This week has been super awesome! I spent the first half of the week in a neighboring town called Jerome because my companion got his visa. So it was really cool I learned so much from the companion I was with (Elder Johnson) in just those few short days. I got a new companion Elder Pimentel who is from Hilmar, California. He has been out for 9 months and is a visa waiter as well. He is super cool and we are getting along very well. We have a lot of the same interests, which I could not say about my last companion, so that has been very awesome so far! I am super stoked to work with him and to stay in Hagerman. This week has been really fun and really spiritual as well. We have really made a big push on finding new people to work with and visiting all the members of our ward. there are about 520 names or families on the roster in a town of about 1200 in area of about 50 miles so there are a bunch of people around here that are Mormon so we really want to try and increase the amount of people attending church as well. I am so excited because we are actually working hard now! Elder Collins didn't have the best work ethic so that was probably the hardest thing for me. But we are working for sure now. We were here for only a half a week and we got 7 lessons. (which we normally would get about 5 so I am super excited about that.
We have been working with a lot of less-actives and part-member families and I have loved helping to strengthen them and their families. One family, the hulmes family, we have been working with a lot. The son (Austin) is the only active member of there family and although he is only 12 he walks to church every week by himself. It has been inspiring to watch and last week he was sitting all by himself and I told him to come sit by us and I think that rally helped him to let him know that although he is going alone he isn't alone.
This week I have been putting a lot of focus on charity and compassion in my personal studies and I am trying to apply it into my life so that I can more affectively help everyone. I have learned and grown soo much this past week and I really hope that I can make even more of an impact in peoples lives and try to bring them closer to Christ. I hope to make this a pattern for the rest of my life. I love this gospel and the opportunity I have to wake up every morning and have everything I do directed at serving the lord and trying my best to do what he would have me do. I have been learning so much about how to recognize the promptings of the spirit and trying to love as obediently as possible so I can be more receptive to it. I know that it is only through prayer and the promptings of the spirit I can know what the lord would have me do and the only way I can receive that is through faith, obedience and submissiveness.
Last night we had dinner with a lady who takes care of people who can't live on there own due to disability. We had a neat lesson about heavenly father and jesus Christ in john 3:16 and one of them (bruce) who went to church earlier in the day expressed some cool thoughts and shared some stories and has shared his interest in maybe joining the church and taking lessons. I hope that we can help him come closer to chirst work with him towards baptism.
This week has been super amazing and I cannot imagine being anywhere else, or doing anything else. I love this gospel, there is nothing more elegant, organized or true on this entire planet. I have come to a further knowledge of how much heavenly father loves all his children, and that he has a purpose and a plan for every one of us. I know that what I am doing is what the lord wants me to do and I know that as I diligently serve his family, he will in turn bless mine. I have found no greater happiness in my entire life then what I have experiencing on my mission. And I want to share that happiness that I feel and share it with everyone I meet.
I love you all and am so thankful for all of your support and the things you have done for me in my life.
* Also some fun things this week, It has been snowing "a lot" here lately which has been really fun. Saturday the Spanish elders from Wendell came down to help with a service project at Bro. woods house and we got side tracked and had a snowball fight which was really fun. It is really good to grow in unity with the other elders as well as take a quick break and immature again ha. I also cut my finger this week on accident which was fun ha. A mission is super spiritual and super fun! Best of both worlds!
Love,
Elder Davis
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