The reason why I am writing you all so late is that this morning rather than e-mail like we usually do, Elder Mortenson and I went on a tour of the Hubert Humphrey mansion. Everything that I told you previously is true, I saw it in all it's splendor this very morning. He however was not available to show it, so his brother gave us the tour. Word on the street is that he has finally sold it, so that was probably our last chance. I wish that I had pictures to show but I was too afraid to ask if I could take any.
Rather than linger too long on the fun but trivial things I will let you know how my week went. This week was a very good week for us. We made some hard goals and we achieved in succeeding most of them, actually almost all. We did not get to meet much with our investigators that we've been working with the past weeks, other than W******** who will be baptized on Thursday. So we spent a good amount of time doing service and contacting some potential Investigators, some of which we will continue to teach. In fact, our board is just about full... we'll see how solid they are and if they keep their commitments this week.
Tuesday- Elder Mortenson got a flat tire, luckily it was right by a members house. Unfortunately, a gated community. Fortunately a car had just passed through so I was able to ride through. Unfortunately Elder Mortenson was not able to ride, due to flatness of tire and was running with his bike to try to make it. Fortunately he barely made it, I got a good laugh and we were back to work in no time.
Wednesday- We did service for some older ladies in the ward. One of them lives with her daughters and we've been told they are not very fond of the church, they've been baptized, but not very big fans. Anyway, they were super happy that we stopped by to rake their leaves and they were very nice, we'll be having dinner with them on Friday. The other lady has MS, and we set up her trampoline net (which she doesn't use... don't worry, it's for her grandson) and then looked through her church library. Then we taught a mission prep class to the Priests and Laurels, who are incredibly missionary minded, I'm thinking we'll get more investigators from them than anywhere else. Cool story, we challenged and committed them all to pray for missionary opportunities and as far as I know by Saturday, they had ALL had one. One girl was even going to bring a friend to church, but his dad told him if he went he'd be grounded and all sorts of other terrible things. Opposition in ALL things I told her. Actually it should really be said, Opposition in All things good!
Thursday- Zone Conference. Elder Bednar taught 18 of the mission presidents surrounding down in Florida and President King was really just relaying what he was taught about. There were two main themes: 1) "Jump out of the boat" meaning that we need to just do the things that are hard for us and exercise the faith. 2) "Get out of the way" we are trying too hard to sell people rather than allow the spirit to touch them, another very valuable thing. That night we had dinner with O***, her mom is a member and lives with her, her husband and her two children however her mom only speaks Spanish, so we can't really communicate. O*** told us she knows the BOM is true and so I bluntly asked her why she hadn't joined the church. She said because she's not dissatisfied with the Catholic church. I told her we aren't here to make people dissatisfied with their church with bashing it but rather to help them understand the fullness that resides in our church. We'll see how it goes with her.
Friday- We helped a member family move in right across from us. They'll be here till there house is done, so it's a great thing to have them close! That really took most of our day.
Saturday- We did some more service and then we got a call from S** and M** M*******, not sure if I've told you, anyway they're investigators and they invited us to 'The Barn' it's where the Coal Mtn. Elders spend a lot of time providing service and teaching a lot of people. There've already been like 4 baptisms from it in about 6 months I think. We'll we dug some holes from some horse shelters that'll be put up. I asked S** why she hasn't joined the church, she knows its true and openly admits it. She told us she wants to do it as a family and that for some reason M** is "not ready" and "doesn't want to be pushed". So really if we can help M** we will be able to baptize Sue. Kinda like the whole J***** M**** case. Who we weren't able to see this week.
Sunday- Primary program, we were able to teach T*** (he's been coming to church but still doesn't want to be taught be missionaries so we taught the 1st lesson in Priest quorum and he 'just happened to be there') he has some real potential to be baptized soon. He's 18 and could actually serve a mission soon as well. Things are starting to fall in place. We also had a YSA bring her boyfriend who's interested in learning more. So we set up a time and will teach C**** this week. That night we had a 'low country boil' one of my FAVORITE dinners! You'll have to look it up or ask Greg. It's where you just boil corn, potatoes and shrimp and put it all out on the table and you just eat it with your hands. However this time it was a bit more sophisticated and we actually had utensils. Then we had a team-up to go and teach W******** the last of the commandments. After we taught him we were talking about Thursday's baptism and the started to have concerns that he had never raised before. I was thinking, I've been waiting for this, things have been too smooth. Anyway, Bro. B******** our team-up bore a powerful testimony and we talked some more and kneeled right there and prayed to know if Thursday was the right day. It was a miracle. W******** prayed in front of us for the first time. He's been too nervous too and the last time he did his wife had to tell him what to say.
Love,
Elder Davies
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