Gilda and Abel got baptized!

Littledavis or is that Davisfield? 

Hermana Cardenas and Davis

Hermana Oberman and Davis

Text from Gilda:
"I decided to be baptized this Saturday.  Sorry that I didn't tell you sooner"

Hermana Davis, Gilda and Hermana Littlefield

Susana, Abel, Hermana Davis and Hermana Littlefield

So, This week was amazing! Abel and Gilda got baptized on the 28th of may. It was such a miracle!

Abel had been investigating the church for 5 years. His wife, Susana, is a returned missionary, but was inactive. He had had so many baptisms dates, but he never arrived at the font. His moment finally arrived and he made the decision to get baptized. He also received the priesthood on Sunday! Such a capo! He is a completely different person and there is a different spirit in their home. Roberto, the menos activo brother of Hermana Susana, went to the capilla for the first time in 12 years to see the baptism of Abel. Our investigator, Maria Elena, also went with her Boyfriend. :) 

Gilda was such a miracle! She is the niece of a menos active family. Now the family is getting active and Gilda is such an example. She sent us a message on Thursday saying that she had decided to get baptized. She is such a capa and I bet she´ll be a future missionary. She is excited to go to semanary and participate in the youth activities.

We also found a bunch of new people and we have citas with them this week. 

I am so grateful for the miracle that we have seen this week. God loves us so much and He loves each one of His children. 

Love, 

Hermana Davis

Is it your birthday?

The birthday girl!  Hermana Davis in
beautiful Ushuaia, Argentina

Hermana Davis and Hermana Littlefield in the Baptism
capes they made for their zone (16 of them!)

Hermana Davis in her baptism cape

Super Hermana Davis and Littlefield!  

 Birthday sign Hermana Littlefield made for Hermana Davis

Hermana Davis turned 21 today!
 Super thoughtful Hermana Littlefield made her breakfast

Kiosko (store) where Jose works

So this week was a big one. 21 years ago today a little red headed baby girl was born in St. Lukes hospital. Today that red head is in the very end of the world in the midst of her Argentine homies. Mission birthdays are the best kind of birthdays :) Thank you for all of your kind emails! I love you all so so much!

Also, we have 4 baptisms scheduled for Saturday the 28th of May! The people who are getting baptized are Abel, Miguel, Gilda, and José. Please pray for them! 

1. I completed 17 months on the 17th of May #17

2. We were walking to lunch in the elders´ area and a little girl contacted us. She asked, "Are you hermanas biblicas?" We said yes, gave her a Book of Mormon, and sent the info to the elders. They returned and put a fecha with her. #milagros!!!

3. We showed José the Restoration movie. He shut down his whole kiosco just so we could watch it :) The spirit was so so strong! We are going to do everything possible so that he gets baptized. He came to church on sunday for the 4th time and he loved it.

4. Miguel is reading and praying. He is so capo! María Elena said that they are going to read and pray as a family to help him prepare for his baptism.

5. Abel is so excited for his baptism. We can see the change of heart. We had a noche de hogar (FHE) with him and the familia Polanco. The members just love Abel and Susana, but not as much as we do :)

6. Gilda loved when we taught her about baptisms for the dead. She wants to get baptized for her relatives after her own baptism. 

7. With my comp we have been trying inspired contacting. We say a prayer before to choose the street. We have seen lots and lots of miracles. It´s like asking for references from Heavenly Father :)

8. Our zone set up a table in Centro and we gave away Books of Mormon. We had a lot of success and it was neat to testify of the book of Mormon in 2 minutes or less. I have such a testimony of the power that it has to change lives.

9. We found Alicia. She is an old investigator that loves the Book of Mormon. It was really a miracle how we found her, but that is a story for my homecoming talk ;) 

10. Did I mention that I love Ushuaia, I love my comp, and I just love being a missionary!

11.  Also, Elder Goodman called (he´s the new assistant) and he said that my comp and I are really making a difference in the zone. We made the baptism capes and also we are pushing the zone to focus more on the Book of Mormon. We also have the most fechas (not that that depends on personal skills, it all comes from Heavenly Father). We are finishing super strong!  

I love all of you so so much!

Hermana Davis

Hike to La Laguna de Tempanos

Happy Hermana Davis at Tempanos glacier and lake

 

Hermana Davis at La LagunaTempanos 

I did it!  A long, cold hike to La Laguna de Tempanos

My Zone at La Laguna de Tempanos 

Ice skating on the frozen lake at Tempanos

La Laguna de Tempanos

Dear friends and family:

Bueno bueno, this morning we went on a long hike up to the very top of a mountain to see a lake and a glacier. It was freezing cold and super stunning. We walked out onto the frozen lake and did some freestyle iceskating. I also drank glacier water (yet another thing to check off the bucket list :)) I sent a bunch of photos for your viewing pleasure :)

As for this week...

1. We put fechas with Gilda and Luis. They are the niece and nephew of an hermana menos activa. They already have assistencias and came to church on Sunday :) Their fecha is for the 28th of May.

2. José came to church!!!! He now has 3 asistencias and almost all of the lessons. He still has his doubts, but we talked to him about opening his heart and recognizing his answer. His fecha is also for the 28th of May

3. We visited Natalia, a new investigator. She believes a lot in Jesus and listened to the missionaries when she was younger. She was going to get baptized, but her parents didn´t give her permission. She hasn´t accepted a fecha yet, but we are planning on inviting her again this week :)

4. We had 2 great lessons with Abel. He and Susana came to church and loved it! Our little branch is changing for the better. They are really taking the whole "every member a missionary" thing to heart! Abel has a fecha for the 28th of May.

5. I got a little sick this week. It was like a regular cold, but it went into my chest. Luckily I took some antibiotics and everything cleared right up!

6. We made baptism capes for the zone. It was such a crazy idea, but it turned out so so awesome. We borrowed a sewing machine from an hermana and we sewed almost all night to make 16 capes. I´ll send some pictures later (I forgot to take some...pucha)

7. We contacted a 90 year old man while knocking doors. We gave him a book of Mormon and set a cita for this week. I´ll let you know how it goes :)

I love you guys,

Hermana Davis

Consejo (leadership counsel) and Coconut rice

Hermana Littlefield and Hermana Davis

On their way home from  leadership conference - super tired!

Notice the red trees in the background - in Ushuaia, Argentina

Aubrey with some of her Hermana friends

Coconut rice...made by her favorite Hermana Littlefield

Happy Mother´s Day! (bueno...yesterday)

This week we went to Comodoro. It´s a 20 hour ride to Comodoro and another 20 hours back in Collectivo. In Leadership conference we talked about having the faith to baptize. If there is one thing I´ve learned from the mission it´s that faith always PRECEDES the miracles.

Speaking of Miracles:

José said a prayer and opened the Book of Mormon to a random part. We invited him to do this to find his answer if this is the true church. He opened to 1 Nephi 14 and read the chapter heading. It says something like, "There are two churches. The church of the Lamb of God and the church of the devil." What a powerful answer, no? I know that God answers prayers.

We invited Miguel, the 12-year old son of María Elena, to be baptized on the 4 of june. He and his mom came to church and both have 3 asistencias! (attendance at church)

We had a great lesson with Abel y Susana. I had the feeling to share our testimonies. We did so and the spirit was so strong. Then they opened up with us about why Abel was hesitant to get baptized and their other concerns.

We had a great zone meeting! I am so excited for this transfer. My plan is to go out with a "bang!" We already have a few ideas... :)

I really love you guys and I´m so grateful for what you all have done for me. Thank you for your support, your prayers, and your examples.

Con muchísimo amor,

Hermana Davis

Semana en sus pasos

Hermana Davis

Hermana Davis and her companion Hermana Littlefield

Lake in Ushuaia in fall time

Fall trees in Ushuaia 

"Beware of the cat"

This week we did a "semana en sus pasos" (week in His steps). We worked extra hard this week to be more like Christ. We also made the sacrifice as a zone to get up at 6am everyday and read the book of Mormon. We also made personal sacrifices. On Friday we had a super day. We had Marianela, a member, accompany us for the afternoon. We did a bunch of contacts and had a few awesome lessons.

We also did divisions with Hermana Flores and Yañez :) 

Maria Elena said that marriage is in her future plans. We tried so hard to put a baptismal fecha with her, but she doesn't want it right now. We are going to keep passing by and hopefully we can find her boyfriend in the house (he leaves super early and comes home super late) and teach him too.

Laura was a menos activa, but now she is super active. Her sister, Abi, was baptized in September. We were talking to them about temples. Laura said, "The chain before us was broken, but now Abi and I are fixing it." Such capas!!!!

After a special shipment this week we now have 8 boxes of 36 book of mormons in our pension. We have made a goal to give them all away by the time that I finish the mission (around the 20th of June.) So far so good :) We have to give away 6 everyday to reach our goal. We are also thinking about getting the zone involved and doing a Book of Mormon Tsunami :) 

We now have a new branch presidency. The new president is a capo and I'm excited to see the change in our little branch. 

Now for the fun stuff:

This week I contacted a leperchaun. He had bright red hair and a red beard with green eyes and freckles. He said that he was born here in Ushuaia. We took down his address and invited him to church :)

We were making cookie dough (weird 9:45pm cravings...) and we didn´t have eggs. I remembered seeing something in pinterest about replacing eggs with mayonesa. I put pinterest to the test and squeezed a huge glob of mayonesa in the cookie dough mixture. It tasted fine, but our stomachs have been a little off for the past week. I would recommend buying eggs :)

Challenge: Tell someone about the Book of Mormon. Share the gift :)

Love ya,

Hermana Davis