June 22, 2010

Dear Mom,

I agree :D I'm super excited for Catherine to get baptized. We just met with her again today and it was great. I'm sure she'll be able to be baptized, the interview went well and she passed, dunno if I told you that already. It's very exciting. She's single yes, well she's having a divorce but she's already filed and everything so it's basically final. A couple of her kids are in jail, but ya. She lives with her member parents in our ward.

lol, that's no fun having hot weather. Surprisingly the weather has been relatively mild this week (meaning lots of upper 80's lol). 90's are more common though. It's supposed to be in the 100's by now though, so I'm lucking out! HAHAHA! I'm glad you love hearing the birds sing, but I'm sorry about Jim's pigeons pooping everywhere. ;) Speaking of Jim...there is a family in our ward here who moved from Santaquin just before we moved in. They are the Giffords. They lived in Sister...oh man, what's her name...across from the Lowe's...Sister Millman, her house. So they know the Norton's and they are best friends with the Butlers (who still keep in contact). So you can tell them that the Giffords say hi.

Yes, I knew Aunt Annette. I met her one time I think...maybe I only saw a picture, but you talked about her fondly ALL the time so I know she was very important to you. That's sad about her son! That would be way hard to live in your parents house by yourself after they passed away!

That's awesome that you've had so many opportunities to visit with family. I definitely miss doing that a lot!

That's so awesome that you got to visit with your mom's siblings and that you got to talk to Betty (who is Sis. Littlefield's twin right?). What an awesome compliment she gave me! Thank you for graciously accepting it ;) Thank you for your compliment too. I'm glad to hear that people that you've heard from have given good feedback. Did Bro. Call talk to you after he drove me up here?

Yep, I've made the banana chocolate chip cupcakes and they were very yummy :) I only made a single batch and so it only made a dozen (I had some batter left but not enough for another dozen (only maybe four or five more) and I didn't feel like cooking anymore lol). They went fast.

lol, that's definitely a good thing that your life is much less busy. Hopefully it's still been fun though :D

Thanks for the advice. I like that saying about smiling possibly being the most important thing I can do on my mission!

I am doing wonderfully :) I will tell a story to you all in a general email.

Love,

Elder Jay Davis


Hey Dad,

That's not good that TP Desktop and WAHA had so many problems. That's good that Kody was such a benefit during the difficulties! He sure is trying hard to be successful. He's been telling me how hard he's working at staying busy.

That sucks big time that Utah AND Colorado are both moving into the PAC-12...at least we got Idaho...should be interesting to see how our conference does.

HAHAHA! That's funny that the noise was the thing that you really noticed in the home ward. :) Glad you enjoyed being back.

lol, yeah, it's hot here too. Luckily this week has stayed in the mid-90's to high 80's. It's usually over 100 by this time so I am lucking out big time! I can imagine it would still take some getting used to for you back home. I've adjusted quite well surprisingly.

Catherine passed her baptismal interview and will be getting baptized on Saturday! She wants me to sing for it...I hate singing by myself...luckily there's another missionary in the district who likes to sing and she agreed to let us sing together. I'm still super nervous but it's going to sound awesome! As for other investigators...we have basically one other very promising one at the time whom I will tell you about in a general email.

That's cool that you and Kody have had the chance to watch some of the soccer games. I'm bummed to hear that the US got robbed, but I'm hoping they get to at least move on. That would be awesome!

lol, is it a good thing or a bad thing that there's nothing else new at home?

Things here are great. Transfers are quick approaching (we find out July 5th and would leave July 6th). I'm excited to see what happens.

Thanks for your support. I love you tons!

Love,

Elder Jay Davis