HEY EVERYONE!
Sorry I didn´t write last week... Totally forgot. ;)
But I did have a great week that week. I travelled to Conquista which was fun. It was great to visit that city once more and do splits with the Elders over there. We had a great zone conference. One of the Zone Leader´s dad passed away the day before, so the zone conference was very spiritual. I can´t imagine how hard that would be! But, he is going strong and is a great example. He´s a great elder.
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So this week was quite fun! I think one of the funniest and best days was Tuesday. haha It started off when we visited a less active member in the morning with her mom. So she is kinda a crazy person... LITERALLY! She goes to the mental hospital and stuff. We didn´t know that before the visit. Not that it changes anything. She is still a daughter of God and a great person. But, it made it pretty funny. We explained about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon. Aaaand man, she said some pretty funny stuff. She said that Jesus is a Hippi.... hahah And that when he comes back he will be in a Heavy metal rock band.... because he plays the guitar.. Yeah, I thought she was joking about that, but nope! She was completely serious. Also, she said that Jesus Christ was a Doctor. And I was like, "Yeah, I guess so, he is like the doctor to our souls.... and he heals us." And she said, "No, he was really a doctor and he must´ve opened up a hospital when he visited everyone by boat in the Americas and taught everyone all the medical procedures to heal everyone." Yeah, I tried to explain it better to her... but that didn't really work. hehe It´s all good though. We just tried not to laugh during the lesson and everything worked out. But, I had never heard something like that before. Interesting.
Also, that night we went with a member and visited some investigators. The lesson went great! We marked their baptisms for this Sunday. We are still preparing them. It might not work out for both of them. We couldn´t visit them yesterday because we were doing the transfer with the president. But we will visit them today to see how everything is going to make sure that will work out. We are helping one of them called Diego. He is very poor and we are helping him build his house. So we will try to help him finish it tonight. The other is called Gabriel. He is Sorania´s son. (the lady who was baptized a little bit ago) So yeah things are going super well here.
OHHH I have been studying the Joseph Smith Papers. I love how he talks so much about Love and treating everyone equally independant of religion or social status. That was one of the things that he preached most. He loved people. And trusted and treated everyone like his best friend! I think that is something very important. Love truly is the essence of the gospel. Let´s all love and treat others as the Savior loves them. Love you all!
Love,
Elder Davis