Sorry I didn't respond to this one last week. We ran out of time.
I loved your thoughts Dad. Thanks for all the insights! you pretty much were able to tell me everything I was trying to figure out. I'll keep thinking about these things and picking the brains of the members I serve around. Lately we haven't had to many dinner appointments in members homes though. This ward likes to just drop food off at our house. Which is nice, but we don't really get the opportunity to get to know them or talk to them. It's less fun.
ZTM is run by us 2. Our mission president is not present for it. He comes for Zone Conferences though and we usually conduct those. We do talk to him way more frequently though he calls us sometimes with little assignments and questions about our zones and the missionaries in them. I'm still figuring out how to do all of this though lol. Lately I feel I have been very humbled. I feel very inept when it comes to these leadership things. It's required me to rely way more on the Lord to know what to do and say. I have been trying to be better at remembering him and his plan for this work on a daily basis. I can practically see and taste what it is I am supposed to be but I just always seem a little short. It's frustrating sometimes but that is the point of eternal Progression I suppose! haha
We don't ever skip our pdays. lol but sometimes we'll take a little assignment in the middle of our pday or go teach a lesson to someone we cant see any other day that week. So some weeks our pdays are shorter than others. Also, I tend to have more emails than most of the other missionaries I serve with so It is hard to respond to ALL of you and then write the mission President too. But I am trying to get better at prioritizing how I answer them. I wish I could send pictures! But my camera is broken again and I don't think it's going to get better this time...
Thanks for all of the love and faith in me. :) I really benefit from hearing from all of you! Missions are stinkin hard!! But They're a good kind of hard. I'm just trying to work harder and improve in every way that I can. I get frustrated and depressed when I don't feel like I'm working at the level I could be. Me and Elder Crouch have talked about it. Whats one way companions can help push each other to be better? How can we help inspire each other? Do yall have any ideas?
I appreciate all of the love!
I don't have many stories to report this week. That I can remember. My brain always goes blank when I come to email. OH! theres a member in our ward who took us out to eat this week who is working as the Director of Photography for the show NCIS: New Orleans. He said they're going to be shooting pretty much the whole thing in our area so I'll have to watch the show when I get home! He invited us to come onto the set with him this Friday. So maybe we'll get to talk to some actors and stuff. That's an exciting/cool thing that may happen this week. I'll try to have my companion take some pictures!
Thanks for this email mom.
I appreciate what you said about how the Recent Converts and Les active Members of the ward all knew the missionaries that taught them by name and they all remembered their conversion story so well. I think that is really special.
Those people that are eagerly searching are hard to find. Very hard. But It's cool to be apart of that part of their story. I have kinda realized that a lot of the influences we leave with people can sometimes be very small. The roles some of us play in eachothers lives in helping eachother come closer to Christ can be a very small role sometimes. But that doesn't mean its any less important. Everything is Important. and often By small and simple things we do, great things are brought to pass. I'm happy to be a missionary and to be on the cutting edge of it for now.
I hope the Family is doing well and everyone is happy. :)
What's Everyone's plans for thanksgiving?
I love all o'yall!
-Elder Davis
PS
I got these from my companions camera. These date all the way back to when we first became companions at transfer meeting. To Halloween. which is where the skeleton comes in.
-Elder Davis
I loved your thoughts Dad. Thanks for all the insights! you pretty much were able to tell me everything I was trying to figure out. I'll keep thinking about these things and picking the brains of the members I serve around. Lately we haven't had to many dinner appointments in members homes though. This ward likes to just drop food off at our house. Which is nice, but we don't really get the opportunity to get to know them or talk to them. It's less fun.
ZTM is run by us 2. Our mission president is not present for it. He comes for Zone Conferences though and we usually conduct those. We do talk to him way more frequently though he calls us sometimes with little assignments and questions about our zones and the missionaries in them. I'm still figuring out how to do all of this though lol. Lately I feel I have been very humbled. I feel very inept when it comes to these leadership things. It's required me to rely way more on the Lord to know what to do and say. I have been trying to be better at remembering him and his plan for this work on a daily basis. I can practically see and taste what it is I am supposed to be but I just always seem a little short. It's frustrating sometimes but that is the point of eternal Progression I suppose! haha
We don't ever skip our pdays. lol but sometimes we'll take a little assignment in the middle of our pday or go teach a lesson to someone we cant see any other day that week. So some weeks our pdays are shorter than others. Also, I tend to have more emails than most of the other missionaries I serve with so It is hard to respond to ALL of you and then write the mission President too. But I am trying to get better at prioritizing how I answer them. I wish I could send pictures! But my camera is broken again and I don't think it's going to get better this time...
Thanks for all of the love and faith in me. :) I really benefit from hearing from all of you! Missions are stinkin hard!! But They're a good kind of hard. I'm just trying to work harder and improve in every way that I can. I get frustrated and depressed when I don't feel like I'm working at the level I could be. Me and Elder Crouch have talked about it. Whats one way companions can help push each other to be better? How can we help inspire each other? Do yall have any ideas?
I appreciate all of the love!
I don't have many stories to report this week. That I can remember. My brain always goes blank when I come to email. OH! theres a member in our ward who took us out to eat this week who is working as the Director of Photography for the show NCIS: New Orleans. He said they're going to be shooting pretty much the whole thing in our area so I'll have to watch the show when I get home! He invited us to come onto the set with him this Friday. So maybe we'll get to talk to some actors and stuff. That's an exciting/cool thing that may happen this week. I'll try to have my companion take some pictures!
Thanks for this email mom.
I appreciate what you said about how the Recent Converts and Les active Members of the ward all knew the missionaries that taught them by name and they all remembered their conversion story so well. I think that is really special.
Those people that are eagerly searching are hard to find. Very hard. But It's cool to be apart of that part of their story. I have kinda realized that a lot of the influences we leave with people can sometimes be very small. The roles some of us play in eachothers lives in helping eachother come closer to Christ can be a very small role sometimes. But that doesn't mean its any less important. Everything is Important. and often By small and simple things we do, great things are brought to pass. I'm happy to be a missionary and to be on the cutting edge of it for now.
I hope the Family is doing well and everyone is happy. :)
What's Everyone's plans for thanksgiving?
I love all o'yall!
-Elder Davis
PS
I got these from my companions camera. These date all the way back to when we first became companions at transfer meeting. To Halloween. which is where the skeleton comes in.
-Elder Davis