Before I forget, you can keep sending things to the mission office I live like a block away and my roommates are the office elders and we come here all the time anyway. ( I could use a laundry bag) you guys are the best.
I honestly feel a little bit bad about how many packages I have gotten. You guys are too nice. I dont know if there is a point where you send so many that I am unable to be grateful enough but I think we are there.
Caleb if you're reading this I am going to try and write today I am sorry I have been slow but my last two Pdays here I have had 0 time to write letters because my companion and I were doing other random stuff like going to all the hardware shops and looking for the smallest screw driver we could find. Dont ask I dont really know. Also you send easily the funniest letters I get. PPC YKWII We have time allocated in our missionary planners (so cool I know) to write letters today)
Thanks for all the emails!. I love every single word. Dear elders are awesome too because they come and random times during the week and make my day. It sounds like you all had the best weekend in Buffalo. Wish I could have been there. HEED YOU GAVE UP TV?! That's heroic. Kudos to mailia for scoring a goal. Also I have a vivid mental image of Warren and Colin floating around on an air matress while everything if flooding and they are both asleep. Im pretty sure that isnt how it happened but it is pretty funny to imagine. Food supply is rather remarkable. I think we have around 200 brown sugar cinnamon poptarts between what Heed and Alie both sent. The fruit leather is delicious and didnt clean me out like I hoped it was going to. You assumed I didnt want the outcome you described on your note Alie that's where you went wrong. Wheaties! ahhhh! Dad we did get a lot of rain with hurrican Isaac but it wasnt too bad other than that where I am. It was certainly talked about a bunch. anyways....
I'll start with the craziest thing first. I got in a car accident this week. Before anyone freaks out I am 100% fine. Unscathed you could say. I went on another double exchange one with the zone leaders and then with another elder (from raymond Alberta) the next day who is in my district. Raymond and I were driving to an appointment. We drove past where we were supposed to go so we pulled into the center lane to turn into a parking lot to turn around. He looked up the road waited a good few seconds. and I cant think of anything other than a mental slip he didnt see the car coming and pulled out in front of it. The other guy slammed on his brakes but still socked us pretty hard on the passenger door. (right where I was sitting) the whole side of the veichle was crumpled it tore a little bit of metal and all the passenger airbags came out. We pulled parking lot and there was about five minutes of me being surprised and checking myself. I think I was more surprised that I could find no injuries than about the accident. After about five minutes I was like ok we are all good. They took the other driver to the hospital in a stretcher. Turns out he is completely fine. Raymond has some muscle pain kneck pain etc. He went to the emergency the next day and got some muscle relaxants and I have one bruise about the size of a nickle on me right arm where it was resting on the console when we got hit. There is a God in Heaven and he is a God of miracles. I should probably be a little beat up. But there is not a single thing wrong with me. The airbag cushioned my head perfectyl I think I cant rememer exactly how it went down. God takes care of his missionaries. I know sometimes bad things do happen to missionaries but if they are fllwoing the rules then I know they have done everything they needed to do. When there is work to be done people to be served and children of our father in heaven who I personally need to invite to come unto our savior Jesus Christ and partake of the infinite love of the atonement, I will be protected. When I obey the rules I have that promise. Oh and some injury attorneys sent me a letter in case I want to sue the driver of the vehicle hahahah
Anyways. I dont know if I was supposed to email home about that but nobody told me not too so I will plead ignorant. Please nobody freak out. I am not even shocked about it at all. I hardly ever think about it. It really isn't that big of a deal. But it is a cool story :)
On to the lighter stuff.
Im pretty much jacked... I have gained almost twenty pounds since day one freshman year at BYU I stand at a wopping 136 pounds (all muscle) and increasing quickly. Turns out the most interesting thing you can do in your apartment every morning is pull ups and push ups and sit ups and fill ups (of the water bottle post work out) I have also started eating a lot of eggs because they're the easiest way to get protein. Funny what different circumstances will do to a person. I usually put chese on them and throw em into a tortilla. Actally pretty tasty. Moral of the story I'm huge.
Roadkill story of the week. Biked past a dead armadillo. This column might get repetitive.
Arkansas moment of the week. Saw a HUGE guy mowing his lawn in only long jean shorts and overalls. It was pretty awesome. Seriousy though people are soo lovely in the south. It is a very friendly place.
New column I would like to add is called "welcome to the spanish branch" I think you'll figure out how it works quickly enough.
There is one person who can sort of play the piano in our branch. The Ward mission leader (about 6'10'' white guy who is a cornea surgeon mid 30s) He is seriously the BEST ward mission leader. His family is sooo awesome. He can play and one of his daughters can play a little too. But theyre family was away at church 8 days ago. So we sang acapella. It was aweful. Hispanic people arent the best singers to begin with ( can I say that ) but we were soooo out of tune and the guy sitting next to me was basically reading the words at twice the spead without any tune. I was trying so hard not to laugh. I couldt help it though. And my comapnion who was conducting the music cant keep it together because he is seeing me laughing. It was out of control. Welcome to the Spanish Branch
Umm what else happened.
It was bike week this week in my area so we rode a ton. I knew how to ride a bike but not like a boss missionariy all over the streets and globe blah blah. Our area is SUPER hilly and so I'm going to have huge legs pretty soon. Nothing else to say about that.
In sunday school the teacher started by writing a number pattern on the board and then he says Cual es la pattron which means what slash which is the pattern
and then someone in the class yelled I am. Pattron also means boss. Every one started laughing. I got the joke
I should go now. We are practicing the Haka. for a luao the missionaries are doing it. I dont know. Thankfully I am huge and so I fit right in.
Send letters I love hearing about how you are doing. Emails are good dear elders are too.
Love you all I might check this again in a couple hours if you want to say something short I might see it.
Elder Davidson
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