Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission: Thankful Giving

December 2, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all had an amazing day and were able to be surrounded by family and friends you love

We started off Thanksgiving with our wards Turkey Bowl in very bitter cold weather. We had a couple dinners on Thanksgiving after and they were amazing! We played Christmas songs with bells with our bishop's family and it was so fun

At the other dinner we got to know an amazing members story and it was so touching!

I was able to make a couple of my grandma's raspberry cream cheese pies to bring and they are goooood!

Before our combined district Council this week we were challenged to invite someone to be baptized, and now two of the kids we are teaching are now on date to be baptized in January!! Many miracles and tender mercies are happening here

The leaders in our zone drank a very gross random smoothie if we invited people to be baptized. Needless to say, sardines, leftovers, pickle juice, sausage, spices, vinegar, pesto, fruit loops, an egg, and a cough drop didn't smell good. Or taste good apparently. But we have some amazing and tough leaders.

We had exchanges and I was with Sister Karns for a day! We saw amazing miracles when teaching a lesson! We visited a recent member in an assisted living home - and she has a new kitten which was fun - and we got to know her story! Saturday night was a huge snowstorm so church was cancelled sadly, but our Branch President's newborn baby was supposed to be blessed that morning, so they invited us to their home later for the blessing instead! It was so cute!! I love families

Appleton apparently has the biggest night time parade in the Midwest, so we attended in the freezing cold rain and it was a lot of school bands, lit up floats, and my favorite was a float with hot air balloon baskets shooting up flames to keep the crowds warm. It was super cool! I ate a frozen Thai pepper, I really should stop eating those haha - they are much spicier frozen by the way.

This week in my studies I looked at what it means, if God is 'no respecter of persons'. That sounds harsh huh? BUT respecter also means to not be influenced by someone's status or wealth. Everyone is given the same blessings, consequences, love, and opportunities. We are all equal and amazing in God's eyes

I LOVE that idea, that he is not only perfectly loving, but he doesn't love anyone more than another. Sometimes in life we are jealous of others blessings or circumstances, we wish we could be there experiencing their life. But God knows when those blessings will come for us, and He knows that what is happening right now is preparing us for our BEST happily ever after!! How amazing that God won't let us settle if we will trust in Him. So don't settle, for God has better things in store than you have room to receive

Sister Davis