Family!
1. Saying goodbye to Sister Fabros right before she transfers! She's the best ever and I'll miss her diligence in hard working!
5. And then with Brother Lorenzo after church
Ha ha Baby Girl who loves us and then with Sister Rochelle also!
1. two goofballs still sila Brother Cyrus and Brother Elton John
Thank you so much for all your emails and pictures! Sounds like you are keeping yourselves super busy but loving life while staying busy! What a blessing :)
So check it out, transfers were this week and I am still here in Tarlac Ward 5 but Sister Fabros got transferred and my new companion.... Sister Bongolto!!!!!!!!! WHAT?!?!?! My anak here in the mission! She's the missionary I trained back in Tarlac Ward 3! SOOOOO HAPPY!!! Oh my goodness that never happens here and oh my goodness we are so excited. We have unfinished business here in Tarlac and so the Lord has put us together again and i'm excited! Hopefully we'll be together for another 12 weeks! Probably not... but hey nothing is impossible :) Oh my goodness Sister Bongolto is exactly what I need right now also and the Lord always answers our prayers when we pray in faith. It's exciting.
This week was great! We have been inspired and following the inspiration of what the Lord would have us do to help one of our investigators Brother Lorenzo. He has been investigating the church for some time now and his sister is a strong recent convert who is praying and fasting continually for him as we are also doing the same. As we are praying and fasting for him, we are praying for specific things we want him to experience as well as we are praying that we might be sensitive enough to the promptings of the Spirit to follow what the Lord would have us do to help Brother Lorenzo have the courage to choose to follow the Savior’s perfect example of baptism. He realizes more and more how this is an eternal commitment and he realizes more and more how the blessings that come with this commitment are eternal as well. I love watching the Savior change his life, and I love being a witness to see the change Brother Lorenzo is making for his Savior. It is simple yet exquisite beauty. PLEASE keep Brother Lorenzo in your prayers that he might have the determination to choose the right always. Your prayers really help!
Hey so I'm excited for Father's Day! June 15 right? Anyway, I'm excited! So remember how at Christmas the thing I wanted for Christmas work was to have you do follow the counsel of Elder Ballard of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles? I want that again for Father's Day :) I want to ask you about how you are doing in sharing the joy of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. This past General Conference, Elder Ballard followed up about his last invitation to us all to help share the gospel, I want to do that again as well.
Elder Ballard shared with us...
"The second message that I feel I should follow up on was delivered just last general conference, when I encouraged members to pray to be led to at least one person to whom they could extend an invitation to learn about the restored gospel before Christmas.
May I suggest that we can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith, inviting someone at least once a quarter—or four times every year—to be taught by the full-time missionaries. They are prepared to teach by the Spirit, with sincere and heartfelt inspiration from the Lord. Together we can follow up on our invitations, take others by the hand, lift them up, and walk with them on their spiritual journey.
Brothers and sisters, fear will be replaced with faith and confidence when members and the full-time missionaries kneel in prayer and ask the Lord to bless them with missionary opportunities. Then, we must demonstrate our faith and watch for opportunities to introduce the gospel of Jesus Christ to our Heavenly Father’s children, and surely those opportunities will come. These opportunities will never require a forced or a contrived response. They will flow as a natural result of our love for our brothers and sisters. Just be positive, and those whom you speak with will feel your love. They will never forget that feeling, though the timing may not be right for them to embrace the gospel. That too may change in the future when their circumstances change.
It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord’s errand. While the outcome is a result of the exercise of one’s agency, sharing the gospel is our responsibility.
To help you in this process, I invite all members, regardless of your current calling or level of activity in the Church, to obtain a copy of Preach My Gospel. It is available through our distribution centers and also online. The online version can be read or downloaded at no cost. It is a guidebook for missionary work—which means it is a guidebook for all of us. Read it, study it, and then apply what you learn to help you understand how to bring souls to Christ through invitation and follow-up. As President Thomas S. Monson has said, “Now is the time for members and missionaries to come together, to work together, to labor in the Lord’s vineyard to bring souls unto Him.”
If we follow up, the Lord will not let us down. I have seen the unspeakable joy that accompanies testimony-driven inviting and faithful follow-up among members of the Church the world over.
It is my testimony that as we work together, seeking the one, inviting, and following up with trust and faith, the Lord will smile upon us and hundreds of thousands of God’s children will find purpose and peace in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. May the Lord bless all of us in our efforts to hasten the work of salvation."
I know that Heavenly Father loves ALL of His children. I know that there are no accidents in His plan for His children. I know that we know and we've met people we've met for a reason. I know that if we go with faith to the Lord, and ask Him what He would have us do to help those we love come closer to Christ, He will show us what we should do. I know b/c I've experienced it. I know the Lord will not leave our side as we go about doing good for the benefit of our brothers and sisters.
I love you all. I truly hope you reach out and do something, doesn't need to be stressful or a big huge thing, but just do something, to help invite someone to come closer to Christ.
Mahal ko kayo!
-Sister Davidson :)
Pictures!
1. Family Home evening with Sister Lawrence and Brother Lorenzo!! Bro Lorenzo is the one in the front with the "Ading" on the front of his shirt, and his sister Lawrence, the one in blue stripes in the front. And all the other people are the great ward members!
2. Sister Curtis, Sister Latimer, and Sister Tupua who have now finished their missions! They slept over at our house and now they are home! It was so sad to see them go!
3. Sister Olive took us out to dinner! She is our Stake RS President who works with us sometimes and she took us to this delicious place for dinner! She's the best.
4. Tarlac Zone right after Transfer announcement!
5. And then our district! We seriously have the best district in the world.
2. Sister Salde! She is a brand new missionary from Bacolod! She slept over at our house and when she said she was from Bacolod I asked if she met Elder Jared Heywood and she said yes!! That never happens! Ya she said she met Jared and he baptized (??) her cousins Corina and Diane Gumben when he was assigned in Handumanan. Don't know if it is the same Elder Heywood, but hey Jared if you know her... small world :)
3. BACK with Sister Bongolto again!!!!!!!!!!!
4. Sister Lawrence, her son Khyle and the 2 adopted kids who love us ha ha
Ha ha Baby Girl who loves us and then with Sister Rochelle also!
2. Just cute.
3. For lunch on P-Day Sister Bongolto and I went and had lunch at the de Jesus' canteen!!!! WE LOVE THEM SOOO MUCH!!!!
4. We LOVE Sister Reylie and Sister Cristina!!
5. And Sister Bongolto and I love each other!
2. Love them!
3. Sister Ryeli is pregnant! I'm trying to drop hints of what great baby names are for baby girls... we'll see what happens :)
that's all folks!
Sure do love you and I sure do love our Savior Jesus Christ. I know that all things are possible through Him. When we give Him everything we've got, He gives us more than we ever thought was possible. He is the source of true happiness and I'm so humbly grateful for the chance I have everyday to serve Him.
Mahal ko kayo!
-Sister Davidson :)
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