Mailed letter received September 29, 2008

Hey There,
Here are some pics of me at the mtc with everyone!! Don't worry mother I labeled these ones :) Quick little thought for everyone; in Mosiah 2, King Benjamin is talkin to his people and he talks about what the Lord says all we have to do to prosper in the land and the blessings that come! So in verse 22 it talks about keeping the commandments and that if they do that we will prosper in the land and in 23 it talks about how we are indebted to him. Anyways, but my favorite verse is 24 and it says: and "secondly he doth require that ye should do as he hath commanded you for which if ye do, he doth immediately bless you"! and I never noticed it but its so true, he does immediately bless us if we keep his commandments such as going to church; as soon as we step in the doors we feel the spirit thats an amazing blessing and same with readin the scriptures as soon as we start reading them our minds are clear and if we have any questions I know personally that the Book of Mormon can answer any question which is an immediate blessing and there are so many more that I could go on forever ha but I won't! I love the Book of Mormon and reading it every morning, it has taught me so much and I love seein the people I'm teaching glow after they have read just one simple chapter it's amazing! Well I love you all and miss you all! Thanks for all your support and all your letters, I love gettin them! and I love hearin about how everyones doing , so keep them comin:) The church is so very true and so very amazing I love it so much! and I'm so excited to hear from the prophet of the world in a couple weeks! I love you all so very much and can't wait to hear back from ya! Its gettin colder over here too and I'm startin to wish it was summer again but I'm tough so i'll deal :) Miss ya! much love, Elder Davidson #3

Letter (09/23/08)

Hey Mother!

Well glad to hear my birthday present got there on time! that is way good news! and those chocolates are amazing huh? man i have been chowin down on them and i gotta stop before i gain 100 pounds! first of all tell dad of course i havent lost the camera! geeze i never lose anything haha! i sent some pics home yesterday so hopefully they will get there sometime this week! but its really hard cuz in the forest there really isnt anywhere to print of pictures so i have to wait tell we go to a city to do stuff like that! but give it time you will get some! but ya geeze that musuem you went to sounds pretty crazy and kinda sick haha! but im glad you liked it! so how did ty do in filmore for region? did he take it? oh and about the english dialects man you should here these people out here! i learn knew words everyday and my companion has to tell me whether they were good or bad after we talk to the person ha its quite interesting ill think someone is bein really nice and then my companion will tell me he cussed at me haha its really quite funny to hear the knew meanings of the words!
anyways just a little update on the mish! um the work is comin pretty good we are finding more and more to teach so its good! i made a promise with the lord that if i knock on more doors then my comp he will give me people to teach and so far it has been workin! some days i see that he is holdin to his promise when i start to slack off and he makes one of are appointments flog us so gotta keep workin hard!
oh and mom i know its like way early and i still have two years but do you think you could maybe talk to shane about signing me up for college at dixie and just gettin me registered so right when i do get back i can hop right into it? and just stuff llike that! you dont have to do it right now but just keep it in mind so if you ever get the chance k? well everyone i love you sounds llike everyone is doing good! sounds like taffy is still a little terror haha but gotta love her! well miss you until next week :)

Elder Davidson

9/18 letter

Hey madre!

so ya dont have much time to email this week cuz we are super busy doing the lords work ha! but this week was pretty good nothin to exciting happened the people we are teaching are slowly progressing so thats always good! tell tyler he needs to step up his game cuz im not sendin him any chocolate tell he wins ha! but me and my companion cut each others hair this week and wow its not the prettiest thing in the world i tell you what haha! it reminds me of all the times back in the day when you would cut my hair and i would cry ha it kinda looks like that! but dont worry i havent cried yet but it might be comin on especially since im going more and more bald haha! so thats sweet big dizzle got his call to paraguay thats insane but he will do awesome there they will love him! by the way will you get his adress for me so i can write him? that would be amazing! so we had mission football this tuesday for p day and its where all the missonaries get together and have this fatty tourny between all the zones! and are zone took 2nd and i scored three goals! thats pretty good for never playin football in my life! i pretty much dominate like at everything haha! it was good to see all my buddys from the mtc again and to meet a bunch of knew missionaries it was way fun! but ya sorry it isnt very long this week like i said gotta go do the lords work haha! hope everyone is doing good i miss you all! make sure to send sunflower seeds i already ate the whole bag that katie sent ha i miss them im going through withdrawels haha! oh and thanks for the letters everyone this week hopefully jamies house is doing good ha close call she is quite lucky! i sure miss all my little terror nephews and nieces ha those little rats gotta love them! but ya cant wait tell tuesday when i get the next letter! remember send cd's there is this on that i would really love if you could find it? it joseph smith a nashville tribute or something like that? but anyways i love you all and miss you!

Elder Davidson

9/9/2008 letter

A note from Jamie (Alex's sis): As you will gather from this letter, last week Alex was not doing to well. We as a family did our best to rally around him and he sounds like he is doing much better. We are very thankful for the strength that Heavenly Father gave to our family and ecspecially to Alex. I was thankful for Alex's letter this week because it did remind me that in life we have 2 choices that we can make!!!

Hey mother! so ya well let me just say im sorry about last weeks email! i was really down and really hating it out here! and i seriously didnt know why i was here! every second of everyday i would think to myself i came out here for the wrong reasons i didnt come out here for myself i came out here cuz i was expected to and cuz all my friends were doing it and if i didnt i would let everyone i know down! and then i started to be lazy and not knock on any doors and just let my companion do it cuz there was no point for me to cuz i just wanted to be home and i was no good noone was going to listen anyways! so then it got worse way worse i cried myself to sleep like two nights in a row and i just wanted to be home with my family! and then p day came around and i read your emails and it just made things worse i wanted to be home with you and talkin to you face to face so i broke down and told my companion i wanted to be home there was seriously no point for me to be here! so that night i even called the mission president and told him i was ready to go home and he was like no your not ha and i was like your forcing me to stay out here and he said im not forcing you to do anything you have two choices wut do you think they are? and i said stay here or go home and he said no going home isnt a option wut are your two options and i didnt know! i was so upset and mad that i just was like those are my two options and im choosing to go home and he said no you cant you dont have that choice you can either stay out here and enjoy it or stay out here and be miserable! and i was like k well thats stupid blah blah blah anyways so i hung up the phone with president and was super pissed that i almost made flight plans to come home but luckily my comp calmed me down and helped me realize that that wasnt the right way to do things! so i went in my room and i had this thought to read my scriptures and i read 2 nephi 10 24 i think it was and it said somethin along the lines of be of good cheer you have the right to choose everlasting life or everlastin misery or something like that and it reminded me of those two choices that my mission president gave me so i went to bed and woke up in the morning with that scripture in my head burning away and then i decide to change my attitude and to see wut workin hard would do so i started to knock on more doors then my companion and started to talk to everyone on the street and to my suprise i started to be happier! i started to more enjoy my mission and ya the last week there has been some hard days but there has been alot more good days! so ya im not gonna let satan win im gonna try my hardest to keep on truckin and to work hard! so craziest thing we have been teachin alot more lately ha suprisingly and i know its cuz i have been workin harder and not bein a bad companion but anyways we went on exchanges with the zone leaders and he said i was one of the best teachers he has ever seen just starting he said you know how to talk to people and to help them for there understanding and it made me feel so much better!i absoulutely love teaching and i have been thinkin more and more about wut i wanna be when i get home and i know now that i am supposed to be a teacher and that is exactly what i wanna be!! and i know by me being out on my mission that i can become a better teacher and be more prepared for when i get home!

mom im so sorry about that email its not wut a mom likes to hear i would guess! so im sorry dont worry your son is doing better its gets better everyday! i love you so much and im so greatful for all the letters i got for support they help so much! oh and congrats on the call mom! i know that me and you are alot alike and its hard for us to talk to people but itll come easier as the days go by i can promise you that! your gonna be amazing! so just a few things i need cuz we all know how forgetful of a person i am.... haha i need first of all a yo yo something to do when im bored ha and any church cds anyone has efy anything im going crazy we only have one cd and i have listened to it like a million times ha! oh and my rubberband thats down in my room so i can do some lifting! and sunflower seeds send lot and lots of sunflower seeds any kind willl do! they dont sell them out here :( and maybe a rubix cube with the instructions on how to solve it haha! i love you all so much! thank you for all your support and prayers!! I love gettin mail so please continue to send it :)

Elder Davidson
P.S. dissappointed that dad took 3rd in the club championship and not 1st ha!!