August 31, 2010

Hey Mom,

My week was great once again. The weather was interesting...very hot most of the week and then all of a sudden we had rain! It was awesome! I hadn't seen rain in three months solid! I'm glad yours was good.

That's awesome that Kody got all moved into his apartment.

That's awesome that your performance in R.S. was so good :D I understand having performances that are pleasing without being completely flawless. I don't know that I've ever performed a flawless piece! It's good to know that praying hard before hand helped ease your nerves ;)

That's so cool that you are loving being at the school so much! Are you doing it purely volunteer this year or are some of the days paid as a substitute for Lynne and the other teacher you mentioned?

lol...yeah...the 6 month slim down is traditional in this mission because there is such a high average weight gain! Did you know that the average weight gain of our mission is between 30 and 40 pounds?! (It depends on who you ask so we compromise with between the two lol) Anyway...I've probably put on about 15 lbs. I haven't weighed often. The problem with my weight is that most of it isn't muscle so I'm starting to get a little pooch around my waist (very small but more than I'd like to have). So I hope that if I do the slim-down I'll be able to build a little bit of muscle and drop the fat and I might maintain the same weight you know?

Yep, Elder Lincoln and I are having a blast. It's nice to have somebody who is much more similar to myself than most of my companions.

That's AWESOME that you know somebody from this mission :D I haven't ever taught anybody by that name, but I wrote the name down so I'll ask around a bit and maybe we can get her in touch with some missionaries who have taught her :D

Uh...no...I haven't purchased any bacon yet...I forgot when we were shopping because I've had enough food so far. Food....hahahaha! Sounds nice right now...I'm fasting. Actually for the rest of the transfer we are fasting on Tuesdays. Our zone is doing this thing where we have a companionship fasting on every day of the transfer. We took Tuesdays :D It's kinda fun actually!

It's okay, Dad can tease you all he wants, it doesn't make me like the novel any less ;)

Love,

Elder Jay Davis


Hey!

Well I didn't get to this last week so here goes. I'm relatively short on time again, but I will try to get some good stories on here. They are going to be a week outdated but I will get a new list for next week!

Okay...So first off, my new companion is Elder Lincoln, you probably all knew that. He is awesome. He's a bigger guy and proud of it so I don't feel bad in saying that. However, he and I are working together on being more healthy and dropping a little weight (don't worry, I won't lose too much). It's a lot of fun, we both have a lot of laughs together because we have similar senses of humor.

So one morning Elder Lincoln and I were sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast...or getting ready to eat breakfast. I guess Elder Lincoln had already started, but I had just sat down with my bowl of cereal. We were talking and all of a sudden I just bowed my head and started blessing my food (silently). Well when I finished I looked up and he was just staring at me all befuddled. He told me he thought I had a sudden moment of narcalepsy. It was hilarious even though he didn't truly think that was the case! We were dying of laughter!

Then the other day we didn't have dinner on the calendar with anybody so a member gave us money. Well we used our own money and ate lunch at Arby's which I hadn't had my whole mission so that was good. Then somebody called us and said that they had us for dinner, which surprised us. So we went to Roundtable Pizza for dinner at the perfect time for our schedule and theirs which was not a coincidence and then we were able to use the dinner money the next day when our dinner fell through. It was AWESOME! Anyway, that was a condensed version but it was awesome!

Anyway, I guess those weren't any super specific stories but they are what came to mind. Things here are great. I love my mission. Thanks for all of your support :D

Love,

Elder Jay Davis