So about my week! So right now I'm focusing soley on reviving my area!! I'm working so hard to find investigators. I have to admit I have never been shut down so many times in my life... and I was stressing every day about what I can do to find my investigators (I know that we can contact only if we feel the spirit ) but this week i just prayed for the spirit all the time so technically I can contact all the time right?? haha I contacted every menos activo and ancient investigator we had, but this week we met every single mark. Had 30 plus leccions and had 20 new investigators!!!! It was the hardest week, but I saw how God does bless us if we do everything we possibly can!!!! Gosh God is awesome. He pushes me to the limit everyday, and I am slowly watching him make me a better missionary. My mission is really strict and for good reasons the amount of good missionaries who work hard are few. My goal is to help this mission into a mission that works hard and becomes a machine for bringing people into the fold of Christ. Gosh I love this work. It is the work of ALL. not just us missionaries!! but I can't wait to see what more God is going to make of me, and how I can help the people here in oaxaca :)I love you guys!! You are always in my prayers! (another thing i learned this week is that prayer really works!! :) )Love, Elder Davenport
Monday, December 30, 2013
Email From Elder Davenport December 30, 2013
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
A Christmas Video for Elder Davenport
Another Christmas Video - from Aunt Kim and Uncle Jeff and baby Boone from Spearfish, South Dakota.
Monday, December 23, 2013
December 23, 2013 - First Christmas Week in Oaxaca Mexico
So a little about this week!! So this week a member of the 70 came and talked to us and put these new amazing goals for the Oaxaca mission!! We have to try for 40-60 lessons (our goal was 30) and one baptism every week!! Its a little nuts because here in Oaxaca it's really hard to put 30 lessons because the people here are not very receptive.. but It was awesome because I was talking to my companion the day before about how we could have a complete resurrection of my area (my last comp didn't work it in a way that there would be future baptisms after he left) so we were throwing around all these ideas about more effect lessons that are a little shorter so we can find more people. And then I was throwing these ideas around to our district leader and then Elder Valensuela basically said that we need to start doing all my little ideas about being more effective and finding more people! haha So i was way pumped for this week!! And we had an awesome week!!! We found two really good prospects who could possibly get baptised!! WOO!!! With my favorite investigator Jacobo and is wife they prayed about the Book of Mormon and they know its true!!! It's awesome because I'm watching them change there lives!! :) Gosh I know this church is true and can really change lives!! I LOVE YOU GUYS thanks for your prayers and for your emails!! Im so blessed to have family like you guys :)
love Elder Davenport
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
December 16, 2013
This week was especially good. I got a new comp who actually wants to work hard!! and I am in the same area so I am basically running my area and I love it!!!! One of my prime investigators just agreed to a baptism for Dec 28 so I'm way excited!!! That will be my first baptism that I hope I can be here for! (don't want to get special changed again) haha but he was talking to us about how he prayed alot about the Book of Mormon and how he knows its true. Gosh I'm so excited for him!!! I also realize how blessed I am to have been given this little piece of the lords kingdom to bring as many people as I can into the fold of Christ!!! :) I'm pumped as always!!! Can't wait to go find and teach the people God is preparing for this message!!!
Love you guys always in my prayers!!! Love Elder Davenport (probably climbing hills and eating bugs somewhere in the Oaxaca :) )
December 9, 2013
This week has been pretty good!!! My comp was pretty sure he was getting transferred and let me take control this week which was nice, because I love my comp and all but he just didn't like to really be the most effective as possible. haha But anyways it was a little sad because one of my favorite investigators who lived in the United States tell he was deported.. he has lots of problems because he can't find a job and has three little kids ( he was the one we helped slaughter a pig with which was nasty because they used every part of the pig, and then I realized I had been eating cooked blood mixed with a bunch of other gross things for 2 months...) we found him out of his mind drunk on the road, and then he opened up to us about how much harder to live here then in the United States and a bunch of other horrible stuff.. I mean I see why people would want to come to the United States especially here in Oaxaca.. some of the people we visit have houses, but usually just a tin box and then they work 16 hours a day EVERY DAY. Gosh it's aweful. I mean I don't want to be like, let the Mexicans in, but I think there can be a better plan then the one we have. and also this week we added another routine to the trees.... now we dance and sing.. but the thing is no one knew the dance or the song so we just looked like a bunch of stupid trees.. I forgot why I didn't do plays ;) haha anyways being a missionary is awesome because every day i get to feel the spirit and help people become closer to God! So to be a good missionary i want to remind you to read the scriptures and pray every day!! :)}
With all my love
Elder Davenport
Monday, December 2, 2013
TIme a Flying - December 2, 2013
This week was awesome, but it was awesome because we had a "choir play thingy" haha. Maybe it's on face book don't know!! I got to be a tree!! haha. Yeah I am now officially "that guy"... hahaha, but it was fun! I didn't have any cool lessons, or actually hardly any this week because my companion volunteered to help run the coro so we barely taught any one... but I got to help slaughter a pig!!! :D. I'll send some pics some time!!!! Anyway I am loving the people here, and I am loving watching these people who have nothing, learn to draw nearer to God and become better people :) I love my mission, and I love the people here!! :) and I love you guys. You guys are always in my prayers!
LOVE, Elder Davenport
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