New companion is Elder Canales. From orange county mexican decent.
Converted at age 18 only member in his family and he is moer well read
in chuch doctrine than most missionaries I've met. He's quite
impressive. He's really nice a little quiet. He is a good good
missionary. I think he's running this area the way an area shoul be run
or pretty close thereto. THis is the promised land it's rediculous. THe
spanish branch here has like 100 ish people that attend. THat's huge. We
have the elders quorum prsident who will come out with us whenever and
who makes lists of people he knows that we can visit. We started
teaching his sister this week. We get fed a bunch we have the mo0st
members in ou8r area. And we have a good number of solid
invesxtigators. Several families that are waiting on some sort of
marriage paper work so they can get married. He has been in memphis all
17 moonths of his mission in the same branch. Everybody in the branch
know his and loves him and enjoys givig him a hard time.
I CANT BELIVE THEY CHANGED THE MISSION AGES. I was freaking out.
There was nobody freaking out more than me. I couldnt belive it. THat is
huuuuge I guess we are anticipating a whole lot more missionaries
particularly sisers. We'll seee what happenes. I was thinking too that
there will be like a 2 year drought hypothetically of male BYU freshman
because in the US boys typtically graduate a 18 so you can logic though
that the same way I did in my head I wont explain everything i am
hinking for times sake.
If you want to know what my life is like google racial demographics of memphis. THat will give you a good clue.
Couple funny stoires. First we were at a members home back in noth
little rock and they fed us a little bit and they were making fun of my
cmoapnion becus he was esting a ton (he scraped their pan cl;ean) *head
shaking* The dad was like man I can find you more food "voy a hacer
maruchan con dos oevos" Im gunna make ramen with two egs in it. He said
it really fast and I though he said Vamos a luchar con oevos which means
we aer going to fight with eggs. So I was like "uhhh we aer going to
fight with eggs"? and his two teenage children who spaek english were
laughing hysterically and we all had a good laugh about it (they
explained it to their parents)
Also alllll hispanic people know each other. ITs crazy! a spanish
missionary told me that at the beginning of last week and I hadnt seen
much evidence of it so I was like nah your exaggerating. All week back
in NLR we would go to sombeodys house and another one of our ivestigaros
would be there it was rediculous. I cant explain to you how out of
control it got. Soem of our nivestigaorts play soccer together and some
cut metal together and others and everybodys everybodys brother in law.
Conference was sooo good. I loved it. Watched saturday in eng
sunday in esp. Got a little more uot of sat sessoins. Let me play you
back a moment from conference this weekend. "Next we will hear from
Walter F Gonzales of the 70" AND THE HISPAPNICS GO WILD. they love him
in the spanish branch here. HE came alst month and spoke to them in
spanish. THey seriosuly love him everyone in the chapel started looking
at each other with huge grins it was pretty cute.
I was looking hard for Ben's Dad in the mens choir from Ogden. Couldn'tt find him though.
Ok here is a lesson in memphis culture from the perspective of me.
If you buy an old ford focus hatch back then you jack it up and give it
sweet rims and paint it purple and put a bunch of chrome on it. IT does
not change the fact that its an old ford focus hatch back. Perhaps I
hyperbolize but seriousle there are some prettttty sweeeeet customs
around this area.
I cant think of too much else to say. ELder mayberry the engilsh
missionary that lived in the same apartment as me in NLR who I got along
ith really well got moved to memphis east english. He lives like a mile
away. Pretty cool.
OH another thing! I basically went from a companionship talkign split of 95 to 5 percent in NLR to my first day here
in memphis opperating at about 60 40 after which we had a kind
loving little talk about how we needed it to be 50 50 if we wanted a
full measure of the spirit. and now things opperate at about 55 45 or
closer to 50 50 MY LIFE HAS CHANGED A LOT.
Not to mention the fact that we taech a tonnnn more ni this area.
Basically the day I got transgerrreed here I became a real missioary
pretty quickly.
OHHH AND IT GOT REALLY COLD HERE. IT just happened there was no
inbetween. THere were no fall temperatures. I might have to ask you guys
to send some sweaters soon. All solid color dark. It didnt tell me to
bring any in my packet but everybody has soem down here and it
aparrently get legitimately cold.
Love you alll tons and love hearing from you.
Elder Davidson
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