Hey Familia!! How is everyone doing?? Sound like everyone's summer is going pretty great! Well this week was sooo awesome! We have 3 new investigators...one is a chinese family they are here because he is getting his post doc in nuclear physics and we met with the wife, her name is chang, twice last week and then the whole family came to church on sunday! gosh it was awesome they are so excited to learn...they have no background of anything to do with god at all. And then we had an appointment with paula and she wasn't home so we were walking back the other way and this guy called us over and he started asking us questions cause he's seen us walk a lot and he could feel something different. so we told him our message and he asked for a pamphlet and we wanted to give him a book of mormon but we had just given our last one away so we told him we'd walk home and get one and bring it back. well when we brought it back, he invited us in and we taught him for 3 hours!! It was the most incredible lesson...he said he'd been praying all week long for him to find the truth, and then we showed up and he knows we must have it. he grew up baptist but he never felt complete. he's studied with JW's and he didn't like what they taught, and a bunch of religions but he never felt full. he wanted to know more about joseph smith cause he said if I join this faith, i need to know all about it so i can share it with everyone so I need to know about him. so we read from joseph smith history and when we were done he said okay I am probably going to join. he said he's learned from missionaries before and he goes" they never explained it to me the way you have. man it could have been different a long time ago!" he knows his bible very well and every truth we taught just made complete sense to him...the spirit was so strong and at one point he jsut broke down sobbing about how lonely he has felt and he just has needed to let out his thoughts for so long and he's soo greatful for us talking to him and listening to him. At first I was scared! this huge black guy is bawling! but goodness he's just the coolest guy ever! Listening is so key to helping people accept the gospel. everyone investigating will have a problem with something. whether it be marriage, word of wisdom, tithing, chastity, so many things, and they are all things we can help them with, but only if we know what the problem is. we can only do that by listening. okay so that was saturday...well Sunday is where are amazing week turned completely upside down!! we were at church yesterday and we have a meeting at 630 and 730 and then church is at 9 so we were gone all morning and then one lady came up to me and was like hey not to worry you or anything but i just got here and I past your apt on the way here and your building is on fire! I didn't think too much of it though cause i just thought she meant one of the buildings in our complex cause there's like15 or 20 different buildings. and then when we got home there's firetrucks all over and ambulances and firefighter's still trying to fight the fire. I guess a little boy was playing with a lighter and that's how it started. it was the most insane experience in my life by far! no flames got in to our apartment; everything is just smoked out and completely water damaged. we lost all our furniture and a lot of our clothes , but none of our books of mormon or journals or area book or anything got damaged and that's really what matters. so anyways the bishopric and some others from the ward helped us get everything out as fast as we could and we are staying at our relief society president's house til we find a new apartment. The apartment complex we live at has other apartments but 16 apartments were lost in the fire so they don't have that many other units and a lot of the people had no where to go so we told them to not worry about finding us one cause we have a place to stay and we can just find another complex. so yeah... i'm still not even sure what happened it all seems like a dream! I can't believe we don't have our apartment anymore... the people next to us just moved in the day before. We're so lucky to have a ward family though. it was great to see everyone from the ward so willing to help us out and take us in and everything. here's some pictures of this fire.
http://www.theeagle.com/local/32-displaced-in-CS-blaze
http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/52833007.html
So yeah that was pretty much my week! pretty insane but nothing that can't be handled. Sister Carter lives in a beautiful hosue on the lake and she's just the sweetest lady ever! This morning she told us to invite the elders over and we all went fishing and she made us breakfast and then we played pool. All of her kids are grown so she just loves having us there... I miss my apartment though. I don't even have my toothbrush!! Don't worry she gave me one. Well I should end this. Elder childs, one of the senior missionaries, is coming up here to come look for another apartment with us so we have to meet him shortly. I love you all and I am so greatful to be serving a mission and I know I am right where I am suppose to be!
Sis Davis
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