December 21, 2009

Hi Dad!

My week was great and was finished with an awesome weekend! Thank you so much for helping Kody come visit :D We had a wonderful experience that I'm sure he'll be able to tell you all about! I'll try to tell you some stuff lol

Thanks for the conference bridge info again. I am thinking that I would rather stagger my phonecall with Elder Duval so we're not both on the phone at the same time and the members are just waiting around for us ya know? So I am thinking perhaps 2 p.m. my time so 3 p.m. Utah time...does that sound okay?

That's awesome that our young team just dominated at the bowl game. Any bowl game is amazing considering how the season started out! Kody seemed pretty enthused for the upcoming season and I am as well! Should be great!

That's a HUGE bummer that the undefeated BYU Basketball team lost its first game. Oh well, hopefully we won't drop too much in the rankings.

Oh my goodness! We had a blast! Again, thank you so much for helping Kody come! We got to show him the ropes with missionary work and he got to fill me in on some of his college endeavours (sp?) and it was just a ton of fun! He got to meet my favorite family in the area that we are spending Christmas with! It was just a lot of fun. He is getting really good at playing the piano. I am very impressed! The memories will certainly last forever!

I realized something pretty scary/cool today. I only have 12 weeks left on my mission. What a short amount of time! I have fewer weeks than Elder Duval has months! (I've always wanted to use one of those sayings lol)

That's funny that they wrapped you into singing in the quartet. I'm sure you did great! Kody is pretty darn excited to have you participate in his farewell! I was really proud of Kody this weekend! He has grown up a lot (not that he hadn't before).

I will tell more details about Kody's visit in a mass email which I am determined to send this week lol This week has been great, hope your week turns out well too! Merry Christmas!

Love,

Elder Jay Davis


Dear Mom,

My weekend was AWESOME! Kody and I had to chuckle when we'd imagine you and Dad just being TOTALLY jealous at home. It was such a great experience to take him out as my very own mission companion for a weekend :D He has grown up so much! I can't believe how much alike he and I are! We think very similarly!

Kody's gift was AWESOME! I figured I'd keep it and send heavy stuff home with him, because it'll be cheaper. I know the Shumways LOVED the doily but I didn't see the response of the Nichols. They didn't open it while I was there. I just sort of dropped Kody off...and ran...so I didn't get too emotional.

Elder Duval is still working on getting better, mostly his past medical history is what's keeping him from getting better. I'm pretty much in full health now, and I highly doubt Kody's going to get any of the illness. We kept him pretty warm. Thank you for forcing him to bring his coat :D

Nope, we weren't affected by the flooding in Sacramento but we sure did get a lot of rain and there were a lot of "ponds" around town that Kody got to see :D Pretty cool!

That's awesome that you got a good amount of snow :D A white Christmas would be awesome!

Yeah, I vaguely remember my Christmas two years ago...but I just remember it being as fun as any other Christmas, I remember socks and stuff, but I don't remember it being all mission stuff ya know? You guys have always been good at that. Thank you! lol, sounds like a pretty stressful time preparing for Christmas :D I think you may want to take Dad's advice so you can more focus on preparing for Kody's farewell! How awesome that is that he gets to do it right after Christmas! Kinda gonna keep some people from coming, but hopefully he'll have a good turn out! I'll be there in thought ;)

I'm glad that Dad did a good job with the musical number that they performed. That's cool that Brother Green was able to convince him :) I love Martin!

No change for me for transfers...PHEW! I would not have been a happy camper after making all of my Christmas plans!

HAHAHA! Yep, the phone call is this week! I set up with Dad to call in to the conference bridge at 3p.m. your time.

Love you tons Mom! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Love,

Elder Jay Davis


Hello!

This week has been a pretty good week in Wheatland. We were still taking it easy due to Elder Duval being under the weather.

However, this weekend we had the blessing of getting to have Kody join us for 2 1/2 days. He leaves on his mission to Bolivia on Jan. 5th and I go home March 15th so we would have overlapped and not have seen each other for four years. I got special permission from my mission president to have him visit! It was a great experience. We worked VERY hard. We tracted (Kody (Elder Davis the younger) did a great job on the doors that he took), visited less-active members, and had dinner with active members. It was just an altogether great experience that I will never forget! That young man is definitely prepared for his mission in Bolivia! It would be quite an experience to be a fly on his suit coat (wall didn't work) during his mission, he will make a remarkable missionary!

I can hardly believe that Christmas is already here! I've had a really good time this Christmas season. More so than ever before I have really felt the TRUE Christmas spirit of Charity. I am grateful for such an opportunity. I don't know that I ever would have FULLY grasped it without a mission. I am grateful at this time of year for the amazing traditions that my family raised me with. I have the blessing of continuing those traditions for myself on my mission and it will be a joy (as our mission president and his wife reminded us) to be able to implement these traditions into our future families!

I don't have a lot of realy specific stories to tell this week because I left my list at the apartment, but hopefully what I've shared has been enough.

I am not planning on doing very many, if any, Christmas presents this year. I apologize in advance, but know that I love you and am thinking about you!

Love,

Elder Jay Davis