Towards the end of last week I was looking over my
patriarchal blessing. I used to be really good at reading it every Fast Sunday
but sadly have gotten out of the habit. Every time I read it, it inspires me to
work a little harder to be worthy of the blessings that are promised therein.
This week I realized I wasn't living up to part of it and decided it was time to
repent. Back home early morning work-outs weren't that hard because I was
generally jumping in a freezing cold pool and you wake up pretty dang fast, but
here my workouts have always been half hearted and done more to just be
obedient to the missionary schedule than to actually achieve anything. But
after reading my blessing I was inspired and set the goal to wake up at 5:30
each morning. So this entire week I woke up at 5:30, got in 30 min of Book of
Mormon reading (it's actually harder to find time here to read than you would think) and then worked out from 6-7. I feel so much
better. I didn't even realized just how out of shape I was in, but just starting
off the day like that makes such a difference! Hopefully I can keep up the pace
because as of right now, I'm loving it!
This Thursday we had a really special night. We are always
in charge of getting organized the family nights we have for the branch every
Thursday, but this week the Young Men's President said he was going to take care
of it all with the Branch President and Secretary. We showed up a little early
(not that I was skeptical that they were actually going to do it, more of just
an insurance haha) and all the chairs were already set up. As everyone started
showing up we greeted them as usual, but they all had looks on their faces like
they were up to something. The family night began (a half hour late as is
Salvadorean custom) and the branch had done the whole thing as a thank you
to us missionaries. A lot of members had prepared little talks and one member
even played, "Armies of Helaman" on his guitar while he sang modified
song lyrics directed more towards us. It was so kind of them, I love this
branch, and hope I don't get changed on the 20th so I can finish my mission
here. I feel like I have so much more I want to be able to help these people
with, and just not enough time to do it.
Other than that, it was a pretty normal week. I got my airline
ticket... talk about a terrible feeling.
But overall happy, working hard, and trying to gain lots of
weight before I get home:)
Love,
Elder Davis
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