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 ;)
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