Sister Kiera Davis

Kiera's Weekly letter from 5/5/25

Muy buenas dias mi gente!! Como están?? Miss you all, love you allllll. Sorry the emails long mbmb

Ok, we're running it back with Pday real quick. We went to the canal!! It was Hermana Sattley's first time, my second time, and for the office elders... I have no clue. We dissed on anime for a whole entire bus ride on the way there until we realized most of the elders are obsessed with it.... awkward 😶 🚩And we had the lovely little opportunity to get to know Elder Musso a little bit better. He might be the most interesting guy in the district rn and there are not enough words in the world to explain him. His vocab consists of "mogging" and "super dope" AND hes always doing tik tok dances. Always. We all want to be him, yk cause hes super dope🤷‍♀️ All the elders fell asleep during the Morgan Freeman canal movie thing, me and Sattley photobombed some old lady, and then we saw some really big boats 👍 best part of Pday was getting some volleyball in at the offices. The court had puddles allllll over it so we had ourselves a little Step Up rain moment if you know what I mean, but we killed it. I killed Elder Chang, almost got killed by Elder Musso, and set up some cute little spikes for Dorman and Brinkerhoff and one of the office worker guys. D1 D1 D1 🗣🗣🗣 At the end of the night, we got some good frog catching in obviously. But quote of the day was Elder Brinkerhoff yelling in Elder Chomorro's ear and then dude said "OW. I think I’m blind now 🙄"

Tuesday was the last day of our curse. Backstory?? The first couple days after transfers were weirdddd. As in everybody just dropped off the face of the planet, our friends weren't home, and we'd literally go to 50 houses and not a single person would let us in. They wouldnt even reject us face to face, straight up nobody would come to the door. What are the odds of that?? Too high. Probable cause? Brujas 🤷‍♀️

But Wednesday!!! We were chillin. We found some stellar new people, we didn’t get absolutely shunned, and we got way more cat calls than usual. A win is a winnnn. We also had a little movie night where we found this cinematic masterpiece on the gospel stream app. Spoiler alert: it’s not the hot Nephi vids. We found this short BYU film called "the phone call" and oh my goshhh. You just have to watch it cause it will change your life. It was made in the 70s or something and we haven’t been able to stop quoting it. I’d like to say whoever made it was slightly under the influence, but no. Probably just an RM and that’s basically the same thing. At dinner that night, we ate with this one family where there’s this girl who also wants to be a marine biologist. Sick. So we literally just talked about the ocean the whole entire time.

Thursday, we had district council and me and Sattley had to teach. Chapter 14, claro. But for reals, I’m kinda obsessed with our district at the moment. We got a greenie, a kiwi, a leprachaun, an anime enthusiast, and the APs 🥳 Elder Dorman gave us a little tea, we tried to convince them all to send us to the islands, and then we had pizza while we heard the elders make the most outrageous comments to each other. My email is too innocent for those words. Also used the missionary office pictures to put together a solid zombie apocalypse dream team.

Friday was a super good except we visited this little girl who told us "la bruja esta durmiendo." Huh?? ✨️excorcism time✨️ Nah she was cute but uhhh... shut up cause we can NOT get cursed again. We also saw an old drunk guy just passed out in the middle of the road. It was super rainy and gray the whole entire day, looking like Elder Dorman's hometown of Forks, Washington, and the rain makes everybody weird. Fun Panamanian fact: the rain makes you sick, and if it’s raining that also means you’re busy, but also the sun makes you sick and you should just never go outside 🤷‍♀️ it must be true cause we tried to talk to this lady sitting on her porch watching the rain and she said she was busy. But to make absolutely sure we went away, she said "estoy enferma 😑" and while making eye contact gave us the most Karen from Mean Girls cough ever. "I’m sick 😮‍💨✨️" Highlight of that day was visiting Rafael, him saying he has a gift for me, and then he whipped out a freakin MAGA hat 😂😂 what the??? He said "you should wear it! I don’t think it has lice." 😐 i dont know if i should wear it or not now (this is not meant to offend anyone. I can’t help what people gift me.)

All of Saturday morning, me and Hna Sattley just told college horror stories. So basically, she knows everything that happened freshman year 😂😂 guysss my comps a dawg, I love her. The rest of the day was actually perfect. Green check marks across the board my friends. We visited Jonatan David and his possessed dog, we visited Amanda and Sara, and we finally met up with Christian. When we pulled up to Sara and Amanda there was some serious pedicuring going on. Amanda stopped the moment we pulled up, but during the whole lesson Sara was kinda just sticking her bare foot in Amanda's lap to tell her to keep going and Amanda just kept pushing it off. Love it. Then, we saw Christian and Abimalec and Jafeth and they basically reenacted the betrayal of Judas with full emotion and a whole lot of action. The ear getting chopped off, Jesus winning a fist fight... Not historically accurate, thank you. And walking home, this guy stopped us in a dark alleyway to give us free avocados. Super cute.

Sunday was spectacularrrr. It was my very first Sunday in the whole mission that was just unequivocally frickin bussin. First up, Carlos and his wife pull up. They get their baby blessed! Abdiel pulls up too. He bears his testimony!!! And Ismael and Edilbesia show up and so does Jaremy!!!! Holy cow. Guys. This was sensational because they are people I've been with for weeks. And now they’re finally coming to church, they’ve got their baptism dates, and everything is going great. After that, we visited this chick named Leticia and we got sacrament bashed for 45 minutes basically. Her main point was that we look too bougie (slay 💅), not a single hallelujah was screamed (maybe next time), and the sacrament bread was too small... idc thats big back energy. She also smacked her dog with a belt while saying all this. Entonces... su opiniónno es valido, disculpe. I don’t know if this is good or a little sad or both, but we visited Aura to see why she didn’t pull up and she said she did, but she was late, looked inside and didn’t want to interrupt, so she left 😭😭 actually super sad. Also, Sunday night I learned I’m totally handicapped at nail painting. Where is Alana when you need her fr?

Ok I want to talk about all my little milagros this week. Last transfer, we saw basically no success but we worked our butts off yk? This Sunday was a blessing because I finally felt what I did mattered. Obviously, in missionary work sometimes you’re planting, sometimes you’re harvesting. But it was just so special to have Abdiel there and to hear his testimony of how happy our church is and how special it is. And having Ismael and his wife there too! He had told us the day before that he felt a peace when we came and buenas-ed his door and that he knew God put us in his path for a reason!!! I just know that Heavenly Father sees us perfectly. He redefines us. He doesn’t see what we lack, but He see what we have laid own on the table. Sometimes He causes hard things and other times He allows them, but He is always there helping us to learn and strengthen our faith!

Ciao 😘

Hna Davis