Hello again from the the state who's abreviation, contrary to popular belief, is not AK
I feel really jumbled right now and I am not really sure what I am going to write about. We'll see where this goes.
Still haven't felt any affects of the little car bumpcident.We'll get that out of the way first. The last week has been kinda strange in that nothing too much out of the ordinary happened. Is that a paradox? Maybe and oxymoron? Who knows.
Mom asked what the Haka was somebody want to link her a youtube video of it or something
Havent heard from Jeff in a while. Hope you guys are doing well.
Got all the stuff you sent dad. Love the pictures thanks a bunch they're on the wall by my study area.
Won a six person game of catan last week haha I think we are likely going to play again for Pday today
Current Conspiracy that has replaced the MTC dress conspiracy. The missionary six pack theory. Every missionary "used to have a six pack" it honestly is so rediculous. I can't believe that every single missionary you ever talk to used to have a six pack. They were running cross country in middle school. Or doing farm work for a summer. Either way the theory is near flawless.
On that note benched 170 this morning (on a machine not free weight) I'll let you all know when I hit 200 its going to happen. Ate 4 eggs for breakfast.
Ok so some really recent converts from our area. Baptized just before I got here confirmed while I was here have trouble getting up for church. They always "sleep in" so in a brilliant stroke of genius I decided that we could just visit them on saturday night (like we normally do) and hide my alarm clock somewhere set for 7 am so that it wakes them up and they come to church. I also decided we could write a sticky note and write good morning see you at church, the missionaries. good idea right?! So where it went wrong was when I let my companion be the one to hide it. We show up to their house and the plan is for him to be like OH MAN I REALLY NEED TO USE YOUR BATHROOM. hide it say hi leave. So he goes to the bathroom I am left to chat and fend for myself which I can't really do in spanish (or english jus kidding) (sort of) and I am thinking this is a 2 mins tops kind of thing. NOPE. it was like 15 mins and a whole bunch of banging and clattering later that my companion walks out with a stupid grin on his face sits down on the couch. and then about 60 seconds later goes. Uhh hermana sorry I need to use your bathroom one more time. He goes back for another 5 or 7 mins and towards the end there is a huge glass shaterring noise that comes from the bathroom. I am so disguested (hurmorously albeit) and she looks at me and is like is he alright. I was more or less speachless. He comes out and goes ohh sorry I was unscrewing oyur lightbulb because it was burnt out and I dropped it. I am like cumon really!?!?!? We then left and I immediately demanded and explanation of what in the world he was doing in there. My trusty companion I should of known. He cant tie his shoes without using a screwdriver. He decides there are no good hiding spots so he takes a penny climbs onto the bathroom counter and unscrews their ceiling vent and hides it in there. I am like YOU DID WHAT. YOU CANT JUST GO AROUND UNSCREWING PEOPLES AIRVENTS. when he went back the 2nd time it was because he couldnt remember if he had tunred it on or not. It was on .... I had turned it on before I gave it to him. So they didnt come to church ....... and we went to their house last night and they defiitely didnt even know it was up there or hear it. So he went to the bathroom and got it while I chatted up like 4 people. Sort of... We'll try again next week. Maybe Ill hide is this time.
Have I told you all how my mission president is a really big boss. He's unreal. He's a welder I think by training (keep in mind everything I am going to say is based on stuff I hear) But I share only the things I am confident are true. He started working in a shed or garage in his back yard and turned it into some huge metal business that makes stuff for nasa and all sorts of other crazy stuff. He is UNREAL at basketball. His team won some enormour 55 and older tournament. I dont have specific information but it was a big tournament. He raised 7 children I think and he had a sister that passed away when she was like 30 ish and so he and sister petersen helped raise their 4 children. Literally everything and I cant explain how literal the statement of EVERYTHING he says is a spiritual 50 calibre bullet. I am not even kidding. And you keep thinking he is going to say somthing normal or make a doctrinal point where you are like oh yah that makes sense I knew that. BUT HE DOESNT .... EVER. Its rediculous I cant really explain it. He made a goal to do 100 push ups at once. So he did tons of pushups until he did 100 one day. That's rediculous he is over 55 at least. His favorite book of mormon scripture is the last verse of ether 12 and he talks about the statement "seek this jesus" all the time. That's one of his many "things". He and sister Petersen have a bunch of "things" like O to E. It comes from when they were super busy and raising 11 children and they started to feel like everything was we've got to do this and we've got to do this and this and this. So one day they devided that life is a gift from God and they didn't got to do anything but they get to do it all. So we try to turn all our O's to E's .
We have grattitude notebooks. THey are pocket size notebooks that we right 3 things we are gateful for every morning when we wake up. There is a bunch of stuff like that. 5.0 obedience. etc etc.
Our family of six we've been visiting a bunch basically don't want to do anything which is a bit of a bummer. They wont come to church or activities and if they are all inside with the front door closed when we swing by they wont answer the door. If we catch them outside (which is most of the time) they invite us in and we pray an read with them and I think they really like it. But all they really want to do is "hear the word". Kinda lame.
We've got a new investigator that is quite solid. His name is Isai (pronounced ee suh ee) we were talking to someone that lives in the same place as him and he walked by to go get in his car to go to work. We finished talking to his neighbor Jose and walked back towards our car that was parked close to his and he was totally lollygaggin around waiting to talk to us (that never happens, nobody ever tries to talk to us first) We chatted with him and he was interested in learning. We taught him one time ( I was on exchanges though and wasnt there) and he basically talked about his past the whole time and they didnt even teach any points from the lesson. But he asked if we'd bring him to church with us pretty much. He came to church yesterday Its like a 20 min drive from our area so its a big deal for people to keep that commitment. He even got dressed up he had these skinny black pants and a blue blazer with gold buttons all buttoned up. His hair is shaved on the sides and slicked back into a ponytail on the top. And he had on a nice pair of well shined dress shoes. We easily won the most fly investigator award. Hes probably 30 give or take 3 years on either side. Hes so awesome. We took him on a building tour before church started and we walked past the baptismal font and showed it to him. Keep in mind we have never even talked about baptism we have barely introduced the Book of Mormon and gave him a copy that's it. He says: "man I'm not ready to get baptized. that is a really serious commitment. I would have to really prepare before I would be ready for that" HE is SOOO awesome. He came to all three hours and really enjoyed it. He made comments during my elders quorum which my companion and I taught on literally 30 seconds notice and a book that was handed to us from I still dont even know where. He's got daughters back in mexico and his esposa (which means wife but doesnt always imply marriage among hispanics) is deceased. He is just a great and faithful man.
Spiritually speaking I want to share a spiritual principle that I've learned here that I didn't know before. Its another thing that President Petersen talks about frequently. I think he said that Henry B Eyering taught it but Im not sure if that is correct. When faced with spiritual challenges 90 percent of the results come in the last 10 perccent of the effort. It happens to us alllll the time. It the last 5 minutes of the day when we can go home or knock a couple more doors. When we choose to knock one more door or talk to one more person we often end up meeting a cool person or setting a time to come back with somebody. It's crzy how true it is. I guess it's kind of taught in ether 12:27 .
Thanks for everything you send love hearing from you all and getting packages :) you guys are the best.
Elder Davidson
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