SO I GET A BREAK.......

Hey everyone,

Well I hit the jackpot this week, It is the week of Transfers and it's the busiest and craziest time for the office. I don't have to be in the office this week. YEAH!! haha So Unfortunately my Favourite missionary, the one I look up to the most is going home. HIs name is Elder Webb, he is from New Mexico and he is leaving today to go home. He was the first missionary I was with in country and I went on my exchanges with him. He the best missionary in this dispensation. I really am going to miss that guy. He is leaving and his companion needs a companion so for about four days I get to do regular missionary things. i'm way excited, for nstance there are a couple of people in this particular area that I just love their guts, so we are gonna go visit them. We also can just work like missionaries all day instead of be in office. So i'm happy. This next week is transfers and I am going to lose a companion( Elder de la Rosa) and I will still have elder Kuhre. My companionship will basically run the office untill the new office couple (elder and sister Hardy from Colorado)comes and then when they come on Nov 14. we will train them. It is sure going to be an adventure. :) We had Rita's baptisim this week it was awesome!!! Elder de la Rosa Babtized her and elder ray( first missionary who taught her, a stud) gave her the holy ghost. I gave a talk and hoped that people understood what I was saying. haha Now it is even more important to keep her active. In ukraine, Things are just tough here in general. This financial thing has hit everywhere but here it is just ridiculous. I was hit with that realazation a couple days ago when I saw a man eating a stolen raw chicken breast and devouring it and just basically trying to survive. These members know this is true but life here tends to be more hard tha those in the states. It is hard to describe in words but, there are many inactive members and less active. I just wnat to testify to you who read this email of the importance of Home teaching. It is the solution to inactivity. When we show our love to our home tesching family, they cane see that through you Jesus christ is reaching to pick them up, from when they fallen. Your members and not awkward missionaries, with bad acne and intimdating. you are on their level, the can realate, and so can you. Invite someone back to church!! If they don't come, still love and show it!! do something for them!! Christ loved you infinitly, and them as well. He atoned, he suffered, He died for all of us.The good news is that he was resurrected! So remember in Mosiah 18 " Mourn, Comfort, and Stand as a Witness" It is what is expected, It is the least we can do. He Suffered for one and for all. Let us help people know that and apply it to their lives. Please share this with peole. This week I challenge you to contact one inactive member and invite them to church and do something for them. and watch the fruit!! they might not come this week but you are nuturing a sick plant. With care and loving dilligence it canbecome a blosoming tree.
I love you tons. If I'm preaching to the choir, then pass i on. Tell others. I Testify with passion of our savoirs love and how we can help people better understand it. exscpesially those who have already felt it once but have forgotten. This is for them because I know that God loves you and if it just a Hope that it is true, there probably will be doubts. Just let that little desire work in your heart, think about it. If it is true that means that you can have endless happiness with God when we live right. If it isn't you will end it is all the same rotting in the ground no matter how you lived or died. But I know that it does matter, that our savoiur suffered and atoned for our sins so that we could return to our Father in heaven and he is waiting once again with open arms for you. Just try it. The two thngs that you could happen is that you could find tue happiness or be the same that you are now. Know that you are loved by me and more importantly Jesus Christ. No matter what you do, we only want your happiness and we know that this is the way to get true happiness that will last for eternity. Think about it. :)

Well Everyone I really got sidetracked in this email but I felt like I should say it. I don't have much more to say just I miss ya and I'm tying to work hard. I'm glad to her you are doing good.

Elder Shane Davis