Semana de Viagem

Elder Davis' District

Oi!

I can sum this week up by saying we traveled a lot haha. My companion is the district leader so we have to attend a lot of meetings and do interviews, etc..this week there happened to be alot! Tuesday we had a district meeting so we traveled to Pirassununga. Wednesday was crazy. There was a baptism in Leme so we had to travel two cities down to Leme and interview a guy for baptism.  His name is Antoniô. He was super nice and loved to talk! While we were there we attended an activity with the members in Leme and the Sister missionaries there. It was called Noite da Amizade, “ Night of Friendship” It was basically a spiritual thought, some fun games, and then ate some delicious food (as always!). Thursday was crazy too! We had interviews with our mission president, President Bangerter. I seriously love him. He is pretty awesome! I feel like he is a long time friend that I have known forever but I have really only known him for 4 weeks haha. You can feel his love for you. He genuinely cares and makes sure we are all set and okay, always checking if we need anything.

Elder Davis with Pres. & Sis. Bangerter. (Pres. Bangerter is 6'7")

Friday was probably our hardest day. Estava quente! ( It was super hot). We were out making contacts all day. But we have 4 new investigators!! Woohoo! We met two families, the family of Franciana and the family of José Carlos, they invited us in and we were able to give them the first lesson. They have asked us back so we are excited to continue teaching them. So that is super exciting. We are still working with Rafael/Lucia and Ademir. We weren’t able to have lessons with them this week but will be contacting them next week.

Elder Davis &  his District at Talent Show

 Saturday, we had to travel to Pirassunuga again haha! There was a stake activity, a talent show,that we participated in as a district. It was super fun to see everyone get up there and show us their talents. We sang a song about what we do, it was pretty funny. It went kind of like this:

"Oi!" "Tudo Bem?" "Meu nome é Elder." "e meu Também!" "Somos da Igreja, Podemos Entrar?"

Just a little song - basically about making contacts haha. Although talent shows are not my thing it was fun! So that was basically our week last week. I am excited to be able to do a lot more teaching this week. Next Monday I will let you know how everyone is doing!

I want to share a spiritual thought with you. I have been studying the life of Christ a lot in the past few days in my personal study time. I love studying about Him. He really is the perfect example in all things. I was reading the parable in Luke 12:13-21 which is about a rich man that has a great harvest and is thinking about how he can store all his “fruits” so he can live a life of ease, eat, drink and be merry for many years. God then tells him that he will soon be leaving this life and his “things” will not be coming with him! I encourage you all to read it. But the meaning of the parable is in these two verses.

In verse 15 it says” And he said unto them take heed and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he posesseth.
And in verse 21 – “So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

I feel like we find ourselves too often thinking about what other people have, how great it must be to have those things, and how we supposedly “need” those things in our life. Instead we need to be thinking about how much we have. We may not have a lot of possessions compared to the richest people in the world, but in reality, we are the richest people in the world. Want to know why? We have the gospel. It is the one thing in the entire world that will bring true peace and happiness. It gives us the opportunity to have eternal life, to return to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Through it we have the opportunity to live with our families forever, to know that death is not the end. We have the ability to gain faith which comforts and strengthens us so we can know that we can make it through trials and everything will be alright. Let us cherish our covenants, let us cherish our families, our testimonies and our lives. Let us treasure things that have infinite worth and not focus on material things which are only temporal. Our spiritual testimony and our families are eternal. It is important to remember that in our everyday lives.

I love you all! Have a great week!
Com Amor,
-Elder Davis


Note: We just received the photo of Cole and the Bangerters on his arrival day as well as a photo of all the new missionaries that day so we just included it with this email.

New Missionaries on August 2, 2016 in Piracicaba Mission