January 19, 2010

Hey Mom,

I am glad that you can find excitement in Jodi getting baptized too. It's definitely good that she was able to grow from the interview experience just like you and Dad predicted. I know! I was so stoked that her husband was there (Norm is his name). I think there is a chance he'll gain a testimony of God and the Church but I would venture to say it'll be many years down the road. Yeah, Latrell was the slacker, videogamer son of Delores and now he's made lots of changes and is baptized...AWESOME!

Okeedokey, was I able to tell you my other fun story for the week? Maybe it was Jodi...I can't remember. Alright, I'll just answer the cues that you gave me. (You'll have to just share these with the family, I don't want to have to duplicate)

Our new apartment...I haven't measured it but I'd say it's maybe...30 ft. X 20 ft. (I'll measure and find out for sure) It's very small but fun to live in. The quirks...we don't have a toilet paper holder, it's been ripped out of the wall multiple times it looks like lol. We just set the toilet paper on the back of the toilet. The shower leaks so we have to put a towel on the floor. The bathroom only has a sliding door with no handle or lock and definitely not sound proof so you have to turn the fan on to try to cover up the noise lol. The stove is this little teeny tiny thing but still has four burners and the oven (part of the stove) is just barely big enough to be able to fit a 9 X 13 pan in it (to make German Pancakes, lol) So far we really haven't had any run-ins with creatures at the apartment. We had mosquitoes for a while but they have dissipated. We did see a coyote driving home the other night! I hadn't ever seen one in real life before. The land lady is an awesome person. She makes sure that we have our mail whenever it comes in and she is just very nice. Oh, another quirk, when we first moved in the sink wouldn't drain and the garbage disposal was jammed, so she called a plumber who came and unclogged the pipes and replaced the disposal which was broken, not just jammed.

Okay, details about the first annual Mormon Bowl...we had shirts as I said. The missionaries who organized it had divided the zone into two teams that were relatively even with skill and athletics. Then when we ordered our shirts they got two different color schemes of the same shirt to divide up the teams. Mine is blue and white, the other team was black and yellow (looks like the Steelers). I think I told you about how the shirts look already. Okay, so the Mormon Bowl we played on a turf field at one of the high schools which obviously wasn't in school because of the holidays. I ran and ran and ran as receiver (pretty much everybody was receiver since it was flag football and we didn't have a "line"). By the end of the day my knees were killing me, but I still had fun and after a day or two it was back to normal. Um...what else is there to say really? I don't even remember who won because we didn't keep very good score. I did catch a touchdown pass! (Thanks to a good quarterback who insisted on throwing to me lol)

My companion is pretty good. He struggles with seeing the good in situations and seeing the positives about people from humble circumstances. I just have a really hard time because it doesn't seem like he has charity at all. I know I'm not perfect, but I really try to love the people and my companions and it seems he sort of looks for the negatives about everybody around him. So I have a hard time dealing with his lack of humility and charity, but other than that I really enjoy serving with him.

I'm glad you enjoy my style of writing. I haven't ever really understood why you always compliment me on how well I am able to express myself, but maybe it's just because I'm long-winded ;) Thank you for your emails. I really enjoy reading them :D

Thanks for the encouragement :D I love you too!

Love,

Elder Jay Davis

Hey Dad,

I KNOW! It made me SOOOOO mad that your email got horked up AGAIN! I just wanted to yell :P Oh well. I promise it's not intentional lol. It's just terrible luck. Luckily for you the email I retyped was basically the same just slightly more rushed.

That sounds fun going to the Sprint event at Park City. I'm sure you'll have a blast. I told a whole bunch of info on the house and stuff in Mom's email because she gave me cues on what to answer lol. So hopefully she'll share that. Sorry, I'll try to put more of my fun stories in your emails in the future. I feel like I give you the short end of the stick.

I will certainly have a great week. It's raining and raining and raining and raining and raining! It's supposed to rain for two weeks straight. Tons of moisture, lots of wind up to 100 MPH, and snow in the higher altitudes. Quite a crazy storm with lots of flood watches for next week. Should be way fun, don't worry though.

Love you tons!

Elder Jay Davis