January 10,2011

Hi Mom,

I love how you referred to the time with Kody as precious time :D It's very true. I got to experience a little bit of that over the weekend he visited!

What?! The MTC sign isn't even there anymore?! I am glad that you found the new way of dropping Kody off easier than when you dropped me off. I would think it'd be a little bit harder...but I'm glad it wasn't. Emotional is a given ;)

HAHA! I shouldn't laugh but I found the description of your numb state sort of funny. I'm glad that you miss us :D I'm going to be home in 2 months from Saturday so no worries lol. You'll be wishing I was gone shortly thereafter ;) J/K

I love being able to sleep in on Sundays...we just changed schedules too obviously and now we have church at 9 a.m. which means that every other Sunday we have meetings at 7:15 and that means waking up earlier than 6:30 :P Blech! Ah well, it's nice to have the rest of the day ;)

Oh no! You haven't been able to bake goodies for Kody?! You'll totally have to do that :D I know I LOVED receiving those! HAHAHA! That's the spirit! You WILL do it :D Ya, things to pack would be really really bad, especially in the MTC. I don't know about him, but I LOVE banana chocolate chip cupcakes, those cinnamon rolls were amazing but I don't know if that's an option this time, chocolate chip cookies are really yum! Hmmm...I don't know what else. Pretty much any goodies are great. I don't remember if he was much for cookie dough but I LOVED when you sent the dough, cupcakes, and then I bought some milk from the vending machine and it was AWESOME!

The church open house will be discussed in my mass email.

Things with Amanda are going relatively well but she was sick this week so she didn't make it to church.

Love you tons Mom!

My week was great. Hopefully you enjoy the mass email.

Love,

Elder Jay Davis


Hey Dad,

That would be pretty weird writing to two Elder Davis'! I haven't looked very closely but I don't believe I got an email from Kody. I don't know if he's emailed yet or not, but will you please make sure I get a copy of his email just in case he doesn't remember? Thank you!

HAHA! Sounds like a very different experience dropping Kody off. Sounds quite intense! Mom said it was easier, what's your take?

I'm super duper looking forward to seeing the bunches of pictures with Kody when I get home :D Thanks for attaching your favorite.

That's fine that the place that Kody had won't be there when I get back, I will be able to find some other position somewhere. I've been thinking a lot about what I want to look into for work while I'm going to college. Should be interesting. You should be thinking of good ideas :D That's still pretty cool that you hired Dan. No apologies necessary :) Business is business ;)

That's awesome that BYU is doing so well in basketball! Thank you again for the update.

That's pretty cool that the snow is still there :D I'm hoping that there will either be old snow or new snow when I get home so I can have a little taste before it all goes away again :) I'm going to freeze my BUTT off!

Yep, things in Wheatland are going great and I plan to send a mass email with details about some awesome advances in the work this past week. I'm super glad that Sister Shumway has enjoyed my piano playing and stuff. I really like her even though I haven't gotten to know her as well as other members. She's just a really loving lady. Kody's visit is definitely remembered by a lot of people and I believe it will be for a while. That's awesome that Kody used it as a highlight in his farewell talk.

I haven't heard any details about travel plans yet. I'm sure I'll get my "trunky papers" shortly. Yeah, coordination shouldn't be too hard though I don't think that Sacramento airport is all that big.

Yes, me emailing Kody is allowed. Elder Duval is okay enough to make a few visits but not full days. We'll be able to keep the momentum up at least.

Sorry for the delay in my email. Weird day and then a lesson in between my emailing. I'm finishing up my time now lol.

Thank you for your email dad.

Love you tons!

Elder Jay Davis


Dear All!

Things here in Wheatland are going incredibly well! I am really excited to write about all of the things that happened this week.

We picked up three new investigators this week. Two were picked up while I was away from the area on Wednesday, then on Friday in the morning we picked up another investigator named Justin. Justin said that if he comes to know that the Book of Mormon is true he will be baptized. That's the first step, now he just needs to read and pray and he will know and then he'll be ready to get baptized :D Sounds so simple sometimes lol!

Then after we picked up Justin we had what's called a zone blitz. A zone blitz is where a bunch of missionaries from the zone all come into one proselyting area and tract a bunch of the streets! We did this in preparation for the open house of our new church building. We had already taken out a bunch of flyers, but we wanted to give Wheatland a great big glorified reminder :D We tracted, with the help of five other companionships of missionaries, almost all of Wheatland. From these efforts we found 10 yes TEN potential investigators. We planned to pick them up yesterday, but Elder Duval was very under the weather. We now plan to do it tomorrow considering that we don't have district meeting because of zone conference on Friday.

Then on Saturday we had the actual open house. We had a very interested lady feel the spirit which was way way awesome! She said she was going to come to church every Sunday from then on. However, through some adverse circumstances she didn't make it yesterday. We also had a member bring her friend who's not a member. Then, yesterday she made it to church! She stayed for two hours which is amazing for the first time. Hopefully the member will be able to help us begin teaching her.

As for lessons, as a mission we have a goal of teaching 20 lessons a week. Not a quota, just a goal. Well this week we were able to teach 18 lessons which is HUGE for Wheatland. Actually, it's pretty good for any area. Anyway, the numbers aren't all that important but they do give a good representation of how things are going in the area. We are very excited to see the growth.

Well, I think those are the most important things that happened this week.

Oh! I was going to mention that zone conference is this Friday. It's in Auburn which I'm excited about because that is the zone that I was "born" into on my mission. Also, it's my last zone conference of my mission, which is really scary! This means that I will be giving my departing testimony on Friday! Wow! It's pretty weird to see something that seems like what I've been doing forever coming to a close.

Anyway, my time is up and I've written a lot. I'd better wrap up.

Love you all!

Love,

Elder Jay Davis