Time is moving too quickly...I really need
it to slow down...I'm not sure how I feel about my birthday being this
week...I'll be 20.... Having your 20th birthday come up literally forces
you to think about where you've been the past few years and where you
will be within the next few years. I think the most peculiar thing about
it is seeing how different you are. Even in just the 11 months I've
been out, I'm so different. I would say in what ways but then this
entire letter would go on forever about things that others would
probably be surprised to learn have changed about me. Missions are SO
HARD. They force you to understand all of your weaknesses at an immense
level. There's no hiding from them, you just have to learn how to
overcome them and the ONLY way to overcome them is by relying completely
on Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. I have absolutely no idea what is
going to happen in the future, I just know that if I rely on God then He
will help me discover what goals I have that are important for my
growth.
As for our news this week, we have a new investigator in
Ireland! He came onto Mormon.org chat and told us that he has been
attending church there in his home town and he feels the spirit
testifying so strongly to him that he's doing the right things. He's
already begun the Book of Mormon and feels that it is true as well. The
more we chatted with him the more it became clear that God has been
working in his life to prepare him to learn about the restored gospel of
Jesus Christ. He gave us all of his information so we could begin
teaching him, and we invited him to be baptized once he has learned all
we believe and knows that it is true. He said, "Of course I will." We
called him on the phone this morning (evening in Ireland) and talked
with him about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. He has SO much faith
in the Lord. Any time we would ask if he had questions he would say,
"Well no I understand this all makes sense!" And then he would proceed
to review what we had just taught him! Haha! He's such a sweet heart.
Before calling I was a little nervous that if his Irish accent was too
strong we would have a hard time understanding, but (even though it is
pretty strong) we were able to understand all he said, such a blessing! I
think I need to start practicing an Irish accent now that I've got my
British one down...
So I'm extremely suspicious of President Poulsen right now
because of a strange phone call we got last week! We were walking
through the Beehive House one afternoon when the phone rang and it was
President on the line! He then started to ask me about what day I was
planning on going home from the mission and was naming these days in
early January! So I said, "Um...president I think you have the wrong
sister..." Then he paused and said, "Oh! Yes! I do have the wrong
sister! I'm sorry Sister Davis! I was just thinking about you because
you were on my mind about the....uh....(clears his throat)...yeah! Well!
Carry on with the work Sister Davis!" Hahaha imagine me with an
incredibly suspicious look on my face...that's what my face looked like.
So when I saw him in church
on Sunday
I told him, "President I am so suspicious of you!" And he gave me this
embarrassed smile and was like, "Oh Sister Davis no need to be
suspicious!" Yeah. I'm still suspicious.
Oh and we took the best tour in the Beehive House
on Saturday!
There was a large group of men and women in their late 50's on a bus
trip around the west and they stopped in to see the sights! Well as they
began filing in I started to notice all the Bama clothing items so I
said to them, "Are y'all from Alabama!?" And they said, "Yes!" I
responded, "Roll Tide!" and as soon as I did half of the crowd started
shouting, "Roll Tide Roll!!!" and the other half were cheering for
Auburn! Hahaha! So I started saying, "Alright now lets not start a riot
in here!" Oh it was sooo funny! As I was talking to the bus driver
afterwards he told me, "Well you'll be excited to know that I'm the bus
driver for the Alabama football team and as soon as I get home from this
trip I'll be driving them up to the opening game in Georgia!" I almost
died! I was jealous (but not jealous of course because I'm a
missionary.) But yes, then he bragged about how amazing his job is and I
was in shock. As a missionary on Temple Square you automatically meet
some of the coolest people! Ah! It's ridiculous.
To start of the week of my birthday my companion and I went to Music and The Spoken Word
on Sunday
morning. (: (: They sang "The Sound of Music." I know! I know...it was
just for my birthday, I know. Haha! Then this morning we went to the
temple and that was so wonderful as always. For pday we will be going
with Sister Sherratt (from California) and Klein (from Brazil) to a
really tasty ice cream place! And then we'll probably make a fort out of
pillows and blankets and color in a coloring book so that we will
still feel like kids and I won't have to feel like I'm getting old. I am
so looking forward to seeing the family
this Saturday! That will be a very exciting/weird/awkward/
wonderful/interesting/intense experience. (:
I hope you're all having tremendous fun with your last few
days of summer! To my dear friends going back to school next week...have
fun but not too much fun! :D
Have a wonderful week!
Sister Davis
The lovely sight from Music and The Spoken Word this week. (: (: So
beautiful! Oh and the Bells on Temple Square were there this week as
well! They played the Theme from Le Nozze di Figaro! AH! My favorite Italian opera ever!
While exploring the top "empty" floor of Brigham Young's Home we
discovered a kitchen with a working fridge and a bathroom with a fully
functioning shower...SO weird. This is me being astonished by the
working shower in a home that was built in the early 1850's.
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