June 1, 2010

Dear Loved Ones,

Wow...that sounded mushy-gushy...oh well.

Okay, I have a list of fun things to talk about.

First, Anderson is HOT, I am already getting amazingly tan and will be even more so by the end of the summer so hopefully when I return home I will still have some tan left ;) It'll be a stretch though.

Elder Thompson, my new companion, is a great guy. He and I are different which is usual for most of my companions because I'm a music nerd and most of them are sports guys. However, we get along very well. He's only been out 5 months. I have now been out 14 months nearly 15.

Our apartment is a very nice townhouse-style apartment. We have the living room and kitchen downstairs with a half bathroom and then two bedrooms and a full bathroom upstairs (only one bedroom is officially used). I'm super excited because I love baking stuff out here on my mission so a nice sized kitchen will be great (especially after my last kitchen where I had to use the ironing board as extra counter space)

The other day we were tracting and we talked to this lady who was busy but said to come back. Well as we were getting on our bikes to leave her husband came out and asked us if we lived in the area. So we said yes and he asked us where our church was so we told him and then he asked us what time so we told him. Then he looked like he was pondering and he goes, "Yeah...yeah I think I can make it then. Do you guys have a number that I can get a hold of you on?" So we gave him our number and we were all excited...but he never called us and he wasn't at church. We'll have to follow up on that.

Then on Sunday we were walking around the neighborhood and it was super super super duper hot and I was sweating like none other and (I realized this later) my backpack was leaving dirt marks on my shirt so I had these HUGE sweat marks, but not just armpit ones, they were in the shape of the backpack straps! It was NASTY! Anyway, back to the original story...so we were walking along and all of a sudden we hear this girl (probably no older than 14) scream the B word at somebody and come storming out of her house. She then turned back toward the house and flipped whomever it was off. Then we saw it was her mom. So the girl went and kicked her mom's truck, then got a hammer and was threatening to use it on her mom's truck! It was insane...kinda funny, but pretty crazy. It was just very dramatic which made it funny. Anyway, as we walked by the mom said to us, "You can pray for this one." So I was like, "Okay." Then after we walked off I was like, "We'll pray for you too."

Okay...so a couple weeks ago guess what I found in Walmart...Oops! All Berries cereal! I was so excited because I hadn't seen it forever! It was on sale for $2 a box which is a WAY good deal on cereal out here and it wasn't one of the super small boxes. Anyway, So I bought two boxes in my last area and ate them both. Then when I got to my new area they still were carrying them so I bought another box ;) They are yummy and they made me relive my younger years. I was also remembering how I used to not like to eat the crunch part of crunch berries and I didn't like the cereal part of lucky charms and so I'd eat the cereal first and leave the marshmallows for last. To this day I still eat my Lucky Charms/Marshmallow Mateys that way.

I think that is all of my interesting stuff for the time being. I will have more stories next week.

Love,

Elder Jay Davis