...and we still have two more exchanges with the sisters that are training this week and then on Sunday
we have exchanges with the a.p.'s. BAH! We feel a little bit like we
never see each other anymore but at least we have our pday together to
fill each other in on everything that's been happening in our lives!
Haha! It's crazy talk.
We had our Zone Training Meeting
on Saturday
and we thought things would slow down afterwards but HA funny joke! ZTM
went sooo good though we felt as though our time was very effective an
informatively used. (Does that make sense?) The sisters in the zone
seemed to walk away from the meeting with some excitement for the
hastening and for the mission goals/changes. We finished our exchanges
with all the District Leaders in the Zone and we're planning on
exchanging with the trainers this week. We have this desire to exchange
with all of the sisters in our zone (which sounds crazy but it's really
not...at least we don't think it is.) (:
This morning for
Relief Society we had mission-wide training for the upcoming Christmas
season on Temple Square! We receive completely new schedules each
Christmas season because we have so many new assignments that don't
exist throughout the rest of the year (really because we don't need
them). They've also added a new assignment that involves SINGING and I
am pretty stoked about that. (: Not only that but the director of Savior
of The World (the musical production that goes on every year in the
conference center theatre) came to speak this morning as well! All the
sisters will be going to see it next week. ALSO they've created NEW
referral cards that will be just for those attendees of Savior of The
World AND they've created a new assignment where sisters will be able to
contact guests of the show in the conference center! So in a nutshell
we are STOKED for this Christmas season! AH! By the way, if anyone is
interested in seeing Savior of The World, tickets are already 80% gone
so go online like...right
now if you want to get tickets. How about I even give you a link to it, eh? Because you do
not want to miss this:
Anyways!
Fun little missionary story for ya: One of the sisters I went on
exchanges with was Sister Lee from Hong Kong. They had an investigator
who wanted to be baptized but was really unsure about it so was setting
his date for next February I believe? Well we planned on calling and
teaching him while on exchanges together and we were hoping to talk with
him a little more about the importance of baptism and hoping to help
him have that desire to not postpone that. As we were saying our prayer
right before calling him on the phone a thought just popped into my
mind! It was the reminder of someone telling me once about how we need
to think of a gift that we can give to the Savior this Christmas (maybe
it was from a general authority talk or something?). I told Sister Lee
this idea of helping him see that this could be his best gift to His
savoir this Christmas and we thought it was a great idea. So as we
called and were speaking to him we brought up this idea with him. We
don't know what it was but his entire attitude changed and he suddenly
just got SO excited about baptism! So after talking with him he agreed
to prepare to be baptized
December 6th,
right at the beginning of the month as his gift to the Savior this
Christmas! We were so happy, and he was so happy and I'm pretty sure
this gospel makes too many people just so happy. (; So that was our
little exchange miracle that day.
Awkward missionary story
for ya: One of our assignments this transfer is opening and closing the
Joseph Smith Movie playing in the Legacy Theatre of the JSMB. Well last
time we went to open it there was a huge group of people and we told
they were YSA so we didn't think too much of it. We introduced the film,
started it and such and such. But at the end of the film when we came
back to open the doors and do some contacting, we noticed that the group
walking out of the theatre was most certainly
not YSA...more
like a mid-singles ward, which is fine, but let me continue... So I
began talking with some people but then I turned around and my companion
was gone and then I suddenly realized that I was completely surrounded
by guys and my companion was on the other side of the barrier completely
surrounded by a bunch of other men! BAH! So I walked over to her and
was feeling really weird but a lot better now that I was standing next
to my companion. We were talking with these three men and it was a great
conversation...but then when they started talking about their missions
it got really awkward because there were 3 men in particular who just
started saying things like "Well in
my mission I did this..."
blah blah blah and we started to feel awkward and one of the guys was
all feeling like his mission was cooler and then another guy goes, "Oh
wait so when did you serve your mission?" And the guy says what years he
served and the man responds, "Well that's like 5 years before I even
served my mission!" And then there was this really awkward silence while
you could tell everyone was doing the math in their head about how old
these guys were and my companion and I just looked at each other and
said, "Well we gotta go!" AND WE RAN OUT OF THERE LIKE A CAT RUNNING
FROM A DOG!
It was so awkward. And I haven't felt that
uncomfortable since the time I went to that student ward while living in
Boise. (You know, the one I vowed never to go back to.) Yeah. It was
that awkward.
Anyhow, #missionarylife. I think that is all I
will include today. Next pday is zone activity which we have almost
completely planned! Yay! And we see Savior of the World so I will be
most certainly writing about that wonderful evening next week!
Well....I love you all more than Sister Stephen loves feta cheese! (Which is a whole lot let me tell ya...)
Love yous,
Sister Davis
P.S. It officially started snowing today...send help.
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