Hello everyone. Once again I am emailing you all. Things have been going great here in Sterling, VA. It has really been great. I will say that this week might have been the hardest week I have had on my mission. I know what you are thinking, that I have been out so and so months but still have hard days or weeks. Oh man yeah. This one was just a barrage of stuff that made it not the funnest week, but it ended all good. I was talking to my mission president a while ago and one of the things that he said stood out to me this week. He told me that when he interviews missionaries at the end of their missions he asks them when they learned the most on their mission. He then told me that the times that those missionaries learned the most usually were during their hardest times. It is really interesting and cool. There is this awesome EFY song that we listen to that is called "Mountains to Climb". That song just really stood out to me this week.
My friend Shandon quoted a scripture in his weekly email about the 2,000 stripling warriors of Helaman. It was kind of cool because I read about them this morning! I read about the people of Ammon and how they wanted to go to war because all of the Nephites were dying, but Helaman told them they shouldn't because he was afraid that they would lose their souls. Then the sons of these amazing people stood up and agreed to go out there to fight. I just think about how scary that would be. I never want to go to war. I thought about that and how I could apply it to my life and I thought about how I left my parents to come be a missionary because they can't be missionaries because they are too old. How I am out here fighting a spiritual battle, well we are all fighting a spiritual battle but you get what I am meaning here. It talks about how those warriors obeyed with exactness and quoting the same scripture Shandon did, not one of them died in battle, but they also all received wounds. Us missionaries aren't perfect. I remember when I was little I thought they were. We are all out in this battle together, missionary or not. Isn't it a wonderful thing this gospel. It really is guided by Jesus Christ himself.
I am thankful for all of the support from all of you! You are all awesome and I really hope that you all have a great week!
Davis
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