Here's the latest. I had to laugh about the truck washing incident. It just goes to show that service goes a long, long way. Also, we now know Maureen knows how to wash a truck; I'm sure her Dad will put this information to good use when she gets home! Thank you to each one of you for your thoughts and prayers for Maureen. We are so grateful for them and so happy that she is doing well. -Nile and Candi
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Dear Everyone -
This week has been a week of laughs. I don't know why but it just feels like it. It really has been a good week though. We met with Beth twice this past week which was really good. She's having a hard time understanding the Book of Mormon so we read with her and helped her to better understand and apply it. We met with Don and Ron and they have been out of sorts lately, we're trying to help them get over frustrating life situations by applying the gospel. It was really neat what we ended up talking to them about - we told them how God wants to give us blessings. He's Waiting to give us blessings but He has to let us ask for them and do things that show we are willing and ready for them. So He gives us commandments and promises that He will bless us if we just keep those commandments. He can't break that promise. So if we were just obedient we would be blessed. I also realized while studying this morning that the Savior wants to bless us as well, so much. I was reading in 3 Nephi 17 this morning and He asks the people to bring their sick and ill and injured family to come to Him and be healed. I noticed that He didn't say "I'll come and heal all of you, no worries" but instead He asks them to Bring those who need healing to Him. Just as they had to come to Him and show forth their faith in His healing power, so must we turn to Him if we want to be healed, physically or spiritually. He doesn't just heal everyone that believes in Him, He invites us to Come to Him, Follow Him and He will heal us. It's something that we all have to work on, truly coming to Him.
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Well the other day I found out that someone I had worked with a lot in Green Valley (Lisa) is getting baptized on May 12th! If her husband lets her. We're praying for her. She is such a sweet lady, I'm so happy for her. As for everyone else we're working with - We've worked a lot with less active members here in El Cajon. So many of them are so ready and willing to come back when they feel the spirit. One family in particular we're working with is about to have a baby. So we asked them what we could do for them. The husband, who is less active, said "you can wash my truck." He was joking but we took him up on it and came over yesterday to wash his truck. It was so entertaining because the whole time he was making comments like "I can't believe you're washing my truck," "I can't believe you're washing the wheels," "I can't believe you're drying my truck," "I can't believe you're thanking me for letting you wash my truck!" It was quite entertaining. Following the awe-struck comments he invited us in and told us that he had been praying to know if President Monson was a prophet and if this church was true. (his wife was surprised) He said he had been feeling a "yes" but he wasn't 100% positive. He ended up asking a lot of good questions and we were able to answer them. AND he's been coming to church every week! It's so neat to see people's lives change. They are not people getting baptized, no, but they are changing their life around and using the Atonement again. How neat is that!? It doesn't matter who the person is, we should invite All to partake of the Atonement and come closer to the Savior. :)
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As for Uncle John... He moved. We were supposed to visit him on wednesday and we went to find him gone and his sister telling us he'd moved back up to Nevada. We were pretty sad but hey, there are missionaries in Nevada! And we talked to him, he told us he's going to church and he's going to hunt out the missionaries. So we'll follow up with him.
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We had another Mission President's fireside in Spanish. It was really good - the spirit was so strong and Sister Turner and I were able to sing Called to Serve in Spanish, Memorized! :D We also had interviews yesterday which was really good. President and Sister Clayton are great examples and we are so grateful to have them here with us. They really have the spirit with them and they were called to this mission at this time for a reason. They have taught me a lot.
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Things are going well out here - we had two random people come into our church building on Sunday, checking it out because they lived nearby - so we're going to go visit them. We had a lizard run into our garage... and now it must live under the boxes because we haven't seen it since... And we have a serious ant problem - no worries, we have windex, paper towels and gorilla glue - solves everything.
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Well I hope you are all doing well! I love you and pray for you daily. Stay out of trouble, study the scriptures and preach my gospel, pray daily and go to church. Those things help us to live the gospel every day of our lives!
Love Sister Maureen Davis
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