"I'm teaching Shadaya (her cat) how to become more like a lady" -Mary‏

Hola Mi Familia :)
This week was so CRAZY!

I got your package mom! Thank you, I've already eaten almost all of the soup, it's so yummy! :) and i got letters from Grandma and Grandpa, Aunt Nette, and Leah! :) Hey Leah, next time you should put a stamp on your letter ;)

 

So guess what? WE HAVE A BAPTISM ON FRIDAY :D and i am so so so excited!! :) Her name is Joselyn, i don't know how much i have told you all about her, but she is so great! She is 18 years old and has a little 18 month old daughter, Mercedes, and they are just the cutest. She always tells us how it has always been her dream to get baptized, and i am just so excited the day is finally here. :)

 

Sister Stephens and i have realized that planning for a baptism is a little stressful when you only have a couple of days to do so, and so we have been doing de-stressing exercises! haha.. I'll attach a picture :) lol.

OH! I have something exciting! So last week our zone leaders called us and said, "we have a new way of doing missionary work that we are going to start in our zone" and the new idea is to work more with college students! We have three colleges in our area, and we visited two of them last week! (One of them is called Southern Vermont University-LOOK IT UP! Seriously the most beautiful college i have seen in my entire life, it is an old mansion made into a college, SO COOL!). So with this new idea, Sister Stephens and i are going to start teaching institute! It will be so fun! We have one member who goes to one of the colleges, and Joselyn will be our 2nd member there lol. So we will have to advertise it and find a way to get lots of college students there! It's going to be a lot of work and it will take a lot of effort and reaching out, but i am excited! I think it will be so so fun!

Saturday was such a good day! We took John and Joselyn, Mercedes, and Cory (Joselyn's BF), to a baptism in Saratoga! It was so cool and made Joselyn so much more excited!! The night before we called John to invite him to the baptism and he was SO excited and the next day when he got to the church he was disappointed when he found out it wasn't HIS baptism lol. It was pretty funny, needless to say, he is excited to be baptized, but we need to teach him word of wisdom first which will delay that a tad, but it will happen! :) Then after the baptism, we stopped by Stewart's on the way home and got some ice cream and we all went back to the church building and had a little ice cream party (my idea:) and we showed Joselyn the font and let her try on jumpsuits (SO FUNNY- she almost decided not to get baptized because of how "plain and boring" the jumpsuits are hahaha.) It was fun though, and then Sunday was her third week at church, and last night she had her interview and now we are just about ready to go crazy planning it :)

 

This week i hit a point (on Sunday) where being a missionary really hit me! It was really cool. It was when we were at a members house eating lunch and one of them said, "Sister Davis" and i just thought how they know nothing about me, but because i have my name tag they know all they need to know to invite me into their home and to love me. And it's so weird how no one knows my first name! When i say my first name or when i read it, my first thought is, "oh, i know someone with that name!.. oh wait.." lol. It feels weird, But i like it :)

Well everyone! I love you all! Have a great week!!

LOVE, Sister Davis!! :)

Pictures:

the leaves in her backyard

Joselyn with Mercedes

A group of members that they eat with on thursdays.

de-stressing exercises. haha, Sister Davis and Sister Stephens.