District Leader

Dear Family,

 

 

So this week has been one of miracles! To start out the members have been stepping up and we have had team-ups for almost all of our teaching appointments .This week when we were visiting one of our investigators in a trailer park she wasn't home, then we were walking back to the car and a man ran over to us and asked us if we could help his family move a couch into their trailer. So we went over and picked it up and helped them move into there house they said you two are very hard workers what church are you from? We replied from the Church Of Jesus Christ! They asked if they could come to our church and learn more so we gave them the address of the church and our number we taught them the restoration and they enjoyed it. I know that they will have numerous blessings because they also committed to read the Book of Mormon. Five new people to teach! We are getting blessed so much from the Lord and I know its by our obedience. We are still on for Logan's baptism she is so excited and she is bringing her best friend to learn more so I'm so excited as well. New news is that i got called this morning to be a district leader! And my companion is leaving and I'm getting a new missionary! I am super excited for everything! I know that the Lord trusts me to help His children understand His gospel and that we will be able to teach them will the convincing power of the spirit.

 

I have been really blessed with everyone in my life and I can't name all of the people that have blessed me with helping me along to this point of my life. I want to say that I love you and thank ya'll for making me into the man I am today.

 

I haven't received any garments but I'm sure they are on there way. I'm excited for you mom to get some new members into the ward it should be a tremendous blessing to you and the ward. How was St. George? I bet its a lot hotter there then its here... I am freezing haha but its all good. I just hate the humidity-makes everything horrible.

 

I love Ya'll

 

Elder Davies

October 28, 2013

Dear Family,

Well its just a great day to be a missionary! Other than me being sick for the last week with random things, its been a great week of teaching all of those investigators that we do have and I'm super excited to teach them some more as the time goes by. Its super amazing to see their conversion. I can tell you if that doesn't make you cry nothing will! I was having an appointment with Logan and we taught her the plan of salvation she was all smiling then she started crying when we talked about the atonement and we explained it to her that Jesus Christ has felt all of our weakness, struggles, sins and everything. He took it upon himself to loose the bands of death, He loves us soo much that he died for US. She then told us that she has been praying and reading a bunch in the Book of Mormon and she said she got her answer that no doubt in her mind that this church is true! That Joesph Smith was a prophet and that the gospel is restored to the earth, I busted out crying. Man I haven't seen this a lot on my mission, but seeing someones conversion from the beginning is a precious thing. I love her so much and she is getting baptized December 6!

Other news haha we have been teaching another guy and he is a black preacher! Man he is a great guy and he knows his bible but we invited him to church last week he went to stake conference and it was great other than he took a scripture out of context. The scripture that says the sheep I have that are not of this fold those too will inherit the Kingdom of God. He took it as we were claiming to be that other fold haha he is crazy. He started using his loud yelling preacher voice in the appointment we were having with him and I said I'm going to leave if you don't lower your voice and show me some respect cause I'm talking all calm. Man he finally calmed down and he and us discussed it and he understands it now which is great and he is watching conference talks on lds.org while were not able to be with him!

I love you and thank you for the Halloween box it was great my companion loved it and I love being in Zion!

Love

Elder Davies

November 4, 2013

Just another happy fine day here in missou-ery!

haha :)

 

Well its a great day here in Sedalia, kinda brisk but not too bad. Still wearing my short sleeve shirts cause I'm crazy! But this week was amazing in the member involvement. We had members come with us to almost every teaching appointment that we had set and they have been fellow shipping those investigators that we have brought to them. We had a Halloween party the day before the actual day it was amazing! I had 6 investigators that attended with their families and participated in the fun. We were able to talk to them as well as have a blast with them at the party. The work is really moving forward and the adversary is working ever harder for the small simple tasks get hard to do such as getting up on time, planning for the next day, getting along with your companion, but I know that when I get out of bed Satin dreads it. He starts to get afraid because of that priesthood that I hold and the teaching with the power and authority of the holy ghost its amazing. Stay strong and just let'r buck, you just got to hold on and let the adversary try to get ya sometimes its so funny to see him try!

Well sounds like its starting to get cold and wintery there in Utah i miss it and i miss the amazing mountains but the good thing here is the trees. Its sooo beautiful! All of the colors make us happy and smile. Remember YOMO DnC 58:16 you only mission once so make it count and that's what my plan is: to bring those souls unto Jesus Christ that need my Testimony to witness unto them that this will bless there life and its for everyone, no matter what you have been through!

Love you

Elder Davies

October 21, 2013

Well Good Mornin,

 

To start out I want ya'll to know how much I thank you for all of the prayers and support from home. It helps the work move forward faster than we could ever comprehend, and I also want to thank my sister Shannon for fixin' my pants. That was a lifesaver and I will be using them at president interviews this Friday so I will look sharp. Story of the week: so my companion's dad sent me a gps out of the blue. I asked him because he works at Garmin and to see how cheap of one I could get so he just sent me one and said take my son out to lunch sometime and so it was a deal. Until one day after zone conference we got back to Sedalia and walking out of our church building to walk to dinner I saw a big grub (like on quigley down under the movie). I made a deal with my companion if I ate the grub I didn't need to take him to lunch. So we made the deal and he video taped me as I did it. MAN IT SUCKED and it didn't taste very good but it was definitely worth it haha and i would probably do it again.

 

Then yesterday we talking to one of our investigators Delorus, she is a 80 year old lady who lives by herself and loves our church and I invited her to be baptized and she said yes! The only problem is that two months ago she almost died: she had a stroke and passed out on her floor for two days before someone found her so its very hard for her to read and to walk. So I found a wheel chair we can get her to church and I got her audio recordings of the Book of Mormon. She will be baptized on the 9th of November should be a very good service. This week me and my companion and some members in our ward participated in doing service Saturday which was loading 100 trucks and trailers full of food about 75 pound boxes over my head for about 8 hours. I just about died but I loved doing it and it was called Festival of Sharing.

 

Well stress is a major cause of giving middle aged grandmas gray hairs so watch out mother haha, you might just end up with a head full of gray hairs. Oh buddy that's super exciting that the stake got re-organized. Hope that he does great in his calling and tries to magnify it whenever possible! Well I can't believe I'm missing the Halloween party but I guess I will just have my own here in Sedalia at the church. They are having a trunk or treat and we were going to get some candy at that (hopefully) then go home cause missonaries have to be home at 6 that day for safety reasons - crazy huh. How about you just eat a extra bowl of chili for me and a piece of pie as well! That would be great!

 

Love Ya'll

 

Elder Davies

October 14, 2013

Dear Fam or howdy!

 

 

Well just me here in Sedalia haha love it out here. I get to see cows and horses everyday and the smell out here is sooo good, it reminds me of the ranch. I have been working on getting up and working out... it sucks when its soo pickin' cold outside! There is frost on the grass every mornin. My new companion is great. He is from Caldwell, Idaho and he is a great missionary. He is quiet though and doesn't like social interaction very much.

 

So I hope that I am rubbing off on him! I love being confident. People can tell when you are teaching them and that they will respond better when you are. Well the trouble with this new area is that it used to be a full-time car area untill i got here now its part-time and it sucks cause we live five miles out of town! We gave up the car today so hopefully I lose some weight! Our church is simple on the outside but its like a beautiful log cabin in the chapel. I love it. There are about 200 members and I'm just fine with that.

 

Well the members here are ok, a lot of old folks and not very much member missionary work which sucks. I had 12 sit-down great lessons but no member would come with us so we will be working on that. Other than that its great! No cute girls in the ward means to me no distractions haha jk its so much fun though, a lot of rednecks and black people. There is also lots of excommunicated members that we work with out here its interesting! 

 

Well tell Sonnett to stop putting herself under so much stress! That's what's happening but I agree that she needs to have that baby in there as long as possible. Tell Shannon that I have been praying for her to pass her test! I have been cooking a lot of eggs farm fresh, I get them for free and I wish someone had fresh milk I would like some of that!

 

Love you all TTYL

 

Elder Davies

October 7, 2013

Well this week has been great! I got transferred to Sedalia, Missouri and its super great its country/city. My area is huge and I love the people reminds me of home. I love my new companion his name is Elder Hartwig. He has been out the same amount of time I have and he is really fun. Conference is the best isn't it?? I loved they said that cause that was what one of our investigators needed to hear. Man, personal revelation at its finest. Well still learnin' my new area and its super fun. We live with members but we live in the basement and its a dungon. It kinda sucks haha but its whatever we have a ping pong table and a pool table so that makes up for it haha. SOO many cute sister missionaries its crazy. Its so hard not flirting with them cause I have a flirty personality but after the mission should be great!

 

Man this mission thing is flyin by and I am loving it out here in Sedalia. Its super fun being able to talk to all the country folk Im lovin it! But on Tuesdays we volunteer at a place called Open Door which is a food pantry and I'm excited to finally do some indoor work. All I have been doing is outside hard manual labor which I love (building fences, landscaping, building decks, and installing in-ground pools) haha so much fun and not forgetting moving a lot of people. 

 

Well Sonnett sounds like she is having wayy too much fun with baby on the way and the little rascal, Well I love her and I know the lord is watching after her and He doesn't put anything in front of us that we can't accomplish. Thank you for fixing my pants and yes my suit is getting worn but its all good cause its because hard work that we are doing. You could always send anything else in the package as well. I'm running low on jerky and Shannon my lovely sister I would love ties from you: some colorful ones! Its the only piece of missionary's wardrobe that you can show your personality.

 

Love you all!

 

Elder Davies

September 30, 2013

Dear family,

    

 Well this week has been one of bounteous blessings and miracles!  I can’t even tell you how much a mission has blessed my life and all of those around me. We had a wonderful week and we have been teaching Logan and Gavin.  They are brothers and they both were baptized on Saturday and had the wonderful experience to have their mother at their baptism.  Their mother is not a member and at first she was really apprehensive about having them join the church, but she was softened and she cried through the whole baptism, the most spiritual one yet!  I don’t know what it is but I started crying when I was asked to share my testimony that I know this church is true and the plan of salvation is for families to be together forever. On the 17th of October the Swoffer family is getting sealed in the temple and they asked me to be a witness.  I am so excited to go with one of the families that got converted to the gospel and that they would give me the privilege of being a part of it. 

It is a sad reality that Brother Dascomb died.  I prayed for him and I prayed that the lord would grant unto him what he stood in need of and that he might be able to endure what it was his path to do. Mom, it sounds like there were some powerful experiences that you had with the hospital and with the funeral.  I know that God puts trials in our path to test our faith and that he only does that because he loves us so much and wants what’s best for us. I conducted a fast for him over here and want you to know that Blue Mills Ward sends their love to the family. It’s hard to have death come into our lives but being on a mission has really put it in prospective for me.  I teach everyone about the plan of salvation and how families are forever.  I know that they are forever and I want to see Grandpa R again and be with our family forever and I love sharing that message with everyone I come in contact with that families are forever!

It hit me hard when I started thinking of what would I do if I had a close family member of mine die while I was on my mission.  I was talking to my companion about that and I said I don’t know what I would do.  All I know is that I would have the comfort of knowing that I would be able to see them again, and that the church is true. I don’t know if I would have the courage to stay out on my mission. I think that I would come home and comfort those that stand in need of it but with the determination to try to come back out and teach all those that are in need of the gospel.          

Me and my companion are getting along way great!  We are best friends out here.  We both love to push each other’s buttons and he is a lot better than I am. We love teaching the gospel together.  It just flows when we teach with the convicting power of the spirit. I am having a bad feeling that I am going to be transferred this week and I don’t want to leave.  I don’t want to leave all of my converts, Dad I don’t know how you did it.  I know they are in great hands but it’s hard. We get to know by Tuesday night.  Hopefully I’m not getting transferred, but come what may that I know that by the things I have done here and the people that I talked to and taught more about the gospel, they will be blessed. I know that my converts will be strong members of the church and I know that by my obedience and diligence in teaching them everything is possible that they can live there lives to the fullest.

           

             Yes about grandpas package-thank you a million!   I was getting low on my rations and now they’re gone again!  I shared all of it with my comp and we loved it.  I love the dried plums. They are sooo good and I love the fruit leather. I am looking forward to conference too this week.  I can’t wait to hear the prophet speak and to be refreshed with all of his words. Transfers are this week and I don’t know what’s going to happen but I really don’t want to leave because the work is exploding here but I want to bless others with my testimony and I know that I will be able to where ever I go.

Well Dad, that stinks that no hunts are planned and you’re going through withdrawals, haha, me too! We are in the same boat but iI saw a huge white tail that one of our investigators shot, it’s massive. The last couple years the Lord has blessed us and I know he has! There will still be meat in those freezers until I come home and we will need to replenish it with the trusty 300 mags!  Now my little Miles can say those words?  His next word needs to be my name, haha, so he can remember me when I get home!  

           

          There is a package coming that I sent this morning.  It’s a box that has some pamphlets that we give out and has one pair of my suit pants they need to be fixed. Take them to Mr. Mac and please dry-clean them while you have them, haha-bad days playing basketball and one wrong step and rip- hahaha! I love you and miss you bunches.  I better be getting some of those dried apples you all have been doing!

 Love you,

Elder Davies