September 14, 2009

Dad,

I appreciate the council on transfers. I'm not going to tell you whether or not I got transferred in this email. I'll send one to all of you at once like always. I'm looking forward to the day I get to bring you back too! :D

The White Handbook (Missionary Bible) says that we are not allowed to correspond directly with members of the opposite sex who live within the mission boundaries unless they are one of our converts and we have special permission. Everybody else I can write.

lol, doorbells are awesome too but I'm a little bit chicken about if they're home and just not answering so I haven't rung one twice yet, but I'll consider it :D

I heard from some members out here that we jumped up to 9th WOOOHOOOO! 7?! AHHHHH!!!! I'm doing flips inside! 54-3...wow! (Jay made this comment in reference to BYU football.)

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP?! ASDLFJADFJLKASDF! (I'm out of excited words to say! lol) Well hopefully we play well against those two teams!

I'm smiling and smiling and smiling about mission and all else. People seem to be pretty thankful for my musical talent, thanks for the compliment.

I'm glad you are anxious to hear about my week. I like telling about it:) We got 23 lessons this week :D We acheived all of our goals except for sacrament meeting attendance which we were one short on.

Love,

Elder Jay Davis

GO COUGARS!!!


Mom,

Transfers are indeed today, but in order to be fair I will forbear.

I'm glad you enjoy reading my letter last week. To be 100% honest with you I can't even remember exactly what I wrote lol. I am glad, however, that my personality shows in my writing even if it is a little nerdy sometimes ;)

I was able to make Sour Cream Cookie...dough...lol, but haven't had enough time or the right weather (too hot) to bake any. So we'll see :)

We have been unable to meet with Kris and Conner but things seem to be going pretty well. Hopefully we'll be able to get in touch with them tonight and set things up for a time to meet.

Melissa has commented a lot on talking with you on Facebook. I think she really enjoys it. I'm glad that the pictures are well appreciated even if they are pretty dorky ;) The two thumbs up pose is definitely typical of me, but I can't ever think of anything else to do :) I'm happy to know it made your day. She laughed a lot at it (in a good way).

We haven't had a lot of wind but we got a pretty good amount of rain last night and this morning which was SOOOOO awesome! I just wish it had continued. Oh well, it'll rain more later. I wish it would have really poured during the non-sleeping hours more. Other than today it's been pretty warm though.

That's awesome that you are back in our church building again.

I'm super excited to see pictures of Becca, Brad, and the baby :D WOOT!

Thanks for having Dad send some cake pictures :D They'll love them I'm sure.

Thanks for the advice about looking for the good in every situation. I always try my best. Thanks for all of your prayers and support.

I love you back!

Love,

Elder Jay Davis

Hi Fam!

Well I am getting transferred. I am going to Yuba City, voted the ugliest city in the United States! hahaha Anyway, it should be way awesome. If I'm in the area that goes to the stake center building there is a real pipe organ which I am hoping I will get to play :D

I will be serving with Elder...Allen. I keep forgetting his name. Elder Cellan's watching out for me though. I'm sure things will be great.

If it's a bike area I'm doomed though. I don't know if I've told you but the bike got messed up during shipping and the derailer (the thing that clicks when you pedal backwards) touches the spokes in quite a few gears. So if I have a lot of biking to do I may need to buy a new bike. That's very very scary for me because I don't know what to look for and I don't want to spend a lot of money on something I'll rarely use at home. We'll see I guess. I can last at least a week with the bike I have.

I don't have much time to write since I need to pack and tonight is going to be busy. I will write about experiences that have piled up. I have them listed so I shouldn't forget.

Mom, the cake pictures may need to be posted on Facebook in case I can't show people before then. If you could do that it would be awesome. If not, that's fine too :)

Hmmm...I wonder if I've forgotten to tell you anything. Well I hope not because I'm gonna wrap up and go pack.

Love you all!

Elder Jay Davis