So this week was the best! We got to do a ton of service:
cleaning up planters in a local school, cutting down a huge mango tree with
machetes, sweeping up 10 million leaves into plastic bags, etc. It always feels
so good to go out and work a little bit and help people out.
But the best day of the week was by far Friday. We woke up
at 3 am to be in the temple chapel at 7 for the multi mission meeting with President (Russel M.) Nelson. It was crazy. Our bus driver ended up getting lost and we didn't get
there until 9:15 and missed the first 15 minutes of the meeting but it wasn't
that big of a deal because we still heard Pres. Nelson speak. He taught us a ton of
things, but it was just awesome seeing him. He was so happy and lively and just
looked like he was happy to be part of this great work. He took the time to
shake the hands of over 500 of us missionaries and it was just super awesome.
I learned a ton.
Saturday we went to a couple of quick appointments and then had
to go to the stake center all afternoon which would have been boring, but Elder
Ochoa of the 70 was leading the meeting which made it cool. Afterwards he
totally walked up and told me and my comp hi and talked to us for a minute. We
tried to play it cool, like no big deal, but I'm pretty sure we were more excited
than little kids Christmas morning. haha
Sunday we had stake conference and it was huge!! The chapel
and gym were full and they had to put up canopies outside and project a video
of it because so many people were crammed into the stake center. They re-organized
our stake and changed the "district" Usulutan into a stake. It was
super exciting to see just how big the church is growing here. Our new stake
president is actually the mission doctor, which is awesome because we are
already good friends from my time in the hospital. haha So we are super excited
to start working more with him.
To finish off the conference Elder Ochoa gave a blessing to
everyone. At the end of the blessing he blesseed San Miguel with rain. We have
been without rain for a long time. Everyone lost there crops because there
hasn't been any rain, and the forecast showed no signs of rain... but last night
out of nowhere a huge storm rolled in and it began to rain. Super awesome to
see the power of the priesthood at work.
Everything is going well, hope for you guys too!
Love Elder Davis
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