health problems getting in the way of the work

Hey Mom and Dad,
It was great to talk to you yesterday. I don't have a ton to write today so i'm just writing individual emails. I can't believe how deep jacson's voice is. I couldn't open the pictures, but i'll check on a different computer next week. I am going to talk in my tape thing and then send it home to you guys so you can just use mine. And I printed off pictures so i'll send those too. Thanks for all that you two do. I should be getting my MRI this week so that is good! I just want answers...I know Heavenly Father will take care of me no matter what it is...even MS. The Priesthood blessing I received yesterday and from President Hansen's emails, I think I am going to find out answers soon. I love you guys and I am trying to work as hard as I can to serve the Lord because I have never been happier than on my mission and I just love it! Hope you are all doing great tell the ward hi!
Love you,
Sis Davis

Love those Baptisms!

Hey Family! So Paishan is now a member!! She got baptized on Monday and confirmed yesterday! Yes, mom, Paishan is Chinese. She is from Taiwan and she's getting her PHD here in Economics. She's been learning for a few months and she got kind of frustrating. like she loved learning and she said she knew the church was true, but she thought there were lots of true churches. She came without a background of god so we had to learn to be patient and try to somewhat understand where she was coming from. but anyways we asked ehr to pray about baptism and so each week I'd ask her how it's going and every time she'd say mmm not very good. I was going to give her the drop talk because she wasn't progressing, and then that next week she couldn't meet with us because she had a huge test and then the next week we had two lessons at the same time so I had to go teach this other investigator and I wasn't able to meet with Paishan. Then the next week we went over the restoration and Joseph Smith and then asked her if she received her answer and she said yes and I said is it a good answer and she said I think so! I was like well that's great! what are your thoughts on baptism. I figured she'd say I will pray about it some more or maybe in a couple months or something, but she said well I can choose who baptizes me and when i get baptized right? and I said yes and she said okay I want to be baptized...so she got baptized 13 days later!! It's been the best moment in my mission. Meeting her and seeing her come from not believing in God to having a firm belief in Not only God and Jesus Christ, but their plan for us and the Atonement and The Holy Ghost and the Restoration. She's so solid and it's just unbelievable. She got confirmed and received the Holy Ghost in Sacrament Meeting yesterday and she skipped back to her seat with the BIGGEST smile on her face Oh my goodness it was the cutest thing I have seen!! And she's not young, she's 26, so it was even cuter to see how excited she was...enough to skip! So yeah it was amazing. She's not just an investigator anymore, she's a lifelong friend I'm sure of it. Carl, the investigator we had to give to the elders because he developed to much of an emotional attachment, came to Church yesterday looking slick in his suit and everything!! The elders haven't gotten in with him yet so he's still our investigator and our ward mission leader has befriend him so that's good because he's still in our boundaries to he'll still go to our ward. He's awesome though he loves the Book of Mormon and he loved church!! I was nervous because it was a super good sacrament meeting but it was all on eternal marriage and he is going through a divorce, but he told us God really spoke to him and it's exactly what he needed to hear! So it's exciting... another amazing thing that happened is with Carol, a less active we have visited every week since I have been here and they have been visiting her even way before that, but she has some hang ups about the church, but you can tell she still longs to come and it's her sister who keeps her from coming mostly. She's like 60 but she didn't want her sister to stop talking to her or anything so she said it was easier to just not go than to have family arguments. Well anyways we visited her a couple weeks ago and had a real nice chat. she opened up about a lot of her complaints on different things in the church and we were able to try and explain our views on those points and kind of smooth things out and then she came to church that sunday!! She hasn't been in months and she came!! It was so awesome and she just stayed for Sacrament meeting, but then this past week I got sick and I was in bed for 2 days so we were on exchanges with the unviversity sisters and Sister Lieber, my trainer, stayed with me and Sister Boren went out with sister Sorensen. Anyways they visited her and right when they got there, Bro Sharp and Bro Hickson, both from the bishopric, were just leaving and Carol told the sisters that they extended a calling to her and she's thinking about accepting it. this is all like amazing I was so thrilled when I heard it! Then yesterday she was at church again and she accepted the calling and had a wonderful setting apart and she's really excited about it!! Her husband hasn't come back to church but as she sets the example, only good things will come from it! So that was the most exciting news of this past week. A lot of great things happening in College Station it's really wonderful. Hope everyone is doing so great and good luck with school little ones I miss ya! Love you!
Sis Davis

Plugging along!

Hi Hi!! How's everyone's Summer been? This week has been a good week, though we've been bouncing around at different houses cause our airconditioning is broken and they keep saying they'll fix it but don't and then I got the most horrific flu i have had...seriously the throw up was so intense I would cry after each time...it only lasted a day though. sorry to give you a mental picture, but it's really the only way to get a slight view of how i felt. and then an investigator, carl, said he couldn't meet with us anymore because he's getting too deeply emotionally attached and has to strong of feelings for me...he said "I have weaknesses and I know you do to"...basically saying "I think if we meet too many times more we'll love eachother too much"....I was soo freaked out! I was like thank goodness he told us this and i'm glad he told us this over the phone!! He's this 40 year old and he was so into everything we were teaching but I could kind of tell he was maybe having some feelings cause he'd make weird comments...and he was in jail for 6 years and I don't know why...but I most certainly don't want to find out. So that was a very interesting creepy moment of this week. But PAishan is getting baptized today and that's just the best! She is so excited! She started out by telling us not to tell anyone about the baptism cause she didn't want a lot of people there, but she was telling everyone about it yesterday and asking everyone to come! IT's so amazing to see her transformation. She reads the book of mormon all through church! she doesn't understand what people say in sunday school and relief society soemtimes, like when they are talking so fast, so she'll just read her book of mormon. She's solid. Everything else is awesome...we've got some great investogators that are progressing well! I don't have much time as usual but I love all of you and I always love your letters!
Sis Davis