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