Good mornings and evenings and all times of day!
First of all, congratulations to myself for being an aunt for the 11th time! Also to my sister for having a beautiful baby over the weekend! Hold all the babies you can everyone!
This week it got real cold real fast, which I have been waiting for! I love the cold. I'm so excited to be cold. It slightly snowed, which can't compare to Idaho right now but it was a real shock here. We have been listening to all the Christmas music, and honestly it is helping me thrive so much! Also, christ(mas) = christ(more) so really more Christ, so christmas music year round is a great way to keep Christ around! I gave in and got some solid Fa La La Llama Christmas pajamas, so enjoy the trio of life Christmas album cover. A member of the YSA branch is from Columbia, and she is so cute and fun. I don't know Spanish, but it's still a blast! Our YSA is turning into a fun little family. One of the YSA in Milwaukee is going to be in the Olympics this next year apparently. We deep cleaned more cockroaches! I ate tacos with beef head, beef tongue, and beef intestine at a solid taqueria this week. Tongue is boring, head is tasty, and intestine tastes like what you'd imagine. We met this girl who works for Broadway plays as a physical therapist, she travels all over with them and is traveling with Hamilton right now!! She's the first Christian we've met on a college campus and she's not even a student haha.
This was a very Spanish week, we stopped by many people, most of whom didn't know English. Luckily one of my companions knows enough Spanish to explain the church and invite. Then we had a lunch yesterday with a Spanish member, and while one of the Spanish elders translated for me, I have never felt a greater desire and urgency to know Spanish. It was the last language I'd want to learn and now I just want to grasp it all! The Spanish member talked of her mission in Mexico and her love for missionaries and the Spirit was so strong, I only know 1% of what she was saying, but you knew what she was saying from the Spirit. It was simply amazing!
We met a 1 1/2 handed man this week, and gave him a Book of Mormon, and now we are teaching him! His story is crazy exciting, as I've found common here. I've loved reading conference talks this week, my lovely sister sent me one during the week called Which Way Do You Face in October 2014 General Conference - it's so so good! The only person we need to focus on pleasing is Heavenly Father, and He is perfectly understanding of our efforts. He understands. I can't say it enough. As we focus our efforts on Him, we can be satisfied with our works.
In my studies in the end of Mosiah this week I came across this talk about trials, and the topic of trials always stands out to me! It perfectly explains that some trials are results of misdoings, but sometimes, you are just being shaped, refined, and molded into an even stronger being. Just like a sword must be beat and welded, clouds must break to give rain, and glass is broken for mosaics, muscles tear to grow, being broken is how the best things are created.
"No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws of God will always have those challenges. The other reason for adversity is to accomplish the Lord’s own purposes in our life that we may receive the refinement that comes from testing. It is vitally important for each of us to identify from which of these two sources come our trials and challenges, for the corrective action is very different” (”Trust in the Lord,” Ensign, Nov. 1995, 16)
I love each of you! If you need to talk, some motivation, or just wanna keep me updated, email me or message me! Send me voice memos or anything. I hope this week is just what you all need, pray often, be believing
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Sister Davis
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