May 31, 2010

Hey Mom,

I know I told you in my letter that I would be emailing on Tuesdays but we got lucky today and had a place to email on Monday. It won't be every week as far as I'm aware.

That's awesome that you wrote this email just after you finished your muster drill! I don't miss the muster drills but I do miss cruising ;) What?! You don't have to wear the life jackets? That's AWESOME! I'm super jealous now! Standing around without a life jacket would be a breeze (or at least you could feel the breeze lol)

That's good that the weather is comfortable when you are wearing a jacket. It's been rainy and windy, then hot. Yesterday was way hot. I am going to have an AWESOME tan! That's hilarious that you came prepared with all that winter clothing for a cruise ;)

That's crazy that both graduations were smaller than mine.

I can imagine you'd look forward to a week of rest and relaxation and I'm sure Dad is going to make sure you get VERY VERY pampered ;) Wow, only one week to get back into things and go to the family reunion.

lol, that's hilarious that you are all doing stairs in the ship to get a little more in shape for when you get to the canopy tour excursion! I am so excited for you guys :D You are gonna have a ton of fun.

You're not a fan of having young children on board? I really don't mind, but I guess I'm a bit younger ;) I've been one of those kids for a long time ;)

Hahaha! That's funny that you had to send this before you sailed out of cell service! Thanks for the email :D I'm not really "sad" that I'm not on the cruise with you. A bit jealous but that's about all. I'm glad that you'll be thinking about me a lot :) Just have a little extra fun for me.

:D My new companion is really fun to serve with. He is really really buff and he is yet another companion that I can't really relate to. However, we get along well and he's a cool guy. I think we'll have fun. My guess is we'll only serve one or two transfers together because he's been in the area for a long time. I am only his second companion. He's been out about 5 months so he's a LOT younger than me which is weird for me.

Anderson is really nice, I like it a lot. It has a major variety of houses. Some are really ghetto areas but most of it is very nice. We live in a super nice townhouse styled apartment. It's got the living room downstairs and the kitchen and a half bathroom. Then upstairs are two bedrooms (we only use one) and a full bathroom. It's super nice, I really like it :D The kitchen is really big which will make cooking much much easier! My grocery list this week is pretty extensive because I'm preparing to do a bunch of baking for the district and my companion and I. Should be fun.

There is a lot of work here. If we don't have anything to do we can tract unlike my last area so that's nice. I'm already starting to tan quickly and it should be interesting to see how dark I get by the end of my time here. I bet I'll be as dark as Kody!

Anyway, I think my companion is actually going to email tomorrow because his family doesn't email until Monday night since he usually emails on Tuesday. So I think I will wrap this up and tomorrow I will send you some more stories about the area. That way I'm not just emailing by myself ya know? I don't want to make everybody wait on me. They aren't yet, but breakfast will be ready soon so I have to finish up quickly.

Love you tons!

Elder Jay Davis