Six Months

Elder Davenport completed the first six months of his mission on August 20.

Exerpts from his current letter:

Things are going really well here! We are in a threesome with one of our zone leaders until thursday because his companion is going to be an a.p. replacing one who is going home tomorrow. It's going to be crazy busy around here this week. Very hectic but that's good.

Elder Dixon and I had the best weekend! The Halls were baptized and confirmed! It was the best baptism ever. The whole chapel was filled with her family and about 75% of the people there were non-members. After we got changed we went and listened to one of the youth sing a song. It was an amazing song. I'm not sure what it was, I can't remember. But Margaret was crying. The spirit was so strong and it was just such a wonderful feeling. Sunday we had a fireside where investigators and recent converts got up to bear their testimony. President Burgess (Stake President) asked if we could find somebody else to get up in case someone didnt' show up so we asked Margaret if she would in case that person didn't show. She of course said yes. Turned out that the girl showed up but President still wanted to hear from Margaret also. So he asked her to come up and she did and bore the most powerful testimony and it was just amazing. It seemed like she'd been a member her whole life. After she sat down Elder Dixon looked at me and said that's when you know someone is truly converted. It was the best feeling in the world!

So I most likely had my last Sunday in the Lincoln ward yesterday. It was very sad. I was trying not to get sad and tell everyone goodbye but there were a select few people who knew about transfers coming up. They didn't feel it a problem to let it be known. So everyone knew and were saying there in case goodbyes. It almost made me cry. This ward has been my home for the past 6 months and I've come so close with the people that it;'ll be hard to leave. But it'll be good. It;'ll help me to grow. I still don't know if I'll be shifted yet or not.

But that's something that's been on my mind lately. If the time I spent here was good. I've prayed a lot and never felt I got an answer so I asked Elder Dixon to give me a blessing because I've been stressing a lot lately over that and transfers. He gave me a great blessing. He told me that the Lord appreciated everything I've done so far and all sorts of good things. I'm grateful for him for being worthy to give great blessings. Than on Sunday (before people knew) they'd say stuff about how hard we are working and how much success we're having and how much they appreciate us. You could imagine how that made me feel. It helped a lot.