July 22, 2013

Well Howdy!,

 I’m doing great out here and I know the time is just flying by!  Can you believe that I have been gone as long as I have?  I know it doesn’t seem as long for you, but I feel like I have been gone for only a day. I can still hear your voices like your standing right next to me. I love hearing your stories from home!

 Well this week was an exciting week!  We had the opportunity to teach Omar and Chris again.  They are doing great! They loved the lesson about The Plan of Salvation!  It is completely amazing to see the change in them.  Chris’s baptism is this Saturday and I am sooooo excited for it!  I just love being around all of the members and my investigators.  They make my life a little bit happier every day.  I really admire my investigators!  It would be a shock to my system if someone told me that my religion is false but they fully understand when they read the Book of Mormon and pray to God for the truth

This week we had a lot of interesting food including tripe, ox tail, pig skin, and something I didn’t even know what it was. I had a dish called Occa.  It contains raw fish with fresh tomato, cucumber, and it’s in a milk and mayo sauce.  It is my favorite now.  I love all of the different food around here!

 Transfers were two weeks ago and I’m still here.  We will be moving to a new place because our current apartment has a broken water pipe and mold is growing everywhere. They won’t fix the problem and this has been going on for over two months, so we are moving to a nice duplex… standby for the address.

  You should have some serious fun camping.  Where in cedar are you going? You can take my XDM mom to shoot in memory of me. That would be great!  Tell Cheybug that she needs to do a great job for the Bishop and have her read the Book of Mormon instead of those crazy girly books.  It will greatly affect her life for the better!  It has changed my life as I am reading it out here! Tell Cheyenne to take great walking shoes on her trek and be glad that she is not here because on the trek here everyone got 5 ticks a piece,  nasty right?

 I love you

 Elder Davies

July 15, 2013

Howdy Howdy!

 What to say about this week?... THAT IT WAS AMAZING, hello!

 To start out, we have amazing people that are investigating the church and the two I want to talk about are very close to me and my companion.  We had two separate appointments with them. Each time they were crying and telling us that this gospel is what they have been looking for their whole lives.  They just hugged me and said “I am so glad that you two found me.  You are my heaven sent angels.”  You know, I just broke down into a slup.  I started crying saying that God sent me here so I can share eternity with my family and so they can spend it with their family. I can’t explain what this meant to them. I could never picture myself as something of that magnitude. I am just a missionary sharing the gospel. I never thought that someone would compare me to a heaven sent angel. But these two extraordinary investigators do not know each other. They are in different households, but there stories are the same.  One man is named Omar. He is 30 and is Mexican. He has a 2 year old son and can’t wait to our next appointment tomorrow when we share with him the plan of salvation. I am super excited!  He also can’t wait to be baptized and become a member of our ward family! The other investigator’s name is Chris. I have talked about him before.  He is a member’s boyfriend.  He loves talking to me.  He connects to me like fly paper, you know he is like I know everything you’re telling me is true and I want YOU to baptize me. I know without a shadow of a doubt that he is going to be a strong member of our church. I also know that he will serve a full time mission.  I just have a feeling that he can bless others with his testimony.

  Well I am proud of Shannon! Tell her great job graduating. I am so glad i will be getting free haircuts after I get home, haha, You better not be getting rid of my dogs MOTHER, haha. Sounds like the garden is growing some amazing stuff, I’m jealous. I wish I could have some fresh veggies.

 I love this gospel and I love being able to share this message, even though I’m not the best teacher and I’m not perfect,  I was set apart as a full time missionary and servant of the Lord and I love it!

  LOVE YOU ALL

 Elder Davies

July 8, 2013

Well howdy Family,

Can I just tell you how great it is to get emails from you! Well, it has been another super fantastic day in paradise! Who else can say that their mission is in Zion? So, if the second coming did happen I wouldn’t have to go anywhere! :0)

Well it has also been a very overwhelming week-just stressful and hot, and we were walking all week which was great other than the stupid humidity! haha But it does rain here at least 3 times per week.

We have been working with this lady named Shelly for a while now and her problem is she believes that our church is true and she loves everything about it. She just doesn’t believe that Brigham Young was supposed to be prophet. She believes that he did a bunch of stuff that isn’t true like he rebaptized all of the saints that went to Utah with him and that he lied to the people to get what he wanted out of them. It makes me laugh because she is RLDS and she likes to believe that Joseph Smith III was to be prophet because it says it in our church history apparently.  I love her to death but she won’t give us any head room to talk about what the spirit directs us to tell her and teach her.

This week has been fun we did a couple of big service projects. Thank you for sending my boots! That helped a million times better than my shoes, but we leveled out a person’s backyard, tore out their deck but we had to save the wood because they are going to reuse it.  We built a fence, and landscaped the whole back yard! All of this was done at the same house at different times and and different days.  I’m still having back problems from all of the hard labor. But I know we helped them out so much and I felt great serving them because I love them so much.

It sounds like you had a great Fourth of July because I know I did. We had a HUGE fireworks show at one of the member’s houses. Their neighbors buy like 10 thousand bucks worth of fireworks every year. They shut down the street and it was amazing to say the least! Maybe the parade next year will be better.

The temple trip to Kansas City was great! I loved being able to go with my whole mission to the temple and preform those sacred things with them. The temple here is ALOT smaller than Provo.  You have to walk up the stairs to finish an endowment session but it is a very beautiful temple. I love the windows and I love the landscaping outside of the temple.  It’s amazing.

I have been getting better. I am over my sickness but now my left knee is giving me troubles. It pops in and out of place when I over use it in the day.  I haven’t told anyone yet because I don’t want to get sent home. I will just endure it.

I love this work!!  The people I have met mean the world to me and they love hearing more about the gospel and I am so glad to be one of the Lord’s missionaries at this time and age

I Love You All,

Elder Davies