(This email will not be chronologically...I'm just jumping to the good stuff first.)
OUR
INVESTIGATOR FROM ENGLAND IS HERE!!!!! And I met her 2 days ago!!!! And
it was so crazy!!!! :D She was here with the family of one of the
Elders that has been teaching her back in England! We were in Guest
Services when she first came on the square but I couldn't just sit down
there when I knew she was upstairs! So we went up and I was thinking we
would just be quick and take longer at a later time...ha! Yeah right! We
were talking for almost 2 hours I think? It was a long time, but it was
great! She is coming back to be in downtown SLC all day Friday and
Saturday so we have lots of time to fill!! Today she is spending the day
skiing up in Park City with the members. Woot! :D
One
of the things we will most definitely be doing is showing her Meet The
Mormons!!! We had a mission wide training from the Missionary Dept on
Monday morning to tell us all about the details and how we are going to
be involved in the showings here on Temple Square. It officially begins
showing on Temple Square tomorrow (January 2nd) at 7:30PM
as the first showing. But, of course, the movie will be in the systems
attached to all the theatre's on Temple Square so we're reserving a
theatre just for our investigator from England to watch with her...maybe
tomorrow? #tsqmissionary #perks The main point is that we are stoked
about how many people will be coming to watch it! Usually after
Christmas is over the square slows down quite a bit but we have no doubt
this will keep it busy enough to have people to talk with. It's just
such a fabulous movie! Woo!!!
If you're in the
Salt Lake City area and want to watch Meet the Mormons in the Legacy
Theatre on Temple Square you'll need to go online and reserve tickets.
The tickets are free, but they are required for seating purposes. If you
don't get tickets, however, there will be a standby line in the JSMB
(Joseph Smith Memorial Building) for any extra seats in the theatre. If
you don't get in even after that, you can go to the North Visitor's
Centre for overflow in theatre 5. You can obtain tickets here:
Languages
it is currently available in is just English and Spanish. By summer of
2015, however, the missionary dept says it will be available in other
languages such as Mandarin, Portuguese, Japanese, etc.
Ok, now that we have the formal information out of the way...
This
past week we had exchanges with all the District Leaders in our zone,
and THAT was fun! Sister Garcia (from Spain), Rangel (from Brazil), and
Mathias (from England) are just amazing district leaders! They do SO
much and are very on top of everything. We were able to do a lot of
teaching with each of them and it was a great experience! After we
completed exchanges we had Zone Leader reports with President, which
went super well!!! Sister Poulsen and Sister Taito (from Figi) kept
laughing at me though...and they kept looking at me and Sister
Tuinukuafe and saying "Oh those two!" I don't know what that means...but
it was interesting!
Funny story! At the end of
Zone Leader reports we told president about our investigator in England
who was here and he got really excited! He asked about how she got
interested in the church and we told him she had been watching a Mormon
family on YouTube for 4 years called The Shaytards (Shay Carl and his
wife are pretty famous YouTube who just post videos of their
family/life all the time haha). We had never seen them and neither had
president so he said, "Well lets go look them up!" So he sat at his desk
and pulled up the shaytards on YouTube and we watched a little bit
haha! It was very...interesting... We kept laughing at how dramatic they
are but president was just watching with a very intent/interested face
and it was SO funny! Sister Poulsen and the AP's were just laughing too.
So now I can say the first time I saw the Shaytards was when my mission
president looked them up during zone leader reports! #what?
Some little miracles that happened this week!
A
former investigator that Sister Esquivel and I taught a year ago called
into my personal extension and left a message saying he wanted to talk
with us again! I freaked out! His story is a long one, and you may not
remember him. But he was the guy from New York who was into some bad things and then was converted but then dropped off the face of the
planet. Yeah! Him! He called us! And he's doing really good! And he's
still Christian!!! So that is exciting!
There
was a man from Las Vegas who came onto chat about 2 weeks ago who was
really interested to learn more, but sadly we couldn't get a hold of him
after our amazing online chat BUT this morning I saw a voice mail from
him! He called us last night trying to get a hold of us and he says he
still wants to go to church and learn more! We are so happy!!!! That was
a tender mercy. (:
Speaking of tender mercies!
Yesterday
was crazy. I for some reason I couldn't sleep AT ALL and I was just
laying in bed awake all night long. By the time my alarm went off I felt
soooo terrible. I got out of bed and went out to the living room
planning on trying to work out but I was so dead that I ended up sitting
in the middle of the living room like a zombie and I wasn't sure but I
thought I was going to perish. But then we had a MLC (Mission Leadership
Counsel) so I got myself ready to go and we came down to the square.
The meeting went well but I just felt sooo out of it and I couldn't
figure out what was wrong and why I couldn't sleep etc. and my companion
thought I had turned into a vegetable haha. So we came home for lunch
and I seriously collapsed on my bed and just started crying like there
was no tomorrow! My poor companion was like "Oh my gosh what is wrong!?"
and I was like "I don't know I just feel like I'm going to die!" So she
just sat by my bed and patted my sad little head while I cried for two
minutes haha and then the next thing I knew I was unconscious. I had a
lot of really weird dreams and when I woke up and looked at the clock it
was 3 hours later! I also found that my companion had taken like 5
blankets and put them on me and tucked me in and put heating pads in the
blankets too because our apartments heater was broken and she said I
felt super cold! Crazy! Apparently after I fell asleep my companion
called the mission president's wife and they found covers for our
assignments and she said for me to just sleep. So anyways when I woke up
I just felt so awful like I had been hit by a truck haha so we stayed
home the rest of the day and had lots of good gospel discussions. (: The
APs gave me a sleeping pill to take but I still couldn't fall asleep
until 3AM
this morning...but for some reason I still feel a lot better than I did
yesterday. It was just such a crazy experience I have never felt my
body just shut down like that before! But there was a huge tender mercy
because we had an appointment with a new investigator that we missed but
when we called her this morning she said that it was ok because the
local missionaries ended up showing at her house yesterday at the same
time our appointment was! SUCH A TENDER MERCY!!!!
So
yes, missionary work is hard and sometimes you almost die. BUT the Lord
takes care of us. For me, He sent me the sweetest loving companion ever
who just patted my head while I cried and covered me with blankets so I
could sleep! Haha(: And she made me laugh on New Years Eve when we were
talking about how in a year from then we would look back on this New
Years eve and laugh about how we spent it reading conference talks
together and watching super old church movies that are cheesy but
awesome! It was a good New Years. And even though I couldn't sleep, it
was a tender mercy because I got to listen to fireworks at midnight while all the other sisters were sleeping! See! Life is grand. (:
Anyways wow that was a big long dramatic way to tell you that I'm sick. But it had a happy ending, right?
I will be buying lots of orange juice today.
Anyways
so that is the condensed version of the goings-on this last week! The
weather is FREEZING COLD and I don't know how I will survive but I know
the Lord will provide! I am grateful for gloves, scarfs, jackets, long
sleeve shirts, leggings, boots, earmuffs, and the ability to walk
swiftly from building to building. :D
I love you all and hope you have a marvelous week!!!!!!!!!
Sister Davis
BY THE WAY! This was an abandoned skate board someone left is west gate
for an entire transfer! So we finally just brought it home and now we
skateboard around the apartment when we're bored... :D Don't judge by
byu sweat pants, really cool hat or my charlie the unicorn t-shirt...I
have awesome friends who send me awesome stuff ok!?
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