Letter Jan 27th 2009

Fam Fam!!

So it was a good week this week! Well im just gonna come out and tell you about it, so me and my comp were not having very good luck with finding solid investigators we were finding people who would talk with us but everytime we would go back nothing they would just flog. so we decided it might be a good idea if we inquired of the lord on what we shall do and where we shall go, so during our weekly planning session we got down on our knees in front of our area map and the lord lets us know that we should go to ruspige so we do and well all last week nothing nothing just a bunch of doors slammed in our face but then finally we tlak to this lady named mary and she was excited to hear about the prophet so we came back and taught her the restoration and wow the spirit was there it was so amazing and she even started to cry as i stated the joseph smith story ah it was so amazing!!! So then we get a return appointment for yesterday and so we go into her house and watch the restoration dvd with her and once again the spirit was there and we knew and she knew it so after the dvd we ask her if she had read alma 32 like we had asked and she said she did and she said she felt like it was true and that she had had a seed planted so i got all excited and the spirit told me that i needed to invite this lady to be baptized, so i turn to acts 2:37-38 (i think somewhere around there) and i said mary just like you these people were pricked in there hearts but they wanted to know what to do and the prophet told them they needed to repent and be baptized, would you mary like to be baptized on febuary 14th and to my suprise she said i would love to!! She was so excited ah man it was great. you should of seen my comps face when i did it he went white like a ghost but he was so excited after we left her house it was so good!! Anyways right before we were leaving Mary tells us that she had an accident a couple of years ago and she had lost most of her memory of her past and she said if that wouldn't of happened i would have never of let you two in because i would have been to stubborn and think that my church is good enough then she said the most amazing thing, i am so glad that i let you two in!!!! Ah man it made my mission, i think im ready to come home a fulfilled all i wanted to do hahaha jk i absolutely loved it wow it was great!!! So ya she is due to get baptized in two weeks and sure enough ill have to miss that one as well but know worries its going under my belt as a baptism haha!!

Ok that was my week haha!

I love you mom!!!
I love you all!!!

have a good week and do work son!!!

Elder Davidson

Letter January 20th 2009

Hey Hey Hey!!

Well mother of mine thats enough out of you! i would never make up an excuse to make my emails shorter!! Never Never Never haha!!

Anyways I dont know what details you are talking about but Julia and Ian and the Family are doing good they are still coming out to church and to all the activities so its way good! They are set to get baptized at the first of next month because of the wedding stuff they have to get done first so i will probably end up missing it unless i stay another transfer which i really dont want to!! I mean the forest is nice and beautiful but im ready to leave my first area and take off flying in my next area!! Im ready to see what the lord has instore for me outside the forest of dean!!

To answer your other question..... We had weekly callins and our numbers were quite low to say the least.... the lowest they have been since i have been out and are zone leaders weren't happy and they let me know but it was good i learned from it and moved on haha! And this week was tons better we had new people come to church and they loved it so we have some knew potential in the teaching pool which is amazing!! We have been teaching tons more and seein how i love to teach it has been great the lord has really blessed us!!

We told the President Moffett that we were going to light the forest on fire and man this week we started the fire!! And we are going to keep that fire tell we burn the forest down haha!!> Anyways sounds like grandpa didn't like you guys takin and rearranging his house i wouldn't either so i don't blame him for yellin a little haha! gotta love grandpa thats for sure!!> so i retired my first pair of mission shoes! and they are toar up there is a hole in the bottom of them so everytime it rained it felt like i was walking bare foot ha! but the second pair from home is doing pretty good my feet are just getting used to them and we have a a blister here and there but we will make them last haha!!

Mother I thought you were going to send me the no bake cookie recipe?? I keep wanting to make them and have been craving them but shoot i dont know how :( but i know i know i need to be patient haha!!

Anyways not much else happened this week.... my comp has been getting the feel of things again and is starting to be better so its good he still does talk about his girlfriend alot and it kinda makes me trunky but im tough and just shrug it off haha!!

but i love you all! You are so amazing!! Ta for all you do!!

Elder Davidson

P.S. Have a good week and hopefully the computer doesn't turn off while im sending this haha!! I love you!!

Letter Jan 13th 2009

Hey Hey!!

So mother i wrote you this huge ginormous email and the computer shut off!! and i about grabbed it and chucked it through the window, but i have been working on patience in christ like attributes so i didn't haha!!

Anyways the just of my email was my companion got dear johned last week! it hinderd the work and we didn't have a very successfull week to say the least!! I spent lots of time trying to cheer him up telling him there are other fish in the sea and giving him addresses to some of the girls that have wrote me from back home and from st george so that cheered him up a little but not as much as i would have liked!! He wasn't the same exciting person! and you could tell he was only going through the motions!! and now i know how my trainer felt when i wanted to go home! but he has cheered up alot and is starting to get that fire back in his eyes so things are starting to go better!!

I got so rebuked from our zone leaders on sunday when i called in our numbers and wow it was quite the conversation and i learned from it thats for sure!! and the good news is is i didn't even back talk like back at home i just took the criticism and im going to learn from it!! look im growing up already haha!!

Anyways this week is looking up! we already have almost hit our numbers from last week and my comp is cheering up so its good! Im sure he will be even better when a new girl writes him a letter so if anybody has any ideas let me know haha!!

Well sorry its kinda short again I love you and miss you!!

One more thing Mom the joseph smith story is the most powerful thing i have ever said, read, pondered, and prayed about!! I absolutely love it before i leave the flat each morning i either read it out of preach my gospel or i just state it in my head and it just fires me up and makes me want to tell everybody the amazing story!

I love it!! Joseph Smith did see god the father and the son jesus christ!! And he is a prophet of god!!!

I love you all!! Have a good week!

Elder Davidson

Letter Jan 6th 2009

Hey everybody!

Well this week was quite a stressful one holy wow!!! it was crazy stressfull i wanted to shoot myself in the foot! anyways president moffett me and my companion had a good ol talk about the branch and to say the least president moffet wasn't a happy camper!! so this sunday me and elder creamer had a meeting with president lawson (branch president) and a branch mission leader telling them the reasoning for why we need to get jullia and there family married a baptized and why we couldn't wait 3 months for that to happen because satan will be workin on them!! but anyways we finally got them behind us and on our side and guess what i only yelled like 4 times while we were in the meeting haha!! but it was a good thing i have been studyin preach my gospel so thouroughly because i had it to back me up haha me and my comp got it all straightened out and so we are hoping this week will be better with more support on our side with julia and ian!! But it should cuz president moffett also had a good conversation with the branch president and now president lawson is right behind us haha!!

Anyways so ya my week was crazy! how was yours?? sounds like it was ok sounds busy!! What are you guys up to this week?? I'm excited to get my christmas present! especially since its like 4 weeks late! Geeze jamers your a waster haha!!

But sorry its got to be short this week your son goofed it and forgot to sign up for a computer this week and so i have about 2 minutes left haha! so i gots to go! I love you thanks for all you do!! You are so amazing i couldn't do this with out you!!!

I love you!!

Elder Davidson

P.S. Carlie said Jordan Swindlehursts adress would be in one of the first emails from you?? Where is it?? hahaha!!!

Love you!!

Christmas Eve Pics

These Pics were Taken on Christmas eve by Brenda James. This is his New Companion Elder Creamer.

Alex and his companion recieved the christmas ties as a Christmas present from Julia and her family. He was able to call on christmas and talk to everyone that was home, he sounds really well and you can tell even in just a few months he has grown up. He told a story about his tie that he didn't share in his letter so I thought I would share it with you.

The Lovely Christmas tie is also a musical tie!!! So while sitting at a christmas devotional on Christmas there was a girl singing a solo when one of Juilas little boys came over and quickly pushed the button on Alex's tie that made it begin to sing!!! He said that the girl's mom was sitting in front of him and turned around to give him some looks letting him know she was not happy!!! So he quickly threw his tie over his shoulder and spent the rest of the time trying to keep it out of reach from the little boy!!

Letter Dec 31st 2008

Hey Hey!!

So Man it was so great to talk to most everybody on christmas!! It was great to hear from my boy logan as well! but it was more great to hear from the family!! Thanks everybody for all the christmas presents they were so amazing! I can really tell which of the family loves elder davidson by the presents they sent haha jk jk!! I know everyone loves me! (who doesn't love me haha) well ill be honest after talking to you guys it was so hard to say goodbye and it made me quite trunky for the next day! good thing it was a holiday over here because i dont know if i would have been able to work with all my heart might mind and strength!! but im good now no worries!! but anyways with julia and there family well..... We went over on saturday and Ian told us all about is little christmas suprise and how excited he was and we heard all about there christmas but then we were teaching them and we invited them to be baptized and they said yes! and we were so excited and we set a time where they could go to the registrar and go and get all the paper work done and we could have the marriage and baptism on the 24th of baptism and they were so excited!! you could just tell they had smiles on there faces the whole time so we went home all excited i called the zone leaders and told them and they were excited it was just a full day of excitement but anyways sunday rolls around and we go to church and julia and there whole family are there and all is going well. We tell the Branch President that they are projected and that we are planning on doing it the 24th and he is like thats a little soon isn't it and we were like no its not and he just walked away so we were like ok so after sacrament we see julia and ian talking to president lawson and then they walk out and go to his office so we dont think anything of it, but anyways we wait tell for a while and they finally come out of his office so i pull julia aside and i said so you find out any good news and she says well president thinks we should wait so we decided we were going to get married and baptized in march oh i was so mad and we tried a tried to get her to change it back but she wouldn't oh man was i upset!!

But today we are sacraficing our day off to go and talk with them to resolve there concerns and hopefully we will be able to help them but we will see!! So ya this week could end great or it could end miserably we will just have to wait and see!!

but anyways how is everybody? sounds llike everyone had a good christmas and got spoiled as usual haha!! but have a happy new year and ill hear from you soon :)

Ill feel you in on the end of the story next week mmmmk??

I love you have a good week!!

Elder Davidson

P.S. the memory card is all i need!! I think?? hahah love you!>

Letter Dec 16th

Hey Hey!!

Another Week Another Week!! well sounds like everything down in b town is going good! Sounds like its getting colder and colder down there! Man i wish we had snow out here! we get nothing but the good ol rain and lots of fog ha!! but hey i got a nice warm coat so im good ha!

But anyways this week was ok. Our investigator julia still is planning on proposing on christmas so its getting closer and closer and soon enough we are going to have a quick 6 baptisms i can smell it haha! but we taught them the Word of Wisdom last week and guess what?? they handed me there smokes and there Tea and coffee and said here ya go we dont need them!! ah it felt so amazing so now we got a pack of smokes and tea and coffee all over the flat haha! The zone leaders came over the other night and started teaching us about the word of wisdom it was pretty funny! but we promised them we would hold on to them for a week just in case they change there mind! But guess what?? I told them that if they give up Smoking and Drinking I would give up drinking caffiene!!!! ah it has been so hard i tell you what i have been going crazy!!! its been a week and i have had some wicked Headaches but im sure its nothing like the smoking cravings so i can deal!!! but man i never thought i would give it up but we will see if i can stay off it forevers!!

but mom i absolutely love the book of mormon also!! wow i am almost done with it for my second time and i would have to say my favorite story is goood ol ammon as well! he is just a stud! i would start talking about him but i would probably go on for days haha!

Anyways we have a christmas party tomorrow so we only get half a p day so im going to have to cut it short today sorry :(!!

Well i love you hope all is well!!

Never forget no matter how hard the troubles never stop trucking :)

The English Brother #3
Elder Davidson

Letter Dec 9th

Hey Mother!
So how ya doing? sounds like you had a pretty eventful week with the whole festival of trees! i kinda miss it even though i only went once! but man i love seein all those christmas decorations i tell you what nothing in england even compares to the christmas lights in the states! And oh mum, w e can talk for hours haha no i think the time limit is like 1 hr to an ho ur and a half! :) And dont you worry i have been tryin to write down all the questions that pop in my head to ask so hopefully we will have lots to talk about! im sure we will!!

Why wont Katie and Sned be there? they live like an hour away? Jamie and Rob now they have an excuse but zach and katie have none!!

Oh mom thank you so much for all the packages and presents! i tell you what you would think me being a good 19 years old would be able to resist opening christmas presents but i tell you what it is one huge temptation haha! my companion says thanks he was quite excited for his stocking and other presents!! I am sending off my christmas stuff today so it should be here for christmas hopefully but we will see if not well then looks like you guys are going to get after christmas presents ha!!>

Thanks for all the addresses im stoked to send my buddies a good ol christmas card! mine in made my whole day to read all those i have been tryin to get people that have been writing me to send me addresses but Elder Noel didnt know anybodys but beaumonts but im excited for all of them! What about Beau?? Whats his Address cant miss out on the biggest stud??

That is so sad to hear about those people that died! I feel so bad for there loved ones! that can be so hard! Send them my love please!!

Crazy that president thomas might get released! he has been serving forever it seems like! looks like dad is going to be the new stake president haha jk! Dont you have to be in the high council to recieve that job??

Well anyways little on my week! um we had zone conference on wednesday and wow! President Moffet is just a genius i swear everytime he speaks its like he is speaking right to me! i left there and i couldn't stop talking to people about the gospel we weren't even in my area and i was trying to talk to people! The spirit that i feel when he stands up there and bears testimony is just so amazing! i absolutely love it! He talked a little bit about desire. and the desire to serve, and how some missionaries say the dont have that desire! he went on to say that if you dont have that desire to serve you dont understand the gospel! and its so true ah i could go on for hours about it but ill stop and just say it was amazing! and it has helped me be more bold at the door with people and just sit there and bear testimony! It has also helped me and my companion give out 4 book of mormons a day each!! That is pretty amazing for the good ol forest and we are working hard and its making me love my mission even more!!

The scriptures are amazing mom! That crying to the lord has been one of the things i have been trying to work on and it has brought me closer to the lord!! thanks for the reminder i was starting to slack a little but the lord is giving me guidance through you! looks like your still looking out for me a million miles away mom? :)

Well anyways little downside to my week sunday at church we were in priesthood meeting and the ward mission leader was teaching the class and well lets just say he wasn't on the missionaries side! he just sat and talked for an hour about how we dont need to share the gospel with our friends and how we just need to wait for them to ask us and blah blah blah me and my companion were so mad!! He pretty much said the mission president doesn't know anything he is to pushy all this bull and oh man me and my comp were so mad to say the least!! it was so bad but the only reason we stuck around for the end of the class was because the only member who agrees with how the mission is run stuck up for us! and he is a stud his name is bro. owen and he is the only member who is willing to come out and teach people with us! its quite terrible but its ok!

Anyways enough of my complaining!! You never answered my question last week about what i can do for you guys?? come on there has to be something!! just let me know!!
Have a great week!
I love you!!

Elder Davidson