How's life going? This week was pretty crazy, but I am beginning to think that crazy is normal around here haha.
So let me tell you a little bit about this week! So it started off pretty normal... As far as missions go... We tracted a lot we talked to a lot of people and taughta lot of lessons.
So I don't know if I've mentioned Omar before. He is somebody I OYM'd on our first week out here. He seemed relatively interested and we set up a return appointment. He didn't have service to his phone so we got his Facebook. He never responded to any of our texts and our appointment fell through. Then when I was on exchanges with Elder Nadybal last week, I decided to knock his door. He was busy but he let us set up a return appointment. When E' Gibby and I showed up for the appointment, he turned out to be super solid! He had been reading the book of Mormon (A miracle in and of itself because literally nobody reads when you commit them to). Even better, it was with a member, Hermano Buenrostro, our ward mission leader, present. He just sucked up the Plan of Salvation lesson and the spirit was so strong. We put him on date for baptism on December 8th. We have such high hopes for him. We've only taught him twice, but honestly that's a lot more than we get with a lot of people. Buuuuut... There's a catch. We had invited around 12 people to church, 5 of which who gave us solid yes's. And guess how many showed up? Zero. Again. That means that Omar is now off-date. We brainstormed for a long time just trying to figure out what we did wrong. We had Double-wall committed Omar in the lesson, confirmed with him Saturday night, and we were on his doorstep Sunday morning talking with him... And he didn't come! Each other person had also committed Saturday night and none showed. So, together, we came up with the 13-step program. Basically it involves 13 contact attempts from the lesson until Sacrament Meeting. There should be absolutely no way that they can say yes and not show up. It's intense, but at this point, we are going to do everything we can do to get people to church. Also, we couldn't call people Sunday morning.... More on that in a bit.
So Friday night to Saturday night, I was once again in charge of the area for an exchange. I got to work a bit with Elder Turville. His area is Front Range/Platte River. That is the farthest area from Denver in our district. It's also the farthest west part of the Spanish area. We never go out there though because we have quite limited miles. (We get 1000 per month and we have to do 8 exchanges in far off places.) Anyway, Elder Turville is a pretty funny guy, thus is his first transfer as a senior companion. He came out at the same time as Elder Gibby. He and I taught José Bonilla again. The funny thing about that is that I have only taught José on exchanges, so Elder Gibby still hasn't met him haha. He had so many questions about the book of Mormon and we had a super good discussion. My Spanish has improved dramatically from when I first came out, it's incredible. I still miss a lot of grammar, but with time I believe I will figure it out. Elder Turville and I went tracting for a good part of the day, it was strangely warm, like 50-something degrees. Elder Turville never tracts in his area, so it was something foreign to him. I would have loved to give him a chance to do a door approach, but A) we didn't run into any white people, and B) nobody stinking answered the door. Anyway, we had a few good lessons and visits.
The title of the email comes from the fact that I like to name groups of apartment complexes. One is called Mexiplex, another is BING BANG BOOM and, if course, Beverly Hills haha.
I also had an interview with President Gifford this week. That went really well. He told me that he was confident I could run an area and be an effective missionary. He also told Elder Gibby our futures. Looks like I am going to be here for two transfers and then be transferred out west and E' Gibby will become a zone leader here and Denver 1st will become a zone leader area. How crazy is that? This means I will be here until past Christmas.
Speaking of Christmas, there has been snow on the ground here for about 2 days. Looks like it's not going anywhere either. Winter is here and it is so weird! I get to go on exchanges with the Zone leaders tonight. I'm actually pretty stoked. Hopefully I don't do anything stupid haha. The mission office probably thinks I have though. Elder Gibby broke his TIWI card (driving card), so he uses mine and he has now gotten several violations on it. Hopefully I can explain that. 
I love the people here so much and we are teaching so many amazing people. We picked up two people yesterday and they are actually super solid. One is from Perú and the other from Mexico. They are both older ladies and are very interested in the gospel.
The gospel is true and I love every moment of missionary work. Our ward relief society leader basically grilled everybody in Ward council yesterday and now our meal calendar is a lot more full haha. I can't wait to hear from you guys, this week and on Christmas! Good luck with Thanksgiving!! My ward has a Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday because most people are living in part member families and their relatives are all in Mexico. Pretty cool idea! Anyway, love y'all! Have an amazing week!
Love,
--Élder Davís
(PS Light the world came out today and they have a really good program this year of how we can light the world, our community, our families, and our faith. Check it out lighttheworld.org 
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What the... Snow? Outside the apartment views lol
Exchange with Elder Turville 
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