tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65773352069860933382024-03-13T10:49:44.558-07:00Elder Brett Davis Florida Orlando MissionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02714704700599387887noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577335206986093338.post-84486841408949120172015-06-09T10:00:00.002-07:002015-06-09T10:00:42.441-07:00June 8, 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey everybody! Hope yall had a great week this week! It's so good to<br /> hear the Payson temple dedication was a good one! I sure do wish I was<br /> able to go to it, but I'm out here doing the lords work so I'll just<br /> have to miss it until I get done here! I'm not gunna lie though, based<br /> on all the pictures I've seen online there is not a single temple in<br /> the entire world more beautiful than the Payson temple. And what a<br /> privilege I have to be able to have grown up in the town and be able<br /> to call it my temple. I've heard that summer finally hit and now that<br /> it's done raining for a bit it's time to get out and cut hay! I don't<br /> think hay fields exist in Florida... But if they do I'll be sure to<br /> find it and do service for someone!(:<br /><br /> This week was transfer week, unfortunately I had to say goodbye to<br /> Elder Heiner, he is now serving in hunters creek which will be good<br /> for him cause he'll have the opportunity to speak Portuguese and<br /> prepare himself for when he gets down to Brazil. My new companion is<br /> named Elder Clark, he's from Wellington Utah. He's certainly an<br /> interesting person. We get along pretty decently, were able to get out<br /> and actually work hard so that's a big plus for me! (Not that Heiner<br /> didn't, in fact he was probably the hardest working companion yet.) we<br /> also are the best burger I've had in my entire life at a place called<br /> juniors over on orange blossom trail.<br /><br /> Let's see... Highlights this week, hmm.... Honestly the beginning of<br /> the week was pretty rough with the new companion. We were having a<br /> hard time working together and he really doesn't like how fast paced<br /> my style of work is... But later on in the week after a couple days<br /> things got better off.<br /><br /> I guess one of my favorite things that happened was on Wednesday we<br /> went to lunch/dinner with a recent convert named Lowell. We went to<br /> the village inn and had some decent food! Lowell gave us a little life<br /> story thing really summarizing everything that he has accomplished he<br /> has had some really stinkin cool stuff that he's done! Sadly later<br /> that day we thought that Clorisa dropped us, that was scary! But she<br /> didn't so that's good thing!<br /><br /> Saturday we had the adult session of stake conference, it was amazing!<br /> We saw so many sides of Elder Bednar, he was laughing, joking,<br /> serious, bold, loving and comforting. I thought one of the best things<br /> I've ever seen was during the closing prayer at the adult session the<br /> recent convert was struggling to say the prayer cause it was such a<br /> huge crowd. In the middle of the prayer Elder Bednar stood up and put<br /> his arms around her to comfort her. I thought that it was amazing.<br /> Honestly I thought I saw the savior putting his arms around her to<br /> comfort her truly, you can feel the saviors love for us through his<br /> apostles.<br /><br /> As a spiritual thought I'd like to add, a scripture in 3Nephi12:44<br /> "But behold I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse<br /> you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully<br /> use you and persecute you;"<br /> I love this scripture and I actually used it in a lesson, a member was<br /> dealing with a hard time with people that were using him. It's made me<br /> really think, if we serve the people that bother us we can feel<br /> Christlike love for them. It has helped me deal so much especially<br /> when I'm with a hard companion, I've noticed if I serve them I'm able<br /> to love them and it helps us get along so much better!<br /><br /> But everyone that was my week! Here's a picture of my visit with Elder<br /> Chatterton at transfer meeting! I love you guys!<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02714704700599387887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577335206986093338.post-42682640338138994052015-06-01T10:10:00.000-07:002015-06-09T10:10:43.739-07:00June 1,2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello everyone! How's this last week of school been for yall?! Ready<br /> for summer to start up for each of ya? (Except for the people that<br /> have jobs and all that great stuff, Us adults never get summer!) hope<br /> yall have some good plans for this summer! As far as me for summer<br /> plans, I'll be out here in Florida, sweating, biking, and lovin it!<br /> This week has been a pretty dang good and busy one that's for sure!<br /> Had the opportunity to do some service, went to a party, and<br /> socialized with a bunch of high school kids! It was definitely a<br /> success of a week! Well, has it started to get warm back home?<br /> Anything exciting happen? Ohh I can think of one exciting thing! The<br /> payson pool opened for the season on Monday! This is the first time in<br /> three years I wasn't working on opening day, kinda sad.... But oh<br /> well, one day I might do it again just to make more cash.<br /><br /> Anyways, this week has been a fun and busy week! One of the biggest<br /> highlights of the week was when I bought a cast iron skillet, holy cow<br /> do I miss cooking in cast iron! It was the best 15 bucks I've spent in<br /> my entire mission! All the small things are really what make things<br /> worth happening. I had an old companion that always said "these are<br /> small problems" well, these are small successes for me!(:<br /><br /> This week had a few highlights:<br /><br /> Starting with Tuesday, exchanges with Elder Lefholtz, the Georgia<br /> peach himself! We had a stinkin rocking day! To start it off we got to<br /> go do service at the Salazars house, we had rob Whittaker with us from<br /> the cocoa ward. He owns a lawn business, and he brought out all his<br /> awesome toys to work with! In that hour and a half we got so much work<br /> done on their yard, mowing, edging, trimming trees, and...taking the<br /> forest back! Holy cow it was awesome too! Then like always the<br /> Salazars went and got us pizza to "pay" us, I'm not sure why but I'm<br /> pretty sure the Peruvian culture thinks that if you enter their house<br /> they must be feeding you! Not that I'm complaining though, I mean look<br /> at me I'm gaining tons of weight!<br /><br /> One other awesome thing that happened was we got to go greet a new<br /> member to our ward, sister Doty. Her husband is working in Louisiana,<br /> he works for space-x (not sure what the heck that is) but they moved<br /> here from Idaho because he was stationed to work at Kennedy space<br /> center. They have, 5? Kids, all younger than the age of 6, her oldest,<br /> Rocky being six has autism, I'm not sure what kind. Honestly I<br /> wouldn't have ever guessed! Then she's got a 5 year old girl, 3 year<br /> old boy, and seven month old twins! So she has her hands full! But she<br /> is so stinkin cool! She's gunna be doing a ton of member missionary<br /> work for us! She was already talking about having us over to eat with<br /> one of her neighbors! She's a golden member that's for sure! Now with<br /> all that good news we found out some downer news, Clorisa and her<br /> family had to postpone their baptism until June 13.... It was a sad<br /> moment but hey at least they are going to be baptized on the 13th!<br /> Better late than never!<br /><br /> But that was honestly the highlights of my entire week! We really were<br /> just busy teaching half a million people all week! We had a lot of<br /> opportunities to bond with members, like I said we went to a party on<br /> Saturday night. Another party by the Salazars, a graduation part for<br /> Andrew, we really got to hang out with him and his friends, talk a<br /> little and play some frisby and other stuff with them. So that was<br /> fun, we spent a ton of time with Clorisas family this week and made a<br /> ton of great memories. We put Tyler on Elder Heiners shoulders and<br /> took pictures, Clorisa posted them on Facebook and all that! We got<br /> her and her family to church this week to, so that was a huge success!<br /> We also had a ton of less active members were working with come back<br /> to church this week! Last night Elder Heiner had to say goodbye to<br /> some of the members and investigators, yep you heard right! I'm<br /> getting another new companion tomorrow! It's crazy, next month I'll<br /> have been in Titusville for 6 months! I'm assuming that I'll be<br /> leaving at that point as well... Sadly, but hey I've got six more<br /> weeks before I gotta even worry about that so I'll enjoy my time here!<br /><br /> I love yall, hope ya have a good week!<br /><br /> HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROCK!!<br /><br /><br /> -Elder Brett Davis.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02714704700599387887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577335206986093338.post-24980768641727474662015-05-25T10:17:00.000-07:002015-06-09T10:18:09.066-07:00I went to Prison!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey everybody back home! I hope all is well for you guys and you're<br /> seeing amazing miracles in each of your lives! I'm really hoping that<br /> yall are enjoying the weather you've been having too! Based on the<br /> weather when I get a chance and look at it, it seems Utah's really<br /> cold for this time of year! I think the highest temperature that I've<br /> seen over this entire week was like 65? Is it really that cold over<br /> there? Over here it's unseasonably warm for Florida, the highest temp<br /> we saw this week was 98. Smoking hot right?! And the humidity didn't<br /> help with that temp at all!(: oh well, I'm enjoying it while i can!<br /><br /> This week we had a bunch of normal teaching and that kinda stuff,<br /> nothing too interesting for the first couple days! Our investigators<br /> all passed their baptismal interviews this week! So that's super<br /> amazing, one step closer to being baptized! We're really excited to<br /> have these guys get baptized this week! It's been a real privilege to<br /> be able to teach them and see the gospel turning wheels in their heads<br /> and helping them to really feel the spirit. What a marvelous work to<br /> get to be a part of! And just the opportunity to meet all these<br /> wonderful people down here in Florida makes it worth it! I've gotten<br /> to make friends with members, less actives, non members, and pretty<br /> much everyone out here, crazy to think, Ida never had this opportunity<br /> to meet these people and have them become part of my life if I hadn't<br /> made the decision to serve. Crazy how much a small decision can really<br /> have such an impact on your life right?!<br /><br /> So just a few of the highlights of the week:<br /><br /> Wednesday we helped the cocoa elders move their apartment to down in<br /> Port St John, that was a heck of a good time! Got to ride in a super<br /> nice tricked out f-150! It was soooo nice, and brand spanking new!<br /> That night we got caught in a HUGE thunder storm! It was so stinkin<br /> cool, especially while we were biking, the sky would just light up<br /> every few seconds.<br /><br /> Thursday we were on exchanges and I went with Elder Coon down to the<br /> cocoa area. Spent the first night in their new house! Holy cow do I<br /> miss living in a HOUSE instead of an apartment. Like honestly you<br /> wouldn't think there's much difference but ohhh boy the difference is<br /> HUGE! We went down to see some people down on Camp rd. One of the<br /> addresses we were given was to a halfway house for the prison system.<br /> We were like "hmmm okay cool well let's go see it!" So we went down<br /> and the entire prison, halfway houses, and everything down there was<br /> abandoned! It was as if everyone just up and left in the middle of the<br /> night. I looked through the broken window of one of the houses and<br /> there was still clothes hanging up in the room and everything! It was<br /> so crazy! I wondered why they were just abandoned, never really did<br /> figure it out. But I took plenty of pictures of my visit to the<br /> prison!<br /><br /> Saturday was one of the biggest highlights of the week. We got special<br /> permission to go down to the cocoa beach area with a ward family to<br /> celebrate for their sons graduation. We went to their beach house and<br /> had a total blast! We got to meet their son whom is a less active<br /> named Randy. Super cool guy! We talked with him forever and had the<br /> most amazing Peruvian food I've ever had in my entire life! Our<br /> "appetizers" were this awesome lime cooked fish, squid, and clam dish.<br /> And when I say lime cooked I mean they literally cooked the food with<br /> the acid in the limes! IT WAS TO DIE FOR! Our actual dinner was what I<br /> call Peruvian chili, a bowl of hot pork, chicken, some root stuff, and<br /> a little bit of bean. It was also TO DIE FOR! Haha no wonder I'm<br /> getting fat! I'm getting fed to much stinkin Peruvian food!<br /><br /> That was pretty much my week! Everyone, I hope you all have a good<br /> week and a happy Memorial Day!<br /><br /> This week is a picture from my visit to prison!<br /><br /> Love y'all!<br /><br /><br /> -Elder Brett Davis.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02714704700599387887noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6577335206986093338.post-10249589699346720812015-05-18T10:21:00.000-07:002015-06-09T10:21:21.734-07:0011 Months out!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey everyone! Hope y'all had a good and busy week! Things out here<br /> have been insanely busy this entire week! I've loved every ,minute of<br /> it! Not gunna lie for a second though, the week started off rough with<br /> an awful district Pday. We tried having a bbq but honestly it was the<br /> most terribly planned event I've ever seen, we didn't even have<br /> anywhere to grill anything. I tried to jimmy rig somethin up for us<br /> but it didn't work so we ended up cooking everything in the kitchen of<br /> the church.... Disaster right there! After Pday was thankfully over we<br /> drove home from Rockledge and went out to dinner with a ward member.<br /> Brother Jensen, he's a really cool guy normally very quiet and kinda<br /> by himself. But holy cow he's starting to talk more and more each time<br /> we go out to eat with him! I really like it! After that we had an<br /> appointment with the Jenkins family which was very good very fun as<br /> always.<br /><br /> Tuesday was by far the busiest day of the entire week! On our way to<br /> see Logan I saw Belle riding her bike pulling Mary in a little cart<br /> down the sidewalk. We flipped around he car for a minute and went to<br /> talk to her. Turns out she was back in town for a couple of days so we<br /> set up to come back by in the afternoon and see her. After that it was<br /> off to Logan's to help him. We helped him move and shared a little<br /> lesson about service, while we were there him and Matthew got into a<br /> fight. That was weird... We left after that and went to see Bro Ray,<br /> we had a good lesson with him. We have to kinda reteach him all the<br /> lessons because the sisters that baptized him a few years ago didn't<br /> teach him anything.. Kinda sad really he's been sinning and not<br /> knowing it. But we're helping him! After Brother Ray we went to the<br /> Castillos house and had a great little lesson with them, then we spent<br /> like a half an hour teaching Sukie how to skate. That was very very<br /> very interesting! But it was loads of fun to do! After that we dashed<br /> off to see Clorisa and her family and had a great visit with them.<br /> They're now all working towards being baptized on the 30th, hopefully<br /> their able to keep that date and all get baptized together. After that<br /> we went and saw Belle, kinda just saw how she was doing if there was<br /> anything we could do to help her. After her we took Matthew over to<br /> see Patrick cardone, a less active were working with. We had a great<br /> lesson there and I think Matthew even enjoyed himself. So that was a<br /> great and busy day for sure!<br /><br /> Wednesday was crazy too! Haha we got a call from the vehicle<br /> coordinator saying that we needed to take in Elder Heiners bike<br /> because someone needed it and he could get a new one from the mission<br /> office. So after all of our studies we loaded up the car and headed<br /> out to Orlando. It took us 2 1/2 hours to drive there because of all<br /> the stinkin traffic. And the worst part is when we got there Elder<br /> Spencer (the vehicle coordinator) took one look at the bike and it was<br /> the wrong one! We still got Heiner a new bike though because that one<br /> was a piece of junk. Then it took us an additional 2 1/2 hours to get<br /> back home because the traffic was still awful! Luckily on our way in<br /> we had called our dinner appointment and pushed it back to 6pm. And we<br /> barely skidded into town by that time! Our dinner was with the Jenkins<br /> family, we had a great dinner and after dinner all the girls left the<br /> house and went to young women's and relief society and activity girls<br /> or whatever in the world that was! So we got to have a good lesson<br /> with Brother Jenkins. I enjoyed it, and I think he really enjoyed<br /> having some time with guys in his house for once! Haha he's such a<br /> good guy though, I love that family. After we got out of Jenkins we<br /> went and had a quick 20 minute lesson with Donna, then it was off to<br /> the sisters house to drop the car off. On the way there I hit a snake,<br /> I didn't take the time to figure out what it was but hey it's now a<br /> good one. It's dead. So that was one more busy day down.<br /><br /> Thursday we had a meeting in Viera (which is why we had to take the<br /> car to the sisters) and we car pooled with the cocoa elders. We had a<br /> great meeting, they gave us some of the best news in the entire world!<br /> They told us that we would now be able to go to the temple with<br /> members that were reactivating to do baptisms for the dead! Wooooooo!<br /> More temple trips! I'm so excited, we already have a few people that<br /> were going to focus on in getting them back to being active so that we<br /> can take them to the temple! After the meeting we took Matthew and<br /> went to see a couple of people. We went and saw Sam Woodard, that was<br /> awesome especially for Matthew, he was able to hear SAMs testimony and<br /> see his example of truly enduring to the. End. I feel like that was<br /> something that really helped Matthew. After Sam we took Matthew to see<br /> Clorisa with us, we had a great lesson there. Then we went off to<br /> dinner at the Salazars house, they had some family in from Aruba and<br /> we actually taught them. One of the names was Roderick and holy cow he<br /> was so cool! He was constantly asking us questions about the church<br /> and the things we believed and things that we did especially as<br /> missionaries. We gave him a Book of Mormon and talked to him about it<br /> and committed him to make contact with the elders when he got home. He<br /> gladly accepted it and said that he would for sure be getting in touch<br /> with the elders!<br /><br /> Friday rained like none other! We still went and did service for the<br /> Salazars, that was awesome! It was raining so stinkin hard and thunder<br /> and lightening and it was so hot too! I honestly couldn't tell if it<br /> was rain or sweat running down my face! But I wouldn't have traded it<br /> for the world! It was a heck of a good time! When we got home from<br /> that I put on sweats and we did weekly planning while we sat and<br /> watched the rain trickle, or more rather dump in buckets from the sky!<br /> Then in the evening we went up and taught Matthew, he was having a<br /> really hard time with lots of things so we were and are doing our best<br /> to help him.<br /><br /> Saturday was another pathetically busy day! We were getting run<br /> ragged! Our first appointment of the day was going over to see<br /> Clarissa. Which ended up failing but we went through our list of less<br /> actives and we went and visited with a bunch of people we ended up<br /> teaching this one guy on the side of the road which is a really really<br /> cool guy. He seems like he has a lot of potential and we will be<br /> following up with him in the next couple of weeks because he is having<br /> a surgery. After that we went over and saw a couple more or less<br /> activesand we were able to catch Clarissa at home. So we taught her<br /> and her family and then we had to bike it all the way back across your<br /> area to the church for a baptism. The baptism is really good not many<br /> were member showed up but that's typical here in Florida. While we<br /> were at the baptism our dinner appointment fell through and we ended<br /> up just grabbing a snack and eating on the way. We went out that night<br /> to see some less actives and we ended up bribing the girls from the<br /> Vargas family to come to church the next day!<br /><br /> Sunday another extremely busy day. The Vargas girls came to church and<br /> like 10 other less actives that we are working with it was awesome to<br /> see unfortunately Clorisa and her family didn't make it but that's<br /> okay. One member offered to feed us that night so we scheduled an<br /> appointment to go up with him. After church we went over and we taught<br /> well we took the sacrament to Sam Woodard and we went over and talk<br /> Clarissa about tithing and fast offerings and they excepted it very<br /> well so that's really good we're excited they're progressing very much<br /> and they should be able to be baptized at the end of the month still.<br /> Our dinner was with brother Pickelzimer, yes Pickekzimer, quite the<br /> mouthful right? He is such a stinking cool guy. He lives up at the<br /> very very very north end of our ward which happens to also be in the<br /> north end of our county he fed us really good meal called Cowboys<br /> delight. Which consisted of ground brisket and pork and beans and some<br /> red pepper all make stand one pan to gather and all my goodness it was<br /> so stinking good. We talk to him for a while and we Learned a lot<br /> about him and his past and is just life in general. It was really cool<br /> to get to talk to them because I feel like he really needed someone to<br /> talk to because his wife passed away three weeks ago and it's just<br /> good to always look for ways we can help people especially in times<br /> like that. And I was pretty much her entire week I got an awesome<br /> Stihl hat from brother P. So. I'm really happy we have had a great<br /> week it's been crazy it's been busy it's been every thing you want it<br /> to be.<br /><br /> Spiritual thought for the week on enduring to the end. I've noticed a<br /> lot of people down here they struggle with enduring to the end. So<br /> what does it mean to truly endure to the end? As we are baptized we<br /> take on ourselves the name of Christ and we say that we are willing to<br /> mourn with those that mourn and help close the stand in need of<br /> comfort at all times and there's a lot of other things that we commit<br /> to do in our baptismal covenant covenant. And it's very important to<br /> understand that as well, we also commit that we will endure to the<br /> end. That doesn't mean we won't have trials we will have struggles or<br /> we will be immune to anything that goes on in the world. But as we<br /> continue to read pray and attend church we will have our faith grill<br /> and is her faith continues to grow we will be able to endure to the<br /> end and we will station strong in the Gospel. And not only in the<br /> Gospel but in our faith and we will be able to help those around us.<br /> What a blessing we all have received by excepting the gospel so how<br /> can we live up to those covenants that we've made what can we strive<br /> to do better? Let us all evaluate how we do things and let's see in<br /> what ways we can improve and apply them.<br /><br /> I love you guys all of you have a great week.!<br /><br /><br /> -Elder Brett Davis.</div>
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This week, what a stellar week! Monday was our preparation day, which<br /> was pretty fun. The most excitement of the day was having pizza<br /> ordered in by my wonderful mother! Then the night we biked all the<br /> long way up to the hospital, about a ten or more mile ride. We gave<br /> Sukie a blessing, she's still pretty dang sick but getting better! She<br /> was doing a hole lot better on Monday. She requested another blessing<br /> because she found out about some more health issues that's going on.<br /> We headed out from there and decided to head home cause it was a long<br /> ride back from there. It was interesting, we took a way home that we'd<br /> never have taken before and had a feeling to stop in on a member that<br /> has t been to church for a few weeks and just check in on him. We got<br /> there and his wife opened the door and talked to us on the porch for a<br /> few minutes and then Brother Delorenzo got home and invited us in.<br /> Turns out he has been really sick the last few weeks and was in need<br /> of a blessing. So we did that, gave him his blessing and just kinda<br /> talked to see how life was for them. It's pretty cool to see how we<br /> can be guided by the spirit to go see people that we never woulda<br /> thought to stop by before.<br /><br /> Tuesday was a feast of a day! We had a zone conference with Elder Don<br /> R. Clark! He came and talked to us about so much stuff and it was<br /> really just a feast of knowledge! My favorite thing he said the entire<br /> time was "I'm not smart, but I know how to work" and then he went on<br /> and talked about how if we don't know how to do something but we're<br /> willing to work and to learn then we'll be able to be more productive<br /> missionaries and even beyond the mission if we can and will apply<br /> those principals then we can become more successful. I think it's so<br /> true too, I've seen it in my life I didn't necessarily know how to do<br /> something, take fixing my truck for example. I didn't know how to do a<br /> water pump back then but I was willing to learn and work at it, with<br /> the help of Tyler S. I was able to accomplish it, and he taught me how<br /> to do a bunch more repairs on that old dodge and even on my rodeo.<br /> Because I had the desire to learn and work so I would be more<br /> knowledgable. It was just amazing to hear Elder Clark talk, he didn't<br /> just talk about things that'd help us as missionaries but he talked<br /> about things that will help us throughout our entire lives! Another<br /> one of my favorite things that he talked about was our scripture<br /> study. He said that when he was made a seventy he was told to buy new<br /> scriptures and study and mark them as a seventy. He went on to tell us<br /> that at each phase of our lives we need to study and mark a fresh set<br /> of scriptures according to our needs at that point. For instance right<br /> now we're missionaries. Well all go home shortly and become students,<br /> while we're students we need to study scriptures as students. Shortly<br /> after that we'll become a husband and we need to study them as a<br /> husband, then a father, and so on and so forth. I was thinking about<br /> that and thought that it was such a good idea and it made complete<br /> sense because when I'm home and married (hopefully) and (hopefully)<br /> become a father the things I'm highlighting and making notes on in my<br /> scriptures won't be applicable to me as much at that point. Especially<br /> because right now my main focus is things that will help me in sharing<br /> the gospel, that won't be my main priority or reasoning for studying<br /> the gospel at that point in life. Needless to say, Elder Clark is the<br /> man. He gave me a ton of good info, news, and just a cool guy!<br /><br /> Wednesday.. Not nearly as eventful as Tuesday but still a really<br /> really good day! We had lunch with Brother Moon (ward mission leader)<br /> and Brother Barker (recent convert) up at the village inn. It was<br /> great food and I really dig the strawberry rhubarb pie that they have<br /> down here! It's just amazing! After that we went directly to work on<br /> teaching people. We went over and met with Mathew, a less active<br /> returning active. We had a great meeting with him, were helping him<br /> quit smoking and we accomplished that. Now we just have to wean him<br /> off of his ecig but that will come with time! He's a great kid I<br /> really enjoy working with him! Then we biked on home for dinner and<br /> instead of dinner I worked on my bike while Elder Heiner was eating..<br /> No nothing's wrong with my bike, I'm just doing maintenance on it.<br /> It's just wearing out from all the miles that I've been putting on it.<br /> Then for the evening we went and tried stopping by a bunch of<br /> potentials and less actives and ended up getting in the door of a less<br /> active guy named Jawon. We had a great lesson with him and got to know<br /> him and all that stuff so that's good.<br /><br /> Thursday was another great day. We spent a couple hours trying to stop<br /> by less actives, former investigators, and potential investigators. It<br /> was a good time too! We made contact with a couple of really neat less<br /> actives. I saw a super nice truck, and we met this really cool lady<br /> that makes stain glass windows for a hobby. We saw some of the things<br /> she made and it was just so stinkin cool to see! I had no idea the<br /> process of making stain glass designs. After that we went over to<br /> teach Clorisa, when we got there no males were present so we weren't<br /> able to go in. Luckily we knew of a less active near by that we could<br /> go knock on and see if he could come with us to teach Clorisa. So we<br /> went over to Logan's place and knocked on his door, turns out he had<br /> his girlfriend over so he couldn't go with us. But on the bright side<br /> she started asking us questions about the church and things like that.<br /> So we taught her right there and did kinda a huge over view of all the<br /> lessons that we share. She was awesome and wanted us to come back and<br /> teach her more so that's what we're gunna do! By the time we were done<br /> with that lesson we went back to Clorisa to see if her son was home.<br /> Turns out he was and we had a quick lesson with them. Quick, and<br /> powerful lesson. It was awesome! Then we dashed off to dinner with<br /> brother Mason. He took us down to the Cracker Barrel. It was pretty<br /> good food, the grits weren't that great but oh well. I've seen worse<br /> things happen. Then we began the insanely long journey biking up to<br /> the hospital to see Sukie, and Sam. We went to Sam first and had a<br /> great lesson with him! He's a great guy I love going over there and<br /> meeting with him, to me he's a true example of faith and what true<br /> faith is. His testimony is such a strong one and he continues to share<br /> it with everyone around him. After Sam we went and saw Sukie and had a<br /> great lesson there too. Then we took to the insanely long bike ride<br /> back to our apartment.<br /><br /> Friday was a day filled with meetings, that was pretty good I guess.<br /> When we weren't in meetings we were doing weekly planning so that was<br /> pretty well our day! Saturday was a super busy day! We went less<br /> active hunting in the afternoon and ended up running into a really<br /> cool guy that's a free mason. He was about to go on a motorcycle ride<br /> so he asked if we could come back next week and teach him more. When<br /> we went away we shook hands and he shook in a very different style<br /> than I'm used to.. But it was cool I guess. The rest of her Clarissa<br /> and her family. We had a great lesson. After that we went to our<br /> dinner appointment at a less active's house and it was pretty good and<br /> I was pretty much our entire day.<br /><br /> Sunday was pretty productive I guess you could say. We went to church,<br /> had a pretty good time there. After church we called our families had<br /> a good conversation and then we were off to our dinner appointment<br /> where we had a fish fry. The fish fry was pretty dang good we had<br /> catfish trout couple other types of fish and is just awesome the food<br /> that we had there and the families that we were with was really fun.<br /> It was out in the country area so it was awesome. We heard a couple<br /> flocks of geese flying by never were able to see them but still is<br /> pretty cool. And that was pretty much her entire week this week very<br /> busy dealing with people is good I guess and lot of fun.<br /><br /> The picture that I am sending home this week is a picture of me and<br /> Elder Clark and his wife. We were able to sneak a picture in between<br /> some of the let the sessions that we had and it was an awesome day.<br /><br /> My spiritual thought for the week is Mosiah chapter 2 verse 17 and it<br /> talks about when you were in the service of your fellow beings you're<br /> only in the service of your god. I know that is we reach out and we<br /> serve those around us we will be able to lose ourselves in the service<br /> and learn The ways the Lord works through us. It is a great<br /> opportunity to serve others and to be able to forget about myself at<br /> times when I feel down or tired or whatever and I know is you guys go<br /> look for ways to serve those around you you'll find more of the Lord's<br /> love in your life. Have a great week guys I love you all be safe don't<br /> do stupid things.<br /><br /> Love Elder Davis<br /><br /> P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON SATURDAY MOM!!!!<br /> -Elder Brett Davis.</div>
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