Family!!!
Well it was Veterans day.
Don't have tons of time because we are at a member’s home. Yep...and the kiddos
here don’t have school and the library is closed! Say what? That is how big the
military is here in SA.
Miracle upon miracle
this week. We had so many teaching opportunities. Wow! We cannot ask for more
when that occurs. There were a few individuals who attended the Gladys Knight
presentation who we were able to drop off the little gifts off to. So
amazing!
One member talked in
Stake Conference about her process of inviting friends to the Gladys Knight
presentation. So much prayer and thought went into it. Incredible! Well, we
were able to deliver one of the packages to her friend and it was incredible to
see how prepared and receptive she was to the gospel. We are hoping to meet and
teach her family this week! Just as Elder Ballard said in conference ….how
critical prayer is and how it can heal our fear of sharing and talking about
the gospel with others.
We have incredible
members in this ward who are all so excited about sharing the gospel with their
friends and we love to ask them how their friends are doing, what new
non-member friends they have made, and what their next step is with them.
My eyes were truly
opened this week of how many blind spots I had when I was younger.
1) Bruna is the next
door neighbor of a member in our ward. She has had a lot of past history with
the church, but we met her, not through the member, but through the Gladys
Knight presentation. We never know when those right next door to us our
prepared! All we can do is invite as we are asked to and they may be the one
our Heavenly Father has been preparing.
2) Sister Driscoll is
a convert in our ward. She joined when she was in High School and just this
past Sunday shared her conversion story. She mentioned something so
powerful that I hope to never forget. She said she had been searching ever
since she was a little girl for something she felt was missing. She was
introduced to the gospel by a knock on the door, BUT when she attended church
and was sitting in the pews for the first time, she looked over and saw her
best friend from school...the thought that entered her mind was, "you have
the greatest blessing in life and you did not tell me about it?" She said
her biggest fear is getting to the other side and having one of her friends
tell her, "you had the greatest blessing in life and you didn't tell me
about it?"
The knowledge I have
now of the "great importance to make these things known" I wish I had
had when I was younger. But all we can do is move forward with that knowledge
and make different choices now. That fear of sharing when I was younger only
came from the adversary and it just doesn't matter anymore, this is so much
more important.
I love you all so very
much. Wow. Thank you for the letters and emails. Oh, they are like sweet treats
to me. So good and they give me so much more of a push to keep going the next
week. Thank you, thank you.
always always,
Sister Davis
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