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Kelson with friends from the Nauvoo Pageant who are in Mexico helping with
the Temple Celebration Pageant for the Mexico City Temple Pageant
This yellow canopy is there they practice for Saturday Night't performance |
Hey
everyone!
This week has been the busiest week of my WHOLE
mission! I have a lot of stories to tell you so I hope I can keep this
all coherent...
So
there is this little girl that lives like two blocks away from us and
every time she sees us she says, "I LOVE YOU! My name is...." She is
trying to ask what MY name is...but it's so adorable! I usually don't
talk to her though because I don't know who her parents are I just saw
hi to her haha but the other day she was with her cute little friend and I
was like Awww my cute little friends that speak English! And then they
turned around and they were playing with firecrackers! Like the HUGE
ones! I was laughing so hard...Not gonna lie got hit with a firework
yesterday that was crazy. Didn't hurt that bad though, it was crazy.
Some kid just threw it in the street like a couple feet from my
companion and I and we just ran but the shell still got me hahaha!
#Mexican Moment
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| Fixing his shoe |
The
hole in my shoe is even bigger now but it won't get any bigger (don't
worry mom) so I filled it in with hot glue in the offices! I can't
believe how well it worked! But it only worked for like 4 hours...sad
day.
Video of the hole they found in the street
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| Yes, Mexico City is sinking |
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| Now that is a deep hole! |
So we were
walking down the street and there was a little hole like a foot long
and almost a foot wide and then I looked in and it just went down like
10 feet hahaha I took some pictures it is pretty wild! This place is
dangerous. #Mexico
We
got to go to the temple twice this week to take a tour with some
investigators. On Thursday we took 3 families (14 people in total) and
got on one of the LAST tours! It was SO wild making that all happen. I'm
not gonna tell you how many people we fit in a little Nissan Tsuru taxi
because y'all would flip (but it was totally 12 people...). It was so
worth it though! They loved the tour! The temple is SO gorgeous, I can't
wait to be able to go in a week from Wednesday! That is surely the
house of the Lord. It represents the best that we can give to the Lord. A
lot of people ask us why the Lord´s house has to be so gorgeous and
it´s simply because it is HIS house. He requires the best that we can
give him! Yesterday (Sunday) we also got to take another part-member
family through and they loved it! The Open House was supposed to end on
Saturday but because so many people came they extended it to Sunday as
well! What a blessing!
Also
our Landlord has a Utah Valley Marathon Sticker on his car...so that
was super weird to see outside of my house. I freaked out a little bit
haha!
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| Landlord's car has a Utah Valley Marathon sticker. How random? |
The other
Elders in our ward had a baptism and this is a great story! So Elder
Jensen and I were in Bosques together (my first area) and they had a
convert named Lupita who is just the BEST member! A few weeks ago Jensen
ran into her in the street outside their apartment and it turns out she
grew up in our ward! She gave them a referral for her Sister and her
family and one of their daughters got baptized and the others are
preparing for baptism! We got to talk to Lupita a little and it is just
the craziest thing, I taught her a lot after Jensen left and we are
really close with their family, they all were there at the baptism and
after! Haha so just so you know how awesome Lupita is let me tell you a
story. She was VERY active in the Catholic church (I mean hours a day
she spent in Mass, doing exorcisms, etc.), and she was confronted by an
old Father she was very close to who just wanted to destroy her. He
asked her to pull out her Bible to obviously try and confound her and
she just said, "Father, I have the truth HERE (and held her hand on her
heart), there´s nothing in that book you can twist to try and trick me."
He tried ripping on her but she just bore her testimony and she said
when the missionaries come you open the door and LISTEN and ask God and
he WILL tell you the truth! She said a lot of other AWESOME things but
the moral of the story is her friend was left without words and very
humbled! GO LUPITA!
I
got to attend a baptism for our Zone Leaders and it was by far the
coolest baptism I have ever been to. I went with Elder Hicks on
divisions on Tuesday and as we went to see this lady (Rosario, her
daughter is a member of 26 years) she didn't even open the door she just
said that we should leave and not waste our time with her! We were
super confused (I even more, I had never taught her and he didn't tell
me who she even was haha) but Elder Hicks convinced her to let us come
back tomorrow. She had her interview with President on Friday and got
baptized Saturday. In her baptism, her daughter shared that in her
patriarchal blessing she received a promise that if she faithfully
listened to the Holy Ghost and stayed firm in the faith, her mom would
be a member of the Church. She testified that the Lord will ALWAYS keep
his promises and the Spirit was SO strong. That was so great!
Also
the other Elders in my District baptized a lady that has been listening
to the missionaries FOREVER and after going to the temple she decided
to get baptized! She came in a wheelchair and was just SO happy to be
there.
Lots of miracles from the Temple Open House. Wow.
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Sister Erin Jones is Kelson's 2nd Cousin on his mother's side. Her mother is Sarah Borden Jones
whose mother is Neva Borden - Noni's Father;'s sister - Got that? HAHA. They saw each other
at the Temple Open House. Sister Jones is in the Mexico City South East Mission. |
I
also got to see my Second Cousin who is the Mexico City South East
Mission and that was so cool! We still have some work to do with the
referrals, but we are making progress!
Saw
some friends from Salt Lake again doing the Pageant and I got a
pictures this time so I'm very happy about that! I am SO excited for the
transmission this Saturday! It's gonna be GREAT!
Well I love you all so much! Keep your heads up and don't forget to Pray!
With (lots of) love,
Elder Davies
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