and our companionship. It has been a really interesting process.  We have found some things that could help us and I am excited to see how things go! 

I had a really cool experience on a door step.  We were talking to this woman who seemed kinda unsure about life and herself. As we were talking we were testifying, and I felt the Spirit tell me to testify of things that were totally unique to her.  Things there was no way that I could have known from just standing on her porch.  But as I was testifying I could see her face and she was looking at me like how do you know this?  It was so amazing!!! I am so grateful for the Spirit which could help me help her.  She didn't set up a time for us to come back and have another lesson but we know she felt the Spirit.  I have complete faith that we were the instruments in allowing the Spirit to testify to her. 

Then we had another amazing thing happen last night.  We had gotten a media referral earlier in the week but it said that the woman wouldn't be home until Saturday.  So we decided to wait until yesterday to contact it because we didn't want to seem overly pushy when we knew she wasn't in town.  And when we knocked on her door she seemed really interested.  She had talked to some Temple Square sisters and had really liked what they shared with them.  We gave her a Book of Mormon and set up a return appointment. I am really excited to what happens with her! Both Sister Romero and I feel like she is going to be super receptive. 

I am so grateful for this area and I am so grateful for the help we are receiving from the Lord.  I love the feeling that I did what was expected of me that Heavenly Father and the Savior are pleased with me, even though a lot of things fell through and didn't go the way I planned.  

Anyway Life is GRAND!!!!!!!! I love it. I love you! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers. Tell everyone hello and that I lovee them!!!

Love Sister Davidson

August 6, 2012

Helllllllo again for another week,

 

Yeah I bet it is really hot where you are at. and the humidity makes the biggest difference ever!!! I don't like it as a missionary very much. Gross!! haha. But oh well. I am very grateful that I only have one summer that I have to go tracting/be outside all day. Weirdly I think that I could live in humidity. It's just the being out in it all day that kills me.

 

One thing Sister Romero and I have been doing is praying to see 1 miracle everyday.  It has been so interesting!! We have been able to see so many good things happen!  I can't even explain.  It has opened my eyes to the things that can be considered miracles which is soo cool!!! I love it. :)

I have had multiple experiences on my mission of where my testimony has been strengthened of timing. And how everything is on the Lord's timetable and how I don't always necessarily notice how things all work out. But it is really cool to see when things do work out. We had an experience the other day when we were walking down the street and we were going to go to one particular place earlier than we did. But we felt like we should keep walking around and keep finding. Then towards the end of us going around we found this really awesome potential that we wouldn't have found if we done things the way we had originally planned. I love when I am able to see things like that! It makes me so grateful that I am able to be doing the Lord's work and that He is truly leading me. It just remided me of a blessing that I got that I was told that the Lord would be guiding me and that I wouldn't necessarily see Hiim but that He would be there. And I can say I firmly believe that He is guiding Sister Romero and I right now. We are doing good things!
And I firmly believe that now is the time I was supposed to be on my mission.  There are just so many things that I have seen and it's really cool! I'll have to tell you more of the experiences another day. 
 

We are going to a lady today that takes a picture of your eye than tells you what is wrong with you... I'm kinda skeptical but slightly interested.  I just want to see what she says and how accurate she is with some things. I'll let you know next week.

 

I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Love from the awesome missionary,

Sister Davidson.

 

July 30, 2012

Anyway, I got a new companion. Her name is Sister Romero and she is so much fun!!! We have been having a blast together which makes me super happy! She is helping me so much right now as I am trying to figure out myself again.  Which is so good. I'm so thankful for Heavenly Father allowing her to be my companion. I feel like I have a longg way to go with everything but that things are good. I probably still cry everyday but for different reasons. I absolutely love her and I know without a doubt that we were supposed to be companions this transfer. So don't worry too much. :) I'm being taken care of!!!

Well, I'm so excited for this transfer!! I feel like we are going to do a lot of really great things.  We have already seen a lot of really great things happen.  We have seen something interesting things already but it's been good. 

One thing I have been inspired to do again is to have a list of things in the back of my planner that I wanted to pray for or need to pray for.  So I could remember stuff because I forget a lot. I don't go down the list every time I pray but I look at it frequently enough to remember the things that I do want and need to pray for. I have done it before but didn't quite do it the same way.  But it has been really awesome because I feel like my prayers have been more productive.  

We saw some amazing miracles this week with just knowing when we needed to go finding and finding a person to teach.  Or going to an investigators door who hadn't been calling/texting us back and being able to set up an appointment. It's been great!! I'm super grateful for the people that we have been able to teach and will be teaching in the upcoming week. 


One of the guys we'll be teaching this week, Sister Black and I met our last Sunday together and for whatever reason neither of us had a Book of Mormon but we asked if we could bring one by next Sunday and he said yes.  So Sister Romero and I went to go knock on his door yesterday.  And he was really excited about the Book of Mormon and asked us if there was a way to contact us if he had questions before we had an opportunity to give him more information.  It was awesome! Then we were able to set up a return appointment and I'm really excited. 

 awww half of my mtc district. it was 5 of the 8 that are still here in the mission

 e. espinosa. He is one of my favorite elders ever!!! :) He is super funny!  he was in my district like 6 months ago. 

 cows need the gospel tooo!

 

my injured knee. It hurt really badly!!

 pretty clouds!!

  us at shady maple eating growing scrapple. It's exactly what it sounds like... eek gross. 

District last transfer minus 2!  Sister Black, Elder Moulton, Elder Lubbers, Elder Brutinel, Me and Elder Sutherland Awww I miss the ones that are gone! ANyway I love ya'll!!

Love Sister Davidson
THANK YOU FOR BEING AMAZING!!!!!!!!

July 23, 2012

Dear Family,

So usually when transfers come and when I get transferred I don't know where I am going until Tuesday. But this time around... I'm not getting transferred. I'm staying in Elizabethtown for another transfer at least... Sister Black is leaving and I'll be getting a new companion. I'm excited and nervous.

I'm glad you all liked the postcards. I laughed when I put them in the mail because I sent 7 in one day. I thought the mailman would like that the next day when he collected the mail.


One thing I do not understand is how people have a testimony of the gospel but yet do not make it a priority in their life.  Especially people who have gone through the temple. Why can't they just go to church??? There are a few people in the ward like that. I have to respect their agency but I just want to shake them and tell them to stop being dumb!!

I read this amazing article yesterday about healing and the process of it. It's from the April 2004 ensign. You should look it up and read it.
It really helped me a lot. i'm probably going to be reading it a lot over the next several weeks.

Oh we had another freak storm last week!! We had to go to harrisburg for a zone meeting and when we were back in our area a huge storm rolled in and we were scared! we went to a member's home and they let us wait out the storm in the safety of their home.

So I really can't remember what happened this week. It's partially a blur for me.  partially just because it was hard and I was just trying to push through it and so I wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.

 me at the masonic village last week. Pretty gardens huh??

one of the girls here told me my first name was heather. So I found a street named Heather. pretty funny. I couldn't resist taking a picture.

Anyway I love you all dearly. I think you are ALL great!! Thanks for your prayers. I don't think I would be this far on my mission if I didn't have your thoughts and your prayers with me. and this experience has meant the world to me. thanks!!! Love you!!
Sister Davidson

July 16, 2012

Dear Family!!!! :)

We had a great week this week!  We were able to have 3 new investigators! But unfortunately one of them has already dropped us.  It is always so sad to me when people decide to stop listening to the gospel.  I always want to say wait just wait and just listen to me! But I can't do that. I can't force them to believe or do anything.  In this one particular case it was really sad because we know she felt the Spirit and she agreed everything we taught.  I think the one thing that was her hang up was that she saw our quads.  And she didn't understand that the Bible and the Book of Mormon were two distinct books but that we just were able to carry them together that way.  It was so weird. I have never had someone react to seeing my scriptures like that before.  She saw it the first time we came and we were almost done with the lesson when she saw it the 2nd time.  But either way she called us the next day and told us she didn't feel right about all of it.  It was depressing.

But on the flip side we have another amazing investigator.  She told us everything we taught her made complete sense.  She got really excited about most of the doctrines in Lesson 1. It was really awesome! She really loves the Book of Mormon and she had only barely started reading it. I love investigators like that!!!
So Sister Black and I really killed ourselves on Saturday. We walked 12.5 miles!! We were about a mile from our house and we had to sit down and take a break.  We were sitting next to someones cornfield and we joked that we would just spend the night there. We were so dead!!!  It's only cause we walked up this one really steep hill and it was like a mile long.  Blah!!!

We are working really hard to continue to find people to teach.  But there are only so many people that you can find tracting.  I have really learned how much more helpful it is to give missionaries referrals and those are the people that are solid in the gospel.  So moral of this story... give the missionaries in your areas referrals if you can. And don't worry that you are going to mess up a friendship with someone cause I promise you won't. And even ask if your friends will just listen to the misisonaries because the missionaries need someone to teach.  I kinda wish people would do that in my area right now.  Because then I wouldn't only have like 2 investigators.

ALSO, Transfers are next week sooo I could be getting moved.  We'll see.  President Topham told me it was a possibility. Lastly can you believe I've been out for 10 months!!! How crazy is that???  I can't believe it!!  My mission is going by wayyyy too fast!!! Anyway. Sorry my letters are always so short.

One last thing we had a really cool experience happen the other day.  We had a dinner appointment fall through but we were really blessed in the fact that another family in the ward the woman hadn't checked her voicemail from when we had eaten at their house the week before and thought we were coming over that night and she invited us to dinner. It was awesome!!! I felt really blessed that day. 

 Twizzler Factory!!

 In front of the Elizabethtown Bridge

 our district in our cars.  This was on the 4th of July when we were trying to decide where to eat. Everything was closed!

 awesome cloud!!!

 Hershey World!!!

 Amish family having a picnic!!!

 pretty view of the Susquehanna River

Fountain at the Masonic village

July 9, 2012

Dear Family!

 

But yeah the storms have been CRAZY!  We ran into another freak storm the other night. Luckily we had just gotten in the car. But it was kinda scary driving. Sister Black made fun of me because I turned up the music so I wouldn't hear the thunder! It was scary!!

 

Well this week was interesting. We ran into a born again christian at a door step and he told us he knew more about our religion that we did. Whatever. Sis Black asked him if he had read the Book of Mormon and he said no. But that he had read books written by people who had left our church and would never go back.  The books he had read went into detail about the temple and as he was talking to us I was just thinking stop saying anything!!! I just can't believe how wicked a person would be to write stuff about the temple after leaving the church.  Though Sister Black and I have done a lot of talking and we think the people are people who by the time they wrote that book probably didn't remember a ton of the details. Because I just feel like if a person who is going to write something like that they are bitter about something and probably hadn't been in good standing in the church in a while. Because a person doesn't just fall to doing something like that overnight. It takes time.

 

We have found a couple of pretty awesome potentials!   Usually when we knock on a door and we ask if they have heard anything about the church if they have it's usually not something positive. But this one lady we talked to said she had only heard good things!  It was really wonderful. I was thankful to have that experience. We were able to give her a Book of Mormon and she said she would read it! We're going to stop by soon because she didn't make a return appointment and hopefully she will have read.  Another potential we found was super willing to let us come by again and I'm really excited to teach her.

 

Our transfer comes up in 2 weeks. Crazy!! Time just flies by as a missionary. 

 

We went to Hershey today. That was a lot of fun. it's a cute little town!  We went to Hershey Chocolate world. I wanted to buy you a magnet mom but the dad trait in me said the ones I was looking at were tooooo expensive. So sorry no souvenirs.

 

Anyway that's it for this week. Love you tons!!! Have a fabulous week. :) I might send pictures in a little bit.  My time is almost done but I need to get looking at something else. so bye!!!

 

Love Sister Davidson

July 2, 2012

Absolutely no skunks here! Just kidding. I almost ran over one the other day... haha. luckily I slowed down and it ran really fast across the road. :)  Dad you could've gotten another pet skunk! fail you should've picked it up except mom probably wouldn't have been too fond of that idea. ha. ha. ha. I want a pet skunk!! Actually not really. I don't know what I would do with it. 

Want to have a weird thought? Someday I'll be an RM saying how much I miss my mission. haha. WEIRD!  I don't want to think that I'll ever be an RM at this point.

We don't get the day off but we won't be proselyting a whole lot that day. We'll be in the car probably most of it. and also we have to be by six. 

My life is so crazy right now! I can't go into all the crazy details even if I wanted to... someday maybe I will. All you need to know is that people's eternal salvation is on the line! My life is a mess. 

Heavenly Father is just so amazing. As you all know and from my previous part of this letter... My life is crazy and stressful but Heavenly Father has been giving me so many answers to my prayers lately but He has also been helping me solve my own problems. I have been reading through old Ensigns lately and that has had a big impact on me. Which has been great! I am truly trying to take the promise from one of the blessings I got before my mission and writing down the things I am learning so that they will help me as I go along in my mission and in my life. 

I had a thought the other day came to me. It actually came to me in the middle of the night when thunder woke me up. Can you send me the April and May 2004 ensigns. Please?

We had the most insane thunderstorms ever the other night.  The storms that have cause so much damage in Maryland and in West Virginia and such. I have never seen wind blow like that in my life.  The storm came through at night thankfully! We wouldn't have been allowed to be out in that! I have also never heard thunder like that before. The night sky was just light up with lightning and we were in our beds. I was covering my ears because that's how loud the thunder was and not just once but so many times. It shook our apartment! It was kinda scary.  But thankfully we have melatonin so I took that and it helped me fall asleep that night. 

Anyway I love you!! Have a great week!
Love Sister Davidson

June 18, 2012

Family!!!!!!!!! Hello!!!
How is life going for you?? I miss you all so much!!! Thanks for the continued support!!! You're all great! 
So this week was a long week. Blah! I hate long weeks. 

We went to go visit a less active who lives in a assisted living facility and we ended up watching this guy give a worship service for the residents. He talked about how we are but we aren't all children of God. He said we are in the sense that He created us but we are only truly His children if we accept Him into our lives. and that we only had a relationship if we did that. And Sister Black and I were like um no. cause we talked about it in the car afterward we didn't say anything while there. And it was just interesting how someone could think we are not all children of our Heavenly Father regardless of the choices we may or may be making. That is an absolute truth. 
I got my hair cut this weekend. But I don't have a picture yet. I'm sure I'll get one by next week. :) but we'll see. 
yeah basically this is going to be a short email cause I don't know what to write... but I sure love ya!!!

here are some pictures the movie is from my b-day when it was POURING!!!!!!!!!!!!! why does it always rain on my birthday? every year without fail. But I learned the definition of a torrential downpour. :P 

  I just thought it was interesting to see at how fast the railroad was built after the church was restored. 

 the ward mission leader's wife gave me this for my birthday. :) how sweet! 

 pretty pond on the Millersville University campus here. 

  i looooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvve popcorn. 

the stairs that don't lead to anywhere... what??!

May 29, 2012

Hi!!!!

Thanks so much forr your support! It means so much. Thanks for the package I did get it. :D  I loved it.

We had a baptism this week!!! it was great!!! :) I'm just going to send pictures for the rest of my email or try to.

 me in front of a creepy house!!!

 angry birds!! haha. I couldn't resist. it made me laugh

 me with a pretty view

 me with the baptismal font filling up on saturday. :D

us with michelangelo and his mom before his baptism.

May 21, 2012

This week's email is going to be really short cause yeah it just is.  We had good things happen this week but it was a hard week. We didn't end up doing much becuase Sister Black had a really bad cold and she lost her voice for several days. So I did a lot of work on the area book we have and just tried to not get sick myself.

 

There was an amazing lesson happened this last week with an investigator we've been working with for a while. The investigator is Brother James. His wife and kids are all members of the church. So Sister Juliano and I had the feeling to read with their family from the Book of Mormon.  We'd been struggling to get them to read together.  So we read 3 Nephi 27 with them.  The Spirit was really strong. I know that they felt it.  We asked Brother James if he'd ever prayed about the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and he said no. We committed him to doing that.  So we have somewhere we know we can start with in the next lesson. I'm excited to see where this could go with him.

We also had a miracle happen yesterday a former investigator showed up at church yesterday saying that she had missed coming.  She doesn't want to meet with the missionaries over the summer cause of her garden but I'm happy she'll be coming to church. I'm going to try to get in with her earlier than fall to teach a lesson but we'll see.

 

Then we had a funny thing happen there was a recent convert from Missouri who called us and said hey I'm going to be in PA for the week and I wanted to let you know who I am so that I can sit with you on Sunday and also I want to have a lesson on friday. Ha! It was super funny. And kinda crazy.  But he's a good guy. 

 

Then some elders in my district had a baptism on Saturday and one of the family members of the kid getting baptized threatened to kidnap us and take us to N.C. cause they want sister missionaries. haha. It was way funny. She took a picture of us and said that she's going to their bishop to know who to request. hahaha. Funny people.

 

Oh yeah we're having a baptism on Saturday in my area! I'm really excited about it!!  It's a sweet little 10 yr old kid that I just love to death! He's so smart. And He totally understands everything that we explain to him even though he doesn't always remember what the terms are. haha. He's awesome! 

But yeah that's basically what's going on with me.

 

Anyway I love you!!! Thanks for all your support. I really feel it and need it.

 

Love Sister Davidson

May 14, 2012

 De district from my 5th transfer! (Elder Sutherland, Elder Lubbers, Elder Shipp, Elder Richards, Me-duh!, Sister Juliano)

DINOSAURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) We were in Pittsburgh I couldn't resist!!

 Amish buggy sign. Ha! I looooooooove this place!  

 My favorite dog mat. It made me laugh and I of course had to pull my camera out.

Turkey hill cow. It's everywhere! We pulled over to the side of the road to take the picture cause it's awesome.

Once again I repeat I love this place. It makes me laugh. 

Hellllllo Family!

So today is my 8 month mark!! Almost halfway through my mission. Weirdddddddd!
Still such a weird concept to me that I've been out for less than a year and less than halfway through and I still have less than a year left on my mission.  

but anyway. Life as a missionary is fantastic. I love it. We've been working really hard and have been seeing a lot of good things and miracles happen.  
But last week was funny. We had an ALL day training and it was all about being a district leader... And we were the only 2 sisters there. But I did make all the elders laugh when I was forced to comment and I said well obviously I'm not a district leader nor will I ever be a district leader. 

we did have a ridiculous thing happen. We had a first appointment scheduled then when we went to go talk to the people they moved the DAY before. The day before??? Who does that. Obviously these people. grrr. oh well. and then their phones didn't work. of course. and it wasn't just that they didn't want to meet with the missionaries. people wouldn't go through measures like those something sketchy was going on.

We are working on our area book and it's crazy how many less actives this ward has!! I want to call them all up and say come to church. Maybe I should. We've had some success in seeing less actives but not tons.

This weeks email is just going to be short because I don't really have a lot to say. But I talked to mom and dad yesterday so I told them a lot of stuff.

anyway I'll send pictures.

Love Sister Davidson