Oh, It's Been A Week & Miracles - August 29, 2018

This week I got my trainee. His name is elder Hooper. He is from mesa Arizona and spent a year at byu.  We then came back and found some new people to start teaching which was great! I ate a tub of cookie dough ice cream that night as well,( tips and tricks for a mission, always have ice cream). That was Thursday. Friday was a great day we taught this really cute family, they have a 4 year old son named Zach and he is a spazz but so am I so we get along. As we were reading the book of Mormon with them Gill another one of our investigator who is close to baptism rolls by and wants to listen. We get to a scripture on baptism and he says ( that what I needed to hear!) Then left. We also taught a lady named Brianna who is super nice and is going to come to church. Saturday we taught gill. We taught him about baptism and he said he received revelation, that he can get baptised without living the word of wisdom. We said we would study and get back to him. More about gill later. Sunday we had church and Gill came! He sat through all of sacrament meeting and listened he loved it! We then taught service in gospel principles and listened to an elders quorum lesson on feminism. What a disaster. Monday was our miracle day. It starts with a lesson with one of our inv. Bob. He lives with a guy who is anti Lds. But this lesson the other guy listened and bore testimony on God and how he forgives us and is coming to our book of Mormon class. Crazy stuff. Then, fantastic miracles I found a Snow Cone shack so we go and I'm eating a snow cone and Gill calls!!! He asks us if we have an answer and we say that he has to live it and he says ok I'm looking forward to our lesson on Wednesday. 5 min later we get a text saying ( I get it guys! Right after the phone call the spirit talked to me and asked me if I loved my cigarette, coffee and wine more the Jesus Christ, I answered no)!!! He got an answer to his prayers that he needs to live the w.ow. It was crazy. Tuesday was a normal day.
Elder Davis

My comp doesn't like pictures. So, I tool this when he wasn't looking :)

Birthday, Baptism, Training and FLEAS! - August 22, 2018

I got the package we loved it, yes they delivered the pizza twice, but it worked out. I am TRAINING!
They took the second pizza order back, But yeah I am TRAINING I pick him up tomorrow. I'm really excited. My birthday day was crazy. So, it started out at 4am in the morning when we both woke up and knew we had to get out of our apt. So we slept in the church parking lot. Then we had a clothing drive at 9am and that was fine just manual labor. Then at 2pm we had a baptism, then we had the pizza you sent, and then at the end of the night me and my companion got fleas! It was crazy! We got the fleas from the suits from the drive we put on for the baptism.

We got rid of the fleas, the baptism was fun. It was a good baptism. The pizza was great. My favorite members ,the Fischers, had us over Sunday and made us lasagna my favorite food and made me brownies for my birthday. They are super ice and really like us. 
I did get the office reference in your birthday package. It was Awesome, thank you so much. I have no clue who I am getting for a companion.  we go to a meeting tomorrow and he has all the trainers and trainees and he calls out who  everyone is together with. My new companion is straight from the mtc. On a plane right now :). 

The pants fit, I'm wearing them right now. I got shirts from Grandma and ties from Sue and Andy, which was Awesome! I got a card from Grandpa Davis and Kris too. I'm super excited to be staying here. I am a young trainer, and I'm super excited!
I didn't make the cake yet, I'm going to make it today for my greenie!
The Best part of the week was Getting my trainer call.
Members fed us this week which was nice and inv made us lunch, French toast and bacon.
I didn't take a lot of pictures this week, but I will get better with the pictures with my trainee for sure.

Elder Davis

Carnations Festival & Museums - August 15, 2018

This week was good. We had a thing called the carnations festival happen so we were able to watch fireworks and watch a parade with members. It was a lot of fun. We had zone conference too, which was great, and we had stake conference. No real chances for service yet, it's kinda lame but oh well. We are having a district activity, so I will for sure send pics of that later in the day. I got a letter from grandma, this week which was nice. That's exciting that Zeb got sealed!

I'm doing good. It doesn't really feel like birthdays are a thing on the mission, they just kinda happen. I don't think anyone in the ward knows it's my birthdayon Saturday. I'm excited though.

I planned the district activity for today. In alliance we have a bunch of really weird museums and stuff. We have a cat museum, a troll museum and a huge real castle. So, we are visiting all of those

My companion is good. We enjoy each other so it's fun

We have transfers next week. I think he will be gone, and I'll take over the area. We will see.

The members are good. Most don't live in our area, but so it goes. This Saturday I get to be a witness at a baptism, the sisters have been teaching this lady, but she likes us when she comes to church.

Love you all

Elder Davis

Alliance is Great - August 8, 2018

Alliance is great! This week was a good week. I had two exchanges and both were great. The first one was with a member of the district. Elder Gibson. We had a lot of fun, we walked around tons of garage sales and talked to everyone. I bought you a good hear baseball hat and dad a boy scout bag, it's so cool. Then yesterday i went on exchanges with Elder Wakely our zone leader. He is an awesome missionary and super hard working. We didn't stop working not even for dinner, but we accomplished a lot and taught some great lessons, and found lots of people. 

Elder Davis

Doing Laundry

Jib Jab & Restaurant Praying - August 1, 2018

This week was good. I went on two exchanges and both helped me a lot. We went to the temple today. We have 2 people on date going to get baptized so that is awesome! We got to pet horses and that was fun. I think I'm good. Me and Elder Loutz decided we were going to treat ourselves to Texas roadhouse and at the end someone paid our bill, because we prayed over our food. That was a cool experience. It was super nice of them. We also learned A lot of stuff this week on how we can help the district.
This week we saw a lot of miracles. Here's some pics, and I went to JIB JAB AND SAT AT THE SAME BOOTH we did a year ago!! 
Love you all
Elder Davis

Same booth we ate in on vacation :)

Jib Jab Hot Dogs in Youngstown

Bike for dad

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Going to the Temple