April 18, 2010

Hey Mom,

That's awesome that you typed this email on your phone. Do you still have the Treo? That's cool that you are able to do that now too just like Dad :)

Oh great, another surgery for Grandpa, poor guy! I'm glad that they find him in good enough health to be able to perform surgery :)

That's awesome that they will probably close on the house this week and that they will be moved in as soon as possible :D That makes me excited!

Things this week with my new companion have gone great, we've had lots of fun and yes I lived with him before and we get along very well. This will be a good companionship but I'm not sure how long it will last since I've been here quite a while.

lol, I dried the socks in the dryer alright but I haven't really noticed any considerable shrinking, plus they were super long anyway so it wouldn't hurt if they shrunk a little bit. Thanks for the advice though ;) I'll probably continue to dry them...but who knows.

That's awesome that the weather there has been good enough for shorts. I haven't really paid attention to our weather. It's been a lot warmer. We've even had some highs in the 80's. It's been pretty nice and I've been able to wear short sleeves (suit coat season just recently ended so I wore short sleeves alone).

lol, I don't think this email was nearly as choppy as you seemed to think, I'm just glad you sent me an email :D So thank you.

I love you tons!

Elder Jay Davis

Hey Dad,

I am doing great :D Things are running smoothly which is nice. Yep, you've got a great memory. The Tharps just got baptized yesterday. They were baptized by their recent convert son which was awesome. It went really smoothly although one of the speakers they invited to speak went WAY long and there was a baptism after ours so it was pretty bad, but that's okay. Also Anthony Rodarte was confirmed in Sacrament meeting. (I haven't written that in anybody elses' emails so you'll have to share)

New companionship is great. Elder Boyter and I get along very well and the ward seems to like him so far. I am no longer district leader which is quite the relief for me...I really didn't enjoy the position. I'm glad I can say I've been there done that though ;) There was another elder who had been requesting to President for a long time to be D.L. so President gave it to him, which was fine by me :)

That's wicked awesome about the guy who knows Uncle Gary that is coming to our mission Spanish Speaking! He is actually probably coming in the next transfer because we are losing at least two of our Spanish-Speaking missionaries (both of which are in my zone). That would be AWESOME if he ended up being in the same zone as me :D

lol, 3 hours of yard work is WAY too much ;) I like Spring too...the summer is nice for some things, but Spring is my favorite with Winter as a close 2nd. Hopefully you have a good summer even if you don't like the season itself ;)

Oh my goodness! Speaking of ants we had a crazy experience yesterday (which will probably end up being repeated today now that I think about it). So we left the house around 8:30 a.m. and didn't return until about 8:30 p.m. Well when we left...no ants...when we returned...ant infestation! Wow it was TERRIBLE! Luckily they were only in two places, the bathroom and over by the couch. We were able to keep them from overtaking our beds and our food. We were able to spray the places where it appeared they were coming in and we vacuumed the floor and moved the couch and vacuumed there. We quarantined a few things that we were pretty sure had an ant infestation that wasn't solvable with a vacuum. We will take care of those soon. Anyway, we had a fun night last night, our apartment is in shambles today, but we'll finish waging our war against the ants and then we'll return everything to its proper place in the apartment and it'll be cleaner than it was before so we're going to have a prim and perfect apartment which will be wonderful. Hopefully you are able to get rid of your ant problem too ;) (By the way, our member we live with knows about the problem and will probably be calling a sprayer dude to come take care of it since it's in her side of the house too)

lol, it'll be quite the experience having a brand new ward all of a sudden :D Have fun ;)

Love you tons!

Elder Jay Davis