Sad News

Hows everyone doing?

It has been a good week for us. We had zone leader council on Tuesday. This is a meeting where us, all the zone leaders and President and Sister Albright come and we counsel about things that can help the mission grow and reach our goals that we set. Its fun! Next week we have zone conferences so we've been busy getting everything ready for that....making agendas, handing out assignments and all that good stuff. We have also been able to find some good investigators this week. We found one named Naana. She is from Ghana! I was so excited. She loved having us over and she loved everything we taught. We've seen her a couple times now. She will hopefully be at church in the next couple weeks. I am lucky because this area has some ghanains so its been fun.

So I received some bad news at the beginning of the week. Opal passed away. She was a lady we taught and recently baptized in the Mt Vernon ward. She was awesome! She was one of my favorite people I taught while being out here. She was about 80 years old. Her son and daughter in law are both members which is how she heard of the church. She was so sweet and funny. She has had some health problems the past 6 months or so. She wasn't able to talk very well because of a stroke she had a while back but she still understood everything and loved what we taught her. It wasn't more than a week after we baptized her that she passed away. She hung on long enough to make these special covenants. I have a testimony that this is what the lord wanted for her. She is now in a better place and she is teaching the gospel to her husband and her family. It humbled me to be able to be apart of her life for a short moment. She loved having the missionaries come teach her. We went to her funeral service yesterday. It was sad but happy to know shes at peace and shes healthy! Her son who is in the Mt Vernon ward told us after the service "I have never seen my mom so happy and seen her laugh so much when you guys would come over. Thank you so much for making her last few weeks so good! " That meant so much to me. To know you have been an instrument in the lords hands is a feeling that can't be described. These are the types of experiences I will miss dearly when I return home.

Im gratefull for everything you guys do for me ! You have helped to make these past 2 years the best. I almost didn't make it out here. I was scared to death! I still am haha but the Lord has been with me. I love you guys!!

Elder Davie