He Will Illuminate the Path

Multizone with Sumaré, Hortolandia and Americana

Hope everyone is doing great. This week was good. It was a pretty slow week because of Carnival but it was still a week that was edifying. We had a multizone with Sumaré, Hortolandia and Americana. I had the opportunity to give a workshop there with Elder Hainsworth (Assistant to the Pres) on the Role of the Spirit in our missionary work. It was really cool to have the opportunity to teach a workshop and learn together. It was sad as well when we all sang the mission song because afterwards, someone told me that I only have two more of those left... I really loved the training that President gave us. He focused on true conversion as he did in the Leadership meeting a couple weeks ago. We need to make sure we are truly converted before we can help others.

With Elder Simmons & Mansell at Multizone

With Elder Almeida

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With Sister Cardoso and Sister Perez

Elder Kleinkauff - Love that guy, he was an awesome companion.

We are working with Clayton and Ana Lucia. This Saturday Ana Lucia will be baptized and Clayton will be baptized later. They are really great people that want to follow the truth and the right way. Claudenice was confirmed this week and it was great to see her. She is just the best. We are also

working with the family of Ana and went this week to support her as she performed in a singing competition. She did really well.

At the singing competition with Ana after she received her award

We did another service project this week. Man talk about a killer service project! If that was what a service project should be, I don't think all the ones I have done before count. Wow did I feel like I became a 70 yr old man after that! I was beat! There are before and after pictures. The roof covering for the back part of a members house had collapsed and we had to clear it. My companion and I survived the challenge. haha

Before

After

Winter Olympics are going on right? My parents have shared with me in letters about some of the inspiring stories of people who will be participating in the Olympics. Some who started really young like 4 -5 yrs old to develop their talents and then people who started later in life to develop theirs. They all got where they are through trials and hardwork - not for a day but EVERYDAY for years sometimes almost their entire life. Every day is a perfect time to start developing our gifts and talents - never too early or too late. Those kind of gifts such as sports, musical or artistic abilities are sometimes easier to see but equally or more important are the spiritual gifts like knowledge, patience, compassion, kindness, etc.. Each one of us has spiritual gifts and should work to find and develop them. We will be blessed with many gifts DEPENDING on our faith and our will to develop and use them. If we really focus, we can develop any gift and all gifts that God is ready to give us. Then use these gifts to bless us, our families and others! There is a great quote from Pres. Uchtdorf. He says,

"Let us listen and obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit. As we do so, Heavenly Father will reveal to us things we never knew about ourselves. He will illuminate the path ahead and open our eyes to see our unknown and perhaps unimagined talents."

Thanks to everyone for their love and support.
Elder Davis