Hermana Davis Ventura California Mission: 2020-06-07

It has been a great week. Lots of craziness though. One of the families in our ward has Covid 19. The whole family does. We took them cookies last week before we knew. Please keep them in your prayers. We do a lot of teaching on facebook messages. I had some very weird experiences with that this week. One of them messaged me that he won't talk to us anymore because I have a boyfriend with a stupid face. lol. The other one asked me if I would move with him to Guatemala. Yikes! Needless to say we blocked them both. So crazy. We are still teaching Carlos. He is awesome. We are glad to have someone nice to teach.

Another crazy story is there was a no contact member in our area, but we did not know that. So, he made us dinner. It wasn't very good and he gave us garlic tortillas after. After some crazy experiences, we learned later that he is a do not contact. Being a sister missionary is very different than an elder. We have to be really careful who we talk to.

We also did service this week. We scraped the paint off the porch for an older Mexican lady in our ward. She had ice cream for us. She was so nice. We are going to back later and paint it.

I went on exchanges this week to Santa Barbara. It is beautiful. We drove by Oprah's house and got ice cream. The sister that we were with looks exactly like Gwyneth Palthrow. They are teaching a lo of people there. We had a campout in the living room. It was a good night.

We had a call the other night from a woman in our ward. She needed us to come over and help her. So, we headed over there. When we got there we found out that her son has a brain tumor. She wanted us to pray with her. People have tough trials that they go through. All of the unrest in the world is hard on people with other things going on. Please keep her in your prayers.

I got mail this week. I got the embroidery string from Stephanie and Grandpa Ted, lots of letters from Grandma, and the stamps and boxes from mom and dad so that was good. I love mail.

The other night the elders always ask us if we need anything. So, we decided to say cheesecake. lol The next morning they brought us a homemade cheesecake. That was so nice of them. I love my district. They are all super nice missionaries. We have all been through the craziness of serving a mission during covid. So that is nice.

We also saw this great house near our apartments. There was a homeless lady there. She was so sunburnt and sad. We talked to her for a while. Such a sweet lady. We need to remember that everyone is a child of God and needs our love.

Ive been making bracelets during the day when I have time. If you want one, email me two colors and what word you want in it. I would love to make you one.

We also saw protests this week. It was scary because they were blocking the free way entrances. wow!

Miss you all,

Hermana Davis