Happy Mother's Day!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALLLL THE MOMS IN THE WORLD!!!

Ahhh happy Mother's Day Mom, Darla, Savanna (WHAT??? You get to basically celebrate that already? Ry I hope you celebrated Mother's Day for her)!!! Happy Mother's Day!!! I definitely missed Mom but I can't imagine having to call her at home rather than have her presence with me here. I'm sups selfish and want her with me all the time. Also not having Mom on Mother's Day makes me grateful for the time we did have with her, also for all the wonderful example of mothers in our lives.I learn from so many other mom's that I probably wouldn't have ever payed attention if Mom were here. Anyway, I hope you all had a great Mother's Day!  It was fun saying happy mother's day to all the mom's yesterday and it was a great way to talk to people and to share our love with them. I was sad not to call you, BUT more happy to call you on Father's Day. Only a month away! Crazy right? Yes we get to skype and it will probably be at night. Due to the time differences, I think I will call Monday and it will be Sunday night for you. But I'm not totally sure. 45 min and missionaries have suggested to tell you to think of questions, stuff like that before hand and then we won't waste time on the call. But I don't know anything, Sav and Ry would probably know better than me b/c of Mark. But I don't understand how time can be wasted during a skype session b/c we will get to talk to each other so it will be a great time! 

This week was fantastic as always. We had happy and sad moments on both ends of the scale this week. We had two of our investigators who had baptismal goal dates tell us they no longer wanted to hear from us. How sad we were! It broke our hearts! We know how much the gospel blesses us individually, our families, and our lives and we want them to experience that! We know they have their free agency, ha ha and even though we just want them to be baptized they can choose what they want. I don't know how to express to that baptism is the first step to returning to our Heavenly Father. It is in our Heavenly Father's presence we will be the happiest. I know it and I wish they could know that for themselves. Oh well. We will continue to pray for them and have the hope and faith that one day they will feel the desire to be baptized and join the church. We know the Lord works in mysterious ways and He knows His children better than us. 

On the other side, we had 2 investigators, Sister Grace and Sister Noemi, actually come to church by themselves! One of them (Sister Grace) walked over an hour to get to church WITH her 1 year old little boy. Wow we were soooo happy! If we were able to pick them up every week for church we would, but they need to make the effort themselves and so when they both did oh man we were so happy! Also our Bishop is soooo great! He called them individually into his office and talked to them about questions they had, concerns, etc. He gave them encouragement, and hope. Most importantly he gave them his precious time. He made them feel important. Friends at church are so important to feel welcome! How would you feel going to an unfamiliar place and not having anyone to sit by or like that? You know? Ah man, we were so happy at the special effort Bishop gave them. SO happy! 

We had one less active family also come to church! When we were talking to the mom (Sister Jonalyn) she told us how they are having many trials in their lives and she finally came to the conclusion with herself that she needs to go to church. We were thrilled! Then she came with her family! Her husband didn't attend which was sad, but her and the kids we were so excited. We hope she sees the blessings of going to church and is able to tell a difference between going to church and not. We also pray she will continue to come to church!

The rainy season is starting! Ha ha it is crazy here. We will walk out of our apt and it is hot and not a cloud in the sky. One hour later it will be raining so hard. Sister Frjeas says it is only the beginning. It rains so much so hard! I don't remember the last time it rained that hard at home. Dad I'm soo grateful you bought me an umbrella. But ah man, the $8 umbrella from Wal-Mart has met it's match. My umbrella is thrashed just from 2-3 storms. I need to buy a new one. It is so fun! Also ha ha kind of inconvenient as we still need to walk everywhere and it is harder to walk in the rain and wind. Ha ha but so fun! 

Okay time for pictures as I know you LOVE them. Actually I don't know if you love them or not but I like sending them so as a result you get them. 

The rain! Notice the thrashed umbrella, and even though we had an umbrella, the rain comes at you from all sides depending on the wind thus meaning we were very wet.

Sister Frjeas and I -both very wet.

Many of the less active youth we are teaching. They are so fun! We just need them to bring their fun and funnyness to church! Also notice the little baby looking at me. That's how everyone looks at me b/c I'm so white haha.

 a family we are teaching. They make mats (like bathroom and kitchen mats) and sell. He was kind enough to fix my bag for me! They are so kind and willing to listen to us... but we have faith that they will start to follow through on their committments. 

Some brand new puppies! I took this picture for all the puppy and dog lovers in my life as there are many. The puppies were so cute and sooo small! Toats adorbs. 

Also another puppy picture for the animal lovers. Remember that puppy picture a few weeks ago. Same puppy! Fun fact. they feed their puppies rice here. Suprised? I'm not. Rice, rice, and more rice. If no rice, i don't know how they would live. Ha ha I find it funny how much rice they consume. Ha ha there is actually an ad for Pedigree puppy food that shows how to get a dog slowly off of a rice diet and onto a Pedigree diet.

We had a CSP here with this less active family. This is Sister Viado and we basically cleaned their house. it was great! 

This is for you Savanna. I immediately thought of you when I saw this and laughed. Oh by the way we wear the bandannas over our faces b/c there is so much dust when we are cleaning it is NASTY to breath in. Thus the face masks.

the whole family! Everyone LOVES the camera Savanna gave me. They love love love the screen in front and laugh so much at it. 

Okay that's it for pictures. Love you lots! The church is true! The blessings that come from living the gospel principles daily are real. When we look for the tender mercies from the Lord we are happy. It is important for us to endure to the end, and enjoy the journey while we are on it! 

Mahal na mahal kita!

-Sister Davidson :)