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| Kelsen (altered by Dad to Kelson) Cookies. YUM! |
Hello friends and family!
This week has been ABSOLUTELY crazy! I LOVED it!! I wish I could tell you all the happened...let me give it a shot!
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| Service Project - breaking off cement blocks from a house |
On
Monday my companion and I did service at a recent convert´s house
breaking off blocks of her castle-shaped house! Apparently she had
problems with it because her house was going to a be a Preschool but
they ended up changing their mind and they were getting hassles for
it...anyways, long story short we took some sledge hammers to it and it
was LOTS of fun!
On Tuesday I went on divisions
with Elder Duran and it was great! He got a package from home with some
butter cookies and guess what the brand name was! Kelsen! That´s SO
close...Some of the highlights of those divisions were when we asked a
drunk guy how he was feeling and he said "great" and got up and started
dancing to prove it...and when the boiler in Elder Duran´s house caught
on fire. We´re getting that fixed, don´t you worry, Mom!
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| Boiler at one of the Elder's apartment catches on fire when it turns on. OOPS! Getting that fixed :) |
Saturday
was one of the BUSIEST days of my WHOLE mission. We started the day
getting everything ready for Sergio´s baptism at 4PM and then had an
English class at 11AM. From 11AM till our lunch we had to do 6 baptismal
interviews, I got to do 5! After eating, we went back to the baptism
which was AWESOME!
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| Sergio's Baptism! |
I got to baptize Sergio and
he was so excited. His Mom had a problem years ago and had her leg
removed and now is in a wheel-chair. She hasn't been excited to talk to
us or anything, but when Sergio was going out the door to his baptism
she asked if she could go with him wherever it was he was going and he
said sure! She got there and Sergio told us she didn't know why she was
there and what was happening...but she figured it out and was a good
sport about it! She actually came to church on Sunday when Sergio was
confirmed! I also got to confirm him!
After the
baptism we did divisions with Elder RodrÃguez and Elder Sazo to be able
to get all the baptismal clothing for the 6 people that were going to
be baptized Sunday morning. We had to do a lot of running around and
going to other wards but everything worked out!
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| Elizabeth's Baptism by her cousin Luis who is heading on a mission! |
Now
remember Elizabeth? She has been wanting to be baptized but she didn't
have permission from her parents. Her uncle and aunt and cousins are
active members so they went to talk with her dad. Her Aunt called me
right before Sergio´s Baptism and told me that she had permission and
she wanted to be baptized on Sunday!! Luckily Elder RodrÃguez was near
by, so he came and did her baptismal interview!
She
was baptized at 3PM yesterday (Sunday) by her cousin, Luis who is
preparing to go on a mission! The coolest part was not only did
Elizabeth´s parents give her permission, they CAME to her baptism! It
was a beautiful experience!
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| Elder Oaks is coming! |
Okay and BIG NEWS!
We just received the news that Elder Dallin H. Oaks will be coming to
our mission on April 16th to speak to us! And on the 17th of April he
will speak to our Stake in Stake Conference! WOW!
AND
OTHER BIG NEWS! We were just approved (our mission) to be the beta
mission for iPads in Mexico. They have had the permission for a few
months now, but they are rolling it out now! So....I´M WRITING THIS FROM
MY IPAD!! My companion and I have both have 2 new iPad Minis! It´s
pretty awesome, actually!
Well that´s all for this week, Happy April Fools Day this week (that should explain the iPads). I love you all!!
-Elder Davies
The photos with the letter make such a great journal for his mission. Lots of work but it's priceless. I love the letters.
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