MOnday, June 16, 2008 hello again family!

well family, another week down and on to the next. things here are great and
it sounds as though things are still moving there too. so today we went and
played some futeball!!! ya it was awesome, we actully played some futeball
and ping pong...it was fun to acutally do something on pday instead of just
clean shop and study, then work at 6. i took some pics of today and of our
desks after we cleaned them...can you guess which one is mine, pretty sure
you could. its just like me.... anyway there was some stuff that was going
through my mind the past few days and i wanted to write you abou tit. in
this church people have to make sacrifices, thats just how it is, good
things arent easy and thats why its hard for some people to be baptised.
because they are so used to thier church were they arent asked to do
anything expect pay money for there sins and then all is well. our church we
ask them to go to church every sunday and stop drinking coffee which is a
huge thing down here...if you dont drink coffee your not brazilian, serious,
even little 7 , 8 , 9 year old kids drink it. its ridiculuos. oh by the way
i had my first coffee down here last week ha ha the memebers drink this non
caffinanted coffee and they gave me somne and i didnt konw how to give it
back with out being rude cuz coffee is a big deal down here so i drank it
and wow do i hate coffee...anyway back to what i was saying. we ask the
investigators to make sacrifices, maybe small to you but its not for them.
even with the members, they nver do family home evening so we always hold
one eveyrweek and invite all to come. so i got thinking about the whole
family home evening thing and did some studying on it, and its amazing the
promsied blessing that come to the families that hold family night once a
week and fmaily prayer and scrip. study. the blessing are there we just have
to take them. and we try to get the members to realize that. but a big issue
is you cant force kids or parents to do it, people have to want to do it or
the blessings wont come. i have seen some of the families here that inact
these things into there lives and wow it is just a huge difference. now i am
not saying this to make any of you feel bad or anything like that but i tell
you this because i have seen first hand the blessing and how happy families
are when the do these very small things. and it comes down to sacrifce. you
have to sacrifice your time in order to do these things, but the blessings
that come are amazing! i promise families every week that if they do this
the lord will pour blessings out upon them. because he really does. now the
reason i write this whole letter is to challenge you guys to inact this into
your lives. it wont be easy i can promise you that, but i can also promise
you that if you do these simple things that your lives will change
dramaticlly. you will see a difference in everyonces life. i challenge you
to have family prayer and read from the scriptures everyday. even if it is
only for 15 min. one chapter...one verus,.... but everyone has to be willing
to do this, now that the summer is here it might be more difficult but thats
what a sacrifice is. now mom can come down and wake everyone up and make
them come out and listen to her read and what not, but then it is no good.
what mom is going to do...if thats ok mom...ha ha is come down and wake
everyone up and let them know that she is going to start in 5 min. and if
you want to go out and join her you can if you dont want to you dont have,
but i can promise you that everyday will be better. its amazing to me but i
feel like since i have been out here on the mission being so far away from
you guys i have really grown closer to all of you. just throough letters. i
love you guys ton and i am so glad to have such an awesome family. hope all
is well and hope everyone has a good week!!
check out the sweet pics...

ps nothing to big here just workin hard and playin futeball!!!!! love ya
tons! ps erin i am way good ha ha ha

elder davis