otimo semana!!!! OCT 7, 2008

once again i send my greetings from BRAZIL!!! time passes all to quickly, i know that you all are dying to have me back....cough cough....but i will be honest 2 years sometimes feels like not enough time. well first i would like to know whats going on with everyones reading....? well this last weekend was awesome, in the book of mormon we got to read through the words of mormon, which is the part in the book of mormon with king benjamin! i love the part at the end of chapter one where it says that king benjamin labored with all his might and the faculty of his whole soul....thats gotta be pretty hard labor right there. i love that scripture becuase it is a perfect example of serivce, king benjamin, a king, was always laboring for his people doing all he could {laboring with all his might and faculty of his whole soul} and also it is through service that we can be the answer to someones prayer. in verse 7 it says that the lord will work through me, according to his will. alot of the times we are the answer to someone elses prayer, because the lord uses us according to his will. we need to be constantly working with all our might and faculty of our souls so that when the lord needs us, he can use us according to his will to answer prayers, comfort those that stand in need of comfort, lift those with feeble knees. king benjamin to me is a great model of service. and then to top it off we had conference this weekend!!! and yes i was wathcing it live! it was so AMAZING! all of the talks really were exactly what the church in whole needed to hear. i dont have time to talk about all of it, so i will just metion one, my favorite speaker. Jeffrey R. Holland, he talked about angels and how the lord still sends angels to help us and to comfort us. i loved the story he told about the little boy and the cows, and that there really are angels immortal and mortal. our families are angels, our spouses are angels, are leaders can be angels, the lord is always sending angels to help us becuase he loves us, and wants to help us as much as he can with out taking away our angency. i love the scripture he used in D & C 84:88 and it says something like, the lord is on our left hand and on our right hand and he will be before our face and our rearward, and he will send angels to bear us up. i know that the lord as sent angels to bear me up in the most difficult times, but he has also sent angels in time of joy to lift me up. i love to hear elder holland speak, becuase he just as this way of speaking that.....wow, its unexplainable. you guys know. anywho, conference was awesome! and i hope that all of you had the chance to watch it and to really listen to the messages that we will use to guide our lives for the next 6 months. anyway now i little about whats going on here. well as you know i did get transfered but i am still livig in gama centro, due to some problems so it kinda feels like i havent changed much. but my new area is great. and my new comp is awesome! the other day we were making some contacts and we stoped and talked with this guy, the next day we taught him and his wife, and invited them to conf. they went to the first session sat. and liked it so much that they wanted to come back on sunday. its amazing seeing the spirit touch someones life, i wish you all could have that chance sometime in your life. there is no way that i could do this work without the spirit. well thats about all the new stuff thats going on here, at least all the exciting stuff. well i hope that everyone is haveing a great week! keep me updated on all the stuff going on up there. love ya guys tons!!! thanks for all the love and support!!!
LOVE YA
elder davis