Good morning! December 19, 2009

thank you so much for helping me out mom! your the best!!! well its kinda
strange that they havent called yet. because the office elders always call
to let the parents know the flight times and all that, plus they sent a
letter to you and the stake president with my itineray in it. but i will
email you today from the mission email sending you the flights and all that,
you wont need to respond to that email i will just forward it to you so that
you have it. they sent it in the mail but the mail is slow and i am just
guessing becuase of everything goingon here they havent found time to call
you and tell you the flight times. but i will send them to you. anyway i am
really not sure what to say to you this week, seeing how i will be home on
friday. its crazy how fast time flies. i mean i am feeling exactly how i
felt before i left on the misison. i mean i am so used to brazil and
everything here that going to another country and speaking another language(
even though i know it) and just ahve to get used to new things again is
kinda scary. i mean i know what i will be doing but still i mean its just
all too weird.
this week has been interesting we have been working alot in the office
preparing for transfers, the new missionaries arriving and the others going
home, and then big christams party that we are going to have. the worst part
is that its all going to happen  on the same day! tues is D- DAY!! it will
be transfers and the newbeis, and the christmas party! all in the same day,
so its been crazy trying to plan everything to happen ontime and get
everything ready, but the best part is that me and my companino have found
time to work in the field this week, we have had to run home almost
everynight to make it home on time, but we ahve been able to work quite a
bit in the area. we found this man last week named Carleon. he went to
church with us last week, and through the week this week we have been
working with him. he is a great guy, he still lives with his parents, but
thats alot more normal here in brazil. ( he is like 32) anyway we invited
him to be baptised this sunday, and he said that he knew that it was
somthing he really needed to do and taht he understood the importance, but
didnt feel ready and wanted to wait, so last night we took him to the ward
christmas party where he got to know all the members, and there we even set
up his batismal interview, so by the end of the interview he was way excited
to get baptised, and then we went and told all the members, and they got all
excited, so end of the story is that he has decided to get baptised this
sunday! we are going to go to a family night with him tonight and then
tomorrow morning we have marked a breakfast at a members house and me and my
companion are going to make breakfast( pancakes and syrup and eggs and what
not) breakfast american style!!!! its going to be so cool!!! then his
baptism will be at 6:30 PM after church and all that. we are way excited,
this will be my last sunday in brazil and my compnaions last transfer in the
area, he will be leaving he office this next transfer. so we are both pretty
stoked!

but that has been my week this week, so how are things up there, i told you
mom that you dont need to anything big, just you guys there is enough, you
dont need to clean the house or any thing like that!!! just be at the
airport, so really dont exhuast yourself getting ready for me to come home.
save your strenghth for when i get home! :)

but i hope all is well mom. i love you so much, and i am definitly excited
to give you a BIG hug!!!
oh and yes you can tell michelle or yvette...not sure which one wanted the
biz cookie, but i will bring some home for her.

TE AMO MAE!!!

ps thats so great about the other plan ticket, now we can come back, i will
just start looking for a visa when i get home then!

Elder Davis



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Update

well first off i want to say sorry for not taking the time to write you all.
just remember that i love you all and i am very gratefull to have a family
like you guys!

elder buck got very sick, some type of virus in the brain, he is in acoma
and is not doing very well....that has been the story this week, well today
however some of the results from some tests came back and he is doing
better.
today however i spent the day with the medical adviser for brazil, and elder
bucks mom and stepmom. we went to lunch and talked about elder buck. then we
went to the hospital and got to see elder buck. today was  a great day cuz
he opened his eyes!!!! he didnt talk or keep his eyes open very long, but he
showed improvement from not doing anything. so the odds are getting better.
from the start they didnt give him good odds at all but there have been just
way to many prayers and fasting giong on and he is starting to show alittle
improvement. i could explain alot more but i dont have any time seeing how i
was out all day. and i have to leave one more time on busness to get back by
6 to go teach! so i am sorry for the short letter.

oh and michelle did wish me happy birthday! haha i guess you said something
to her, she is way nice. she does look very young though...hahha well love
you all and i will update you later!!!

Te amo,
elder davis
Alma 48:17

forward it like its hot....

Well well family, we meet again....
i am pretty sure in the hustle and bustle i forgot to write to you all last
week, maybe mom shared something with you from what i wrote her, maybe she
just forwarded it like its hot...no sure....but whatever the case just
thought i would all let you know that i am alive!

but really i will fill you in on whats going on. so this last week as been
extra busy in the field and the office. I have had a lot to do that the
president wants done beofre Elder Scott gets here and we have also been
trying to get as many hours in the field as we can. and i have noticed that
the lord has really been blessing us. a few weeks ago we found a family of 6
and started to teach them everyonce in awhile, well the dad works and
studies and the mom works late every night, so its been hard to find them
home alot. but when we do find them home it alwys pays off. the dads name is
fransico and the moms name is rita, they have 4 daughters  that...i am
afraid if i tell you there names it will just confuse you, i mean i am still
confused. the all start with an R and all sound almost the same thing. the
oldest daughter is 14 and then 12 and then 2 twins both 10 ( of course) :).
Well last week we taught them about the book of mormon and since that night
the father hasn not been able to stop reading, he has been reading in it
everynight...and if any of you know missionaries...we started to get all
excited like we were opening christmas presents! so the other night we got
the bishop of our ward to go with us to teach the second lesson!! man was
that the best lesson ever!! i mean man was the spirit strong...our bishop
brought the house down, man do i love that man. the best part about the
second lesson is that you teach about the atonement of christ. you explain
to people why they are really here and where we are all going..... when you
hear this lesson there is jsut no way to not believe..ya know..i mean no one
else explains it like that, well this family was really interested and are
giong to go to church with us tomorrow!!! so i will definitly let you guys
know how it all goes.

well with Elder Scott coming, there have been a few things( sarcasticly)
that have had to be done. but all in all i am very excited about it, its not
always that you get to have meeting with an apostle of the Lord Jesus
Christ! our meeting will probably go from 9 in the morning to about 2 in the
afternoon. ITS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME!!

well i hope everyone is doing well! hope no one has the swine flu...the
church keeps sending us stuff here in the missin office...stuff that we ave
to do to protect the missionaries....its a little ridiculous, but its form
the lord so we are 100% here!  :)

Love ya all!!!!

Um Forte Abraço,
Elder Davis
Alma 48:17

E aí Davis Family

Bom dia para todos! well its great to hear that everyone is doing well, and
that a few of you have even got jobs now... good for you guys!
well where to start off...this last weekend was aweseom! it was conference
if some of you already forgot, but i am sure you didnt. i hope all of you
had a chance to watch conference because it was so good! as i was sitting
watching conference one thing came to mind and that is that even though
everyone had a different talk that they all found a way to mention something
about love. at least for me, this conference it seemed like they had said
alot abuot love. love your family, show your love for your family, love your
neighbor, but always show christ like love. i mean there were alot of
different topics but as i listened to them all i kept coming back to the
same topic...LOVE!
i really liked the talk from Elder Oaks as he talked about the Law of God
and the Love of God....that the law of God cannot override his love that he
has for us.  I really liked the talked that Elder Bednar gave about showing
love in our families. HOw its not enough to just say you love someone but to
show forth your love. one thing that i have really loved about my mission is
Confernce! i mean here on the mission it just feels like something else. I
mean i get excited for general conference the same way i got excited for
christmas when i was a kid... haha  One of the talks that i really really
liked was the talk from Elder Holland....all i can say is wow! Everytime he
gives a talk he gives it with such emtion you can be half way around the
world and still feel what he was trying to tell you. His tesitmony about the
book of mormon was so strong, after the talk i felt like saying " how can
you not believe he was called by God" i mean thats the biggest thing for me,
after conference how do the people continue to dwindle in unbelief! you
listen to a Prophet of God speaking! i mean we just heard what God wants us
to know for the next 6 months. I hope you guys already made goals on how you
can improve?  i mean whats conference worth if we dont listen and then look
to improve on what we need, on what God just got done telling us. Man i love
confernce!

well as for things here, this week was horribly busy, we had an area 70 come
and visit the mission so we were preparing for that and the zone confernces
that will be taking place. My zone conference was yesterday and man was it
amazing! Elder Itinosi, the area 70 came to the zone confernce and talked
with us. he gave a training and talked to us for about 4 hours...what a
training that was....man he is good. It was one of those meetings that you
leave to pumped up that you are ready to go out and baptise the world! He
talked about things we can do to be better teachers, and stuff we can do to
become better missionaries. it was fantastic. if i had all day i could try
and tell you more about what he said but the more detialed report might have
to be al ittle later.

well this next week will be a little slower, nothing to big planned yet..
but at the end of OCT. we will have Elder Scott visting us here in the
mission....what a privlege... an apostle of God is going to come talk to us!
thats one of the coolest things, is getting to shake the hand of an Apostle,
you just feel the light iluminating from them. You cant help but feel good.
its awesome!
so thats going to be a really neat experience, i am way excited for that!
oh just to let you guys know i am getting the letters, i have sent a few
replies, i really do try to write to everyone and i always can, sometimes it
just takes a little longer, so if i havent responded yet, dont think that i
didnt get your letter, i did, i have jsut trying to find some time to write
back.
at least for me one thing is that the last 6 months start to go by way to
fast...but also you start to get really busy...and i mean realy busy!
can you believe though, someone asked me the other day at the conference how
much timei had left, when i did the count..i have like 4 months...what is
going on!? time is going by way to fast, as you are trying to make th best
of the time you have, it seems to just fly away!

well we do have a little of work to do today, so i have to get giong, but i
thought i would send a pic to ya guys, this was a few weeks ago when we took
some MORTOS to the airport. it was kinda weird, cuz i got here first in the
mission and then i ended up taking sister kevern to the airport. anyway dont
forget EU AMO VOCÊS!!!

com grande amor,
Elder Davis

Alma 48:17

E AÍ...CONFERENCIA CHEGOU!!!

Sup family! so first off....conference is here! are you guys excited!! i
sure am, its like one of the best times of the year....its not like
everyweek you get to hear the prophet of God speak to you and tell you what
you need to be doing!its like the best cousel you get every 6 months. we
will acutally be leaving here pretty soon to go watch it. we have to go to
the chapel in Asa Norte to watch it. but its going to be awesome, man do i
love conference...you all are going to be watching it right....? that have
better been a big YES! well other then confernce today, i hope that everyone
had a great week.
this last week for me was great i mean we started the week off with a
baptism on sunday! there just isnt any better way to start the week then
with a baptism. The baptismal meeting was great, alot of members stayed to
support the lady that was getting baptised, her name is Anna carolina, it
was great the ward was really supportive( which helps alot).
then on into monday....which started the craziness.... monday was transfers
so all the missionaris met at the chapel in Asa Norte where we always have a
ilttle meeting, kinda like a family night. the presidente gives a little
message, then there is always a little snack and then the missionaries leave
to there new areas. so with that happening on monday, it always gets really
busy getting all that ready and all that. then tues was the day that the old
missionaries go home, and the new ones arrive. so that day always gets
really busy, taking people to the airport, then picking up the others later
that day, then taking others to the airport at night, then having all the
meetings with the new guys, and ya filled and filled with stuff all day, we
normally dont get home till about 11 or 11:30 at night.
wednesday we had the medical advisor for all the mission in brasil here in
our mission so we had a short meeting with him in the morning and then lunch
at the mission home, and then sister pizzirani had a meeting with all the
sister missionaries and what not, i think we got home that night at about 10
oclock, somethig like that. by thrusday i was pretty tired already but spent
most of the day at the desk, trying to catch up on all the stuff that i
hadnt done since monday and all the stuff that had piled up. so thrus and
fri i spent a lot of time in the office, but the good news is we got time to
leave to go do the good stuff...TEACH! the few days that we were able to
teach this week we kept trying to get everyone to go to confernce. we have a
familly that will go today, for the second session and one more family that
will go tomorrow for the second session as well. so thats going to be great.
i think the best meetings are conference....not saying that church meetings
arent good, but come on, confernce is jsut one of the best meetings there
is, i mean we get to hear from the prophet and the 12 apostles!!! doesnt get
better then that. so we are actually going to leave here in a bit to go to
the first session of conference in the chapel.
oh and just to let you guys know mom asked if i was getting your letters
from mission ties....yes i am...i have been a little bit of a slacker at
writing back but yes i am getting them, i just need to be better at writing
back, i do always get to them, just not right off the bat sometimes. well
like i said, things have been pretty busy around here these past few days,
and things are gong to get a little busier becuase we are preparing to have
a visiter here in our mission....this next week we will have a member of the
70 come to our mission and then at the end of october Elder Richard G. Scott
will be coming to talk to us!!!! how cool is that!!!! i am so excited!! he
will come talk to our mission! it is the coolest thing to be next to an
apostle of the lord. sometimes its just hard to explain, but its such a
different feeling around them....i love it! so we are preparing to recieve
those 2 people here in the next weeks.
i cant believe that i am on my last 4 months, i got a letter from chase
bradshaw the other day and he had mentioned that the next letter that he
will be writing will be from home....man time passes no eh?
he will be coming home on oct 6th!! i cant believe that 2 years have already
gone by, i mean derek is coming home in the next weeks also!

well i would love and chat a little more but i got to go catch a bus for
confernce...and i CANT BE LATE! so love ya all tons, thanks so much for all
the prayers!!! you guys are the best. EU AMO VOCÊS!!!

Com Amor,
Elder Davis
Alma 48:17

outubro já?

BOA TARDE DAVIS FAMILY!!! hows the gang? hanging in there, the day to day
busle(spell check)...anywho from the little that i have heard everyone is
doing great....so funny story( yes random sorry) so these last few days have
been super busy for us here in the office, and the post office has been on
strike aswell so we havent been receiving anything for the past few weeks,
we today i was running in and out of the office and when i got back to write
some emails i sat down and starting writing, as i was writing i was feeling
like some american candy...yes i know pathetic....fazer o que....well i left
my computer in search of something to eat..seeing how i havent eatin
yet...and i walked over to the place where we keep some food, and i found 2
packages on the floor, well thats not where they should be so i picked them
up to put them where they should go and come to find out one of them was for
me! that defintily made my day!!! so once again thanks kari and mom! you
guys are the best....i am so making pancakes next pday....its the pancake
breakfast we do it every month.....

well as i just got done telling you this last week has been really busy, i
havent spent much time in the office, i have always had to leave to go do
someting somewhere or go buy something for someone....its been fun. i have
spent alot of time out of the office this week, however not where i want to
be..:(  friday morning i had to go to a city in Goias, another state to a
city called Lago Azul. We have a house there for the missionaries and we
deciced to take them out of the house for reasons that i wont tell mom..haha
any way to end the contract we had to reform the house, and i am usually the
one that goes and looks at the house and decieds what needs to be fixed or
painted and then i go buy all the mateiral to do the job and then call
someone to do it for us( its alot cheaper this way in Brazil) so ya i have
gotten good at that here in the office..haha anyway that took up a good part
of my day on fri, by the time i got back there were alot of stuff that had
piled up on my desk having been gone all day and i had to finish up a few of
those exciting things. by the time i got done with all that, me and my
companion hit the road running to get to our appointment that night, with a
family that we had been teaching just these past few days. thats proabably
the best part of the day, when you get to leave the office to go do real
work. we were able to teach a few families that night, each about the book
of mormon, man i love teaching about that. the spirit is always so strong
when you teach someone aboutthe book of mormon, you get to show them how
they can know that this is the true church of christ, its amazing the power
that the book of mormon has to convert the hearts of its readers.
our area is a pretty poor area so not very many people are married, some of
the families that we are teaching are not married, so we have been helping
them to prepare to get married so they can get baptised. the other night we
went to one of the  families and the mom and the dad werent very thrilled to
get married so the night before we had taught about eternal families, when
we got there the next day they keep referring to each other has their future
wife, or future husband....i thought it was pretty sweet!  oh random
thought, so we started to tell them about conference that was coming up and
that the prophet of God was going to speak to us, they started to ask when
they could go and what time it started and all that, man i love Conference,
its like that best thing ever, during my mission everytime that we have
taken people to conference they always walk out wanting more....that or they
walk out with a testimony. its like the best thing that ever happened! i
mean you get to listen to God speaking through his prophet, telling us what
we can do to be more happy, to have more peace, to be safe for the world, to
hold fast to the rod. there isnt any better advice on this earth then from
the Prophet.
so this leads me to a question....are you guys excited for confernece? i
hope so cuz its like the best thing ever!
well has for next week man transfer week is like the craziest week of the
transfer. monday is when all the trades happen, when all the missionaries
trade companions, and ya its crazy, we have to organize it all and get it
all ready at the chapel for that to happen. then tuesday is the day that all
the people leaving go home and all the new missionaries arrive. so we have
to get all the missionarios home to the airport, pick up the new ones later
that day, have all the trainings with the new guys, take them to meet their
trainers and abunch of other stuff, then wednesday we have Elder Brinton
coming to the mission, he is the guy that is incharge of the health of all
the missionaries in Brazil. he is going to come talkto everyone on
wednesday, so there will be a big meeting with him.....and then the rest of
the week we will have to try and catch up on what we normally do mon. tues.
and wed. so its going to be busy!
well i hope that everyone is doing well, thanks again for the package it
really did make my day! :) LOVE YA ALL TONS!

Amo vocês,
Elder Davis

ANIMADÃO!

Well how is everyone!!! hope you are all doing well, as for me, things here
are great! a few weeks ago we had found a less acitve family in the street
and went to teach them later that week, well when we got there the dad of
the family has his brother living with them, the kid has got 18 years, and
is really an awesome kid. His name is Juliano, and he will be interviewed
tonight for bapstism tomorrow!!!! so me and my companion are way stoked, my
companion is way new on the mission, so this will be his first baptism and i
am definitly goig to make sure that he gets to baptise Juliano! ITs going to
be so awesome, the other couple in my district is going to have a baptism
too, its a single mom of about 35 years. i interviewed her last night and
man has she gone through some problems, but she is so firm and is way
excited to be baptised! its the best when you have people like that! So ya
our district is way excited for tomorrow, plus we go to the same ward, so
the baptisms are going to be together! it doesnt get better then this, when
you can help someone else on the path to eternal life.

well has for things here in the office, we finally finished the audit
reports, so i wont have to leave to do those anymore, which i am very glad!
haha they werent that fun! haha but this next week is the last week of the
transfer so we have a bunch of stuff to get ready for the people leaving and
the people coming! so this next week is going to be a busy week here in the
office. but busy is good right? ya thats what i keep telling myself..haha
well thats whats going on with me!
has everyone been sending letters to jake, it might need it for a few
months, i know thats kinda a long time, but it will really help him. he will
start to get better, especially when he gets out into the field. anyway hope
everyone is doing great! thanks again for everything you guys....EU AMO
VOCÊS!!!!


Elder Davis