February 1, 2010

Hey Mom,

While I'm thinking about it...that cake you made was AWESOME! Did you use the stuff where it prints on like edible paper or something? That was way cool. I liked the controller, I bet that was way challenging. It looked awesome.

I'm glad you enjoyed all of the photos even though they weren't spectacular. I'm glad you enjoyed the Christmas morning video.

That's awesome about Josh :D I'm excited for him and Nels both! WOOT!

I heard about the Payson temple from some members and thought it was a joke but had another member look it up online and found out it's true! I'm SOOOOOOO excited! I was going to ask about the size so that's good that you told me they haven't announced which kind it'll be. Oh wow, so it'll be even closer to our house than I thought! I am soooo pumped! Do they have an approximation of when construction will begin and end? Thanks for the information! I'm so excited!

That's pretty funny that the school kids had to dodge all of the deer droppings on the sidewalk! I love seeing deer. I miss Foresthill because we saw them ALL the time! There's not as much wildlife here even though we're still up in the hills. There are a TON of skunks though! I've only seen a couple live ones, most of them are dead on the road. There a lot of the dead ones, that's for sure!

That's okay, I like hearing about regular home life even if it's the same stuff ;)

Love you tons!

Elder Jay Davis

Happy Birthday Dad!

You are welcome for the birthday note and pictures...I sent a couple b-day cards...have you received them? I hope so. I'm glad that you think I look great.

I'm glad you enjoyed the craw-dad scene. Are you sure we over cooked them? We had no idea what we were doing. We just thought that they'd turn red like lobster. Oh well, they still tasted good.

That's a bummer that you had problems at work on Friday and Saturday and didn't get much of a chance to celebrate your birthday. Grandma said you did get to go to Tepanyaki...YUM!

lol, Mom sent me a picture of the cake they made for you! It was AWESOME! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Speaking of Ghost Recon, Mom says you are really obssessed with it lately :D That made me smile! I don't blame you at all. I mean with a 55" HDTV how could you not want to play it?! Plus it's a good relief of stress after work ;)

That's awesome that Kody got his patriarchal blessing and that you watched all of my pictures and videos together as a family. Did you hook it up to the big screen? ;)

I'm glad you liked watching the Christmas morning video. Wait...I was tired? I think I was just talking quietly because my companion was still in bed. So I didn't want to wake him up and at the first when I was sitting by the tree opening presents, I was sitting right by the bedroom. I guess I did yawn a lot, but I was actually not as tired as I usually am ;) I'm happy to know that you liked watching it all the same ;)

This week is going amazing! You'll be proud, I saved my cool stories for the week to write in your email! Thanks for letting me know about Josh's call by the way! I'm very excited for him! That's also cool that you were close with country and language, but I guess it makes sense that if Aunt Lynette put a city then she would be the most accurate. Ah well.

Okay, so back to why this week has been so amazing. So yesterday we were at church and I had to get up to use the restroom. So my companion and I snuck out of the chapel and I used the restroom. When I came out one of the members was talking to my companion in the hallway (she thought that we were leaving and she wanted to catch us before we did). Anyway, she asked us if we could cancel our dinner appointment and come to their house for dinner because they were going to be having some non-members over for dinner that had expressed an interest in our church (in fact the mom was at church that day and the week before) (it was a mom and two sons). They knew that the missionaries would be there so they wouldn't be surprised. Well neither of us really wanted to cancel our dinner because it's one of our favorite families and we only get to go once a month, but we knew it was the right thing to do so we cancelled our dinner (luckily they understood) and planned to go to the Bischoff home (the ones that invited us of course). Well we had a wonderful dinner with great conversation. Then after dinner we had the opportunity to share a quick message about eternal families and the Proclamation on Families from the Church. After the short lesson we asked if she would be interested in us continuing to teach her and what not and she said of course and that she wanted to make sure her two sons were there for the lessons (they were there for this one). So we set up an appointment for this Friday at 7:30 p.m. and got her number and gave her ours. So we picked up THREE new investigators! We are SOO very excited. She really seems like she's ready to be baptized and so does one of her sons, the other one will be a tougher nut to crack though.

THEN! The Lucas' are the ones that live in Davis. They are ready to be baptized but want to be in the Loma Rica ward and can't be baptized into it until they live in it (or are for sure moving up here). So we've been house hunting, along with them and the ward, for a house. Well there is a house that seems to be a VERY good possibility so we are very excited about that.

Yet another exciting prospect...there is a family that I've probably mentioned, the Tharps. They are not members, but their son just recently joined the church in another ward. Well he has been bringing his parents to church and they seem like they are already members. They love it. Well he went back to his normal ward but they have continued coming to our ward! They really are "dry Mormons" and we are confident that once we begin teaching them (that's the other thing, they're coming on their own, we've never taught them, and that's a very long story as to why not) they will be baptized quickly. Also, they invited us over for dinner next week so we are VERY excited for that and we're hoping that'll be our opening to begin teaching them.

I could go on and on. We have a TON of prospects all of a sudden so we're hoping that within the next month or two we can have FIVE or SIX baptisms! VERY exciting!

I am doing very well, I'm happy, healthy, and definitely having a great time. I hope you are as well.

lol, I'm glad you liked my laugh in the videos...I feel dorky when I go back and watch my videos...but oh well.

Love you back,

Elder Jay Davis