Well Everyone
I'm sorry I haven't written in a while I've been running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I'm now in the office!! ahhhh!! Why ??? Well my job consists of learning everything that is done in the office and learning to do Elder Herron's Job, Elder herron is one of the office couple, he takes care of the mission finances and anything that deals with it. He will be leaving on October 14 so DOOMS DAY!!!! Anyway, My companions Elder Kuhre and De la Rosa \are kinda in the same boat as well. Yes, i'm in a threesome and it is awkard. My job consists of putting money on cards, Rent, Utilities, Food and Personal. . .etc... I'm in charge of making sure we know where every penny/ kopeck is spent and cataloging it three times in three different places, I am th IT guy who reports all numbers, budgets, and everything else to Salt lake. I help missionaries register in every city they live and find apartments, gather all member records make sure everything is recored and send them to the right people, and the worst is Confidential stuff, that I really don't want ot know but have to deal with. . . .blein Essentially I am the mission Slave. . .In a mission usually you have a chain of comand that leads up to the mission president, I go straight to him. . .It's a lot of responsibility, but whenever I feel overloaded, I always know I got somebody one my side and if I trust in him, I'm unstopable, but wihtout him I am nothing. . . .So yeah. . . Rita is amazing, we have had a couple of lessons with her and she reads what we give her and has good questions about it, we have taught her everything and she has a baptisimal date of September 19, she cames to Church every week and prays like she should.... so cool!!! well We will see how this next transfer goes, right now we do our studies and then come to the office at 11 then work till 5 then we are like regular missionaries, I just want to be a regular missionary, but we serve where we are called right? So I have two companions, Elder Kuhre and Elder de la Rosa, They are really cool guys, very different in personality than me but, we get along pretty well, Elder De la rosa is more than hlfway done on his mission and Elder Kuhre is only one transfer older than me. So we do missionary work after the office, we just tracted into this cool couple yesterday and had a Sweet lesson about the restoration. It went well and we are going back, Every oppurtunity that I get I try to talkt to people, everywhere!! and it's truly amazing God places those needed to hear the message, they might not be baptized and taught by me but I can sure plant a seed that they won't forget!!! " I remember that good looking missionary that first gave me a book of Mormon and testified about Joseph Smith"---And that's what I hope they say. . . . Here are some pictures I'll try and send some more and more recent ones, these are a couple weeks old, but some of the good ones, the baptisim one was in my first six weeks here in Ukraine. Well I'm going to apologize once again, sorry i didn't write, I've been really busy but I will try and write from now on, What else? Ukrainian Culture. . .So In Ukraine they have Man pursees. . .and I use one. . .hahahahaha, And it is so. .Conveinent. I love it!!! Well they are big into fashion here so everyone wears fashion knock-offs and thinks they are styling and all the missionaries love to buy ties and love to diss my stained ones but each stain has a flavour and a story!!! so shove it!!; I tell them hahahaTell grandpa Mckinnion that I love him and that he better get better, And tell him that I tell him that i've walking slow and drinking lots of water. .. that everyone in Ukraine who sees my pictures get's to hear me brag about him and some of them even want to meet him!! A real Cowboy!! Well I am praying for you all and that this life is the trail of our faith, and it is worth more than anything, and when we are at them judgement bar and we have endureed to the End, Christ with tears of joy and empathy in his eyes will embrace and how glad will you be that you kept the fatih, you passed the test!!! It is all about our Perspective!! Well I love you all and hope my letter was sufficant, forgive my Spelling and grammar mistakes, I've been trying to learn russian and wasn't all that good at english to begin with. hahahahaCan't wait to hear from you all , email me whenever, I love hearing from you wonderful people!!!
Elder Davis
P.S. I got nicoles wedding pictures, but tell her to write me, just call her or something, cause yeah. . .thanks if I didn't already say it.. I ove you all I pray for that best
Monday, August 31, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
THE NEW OFFICE ELDER
Hi Mom,
I'm not much of a Writer, I'm Now working in the Mission Office. They are training me to Take the place of Elder Herron when he leaves to go home. Usually Office Elders will only stay up to Four transfers in the office. I might have less or more it just depends on where the lord wants me. I will handle the financial side of the mission, Budgets, Allocations, Work Fund (Petty Cash fund), All money for missionaries and rent, Statistical reports, Transfers, Aranging apartments, whatever the President of the mission needs and everything else that will come up on the business side of the mission...etc.... I will be very busy, along with that, I also have an area to work in, the lord blesses those that work hard. We have someone in our area on date her name is Rita and she will be baptized in two weeks if all goes well, we just have to go over the last couple of comandments and have her interveiw. I'm doing good just staying busy, learning how to do things and just trying to grow up cause this is serioous work, but at the same time enjoying life. The Office Couple is Very important in the office, they take care of everything, Elder Herron controls the money and Reports to president and sister Herron Cordinates the Presidents schedule and inter-Mission communication. I Have the responsibility of learning all Elder Herron knows and what a regular Office Elder does. They are big shoes to fill, the only way it's gonna happen if the lord helps me and I know he will, he always does and I'll always trust in him. I'm sorry if I don't give enough detail, i'll try and be better. I love you and I will send a short regular email on Monday with info about my area and new companion etc.. maybe some pictures because I am emailing now.
Elder Davis
I'm not much of a Writer, I'm Now working in the Mission Office. They are training me to Take the place of Elder Herron when he leaves to go home. Usually Office Elders will only stay up to Four transfers in the office. I might have less or more it just depends on where the lord wants me. I will handle the financial side of the mission, Budgets, Allocations, Work Fund (Petty Cash fund), All money for missionaries and rent, Statistical reports, Transfers, Aranging apartments, whatever the President of the mission needs and everything else that will come up on the business side of the mission...etc.... I will be very busy, along with that, I also have an area to work in, the lord blesses those that work hard. We have someone in our area on date her name is Rita and she will be baptized in two weeks if all goes well, we just have to go over the last couple of comandments and have her interveiw. I'm doing good just staying busy, learning how to do things and just trying to grow up cause this is serioous work, but at the same time enjoying life. The Office Couple is Very important in the office, they take care of everything, Elder Herron controls the money and Reports to president and sister Herron Cordinates the Presidents schedule and inter-Mission communication. I Have the responsibility of learning all Elder Herron knows and what a regular Office Elder does. They are big shoes to fill, the only way it's gonna happen if the lord helps me and I know he will, he always does and I'll always trust in him. I'm sorry if I don't give enough detail, i'll try and be better. I love you and I will send a short regular email on Monday with info about my area and new companion etc.. maybe some pictures because I am emailing now.
Elder Davis
Thursday, August 13, 2009
NEWS
Hey Everyone,
Just so everyone knows, I received a transfer and I am now in the Mission Office, I do regular missionary work and I work at the Office. It definitely will be a Challege for me, but with the Lords help I can do Anything. So being an Office Elder entails a lot of work. . I'll explain later I love you all
Elder Davis
Just so everyone knows, I received a transfer and I am now in the Mission Office, I do regular missionary work and I work at the Office. It definitely will be a Challege for me, but with the Lords help I can do Anything. So being an Office Elder entails a lot of work. . I'll explain later I love you all
Elder Davis
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
I've said it once before
Hey Everyone,
It's about Perspective!!! Think about it, not many people do. What is the point to what i'm doing? Is it consistant with what God would want me to do? Well this week was good, I went on splits with the zone leaders and we tore it up!!!! We had three lessons that day and all of them were good, we visited less actives and helped a long time investigator finally realize the importance of the Book of Mormon. We have this couple who lives right next to us that week have been teaching and it really has been going nowhere untill the other day when we went over the The Restoration with them . . Getting down to basics!! We explained that there are fruits of the restoration, he book of Mormon. and in order to know that joseph Smith was a Prophet we need to read and pray about the book of mormon. It finally clicked and he committed to read and then he also came to the baptisim that we had the next day where I think they felt the spirit and even the branch president talk to them and testified it was really neat. Well like I was saying about perspective, don't lose it!! Read your scriptures!!! Pray !!! It will help you keep that perspective that sometimes we all lose. But thanks to the atonement we can all get it back and be better. I will send pictures but unfoutunatly I don't take very amny so when I get some I'll send them!! hahaha Ukraine is great the biggest differance in the culture is that they don't speak english, they speak russian and their signs are in ukrainian, and both of them are just not understandable. .hahaha, I understand russian sometimes. The end of this next transfer is coming up and I think that I'm gonna get a new companion, we'll wait and see . . .Elder Shurtz has less then 100 days on his mission left. I'm doing good in Ukraine and I'm slowly beginning to get this language down, It's definitely a hard one!! Dad, keep working, my prayers are with you, My prayers are with you all, I love you all. I'm not much of a writer, so forgive me.
Elder Davis
It's about Perspective!!! Think about it, not many people do. What is the point to what i'm doing? Is it consistant with what God would want me to do? Well this week was good, I went on splits with the zone leaders and we tore it up!!!! We had three lessons that day and all of them were good, we visited less actives and helped a long time investigator finally realize the importance of the Book of Mormon. We have this couple who lives right next to us that week have been teaching and it really has been going nowhere untill the other day when we went over the The Restoration with them . . Getting down to basics!! We explained that there are fruits of the restoration, he book of Mormon. and in order to know that joseph Smith was a Prophet we need to read and pray about the book of mormon. It finally clicked and he committed to read and then he also came to the baptisim that we had the next day where I think they felt the spirit and even the branch president talk to them and testified it was really neat. Well like I was saying about perspective, don't lose it!! Read your scriptures!!! Pray !!! It will help you keep that perspective that sometimes we all lose. But thanks to the atonement we can all get it back and be better. I will send pictures but unfoutunatly I don't take very amny so when I get some I'll send them!! hahaha Ukraine is great the biggest differance in the culture is that they don't speak english, they speak russian and their signs are in ukrainian, and both of them are just not understandable. .hahaha, I understand russian sometimes. The end of this next transfer is coming up and I think that I'm gonna get a new companion, we'll wait and see . . .Elder Shurtz has less then 100 days on his mission left. I'm doing good in Ukraine and I'm slowly beginning to get this language down, It's definitely a hard one!! Dad, keep working, my prayers are with you, My prayers are with you all, I love you all. I'm not much of a writer, so forgive me.
Elder Davis
Monday, August 3, 2009
HEY EVERYONE
Hey Everyone,
Well, I have oppurntunity to teach and testify daily, everyone on the street I talk to I testify that the book of Mormon is the word of god and that we grow closer to god and happier by reading it and living by it's precepts.( I can even say that in Russian) I Tlk to peopl as I walk down the street, on the tram, in the subway. The world is a Stage and I am a "player" and what I mean by "player" is that I talk to people, about everything, then somehow try to relate that to the gospel. it's hard, because the culture here is that you don't come out and just talk about it frankly but I do. Bold but not overbearing, is the key. Well, I just want to remind you all about the Importance of Humilty, I don't have it but I see the importance. We must pray with humility and sincerity in order to receive an answer. The lord looks on our heart, I want all who ead this email to study humilty this week in the scriptures, and pray for it, and work to develop it. Then just watch the lord bless you, the blessings will just pour in. I love you all, keep strong, Keep the faith!!
Elder Shane Forest Davis
Well, I have oppurntunity to teach and testify daily, everyone on the street I talk to I testify that the book of Mormon is the word of god and that we grow closer to god and happier by reading it and living by it's precepts.( I can even say that in Russian) I Tlk to peopl as I walk down the street, on the tram, in the subway. The world is a Stage and I am a "player" and what I mean by "player" is that I talk to people, about everything, then somehow try to relate that to the gospel. it's hard, because the culture here is that you don't come out and just talk about it frankly but I do. Bold but not overbearing, is the key. Well, I just want to remind you all about the Importance of Humilty, I don't have it but I see the importance. We must pray with humility and sincerity in order to receive an answer. The lord looks on our heart, I want all who ead this email to study humilty this week in the scriptures, and pray for it, and work to develop it. Then just watch the lord bless you, the blessings will just pour in. I love you all, keep strong, Keep the faith!!
Elder Shane Forest Davis
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