Week Sixty-One!

Hola! 

 

Yep yep yep DOING WORK HERE IN TAMPA!!! This week has been CRAZY! We've taught 22 lessons! Holy smokes! The craziest crap went down. I'm getting moved out of Tampa! What the heck is going on?? It's called an emergency transfer....I have to go fill the place of some other elder in a yep...zebra companionship...right after the best week ever?! I guess I was just supposed to do that little bit here. All of our lessons were with people on the street. It was awesome! But the area I'm going to is having crazy good success so...hopefully it keeps up? I'll be going there in the next couple days. Flipping crazy everyday here. Never a dull moment!

 

Elder Tanner who I'm living with, Elder Stanger's comp, just got his visa and now he can go to Africa! His call is to Zimbabwe! He'll finish out the transfer and then fly out with a couple other visa waiters in our mission. He's been here for 6 months so he's so pumped to go to Africa! And Elder Stanger goes home this transfer too! Two way good friends peacing out. I might send some stuff home with Stanger to give to y'all since he lives right next to canyon view jr high in Orem! 

 

But yeah things have just been crazy! THATS SO SICK BROOKE GOT THAT JOB!!! CONGRATS TO HER!!! Sounds like everyone's experiencing a lot of success in the family! And y'all be hittin up that cruise! Smooth sailing indeed! Just don't watch Lost or Titanic....

 

But...nothing else happened ha ha. We play ball a lot! For finding we go over to 22nd street  and ball up a bunch of straight thugs. Like think of hard core thugs like in movies...yep. That's who we hang out with! It's way fun and they're pretty nice people In a weird sort of round about way. Woohoo! 

 

Well smooth sailing and make sure to listen to the words of living prophets this weekend! Have a question(s) in mind and pray and ponder and be willing to ACT on the answer. Maybe your question can be...how do I invite my neighbor over for dinner with the missionaries? Just as an example ;) 

 

Have fun! I'll let you know what happens to me!

Live Hard,

Love Hard,

Laugh Hard,

 

Elder Bryson Davies

 

Oh so by the way........the entire first paragraph of my email was a lie!! APRIL FOOLS!!!! WOOHOO! We actually didn't teach a single lesson last week and I'm still in Tampa :)

Week Sixty!!

 

 

 

 

Hola!
This week was pretty good! We increased our lessons by 400%! We went from 1 to 4 lessons ha ha! Not bad...we're expected to have 20 lessons. We're getting there little by little! Yesterday we had a stake ward council training at 6:30 in the morning in Odessa at the stake center. All ward council members went and Pres Cusick talked. He showed how many member referrals have come in from each individual ward up on a slide show. The average number this year for each ward was like 5 so he challenged the members to give us more referrals.

We taught a new investigator in the downtown Tampa library! It was like a "pass off" lesson with two metro sisters from down there. That was a cool lesson! We drove up to Wesley chapel to teach another new investigator named Nayelis. She came from Cuba like two months ago and is the step daughter of a member. Pretty cool lessons.

But yeah besides all that jazz life goes on here in the FTM. Keep up the prayin! Stay away from Satan!

Live Hard,
Love Hard,
Laugh Hard,

Elder Bryson Davies

 

 

 

 

Week Fifty-Nine!

Color Run!

Hola!

So this week, once again not a lot happened! Ha! Lots of walking. Oh quick question why is the flag at half mast? We don't know much out here about the world. We had interviews on Thursday with President Cusick. Me and him talked A LOT about exact obedience and how it's the
only way to success and spiritual enlightenment and guidance. I really took a look at what I've been doing the last little while and realized that I defs wasn't being exactly obedient and therefore I was frustrated and not having any motivation. That was a rough realization. But on Sunday when I took the sacrament I felt a forgiving Spirit in me and a remotivation plant itself inside me. So I kinda started back at square one yesterday! Me and elder James both want to be more obedient because we know we're just gonna be running in circles if we don't and we're going to be taken out of this area if we don't get things started here.

So we went Sunday night and tried to see a ton of members in our new Temple Terrace area that were all on the same few roads and found a ton of Hispanics there! The members weren't living in most of the houses, but we still invited and left a prayer (new name for peace and blessing) with all of them. It was an awesome successful night! And it was so much easier to talk to straight random people, black, Hispanic, or white, along the way because we were filled with the Spirit! 

President Cusick called us and we talked about our area and he said he's really pleased with our work and efforts to recommit ourselves to be obedient. He gave us some
new ideas to find and improve and it was awesome! I'm seeing him trying to change and that makes me want to change too! The Atonement is for everyone!

Besides that nothing much else happened! Hope you like all the pics!
Have a safe week!

Live Hard,
Love Hard,
Laugh Hard,

Elder Bryson Davies

 
 
 
 

Week Fifty Eight!

Hola!



So...this is a tad late...because we haven't had wifi all day! Because
we went to the YANKEES GAME!! Straight up got pics of Jeter at bat and on short stop! And Bryce Harper, plays for the Nationals, also Mormon, didn't show. Sad day. But turns out one of the pitchers for the Yankees is Mormon and is in a ward in south Tampa and we talked with him! Elder Langi served in his ward so they're tight. I couldn't get his autograph though! Oh well. Memory is the next best thing right? But yeah I got pics of that AND the 5k, but on my camera!That old thing. So next time I email on a computer I'll shoot ya those. 




The race was so fun! Seemed way short, probably cause we got blasted with powder every quarter mile! We had to wear our white

shirts, tie and tag in it, which rocked because we stood out among the 8000 people that were there! So many people! And a few were Mormon we found out when they called us out and stuff. We even got a shout out from the head announcer on the starting line because we were going crazy and everyone looked at us and noticed how fun, normal, and cool Mormon missionaries are! We talked to a few people after and gave out cards, but it was mostly just to get our image out there and that we do normal cool things! Even the members we saw were like you guys can do this? Yes! Invite us to more stuff like this! So that was way way fun. I just threw away that shirt and tie I wore, they were crappy and ripped anyways. Pics will come! Meanwhile enjoy the one on 
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So Rod "dies" tomorrow! Goes home on Wed! I told him to fb you guys to invite y'all to his homecoming. He's way excited. I'm way excited for him vicariously! So I get a new comp tomorrow. Each companionship in our district is getting a new comp! Elders Langi and Stanger are staying here with me, but we all get new comps tomorrow. And we're also moving tomorrow night! To the Grand Oasis apartments. It's a way nice one. Address coming next week. We're gonna live with Stanger and his comp.



Besides that stuff not much else going on....Juan is still progressing
well, coming to church and everything.



Well continue in the faith! Thanks for your prayers and such!



Live Hard,


Love Hard,


Laugh Hard,



Elder Bryson Davies