Happy week

One wonderful week.  So I had interviews with the mission president this past Tuesday, and it was a great experience.  He helped me to see that there are so many things to do in this area, that we haven't tried.  He compared missionary work to his little granddaughter who on walking into a room would immediately find something to play with.  We must be like little children totally ADD in finding something to do...no problem.

Outside of one awesome interview we had a bad rerun with someone we met last week.  He insisted on trying to convince us that he was right, asking questions made to catch us in our words, like "what do you know about the Book of Matthew?" and my personal favorite "your family is Free Mason, you just don't know it".  It was rather boring really, because we refused to get in an argument, and when he was getting really abrasive, we calmly said "we really don't like causing contention".  When we said that he immediately responded "It's not contention, I'm just getting excited".  When trying to leave, he said "by leaving you're proving me right, and you're running away from the truth."  All in all not a very fun situation.  That evening/afternoon was amazing though, we visited a less active member of the church who had been through some really trying times.  One of her friends, was literally on a bed dying.  And 3 months ago she was brutally attacked, because of the nature of the attack she felt that she couldn't go to church, and actually apologized.  I have never felt more humble than when she was asking for forgiveness in prayer and had done nothing wrong.  Those are the moments when you know that someone was lifted that day.  The rest of the evening was wonderful as I shared with someone how I feel about marriage, and she gave me some really good advice on how to make a relationship work.  It was fun because she could tell that how I felt came from what I believe.

In other news the last heat wave is supposed to be over and it should drop down to 80 sometime soon.  The other day I shamefully had goosebumps at 75 degrees.  Today Elder Marco and I are supposed to be on a hike with the rest of the Zone, but we forgot to find a ride until last night, and now we're just taking it easy the rest of the day.  We might try to play some basket ball.

Oh man I love it here in Arizona.  Every day that goes by is just another life lesson to an eternity, and that's worth a lot to me.

Totally selfish request, but if anyone is bored letters to missionaries are a good way to occupy your time :-).

Love you much,
Elder Davidson