What a week!! I feel like I say that
every week :) haha But really it was a good week! And this email might
not be as long cuz there isn't much to talk about but a lot at the same
time.... ha This week we had been preparing our 11 year old investigator
Lena and her family for her baptism on Saturday! We basically met with
her to finish the lessons and prepare her every day this week. We also
helped her mom, Sister Nilsson, making food and helping her so that she
wouldn't be so stressed about this last minute baptism so that was good
too :)
On Tuesday, I went to my first Zone
Training Meeting! It was cool to meet my whole zone, which is one of the
biggest in the mission, and to see some of my MTC friends again! :) It
basically took the whole morning but it was great and I learned a lot
and we had a guest speaker, who was just a member of the Stake Council,
give us a devotional and he was amazing!! I also at the last minute, was
asked to sing in a little group of 4 missionaries for a musical number
during the meeting and we sang "I Am His Daughter" and they asked me to
harmonize cuz they heard that I sing haha and so I did! It was great :)
Then we tracted and taught Lena again. It's also gotten very cold this
week.... I thought I was coming to "HOT-lanta" but uh.... nope! :P Since
it's humid here the cold goes straight to your bones, through your
coat, gloves, everything. It's been intense and honestly I hate tracting
in it. I already hated the cold in Utah but even though there is no
snow here (yet......) I truly am hating the cold more and more.
Wednesday
was a typical day I guess. We had a little party for sister Perrins and
the other two elders that live in the same apartment complex as us,
just down the ways a bit, but we share the car and we work with them in
the ward so anyway their names are Elder Hyatt and Elder Harrington.
Their birthdays were all in November so the apartment manager who is not
a member but we're friends with and hope that eventually we can teach
her.... She put on a small birthday party for them and I got free pizza
and birthday cake from that! :D haha then we tracted again, in the cold,
and had dinner.... basically that was it for the excitement of the
day.
Thursday morning we volunteered at the
food bank again! And it's pretty fun, the people are nice and we feel
good doing it :) This thursday we won't be doing that though because
I'll be going to my first Zone Conference!! Which seems exciting so I'll
just have to wait and see! But that also takes up the majority of the
day. Anyway, we went to go visit a recent convert, which I love doing
too!! Just to check up on them and she was a massage therapist and has
given massages to celebrities!! :O But she gave me a massage on my
calves and it was wonderful :) She's also met a couple people from
Vampire Diaries one time and totally told me where they film it, which
is about 2 hours away...... I may or may not have freaked out a bit ;)
But then we tracted again and that was the coldest day... :( it was
rough and that's when the freeze warnings started. We taught Lena again
and then later that night had another birthday party but this was put on
by another recent convert named Phyllis, who I may have mentioned
before, and some other members. Phyllis is so funny and awesome, I can't
imagine my life not meeting her, she is a hoot but we love her :)
Friday
we start off with weekly planning of course... which is such a long
process!! Haha but it's good and then went over to the Nilsson's to help
with things again. Seriously, in the three weeks I've been here I've
grown to love this family, especially this past week coming over to
their house so often, and they are great! They are Swedish and Sis.
Nilsson is the best cook and their kids are so sweet! So we taught Lena
and helped sis. Nilsson cook that afternoon. then visited two more
recent converts and just talked and shared a little message. then we had
a relief society Enrichment activity that me and sis. Perrins got to go
to because we had 2 of our investigators go!! :D Monica and Maddie both
came and they loved it! Everyone was so welcoming and loving and they
got to make some crafts and eat goodies! So we were so happy they got to
go! Monica is still struggling with commitments but she came to church
on Sunday after like 3 weeks and we are visiting with her tonight to get
her back on track and hopefully we will feel like she is prepared to
work towards a baptism date! Maddie and Joel are the newly married
couple and we are going to try to get them to come to church even though
they go to a different one every week, but it's getting hard because we
feel like they aren't improving and just asking more questions! They
need revelation.... like true revelation from Heavenly Father so they
can feel SOMETHING. so we're trying to figure out how to give that to
them.
Saturday was my one month birthday!! :D
Yay! Haha only 17 months to go :) But we taught Lena her last lesson and
she was so excited and prepared! Her sister Helene who is 8 was getting
baptized as well. We tracted a little before but then went to the
chapel to fill up the font and get things set up. Oh also, I forgot to
mention but Sister Perrins offered to play the piano for a musical
number that sis Nilsson wanted to sing for the baptism and she mentioned
that I sing and so Sister Nilsson wanted me to sing with her! so this
whole week we were practicing that too :) We sang "Come Follow Me" and
"Love One Another" as a duet, with me singing the alto part and her
singing the soprano! It sounded really good! :) The baptism was so
successful, we had such a great turn-out from the ward! Everyone is so
supportive and caring, I love it! Everyone works as a ward and is great
with the missionaries and so it was a full house! The ordinance was
great, it was Bro. Nilsson's first time baptizing since he recently got
baptized this last summer too so it was a sweet moment to baptize both
his daughters. Then me and sister Perrins got to give a presentation as
well while the girls were getting changed after the ordinance and a
missionary couple from our mission came to support the baptism and we
showed a clip from those missionary videos "The District" about the
Robles Family (look it up, it's great and went well with the Nilsson's
family circumstance also) and then just bore our testimonies and the
Elder told us that it was wonderful and missionaries should do that more
often and that he was going to tell President about what we did.....
don't know what that means.... haha but it all worked out so well and it
was a great night!
Sunday was good too. Just a
typical sunday but I finally got to go to a ward council meeting cuz we
got the times mixed up for the last two weeks haha so that was good and
then we tracted after church, had dinner and did a cute thanksgiving
craft, and then visited a member's house to do some role plays. Which we
still do all the time!! Even in the field! But it really helps a lot :)
the holiday season is approaching so quickly and it'll be weird not
spending it in Utah. but I'm so grateful for the people I've met here
and the experiences I've already had and I'm excited to keep going on
this journey :) the people of Georgia desperately need the gospel. Most
of them are so close and are so religious, but they need the FULL truth.
Which the Gospel of Jesus Christ has and I know that this church has
been restored to the earth. My testimony is still tried every day but
it's also growing in so many ways and is keeping me working harder and
harder each day!! I love being a missionary :) Hope everything is well
with everyone, I hope you all have a great week! Keep the faith and look
for missionary opportunities every day! :) I love you all!!
Love,
Sister Davenport
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