September 9, 2013

Well howdy Family,

 

 

I send all of my love to you and to my home ward, this week has been a week full of trying our hardest to stay busy finding more people to teach because our teaching pool is all getting baptized or they are dropping us cause they wont keep commitments and they love us coming over for company but thats not what were here for and they just wont try but its all good we are finding more and more people that want to hear more about the gospel and i am so excited!  A member in our ward just got off his mission last thursday and he wants to fully engage in missionary work back here and his family is all for it as well. They have been working on a kid named Logan and his family he already wants to go on a mission and he is twelve years old and he is excited to get baptized into our church he has a firm testimony of the church and wants all his family to know of the truth so we are having a dinner appointment this Wednesday hopefully it goes great! Well other than that last week was sooo hot here i hate the wet heat out here it was like113 with 100 percent humidity and we were tracting all day but haha i think i lost five pounds that day it was fun!

 

Well sounds and looks like you and dad and the boys had fun in alaska i am glad that you had some time with dad without us kids to interrupt you guys haha well i look forward to hearing more about it. Just so you know i hate planes and i am not getting on one to go home you and whoever can come pick me up and we can go to all of the church sites and we can visit all of my converts and areas that i served in when that time comes! Um well i will send you my email from last week in the email i send soon. I hope work will be made easyer for you but that you will be able to accomplish the tasks that are put in front of you. I really miss all of you and i hope that everyone is doing ok haven't heard much from everyone but i send you my love and hope, pray for you daily. Send my package to my apartment 18925 east tepee court independence mo 64056.

 

Love you if you need anything just ask!

 

 

Elder Davies

September 3, 2013

Well Howdy Family!

 

 

This week has been an amazing week for finding new investigators and it has been great for me personally, was reading over my patriarchal blessing and i just hit me this week that i really need to work on being exactly obedient i have been this whole week and it shows that we have had better week of visiting and contacting new people to hear about the message we share one experience i would like to share. We were walking through my favorite part of town which is the getto part and we were tracting out a neighborhood with a member, the member said to knock on this certain door so we did, a younger lady answered the door and said how are you and we said we are missionaries and we share a message about Jesus Christ and how it blesses our lives she immediately opened the door and invited us in i had a distinct impression to share about the plan of salvation so i did five minutes into the lesson she starts bawling starting flowing out of her eyes said that i really had a screwed up life im a recovering addict and that i feel like there is no purpose in my life i want to find out where i belong. Then she started talking about how she had a abusive husband she got divorced to about a year ago and that she lost her brother to a drug overdose. She Started crying even more when i asked how would you feel if you could see your brother again and live with all of your family forever? She said it would be perfect and i would do anything to have that opportunity. She then told us the rest of her story and i love her to death and she said well where is your church i want to go very bad i want to change my life, We told her where it was and she was like well my car was stolen last week im new to the neighborhood and is it possible to get a ride i said we can get a member to come pick you up and we will be waiting at the church and help you and your kids in church. She was so excited to hear that she wanted to give us hugs and i said we cant but i can give you a hand shake haha sucks sometimes but its all good. We are actually going to see her today and i am very excited to be able to teach her the restoration!

 

Yea i'm jealous that mom and dad are in Alaska i always wanted to go but know when i leave they decide to up and go and i think its a good thing for them to get away they deserved a little time to themselves! Well all i can say is that i better be getting some shrimp mailed over or just drove here! Well i love my new companion we are doing work as a companionship that we are teaching a lot more and he thinks it would be funny if i stayed here for a year i don't think that's very funny i would gain wayyyyy toooooo muchhhh weight haha well were the lord needs me i will be and there is always time to lose weight!

 

Tell me more about Alaska i better be getting a bunch of pictures, well i love you have fun up there dont die i still want to see you in 17 months!

 

 

Love,

 

 

 Elder Davies