It went by fast

Oct 16, 2017

Everyone loves letting me know these days how close I am to coming home.

My response is the same everytime: "It went by fast".

Lately I have felt so grateful for the decision that I have made to serve a mission. I have loved all the people I have met (except angry taxi drivers) and have loved being in the chuch open houses. It has been a stretching and growing experience, but I have loved every second of it. I feel so lucky to have been here, and am grateful I still have a few weeks to keep doing what I love.

Anyways, not much to say other than that I LOVE YOU!

Con amor,

Hermana D

Deja-vu

October 9, 2017

Holis peeps!

I'm so glad that everyone enjoyed the video I sent last week.

This weekend was really kind of special for me. The idea of a ward having a capilla abierta is that they do it every 6 months, so I have been here for 8 months so that means I'm doing some capilla abiertas in the same ward for the second time haha. It's actually really fun. 

Last weekend we had a capilla abierta in Azul. I was there a few months ago for the last capilla abierta. The sisters gave us a plan in the morning to go invite people, and as we were walking in the streets looking for the houses I started laughing because I was literally inviting the same exact people 6 months ago with Hermana Estrada haha.

 During rehearsal with the branch, one of the cute members there came up to me and recognized me from the last time. She introduced me to a sister that was a recent convert that got baptized about six months ago. She had known a little bit about the church because she had a few friends from the branch, but had never listened to the missionaries. One of these friends invited her to the capilla abierta back in April and she had loved everything and accepted to listen to the missionaries. A few months later she got baptized and is faithful member of the church serving as the secretary in the Relief Society presidency. 

It was so special to meet someone that had gotten baptized from the capillas abiertas. I knew that there are a few in the mission but I had never had the chance to meet any until then.

I love this work and I love this program! I know that it is inspired of God to help bring His sheep back to His fold. I honestly wish I could do capillas abiertas forever! I'll skip the bus rides though, those I won't miss at all haha!

Love you all and have a great week!

Con Amor,

Hermana Davidson

Week of Lasts

September 25, 2017

This week was really good. There's so many things I want to write about that I just don't know where to begin. 

Well it was Hermana Leguizamóns last week in her mission. It was crazy to think that 3 transfers came and went so quickly. We learned soooo much together and we went through a lot of amazing and really challenging times together. Between almost missing buses, the challenges of having a broken foot, having successful stake trainings, we have had quite the adventure.When we had our last companionship inventory, I pretty much bawled. She did too, so it's fine.

Our capilla abierta was in a little pueblo called Lobería. The weather has been so nice and warm lately that we even had a part of it outside. 

Our ward training on Sunday was the perfect end. We did it differently this time, and we focused more on how to invite people to the capilla abierta. Me and Legui did some examples, and even the stake mission leader came and did examples too. It was something totally different from all the rest of the trainings that I have done, and the members responded really well to it and I felt the spirit so strongly.

Also, in sacrament meeting, the branch president decided to let Hermana Leguizamon give a short talk because it was her last Sunday. But then everyone thought it was my last Sunday too so they decided that I should give a talk too. Except I didn't know about it until it was announced during sacrament meeting haha lol. But it went really good for completely winging it. 

Well, this week I will be getting my new companion. It's weird that this will be my last one, but I feel pretty excited about it.

Love you all and hope you have a great week!

Con amor,

Hermana Davidson