July 5th

This week was a little more tame. It hardly feels like any time has passed since the last time I wrote you guys but somehow its been a whole week. A bunch of elders in my zone went into the field this week it was sad to lose them. It really doesnt take long to grow close to people here. I have like a billion teachers. One of my teachers (I have 2 permenant ones) came back from his honeymoon and has started teaching us. His name is warrburton and hes pretty awesome. While he was gone we had like 2 or three subs. They are all awesome but many of them are quite different from each other. Wadsworth is the one I have had since the first day and he is one of my permanent teachers. He is basically my favorite person in the whole world. I think if he knew how much I liked him he'd be kind of weirded out. We decided [me and elder Folsom (the other one who went to BYU) that we are going to write letters to girls we know at BYU and set him up because he isn't dating anyone and hes pretty much the man] We will see how that pans out. I am learning lots of spanish. The french gets pretty jumbled and I catch myself saying things in french frequently. Its mosty during lessons and its mostly only smaller linking words but I dont know if our investigators think Im a weirdo or I am just making things up. Who knows. Aunt gail sent me a cake in the mail hahaha She's the best!!! It was in a package with some other things. I cut it up and served it before everyone went to be on Canada day. I made everyone everyone who had some say Happy Canada Day. That inspired a good number of semi-obnoxious comments. But you know. Rep the red and white - its what I do. Quote of the week that popped into my head was the best way I can explain trying to teach an investigator in a language you dont really speak. "It's like taking a fish out of the ocean, laying it on the beach, and then being like, dude, act natural" It just feels weird. Tuesday devo was an asian emeritus 70 Kikuchi I think his name was. He was a good speaker. He spoke about obedience ( shocking topic I know!) hahaha. I think I am learning to find my own definition of exact obedience. I really try do everything and keep every rule but I think the key for me is having "an eye single to the glory of god" if you are focused on the right things then you will act in a way that is pleasing to the lord and you dont have to walk around one eye on where you're going and the other in your white handbook all the time. Don't get me wrong I keep every rule but the attitude you do it with is what is more important I think. I dont know if that really makes sense. My roommates and I (it may have been my idea) contemplated the possibilty of having a competition to see who could get punched in the face the fastest by walking around and quoting the rule book at people. That probably wont actually happen.

The fourth of july was a pretty unusual day. or evening at least. We got to have a patriotic little fireside late an night like started at 8:30 or something like that. They celebrated religious freedom and also the USA. They worked hard to make people from all countries feel comfortable. They even let us be pretty rowdy if you can believe that. Then we all went outside got magnum ice cream bars and got to watch a ton of fireworks. till like 11 somehitng. First week a movie second week fireworks GET AT ME. haha just kidding.

Our hermanas are leaving in a week they are all going to guatamala. I may have talked aobut this last week. It is going to be kind of depressing when they leave and I say that because of how the social dynamic will change when it goes from a room of girls and boys to a room of all boys. I legitimately think we'll lose a some of the spirit of our classroom. THe hermanas always make really good comments, they're spiritual rocks.

I have decided I am going to try and gain as much weight as I can while I am here. I am going to start eating more and whatever happens as a result will happen. Maybe Ill grow an inch. Maybe I will gain 10 pounds. Maybe I will just get gassy and nothing else will happen. So if amybody wants to send me some food so I can eat right before I go to sleep It will help definietely help the cause. other than that keep the dear elders flowing I can not even hope to express how much they mean to me I love you all soooo much and miss you tons. They are directly proportinal to my happiness. I do feel bad some times because there are some people who dont get much mail.

Ok im running low on time closing thought. This week the thing that I have really learned is that the Book of Mormon can answer any question you have. I have started praying and asking my father in heaven to give me answers to pretty specific questions as I study. Without fail I recieve an answer every time. It is pretty unbelieveable how specific they are too. I feel so blessed that in what I like to call the (if , then gospel) the lord always keeps his (then) part of the deal. I dont know if you followed that thought process. I love the work here. Its hard as ding dang anything I have ever done but I know it will be worth it. It is worth it every day I can see that in the little things. I love you all and miss you tons.

102 weeks til I can come home and get married WOOOOOOOO

haha jk Love Elder Davidson