Hey everyone!
How are ya´ll?? Things are just so
great here in Mexico. I LOVE Mexico. It's just like the US really, just
completely different in every way.
So this week
my companion and I went and helped a brother in our ward lower a 225
pound gas tank from his roof along with a bunch of other old iron to
sell to the recyclers. And how is it that we took a giant gas tank, 15
foot by 12 foot sheets of iron, and a bunch of other random iron car
parts to the recyclers? Davies style. That's right! With a MINIVAN! I was
so stoked because my companion was obviously a little confused how we
were gonna get ALL that stuff in and on that minivan but I had no
doubts. I know how to minivan. I felt right back at home with my daddy!!
So
they have rules that we can't call Elders outside of our own District,
but this week I called a lot of people outside the Zone and the mission.
It rained REALLY hard on Friday, and I have all the Elders´ numbers
saved in our phone, so I called the Elders in the ward Estrella and they
answered and I asked if they were in their house and he´s like who are
you?! And I was like who are YOU?! And turns out I talked to some other
Elders in the mission...well long story short every time I tried to
called the Elders in Estrella someone else answered, and yesterday the
Elders were from another mission in Mexico hahahaha the Elder was from
Sandy though so that was cool! That was a bit of an interesting
experience haha!
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| National Police officer stands outside of polling station on street in Mexico City. 8 Candidates have been murdered and 9 Campaign Officials have been killed in election violence |
We got a reference a couple
weeks ago for someone named Diana and finally found her this week at her
house! She is so awesome! She has already been to church once and she
is so down to come with us church! I'm really excited for her and I am
hoping and praying she progresses. Yesterday were the national elections
here in Mexico so a lot of people had to go work at the voting booths
for their political parties, so Diana couldn't come this week but she
said she will this week and we have an appointment with her on Friday!
Also met a guy knocking doors named Guillermo and he said he already had
a Book of Mormon that belonged to his dad before he died and we were
like do you wanna get baptized? And he said yes. So we will see if he
comes to church! We put a baptismal date for him for the 5th of July,
but we will see if he is willing to come to church! That is the hardest
thing...please pray for our investigators that they can get all their
work and family stuff worked out so they can come to church!
We
talked to a member's husband who isn´t a member about the Restoration
and after we told him he had to find out for himself by doing what
Joseph Smith did and asking God. I asked him what would keep him from
praying and he said he is afraid to get an answer and then get baptized
and then just stop going to church...we explained that our conversion
and testimony were like seeds that needed to be cared for but if we
receive an answer and keep working at it, we will NEVER fall away, and
he still just didn't want to pray. He said he is happy where he is at,
but I was REALLY direct with him and I think one day he might just pray
and get an answer if he is willing to pray and listen! We'll see!
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| Umbrella Sharing: A new way to street contact? |
So
I discovered this amazing new way to contact and give service at the
same time. I call it the rain contact. When it all the sudden starts
raining super hard some people just hide under whatever they can to keep
dry so we just come along with our umbrella and we are like, "Hey,
where do you live? No way! We are going that way right now!" Then we
just go with them! It is amazing and they get to listen to us the whole
time we walk! Haha! There were two teenage girls the other day stuck
like that, but I gave them my umbrella and shared with my companion so
that wouldn't be weird...but we still contacted them and they were
grateful and maybe we will get to visit them again some day! This type
of contacting reminds me of what we did in Nauvoo when it started
raining hard and everyone went under the tents and we just got to get so
many references from them hahaha!
So this guy
Fernando (that I had NEVER seen before) came up to me in the street and
asked me where the Twin Towers were...I thought he was making some dumb
anti-american comment about us getting bombed but then he clarified he
was talking about two HUGE white Elders that were in the area like a
year ago and I just laughed a lot hahahaha! Then he said his wife went
to church a few times and listened to the missionaries but was super
sick now. We offered to visit him and he said, "No, I have too many
dogs. It's impossible." We kept asking and he kept saying no so we said
goodbye and then the next day I saw him walking into his house and holy
puppies...there were literally like 50 dogs. It was all he could do to
shove himself through the door amidst them all barking and freaking out.
I have NEVER seen so many dogs in so small of a space. I think he has
more dogs in his house than there are in the whole neighborhood hahaha.
Well
I love you all so much and I hope you all are doing so well! Thank you
so much for the wonderful emails and the support! Means the world!
-Elder Davies
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