December 14, 2009

Dear ...My...Mom,

lol, didn't have anything unique to say like Elder Jay ;)

I think it's good to be riding the bike more too. However, as I am just about over my illness Elder Duval is now about in the middle stages of something similar. No fun! So we've had a lot of down time and definitely no biking lately! HAHAHA! I know the drill of doing well for a week and then getting lazy! That's how my journal has been my whole mission...mostly off, but I'm doing REALLY well right now :D

I'm super duper excited to see Kody too! Elder Duval is excited about Kody coming. Don't worry, we plan to use Kody to get more "member present lessons." It should be a lot of fun :) Plus, if Elder Duval doesn't improve quickly we could very possibly be staying in the apartment anyway, or just driving around staying out of the rain ya know? We'll see what happens. Regardless we are going to have a blast.

lol, sorry my response is so short, but hopefully like you said I'll have time for a mass email today.

I love you!

Love,

Elder Jay Davis


Hey Dad,

Quick emails are fine :) I'm just glad to hear from you!

Thanks for the information for Christmas. It's looking like Elder Duval will be calling around 1 p.m. so I don't know if I'll call before or after...likely after. However, the member's we will be with only have cellphones and not landlines so there is a good possibility that we could both call at the same time to reduce the amount of time used...although then the members wouldn't have either of us to chill with lol. I'm not sure, I'll have it nailed down by my next email. Kody actually gets to meet these members while he's here :D That'll be awesome!

The missionaries that go home this transfer are going home on Saturday instead of the typical Tuesday because of Christmas so one of the Elders in my zone (a ZL actually) got special permission from his stake president to watch the BYU game even though he won't be released yet ;)

I'm pumped to see Kody. You'd better believe we're going to have him involved in all of the missionary activities! He counts as a member present so we're going to go out and get as many lessons with him there as possible! ;) I'll make sure we give him some tracting time too ;) Maybe not TOO much though lol!

I am looking forward to loaning him one of my tags just for fun ;)

Love you tons Dad!

Love,

Elder Jay Davis



Once again I am short on time due to having dinner on base and needing a bit extra time to check in! (military base)

Stories of note for the week...My companion's been sick so we've been stuck in the apartment most of the week with limited excursions out. It's been some good rest time considering I was recovering from illness as well.

Hmm...I think I will just say that I am looking forward to Christmas. I have some great stories to tell but don't have time to do them justice in this email.

I appreciate all of your thoughts and hope you know that mine are with you as well (but not enough to draw me away from the work!).

I love you tons!

Elder Jay Davis