Consacration: You're gunna suffer, but you're gunna be happy about it July 18, 2016

Hola Hola!

This week was pretty wonderful! 

On Tuesday I went on exchanges with mi Hermana Mama Wade. We tried by a couple of people in Benton, but they almost all fell through. We taught one of their recently activated members, Jill. She's the best. She's teaching the 17-18 year olds Sunday School and wants our help to teach them like the Missionaries taught her. (Like Teach People, not Lessons)

She's basically the sweetest. We then had enchiladas for dinner! We taught a RC about the baptismal covenant and then exchanged back.

On Wednesday I got to meet President and Sister White for the first time! We had Zone Conference and it was awesome! They brought their 3 un-married children with them and it was really fun. At the beginning, he shook our hands and before we left he said each of us had an interview with the president during that hand shake. He's a retired inspector for like the cia or something. So he looks in your eyes, sees your soul, and knows your heart. 

Thursday I went on exchanges with Hermana Fristrup and that was a party. We helped people move out of an apt that was on the third floor. yippie. 

Niki came to church and we were able to teach her the plan this week. Serviano is doing better, we haven't seen him much, but yay! They taught Rosalinda on exchanges and she's doing well as well!

And Know I'm out of time. So like. Hope yall have a good week! I'll send pictures next week!

"Porque no llores, Davis? Arrepientete de sus pecados.", July 11, 2016

Hello Everyone!

This week has been pretty great, a few struggles, but over-all pretty good. I love being on a mission and seeing the long span of things. I don't know if I have ever felt the love of Chirst so strongly than at this point in my life. 

Update on Serviano: (Good & Bad)

 On Tuesday we went by and talked about his answer of wither or not the church is true and if he needs to be baptized. He has a lot of crazy things going on in his life right now. But even though it all, he know that this is true. He started crying and was like I just feel something so strong right now telling me this is the right thing. (He then rebuked me and asked why I was the only one not crying. See Subject Line.) He didn't want to set a date just yet because there is someone he needs to talk to about it first. We came by and Wednesday and taught him about temples and the spirit world. He thought it was the coolest thing that his dad is getting missionary lessons right now too. We showed him pictures from the new temples pamphlet (because it's only in English...booo) And he said that's he feels like he's seen the Celestial Room before in a dream. (What?!) Now the sad news. Serviano went to to a good-bye party for his nephew on Saturday and he relapsed on his drinking. We are going by tonight to talk to him more about the Atonement and help him set some goals about how to follow the commandments better. His niece was getting baptized in the Catholic church, so he didn't come to church on Sunday either. (La Luche es Real Folks.)

Gia is going out of town for two weeks in Montana, so hopefully this doesn't stop her progression. We invited her to take her Book of Mormon with her and read from it every day. We are planning on sending her some texts of love and gospel stuff throughout the next weeks. 

Last night, We were walking around town trying to follow the Spirit on what we should be doing and we just felt rather lost and confused. No one had come to church and we were a bit discouraged. We had prayed many time to see what neighborhood to go to and kept getting prompting that this wasn't right. Finally we deiced we needed to go visit a member. We prayed and went over to the Strohs. It was like 8:45, but they were home and awake! We told them about how we were feeling and then they shared that they have a couple that they really want us to teach! Hermana Stroh has a cousin and her husband that she has been thinking about introducing us to her for a while. Her name is Rosie and her husband is Miguel who works with Hermano Stroh. Yay! We are having dinner with them and Tosie and Miguel on Tuesday and we are very excited!

I know that this church is true. I know that Christ is our Savior and he loves each one of us so much! Whenever we doubt that love, we can kneel down and pray and wait for that answer. I've felt that love for me and for each one of my investigators so much. I'm so glad that the Lord is hasting his work and that I have a chance to be apart of it. miss you all so much!

Hermana Lizzy Davis

Washington Kennewick Mission

1- Sisters at the Zone 4th of July BBQ

2- Hermana Lopez and I with our Respaldads (Basically Mexican Starbucks)

"Guess What Sisters! I Baptized Myself Three Times!" July 5, 2016

Hola mis amigos!

This week was pretty good, You know like America and stuff. I wore Red, White and Blue and Hermana Lopez wore Green and black so vive la Mexico! 

We ran out of miles so we just walked eveerywhere for like 4 days. We had enough to go to Richalnd for a meeting, an exchange in Benton, and then to church. We walking inot the middle of nowhere and just tracted into the  houses we could find. 

I was in Benton City for a day with Hermana Bergmann, mi hermanita! They have some pretty cool street names so I took some picture of those. We had dinner with some members from Peru and they fed us tacos! (I loooove tacos)

So Serviano. While I was out on exchanges, Serviano told Hermanan lopez the following story:

 He went to the river with his family and after he received a priesthood blessing he knew he needed to be baptized. So while he was at the river he baptized himself...three times. Because A) Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. and B) to make sure all the sins were washed away. Then Hermana Lopez basically Doctrine smacked him with love and explained the Priesthood authority again. Yippie.  

We are teaching a new family! We taught The mother the Restoration and she accepted everything super well. She had just shared about how wonderful her baptism was and then I invited her to be baptized again by the proper authority and she was like, Yes! That makes sense! So here is hoping we can keep them instead of referring them over to the English Elders!

Yesterday we had to be in by 6pm and then we watched the Testaments. Basically the life line of hopelessly romantic sisters. But we watched it because of the fact it was filmed in Chiapas, where Hermana Lopez is from. 

Love you all! Have a good week!

Hermana Lizzy Davis

Washington Kennewick Mission

The White Mormon Girl Speaks Spanish, June 27, 2016

Hola Hola!

This week has been crazy! Tons of exchanges and President White gets here tomorrow! What even is this?! We are all so excited and so sad. We'll miss President Ware, but I know President White will be just wonderful! Subject line cred to a lady we door stepped. She was like kinda crazy, but when we were telling her the Elders were going to be teaching her because we teach in Spanish, she turned to me and was like, "You speak Spanish?" and I said yea, then she yells into her house, "Hey Dad! The White Mormon Girl speaks Spanish!" Sooo. Yes. That happens more often then you'd think.

This week we went on all the Exchanges. I went into Richland and spent the day with Sister Christensen from Spanish Fork. (We forgot to take a selfie, shame on us.) It was super fun. I'm starting to become less scared of white wards. I taught Sister Christensen how to pray in Spanish during language study. She took notes and I'll be following up with her to see how that goes. The next day I was in the YSA in West Richland with Sister Nessen from Las Vegas. We taught Their RC, Windy, and she's amazing! She already has so many of her friends that she wants them to teach. She's basically the cutest thing. 

On Thursday I was finally back in Grandview. We had District Council and we talked about how to teach to the commitment and help our investigators resolves their doubts. It was really cool and I learned a lot more about really loving the people we teach, and having more patience with them. 

The Stuggle this week has not been that we haven't found anyone interested, just that we keep finding the interested people that don't speak Spanish! We have sent so many refferals to the English Elders it isn't even fair. They can't speak Spanish either so that just makes our lives harder. 

Saturday we just drove out in the middle of no where, parked, and then walked all afternoon. Long Country Road tracting my friends. It's a reall thing. 

Serviano has been struggling this week. He told us, "I knew you said that Satan would work harder on me, but I didn't know that he would work this hard." The Elders came by and gave him a Pristhood Blessing. We haven't seen him in the past couple of Days, but we are praying for him!

Love you all so much!

1. Dinner at the Sanchez's House

2. Pope Road....

3. Exchanges with Sister Nessen

4. All the awkward Eler and Sister pictures -- Prosser District

5. My Quote Wall

Hermana Lizzy Davis

Washington Kennewick Mission

I Just Want a Bla Ha (Black Hat), June 20, 2016

Hello everyone!

This week has been wonderful! It wasn't too terribly hot. Just like 90s, which is a lot better then it was a week or so ago!

Serviano is working towards the 9th of July for a baptism date. He knows everything is true and he loves the Book of Mormon, he just needs to stop drinking. We went over with him a plan on how he can do it and kick those temptations in the butt! He's very excited. Pray for him to have the strength he needs:) We were just about to close a lesson with him when some of his friends showed up and they were straight up drunk. One of them was asking Hermana Lopez all these deep life questions and the other was telling me he just wants a black hat and what is the name my mother gave me. hahahaha. Then we were walking home and they pulled over and wanted to give us a ride home....and we were like no..sorry! He like got out of his truck and tried to get me to drive. basically people are cray cray. (Do people still say cray cray?) We've talked to like 4 drunk people in the past 3 days. 

Gia is doing pretty well, She still really scared about baptism. We are trying to help her understand about how she won't be alone in this journey and that Christ will be with her every step of the way. We taught her about what she is really promising at Baptism and how the Lord is going to bless her if she acts. We invited her to pray about a date for her baptism. We are seeing her tomorrow, so hopefully that goes well!

I got to go on an Exchange with mi Hermana Mama! I looove Hermana Wade! WE taught lessons all day (And in English!) Teaching in English is so much harder than teaching in Spanish, believe it or not.

President Ware had his Farewell Zone Conference. We talked about being happy though the mission. God made us to be happy. So be happy, be bold, and don't scatter sunshine! Pics attached. Pres Ware rolled his eyes at our #selfiegame

Well that's basically what we've done this week besides knock up our entire area. With all the exchanges and meetings we basically have no miles so we just walk around a lot. #loveit

Love you all so much! Have a wonderful week!

Hermana Lizzy Davis

Washington Kennewick Mission

1. P Ware and I

2. Hermanas Fristrup, lopez, and Nessen and President

3. Our attempt at a zone picture

4. Selfie

5. President and Sister Ware with me

6. More selfies

7. They gave us the wrong size of ice cream...but no complaints here!

8. Exchanges! Hermanas Lopez, Bergmann, Wade and I

9. Hermana Wade and I​

"A Temple Trip and Two Sisters Stranded at Walmart" June 14, 2016

Hola Hola!

Happy Tuesday Everyone! This week we have been knocking and talking with everyone! AND IT'S HOT. Monday we got chased by a giant sheepdog and he shook slobber and mud all over us...then he peed on our car. Oh the joys of country road tracting.

On Wednesday I went on an exchange with Hermana Fristup. We went and got Ice Cream from McDonalds. Apparently they have good ice cream here and Now I forever crave it. It's freakin' hot up here folks! Hermana Lopez also had another leadership meeting, so I went with Sister Field for the day again. All the exchanges.

We finally got in with Rosalinda! She's doing good. she said she was going to come to church, but then when her ride showed up to get her, her kids told them that she went to work. So now the stuggle is real. We are still praying for her. 

Gia also was working on Sunday, so she didn't come to church either. we are seeing her tonight. 

But SERVIANO CAME TO CHURCH. He said he really liked it! We've taught him everything except tithing, and guess what the lesson was one. Tithing. haha. He seems pretty chill about it though. We plan on going more in depth with him on it soon.

 We also got to see Niki this week. We are going super slow and helping her really understand the basics so she can feel like she is understanding everything. 

Yesterday we just walked and talked with everyone. Tons of quality gospel conversations. Today we got to go to the temple! It was the best thing ever! I have missed it so much! Then we went shopping with Hermana Wade and her Greenie, Hermana Burgmann, and they accidentally left us at Walmart. so that's our life haha! 

Love you all tons and miss you all too. Have a good week!

Hermana Lizzy Davis

Washington Kennewick Mission

1. Selfie while driving. Don't worry, I'm watching the road!

2. Elder Valdez, Hermana Lopez and I after Correlation

3. Sunsets

4. The temple!

5. Hermana Burgmann, Hermana Wade, Me, and Hermana Lopez

6. Big sheepdog

7. Hermana Fristrup and I with our Ice cream​

"La Lucha es Real. Pon tu hombro a la lid!" June 6, 2016

Happy June Everyone! Summer is here and Washington is heating up. I'm so surprised all the grapes aren't raisins it's so hot. We've had a couple of days break 100 degrees this week and it's is insane. 

Gia came to church!!! Oh my the best thing of life. She came. After working a long shift. She came!!! Answers to fasts do happen my friends. She is improving so much we taught her more about Faith and Repentance this week. We're trying really hard to help her feel comfortable with the atonement and knowing that it's okay to mess up sometimes. In Relief Society, we talked about Elder Holland's talk from last conference. It was perfect for her! She said she really loved it. She was like, That first class was really boring, but I liked this one way more! Oh Gia. Always very honest with us. 

Serviano didn't come to church. Booo. We aren't sure why, we tried stopping by on Sunday evening to see if he was home, but no one was. We left a note and we are going to try by again later. He really just needs to come to church. 

We were able to do tons of tracting this week because all the appointments fell though! We went out Long Country Road tracting. My favorite thing ever! Took some pretty cool pictures. It's hard to capture the beauty of the country. There are just hills and hills of vineyards and orchards. So beautiful. And all the members give us cherries. I have never had so many cherries in my entire life.  

Hermana Lopez had MLC, so I went on a mini exchange with Sister Field! She's super sweet and what I thought would be a day in a white ward ended up being a lesson in Spanish and 2 Spanish quality gospel conversations in the middle of Richland! Sister Field has been in that area for 3 transfers and she said she has never ran into any Spanish people. The Lord puts people into our path when we can speak their language I guess! I got to go to Zone Leadership Meeting and then we had Zone Training Council the next day. We gave a training on the faith to find. Always praying to find new people and talking to everyone! That is our goal. 

Well that was our week! Next week I'll be emailing on Tuesday because of a temple trip #wahooo! So talk to you on the 14th! Les Quiero!

1.  Vineyards

2. more vineyards

3. some trailers we were knocking. Trailer parks in the middle of no where! #goldmine

4. I saw a duck in Richland!!!!!! I love Ducks!

5. Sister Field and I

6. Sunset

7. Sunday Selfie

Hermana Lizzy Davis

Washington Kennewick Mission