October 27, 2014 Great Week - Again!

Ok about my week.. well we had another good one! We are really finding some people who are progressing well, and the family mago came to church to make a total of 12!! Woot!! a family of 7 and then some solos that seem super awesome. I hope they keep progressing to get baptized next change!! (I'm pretty sure I will be here next change)  We have an investigator named Josefina, and  she has had troubles going to church because she is super poor and sells on Sunday, but we had a super lesson and told her that God would take care of her if she stopped working on Sunday, and she never ever would go before. But this Sunday she showed up and went to church for 3 hours and loved it!! She says that she wants to get baptized for sure now. She just has to go to church 3 more weeks and we will dunk her. plus my mago loves church. she  is acting like she wants to get baptized too, and also we have this Ulysus who has stopped drinking (and a bunch of other stuff) and wants to get baptized!! I'm super excited!! It seems like every day is like a roller coaster. Well it's like super hard up until God just blesses you immensely for like a split second, and it makes all the hard work and suffering worth it!! 

 

Love it-  love you guys!!}

 

ELDER DAVENPORT

October 20, 2014 Whirlwind Week

This was definitely a grind week. We went hard in the paint mentally and physically.  We were expecting to have an amazing  Sunday!  We were really excited to have lots of investigators go to church.... but we just got shot down. All of the super sweet pilas people couldn't go-- including  sister Paula who was supposed to get baptized this week.. We don't know what happened. She has gone to church like 6 straight Sundays, and now won't answer her phone.. We went and talked to her son who wouldn't talk to us, and basically told us to go get lost... ah... 

But Sister Mago and her grand daughter went, and afterward said they want to get baptized!! Woot!! :D

A few quick funny stories: first one is that some times some people get onto buses and sing and beg trying to get money and stuff, but this time a group of clowns got on  the bus. Just a little bit about clowns here, they are actually super popular (weird right?) and there are two types:  rude vulgar clowns and then there are kid clowns and these ones were rude ones haha.  So I and muir knew we were screwed, and that these clowns were going to try to embarrass the snot out of us haha.  We were right . These two clowns just attacked us, and they had a dumb act where one tries to kiss me.... hahaha, and then when he was actually going to kiss me i had to like awkwardly push him off me haha. Then he goes at me with his tongue out... hahaha they got a good laugh hahaha. 

Then we got trapped into a lesson with a RC and her drunk husband and then in the middle of the lesson he jumped up and started yelling and charged us, but then to our rescue came drunk number two haha and stopped him and then as they were fighting we slowly snuck our way out with the RC.

Guys hear are terrible!!!!! We are also teaching this 24 year old whose  husband just left her. She was so sad. Talking to us was the only thing that could make her smile... ah we have  6 families like that too. There is a special place for ....men (I was thinking a little stronger word). But at the end of it all we are teaching this super cool little girl named Nicole who has already read 15 chapters in the Book of Mormon!! :D Lets just say she is awesome!

Love you guys have an amazing week :)

October 12, 2014 Super week!!

Yeah I feel weird being in this fresa area (fresa means strawberry which means fancy in spanish too haha), and it's weird having a companion who wants to get it done, and help and baptize people, but also have fun! We are totally working hard and  playing hard haha.  It's just way fun. He actually wants to invite the entire zone to play some hoops, and then eat pizza after (pday of course). My other comps never wanted to learve the house. I think to be able to work hard, you have to be able to laugh, and enjoy the small things like a sunset (the sunsets here in bosque are amazing. (going to show you one day don't worry :) ) I actually enjoy working out, too, because my comp does it with me. hahaha It's not so freaking hard to do now haha. But it's also cool because we also are going hard in our area too. We found this awesome family called the family mago, and its like a gold mine!! She (mago) has like 20 family members who would follow her footstps evenetually if she got baptized!! And this week we had a member go by and brought like 12 people to church, and 7 of them are old enough to get baptized!! I'm so excited to help them out! We also have 6 other investigators that want to get baptized, but just need a little work.  It is just super exciting. I can't wait to see what happens!!

Well that's all I have for you homies.  Love you guys, lots, always in my prayers.

Elder Davenport

Worldside Conference Weekend - October 4,5 2014

My week was awesome. So I'm with my homie muir and we are just getting ready to kill it. We don't have a lot of investigators right now, and this zone needs alot of work. They average  4 baptisms  a month as a zone. Pretty down haha. Oh on a good note my last zone in Salina Cruz doubled the amount of baptisms as any other zone and baptized 22!!!! The most by a single zone in like more then a year! That was a miracle by itself!! But to be honest I am so excited to be in this zone. It's definitely a zone that needs some animation!  With muir we are just going to get it. He is my first comp that actually wants to go all out and get it done like me :D   I'm just so excited!! :D   My new area is kind of chilly. It's awesome!! The view is awesome  It's a nice area (which is weird). I have heated water!!! AND I'm not always sweating!!! It's sick! haha but the people are a little better off and so they are a little bit more difficult to get to. But I'm excited for the challenge.  Love you guys. Keep being awesome!! What did you like most about conference???

Love, Elder Davenport