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
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