Christmas and Baptisms are on the Horizon, November 28, 2016

THIS WEEK WAS FANTASTIC.

Besides the fact that I ate pie and turkey everyday, we saw sooo many miricles!

Monday I got a Nat King Cole CD. basically we've been listening to Christmas Music since that very moment. We got in the car and started driving to go see a LA in the Elder's area and it was sooo foggy that we had to pull over and wait it out for a bit. We ended up finding her house and them not being home. So we went and contacted people else where.

Tuesday we taught Joshua a lesson and he is fantastic! While his mom was figuring out how we could watch a movie on the TV, Joshua pulled us aside to tell us something. He said that the night before he had prayed to know if the Book of Mormon was true. He crawled into bed and he said he just felt really really happy. We asked him if he believed it was true, AND HE SAID YES. God truly is looking out for his children and answers their prayers. ALSO. He is learning how to play the trumpet. I LOVE THIS KID.

Wednesday was a day full of miracles! We were on exchanges with the Connell Sisters and Sister Hamblin came to Basin to work with me. She is my long lost sister because we are so similar. Except she doesn't speak Spanish. But! We found three new investigators that day! All Spanish! We got into two different houses and I taught the lesson by myself (well, with the spirit of course) And it was crazy scary! I'm pretty sure I forgot Spanish, but somehow they still understood me. Lupe is a sister of a member and she's praying to know if she should get baptized. Maria and Samuel are formers who said they would accept visits fro missionaries again. SO COOl.

Thanksgiving we ate a lot of food.

Friday we found two more Investigators! We contacted a referral from the system and they let us in! She has a brother in Connell that is a member and she too accepted to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. She said she would work toward the 24th of Deciembre as a baptism day as well! MIRICLES FOLLOW THE TRIALS.

Saturday we did some service at a older lady's home and raked all her leaves. Attached is the yard and ONE of the giant piles we raked up.

So this week was pretty cool. Hope y'all check out mormon.org to see the new Christmas video because it is the best thing in the world! #LIGHTtheWORLD

LOVE YOU

Hermana Lizzy Davis

Washington Kennewick Mission

Happy Turkey Day! November 21, 2016

Hello everyone!

This week has gone by so quickly! Time flies when your out serving the Lord! We've had so many great opportunities to serve the people of Basin City this week. On Saturday we were able to help out at the food bank in town. We handed out Thanksgiving dinners. It was so good to see people's faces full of gratitude! The holiday season is for sure magical. 

We also had the chance to help one of the LAs in the branch paint her trailer. It was soooo cold, but so much fun. She wanted it maroon. By the end Hermana Bergmann's and my hands looked like we had just killed ourselves our very own turkey!

We were able to visit some of the Less actives in the ward this week. The people here are so kind! Most all of them gave us cookies or tamales to take home. 

We were able to teach Joshua and Samantha this week about Joseph Smith and why he was so important. They understood it pretty well, but we are going back tomorrow and watching the movie with them. Nothing like a good movie night! 

Last night all the power went out in Basin City and Connell for about 5 hours. We had to come in early, but luckily the members we live with had a generator so we watched some church movies with them.

I've been learning some cool things about the Book of Mormon in my studies lately. Isn't that book the most amazing book ever?! You can seriously answer any questions with it. A couple that I really liked and am excited to use are;

Why so many Wars? Hel 14:30-31

How can I solve family struggles? Alma 7:15-16

How can I live safely when politics are so corrupted? Ether 2:12 (Everyone here talks about politics...) 

Why should we get married? 4 Nephi 1:11

Those are just a few, but honestly the Book of Mormon is so powerful. I was just reading in Ether this morning, (I'm so close to finishing for my fourth time on the mission!!) and the Lord really will keep his promises with his people. He love us all so very much. This mission is such a happy time. We are here to just love and serve our brothers and sisters. What better way to spend our time?

Love you! I'm thankful for you!

Hermana Lizzy Davis

Washington Kennewick Mission

1. Hermana Burgmann drew a picture of us sickies with la gripa

2 and 3. Painting

4 and 5. Service at the Food Bank. We were helping sign people in at this point.

The one time I'm grateful for my Hiccups, November 14, 2016

Hola!

This week was seriously one of the most crazy weeks of my life! 

We had transfers and the day after I got my new Companera, Hermana Bergmann, and then she got the flu! So that was a big sad day.

 The next day we had a zone conference with a Seventy! Elder Zeballas from Chile came to our mission. He and his wife are sooo cute! I got to shake his hand and got a hug from his wife. They spoke to me in Spanish and I got flustered and forgot how to say where I'm from..but then I remembered so it was okay.  

THEN GUESS WHAT. During my mission President's talk i had the hiccups really bad. But then they went away and life was good again. THEN Elder Zeballas gets up and starts speaking. A little bit into his talk I hiccuped again. He then paused and commented on my hiccups during his talk!! He said with some much love in his eyes, "You know, sometimes I hiccup too." Then he smiled at me.  I turned red and everyone laughed. Bc tbh the entire mission knows I have horrible hiccups. #EVERYMEETINGEVERINMYLIFE

AND THEN SATURDAY I got to go back to my old area for a baptism! I LOVE GRANDVIEW SO STINKIN' MUCH. A 13 year old, Danny, got baptized. He's the more spiritually one point kid that I know. He was told us he wanted to be baptized because he wanted to be closer to Christ. Like seriously super cute. 

So basically life it pretty good. I miss you all so much! Have a wonderful week!!

"Pues, es un mandamiento, no una sugenencia" November 7, 2016

Hola Hola!

This week was great!

Miricle Moment! We have been working working a TON with Less-Active members and we are having good success in helping one family in particular get reactivated. Jenny and Samuel got baptized about a year and half ago to two years ago and stopped coming because of work. We started visiting them and helped Jenny out when she was having a really hard day. We read some scriptures with her and brought the peace of the gospel back into her life. She realized what was missing and has been working non-stop to get it back! Her and her husband Samuel just we called to be the Sunday School teachers in the Branch. They gave their first lesson on Sunday and it was amazing! We are so excited for them. They have a son named Joshua who is ten and isn't baptized. Jenny and Samuel expressed to us that they want him to get baptized! We are going to start teaching him tonight. WE ARE SO PUMPED. Less Actives are the way to go!!!

We also taught a lesson to another LA named Ofelia. We helped her with her Family History and she got way excited! It was so cool! She got out her husband's birth certificate looking for dates and names and it was awesome! Hopefully with more help, she can start coming back to church.

We had a really awesome Zone Council where we started preparing for Elder Zeballos to come visit our mission this week. I AM SO EXCITED. It's going to be fantastic! We watched a talk by Elder Oaks from the Missionary Broadcast in January 2016. It was all about Teaching Repentance and Baptizing Converts. So good. 

So that's pretty much the week! Transfers are also this week and Hermana Macias is heading out to Kennewick and I'm receiving Hermana Bergmann. Pretty pumped. Talk to y'all next week!!

I Got Stung By A Wasp! November 1, 2016

Hola Hermanos y Hermanas! I hope you are all stuffed with as much Halloween candy as I am.

This week we've been able to teach some our our Part Member Families in the area. 

Maria Teresa and Jaime and doing well. We had dinner with them this week and they gave us Tacos (My favorite!) We shared with them about how families can be together forever in temples. Jaime's big thing is families. He loves his family and would do anything for them. We are hoping that he'll be able to get some time off of work so that he can meet with us more and come to church! 

We also met with Jenny and Samuel. They are both fairly recent converts (At least a year, maybe a bit more.) We taught Jenny and Samuel about baptism and they expressed to us that they have a ten year old son who hasn't been baptized and they want him to be baptized! Unfortunately, He was in the other room watching Futbol! Next time we go over, we are going to teach him! His name is Joshua. 

English classes have been picking up. This week we had about 4 people there each class. Which is awesome! Hopefully we can keep it growing.

On Sunday, one of the members in the branch told us a story about how when he was on his mission in Chile that it was pouring rain and him and his comp were soaked to the core. Then Sunday night, it was pouring rain on us! Our Spanish Mission Leader texted us and was like, ' I remembered Juan's story in church today and I just wanted to check up and make sure you are okay!' So sweet! He's also the member that has this sign on the back of his car: 'Do you follow Jesus this close?' lolol

Yesterday, we were out and about and talking to some kids on a porch just doing our missionary thing and WASP STUNG MY LEG. Like through my skirt and tights and everything! What a meany. We tried by formers as well that day. We had to be in by six because it was Halloween, so we watched the Tommy Monson Bio and The Joseph Smith Movie on Mormon Channel. #perksoflivingwithmemebrs #weloveroku

Love you all tons! Have a great week!

It's Been a Year?! October 24, 2016

​This week has been FULL of service opportunities!! We did over 20 hours of service this week! 

Our first service project was as a district. We went over to this middle of no where town and we were helping this older couple move into their home. They are probably in their 70s and the wife has cancer. They are sooo sweet. The funniest thing is that the man always starts of his sentences with, "You will never convert me!" but it is amazing to see how our service has helped their hearts soften. They accepted the invitation for the Sisters there to go over and teach them a lesson about the Book of Mormon. He even accepted one and agreed to read it! Miracles happen everywhere!!

Second, we were contacting in a part of our area and Hermana Macias needed to use the bathroom, so we headed over to this one members house. She was in the middle of planning for her son's wedding and she was about to have a meltdown because of all the things she needs to get done! We offered to help and she was soo thankful. It is amazing how the Lord guides us and helps us to know what we need to do to bring people closer to him! 

I got to go on an exchange with Sister McOmber in Connell this week and that was way fun! We did some more service at the Older Couple's house and then we were contacting the rest of the day. I remember when I first went to Connell back in December for a baptism of one of Hermana Wade's converts and thinking how small of a place it was. Now it seems like the biggest city full of people to talk to! Crazy how the mission changes!

Also, Am I the only one who doesn't believe it's been a year?! No. Just me? okay...

Today we had a mission choir practice and I got to see so many of my favorite sisters and elders! I love the missionaries here! #WKM4Life

Love you all tons! Talk to you later!

It's Rainy in Washington, October 17, 2016

Hola Hola!

This week has been an adventure for sure.

On Monday we went to this cute little restaurant with the Sisters in the Zone. It's called Country mercantile and it reminds me of Thanksgiving Point. It was really good food though! 

Tuesday we went to Kennewick to change out oil at the Mall. Which meant we got to go in the Mall! My poor companion is such a California City girl and she about died. Basically, we miss shopping and we hate all of our clothes. #SisterMissionaryLife We also had Interviews with President that day. he's so wonderful! We gave President and Sister White some of the Apple Cider that they make here in Basin City. They we're so happy! Ah. I love them. 

Wednesday we did Zone Service at 2nd Harvest! I've missed that place! The manager still remembered Sister Christensen and I from when we were in Pasco! It's such a cute little place.  We then drove home and I was feeling sick, so I slept for a while and then we had an awesome visit with a Less Active Family! Jenny opened up to us a ton and we shared with her about Christ's atonement and how it can bring peace in hard times. We committed her to read Alma 7 and then she committed herself to come to church (Which she did!) We also just found out yesterday that her Nine year old son, Joshua, isn't baptized! We are going to start teaching him and helping him work towards baptism as well. This family is awesome. Oh! And at church Jenny commented in Sunday School that we helped bring peace into her home and that she really wants to find more joy in Christ in her life. YES!

Thursday we had a lesson with a less active woman named Elizabeth. She has three boys, one of which is only a month old. We shared with them a message of prayer and taught her kids how to pray. She said she really wants to come back to church but that it's hard because she works with her husband on Sundays. We'll be praying for her and her family. 

The weekend we basically just did finding, which is way fun when you are in the middle of no where. haha! We are trying to work a lot with the Less Actives and with the members to find. It seems to be going pretty well, but it's a working progress. They are people ready here! We just need to find 'em.

Love you all bunches! Have a great missionary day and a great Missionary Week! 

pics of the restaurant/store place