Hi everyone!
SO this week we have been really jumping on street contacting and tracting. It's really hard. But i am actually really loving it. It makes me feel good when I come home and can say "today we did some really hard things. and it was awkward and embarassing, and uncomfortable BUT WE DID IT!!!" It makes me feel like i am fulfilling my purpose as a missionary when I can come home and say to myself 'I was committed to doing the hard things today.' We've had a lot of doors slammed in our faces received a lot of threats and truly embarassed ourselves many times! but its just part of the work! We have noticed an increase in blessings though! Me and Elder Castro call them 'sideways blessings' because they are just random things that bless us that were not occurring before. for example. not many of the people we contact actually end up going anywhere. But THIS week we recieved a referral by email that said someone requested a missionary visit! this is pretty unusual because most of the time we get referrals like this they want to get a bible from us and then want us to get out of their face. haha But this man wanted a visit from us! so we called him and he was super excited and said that he wanted to come to church and was trying to find someone to sit with him. HE WANTS TO LEARN FROM US!! this was such a novel experience for me and I was ecstatic the whole time leading up to our visit with him.
Every lesson we've had with him has been recieved AWESOMELY. we met with him twice last week! once on thursday, again on saturday and then he came to church with us on sunday!! it was great. before he left church that day he said to us. "I feel like Im at home in this church. I cant wait to come back again next week." He is our golden man! God has prepared him so well and the more we learn about him the happier we get and the more of the lords hand we see in his life! he will be baptized in NO time! he's already committed himself to it basically lol. We just need to recieve some revelation to know what exact day it will happen. It is very exciting to see it changing him though. You know that one scripture that says how great shall be there joy if they shall bring but one soul to christ? that is exactly how I feel with him. If the rest of my mission ammounted to nothing. These moments with this man would be enough to pay it all back. they really would. :)
So thats all I got for this week thanks for the emails everyone! love you!
-Elder Davis
SO this week we have been really jumping on street contacting and tracting. It's really hard. But i am actually really loving it. It makes me feel good when I come home and can say "today we did some really hard things. and it was awkward and embarassing, and uncomfortable BUT WE DID IT!!!" It makes me feel like i am fulfilling my purpose as a missionary when I can come home and say to myself 'I was committed to doing the hard things today.' We've had a lot of doors slammed in our faces received a lot of threats and truly embarassed ourselves many times! but its just part of the work! We have noticed an increase in blessings though! Me and Elder Castro call them 'sideways blessings' because they are just random things that bless us that were not occurring before. for example. not many of the people we contact actually end up going anywhere. But THIS week we recieved a referral by email that said someone requested a missionary visit! this is pretty unusual because most of the time we get referrals like this they want to get a bible from us and then want us to get out of their face. haha But this man wanted a visit from us! so we called him and he was super excited and said that he wanted to come to church and was trying to find someone to sit with him. HE WANTS TO LEARN FROM US!! this was such a novel experience for me and I was ecstatic the whole time leading up to our visit with him.
Every lesson we've had with him has been recieved AWESOMELY. we met with him twice last week! once on thursday, again on saturday and then he came to church with us on sunday!! it was great. before he left church that day he said to us. "I feel like Im at home in this church. I cant wait to come back again next week." He is our golden man! God has prepared him so well and the more we learn about him the happier we get and the more of the lords hand we see in his life! he will be baptized in NO time! he's already committed himself to it basically lol. We just need to recieve some revelation to know what exact day it will happen. It is very exciting to see it changing him though. You know that one scripture that says how great shall be there joy if they shall bring but one soul to christ? that is exactly how I feel with him. If the rest of my mission ammounted to nothing. These moments with this man would be enough to pay it all back. they really would. :)
So thats all I got for this week thanks for the emails everyone! love you!
-Elder Davis
P.s. So recently we got a letter in the mail from the Nielsen Family TV rating company!! they chose the missionaries to rate what they watch on tv!! we thought it was pretty awesome even though we dont watch TV but I actually learned about this corporation in a math class I took in college about statistics. It's hard for me to explain what they do but you can look them up. But anyway they send you 2 dollars in the mail for filling out their Survey on what you watch on TV SOOOO I filled it out and told them honestly, that I thought the only good stuff on TV was cartoons. So yeah maybe that'll bump up the cartoon sphere over the next 2 years lol. It was more a joke than anything else but it was a cool idea. The nielsen Family is a really cool business. heres a picture of me with the Envelope and stuff.
So this is a picture of a lunch that a member in our ward took us out to this past week. the place is called Atwoods bakery there is only one of them and it a world renowned bakery that has won MANNY awards. the food is SOOOO good! and so reasonably priced too! these 3 deserts were under 12 dollars! I got the one with whip cream and stuff. my companiongot the chocolate mouse tower which comes in a tube made out of pure chocolate. and schocolate shavings and brotehr schneider got the chocolate cheesecake. all 3 were delicious beyond words. seriously. they were So good. Im not even going to try and describe it.
-Elder Davis
-Elder Davis