Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission: Tubes of Canadian Bacon and Melchizedek

December 9, 2019

Hello good people! Wow I have missed you all. How are you? Please let me know.

This week we started with watching 'The Cokeville Miracle' as a district last pday. If you haven't seen it, watch it! It's an amazing true story, with miracles - I love angels

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One of the other volunteers at the food pantry made us little goody bags with hot cocoa, marshmallows, and a small chocolate for St Nick's day which was on Friday! So I made iced hot chocolate via one of the options on the bag of the hot cocoa packet haha. The food pantry has been getting giant crates FULL of 3+ foot long Canadian bacon tubes. So naturally Sister Nelson and I went into the giant fridge to scope it out. It was a lot of bacon haha! We went Christmas caroling with the youth to different homes around the church building, and we gave the families little gift bigs too. All the families would gather their children at the door to watch us sing, it was so cute! One large family was so happy, the grandfather recorded us singing to them. We had a lesson fall through and the member that came with us immediately decided to buy us dinner because he'd "been on a mission before" haha, tender mercy. We explored at the towns Christmas lights event where all the shop windows have people posing in different scenes; there was a star wars Nativity, Elf, the Grinch, and a man in a robe with beer of course, to name a few. It was so cute and fun to see the community and traditions here! Our ward had a wonderful Christmas party with a cute Grinch themed presentation about the real meaning of Christmas with different musical numbers periodically

I also learned lots about area 51 this week for some reason hahaha.

At our district council the Spanish elders did a musical number with dollar store flutes, and it was quite enjoyable. I had a great interview with President Murphy as well!! The Lord is proud of our efforts and knows where we are needed! During district council one of our trainings had a few missionaries throwing/kicking different objects into the basketball hoop. One had a volleyball, one a basketball, one a soccer ball, and one a marker. They each had different positions and instructions on how they had to throw or kick it in. It represented how we all have the same goal and can get discouraged when others find success quicker, but we have to use the tools we have and keep trying! We had dinner with more cute families per usual, one little girl -Jaina- looks just like one of my nieces and she's so cute. We had lunch with a member from up in Oneida, we went to a yummy Chicago style place where I got a Philly steak and cheese sub

One of the elders friends got baptized and her spirit is so so sweet! Her baptism was so special! We taught one of our dear friends while using her massage chair, and she kept spoiling us with treats haha! She came to church yesterday and loved it! We taught another dear friend the stop smoking program and it went so well! She immediately crushed all of her cigarettes and it was a miracle!! The Lord and angels are all around us to strengthen us and support us

️ We watched the Christmas devotional last night with our Bishops cute family!! It was so spiritually uplifting

I hope you all see the Lord's hand continuously this week, it is forever outstretched. No matter the tools you are given, your path is unique and completely possible! This week I looked into Alma 13:14, where we are told to be as humble as the people in Melchizedeks day (in Genesis 14). His people 'wrought righteousness, and obtained heaven'. Wrought means to be formed or molded. Melchizedeks people made righteousness with what they already had. They used their tools, sought the same goal, and obtained. We create our happiness, and where our path will lead us

Tis The Season

Sister Davis