June 3rd

Hellos everybody,

 

wooooh it feels like its been forever doesn't it?!

 

Anyways I'll try to run you through a quick update of things down here. Fastest transfer ever with Elder Hernandez. Things are looking medium well for the work we have some good things happening. I got a confirmative call Thursday night that I am still training so transfers are this Wednesday and I will be picking up Elder Myers. Don't know a thing about him other than his name. I think we are picking up another 14 sisters this transfer?! They're coming so fast that half of them are training after their first 6 weeks. 6 more weeks and the first of the Spanish sisters will arrive. With more coming in October I believe. Whole bunch of other weird stuff going on with transfers I'll spare you the details. Looks like the assistants to president are going to be moving areas maybe. Pretty decent chance they could land in the Little Rock English area or in other words across the parking lot from us and one of the missionaries that has been there will become the new assistant. Not gonna lie that would be nice to have them right there. They have unlimited miles on their car and its just never bad to have friends that have a say in things. Not going to make a big deal out of it. Doesn't matter that much but it might be nice.

 

Elder Hernandez is sad to be leaving this area. I think he asked president if he could spend his last 7 months here because he loves it here so much. He got a little sad when he found out I was training last Thursday but he's doing good now.

 

Other Spanish in our district had an awesome baptism this week. There was a semi-active member who had a lady move in with him and then they got in contact with the missionaries up there and they taught em and then this past thurday they got married and baptized. So now they are doing things right. So they baptized the lady and her teenage daughter. I did their baptismal interviews which was a pretty cool experience.

 

I don't know what else really to say.

Spiritual thought for the week: read your scriptures. I work really hard not to judge people but you can tell which active members read their scriptures and which don't. Those who study are just filled with the spirit. There is really just a visible difference. You don't need a lot of time we're all busy but make it a spiritual experience. Just read 'em. Its awesome I promise.  You'll be happier.

 

Love you all, take care and say a prayer for Elder Myers. The first week is tough.

 

Star Studded Week on the Arkansas red carpet

Hey everybody,

 

So this last week had some ups and some downs kind of like every week I guess.

 

We'll go through the positives first. Gladys Knight was sick! She came on Tuesday with her choir and it was a full on worshipping party. It was actually way fun. It was kind of long and hot and really crammed. But it was a pretty cool event. There were two shows 5:30 and 8:30. We went to *:30 with some returning members from Guatemala. There were these three older black ladies in front of us and they were really sooo funny. They were singing along to all the Baptist hymns. The choir started singing one of them and the lady in the middle was like OHH that's my ringtone! This was the basic breakdown of the whole thing. Choir directed by Gladys sang for like an hour. (every once in a while she would turn around and just start singing along at the pulpit with embellishment and all) then some funny white guy taught the restoration pretty much for the next 15 min. Then Gladys and her Husband each bore testimony for like 20 min. A couple more songs and it was over. During the testimonies the ladies in front of us kept yelling stuff out it was SOOO FUNNY. Gladys would be like "sometimes life is hard" and the ladies would be like OHH YES IT ISSS OHH SO HARD. and then Gladys would be like "and the devil is working hard all the time and sometimes is easy to mess up" and the ladies would be like " It really is just sooo easy" Anyways I could go on forever about the hilarious things they said but I think you get the point. It was awesome and the Guatemalans fell asleep during the testimonies hahah they don't speak any English. It was weird to have such a bumpin party in the chapel though.

Hands in the air clapping and dancing whatnot.

 

Anyways that was awesome then we had like a last minute out of nowhere Zone Conference and we were visited by Elder Soares one of the newly appointed 7 presidents of the 70. He was not super nice but I think we all just needed to repent and be more obedient and better planners etc etc. Pretty much all the missionaries who I have talked to felt sucky after he came until they repented. I am not even kidding I talked to a bunch of other people. I felt sucky all weekend until I decided to be a little more humble and repent.

 

The bad news of the week is that our top investigators have some serious issues with the Word of Wisdom. I know what you are all thinking right now and you're all wrong. They don't drink or do drugs or anything like that its just coffee. But the problem is that they think the whole W of W think is a bunch of made up garbage and they didn't come to church this sunday when they said they would about an hour and a half before church when we visited them at their house. They wont commit to live it. So we are working through that at the moment.

 

Other than that things are alright.

Miss you all. Its only getting hotter and more humid here every day. Eeeek

 

Elder Davidson