Mormon Newsroom Pacific reports the following:
American Idol Finalist to Mormon Missionaries: ‘Small and Simple Things Matter’
During a special devotional meeting on Wednesday, 12 August at the Redoubt Road Latter-day Saint meetinghouse in South Auckland, Mr Archuleta used his gift of music and the spoken word to share his faith in Jesus Christ and his belief that “through the small and simple things we do each day, great things can happen.”
Mr Archuleta gave examples from his own Latter-day Saint mission in Chile, South America, where doing the small and simple things—like approaching people he didn’t know, and inviting them to church services—felt awkward and was hard to do.
His advice to the missionaries was, “Even when it gets hard, even when you’re feeling down, even when it’s hard to make those decisions to keep going, please just pray, get on your knees and pray and just do it anyway. Those small and simple things bring about the work of the Lord.”
“You’ve been asked to be obedient,” he said. “You have been called to serve. You’ve been asked to be loving, to have charity, to be humble — and sometimes it’s hard to do that.”
Mr Archuleta was accompanied by Dr Brad Wilcox, an author and professor of education at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA. Dr Wilcox brought to life, through audience participation and his gift of using humour while teaching, a well-known story from the Bible.
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The article also posted some pix 🙂
David @ TOFW, New Zealand for the Living Proof Tour
David is also one of the presenters for the Time Out For Women, a worldwide community of like-minded, faithful women. On their website, you can see this posted —
They also posted some pics on their Instagram account:
We hope you loved your day at #tofwauckland! We wanted to post one last behind the scenes picture, because it’s just the cutest thing we’ve ever seen. @davidarchie got to meet little miss M. backstage, and their faces together just made us grin. The TOFW Living Proof tour is headed to Denver and Sacramento next month! Pre-registration ends on Wednesday, so gather a group and join us! #tofwdenver #tofwsacrament
I understand he sang Be Still My Soul & Pride during the Living Proof Tour. Am excited to hear Pride 🙂
~ JR
First Australia, now New Zealand… hey David, you are almost in our part of the globe already!
Here is a snippet of BSMS thanks to jenpiahana
Loved the video -- David sure does feel the emotion when he sings.
Found more pix and some interesting videos on David. A long weekend is coming up and am staying home! So I will have time to put them 🙂
But this one I cannot help to post now cos am excited with what I hear!
He sent out 1 more tweet & re-tweeted another, both with pix:
Was that David on that song? I’m lovin’ what I’m hearin’.
Thanks for the awesome find JR! I like this pairing of writers! It’s been a great ride so far and I’m a believer in the idea that “The Best is Yet to Come! WOOT!WOOT!
MARLIE -- Well, my heart fluttered when I heard the vocals, so it must be David -- LOL!
But I think that was David behind Drew, right?
If he isn’t singing this one, he is probably collaborating/writing with Drew on it 🙂
Hi angelofdja -- I agree. When it comes to David, the best is yet to come indeed 🙂
angelofda: I agree -- the Best is Yet to Come. I really think David is just trying to find the right sound and the right songs. I’ve been trying to maintain my positivism, although some days it was harder than others! But I’m just anxious to hear that voice again on stage. I am not going to any of his “out west” concerts, but have my eyes open to anything that he does on the east coast.
I hope we have videos from the upcoming concerts -- I miss those old days of waiting up till all hours to see if anyone posted videos from concerts in years past.
Is this David?
Longer hair? Beard? And surfing???
Interesting times… hmmmmnnn… TheDavidWatch continues, LOL
He looks ready to “do this thang”! David finding and experiencing new joys in life…It can be very beneficial to us once he hits that stage again!