Holy cow I can't believe I've been on the mission for a year
now!! That seems insane! I'm on the downward slope and I feel like I'm still just
starting! My companion just completed a year as well and we are kinda freaking
out over the lack of time... and kinda just running around like a chicken with
his head chopped off trying to do everything at once. haha
Sorry about last week, I just had a huge migraine and
couldn't really read anything the computer screen said because everything was
blurry, then I started vomiting and just decided it was time to stop trying to
write. I walked outside and kinda fell on the curb unable to walk anymore and
so my comp chased down a taxi that took us to the hospital. I'm not really sure
what all went down in the hospital, but out of nowhere the doctor pulls out
this huge Shot of who knows what and starts injecting me. He told me to take a
pill that helped me fall asleep and then I woke up about 2 hours later in the
hospital bed feeling a lot better!! I don't know what magical stuff he
injected me with, but it did the trick! Then they gave me a bunch of pills to
take over this last week, and since then I have felt fine! The miracle of
modern medicine is real!!
The doctor told me I wasn't allowed to take the bus back to
Jiquilisco that night so we had to sleep in the house of some other
missionaries in Usulutan. It was about midnight and I was sleeping on the hammock when the bolt fell from the wall and I ate crap on the cement floor. haha
Tuesday I got to rest most the day because our house had a
ton of leaks in the roof and after 3 weeks of threatening to move out, our owner
finally sent someone to patch the leaks and we had to sit around the house
while he worked all day.
Wednesday I got my shoes sewn back together so hopefully
they can last another year and then had a fun district meeting.
Thursday I completed one year in the mission! My comp had
just completed a year 2 weeks ago so he waited for me to do the little ritual
of burning a shirt. We both took White shirts and wrote our áreas and
companions on them and then burned them to represent one year down and one more
to go! It was lots of fun.
Friday we woke up early and finished building a less actives
tin house. We have been helping him since I came to the área and we just got it
finished up this week. Its not much, but it was super fun and humbling being
able to help him. Then we ran home to shower, taught a few lessons and changed
back into other clothes to prest service with an investigator! This guy has been
investigating the church for 2 years. We were weeding and doing general yard
maitenance with him, and as we worked we just talked to him and got to know him
a little better. Turns out in all this time he had never told the
missionaries, but he had a daughter die about 5 years ago in a car accident. He
never truly believed in life after death, and was convinced that she
was gone forever. As we pulled weeds we explained to him and testified about
the plan of salvation and how families can be together forever through obedience
to God's plan. It was so powerful and awesome. The truth is no matter how hard
someone looks on the outside they always have something that makes them need
God in their life and being able to help them make that connection is always such
an amazing experience!
Saturday we took some recent converts out on divisions and
they loved it. It was awesome to see them bear testimony to others about there
experiences. Then we spent a large portion of the day attacking an ex-missionary inactive apostate member with the scriptures for not letting her son
get baptized. In the end she agreed under a few conditions, and even agreed to
come to the baptisimal service in a few weeks!
So yeah, overall it was an eventful and great week!
Everything is going good, our district right now is one of the strongest in the
mission so we are really excited and working hard.
Love you all, thanks for everything.
Elder Davis
PS I'm 98% sure i found Holly Frazier in the Liahona magazine
conference edition that they gave us this week... can someone confirm that??
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