Hello loved ones,
Man it's been a good week. I hope you're all doing well and feeling blessed.
I got a picture of Clara's haloween costume. Very cute. And congratulations warren and leanne on finding out about the twins!
I'll jump right into things and try to waste no breath this week.
I shaved my head. Well my companion shaved it at least. Only with a
4 it's not actually THAT short. But it looks way different than it ever
has. Feels pretty tough.
Halloween is this week. I want to go tracting but I dont think we are allowed to.
There is a new mission prayer finding (tracting) tactic. It's
called politic finding. I suspect I dont even haev to explain it but
basically you knock all doors with a Romney sign in the front yard. Its
an english missionary thing. And I think people spend a lot more time
joking about it than actually doing it.
As for the spanish missioanries. Well we will stick to puting
everyone with the last name hernandez into our GPS. (We do that) (Well
my companion did at least) (before I got here) (I'll stop with the
brackets now) (we have found some cool hernandez's though)
Viseted the soap opera house in our complex I talked about last
week. Knocked and the old white guy answered. He told us we didnt need
to bother "them" (the honduran women) anymore and then slammed the door
in our face. I'll be honest. I was sooooooo mad. I wanted to say a lot
of things that wouldnt have been good things to say to that guy. But
thankfully he slammed the door before I could.
On to the subject line story. We went to a recent converts for
dinner on Sat and she is a very good cook. So she has some huge pot on
the stove and I am like oh goodness I know what hispanic people put in
soup. EVERYTHING (as far as parts of the animal go) It was a seafood
soup. Basically she brought us a bowel with a little broth in it and a
half a tilapia, like the whole fish, bones and all, just sitting in
there. And a huge mound of shrimp. Shell on. Faces and heads still
present. You have to rip the heads off to eat them. So your hands are in
your bowel like the entire time. My fingers were legitimately very
pruney. It was a little weird. But in all complete honesty it was really
tasty.
We have been working really hard. We have 4 baptismal dates that
are solid at the moment. 3 that arent as solid. and a number of solid
other investigators. If I stay in this area another transfer (fingers
crossed) November we should baptize for my first time and many other
times as well.
I can't express in an email how my faith is growing. Ive begun to
hit my breaking point finally and thankfully. I am beggining to just
love what I do all day every day. The things I understood from the
scriptures the doctrine I knew in my head is begginging by the power of
the spirit to sink into my heart. I feel like I am just barely starting
to "get it" doenst mean I get it. Doesnt mean I stil dont have a
billion problems to work on just like everybody. But I am really
starting to understand. Missionary work is close to the only thing that
matters in the entire world. What we do in our families is missionary
work in the home. That's the most important missionary work we will ever
do. (I think spencer W kimble or David O Mckay said that) The church
callilng you have is missionary work within that stewardship. Missionary
work is just any form of bringing someone our ourselves closer unto
christ. All the other Junk doesnt matter that much. I was studying
faith this morning and it occured to me that all of the things that we
should do if we have faith and all of the things that build faith are
the same there is close to a 100% overlap. So as soon as we exercise a
particle of faith the teeniest bit (alma 32:27 I think maybe) is should
begin a cycle of acting on the faith we have receiving more and acting
on the new greater faith we have. I was thinking about this and I was
thinking "so why doesnt it work like that"
Its because we ourselves get in the way. Our natural man. There are
so many things out there that undermine our faith. #1 is probably
disobedience to the commandments. The simple ones like read, pray, go to
church, touch no unclean thing, etc etc on and on. Fear also gets in
the way. (Fear of man over god) (D&C 3 cant remember the verse maybe
7 I think)
I dont know if this makes sense to anybody other than me but I
think that looking at it this way helps me see what I need to do. Not
get in the way. ( I understand how lofty and complex of a statemtn that
is)
Anyways that's my new goal persoanlly to work on not getting in the
way. I testify of the power of the spirit. It's rediculous. I literally
see it tear down peoples walls and fears every single day. This is the
work of the lord. He is on my left hand and my right.
I love you all so much.
Elder Davidson
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