Bom dia!

Pirassununga Zone

Bom dia!

Week 5 of this transfer everybody! Woot woot!! A week from tomorrow we have transfers, I may stay, I may not, who knows?? I will let you know next week.

This week was crazy because we basically made contacts all week again! It is so much better to work with member referrals but we have yet to have any of those so we continue to go out and do our best contacting. We do a lot of walking! I uploaded some pictures of our area. We cover three cities - Porto

Ferreira, Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, and one other one I haven't been to yet. We met some cool people and taught some lessons so hopefully we will be able to return and teach them more. We have a few new investigators and some that are progressing a little. We tried something different this week. We started to try to set more appointments for a specific time instead of just saying we will return on "this day". We were hoping it would work out better than leaving the time so open. Sounds basic I know but here in Brazil they don’t worry about schedules too much and are pretty laid back when it comes to setting specific times to do things. It was worth a shot. Haha. Most of the appointments we set fell through; only one person was home at the times we had set up. We had a great lesson though! She is the woman I spoke about in my email last week that is mourning the loss of her son who passed away recently. He was a member of the church but she didn’t know it until after he passed away. Right now she is interested in learning a little more about what he believed in and what our church believes. So we started to teach her the first lesson, talking a little about how Heavenly Father is our Father and we are His children. Then we shifted to the Plan of Salvation after. We talked with her about how through Christ’s atonement we can live with our families after this life. After the lesson, I was thinking about how blessed we are to have the knowledge of the Plan of Salvation. I am thankful for the knowledge that I have that we lived with Heavenly Father before and can return to live with Him again, along with Jesus Christ and our families. This is possible through the Atonement of Christ and the Plan of Salvation. If anyone has questions about the Plan of Salvation please ask my parents. They would love to speak with you about it or refer you to the missionaries. The Plan of Salvation answers three questions; where we came from, why we are here on earth and where we go after this life! All three are important things to understanding our purpose and journey in this life and the life after.

Porto Ferreira

 We had another lesson with one of our other investigators about the Book of Mormon this past week. She has started reading but hasn’t prayed about it yet. So hopefully that will happen this week. We invited her to church and she said yes. She came Sunday with her family! That was awesome!

I am actually writing this from Pirassungunga. We came here yesterday to help the Elders in this area who are in our district. One Elder is in the hospital with abdominal pain so we came to give his companion a break. He has stayed the last couple days with his companion in the hospital and has not gotten much sleep or eaten much. So we came to help out a little and give him a break. Tomorrow Elder Vieira and I will travel to Piracicaba to hear Elder Anderson speak. We are pumped. It’s going to be great.

We also had a zone meeting this past Wednesday. I love our zone!  After the meeting we threw a little party for three of the missionaries in our Zone! They loved it. Everyone loved it! Man, cake is good! I miss it! haha.

Happy Birthday Sister Torres, Elder Costa and Sister Mendez

Quick note to you Dad. I heard you lost a battle recently with fire ants when mowing the yard. Rest in Peace Dude!haha Brings back memories for me for sure! You should see the bugs here dude! I don't even know what these monster bugs are but they are eating me alive!!  Pretty crazy.

Always turn towards the Light and all will work out.

Got to go but I wanted to share something from a talk "The Spirit of Revelation" by Elder David A. Bednar.  (https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/04/the-spirit-of-revelation?lang=eng) He talks about how spiritual revelation sometimes comes immediately and completely all at once like when a light is turned on. Then he speaks of what happens more commonly, which is when it comes little by little like a sunrise. We have to have faith and be patient. We will get answers as we are obedient, worthy and prepared. Ask for what you need and if you ask with a humble and honest heart, with faith and a desire, you will be given whatever you need that is expedient unto you! I know Heavenly Father loves us. He knows our problems, and I know that He will help us through anything if we prayerfully ask for it with faith and a sincere and honest heart. He gives us obstacles and trials to strengthen us and He will provide a way to overcome them. He will never give us something we cannot overcome. We all need to look to the Atonement, keep our testimonies strong & close to us. As we do this and strive to have the Spirit in our lives, He will guide us back to his presence.

I love you all. Have a great week!

Com Amor,
Elder Davis