"I'm a sister missionary for the Mormon chocolate" -Me trying to talk in sign language‏

Oh My!! Brad is on a mission! That is seriously unreal! So cool though. I am so happy and so excited for him! He is seriously going to be the most amazing missionary ever! His first little email made me so happy! Love him <3

This week was SO crazy though! We were in Utica for most of it! On Monday we drove to Utica for an ALL SISTER CONFERENCE (So much fun!!) and we came home late Tuesday night, proselyted a little bit on Wednesday, and the Wednesday afternoon drove back to Utica for Return and Report (a day long meeting with president and the assistants for the new missionaries and their trainers a month into their mission) then we got back from that on Thursday night! So great.

Sisters conference was SO much fun! ALL of my past companions were there! My first companion to go home goes home this transfer, then one goes home every transfer until I do! So crazy! I love all of my companions though. It was so much fun to see them! :) The conference was awesome. It was basically just a big motivational pep rally for the sisters ;). The elders were a little hurt they weren't invited, and we told them all that we just watched Disney movies all day and that frozen is really good and they should be excited to see it when they go home.... haha. :)

On Wednesday I lost my voice from yelling at cows and it was so quiet and raspy on Thursday at return and report that people could barely hear me. I didn't want to bear my testimony because of that, but the spirit was telling me to so i did anyway, and everyone said it was entertaining. great. haha. I still don't have my voice back completely. It was such a great meeting though. The spirit was way strong and I learned a lot of things I can be doing better as a trainer and as a missionary.

Yuyu is doing so good. She is seriously amazing. I don't know what I would do without her. I love teaching her and I learn so much from her every time I talk to her. We taught her a couple times this week, and every time, she blew my mind with how well she understood everything. She really just gets it. The gospel just clicks for her. The spirit is so strong in her lessons. She came to church yesterday, she got there late again, this time it was in the middle of the sacrament. She was sitting on the end, and when the boy passing the sacrament came to our row, she didn't know what she was supposed to do, and sister Hopkinson told her to take a little cup of water and pass it down, and so she did... she took one cup and passed it down, and then another and then another. And after we drank it, we passed our empty cups back and she put them in the tray the little deacon was still holding. Poor boy, he was so confused. haha. It was funny :)

This week we met a lot of people that don't speak English. I really wished i could speak Persian, Mandarin, sign language, and Spanish this week... There was one guy that was mowing his lawn when we passed him, and we waved to him and he came over and talked to us, and when he came over he just started talking in Chinese and i was like, sorry dude, don't speak Chinese, and he kept talking and so i pulled out a Chinese restoration pamphlet, and he got so excited. He opened it up and started pointing to the Chinese characters and i was like, sorry, don't read Chinese either. So we just kind of waved by to him, and the Chinese elders are going to go over there. Stuff like that keeps happening though. I wish I knew more languages!

On Saturday, we went to a branch activity on the lake.... straight up torture! Really fun though. The people who hosted it live on Seneca lake, and so they have a beach and a boat and a big dock and all. So fun. We got to sit and talk with the other missionaries while we watched our members and investigators wake board and tube! crazy! but fun. I got some sun ;) (below my knees and past my sleeves ;) haha. too good. The whole time i just kept telling myself, next summer. next summer. next summer. haha.

Yesterday we got to teach the young women! So much fun! I love teaching the young women. i click with them so much better than people my age and older. We taught them about temple ordinances, which was such a fun lesson to teach them. I drew a timeline on the board of the next ten years of their lives, and we talked about all of the things they could be doing in that time, and we talked about what temple ordinances they will be able to do for themselves in these years. Then we talked about how to the world, these are the party years, and these are the fun and free years. And we talked about how receiving these temple ordinances will make these years even better, and so much more enjoyable. And they really do. I love pondering my temple covenants. They give me so much strength. There is an awesome talk by Elder Holland from an ensign called "keeping covenants; a message for all those who will serve a mission" and it talks about how much we need the strength that comes from our own covenants as a missionary. Its great. Anyone preparing to serve a mission, or who is serving already should read it! :)

This week I'm going to plug my ears because everyone is popping! but really, like 4 women in the ward are having babies this week! Its so exciting and fun! All four of them said that if we see them at church next week, they will not be happy! haha.

Well I love you all! Happy almost August. I can not believe it is almost august! CRAZY!

LOVE YOU ALL!

Sister Davis ;)

"We would either jump in the river or throw rocks in it" -Elder Jolly (Sr. Missionary)

Hey Fam! :)

 

How are you all doing?! Sounds like you had a fun fourth of July!

 

We had such a fun fourth here too! We went to a BBQ with a bunch of the members, and we played everything! We played soccer, football, volleyball, badminton, tag, and an epic game of ultimate frisbee. So much fun! We have a bunch of young couples in our ward with young families that go to Cornell and are from Utah or Cali or Idaho, and thats who it was with. SO GREAT! I love our ward. It is so fun!

 

On monday, we went to FHE with the YSA branch (we work a lot with the branch because we have investigators in it), and we played soccer! I had never played soccer before but it was so much fun! I used to think soccer was so dumb (no offense Tay ;) But now I see the fun in it! Its a great game. But I was definitely the worst one there haha! Everyone there was super good at it, most of the were Asian so they just had mad athletic skills anyway! But I did score a goal! Totally luck-no skill involved. but I was pretty proud of it and there werent very many goals scored so it was cool :)

 

We found some super great people to teach this week! We found a couple of families and a couple of YSA's. I am so excited to teach them more. They all seem so prepared and ready to hear the gospel!

 

On Friday at the BBQ The Elders were sitting at a table, and a guy was walking past and one of the elders leaned over to his trainee and said, "I dare you to be a missionary" and so the elder walked over and started talking to him, and they got a return appointment with him, but since he is in our area, the return appointment for us :) So good! We weren't there when he was talking to the guy so we didn't know what he looked like or anything, but the Elders said he was mexican and didn't speak much english, so we brought spanish pamphlets over when we went, and we got there to find that he's not spanish... he speaks arabic. He is from Iraq! He has been in the U.S. for a year so he has picked up on a lot of english, but still doesnt know a lot. Enough to communicate though. But his family (he has a wife and 4 kids) just got here from Iraq last week, and apparently it was a crazy process and Rayez thought he would never see his family again. Such a neat experience though. They are just so humble. But- they are muslim, so we aren't allowed to teach them. Which is sad because they are SUPER interested! But we told the relief society president about them and their needs and the ward is going to reach out to them so thats good. And we are going to talk to president about them! But they are so great. So cute.

 

Well, I love you all, and I hope you have a fantastic week this week! You are always in my prayers!

Much Love,

Sister Davis :)

Sister Davis

"Ya. Yellow looks good on a man." -Sister Hall‏

Family!!!!


Oh my! It looks like you are having so much fun on your trip!
Andrea, tell me alllll about EFY! I am excited to hear!
That party in Idaho looks like it was a blast!! :)
You all are so tan....
mmm fun.

So, GUESS who's getting transfered!! This sista is!! I was not expecting it at all. And because i was not expecting it, I am a little sad to leave. But it's better to be sad to leave than to be saying get me out of here! So I'm ok with it! I am opening Ithica North and I am training!! How fun?? I am so excited! Nervous, yes. but mostly excited :) I hear that there is a WARD there.... and a mall... and normal people. Say Whaaaa?? They send missionaries places like that?? What am I going to do in a ward?! haha. Just kidding. It will be a lot different though being around a lot of members. It will be really fun! And I am so excited to find out who my trainee is on Wednesday! You all should write her letters :) That would be fun!

The district I'm saying goodbye to.

 

This week was so fun though! On Wednesday-Friday, I went on an exchange with Sister Keller in Lake placid! It was so much fun! And during our lunch, I got to see the Olympic stadium and all of that cool stuff! So great. I took lots of pictures. But i was careful to "not look like a tourist" (White Handbook P.26) :).

If sharing the gospel were an Olympic sport, I'd be right there with them.

We had some bomb teaching opportunities on the exchange too! We talked to a lot of cool people, and shared some short things with them, but since it's such a touristy town, not a lot of people we just talked to on the street had much time or were very interested. But we were able to do a church tour with one of their new investigators, and he was so solid! We commited him to baptism and he was so excited and happy about it. It was really cool. We also had some fun tracting experiences. The best lesson took place while tracting that day. Her name was Mary-Jo or something like that, and she was probably in her 40's, and she was pretty heavy set, and was wearing shorts and a bra while we taught her! Other than the outfit (or lack of i should say) and the fact that she pounded a beer while we were teaching her, it was awesome! We taught her about the restoration, and she had a powerful experience during her prayer at the end. So great! And she asked us to come back two days later so we could teach her boyfriend all of what we just said because she knew it was true. It was sweet!

On Friday, we had Zone Training Meeting, and Sister Rasmussen and I gave a killer training on Following up. It was sweet. and so much fun!

OH! and in my new area, Sister Langford will be my sister training leader!!!! How fun?! :) So stoked!



Sister sleepovers are the best!

Well, I hope you all have a fantastic week! You all are the greatest!
Love you bunches :)
Sister Davis :)

 

"If all else fails... read the instructions" -President Wirthlin‏

WOW! You all have been BUSY! Sounds like you are having so much fun though!

Brad, how was the temple? I want to hear about it! I bet you had a great time! Write me! :)

Happy one year Taylor! I can not believe it has been over a year since you left. Mind=blown.

Oh my, Have fun on your trip guys! I am almost jealous that you are going to Vegas, but I am not because I am on a mission and that's better than being in Vegas. But go see my families and tell them I said hi! And enjoy the sun :)

 

 

OK, so lately we haven't been reaching very many of our weekly goals, but this week, we reached 3 of them on TUESDAY!!!! how sweet is that?! It was awesome!

We had a member (Heather) come teaching with us. She is leaving for her mission on July 30th i think, and she is going to Texas too!!! how cool?! She is going to Lubbock! She will be great. But while she was with us, we taught so many lessons, and we picked up two new investigators! It was so cool.

The new investigators are Tom and Mike. Mike has 5 kids and he used to live in Utah so he knows a lot about the church, and we had a cool lesson with him.

Tom's lesson was so awesome though. At the beginning of the lesson, he was pretty hesitant and unsure of everything, but the spirit was so strong and by the end of the lesson he wanted to come to church and he wanted us to come back and he was so excited to pray about everything we had shared with him! It was sweet! :) And we invited him to be baptized and he said he would! But we didn't set a date yet!!!! SO GOOD!

Want to hear something fun?? We kind of got to go swimming on Saturday! Yup! Our cellar flooded SO bad! 6 inches baby!! It was fun haha. But terrible. Our landlord came and changed the pump so its better now. It smells so bad though!

 

 

 

Ok, so yesterday in Gospel principles, we had a lesson on baptism, and at the end of it the teacher asked us to think back to our own baptisms, and when I was thinking about the things i remember, I remembered running around in my dress in the cultural hall, and I remembered singing with my cousins. But then I remembered something cool. Before my baptism i learned that all of my sins would be washed away when I was baptized, and mom said something like, "ya, so every time you were mean to your brothers and sisters won't even matter any more". And i thought that was SO COOL, and so after I was baptized, I made a resolve in my head to never be mean to my siblings again! And that night, what happened? Me and Brad got in a fight. And I remembered being so mad because I ruined it, I messed up. I couldn't get baptized again. and so then I was like, well if its only one time, and i'm perfect from now on, its ok. So i tried to be perfect again. Then i got in another fight. And this bothered me for a few weeks or so (idk how long it was) but then a little while later (could have even been years later) In Sunday School we had a lesson about the sacrament. I had heard it before, but when they said that when we partake the sacrament it is renewing those covenants again, and that we can be clean every week just like we were when we were baptized, it really hit me that we can! And I know that we can, we can feel that same peace that we felt when we were baptized every week, and then resolve to do our best in the upcoming week. And when we fall short, it's just another opportunity to come closer to Christ. SO cool! :)

Well, i love you all and hope you have a fabulous week!

You are the greatest!

Love, Sister Davis

P.S. Last week I said to pray for a missionary experience! Anything cool happen? :) If you didn't do it, do it tomorrow! :)

"Ya... she calls me God." -Elder Speakman‏

FAMILY!!!!! Sounds like you had a fun and eventful week! Summer is so here!

 

 

Andrea. <3 I wrote you a letter :)

Today we crashed Cantons district activity and it was at a senior couples house who lives on a lake that is in between NY and Canada! How fun?! I ran down to the little dock at the bottom and I ran out on it and wanted to jump in the pretty lake sooooo bad, but didnt. I did put my feet in though and then i ran and jumped off into about 5 inches of it :) it was so fun.

 

 

This week was SO SO amazing. Ok, mainly yesterday though. Story time.

So about 2 weeks ago, sister Rasmussen and I were tracting and we tracted into a family that was really nice, and they said that they were Christians and that they were eating dinner so it was a bad time. Ok, cool. We keep tracting. That whole day, it had been extremely warm and sunny, but about 5 minutes after we knocked on that door it started POURING. Straight up downpour. It was crazy. And right when it started pouring that same family we had just tracted opened their door and said hey do you want to come in for a minute so you dont get so wet? and not even thinking we were just like no its ok, we tract in the rain all the time. then they said well if you change your mind, you can come in. Then right after they closed the door we were like-wow we are soooo stupid! then we were beating ourselves up about it, and we knocked on one more door then we were like, we need to go back to that family. So we decide that, and right when we do it stops raining and we were like seriously?! It literally rained for 3 minutes... if that.. and then it was sunny again. Heavenly Father put us in that perfect position to talk to them and we didn't even recognize it.. so that was dumb.

Fast forward a week (Last Sunday) we go to try them again. The whole walk there I am freaking out, I have never in my life been so nervous to knock on a door. I was just so sure that they were ready and prepared and I did not want to mess it up-which was weird because I have never been scared of that. But I was terrified. So we go to their house knock on the door, and no one was home.

Fast forward to yesterday. We repeat that process, get up the guts again, go to their house, Knock on the door, and end up teaching them. BOOM. So sweet. We taugh them the Restoration and they had such a neat experience with the First Vision. They had been trying a bunch of different churches lately and she said that they just couldn't feel the Holy Spirit at any of them. HOW COOL? She recognizes the spirit and knows that it wasn't there. So neat. I am sooooo STOKED for her to come to church! All of them. They are a young couple with a 7 year old girl-the Ashley family :) It was so cool. We set up two return appointments with them :) We set up a church tour, but that is two weeks away, so we got an appointment for Thursday too :D can't wait!

This week we had MLC too, which was fun! Sister Langford was there so it was way fun to see her :)

 

 

 

So a thing that we do now is we go to the senior citizen lunch at the church next door to our house every tuesday! Its one of the funnest things ever. There are like 10 people that go, and the youngest one there is 89. They are SOOOO hilarious too. Its the greatest thing of my life!

GUESS WHAT?? Ok, so you know John from Bennington??? well his wife got baptized on Saturday! How sick is that?!?! I just saw that in presidents weekly letter :D :D :D SO COOL! I bet John baptized her!!!!! :) <3 <3

Well I love you all! Enjoy summer!

Love, Sister Davis :)

P.S. Pray for a missionary experience tomorrow and see what happens. I will too. It will be fun :)

"hi pumpkins" -Zoya‏

Hello hello hello family!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Leah! I love you so much and can NOT believe you are 10 years old!!!!!! No more birthdays ok? I hope you have a super awesome day though. You are the best! Go swimming for me! :)

Congratulations Brad on the graduation! I love the picture, you look so proud and happy, you definitely graduated with style. :) I can't wait to hear about your speech either. So cool!

This week was so great! I love Norwood so much. It's such a nice place to live :) Especially in the summer! Everyone is front porch sittin and walking their dogs, and just having a good ol time! Its so cute. :) We have been finding like crazy this week. It has been so great!

Highlight of the week: We have been teaching this girl, Brandi, who is 9 years old, her grandma Crystal, is a less active member of the church and so Brandi never gets to come to church. But this weekend, Crystals parents got BAPTIZED, and Brandi and Crystal both came to the service!! It was so cool. Brandi said the opening prayer, and helped me play the prelude music ;). Right after the actual baptism, I asked Crystal how long it had been since she had been in this church building, and she said the last time she was here was for her baptism 20 years ago. It was really neat, and i think she had a great experience. Then after the baptism, we were able to give them a church tour and help them to have a spiritual experience in the chapel. It was really cool! And on Sunday, BRANDI came to church! Crystal didn't, but now that there is other family coming, Crystal trusts them to bring Brandi, so it was great. She has a hard time sitting still, but she did really good and loved church. She wants to start coming every week :D So exciting.

Yesterday, and for this next month, Sister Rasmussen and I are substituting for singing time in primary, because Sister Akin is having her baby any day now!! It was so much fun! The kids have the sweetest spirits. I just love being around them. And seriously, the Potsdam Branch has the cutest kids in the world! I can't wait to visit after my mission so I can actually play with them! :)

On Monday, we had a memorial day BBQ with a bunch of members of the branch, and it was so much fun! President Curtis forced the 6 of us missionaries into a football game, and it was so funny. It was president Curtis up against his brother, then the three sets of missionaries guarding their companions. I scored 2 touchdowns and had a sick interception... in a dress & flats ;) haha. don't worry mom, i was being lady like :) But Dad, really, you would've been proud. :)

This last week, we had 22 appointments planned, and only 4 of them happened. But, that happens, and we don't let it get us down. We just keep trying. It's amazing how good Satan is at working his way in there. Because in those situations, usually the reason the appointment doesn't happen is for a valid reason, like health problems, something going on with their kids, or sometimes they just didn't plan well. Satan will do anything he can to prevent those people from keeping their appointments with us, he does not want us teaching them. But when they cancel, I've found that if we get down and give up, he is succeeding. It's when we diligently and faithfully continue to try them that Satan loses his power over the Situation and we are able to help them have experiences that bring them closer to their Savior, Jesus Christ.

Well I love you all, I hope you have a great week. Enjoy the sun. I know I am... speaking of, I have the cutest below the knee and flats tan line... I am embracing it :) Oh, and the watch tan line is pretty cute too ;)

Have a good week. Stay sweet :)

Love you!!

SD (Scooby Doo, or Sister Davis.. your pick.)

"He was riding down a hill and he hit a truck... he totaled the truck!" -Bro Burnett (talking about a big poly dude from his mission)‏

FAMILY!

Oh my, Thank you so much for my packages! You spoil me way too much :) I also got a fun yellow package from Aunt Cherie! It made me so happy! :) Loved it :)

 

 

It sounds like you all are just partying it up in Santa Cruz. How fun!!

 

Random child that came up and started talking to her at a park. Never too young for the gospel.

 

I hit my half way mark this week! I definitely have mixed feelings about it, but I am excited for the next nine months. I have learned so much during the first half of my mission, and I know I have become a better missionary, and although I have made a lot of mistakes and everything has not been perfect, i don't regret any of it because I have grown so much from the mistakes i have made. I am so excited to use what i have learned to make the second half of my mission the best it possibly can be! :)

 

This week was so so great! So much fun stuff happened. We had a very successful finding week. We have a few new investigators, and a lot of people who we will hopefully be teaching soon :) I am excited!

 

Bike tracting around a lake. (She didnt say the name of the lake, but she said it reminded her a lot of Lake of the Pines in its beauty)

 

 

I went on exchanges this week with Sister Woolley! She is so cute and fun and it was one of the best exchanges I have been on in a while! We worked so hard, and found so many people. It was so great.

 

The highlight of this week though was Saturday morning. Saturday morning we had a ground breaking at our church building for an addition to the building- they are adding on district offices and a few other rooms. It is going to be so great. but the amazing thing about it is how much the church has grown up here over the past 40 years! There was a sister there, Sister Hann, who joined the church 40 years ago, and when she joined, she was the 4th member in St. Lawrence county (the north country). Now, only 40 years later, there is a district with 6 branches in it, and a little over 1100 members! And last year there were 10 missionaries serving in this zone, and now there are 30. The Lord is hastening his work here in the North Country! At the ground breaking, President Wirthlin said that this district is preparing to become a stake, and his estimate is that in 8-10 years, the Potsdam district will be the Potsdam stake. How amazing is that? It was a powerful ceremony and I am so glad I was able to be a part of it!

 

 Ground breaking with President and Sister Wirthlin

 

 

I got a bumload of mosquito bites this week! (60 that I counted!) On Saturday Sister Wirthlin saw my legs and told us to stop our plans, go to walmart and get some repellant. It was crazy bad.

 

Something else fun that happened this week, we had a pipe explode in our cellar, and I went down there to try and see what was going on when we heard it, and water was spewing everywhere and i got all wet... (second time that has happened to me on my mission lol). So fun.

 

We got an awesome new investigator this week, his name is Marshall, and he is the sweetest guy ever. He is 86 years old and is just the happiest old guy out there. We found him tracting, and when we tracted into him, we taught him the restoration, then we set a return appointment for the next day to answer his questions, and we ended up talking about Gay marriage, the women’s role, abortion, and then also a little bit about the Book of Mormon. He was reading us random things he got in his mail and it made me happy, because it reminded me of when Grandpa Goodman would always read us random stuff he got in the mail <3. So great. And after we taught Marshall yesterday, he invited us to come to his Senior Citizen luncheon on Thursday.. so stoked :).

 

Well, I love you all! Happy Memorial day :)

 

Love Love Love,

Sister Davis :)

P.S. I love you.

 

 

"I can make 4 types of fried chicken" -Kristi‏

Hello all :)

This week was rough! On Tuesday, almost all of our investigators dropped us.... how does that even happen in one day?? So crazy! But It was so sad! So we have been looking for people to teach! Not a ton of luck yet, but this week is going to be so good, i can just feel it!! :)

I got a new companion this week also, her name is Sister Rasmussen! She is from Queen Creek Arizona, and she is a doll! I love her a lot :)

This week I got about 40 bug bites.. the bugs here are TERRIBLE!!! I need to get some repellent! my legs and feet are covered! Most of them are mosquitoes, but there are a few spider bites too i think because they look different, and i also have a bunch of black fly bites on my neck! Those itch so bad! They are terrible! BUT, they go away pretty quickly so its not too bad!

Guess what? The sun has been coming out! I am going to have the best missionary tan lines EVER this summer. They are going to be so cute!!

 

So yesterday we had Branch conference, it was super good! Our District President spoke, and he gave us 10 latter day commandments for the family, and i though I would share them with you all!

 

1. Family Scripture Study

2. Family Home Evening

3. Family Prayer

4. Temple Work

5. Missionary Work

6. Weekly date with spouse

7. Family Council

8. Fasting

9. Paying Tithing

10. Sharing Testimony

 

I though that was such a great list, and it just made me realize how grateful I am that I grew up in a home and family that was centered on Jesus Christs gospel. What an amazing blessing. Its also so amazing because even if people didn't grow up in a family that had this, they can still have it in their future families to bind them together and keep them strong! So great!

This week is my half way mark! I seriously can NOT believe that! I feel like I just got here. Bennington feels like it was a dream. It is so crazy how fast the time flies. The first half of my mission was so great, but the second half is going to be even better. :)

I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Sister Davis :)

Photos, her district - before transfers,

Nils and Jo,

Spent a day in Gouvenour on transfers

"Hannah Montana songs do everything a Sister Training leader should do" -Sis Lang‏

Family!!!!! Oh my! It was so so fun to talk to you last night! So fun to meet JT finally! He is so great! I can't wait to really meet him in 3 years :) It was so great to see you all, I have the best family ever. I am still in shock at how tall Jared is, and how deep his voice is... what the heck! STOP! And it was fun hearing about Andrea's first date :) So fun!

I am getting a new companion this week! Her name is Sister Rassmussen :) I am excited! It will be so fun! Our unit is changing so much this transfer! All three of the companionships in our unit are changing! It will be fun though.

This week was so good though :) We had nice whether, so naturally we had a picnic every day for lunch :) It was so good! I even got a little sun :) :) :)

 

 

 

We had some really neat lessons this week :) We went to contact a referral, and started teaching her and then found out half way through that she is a member of our church already!! I am officially convinced that every person in our area has already been baptized at one point or another because it is happening ALL THE TIME!!

When we were tracting this week, we tracted into a guy and were asking him if he's very religious and he said, "I used to be catholic, but then I gave it up for lent".   I was laughing so hard!   It was funny :)

 

 

This week we did a lot of service! On Friday, we raked the cutest/funniest old lady on the planets yard!  She is so great!  We raked our hearts out though.  Thats like a thing here, people rake in the spring... I guess its just because the snow covers the leaves in the fall before they have the chance to rake them!  It was fun though, except for BLACK FLIES!  Oh my, those things are the worst! I would take mosquitos over them... they swarm around your head and they bite you and make you itch.. they dont leave bumps like mosquitos, but you itch just as bad or worse from them! And they literally swarm, its so gross and annoying!

Then this morning, we did the funnest service ever! We went to our ward mission leaders house and helped him sheer his alpacas!! It was so fun and funny! They had a team of guys that did the actual shearing, but the Elders had to catch the alpacas and bring them in and I had to clean up the fur while they were shearing and sort it into the right bags! How great is that? So fun and soooo funny! I will send pictures :)

I love you all and am so happy i got to talk to you last night! So fun :)

Have a fantastic week!

Love sister davis :)

"There ain't no free lunch" -President Wirthlin‏

Its Cinco de Mayo :) :) Im so eating a taco today.

Sounds like ya'll's had a fun week! Brad, valedictorian? So great! Way to keep up the family tradition ;) I am so proud!! :)

Also, you're an elder now! That is so amazing! When do you go through the temple? That will be so neat!

Andrea! You turn into a person who dates and drives in TWO DAYS! How does that feel? ;) I so wish i could be around for your first date, but you're probably glad i am not :) Have fun though k? :)

Ok, so this week was so good here in the wood of Nor! Lots of good stuff happened!

We had an investigator named Paulette who we had been visiting, and when we went over there this week, I invited her to be baptized, and when I did, she replied with, "I already was, I am a member of your church". It was hilarious. We were like, and you didn't think that was something important to mention to us before? So random, then we found out she has a daughter who lives in our area who is also a member of our church and we don't have either of their records! And also we found a guy who is a member when we were tracting! So we have just been finding less active members out the wazoo up here! haha.

Yesterday we had a great testimony meeting at church! Two different people that spoke were talking about questions that they had been pondering. They both were questions that were simple, and I have been reflecting on them a lot, and I am going to pose them to you so that you too can reflect a little. :) The first question is: "How do I know God loves me?". When I was thinking about this, I was trying to think of specific things or experiences that prove to me that God loves me. I thought of so many things, and it was just a perfect reassurance that my Heavenly Father knows me and loves me! The second question was: "What are my greatest achievements in life?". When I thought about this question, I decided that my biggest accomplishment has been becoming a disciple of Christ, and helping others to also come unto Christ.

Another thing I have been thinking about lately is how blessed I am. There are so many people here who aren't nearly as fortunate as I. About everyone here comes from a broken family, they've all had or been affected by serious addictions, they aren't raised in religious settings, and most people have very little money, many can't even afford little necessities. I was thinking a lot about this yesterday, how blessed I have been in my life, and how hard some people have it. I wish that I could just have some of their trials, I wish that I could go through what their going through instead of them. But as I was thinking about this, I was thinking about how much these people need the gospel! It would seriously make them so much happier, it might not erase the circumstance, but it would make them happy nonetheless. And I realized that I have been so blessed so that I can help these people. I was born of goodly parents, I have had a good life, I have been blessed with and taught the gospel, so that I can help these people who haven't been as fortunate to have those blessings in their life! The gospel is a free gift that anyone can have. What an amazing blessing :)

guess what else, last night, i taught the gospel of Jesus Christ to my companion in my sleep. AND, i committed her to baptism.. she said yes;) Apparently it was funny, but i dont remember any of it haha

Not a ton of stories from this week. But I hope you all have a good one! I love you all and hope you have a happy happy happy week ;)

Love, Sister Davis

"It brought tears to my eyes and I usually only cry in dog movies" -Sister Wirthlin‏

Familia!!!

That is SO exciting about Laurens mission call!! Whats her address right now? I want to write her. Better yet, tell her to write me and i will write back :)
 

Sounds like mom had a great birthday! 50's not that old. Its ok. :)
 

This week was SO good! Everyone we have been teaching lately is dropping us! We had 8 people drop us within the last two weeks and so we were having a hard time finding people to teach!! So we have been praying to find people and have been tracting a LOT!

 

 

 

This week while we were tracting we met a really cool older couple who were the sweetest ever and they said to me, "This is something that is really important to you, I can see it in your eyes", It was so cool. They were so sweet too, we are hopefully going to start teaching them this week.

Erin dropped us this week :( It was a really sad night. It's so sad because Heavenly Father has put her in the perfect position to hear the gospel multiple times and she is not seeing that. I am so sad that she feels the way she does right now. But I have faith that Heavenly Father won't give up on her. One day she will accept the gospel.

Thursday we had a zone conference which was great :) Sister Lang and I were lucky and got to do a role play with President and Sister Wirthlin in front of the whole zone. President Wirthlin is the hardest investigator... but so funny! He always throws at us the most ridiculous things. it was good though. The whole zone conference was about the new teaching method I was talking about a couple months ago. We had learned it at MLC and were applying it, but last week it got introduced to the rest of the mission. It was a great meeting!

Then that night I went to Plattsburgh with sister Curtis! I love sister Curtis, she was my Sister Training Leader my first transfer and now I am hers. :) We had a great exchange and while we were there we got to have lunch with Granny and Grandpop Bakow!!! It was so fun seeing their house and spending time with them :) I loved it so much!!

 

 

Ok, todays story: So there is a food pantry in Madrid that we volunteer at once a month, and there is a girl about our age with a baby that is always there when we go, and about a month ago we were at the food pantry, and after we left, we had a strong feeling that we needed to talk to her and meet with her! Then 4 days later we ran into her at Walmart (coincidence? i think not!) but we didnt realize that God had placed her in our path, and it was preparation day, so we didn't even think to get her number! Then after two weeks of beating ourselves up for that, we saw her again at the food pantry and we werent about to let her leave without talking to her. She said she would love for us to come visit, and so we did! We went over Saturday and talked to her and her boyfriend, Josh! They are so great and they are such a cute couple. They are about my age and have been together since high school. They are an interesting religion, I can't remember what it is called, something Israelite. It sounds like it is similar to Jehovah witness- they don't celebrate holidays, don't believe in blood transfusion, don't eat pork, etc. So knowing a little about their religion, it sounded like they wouldn't want to learn really, but then we felt inspired and whipped out the restoration and it was solid. They loved it and they are excited to learn more! How amazing? We were so happy :)

We had the faith to find, and God brought us to people who are ready to hear the gospel :)

 

 

I love you all!

Happy April 28th (there's no significance, other than today being a good day) :)

Love, Sister Davis :)

Difference is..Utah songs are in the Hymn book, Cali songs are on the Radio"‏

Hey everyone! :)

Hows SPRING BREAK?! Spring sounds like it would be nice...

Actually! It is nice here today! But its supposed to be cold again tomorrow and Wednesday :( It cant last.. :)

"North country surfing!"

 

 

Thats fun that Brad, JT, Andrea, and Drew are in Santa Cruz!!! That sounds like so much fun!!

OK, so I have to tell you about our day a few days ago! It was so good......

 

So it all started when a member got mad at us and canceled our dinner appointment with her.. why she was mad at us, I couldn't tell you. But our backup was to go tract North street. So we walk over there, knock on the first door, a teenage girl answers, she is super hilarious and has crazy ADD, like seri- Squirell -ously...We ended up talking to her for about a half hour though and she is super awesome and totally interested! She is going to get baptized! :) but so we talked to her for a while, and then as we were walking down her front walkway a car crashes about 12 feet in front of us (getting in a car crash right in front on the missionaries... coincidence? i think not!) So we go and talk to the lady that just crashed. She was a little frazzled and we were able to calm her down and we talked to her for a while as she waited for the tow to come, and she was super nice and sweet, but doesn't live in our area so she wont be ours to teach. But its ok.

 

Good news! Erin is FINALLY doing good again!!! So I'll recap a little on her story because I haven't really told you all much. But she randomly ended up here in Potsdam and had no place to live, the only person she knew was a recent convert and so he told our branch president and she ended up moving in with an older couple in the branch. It was good for the first few weeks and we had some solid lessons with her, but then the people she was living with were getting really pushy about her joining the church and were shoving deep doctrine down her throat- it was bad. Then she moved in with another member who was complete opposite, smokes, drinks, and ended up being really bad towards Erin. This lady was not even letting us meet with Erin and called our mission president and told him that Sis Lang and I were horrible people (so ridiculous). And so it was just drama and we were staying out of it. But then, Yesterday, the sister Erin was living with freaked out on her again while she was on the phone with a different member of the branch, and the member heard and said pack your stuff i'm coming to get you. So Erin ended up moving in with the Akins last night who are so solid, so awesome, and so normal. Three things that Erin needs right now. And so yesterday we had a lesson with her and it was SO SOLID! :) So exciting! She is doing so much better! :)

 

"A Nice North country park."

This week we were trying to find a potential and almost went to Canada on accident.That was cool. #northcountry

Joke of the week: (I came up with while tracting)

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Interupting Potential..

Interupting -"No thanks, all set, bye now"

^^ literally every door. All set? what does that even mean? we aren't selling insurance if that's what they're thinking.

Ok so Friday night, I had a dream that I was supposed to give a talk in sacrament meeting and I totally forgot then when I got to church my name was in the program. When I woke up I thought it was Sunday but it was Saturday and i was so weirded out. Then Saturday night, I had a dream that I went to church and a bunch of people didn't show up so the branch president came up to me and asked me to give a talk. Then they asked me to play the piano because i was the best one at piano there and they were songs i had never heard. Then... Sunday I woke up and was like what? And since it was two nights in a row I decided it might be smart to prepare a talk. So i did during study just in case. Then we got to church and the branch president asked one of the Elders to give a talk on the spot and i was like phew! Then one of the sisters came up to me and was panicking because they didn't have a pianist and I looked at the songs and was like "I'll try" even though i had never played them before. Then right as the meeting was starting the pianist showed up and so i was off the hook for both. But I was prepared. So funny. :)

 

Ok, so this letter is pretty long so I will end it now. Just so many stories this week :)

I love you all and hope you have a great week!

-Sister Davis :)

"Only Missionaries Would Know About Stacking Big Macs" -President Wirthlin‏

Hola mi familia!

OOOOOOHHHHH MY!!!!! Texas???? Want to know my first reaction?? "All three of my brothers are going to speak spanish... Aaron, Taylor, and now Bradley... how ridiculous is that going to be?" It will be fun though! Brad you will be a Texan Stud! So so so STOKED for you!! :)

Austin Rawlins got his mission call too! To Guatemala! Thats so sick!

And Jarfollomew-fish-face was at priesthood session for the first time this Conference right?! How great! I want a letter from him about that! And i also want to hear about going to the temple for the first time! Tell him to write me :)

This week was so good- can i just throw that out there? :) It was.

 
This week we had MLC and we had General conference which with travel time eliminated basically all proselyting for 4 days straight, which was so weird. But the meetings were all awesome!

General Conference changed my life (for like the 40th time). It was so good. Seriously was so amazing. Favorite session was Sunday Morning. Uchtdorf, Bednar, and President Monson all crushed it. It was so good. I loved President Uchtdorf's talk about gratitude and Elder Bednar's on carrying our loads. When I was writing in my journal last night about my thoughts on conference I was thinking a lot about both of those. I love how Elder Bednar said that we NEED a load. Without it we can't move. A lot of times we are so concerned with getting rid of the load and trying to have a picture perfect life that we forget that we need those burdens to move and progress. Then going back to President Uchtdorf's, I was realizing how grateful I am for my trials and for the burdens I carry, because without them, I would not be where I am today!  I also liked how he said that being grateful when we are in those circumstances, when we are in those trials is an act of faith. I swear, everything ties back to faith. I have come to realize lately that having faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement is the center of everything, it is the foundation of our testimonies and every other attribute is centered around that. So important!

A few of my favorite quotes:
 
"Talk about man creating God in his own image" -Elder Holland (see this a thousand times every day)

"At each moment of suffering, he (Christ) showed complete control and love" - Carlos Amado

"Trees that grow in windier whether have more strength" "you are infinitely more important to God than a tree" -Elder Anderson

"The way you feel in the temple is a pattern for how you want to live your life" -Elder Anderson

"If blessings were immediate, choosing the right would not take faith" -President Eyring

"It's easier to develop faith in God's love when someone else loves you the same way" -Elder Scott

"There are no endings, only everlasting beginings" -President Uchtdorf

"Despite EVERYTHING else going on in the world, God is aware of me" -Elder Ballard

"The unique burdens in my life will help me to come closer to Christ and return to him" -Elder Bednar

"Each person has the ability to increase the worlds happiness by showing love and kindness to others" -President Monson

"No sacrifice is too great to have the blessings of the temple" -William Walker

And we had 4 investigators at that session! :) and they all loved it!  Nels and Jo came and it was so amazing!  They are so solid.   And I am really hoping their questions were answered. I mean, i'm sure they were, I just hope they will accept the answer and act on it! :)  
Our branch had a big potluck in between sessions on Sunday, and Nels and Jo brought a cake that was the talk of the party, It was delicious (even i liked it) It was chocolate zucchini cake! And it looked like a sunflower :)

Oh my, you all are the greatest! I just love you so much!

Have a great week :)
-Sister Davis :)

"We in America... So we eat on couch!" -Sister Malavasi‏

Hello Family and Friends!

 

So first off, I am so glad that Katie and baby Lyla are doing better! They are in my prayers!

 

 

Brad I am so stoked for your call, you are going to Fiji. there's no doubt about it. :)

 

 

This week was good! The highlight was our exchange! We went on exchanges with the Plattsburgh sisters, and I got to go with Sister Malavasi, who is a temple square sister, so she is only here for a couple months. She is from Italy and is seriously the funniest! We had so much fun and I learned so much from her! :) She has the best laugh too! Like I have never heard a laugh so loud and so funny. It's contagious! We made a video so I will send it home soon so you can hear it. You will fall in love :)

Whenever you tell sister Malavasi that you are stressed or upset about something, she says, "have you talked to Father about it?" and if you say yes she says, "and what did he say?" How great? :)

 

 

We got transfer calls this week, and we are both staying in Norwood! But we are moving from our apartment to a house though, so my address will be changing (so just send mail to the mission home please) :) .

 

 

We had a weird lesson with Erin this week. She is not doing so good. :( She is very confused about a lot of things and really is not sure what she believes. Keep her in your prayers!

 

Who watched the women's broadcast? I DID! It was great! President Eyring nailed it! It was bomb. And when the girls all stood up and sang, it was powerful. So neat. Our branch did a "slumber party" theme for the broadcast, so we had pizza and waxed our hands and did manis and pedis before it and everyone wore there pajamas. President said that we couldn't wear our pajamas, so we wore our skirts and slippers and brought blankies :) It was fun.

 

Church was canceled yesterday because of the snowstorm! Another foot and a half :/. such a bummer.. i'm sick of this weatherr! I want spring!!

 

So this week is going to be so great! Thursday and Friday we have MLC, then on Saturday and Sunday it's GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!! I'm ready to be edified! Who else is stoked for conference? I am so glad that I have always loved conference, and every 6 months when I watch it, I feel like I love it more and more. I hope that you all are planning your weekend so that you will be in a place where you can receive personal revelation as you are listening to the prophet of the Lord speak!

 

 

"Oh how we need General Conference! Through conferences our faith is fortified and our testimonies deepened. And when we are converted, we strengthen each other to stand strong amid the fiery darts of these last days" -Robert D. Hales

 

 

This week was so much slower than usual! Therefore the short letter!

I love you all and hope you have a happy conference weekend (my favorite Holiday) :)

 

 

Love, Sister Davis :)

"You need to resist the fiery darts of cold" -President Wirthlin‏

How was your week? Mine was swell.

 

"Oh the irony!"

 

On Saturday, I got letters from all of the Hadley's and it made me soooooo happy! Oh my, I love them! :) I got the cutest letter from my little Lard too that said, "you are the best missionary in my book, and it's not the trick book" made. my. day. :)

 

On Tuesday we went over to a recent convert (the mom) and an investigator's (the daughter) for lunch, and Loretta (the investigator) was SUPER sick. :( She is in her 40's i think, and about 10 years ago she had a weight loss surgery and ever since she has been severely suffering from complications. So many health problems. and it was TEN years ago. How sad? And she was so sick and had been for like a week, but didn't know at all what was wrong. And because of her past experiences, she refused to go to the hospital. But anyway, she was just sleeping the whole time, and after we ate lunch, we saw her on the couch, and her little boy (Kaden, he is 20 months and SO adorable) woke her up. and she was crying and she looked so sick and she was so upset because she physically could not take care of her baby at all right then. Luckily her mom helps her out. But she did not look good at all. And Sister Langford and I decided she needed a blessing, so we asked her if she wanted one, and she said yes, and so we called the Elder's and they came and gave her one.  When we left her house, Sister Langford and I started a fast for her.  We were so sad for her. And the next day, we stopped by, literally like 36 hours later, and she was completely back to normal. She had a miracle. How amazing? And she recognized her miracle. She has so much faith. It was really neat.

 

We had to drop some investigators this week. Which is never fun. But we were able to pick up one on Saturday who is SO solid! Oh my, seriously so cool! So his name is Brandon, and he is 23, and is living with Floyd (Floyd is a recent convert who just takes in random people - we have 3 investigators at his house right now). On Saturday we went to go meet with him and his mom, and we started talking and he said he was super excited to learn more about the gospel and all, and he was SUPER prepared! We taught him the whole restoration and he just soaked it up. it was so good. Then when we were talking about the Book of Mormon, he said that he already had a copy of it, or he used to anyway. Then he went on to tell us about how one of his best high school buddies was a member of the church, and he was such a good example and he looked up to him a lot. He told us that this friend really made a difference in his life just by his example. How cool? but it gets cooler. So he's telling us all about this friend, and this is the friend that gave him the Book of Mormon, and then he's like, "ya, but then he went off to BYU and got way into basketball, and now he plays pro." and I was like, "wait.... is your friend Jimmer?" and he was like YA!! hahaha. Of course it was. lol. It was so cool though! Jimmer totally planted a huge seed for Brandon! (our plan is to have Jimmer come baptize him ;).

 

Nels and Jo came to church again!!! And we went over for dinner and had a lesson this week :) They are my favorite! Because they feed us ice cream ;) They are so great. We taught them the Gospel and they loved it and the spirit was so strong and they both wanted to be baptized so bad, but then Nels said, "but we won't ever be baptized, because we are never getting married." And all we could do was bear testimony. And so we did. And it was really powerful. They still said they aren't getting married, but when we were leaving we set a return appointment, they were talking about how they are going to get rid of coffee, and they still came to church and all.. so i think the importance of Chastity will hit them at some point. It will be tough though, because it will create financial difficulties for them for sure. Keep them in your prayers!

 

Oh! And keep Erin in your prayers! She had a rough week :( Lots of personal things going on have been causing a lot of stress. We saw her last night though and at church yesterday and she is going to pull through! We love her! :) She needs lots of prayers! :)

 

Well, you all are the best!

I hope you have a great week!

Stay solid.

I love you!!! :)

-Sister Davis!

"Sometimes I don't know how people ever make it to baptism" -Sis Lang‏

Hello Family!

 

Right now, Sister Davis has a big ol happy ear to ear grin on her face! Wanna know why? Because Brad's mission papers are almost in!! :) How exciting is that?! So rad! Way to be Bard! :)

 

This week has been so busy and I have not been sleeping, and now I'm sick. One night, i slept on the floor because my bed was too hot (we don't have control of the temp in our apartment so sometimes it's blazing hot and sometimes it's miserably cold). Then the last few nights I haven't been sleeping good because I can't breathe, but then last night I took night time meds and slept way better, but I'm still pretty sick! Problem is, I don't have time to be sick. Seriously our days have been so crazy that dinner is usually a backup. But it's been good. So much is happening! We picked up a couple new investigators this week, and we had 4 at church yesterday, which was so sweet. :)

 

On Saturday we had the adult session of our district conference, and when I got there, weirdest thing happened, I was just like standing there with my companion, and this old man came up to me and started KISSING MY FACE! Turns out, it was my grandpa :) haha. It was so funny though! It was so good to see him and talk to him for a little bit! After the meeting, he came up and he kissed me again, right in front of President Wirthlin, and president kind of looked at him for a second, and then remembered he was my grandpa and president gave him permission to hug and kiss me :). It was pretty funny. Then grandpa was introducing me to a billion people, and it was so funny and cute. And before he left he gave me like 10 "last kiss"es. He's the best!

 

 

 

So this week, I was thinking a lot about finding the one. President always says that, that we need to find "the one" and I wasn't really sure what that meant. And he said that a lot of times "the one" could be you. I always thought that my "one" was me because of how much i have learned as a missionary so far, and how much this last 7 months has changed my life. But last night, i realized who my one is. It's Erin. We taught her a couple of lessons this week that really hit home with her. She has been struggling a lot with a few things lately though, and last night when she was telling us what she was feeling, I realized that I had gone through EXACTLY what she was, and I was able to help her. It was so amazing. I have never felt like I was here (specifically) for a reason that strong. And on the way home last night, my companion told me that I came to Norwood for Erin. It was so powerful and so motivating. I feel like I really have a purpose in being here, and God sent me to the New York Utica Mission, to Norwood, Right now for a reason. How amazing?

 

 

 

During weekly planning this week, we were doing our individual goals, and Sister Langford said "my goal for the week is to study the Christ-like attributes"

me: "all of them?"

sisL: "yes!"

me: "what are your other goals for the week? read the entire standard works? baptize all of norwood? turn our branch to a ward? get translated?"

see, i can be funny...

Well i hope you all are having a great week, enjoy the sun twice for me :) I love you and am so excited to read in my email next week that Brads papers are in! :) Whatta stud! ahh!

 

Love You

 

Sister Davis :)

P.S. Nach, write me :)

"You're right about the mice..." -Zoya‏

Hola mi familia! :)

That is so sick Nach that you got to spend one on one time with the general auxiliaries! Sounds like it was an amazing experience!

Bard! Way to be... getting accepted to BYU and all! We Davises are smart like that ;). Oh, and sounds like your beasting in volleyball. Lead for kills? How cute :)

I taught him everything he knows^^ :)

What an amazing experience helping that lady out! Dad is such a bomb ward mission leader, and you all are amazing examples! If there's one thing my family is good at, it is putting smiles on peoples faces :) (Especially mine)

I got a cute letter from Leah this week :) Darlin, you need to stop growing! How tall are you? How tall is Jarf? am i the smallest Davis yet?

Well, this week was so cool! Investigators are seriously falling out of the sky in Norwood, we're having a hard time catching them all... my arms hurt. But seriously, this week has been rad!

So, last Sunday, this girl, Erin showed up at church with a family in the Branch. We talked to her a little, and she has had a crazy last few years, she is 25 and basically what I got out of it is she is ready for the gospel. So we went and talked with the family she was staying with and were like.. so, can we teach her, and they said to take it slow and maybe wait a little because she is recovering from a lot right now. So we were like, we can respect that.. cool. Then Friday, they had us over for lunch, and we weren't planning on teaching her or anything, just talking, getting to know her, and answering questions that she might have. But then, after lunch, she just started talking about how much she loved church on Sunday and everything and then was like, i want you guys just to teach me everything. So we tried to cover up our excitement (didn't work) and we whipped out the restoration... We taught it in 5 minutes. It was insane, she already knew, understood, and believed EVERYTHING. Right when we MENTIONED the Book of Mormon, she was just like, " oh, i've been reading that! And i prayed and asked God if it was true and i know it is." Say Whaaaa?? :) We were so stoked and so shocked and excited that we didnt know what to do except invite her to be baptized, and so we asked and guess what she said?? She said, YES, smacked her hands on the table in excitement, and started crying! We were all crying by the end.. Seriously, that lesson should be on the district. So great! :)

Then Yesterday, she came to church again :) and then last night we went over there for dinner! When we got there she was super down because the family she was living with was overwhelming her. They are an older couple and are just excited about her interest in the church and are getting a bit carried away. We explained that to her and it made a lot more sense. But after dinner Erin, Sister Lang, and I were just sitting on Erin's bed like friends, talking about the gospel. Answering questions and cheering her up. We were laughing, and learning, and by the end we were all growing. I have never been in a lesson where the spirit was that strong. Erin is seriously so amazing and already has such a strong relationship with her Savior. Its amazing.

This week, we tried to make whipped cream, but we didn't have a beater, so we were trying to do it by hand... epic fail.... lol. I'll send you a picture of the ugly pie we made with it! hahaha. so funny.

 

 

One of our investigators is from South Sac! Crazy! He's been to candy Heaven, but he never tried the chocolate covered grasshoppers. I told him he was missing out ;)

Oh! This week we went to dinner at a families house with 6 kids, the oldest being 14 and they were so crazy! I loved it, it reminded me EXACTLY how we used to be when the home teachers or missionaries would come over! haha. They were climbing all over us, taking food off our plates, telling embarrassing family stories, and so on! Love it :) And the mom felt so bad, and i had to just laugh, and I tried to tell her about how we used to be and she was like, "no,there's no way you were ever this bad..." It was too grand :)

Well, I hope you all have an amazing wonderful funfilled warm week (were back to the single digits again... I have a plan though, I think that if i just start wearing summer clothes and protest against this miserable whether, the sun will feel bad for me and just start shinin all over Norwood!)

LOVE YOU!

-Sister Davis

pic of their pie after trying to whip the cream by hand!