"Ask, and It Shall Be Given You"

With Elder Cifuentes, Soares and Jackson

Hope everyone had a great week. We had a pretty great week and this Sunday we had a new investigator at church so that was a good start to the next week. Her name is Maria and we are excited to start teaching her. Unfortunately her mom recently passed away. The Lord is amazing in how he times things to bless his children when they are in need. We seem to meet people right at the time they are ready and needing the gospel. I honestly don't know how the Lord does it but he puts us and them in each other's paths at just the right time. Like seriously, it's so amazing, He is perfect. He knows all. Truly does. As I said this was the first time Maria had come to church and it just so happened that the gospel principles class was about eternal families and how that is possible through the Lord's plan. And the talks in Sacrament meeting were about how we can accept Gods will in our lives and much more. It all touched Maria's heart and gave her comfort as well as hope. She loved it and happily accepted us to continue visiting her. We also restarted teaching one of our previous investigators, Elaine who we had stopped seeing because when we were teaching her before she was interested but would not take the step further to do the things she needed to do to find out for herself the truthfulness of the gospel. She would not read or pray and really was not ready to make a commitment to change so we stopped teaching her. But last week she came to find us. She had had a dream where Oliviera (my old comp) and I were standing at her door telling her that we were leaving and did not think we would be able to come back again. She started crying in the dream and said she felt the spirit of Jesus Christ leaving her house as we left. She couldn't sleep the rest of the night after the dream so the next day she came to find us. We are working hard to help her gain her own testimony of the gospel and prepare for baptism.We are also teaching a guy named Donizete who compares himself to Tomé (Thomas). He really feels he has to see something before he can believe it. He feels that there are so many bad things happening in the world and even in churches that it makes him doubt. We definitely have some hills to climb with him but he has accepted to pray with faith about what we are teaching and if he should go to church. So that is a start. We have found some other new people to teach too and are excited about getting started with them.

After zone meeting

Overall, everything is great, Elder Cifuentes, my new comp. is awesome. This is his first transfer as a ZL and he is stellar already. He is a little quiet/reserved which is super weird for me because usually I am the quiet one! But I am now noticing that I am the one talking too much! hahahaha. But he is really great. I am learning a lot with him and we are working hard. He is trying to teach me Spanish as well so that will be cool.

A short spiritual thought. As I have witnessed the Lord working in my own life, as well as the people we are teaching this past week, it has really confirmed to me that our Heavenly Father is mindful of us all. He hears our prayers and knows our needs. Praying is such a simple thing but it is so so so important. Our relationship with Heavenly Father changes everything in our lives. It changes how we see life, how we accept His will, how we act and what blessings we receive. This week we all need to prepare for General Conference, we need to pray to have your questions answered through His prophet and the apostles. He has always answered my questions. Always. I know He knows and loves each of us and will guide and direct us in our lives if we but ask and listen.

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." Matt. 7:7-8

Hope you all have a great week!
Elder Davis

I didn't take any pictures this past week but I have one that Elder Cifuentes took and another one after zone meeting from one of the other missionaries. I will take some this week.