April 26,2010

Hey Everyone! Hope all is well with all of you! Everything is going super awesome here! And the weather has been perfect so that's been a plus. We had a lot of things happen this week and it went by so fast! I feel like each week goes by even faster than the previous one. So Ron still hasn't drank so that's almost 2 weeks! He stopped cold turkey how awesome is that?! We went on exchanges this week and Hermana Gurney came to our area. It was fun and we saw a lot of people. We taught Linda like 3 or 4 times this week and she has read a lot of the Book of Mormon. She won't tell us how much she has read but she is telling us all about different parts of the book so we know she's read a lot. She likes it a lot but then one day we went and she said there's too much condemnation and not enough talk of salvation. haha so we said just keep reading. After we teach her something she always says," God told me to tell you this..." or "God told me to ask you this..." It's pretty funny but she's awesome. She smokes during our entire lessons usually but this last time I couldn't handle it any longer I said Linda sacrifice your cigarettes for this lesson please! she said she doesn't have to listen to me she just has to listen to God. So I asked if we could say a prayer and then we'll see what God tells her and so we did and after the prayer I asked her what God said and she said, "Ohhh...he said Sacrifice Sacrifice Sacrifice..." haha so she didn't smoke the whole lesson. It was neat I really do feel like she has a special gift in hearing the promptings of the spirit. We started a new thing called ITL's which is Invitation To Learn and we have to each invite 10 people a day to learn more and we tally them up at the end of the week. So we have been looking for every opportunity to talk to everyone and lucky for us we have bikes so we can talk to more people and we were biking down this road and we came to this intersection and this guy was crossing and we said hi and started talking to him and telling him about our message...right in the middle of the road haha but he's totally interested and we are meeting with him this week! It totally works. And Elder Ballard gave a promise that if we would invite 10 people a day we would start teaching more people whose hearts have been prepared. It's so much fun talking to people I just love it! I've even grown to like the mean honks and yells from people in their cars....I don't love it yet, but It does make me laugh. Oh yes...we went to temple this week and it was marvelous! I love love love it! and while we were waiting for the rest of our zone to come outside, we talked to this guy that was working on the landscaping and asked him if he was a member and he was but the guy he was working with isn't. He works for the Bishop and he likes our beliefs but he's never been to church! So when we were walking to our car, we said goodbye to him and I said Venga la iglesia! and he said Okay and said he would! I sure hope he really does...Sister Smith hurt her foot a few days ago. We biked to the Stake Center which takes about an hour to bike to and after the baptism we had an hour before curfew so we were biking like crazy to get back on time and she went down a curb and her foot got caught between her pedal and the curb and bent her toes pretty hard. So we spent a good part of the morning on Saturday in the Doctors. But she's good now and she healed quickly. Well I don't have a lot lot more to say but I love you all so much and I am so happy to be a missionary and share the truths we have. It's so cool and it's such a wonderful privilege. Randy how is that one dental student doing? The one who is taking the lessons? Oh I just want to mention a cool story really quick. So the Green's in the ward took Elder Ballard's challenge to set a date to have someone in your home to be taught by the missionaries. They did this last september or thereabouts. Well then Sis Green got assigned to teach Brittney and Brittney's parents are not too fond of the church so the green's invited brittney over to their home for the message and at the end brittney mentioned how much she enjoyed it and asked if the next month she could bring her fiance, JAson. So she brought Jason and they had a good conversation and just got to know eachother. Then the next month he came again and at the end of the lesson Bro Green invited him to hear the lessons and he said he'd really like that! And he started takign the lessons in the green's home on February 4th. Their goal was January 31st. And Jason just got baptized last night!! How neat is that! It's so amazing...missionary work really doesn't have to be hard if we do our part. The Lord always keeps his promises. Anyways so I encourage yall to do the same and set a date! Love you mucho!
Sister Davis