March 22, 2010

Hey Mom,

Yeah, I'm not surprised that the weather is hesitant to agree that it's Spring in Utah. The weather seems about like Spring here in California. We've been over 60 many times already :D It's been nice, but I've missed Utah's crazy weather for sure.

Yep, Ty and the Tharps should definitely be exciting! I probably won't be in Loma Rica for the Tharps' baptisms because transfers are the week before. I will just have to wait and see.

Thanks for letting me know that a lot of people have asked about me this week :D That makes me feel good. I don't remember who told me but one of my friends told me how much your face lights up every time somebody asks about me. Hopefully that means you have been smiling a lot this week ;) Tell them all thanks for thinking about me.

Wow! Sounds like a super busy week! I hope you enjoyed being busy. It's nice when it's on occasion and not every day ;)

Hey, I haven't read forward in your email so you may mention this, but what was the conclusion with G-ma and G-pa Johnson? Is the move a go or on hold?

I'm glad that Sister Goforth was able to get in touch with you :) She has this tradition (that started with my companion and I) of calling the missionaries moms and learning how to make their favorite meal. So tonight I will get a surprise meal from home (she wouldn't tell me what you told her to make :D) I'm excited for the surprise. Hopefully none of the emails today let the cat out of the bag ;) I'm glad you enjoy hearing from the people here in California who I associate with :D I'm glad that people are enjoying having my companion and I in the ward. We get many people each week telling us how much they love having us and how we're different than a lot of the missionaries they've had. Some say we've become family. It's awesome!

I will do what I can to keep up the good work. I have no shortage of laughter, and I'm usually smiling :D Thank you for your encouragement Mom :D

I love you tons!

Elder Jay Davis

Hey Dad,

I'm glad the week was a good one. It's nice after having a hard week or two to just have a week that flows better right :D

This week was good for me too. It really flew by. This transfer has been one of long and short weeks. Usually each week is pretty consistent, but last week was long, this past week was fast. I enjoyed my week a lot. We didn't get as many lessons this week due to many cancelled appointments (for schedule reasons, they rescheduled with us so that's good). We still got some great lessons in and some other good stuff happened that I'll make mention of in my family email. I love the ward! It is definitely a great one! I am looking forward to being able to come back and visit all of my areas with you all (if time allows of course).

Go back to Germany as married couples? That would be awesome! Especially if Kody gets married quickly and all of us can go that way! Woot! We can keep our fingers crossed right? ;)

Oh, maybe you meant our missions. I would LOVE that too! I like that goal. That would be easy with my mission, we'll have to see where Kody goes :D I am looking forward to showing you Foresthill and Loma Rica. Hopefully we'll get to take a quick trip shortly after my mission too before I'm married ;)

Thanks for the email. I will include a couple stories in my family email like I said.

Love you tons!

Elder Jay Davis

Hi Everybody,

So this week Dad told me that my emails are sort of like Jigsaw puzzles because I put one or two stories in each email so he has to read everybody's emails to get the full picture. So I figured I'd save the stories for one email.

On Tuesday we reset a baptismal date with Anthony who is the son of Missy who was baptized Feb. 28th. He will be baptized on April 11th, the same day as Ty.

Pete and Mary Lou Littlefield returned from their mission in Africa. They are my great aunt and uncle which I found out while I was on my mission. VERY small world! It was fun to meet them. My mom said they might not have been themselves because of jet lag and what not. I think that Sister Littlefield was so pumped to see everybody that she was pretty much herself. She seemed very peppy just like Mom described her. Elder Littlefield (they hadn't been released yet) seemed a little...lot...more tired, but a happy fellow. Sister Littlefield was excited to hear that I can play the piano and couldn't help but brag to one of the members standing by that HER side of the family is VERY musically talented ;) It made me smile! I look forward to swapping memories of people we both know.

I don't know that there has been a lot of other exciting stuff this week. My email time is nearly up too.

Love you all,

Elder Jay Davis