Marco June 29.2014 Yahoo! Baptism date.

Marco Was Baptized!! June 29, 2014

So Marco got baptized!!! WOOT WOOT!!! It was a grand adventure for sure!! haha First of all the church ran out of water (here in Mexico we have these giant water tanks that every month a car comes by and fills it up) and we were only able to fill up the font to write below our knees.. haha But Marco being a stud, didn't want to wait and was like you can baptise me in this puddle. So we had his baptism in like this puddle in the font haha. I admit we had to do it three times because he had to literally lie down horiziontally in the water haha. It was soo fun! and even though it wasn't the best of circumstances Marco was awesome!!! :)

Sorry had to do some paper work today so didn't have alot of time

Love you guys, 

Love, Elder D

June 22, 2014 Another Baptism Coming Up!

This week for me was a little rough for one of my really awesome investigators that I found dropped us.. he had gone to church 3 times and was so excited to get baptized.. he believed in everything, too. But his family is part of some  Christian church so they told him he can't listen to us anymore.. It was way sad. But!! God Always answers prayers, and put someone else in our path to get baptized!! His name is Marco, the reason that I didn't think he was a whole lot interested was because I thought he was gay, haha funny quick story; 

So we were teaching Marco and his friend Jonathan and his friend Jonathan asked us what the church stand point was on gays. So we told them that it is just like any other sin but that if it is a commandment of God we can overcome it and if they want to get baptized they have to follow this commandment and told him the regular lw of chastity stuff haha. Anyway they went super silent and we thought they are gay... this now just became super awkward... hahaha but we played it off in a respectful way and left. When we went back Marco told us that Jonathan doesn't want to listen anymore.. apparently he is cross dresser in the night.. eh..(actually he is always the first one at church, even beats us there) and even though we don't have a lot of people at church he loves the feeling he gets when he's there. We were almost not able to baptize him because we had to get special permision from Pres because he leaves for vacation after his 5th Sunday at church, But for the 1st time ever Pres actually approved him to get baptized this week!! WOO HOO!! :) a week early!! So we should have a baptism this week!! :D

We had an amazing experience this week!! We have this investigator Micaela who can't hear, or sign, or read.. but she loves the feeling she gets in the church. and can explain herself, but in her own litttle language. She is super smart, but when we talked to Pres about her getting baptized he said that she has to learn sign language, and someone has to teach her all the lessons so that she understands every little thing, even though we were able to comunicate to her pretty well with a white board, and she has an awesome desire to get baptized.. and we have to get permision from her mom.

So her mom lives like 6 hours away.. so I kid you not, Micaela (the girl who is 26) tells her mom to come visit through her sister, and she shows up the next day and gave her permission!! :) but now we just have to find a person who knows sign language, but we are making progress! It might take her 6 months but one day she will get baptised!! :D

That's it folks love you guys. thank for the emails :) I am tired but I bought some good food so I will eat it to have energy :)

Love Elder Davenport

June 16, 2014 Where Do You Stand?

We had some interesting experiences this week. One of my favorite investigators, Flor, is really progressing well. We taught her from the scripture in Luke 13: 23- 25 about why few are saved. It talks about how the path is narrow and hard and those who don't follow it in the last day will knock and knock, but then God says, "No se de donde sois", which is to say that I don't know to where you stand. You can't enter my kingdom. She felt the spirit super strong and promised to prepare herself to get baptised next week. She really is awesome, by far my favorite investigator. It has been an awesome experience to watch her change her life, and try to prepare for this baptism. But it also brings up a good question. Where do we stand? Where do I stand? Am I living along this hard and narrow path. Will God be able to recognize me?? It is one thing that I want. I want God to be able to recognize me at the last day and to know where I stand. I have to say there is one thing that I actually learned from our multi zone conference this week and it was to live the charity of Christ and really love every one I teach. Because with this love, we can actually help those we teach more because we love them.

It is also a question we can all ask our selves, too.

Well, love you guys. Keep being awsesome :) LOVE hearing from you guys :)

Love Elder Davenport

Another Baptism! June 8, 2014

So this week was a super interesting week, first of all our week started off with us finding our ex-mission leader hammered in the street after our Monday night proselytizing. He was so hopeless.. He couldn't even move, he was so hammered, and he was laying in the middle of the street. I couldn't just walk over him soIi picked him up and carried him back to his house. But then when I went back in the morning, he just told me to.. well he just said some really aweful swear words. It really broke my heart. I really loved that man, and to watch him destroy his life is really tough. 

Oh and then the girl who was going to get baptised said she didn't want to get baptised, but then we went, and had a really spiritual lesson, and she started to cry, and became like the most willing person to get baptised I have ever seen!! It was soo cool!! 

Oh and then we also are teaching this deaf girl!! She is the cutest thing ever. It's just a little hard because she doesn't know how to read or how to sign. But she saw a baptism and wants to get baptised!! So I am going to do my best to help her make that covenant with God :) 

Gosh we had an awesome experience! So it was late one night, and I was so super tired and it was 8.50pm and we didn't have anyone else to visit so we went home because our curfew was 9pm anyways, but we get there, and I had this feeling to go talk to one more person. So we left and went to one of the poorest families I know and we started talking to the mom(we teach her kids) who wants nothing to do with us and is catholic, but for some reason even though her kids wernt there she et us in and we startd to talk to her and her sister. So w start to tech them and th sister tells us that there is no God and a this stuff. and we were like oh well.. but we were going to end with a prayer and we askd her to say it and she says ok but I want feel anything. She says my heavenly father and then starts to ball her eyes out and pour herr whole soul to God. And after she told us that we had to be angles to have camee in such a trying time of her life aparently her husband just got murded like 3 monthes ago and she was super deprssed. It seriously was just another testimony to me about whoes errand we are on and whose work this is.

Oh and some elder broke the rules so we had special changes and another elder who has 23 months in his mission is my comp now as they took my kid who I freaking loved  but ni modos whatever if that's what God needs I'll do it :) and love every moment at the same time :) 

Love, 

Elder D

Elder Davenport standing next to light pole downed during storm

My Companion - Learning to work hard!!

June 1. 2014 Going Fast -

Well this week I got my new comp Elder Lopez. Sick kid from the state of Mexico! Works hard and such and really is the most living companion I have had hahaha. I am happy I get to help teach this kid how to work hard and stuff. So things are going awesome! Oh and we have a baptism coming up this weekened so Im pumped about that! But yeah nothing new happened this week! Just had a tough week trying to live a week without food haha.

Love you guys 

Love Elder Davenport