Accidental Miracle!

The best thing ever happened this week. I'll start from the beginning..So the a few weeks back we had dinner with the Oler's, an older couple who are just wonderful, and we inviting them to make their own family mission plan. They decided as part of that they were going to reach out to the less-active members that lived in their neighborhood so we're thinking heck yes that's a great idea! So they came up with the idea of inviting one of those families to their house to join them and us for dessert and a message. Cool, yes? Gets better. So they walk down there and knock on the door, talk to the wife (nonmember) who excitedly accepts the invitation. Sister Oler calls us to tell us what happened and then proceeded to tell us that once they got home and looked at the ward directory again they realized that they knocked on door 28 and the less actives lived at door 24!!!! BAHAHAHA they totally invited strangers over and they said yes!!!!!!!!! We were just laughing our heads off when she told us and we couldn't believe it! So Friday night we had dessert with the Oler's and their neighbors Heather and Chris and it was awesome! They want to meet with us again this week. I can't wait. After we told this to our DL he's like "Member tracting- IT WORKS!" hahahah so cool, hey? I love it.

That was the highlight of the week.

And more good news: Sister Maynes and I are both staying here in Legacy for at least another six weeks whoop whoop! We are going to do work! And see miracles. Things are really picking up. At least that's what I keep praying for :) I LOVE MY LIFE!!!

Happy Valentine's Day! I love it. The one day of the year I can wear all pink and red and sparkles and no one can say anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY. My fave.

xoxoxo my little kittens!

Until next weeeeeek.

heart attacking our LA Fara :) in -24C............

singing in da car

Celebrating Belle's birthday woohoo! She just turned 11 what a glorious year

Me and Sister Cooley, we've become really great friends

P.freaking.S. Guess what?! Merle, an eternal investigator and my best friend in my last ward, just got baptized on Saturday!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That made me soo soo happy! "one of the most contributing details in my decision is your beautiful and consistent loving attitude and consistent non-threatening yet supportive presence." hahahah I died when I heard that...Is there a such thing as being too lovingly bold? Because that would be me

Can, Can, Can!

What a week! It was a long one for me. It started off amazing and then dulled to good midweek and then went back up to great yesterday. What a roller coaster, hey? I know. We had great lesson with Taylor on Tuesday and then set up another for Saturday but she didn't show up :( but we made good use of the time and visited lots of less active members instead. Most people are afraid of change, but I have really grown to love it! Especially when it means changing and becoming more like our Savior. What a glorious thing! An article in the Ensign said something that caught my attention as Sister Maynes and I were reading it together yesterday during study. It said "The bedrock of character is integrity. Worthy character will strengthen your capacity to recognize the direction of the Spirit and be obedient to it. Strong character is more important than what you own, what you have learned, or what goals you have accomplished. Your consistent exercise of faith builds strong character. In turn, fortified character expands your ability to exercise faith, thereby enhancing your capacity and confidence in conquering the trials of life." I really love that statement. Learn it, live it, love it.

I pray for each of you that you may have joy!

xoxox
Sister Davis

pictures: It was Sister Maynes' birthday yesterday so we made sure to have a little celebration for her! Since it was the Sabbath we couldn't buy any cake mix so I tried to be resourceful and use the things we already had which means I made a cup cake out of rice crispy treats, snack-pack pudding, and shredding coconut on top lol she said it tasted good.....yikes

Soooo Good!

Spirit high! 

Wowzas, I am just so full have love and joy and everything good today! We have had a glorious week, that's for sure. All good days and it's so great. I love Heavenly Father. When it says in the scriptures that He'll bless you for your diligence, it's not lying! We've been working really hard, making sure that we're full with appointments and all of our extra time is filled with finding activities. So, we've been walking and knocking and we've been blessed with not only beautiful weather, but also some more people to teach! Woohoo!

I don't have much time but just know that everything is going wonderful and that I am so grateful for all of the prayers that have been said.  I can definitely feel them! THANK YOU!

We had the opportunity yesterday to help out a bit with the Youth Standards Night for the stake and talk to the young women about dressing modestly. After we spoke, there was another woman that spoke and it was so good that I bombarded her afterward and asked to have her talk that she had printed out....yeah I'm a creep haha but it was so good! It opened my eyes to a whole knew view. She was talking lots about why Satan is trying so hard to derail us from the path of righteousness. Because he was cast out of heaven to come to earth as a spirit he doesn't have the same privilege as the rest of us of receiving a body. And because he doesn't have a body he can't do a lot of things. He can't have a family. He can't go to school. He can't do so many things so he tries so hard to make us feel of his misery! He's jealous and bitter and does everything in our power to pull us away from our Heavenly Father. She said it a lot better than I did sorrry...haha but it just really got me thinking about how sorry I feel for Satan that he doesn't get to experience life the way we do and how grateful I am that I chose to follow Jesus Christ, our Savior! YAY!

I'm out of time :( SO I hope that you have a wonderful week full of rainbows and sparkles and unicorns!!! hollaaaaa

xoxoxo,
Sister Davis

p.s. guess what I made this last week! SUSHI!!! I learned out to make sushi and

Some Really Wonderful Days!

What a week. We had some really horrible days and we had some really wonderful days! So, I'll just talk about the good parts. To start of the week we played a little prank on the Elders. You see, our whole district is made up of six sisters and two elders, one of which is our district leader who all the other elders call the Relief Society President.  We decided we'd spice up the district a bit and help Elder Hayter out with not feeling overwhelmed by all the estrogen. So, with a little scheming and sneaking, we each ended up with one of either Elder Hayter's or Elder Zavala's ties and put on our white button downs and showed up to district meeting singing, "Ye Elders of Israel." You shoulda seen Elder Zavala's face! And with his broken English accent "HEY those are my ties!" Lelele so funny.

On Saturday morning we had one of the most fanfreakingtastical lessons with Krista and Travis, our investigators. Last Sunday they just randomly decided they wanted to go to the Mormon church and boy oh boy am I grateful for that or what!? So yes, there they were tattooed and peirced and purple haired sitting in the overflow. They are the sweetest people in the entire world and they are so sincere in their hearts. They are just searching for direction in their lives and let me tell ya- they've found it! Travis' first question for us: Why are there so many churches if there is only one God? HAVE I GOT THE ANSWER FOR YOU, KID. They agreed to meet with us and we brought our ward mission leader along Brother Larson and it was just great. The Spirit was so strong and they were very intrigued by the story of the Restoration of Christ's church back to the earth. They came to church again yesterday and we have another lesson with them scheduled for tomorrow night, it's going to be wonderful talking with them about the Plan of Salvation! Woohoo I'm psyched!

Then right after the lesson we went downtown to meet all the other missionaries to do another Zone Blitz and street contact err'body we see. It was a hit! They first lady we met, Marie, told us that we were angels sent from heaven and that she couldn't wait to meet with us again haha unfortunately she's not in our area but that's okay, she'll still be able to learn more :)

Then Sunday. Oh Sunday! It's so weird having 9:30am church instead of 1pm. I don't even know what to do with myself! haha just kidding but it is so strange. We had an appointment with a less-active fall through which left more time before supper to visit other people that we didn't know from the ward list. We stopped by two people who we had tried to stop by before and this time were both miraculously at home and willing to talk with us! So that was a plus! I'm so grateful for the promptings of the Spirit. Even when at the time it might just feel like a coincidence or random thought or feeling, it never is. How amazing it is to know that God talks to us individually through the Holy Ghost.

I love my Savior. I love being his servant.

xoxoxo,
Sister Davis

Practically the only frozen yogurt place in Lethbridge...THE FIX

Just a Couple of Pictures!

No time today for an email...

Katie and her companion Sister Maynes

Yay!

Longest week ever.

New year, new companion, new everything! Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration but we all need a little of that in our lives too hey?

Here's the 411:

Sister Maynes. 20 years old. From South Jordan, Utah. Been on her mission for six months.

So yes, that's her. We're getting along just fine! She trusts me a lot so that's good. We are going to work, work, work this transfer!

We have a new investigator, her name is Marlene. Her husband was a member, but he passed away two years ago so she has a lot of "Questions of the Soul" that need to be answered to help her understand the importance of this life and the love that our Heavenly Father has for us. I'm just excited that she's willing to meet with us and learn more about her husband's faith even though she doesn't plan on acting on her faith in Jesus Christ...yet!

But yes, things are really turning around here. We have set some ambitious goals and we are determined to work diligently with all of our heart, might, mind and strength to see them accomplished! Woohoo! It's going to be great.

xoxoxo

Sister Davis

p.s. pictures: Meet Sista Maynes, and me at Lynx Pl!!

Happy New Year!

OH MY OH MY so much has happened I don't even know where to start. Let's see, first, I love my family more than ever and I am so grateful that I was able to see their darling faces on Christmas day! What joy! It was nice refill of family love. The rest of Christmas was great too. We started in the morning with Sister Cooley and Sister Gonzalez, making breakfast and opening gifts together (Christine, Joe, and Tristin Jakins are amazing and brought me some presents down from Calgary on Christmas Eve last week aren't they amazing or what?!), then we gathered as a zone and played White Elephant together! That was fun stuff, I ended up getting half of a heart "best friends" necklace, Elder Gibbs brought the gift and has the other half lolz. Then we went to the Rooyakers for a brunch. Then SKYPE :) And then dinner at the Thompson's house! We ate turkey and cranberries and lots of yummy desserts and sang fun carols.

Anyhow the rest of the week went just lovely. This transfer our zone set a lot of high goals for this area and all the other zone leaders from different places laughed at us and it was pretty sad so we've all been working really hard and as the transfer ends today we've reached and exceeded 2/3 and almost made the third one, missed by two. BUT for this area, we've about tripled the amount of work that's been happening! YAY! Who's laughing now!?

And today, since it's New Year's Eve and we can't proselyte after six we have a full day p-day. So this morning we all went curling! No, we didn't do each others hair.. haha It was so much fun too! I love it! Who knew that curling would be so fun. I've seen it on the Olympics before and promptly turned the channel before I fell asleep but surprisingly enough it was exciting and wonderful. I have to do it again someday.

And guess what else?! SISTER HUNTLEY IS GETTING TRANSFERRED! She's going to Calgary! I'm excited for her. I think it will help her grow and become the missionary she wants to be by starting fresh and all. It will be good for her. And I'm excited to be staying put with a new companion (pray for me that she'll be amazing please) and for all the great things we'll do together in the Legacy Ward!! Whoop whoop! I'M PSYCHED OUT OF MY MIND.

Well, don't get too crazy tonight at midnight! CTR haha

xoxox,

Sister Davis