OH MAN OH MAN! What a great week this has been!
A
while ago we had our Zone Conference where President Nicholas promised
us that if we did our two and a half walking days every week we would
see success in our area. We took him up on this and walked like crazy
this week (which I love! the weather has been pretty nice lately knock
on wood so it's very enjoyable outside. maybe even a little warm
sometimes...Sister McIntyre told me I'm turning into a Canadian since
I'm acclimating and stufffff haha). Anyway, so we walked loads and
talked to errbody that was in our path. But it wasn't until Friday that we started to see a difference.
So Friday
morning we started the day with a little zone get together...Elder
Burns, our zone leader, was leaving to go home the next day so we all
got together and did Tim-Tam Slams in remembrance it was so fun. Let me
explain a Tim-Tam Slam. It is divine! So there are these cookies that
are called Tim-Tam's that are like rectangular chocolate wafers covered
in chocolate. So you take a little bite of opposite corners and then dip
one side into hot chocolate and suck it up like a straw and once the
hot chocolate makes it through you quickly pop the whole cookie into
your mouth and let it dissolve and oh my goodness it's amazing.
Ah-mazing I tell you! So yeah, we did that. So I guess AFTER this is
when we started to see a difference haha
We called a referral that we had from church headquarters, her name
is Aleah and I spoke to her on the phone and she's great! She's a less
active member and right off the bat asked if someone in the ward could
give her a ride to church holla! And then we went to another less
active's house, Lisa Martin. I love her she's great! We made cinnamon
rolls with her and then she and her husband Alan also fed us dinner. Oh
my the cinnamon buns were also delicious. Sister Fenn made this cream
cheese frosting that she had memorized the recipe for and it just made
the rolls so so good! Gaah so much for a diet HA. So the little tender
mercy at the Martin's was that Lisa said she was looking into signing up
for an institute class this year, score! I really hope she does because
that would be so great for her.
Then on Saturday
morning we helped out at a "Fun Run" at the Arbour Lake Community
Centre. and we got to talk to lots of people there. Then afterward I
guess Arbour Lake won community of the year or something like that and
some magazine threw them this big block party at the lake so even more
people came it was great. Planted some seeds of happiness there.
And Sunday
was the miracle of all miracles. After church Lorena brought her 11
year old daughter, CiCi, to us and we found out that she wants to take
the lessons and get baptized! Yay! Then we met with our investigator,
Lisa, and her boyfriend, Devon and we talked a lot and then Lisa's like
"so the bishop said I should talk to you about picking a date for my
baptism..." Boom so she picked August 31st
and Devon also said that if he got an answer than he would be baptized
on that date too! Holy Macaroni, right? It was great. The best part for
me, a big testimony builder, was that in the morning I decided I would
fast because Sister Fenn and I had prayerfully made some transfer goals
that we wanted to accomplish that we hadn't made any progress on and our
transfer is coming to an end at the end of the month and I couldn't
take it anymore so I fasted. And all day I was just rejoicing in my fast
because I knew that in the Lord's time blessings would come and we'd be
able to make progress on our companionship transfer goals and then low
and behold before I even broke my fast the Lord blessed us with two new
investigators and two of our investigators on date! What a miracle. I
know that the Lord is watching out for us and all he wants us to do is
to do something about it. We have to put some work into our prayers,
into our lives, in order to receive His blessings. And it is so worth
it! I am overwhelmed with happiness for Lisa, Devon, and Cici!! They
won't even be able to comprehend the amount of joy that will come into
their lives as they follow Christ's example.
I'M ON A SPIRITUAL HIGH, FOLKS!!!!!!! I hope it lasts foreverrrrrrrrr.
So
yes, I love it here. I love being a missionary. Thank you for the
prayers, I can feel them! The Lord loves each and every one of us so
much and knows us individually. Such a blessing to have this knowledge.
I hope everyone is having a great week! My heart and prayers go out to you all.
Love,
Sister Davis
me and sister strathearn in the fudgery in Banff SO GOOD
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