This week was awesome. We had an amazing temple trip to take
investigators and they loved it. The spirit was strong and everything was
well organized and executed. My branch president forgot to contract a bus to
take everyone, so at 6:15 in the morning the day of the trip he called to tell
us he had forgotten haha. We threw on some clothes and ran down to the
terminal and started searching for anyone who would do the trip for us. As an
answer to our prayers, God placed a bus owner in our path who had just gone down
to the terminal to sign a paper that day, and wasn't going to work. He agreed to
do the trip for us and it turned out great. Between the 2 areas we took 40
investigators and less actives to the temple!
We opened up a new city (San Isidro) it's a little town down
the road from Sensunte, but the new sisters stole so much of our area we had to
find somewhere to work, and we are already seeing fruits.
Friday was interesting (the buses shut down Friday through
Sunday for Holy Week) because we had to see an investigator in San Fransisco.
A little place about 7 miles from Sensunte. We could have paid someone to take
us, but we aren't allowed to get in the back of trucks here, so we ended up
having to walk there and back haha. It was a far walk, but the investigator is
well worth it and everything turned out good. On the way we had all sorts of
adventures- the funniest one was when Elder Bigham saw some bags of what he
thought were juice on the side of the road and convinced me to see who could
throw one higher and have them splat on the road. As we picked them up the
liquid started falling out of little holes all over our hands. The
smell was inmistakable, it wasn't juice, it was pee. hahaha
This week was Semana Santa- meaning everyone decided they
were Catholic again. It was kinda interesting to do a self reflection on how
much my teaching has changed since last Semana Santa. I wish I understood then
what I understand now, about this gospel and about how to teach it to these
people, who have a love for their Savior, but don't know anything about who He
is or what He truly did for them.
In the Lectures on Faith, Joseph Smith explained that to have
true faith we need to understand the character of God, who He really is.
That is one of the most amazing things about the restored
gospel for me. We know who our God is. To us He isn't some impossible to
understand spirit that is everywhere and nowhere at once. He isn't some
undefinable 3 persons in one, or one in three. He is an all powerful, all
knowing, exalted man. The literal father of our spirits. He has an only
begotten Son in the flesh who is our Lord, our brother, our Savior and our
king. He lived a perfect life, and gave a perfect sacrifice that only He could
have given. He suffered more than we can comprehend, more than any man could
have suffered save it be unto death. He bled from every pour, and He did all of
it for the simple and selfless reason that He loves each of us with a perfect
love.
This Easter I give my witness that Jesus of Nazareth is my
Savior. I love Him with all my heart and despite all of my efforts I will
always be in His debt.
The distractions of the world and temporal needs and
responsibilities may not allow me to dedicate all the time I should after the
mission to spreading His true gospel, but I hope to always be a
missionary.
I'm happier and working harder than ever:)
Love
Elder Davis
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