Hey everyone! thanks for all the emails and love this week! I appreciate it.
I dont really have much to talk about this week actually. Transfers were last week so we have 2 new elders in our district and 1 new sister. The whole thing is really weird for me because I got really close with the last district and I had not mentally prepared for everyone to leave so soon. My trainer and like 3 other missionaries i've become friends with Die at the end of this transfer. so Im trying to come up with a fun way to kill my Trainer, Elder Castro, off at the end of this transfer. I think I've got a pretty good idea But we'll have to see if anything changes. I'll keep everyone posted on that. Elder Castro is a really fun guy and an awesome missionary We've ended up getting really really really close. I will definitely miss him when he leaves.
We've had a lot of member lessons this week! the work is really picking up! our mission president has been telling us how the work has tripled since just a few months back and at this pace the whole state will be baptized by the end of the week! It's really exciting to be apart of such an awesome movement. it really feels like I am apart of something that is changing the world in a big way and I am totally in love with it. I am already not looking forward to the day that I have to go home. in 3 transfers Everyone that I have gotten to be friends with will be going home. i am not looking forward to it. I guess I'll just have to make some more friends with the other Elders out here!
The vision of the south is really coming to be!
Love every one of you guys!
-Elder Davis
The first picture is one of the kids of a member here. he is sooo funny!! we were singing songs in the back of the car and he was basically choking that poor dog to death because he was singing with such PASSION!!! lol when I pulled out my camera though he said SELFIE!! and smiled for it lol. he is definitely one of my favorites.
The second one is a crazy snapping turtle we found on the side of the road a few days ago. That sucker was probably the size of a basketball roughly. he was pretty big. Elder castro says they have scary long necks too that can get a lot of reach out of them so I was trying to be cautious as i took the picture (Note: he accidentally sent the butterfly picture twice and left off the snapping turle)
The last one is actually a pretty cool story. So elder Castro found that butterfly on the sidewalk in a town called Natchez Mississippi when him and his companion were out tracting one day. it was really windy so he picked it up to shield it from the wind because he's a real teddy bear like that. he carried on his bike all the way home! after that he left it in the mission car they had in natchez. much later on an exchange in that area our zone leader who lives with us in our apartment, Elder Gosch, found it and brought it back to alexandria! He left on the last transfer and before he did he gave it to me so now I have it and we'll see where the dead butterfly ends up next!! haha but I have a pet dead butterfly now. So thats a thing.
I dont really have much to talk about this week actually. Transfers were last week so we have 2 new elders in our district and 1 new sister. The whole thing is really weird for me because I got really close with the last district and I had not mentally prepared for everyone to leave so soon. My trainer and like 3 other missionaries i've become friends with Die at the end of this transfer. so Im trying to come up with a fun way to kill my Trainer, Elder Castro, off at the end of this transfer. I think I've got a pretty good idea But we'll have to see if anything changes. I'll keep everyone posted on that. Elder Castro is a really fun guy and an awesome missionary We've ended up getting really really really close. I will definitely miss him when he leaves.
We've had a lot of member lessons this week! the work is really picking up! our mission president has been telling us how the work has tripled since just a few months back and at this pace the whole state will be baptized by the end of the week! It's really exciting to be apart of such an awesome movement. it really feels like I am apart of something that is changing the world in a big way and I am totally in love with it. I am already not looking forward to the day that I have to go home. in 3 transfers Everyone that I have gotten to be friends with will be going home. i am not looking forward to it. I guess I'll just have to make some more friends with the other Elders out here!
The vision of the south is really coming to be!
Love every one of you guys!
-Elder Davis
The first picture is one of the kids of a member here. he is sooo funny!! we were singing songs in the back of the car and he was basically choking that poor dog to death because he was singing with such PASSION!!! lol when I pulled out my camera though he said SELFIE!! and smiled for it lol. he is definitely one of my favorites.
The second one is a crazy snapping turtle we found on the side of the road a few days ago. That sucker was probably the size of a basketball roughly. he was pretty big. Elder castro says they have scary long necks too that can get a lot of reach out of them so I was trying to be cautious as i took the picture (Note: he accidentally sent the butterfly picture twice and left off the snapping turle)
The last one is actually a pretty cool story. So elder Castro found that butterfly on the sidewalk in a town called Natchez Mississippi when him and his companion were out tracting one day. it was really windy so he picked it up to shield it from the wind because he's a real teddy bear like that. he carried on his bike all the way home! after that he left it in the mission car they had in natchez. much later on an exchange in that area our zone leader who lives with us in our apartment, Elder Gosch, found it and brought it back to alexandria! He left on the last transfer and before he did he gave it to me so now I have it and we'll see where the dead butterfly ends up next!! haha but I have a pet dead butterfly now. So thats a thing.