To my wonderful family and friends—
Again another week has come and gone and I find myself having to sit down and write you another group e-mail. Time just keeps going by faster and faster.
Well, things for me are great! I am still serving in Shengavit!!!! The Lord is SO SO kind. This means that I am still companions with Sister Cornwell, because Sister Fuhriman is going home tomorrow! I can’t believe it! Both Sister Fuhriman and Sister Woolf my dear great friends are leaving tomorrow! So weird! Time really does pass quickly cause I entered the MTC with them. So I am very happy that I am serving in Shengavit—I do not feel like my work here is done. This also means that I will be able to continue teaching my 12 investigators! What a blessing for me!
Alright…so interesting stories from this week. As always we’ve had some amazing lessons, had some great moments, and some hard times In the mission world you really do cover about all spectrum of emotions. So I only have time to write a few stories down, but they will give you a glimpse into my wonderful life.
First, we have an investigator her name is Eza. She is 28 years old and is blind. A beautiful girl who is truly searching for the truth. We’ve been meeting with her for about a month now. And we have never felt like it has been the right time to give her a baptismal date. But on Friday we went over to meet with her and before the lesson started I got this impression that we were not meant to give her the lesson we originally planned on. So during the prayer I was racking my mind on what we should teach her…and nothing came to mind. So when the prayer was over I passed and realized we needed to start back at the basics…and we needed to find out what her feelings on Joseph Smith were. And so I asked her again if she believed that Joseph Smith so God and Jesus Christ. Which was way random because every time it was always the same answer that she wasn’t for sure. But I asked her again…and she passed for a long moment and then said “Absolutely” … and I looked over to Sister Fuhriman to see if she was on the same page as me…to see if we should give her a baptismal date…and I looked over at my dear companion read her thoughts and then turned and gave Eza a commitment to be baptized she said YES! It was one of those sweet moments, where the Lord just took control and us sisters followed the spirit. I have stories and moments like this happen all the time. This really is the Lords work…this work is alive.
Second, my family that I have been working with…I really have been adopted into this family. The mothers name is Eza and she has two amazing kids named Ruza and Vanek. I love this family. The kids have not put down the Book of Mormon…they read it daily and love meeting with us…the mother Eza is amazing. Such a wonderful lady. We have a very special connection. She told me she believes two people God and then me I told her that is a good thing cause God sent me to her All of them have baptismal dates for the end of this month. Eza we are trying to help stop smoking and drinking coffee…please pray for her. It was cool when I gave her a baptismal date…the spirit told me to be pretty bold with her. She loves her kids so much. And we were teaching her a 2nd and I flat out told her she needed to get baptized or she couldn’t live with her children for eternity, etc… So she finally admitted that we were right and she needed to get baptized. THE SPIRIT IS AMAZING!!!!
Third, on Thursday the Elders and us sisters were out at Eza’s house (same Eza as spoken above) doing our service project…we are helping her build a chicken coop Anyways, she made us dinner It was way funny cause Sister Fuhriman comes over to me and is like Sister Davis you have to come with me and see this….so I followed her over to Eza. Eza is beant down scribbing something and I come up behind her and look down and she two sheep heads in this bucket of bloody water. Yep that was our dinner! I had sheep brain and tongue! Probably the craziest thing I have yet to eat. I have some sweet pictures…I will show you next week. And no I did not necessarily like it But supposedly now I will be a little bit smarter
Well, that is about all the time I have. It is Sister Fuhrimans last p-day and so we are doing some site seeing and doing some last minute errands.
I just want to say that I love you all. I am truly and honestly so happy…even during the tough times I have peace and happiness at my core. I love being a missionary. I feel so blessed to be a part of this great work. For those of you who read this and are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints I plead with you to pick up a Book of Mormon and start reading it…your life will be changed, and changed for the better. Whether you realize it or not you need it in your life. For those of you who are members, but aren’t using the Book of Mormon as you should…today is a new day and there is not a better time to pick up the book and start reading it.
I love you all! I pray for you!
Till next week,
Sister Davis
Monday, February 8, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
February 1, 2010
February 1, 2010
To my wonderful family and friends---
I love you all SO much. Thank you for the support and the examples that you are to me. I admire you so much and am grateful that you are in my life. Family truly is SO important.
Well, things have been going really well here in Armenia. The Lord is continue to bless us Shengavit sisters with a ton of work. Right now we have 10 investigators with baptismal dates—that is pretty unheard of. Our investigators are AMAZING! They seriously are such examples to me and I am so grateful for them and the opportunity I have had to become friends with them; especially during this time where they are coming unto Christ.
This week has just flown. Two days were a little out of the ordinary, but then again almost every day is. Last Monday the queers and I went to Noravank—it was a great p-day not stressful and was quite relaxing…which isn’t normal. That is until we went back to apartment and found out we had plumbing problems—so we weren’t able to go out that night cause we were trying to keep our apartment from flooding…it was great fun. Then Tuesday Sister Fuhriman was sick and not feeling well so after district meeting we came home. And finally Wednesday we were able to go back out and do some missionary work.
So I will answer a few questions that I have been getting of late. Yes, it is starting to get cold and this week we had our first snow storm in Shengavit. But its way cold…I am hoping it warms up pretty soon. There are not any vegetables right now cause its winter…so we basically eat rice, bread, cheese, apples, and matsyun. So I’m way healthy right now
It is pretty dark and glummy right now just because its winter. So the majority of people are inside…and if they are walking outside they are walking with a purpose and quickly too. But I love it. I love Armenia. And I am SO SO SO blessed to be here.
Oh weird thought…my MTC sisters only have one more week in country and then they go home!!!! That’s so sad, but wonderful for them that means they served a full time mission for the church!
NOTICE: There has been a new placed on the mission…I am only allowed to use myldsmail now---so you can no longer reach me on my gmail account. Please from now on write me at cami.davis.AYM@myldsmail.net . Also, I will try to find a family member or a trustworthy friend to take care of my blog site.
Other then that all is well. Please pray for me. I love you all.
Sister Davis
To my wonderful family and friends---
I love you all SO much. Thank you for the support and the examples that you are to me. I admire you so much and am grateful that you are in my life. Family truly is SO important.
Well, things have been going really well here in Armenia. The Lord is continue to bless us Shengavit sisters with a ton of work. Right now we have 10 investigators with baptismal dates—that is pretty unheard of. Our investigators are AMAZING! They seriously are such examples to me and I am so grateful for them and the opportunity I have had to become friends with them; especially during this time where they are coming unto Christ.
This week has just flown. Two days were a little out of the ordinary, but then again almost every day is. Last Monday the queers and I went to Noravank—it was a great p-day not stressful and was quite relaxing…which isn’t normal. That is until we went back to apartment and found out we had plumbing problems—so we weren’t able to go out that night cause we were trying to keep our apartment from flooding…it was great fun. Then Tuesday Sister Fuhriman was sick and not feeling well so after district meeting we came home. And finally Wednesday we were able to go back out and do some missionary work.
So I will answer a few questions that I have been getting of late. Yes, it is starting to get cold and this week we had our first snow storm in Shengavit. But its way cold…I am hoping it warms up pretty soon. There are not any vegetables right now cause its winter…so we basically eat rice, bread, cheese, apples, and matsyun. So I’m way healthy right now
It is pretty dark and glummy right now just because its winter. So the majority of people are inside…and if they are walking outside they are walking with a purpose and quickly too. But I love it. I love Armenia. And I am SO SO SO blessed to be here.
Oh weird thought…my MTC sisters only have one more week in country and then they go home!!!! That’s so sad, but wonderful for them that means they served a full time mission for the church!
NOTICE: There has been a new placed on the mission…I am only allowed to use myldsmail now---so you can no longer reach me on my gmail account. Please from now on write me at cami.davis.AYM@myldsmail.net . Also, I will try to find a family member or a trustworthy friend to take care of my blog site.
Other then that all is well. Please pray for me. I love you all.
Sister Davis
Monday, January 25, 2010
January 25, 2010
January 25, 2010
To my wonderful family and friends—
I love you all so much! Thank you for the continued love and support. You are such a huge blessing in my life.
Well, I am doing great. I am busy and happy. Right now we have so many investigators that we literally do not have time to meet with anyone else or do anything else. Isn’t that AMAZING!!!! God is so good.
Last Saturday one of our investigators Anahet was baptized! It was such a good baptism. Zaven her wife was baptized a little over a year ago and he baptized her…isn’t that wonderful! Now they are working together to prepare themselves to go to the temple in a year…I love the gospel.
Other then that we have 7 other investigators with baptismal dates…I hope they go through. But it’s such a blessing in our lives and there lives.
I am actually serving with two companions right now…Sister Fuhriman and Sister Cornwell. Sister Fuhriman was in the MTC with me and will be finishing her mission in two weeks---that’s a little weird to think that I would be almost done with my mission….so glad that I am not J
Other then that I really don’t know what else to say. The work is going great. My companions are great.
This e-mail is a little short because I went to Khor Virap today---and so I am a little limited on internet time. It was a little rainy and cold, but us sisters had a great time. I got some sweet pictures…
Well, I love you! I miss you! I am praying for you!
Sister Davis
Pictures--January 25, 2010
Eza and Ruza...I'm quite proud of this picture. I love them!!!
These girls are precious...but live in the humblest of circumstances...sometimes my heart literally breaks here...
About a week and a 1/2 ago I went on splits with Sister Bishop...we had a blast together and there was SO much snow...it was beautiful.
Old graves at Khor Virap...These are thousands of years old...pretty cool
Sister Cornwell and I by some grave stones...
Going down and down and down
Going down the hole that St. Grigor was put in for 13 years...
My new coat I got for a bargain deal...love it!
The sheep and I...and there are a few donkey's as well. This is a typical scene in Armenia :)
Khor Virap
Sister Cornwell, Sister Crego, Sister Woolf, Sister Fuhriman, and I
This is Narena's family. She is one of my dearest friends...will be getting baptized in February. Narena is the one sitting besides me...and the little angel in pink is her daughter...who everytime she see's me runs over to me and jumps in my arms and gives me the biggest hug :)
Noravank and I...
Last Monday we went to Noravank...crazy thing is I was there over a year ago!!!! Isn't life interesting....
Anahet was baptized last Saturday on January 16, 2010--she is amazing and has a solid testimony.
Eza and Ruza...they are a couple of our investigators...I love them SO much. Literally they are family to me.
Ruza and I
Armen and Leana...met them in Charentzavan when I did splits with Sister Bishop
Monday, January 11, 2010
January 11, 2010
January 11, 2010
To my wonderful family and friends,
I hope you can feel my love and gratitude for you. For when I say that I love you…I mean that with all my heart. I love you. I am grateful for you. The Lord truly does manifest His love for me through you.
I know it has been some time since I have sent a decent letter to you. I hope today I am able to do so…for so much has happened, is happening, and I want you to be able to share in a small part what I am experiencing.
First, I want to say that God lives. He truly gives us so many opportunities to come unto Him. That is a testament of His love for us. And He has provided the perfect opportunity for us to come unto Him through the gospel of Jesus Christ. I love this gospel with all my heart. It is true. Everyday I have the blessing of sharing the wonderful and glorious message of our Savior. I get to see and feel the atonement of my Savior work in my investigators lives and my own life. It is a power that is alive…and if we allow it too will truly bless our lives.
I wish I could express to you the feelings of my heart…the things that I have come to know as truth with a unshaken knowledge. Every day I get to go and do the Lord’s errand. I get to help build up His kingdom in
Right now the Lord has blessed us with an overwhelming amount of work in Shengavit. We have truly found some of God’s elect. Their faith and desire to come unto Christ is an amazing example to me. We have 16 investigators. 4 of which have baptismal dates. And more will undoubtedly be accepting baptismal commitments in the near future. I feel so humbled that the Lord has entrusted me with their care and has used me to work some of His miracles. I know I have made an eternal mark on the people that have been brought into my life because of our Savior.
The words of Ammon come to mind and I take his words as mine when he says,
“I do not boast in my own strength, nor in my own wisdom; but behold, my joy is full, yea, my heart is brim with joy, and I will rejoice in my God. Yea, I know that I am nothing; as to my strength I am weak; therefore I will not boast of myself, but I will boast of my God, for in his strength I can do all things; yea, behold, many mighty miracles we have wrought in this land, for which we will praise his name forever. Behold, how many thousands of our brethren has he loosed from the pains of hell; and they are brought to sing redeeming love; and this because of the power of his word which is in us, therefore have we not great reason to rejoice? Yea, we have reason to praise him forever, for his is the Most High God, and has loosed our brethren from the chains of hell. Yea, they were encircled about with everlasting darkness and destruction; but behold, he has brought them into his everlasting light, yea, into everlasting salvation; and they are encircled about with the matchless bounty of his love; yea, and we have been instruments in his hands of ding this great and marvelous work. Therefore, let us glory, yea, we will glory in the Lord; yea, we will rejoice, for our joy is full; yea we will praise our God forever. Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord? Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his mercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men? Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the smallest part which I feel.” (
Nothing but gratitude and joy fill my heart for all that my God has done for me. I truly will praise and worship Him forever. He is redeeming me from my awful and fallen state. He is my Master and my King. I know who I need to look too. I look too my elder brother, my Savior, the one and only Jesus Christ. For I have felt His love work in me. And I know His words are true when He says,
“Behold, I am the law, and the light. Look unto me, and endure to the end, and ye shall live; for unto him the endureth to the end will I give eternal life.” (3 Nephi 15:9)
I love you all so much. I hope you can feel the truthfulness of my testimony when I say that Jesus Christ lives. He is our Savior. He has done the will of His father and as such we shall live. We can have hope and joy in this life and the next as we look unto Him. I pray we will do so…and that the song of redeeming love will dwell within us always.
May God bless and watch over you.
Until next week…know that I love you and I am praying for you.
Sister Davis
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Monday, December 21, 2009
December 21, 2009
December 21, 2009
To all my wonderful family and friends—
First, I want to wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! And thank you for the Christmas wishes. I love hearing from all of you and am glad to hear for the most part all of you are doing well.
So, my brain is becoming more scattered every p-day which makes it hard for me to concentrate on my e-mails J But I guess to start off I will hit the big highlights of the week. First, I am no longer serving with Sister Karyan. I will miss her terribly, but I feel very blessed that I was able to serve with her for a month—plus, we will always be in touch. And I am extremely extremely…I mean extremely happy to be serving with my new companion…SISTER FUHRIMAN!!!!!!!!!! We instantly feel in love over a year ago in the MTC and now are living in a dream J Seriously, I don’t understand why the Lord has blessed me SO much with AMAZING companions. I have been so blessed. I’m a servant of the Lord and while I am out doing His work I get to have by my side my best friend. I mean all of my companions have been that why…I’m seriously making some of the greatest friendships ever.
So a funny story for the week :) Sister Fuhriman and I were in Noragavit teaching our investigator Kenarke and I am speaking...and I'm inviting her to church on Sunday. And I mean to say I will wait for you...but I ended up saying I will kill you...LOL...it was so funny we laughed so hard. Anyways...just try to picture that in your head...Sister Davis teaching a lesson...trying to get the investigator to come to church...and then Sister Davis wanting to say I will wait for you at the church, but instead says I will kill you at the church. LOL!!!!!!!!!! It was so funny.
As for the work…the work is going really well. All of a sudden doors are opening up in villages and we have a ton of investigators right now. I mean it’s really cool to see. I will explain more next week, but all I will say is that we are so busy and don’t have enough time to do everything. It’s great. Now Shengavit is basically the sisters area…it’s a big area too…so we have so much work. I love it! I love meeting with people and helping them and sharing the gospel. Honestly, since it’s Christmas time I just want to say how GRATEFUL I am…there are so many things I am thankful for. I am thankful for you…I am thankful to be here in Armenia…I am thankful for my amazing friends…and I am so grateful that the gospel of Jesus Christ was restored through Joseph Smith. We are SO blessed. How can I not be happy?
Well, I know this e-mail is short…but next week I will do better. I get to talk to my family this week J Which I am excited for. Know that I love all of you SO SO SO much. I hope this season you will take some time to reflect upon the wonderful gift that we have been given through our Savior Jesus Christ. Life really is SO good.
~MERRY CHRISTMAS~
Love you all,
Sister Davis
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