April 20,2015 Pineapple and Chili? Terrific!!

APRIL 5, 2015 CONFERENCE ! YAHOO!

Hey sorry I have been so crappy writing lately haha. 

So this week was Easter Sunday!!Yeah and conference!!! Here in Mexico people are super apostate and have catholic church walks where you take giant virgin maries and march around town, or you tie yourself to a cross and walk for like 8 hours (some towns actually nail them to the cross..) yeah it was aweful!

We were going to have another baptism this week!!! a 6 day baptism!! Found a guy that is only in town every 20 days because of work and has gone to church a bunch of times and we were going ot baptize him Saturday, but Friday we made the mistake of stopping by, and his mom heard us talking about baptism and started reciting prayers telling satan to get away from her son,,, sucky haha and then she threatened to kick him out and then he decided to wait to get baptized haha oh well next month :) haha 

Oh and today the bus drivers did an Oaxaca blockade! which sucked because I went to visit my coverts and we ended up taking 3 special taxis (SUPER expensive) and walking for 3 hours to get back.. sucked I will send some pictures haha.

I am super happy!! I loved conference!! Kind of a temple theme ha? haha I loved President Packers talk, I honestly loved every talk!! I also loved the talk about how he said don't walk, run. Because honestly we shouldn't do anything half way. Average is the opposite of excellence. LOVED IT!!

Happy Easter! Chrsit is the son of God. He lives and every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that he is the Christ. And I know he is my savior.

OH and also THAILANDS GETTING A TEMPLE!!!! :D So if you are serving a misison in Thailand you are amazing cough*Sister Holmes!!

Love you guys,

 

Elder Davenport

March 30,2015 Wow going fast!

Hey so real fast - this week was a good week. We had a baptism, and stuff, and we are just waiting for the other two to get back from vacation to have their baptisms.

Found out that some of our main investigators are having drinking and chastity problems.  Great haha. We had 11 investigatores go to church, plus a family of 4!! :D so excited they seem like they have potential, or just want money from the church - one of the two.. haha

Best District Ever!!! March 22, 2015

Hey so this week in a sec. So I have a new comp which is awesome even though the rumor is he just about killed his other comp, which is alright haha. It's sad because with my other comp he like changed and instead of trying to do stupid things was actually excited, and we were working hard and having alot of amazing experiences. My new comp is named Elder Vega he is chill from Ecuador and stuff. We might have 3 baptisms this week. Their date was for the 18th of April, but we might move it up because they want to go to efy and stuff. but we found this super cool family of 5 that seem like they have some real potential.

It's so awesome to see when someone lives the gospel the change it makes in their hearts. Just another testimony that the church is true.

Oh the baptisms name are Jesus, Juan, Carlos and Valeria. Super awesome cool kids :) 

Love you guys

Details on my area! Humbling - March 16, 2015

 I need to tell a little bit about my area. My area is the land of the thousand churches.  Not really, but there is a church on every corner. It is the gangster party of Oaxaca where we can't go up the mountain at night. My investigators are all super poor. Example,  I asked if I could use the bathroom and because the house is a tin can, he just told me to pick a corner. But they are the sweetest family ever!! So humbling.  Well actually we are teaching like 6 super cool families with  15 kids in each house. The main reason we are teaching them is the kids just love us. I think all these little kids just think I'm a giant teddy bear or something and always want to hug me haha. I actually learned to love my comp, and we actually turned out getting along a lot, and he was  working as hard as I was, and I saw a change in him. Just another testimony that if you persistently love everyone, and are willing to change yourself you can get along with anyone, and they will love you back.

I had 4 baptisms this week, but in Bosque (my last area) the mom Juana, and her sweet 3 kids Carmen, Emileo, and Alex wanted to get baptized and asked me if I could do it. So I traveled back to my old area, saw all my old converts and members whom I love. The little girl who is 9 almost didn't get baptized because she was terrified of water, just like her grandma Mago (remember?) and we had another 4th quarter pep talk in the water. and it took 40 minutes, but she finally got baptised!!! WOOHOO :D awesome

love

Chilling out with my old missionary companions March 15, 2015

Great to see my old missionary companions. :) They were from Bosque.

Amazing! Juana, Alex Carmen, and Emilio -Wonderful Baptisms March 15, 2015

Love, these kids.:) Gosh I love my life!  :)   Elder JD