Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Letter # 2 November 25th 2008

OH hey by the way everybody!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

your lucky enough to be at home eatin a good ol home cooked meal by the most amazing cook ever (thats Mom) and im out hear starving to death ha ha jk but have a good one love you all!!

> Elder Davidson

Letter November 25th 2008

Hey Family!> >

how is everybody? how has the week been? well out here its been crazy!I went out to birmingham to pick up my knew comp and it was great! i got to meet up will all my buddies from the mtc! i loved it! it was great to see how everyone had been doing and good to see that i wasn't the only one that had been strugglin a little! i know that sounds bad but it was just good to have some people to talk with and share how we got through it and stuff!! but ya man i got a knew companion right and first of all his name is elder creamer! stud! love the kid to death! hard worker! reminds me so much of my good buddy Elder Moss! and i think thats why i love the kid so much!! but ya man i tell you what leading people around is a pain! i hate being the person that makes all the plans and all the stressful stuff haha! but no just kiddin its good i kinda like being the boss! but i tell you what i should have paid more attention when my last companion was leading me around the forest because i dont know where anything is haha! but i tell you what i am pro at reading a map now a days haha!! but ya everything is going good!> >

But anyways no i haven't got a letter from beau yet? hopefully he hits me up pretty soon i would love to hear from him! i miss my brother!!! but infact its been a while since anyone has written me post! geez family your slacking haha jk jk im excited to see whats in the package and stuff it makes me happy to know something is coming!> >

but for christmas i dont care about anything really i would just love to get a tape with everyone on it! like all the nephews and nieces and just everyone it would be great to hear from them!! Sunflower seeds are pretty good actually but i can always do with more :) what i want candy wise is oreos!! i tell you what i miss them! and butterfingers and reeses man anything thats american ship it over haha!

> > But mom did ya figure out what color your painting the house? wait what part of the house are you painting? I would love pictures to see how it turns out when its done! i love getting pictures just so everybody knows :) even pictures printed off sent off with a letter that would be great!!> >

But the work well lets just say its slow ha! but its good! my companion and i are working our tails off and he and i are finding alot of knew people to teach so thats a good thing! he has alot of faith and that is something this area needed because i was starting to lose it but a new comp came in and fixed that right up! and we are going to have some success this week! We have a couple people who just cant stop smoking and its killing us they are so close to baptism but they just wont stop! But we are going to keep working on them! > Julia and her family are still doing great they are coming to church every week and there kids even sang in the primary program a couple weeks ago it was great they loved it! but she is pretty set on proposing on christmas but we are trying super hard to get her to move it up so we will see! she is quite the stubborn lady though ha!!>

But anyways fam good to hear from ya all! dont be afraid to drop some letters everyonce in a while i promise ill write you back haha! > >

? whats bid t money been up to? that kid needs to write his big bro back!!> >

Love ya all!!> > Elder Davidson

Letter November 20th 2008

Hey Hye!> >
how is the week going? wow mom sounds like you guys are going to have a busy day today! tell everyone i say hello! man i tell you what i am so jealous that im not going to be there for thanksgiving! man me and my comp were talkin about all the pies and the food just scattered all over the table! and just eatin turkey for days haha! but this week because Elder Skidmore was leaving the Lawsons a member family in our branch fed us a thanksgiving dinner! well what they thought was a thanksgiving dinner haha! it didnt even compare to home! and especially not to my madres cooking haha! but it was still good they are way nice and i was greatful for them! > So i stayed in the good ol forest of dean but i got a new companion! his name is elder creamer! he is a way cool kid! i already like him haha! but he is quite a talker so quite a big change for me seein how my last companion didnt really talk haha! but no it will be good im excited!> So sounds like the house is gettin all decked out with some new stuff! I swear you and that father of mine are never satisfied haha! there is always something that isnt good enough! just big complainers you are haha jk!> Mother and that color blind joke was so uncalled for! My new companion made fun of me cuz i said i love his black suit and he said its brown haha! so already my new comp has something to make fun of me about haha!> But this week with the work was kinda slow!!!! we did alot of knockin on doors so it wasnt my favorite week haha but it was still ok! we are just workin on finding some new investigators because some of the people we are teaching right now are kinda wasters! but we still love them cuz they are all our brothers and sisters!! > but mom i love that story about mormon in the book of mormom! did i tell you i finally finished it a couple of weeks! and i absolutely loved every second of it! i am almost done with alma on my second go around and i am still learning knew things! i absolutely love the book of mormon!> but ya i hope everyone has a good week! i miss you all very much! thanks so much for all you do! and i will talk to you in the soon future :)> >
Elder Davidson> >

P.S. Mother and Father. please dont be angry but i had to take some money out of my account for food! i had to pay for a driving theory test so all my money from the mission home went to that! I am very sorry! ill do better i promise! Love you!!> >

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!> > >

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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His Companion



These pics are from Halloween. They were taken and sent to us from our "Guardian Angel" Brenda James in England.

Letter November 11th 2008

Hey hey!> >
So another week down! and well not much going on this week! we didnt really have anything exciting happen that i can remember haha! well on saturday we took julia and her family to the guy fox day where they have this huge bonfire and they have fireworks and stuff so it was way fun! they got to know the branch alot better so they are doing real good thats for sure! We are still going over and teaching them like twice a week and they are so amazing julia understands the book of mormon better then i do haha! jk well on some parts she really does! but she has some great questions that make me and elder skidmore really think things through and it has definately helped me in my knowledge i think as much as it has helped her! But ya she is doing great! she is still planning on proposing on christmas and she told us at church on sunday that after she got married her and her family will all get baptized together! and we are trying to get her to move it up a little bit but she is quite that stubborn lady sometimes haha! but if she does wait i just hope im here to see her family take that step! > but really we have a few people that we are teaching and that have baptismal dates which are soon but i dont wanna ruin it and say that they are going to get baptized on that day and then them ending up not so we will just say we have a couple getting close haha! 1 is this way amazing j.w. lady i tell you what they are the hardest people to teach because there bible doesn't say anthing that ours does and they just have a hard time changing and thinkin in different ways then the way they have been taught! But she is really fun to teach cuz when you prove one of the J.W. beliefs wrong she is like oh ya that totally makes sense! its so funny to see her just change and be like ya my church is crazy ha i love it!! but she is a really nice lady that we are going to plan on baptizing quite soon so itll be good!> Anyways how is everyone? Guess what? its my companions 20th birthday today! he is old haha! no but we are going to go to gloucester today and have a sweet b-day party with the whole zone so it should be pretty sweet!!> Yes mom i got the package! thanks so much! the coats are really warm like crazy warm ha there perfect! they are a little on the bigger side! i think dad is plannin on me gainin about 80 pounds haha! but yes thank you so very much! your amazing!> But sounds like abama won the election? people over here are all excited about it to and i just dont think its going to be very good to be honest! The J.W. lady said that he was saying that there is going to be peace and joy or something and she then quoted a scripture from revelation that stated when man screams peace, God will scream war! it was something like that! and me and elder skidmore got talkin about it and well sounds quite dodgey!! But what do you guys think??> Glad to hear big D's farewell went good! he will be a great missionary! he is just a big teddy bear everyone will love him haha! I sure did so im sure everyone else will! he is a stud he will do good!> So how is beau? have him tell that guy to ship him out to england ha! england is the place to be haha!!> Anyways thanks for all you do mom and everybody your amazing!! i love you all and cant wait to hear from you!!> And i will look for a family that might need something for christmas and let you know!!
> > Elder Davidson> > >

P.S. mother dont worry im happy i promise :)

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Letter November 4th 2008

Hey Mother!> >
so how was your week this week haha! well sounds like last week was full of funness! i would love to see some pictures of my nephews ya know from my sister hydi? i haven't heard from her in days it would be great if ya know she would show her brother some love haha!! and mom remember how i told you i need a letter with peoples b days on it? still havent gotten it haha! but its ok i forgive you! But man sounds like halloween was a blast for everyone! it was pretty good here to! we went out tracting that night and i came home with like two pockets full of candy haha even though we only came home with about one new investigator haha! but ya halloween isnt really a big deal over here i guess cuz when people go door to door people give them money? how crazy is that they just hand people money as they come knockin on doors and i guess if you dont give the kids money they egg your house ha! but luckily we tracted in one of the nicer areas where there wasn't any little hooligans running around doing that kinda stuff haha!> Anyways im pretty good with my memory card i think i have alot of memory left but if not well then looks like i wont be takin anymore pictures haha jk jk! no i dont need one now but maybe in like the future i could use one! but geez you guys are spendin enough money on me and i dont need anything! im excited for the coats though not gonna lie! it has been getting so cold over here like freezing cold everynight i go back to the flat and just sit next to the heater cuz im froze haha! so itll be great to have extra clothing!!> Anyways guess what?? it snowed this week! how crazy is that? i snowed haha! but it only was on the ground for about 5 seconds cuz it started to rain right after and it melted it all! but it was good to see!!> Anyways this week was quite good for my testimony! we were tracting and we tracted into i minister at a church of england church and luckily i was the one that knocked on the door haha! ok so it wasnt a good thing cuz as soon as he opened the door he just smiled like he was excited we knocked on his door and i was thinkin to myself oh no not good not good he is going to tear me apart! and just like that he did we started talkin and he just started spittin out scriptures left and right and i was doing my best to answer and he could tell that he was gettin to me! so he just kept it coming and coming and then finally after like ten minutes of him just dominating me he said something about the trinity and so i was like oh you believe in the trinity and he said well....... i dont know quite what i believe and i said you are confused about what you believe? and he said ya i dont know what to believe with that one! and so i just smiled and said well sir i know that they are seperate and the difference between me and you is that ya i might not know all the scriptures exactly but i do know that they are seperate and they did a appear to joseph smith in a grove of trees and that he did set up the same church that jesus christ set up while he was on the earth! and i know that the book of mormon is the word of god and it is true! and he just stopped talkin and had nothing to say after that and i said so i would love to leave this book of mormon with you and i know that if you read and pray about it you will come to know that it is true and that they are seperate and he just said alright well ill have a read through it! and just like that i just went to the next doors and did the same thing just bore testimony and bore testimony and it was just like something inside me was overflowing and my testimony had to be shared! it was so amazing it was even pouring rain and i didnt care i just wanted to keep going door to door and keep knocking doors! and lately thats how it has been even though ya there are some days when i dont quite feel like talkin to everyone and knockin doors but those days usually end with me wanting to do it! so it has been really good! and this church is so true and so amazing! and i love it haha!! but ya i hope you guys all have a great week! and cant wait to hear from you!> > P.S. Dad looks so good as a donkey haha! and it looks like he has lost about 100 pounds! he must be passing it on to his son because i tell you what im gettin chubby haha!> > I love you all have a great week and cant wait to hear from you! and ya i tought tyler well he is a stud! tell him he needs to write is brother another email back! asap!!! and tell carlie she best be writin soon to! and hydi! and just everyone you see haha! and mother will you get jordan swindlehurst adress and logans to please??
> > Love you!!> >
Elder Davidson>

Letter Oct 28th 2008

Hey Madre! > >
sorry about loosin the last email! i just dont know how to work these here english computers haha! but man you should feel lucky cuz i lost so many of my pictures last week tryin to send you some! man it was quite depressing jk it was ok i still have lots of pictures on the camera ha!! anyways sounds like your week was ok ya? well thats good! sounds like you still got your skill at rummy haha! thats a good thing your lucky i wasn't there or i would of totally dominated you haha!! > > Anyways the coat i bought well its definately not the warmest coat you could buy haha! but it gets the job done i bought it for 9 pounds which is way cheep but its all i need im lookin for a little warmer one still though because its gettin cold!! as soon as i step out my flat in the morning i get the cold chills! and especially at about 5 when the sun goes down then it gets super cold like burrrrr hahah!! and yes the sun goes down at 5 and it sucks! cuz after its dark noone i mean noone opens the doors! But we are getting smarter and scheduling are appointments later at night so when it gets dark and cold we are in a warm house! ha so thats where my brains came in haha! > > But julias family they are doing good! we projected the little girls and the accepted so now that we got them we are trying to get julia to get married so we can get her and her husband! its comin along just very slowly haha! > > So ya are week was pretty slow as well! nothing else to special happened that i can remember but im sure after i leave this library something will pop in my head that i forgot to say or tell ya! > > But for the question um i dont really have an answer that comes directly to mind but all i have to say that i have realized since i have been out is that the hardest part about committing to anything is STARTING!!! But as soon as we start and as soon as we show the lord we are willing to do anything he will bless us! so START!!> But i will think about it and let you know what else comes to mind k?> > Anyways mother! haha we are aloud to wear shorts out here! so dont give me that haha! anyways I love you all! have a great week! i miss you all so much and am so greatful for all your support! > >
Elder Davidson> >

Letter From October 14 2008

From: alexander.c.davidson.EBM@myldsmail.net>

Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008
So i just wrote a huge email and the stupid computer shut off right before => i sent it so lets try again!! so what they gay?? i leave for 2 months and your changing everything and giving everything away?? geeze haha im gonna need some pictures to see how everything is looke mmmmmkk?? :) and what is this me and tyler made the big red couch dirty? oh please you know it was all him haha? he is a little rat!! and no he didnt write me and tell me anything about his state tourny and im quite angry i was all excited to hear about it today and nothing! thats bush!! you best tell me or have him tell me by next week or im gonna be quite upset ha! if he did good i might just send him a lil sumfim sumfim! :) oh and dad and tyler are you jealous that i golfed an england course? haha i bet you are! you dont have to lie :)> What? dad bought a chain saw? he cant be havin one of those he will saw his arm off haha! and doug a pro? hmmm well mom all i can say is you better be watchin them close and have a phone in hand ready to ring emergency services haha!!> Oh mom! i knew you would find a way to find out how i was doing by someone else but me haha! and yes sister james is a ways nice lady! she gives us 5 pound everyweek for fish and chips haha! so at least you know im eating good one day out of the week haha jk im eating good everyday no worries! and dont worry about the coat it actually hasnt been that cold these last couple weeks! it has actually been quite hot! but dont you worry me and elder skidmore are getting me a coat on thursday when we go to gloucester so dont worry ok! i dont think i need a coat im gettin so hairy haha! im turnin into dad! im gettin a gut and gettin more hair all over my body haha! serious i have to shave my face twich a day or its all pokey it sucks i hate it!! Anyways my week was pretty good! at church this sunday we had julias whole family there! there was like 8 of them!! it was crazy! but it was great to because they looked like they had been in the branch there whole lifes! like they just fit in perfect julia is going with the relief society the little kids sang with the primary in there program! it was just amazing to see! i loved it! it made me realize how hard it must have been for you mom to take care of all us little terrors during sacrement meeting because watching julia try to take care of her little ones and still pay attention was quite interesting ha but they were more behaved then any other little child in the branch so that was good ha! so ya she is doing good! I love teaching her and her family! i am getting so close to there family i just feel at home i play with the little kids they call me elder D its great i love it haha! so ya its going good! thanks for your prayers im sure it is helping!! other then that nothin else really going on not really teaching anyone else! we just knock knock knock on doors haha! i have already knocked everydoor in cinderford and everydoor in coleford ha it kinda sucks but its ok we will find some more people i know it!! anyways have a great week! i love you all and am so greatful to be apart of the family I am! thanks for all you do and all your support!
Elder Davidson> >
P.S. mother can you tell me how much a 3 to 5 bedroom house would cost in b=> eaver? a guy from the branch wants to know! > > Love Ya!!> > > >