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.
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