April 22, 1009

nnnnnoooooooooooooooooo?????? dougalognie is going to get married? What? mmmmmk, Jord- I know, Holy Holy HOly Holy c. But, besides the crazy stuff, me and Elder Lish are doing good. This week I tried some new foods like eggplant and chu-chu. The teaching is getting way good!!! we returned to an investigator taught a while ago and he is way interested and we taught him the first, and second lesson these last few days and he understood really well. We also have kicked it up a knotch and made better goals and are really working hard to fulfill them. I am way adicted to studying the scriptures and principles of the gospel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the things I study are crucial!!. Because almost everything I study, and it doesnt matter what or when, but I always use that thing I studied in teaching etc. so its cool. Afew days ago we taught a lady and her husband who is alittle crazy and lost one of his fingers, and they have billions of birds!!!!! one bird they have is cool because it likes to be petted on the head, and when you leave it gets alittle upset and stomps its feet on the ground so you come back. The lady we taught is part of the adventista church,- "mother of abominations" and we taught the second lesson which was alittle hard for her and her husband to understand but we were able to clear up the difficulties teaching slowly and clearly, resolving doubts. And at the end she accepted the invitation to pray and ask it its true. IN my last area I thought about -"why do people not understand these things we teach when they are so clear and simple that you are pretty much beating them in the face and they dont feel it?" and while I was studying the scriptures the lord answered my question in 1N 32:7. I think the time zone is the same here but I dont know, maybe abit different. My area is in Aracruz, Espirito Santo so maybe you can look it up on the internet to see the time zone or something. I learned something really interesting in church this last sunday; That when you ask the lord for patience or something he usually just doesnt give it to you. But he will give you the opportunity to learn it through a trial or something and if you ask for his help and study and do your part he will help you find the solution. I remember a time when I asked the lord to learn what he wanted me to learn (this was before I learned ths principle) and I passed a really really hard time with trials, but I know they were for my good and an answer to my prayers and stregnthened me. If it were not for the trials in our lives we wouldnt be strong enough to resist the damage done by the devil. The Book Of MOrmon, sincere prayer, and going to church are the strength givers from the lord. I know that Jesus Christ lives and through him we are forgiven, and the Lord loves us. Thomas S. monson in the prophet called of the lord that lives today. EM nome de Jesus Cristo amem. Have a good week and Ill be talking to you all again in a few weeks. Love you all and thanks for the help and emails. Elder Davis

April 17, 2009

hey, Today I was part of an emergency transfer. Yesterday morning I got up and was about to do my exercises adn the phone rang- the LZ said that I was being transfered to Aerocruz in Espirito Santo. I had to get all my stuff ready and leave for Rio at 3 o clock, I got there about 6 and met up with some other Missionaries going there, and we got the bus at 10:30 and I got here in my new area about 2 hours ago!! I have never been on the bus for so long!! My new comp. is Elder LIsh from Treemonton, Utah. I already know him becasue he was with us in Campos.( one of my old areas) Easter was good, we did a fast and the lord gave us huge blessings. We were blessed to run into one of our old invesitgator and she came to church and the lord helped her realize that the church is true, and one of our other investigators came and found out this also again and was pretty much begging to be baptized. so the lord helped us a ton!!! The people here celebrated by leaving town, Drinking beer, or selling and eating tons of chocolate!! The statue of Christ and sugar loaf are in my area, I pass by them almost every month or so. The missionaries probably dont know me becasue they are probably new. I have been focusing allot lately on marking and fulfilling my goals and the lord is teaching me more diligence. And I am still adicted to studying the principles and striptures. Remember who you are and why we are here, we have to be obedient with exactness. Jesus Christ lives, Hevenly Father answere prayers and the BOM/church is true. have a good week and work hard and do whats right. love you all Elder Davis Invitation: pray sincerely, using only words that you mean. and study to know who Jesus Christ is more. I promise you will feel the love of the lord, have help in your life and stregnthen your faith to overcome problems.

April 8, 2009

hey, hHws it going? so yesterday was interesting- you know how there are allot of stray dogs here? well one day ( about 2 weeks ago) I called the dog and it for some reason likes me and started to follow us all day. Another day it found me again adn followed us again, and yesterday it found me and followed us all over. The bad thing is that it thinks It has to protect us so when ever a motorcyle drives by or a car it gets really mad and runs out to bite the tires. It does it everytime then follows us so people think its ours. Yesterday it ran out and went for a tire of a motorcycle and the two people on the bike got really scared and we were thinking people are going to get mad at us because of the dog becasue it almost bit the lady on the back, someone will sue us or something so we decided to ditch the dog. First as the dog was walking in front of us we jumped into a store and hid but it returned and found us, then we took a sharp corner and hid but it found us. Grrr. It followed us into stores before and so later when it chased off another dog we took the opportunity adn ran. We ran down the block and lost the dog so that was good. At least until the next time it finds us. This week was reall good, it rained allot this week. We are trying to find the people who are ready to hear the gospel. Lately we are finding allot of people who say the Book OF Mormon is a lie and to stop teaching about it, but little do they know!!! I know soon we will find someone who is prepared by the lord. Conference was awesome!!!!!! when Pres. Monson talked it was way good the first session on Sunday, and when the choir sang "we thank the o god for a prophet" the Holy Ghost renewed my testimony that Pres. Monson is Gods prophet. And I liked learning how faith and doubt cant exixt at the same time in you so throw away the doubt through filling yourself with spiritual experiences so there is no room for doubt. I figured faith is like a cup in the sun- if you leave it, it will evaporate. But if you want to keep it full you have to keep putting water in it like how we have to keep filling ourselves with spiritual experiences- reading the BOM, seeking revelation etc. I went to the dentist and he said he cant do the retainer, the only way to realign my teeth he said is with braces again. But dont worry, my teeth are not bad and are good. Easter is celebrated here too. One other thing I have been thinking about lately is our Savior, I am gratefull for him becasue of the many times I make mistakes and I ask for forgiveness and I feel the heavy load taken off me and I feel happy again. I know that Jesus Christ lives and his sacrifice is reall and eternal. Heavenly Father hears and answer every sincere prayer and Thomas S. Monson is Gods prophet on the earth to guide us. IN the name of JESUS CHRIST amen. dad/mom- I like the theory. and thanks for the being the best examples ever. and thanks for everything. mmmmk. Jord- lucky!!! and keep up the good work, thanks for being the best Bro. Alex/court- love you.-thanks for being the best sistas! Love you all and have a good week Elder Davis

April 1, 2009 letter from Kenz

hello, This week was good, we had allot of blessings from the lord. Good news from everybody- I asked the president and he said I cannot write Dylan and Jason throught the Internet. the sandrail sounds cool, and thats cool Jord that your finishing the BOM. Alex and Court- ballet?-eh. and what do you like to do Courtney durring the day? I went to the dentist to get my teeth looked at so we could to the retainer but we had to remark a day to come back becasue some equip. broke but I was thinking- do I really need a retainer? my teeth seem great to me and I dont want to waste money and the lords time too, what do you think I should do about the retainer? the appt. is this Friday so if you could let me know or something before. this week we are working on the little things, not saying negative things, being on time to all our stuff, and things like that because the president invited us to work on things like this, and its going good with the lords help. one cool thing that happened today was I was looking for my planner so I could get some adresses and I couldnt find it, I looked through my stuff about three times and I decided to say a prayer. After I just went straight to a drawer and was guided to look under some papers and it was there. I say this becasue it proves that God exists and he is always there for us. It is way easy to forget about the lord adn think about the worldly things and brush away what is important, I dont know why we have the natural tendency to doubt about the things concerning the lord- maybee its so we can be humble and be stregnthened in him but to do this it means we have to study the scriptures every day and pray etc. You hear in the scriptures of great stories of faith and wonder, why dont I have faith like that? but the lord has a purpose for everything and maybe we just need to look for that gift of the H.G. (faith) but through scripture study is where i have found the fountain of the "faith-stregnthener". I read about Nefi the other day in 1N7 and how Nefi prays to loose the cords and he had such faith the lord loosed them. We can have faith like this if we are diligent through our prayers and scripture study. I know this because I am seeing this in my life. thats cool, I pretty much just gave a talk. but we are doing good, currently looking for the elect to teach. Jesus Christ lives and H.F. answers sincere prayers. and the BOM is true. em nome de Jesus Cristo amem. Have a good week and love you all, Elder Davis