May 18th, 2010

Hey Hey Hey

So Check this Elder Davidson just got done golfing in the most beautiful weather England has ever seen!! I promise it was the best weather I have seen since I have been here it was the best, I think i even got sun burnt my skin is very sensitive to the sun hasn't seen it for a couple years haha!! Thats the good news, the bad news is is that ha well i spent most my game looking for my ball and in the sand haha looks like i need some more practice before i come home so that i can beat dad haha haha!!!

 

But as for some questions ha well for good ol Chantel tell her that i'll be there haha I don't think it will be to weird for me, I have learnt to love awkward moments on my mission so it should be good ha not that it would be awkward i'm sure it would be cool, but ya it would be cool to go!! She has talked about this kid in her letters and it sounds like she is happy so thats cool tell her congrats for me!! Thats sweet!!!!

 

Mom, ha I can't believe you traded in the mini?? I didn't even get to rally it one more time before you sent it off, looks like the new bug is going to have to get it double time from me haha!! I know how much you love your cars but hey it just has to get done :)

 

Anyways well a little bit about the week, ha I learnt a special lesson this week of diligence and man it was such a blessing to learn, I'll tell you what starting last monday me and my comp worked, now i have worked hard my whole mission but last week was a make or break it week so we worked packed our lunch and just skipped dinners we just wanted to find those elect children, so bam Monday we work and it was a way good monday met alot of people and set up alot of appointments with new people and Tuesday was the same we spent alot of p-day talking to people and proselyting and we were still seeing alot of success finding alot of new people that seemed Golden, and the come wednesday and we just get flogged all day but it didn't stop us we still just worked and instead of sulking (as dad would say) We just went to work and stopped more people in the street and knocked more doors, we even started to stop people in the car ha we were trying everything and well we found somemore new people and then Thursday comes and they all flog, and ya we got a little bit flustered but we just went to work just kept on trucking never stopping and just trusting in the Lord that we will find those people and the Friday comes and Bam ha still more flogs and by this point instead of getting mad me and my comp were just laughing haha just saying whatever and just kept on finding, and then comes saturday and wow saturday is a day i will never forget, we went out with nothing but still with the mind set that we can't quit and with the motto we set at the first of the transfer which is "Do it for Christ" and thats what we did we went to work and just did it all for our saviour and we were blessed, We met a malasion guy that just let us in and was way receptive to what we shared and wanted to find God!! His name was Alex :) and he came to church on sunday and loved it and now has a date for baptism, the we met a lady named Grace from Zimbabwe and we stopped her in the car and she just was loving the Book of Mormon as we read it with her and then she even called her Niece and both of them came to church and Loved it and they do have a date for baptism!! and then the next best thing a family of 3, we met them and they wanted to come to church and they loved it and we are going to invite them to be baptized this week!!! The Lord blessed us!!! He just helped us see miracles this weekend, and every goal that we set at the first of the week that seemed so impossible to hit friday night as we reviewed them all were hit because of diligence!! The Lord will never ever not keep a promise!!! I loved it!! Miracles on my mission that is all I have seen and this week was one i'll never forget!!

 

Family I love you!! The Church is true!! It is!! I can't wait to hear from you next week!!  

 

Elder Davidson

"Do it for Christ"

April 27th, 2010

Hey Hey famillay :)

Good week it sounds like haha Jordan is the man first off just look at him haha i love him!! Just a beautiful smile haha he picked a winner good work son :) And don't you worry mom i'm not trunky haha how did you learn that word?? Got a lot of time left to do the Lords work and i haven't reached all the goals yet so i can't wait a second or its all over!!

 

 

ahhhh good week this week, first off i love coventry haha i just love it!!! we took 2nd at mission football though and i almost broke my ankle but it was a good day haha!! I got to see Shirzell but didn't catch any other of my converts in, but i'm glad i got to see Shirzell she was struggling a little bit with her family so we sat down had a prayer talked a shared some scriptures with her that got me through the hard times and then she promised me she would go back to church and yesterday i got a phone call and it was her saying how glad she was that i came and how happy she was that she went back to church her problems started to get easier and she was just so happy!! The Lord new who I needed to see so it was such a blessing!! Also this week haha I got to go on exchange with my boy Elder Hooper ahh he is the man I can't believe i hated my Nephi brother haha but he is sweet hard worker and just has a desire to share his testimony with all and just to love the people I learnt alot from him! It was his birthday so we woke up and i cooked him a good ol american breakfast pancakes peanut butter and syrup haha it had been ages since i have had that so it was the best i loved it!! We are teaching alot of people man the Lord ahhhh he is blessing us just miracles are happening!! One of our investigators was struggling he had is credit card stolen and someone took alot of money and they weren't going to refund him the money and so he was angry and told us he didn't want to come to church or learn, he had lost interest so we talk to him and just resolve concern, he then comes to church and as soon as he comes home he gets a call saying they were going to refund the money haha I love the gospel!! He is the man though his name is Pavan, i don't know if i told you that but he is getting baptized on the 7th of may so i'm stoked about that one!!

 

Things are amazing though the sunshine is just out and about and its getting hot!! i'm just loving it the people are more happy in the summer so we are seeing alot more reception from the people!! Its weird how that works but i love it!! So much i want to say this week but so little time i'm sorry!!

 

Mom i would love to stay with T-money thats perfect!! He can also help me with my studies haha probably the smartest kid i know so it'll be good for me :) Has Moss moved yet?? Is he looking for a place to live? 

 

Transfers are next week and well pretty sure me and my comp will be splitting up so I could be moving but we will see hopefully i'll stay and he will go but we will see haha!! All else is well!! I'm loving it!! :)

 

Last thing I to mom am right when Jesus Christ appears the the people and man i was thinking the same thing that the world is just like this time it is getting bad and people are getting worse and worse and caught in the "secret combinations" but i also learnt the key is to stay faithful and obedient to the Lord and we will always be able to overcome the evils!! But if we give up just like the nephites and lose the spirit we are just like everyone else, we are nothing!! The key is to keep the spirit read pray church the key!! I love it!!

 

I love you family be good!!

 

Elder Davidson

April 20th, 2010

Hey Hey Hey

 

 

Well guess what?? I am in Coventry right now :) sitting on the same computers that i emailed for 9 and 1/2 months haha I LOVE COVENTRY :) Now the reason we are here is because today we have mission football here and well our zone is going to dominate :) we are going to smoke everyone haha!! President gave me permission to come early so i could see some of my recent converts so i can't wait for that i'm excited!!! I have missed them so it'll be good to see them!!

 

Now as for the "Ashed" haha I haven't seen the effects but we saw it at church on sunday, so many people went on holiday and couldn't fly home because of it so the chapel was almost empty it was crazy, me and my comp had to teach priesthood and gospel principles in both wards so it was quite the sunday haha!!  We had a couple of investigators that came for the first time and they expected alot more people to come and were kinda shocked that not many people came but we told them the situation and next week they will see the big change!!

 

It has been a good week!! Our area is sick!!! So many people just prepared to recieve the gospel, I don't think the last missionaries talked to many people on the street because everyone will stop and talk to us so days have just been flying by!! We have a couple people that are preparing for baptism but because of the changes President Ogden made we have to wait a few extra weeks before we can baptize them, so hopefully i am still here to see them get baptized!! We are teaching this guy from India haha He is the man!! we went and played cricket on saturday and I was just taking the ball yack haha but he told me i was cheating and couldn't swing the bat like a baseball bat and that I had to start on the ground so things got harder haha but i still dominated!! But everything is going amazing!! Covering 2 wards is an adventure though, I have a hard enough time trying to learn everyones names in one ward and now i'm all confused and it has been a little awkward but i'll get it haha!! The Zone killed it this week!! We had a sweet Zone Conference and the missionaries just went out applied what they learnt and just doubled the weekly totals so it made us look really go even though we did nothing, Thats what i learnt this week, the Lord he gives our leaders revelation to take us to the next level and if we apply it then booom we will see the results, same applies with President Monson and all the people that spoke to us and general conference if we apply it the booom our Heavanly Father will bless us!! I love it :)

 

68 Elston Hall Lane

Bushbury

Wolverhampton WV10 9HA

United Kingdom

 

Hopefully that address works haha if not just put the mission home address as the back up one and it should go there either way!! I was gonna say dad best be sending me a letter haha its been ages since i got one haha!!

 

Tell Andrea congrats from me ahh thats just amazing I'm proud of her and excited to her that she is going to the temple!!

 

So some questions??

 

What is T-Money up to?? What are his plans for next year??

 

What is Carlie the beauty up to??

 

hahaha ok thats all i can think of haha!! I love you family!! Your the best! Have an amazing week!

 

Elder Davidson

April 13th, 2010

Ah Bowanee :)

 

 

That is how are you doing in nigerian language :) Madre Madre I got your Tesco's thank you so so much i'm not gonna lie i feel kinda bad that so much money is getting spent and I hope that you know that I appreciate both you and dad for you support I know you are making alot of sacrafices and so I appreciate all that you do!!  I Love you so so much!! My companion also says he Loves you :) he is loving the tesco's :) I'm glad dad bought a season pass because i'm going to spend alot of time up there with him just smoking him haha!! He doesn't stand a chance :)

 

ahhh I love my mission flip I just have met so many beautiful people and just got to learn so many hey how are you in different languages its just a blessing!! Anyways, how is everyone?? All is well over here in the beautiful England, The week was amazing and the Lord blessed our areas and the zone!!

 

So this week though, hmmmm well we are teaching this sweet guy from nigeria and he is just the man and well i found out that his name is Craig Alexander haha so without even thinking i was like no way my name is Alexander Craig haha and now at church he reaveled my true identity haha but he is the man!!  we also had our district meetings and i'll tell you what, do you or dad remember the Hooper twins from nephi that came out with me?? the big giant basketball towers?? Well one of the Hooper twins is a district leader here so tuesday night i went on exchange with him and wow it was crazy he is the man just a hard worker and i love it!! During the night we were just up having some good ol pillow talk and we were just talking about Basketball, Football, and Baseball all the way up just recalling all the state games and he was on the other bracket so we were talking about the baseball state games and i was just going crazy, It has been almost 4 years since I had talked about it but man it brought back some good memories!! He is the man though and well my worst enemies on the sporting field are now some of my best mates on the lords battle field and i love it!! Other then that we found some good new people and the work is moving forward, I don't know how this place wasn't seeing success because its just a golden area I love it!! The down side I guess was that on Sunday we sat through 6 hours of church!! Now mom you know me i'm not even good at sitting for 3 hours of church but since we covered 2 wards man we just chill it was crazy!!! The amazing thing about it was that there were 2 different feelings in the wards. In Wednesfield in the morning well you felt the spirit and it was all good but I don't know it was a tense feeling like it didn't feel very organized i guess in a sense, but on the other hand in the Wolverhampton one the spirit was stronger, It felt like it was more organized and better prepared and it seemed like everyone new what they were doing, and it all came down to the Bishop. So I did learn that if i am ever a Bishop if i want it to run smoothly and if I want the spirit to be at a high its key to be prepared well planned and just all sorted!! Family I hope you all know that I love this gospel!! Most importantly I love my Savior Jesus Christ he is the source of my strength and i will forever rely on him!! I love you all!! Hope you all have an amazing week!!

 

Elder Davidson

April 6th, 2010

Happy Easter Family!!!

I hope it has been a good one!! Snow Snow Snow gotta love it, i don't know whats up it warmed up a little here but now it is just back to bitter cold, hopefully it is just preparing for a hot summer!! I love my hot summers!! Anyways don't worry about it madre, no worries we were barely in the flat last week so i probably wouldn't of been home for it anyways but this week i will for sure.

Well oh man haha its been quite the week but its been a good one!! We had the chance to meet our new ward mission leaders, and i must say there struggling, So i don't know if i told you in my last email but we are covering 2 wards, so the Wednesfield ward and the Wolverhampton ward and well apparently Wednesfield is the weaker of the 2 noone does anything i guess haha and well we just thought it was a rumor and that there was no way it could be as bad as everyone says it is and well we go to a meeting with our ward mission leader and the first thing he says after he introduces himself was not gonna lie to you Elders this ward sucks!!!! Don't expect much help from the members, they won't come out teaching with you, they won't fellowship your inmvestigators and they definately won't help you recent converts! They don't do there home teaching, they don't do the visiting teaching, they don't do anything!! I was just shocked i just smiled and me and my comp said welt looks like we are going to have to change some things haha so it will be quite the adventure, but we are excited to try and help!! We found out how bad it really was this weekend as well, So we had some investigators that we found on Thursday and Friday that wanted to come to General Conference with us and we found out that the Chapel we go to watch General Conference at was 2 hours away from where we live, so we start phoning around to see if anyone is going to conference but noone was, and if they were they didn't want to take investigators there, no lie i phoned everyone on the ward list and it was getting frustrating but finally I just phoned up the stake president and luckily he is the man because he just swung by and picked up all the investigators we had coming!!! Even though it was out of the way he just said sure Elders what are there addresses i would love to pick them up!!! So he is the man and i don't know how the ward is so bad, but apparently he said that he was releasing the Elders Quorum President and the Bishop so things might change with some new leadership, we will see!!!

As for the other ward Wolver Hampton is pretty good they have alot of good people there so i think we will be spending more time trying to find people in wolverhampton then we do in wednesfield but i guess we will go where ever the Lord wants us to be so we will see!!

So how did everyone like conference?? I loved it!!!!!! Ahhh it was so good this time!!! I was just smiling the whole time i couldn't wipe the smile off of my face!!! I love listening to the Prophets and Apostles speak!! I know they are called of God because so many questions or doubts i had were answered by them simply speaking!! My favorite thing, well one of my favorites was this statement right here, "There is only one source of peace in life and that is the Prince of Peace Jesus Christ" I loved it!!!! Jesus is the Christ and he is the only way that we all can return to live together once again!!!

I love you family!! Your the best have an amazing week!!

Elder Davidson

March 31st, 2010

Mother!!

 

Thank you so much for working so hard!! your the best!! I appreciate all your help with signing me up for school!!  As for how much i want to do hmmm well lets start out slow so i can make some money as well as go to school so maybe about 8 or 9 credits?? how much is moss going to take?? How much do you think i need to take?? Tell Moss to make sure he finds us a good place to stay haha!! best be nice :) Sounds like it was a good time with half the crew back eh?? I can't wait to hear about all my buddies missions and to rejoice with them about all the blessings we recieved from our heavanly father!! I am greatful for my mission because of the amazing lessons i have learned and for the relationship i  have with my father in heavan and Jesus Christ all of this will help me through out life thats for sure!!! You can't not understand how excited i am for my big brother to be going back out to serve the Lord!! It isn't an easy thing to do but I know Big Elder Myers is going to tear it up and just Love every second so I'm excited for him!! Could you send me his address so I can hit him up??

  

Well anyways it has been a good week!! We have had alot of success and we even had a guy that asked me in the street if he could get baptized haha, we were just walking down the street on our way to an appointment and I see a beautiful African brother so as I do with all the Africans I see i take off running to him and start sharing the gospel with him, he is from Nigeria and he was just the man and as soon as i showed him the book of mormon he said oh my brother i have been looking for this everywhere!! Can i come to your church and get baptized...... I was in shock i just said of course you can brother but we have to teach you some things first and he just said ok brother whatever it takes haha so he is the man, he came to church with his wife as well so they both will be getting baptized soon!! But the bad news is is i got a phone call from President and i have been called to be a Zone Leader in a different Zone :( I am getting moved to the Lichfield Zone which is right next to Birmingham so it'll be good to be near there but we just got the westcotes area bumpin with success and it'll be hard to leave but its all good I know the Lord is going to bless me there and he has a work for me to do!! It will be alot of work though because we are getting white washed in meaning both me and my comp will be moving in for the first time!! The Zone was struggling last transfer so President told me i have alot of work to do haha but i'm excited!!! My comp is Elder Richter he is from Germany!! He to came out with me so it'll be sweet to serve with him!! I am not quite sure of my address yet but when i get it i will send it to you as soon as possible ok!!!

 

Happy Easter Family give the nephews a big hug for me when you see them madre!! enjoy the general conference its my favorite time of year because this is when i personally can get taught by Gods living prophets and apostles its the time when i get to be the investigator and be taught by God so enjoy it :) I love you all!! Have an amazing week!!

 

And don't worry mom i will tell you when a good time to deliver tescos would be in my next area :) I'm starving!! haha I Love you!!! Take care and God Bless!!

 

Elder Davidson

March 23nd, 2010

wo wo wo wo,

 

Tell Lincoln good luck for me he will love it!!

 

How are the Jazz hmmmm?? did dad go to the game?? He best be writing me soon telling me all about it!!

 

Well the weather is cold over here!! I stay bundled up still and the rain just wouldn't stop this week it was crazy but i enjoy it now a days, I've learned that you can use it to your advantage and its a good way to get into peoples houses and then you just slightly teach them the gospel!! It doesn't work as much with the English people, some will let you in. But mostly my beautiful african queens will let us in haha I love them :) Its been a fun week, I have had the opportunity to go on a little adventure this week! We had interviews with president on wednesday and Me and my companion were going last so we could talk to President about the issues the missionaries bring up and there stuggles so we can make plans to help them. So we go in and well one of the companionships that are actually the Elders that are in Loughborough were really struggling with getting along with one another and we new there was some problems but we didn't know it was this big so President was worried because in the companionship is one of the missionaries from Mainland China and he was struggling with testimony so me and Elder Perry went home prayed that night for guidance on how we could help them and then studied about it the next morning and we both decided we needed to go on an unusual exchange so instead of going for just 24 hours we went on a 4 day exchange and have spent the last 4 days teaching and trying to build testimony and we have fasted and prayed and things made a complete turn around!! Elder Guo the chinese missionary has a new light and bore a solid testimony to us today when we were exchanging back and I had the chance to go with Elder Gerber and teach him about his role as a leader and make some good plans with him and learned from him! it has been a great experience and the Lord truly has poured his spirit out upon me and Elder Perry as we have tried to set examples for them and teach them!! I am so greatful for my opportunity to be a leader and serve other missionaries and when they trust you its amazing to have them turn to you for help!! It has been amazing to me and I have enjoyed trying to help them!!

 

My mission has taught me so much everyday when I have a learning experience some times it takes me more then a day to realize it and things get hard until the Lord has to slap me in the face and say stop that, haha but I know that he has carried me through my mission and he has made me into who i am now!! And I am greatful that i get to be an instrument in his hands to help others to learn about and accept his gospel, not only non members but missionaries as well!! Its is fun to tell them about the times when i have got slapped in the face by the Lord and teach them so that they don't have to go through some of the challenges i did!!

 

My family I love each and every one of you!! I am greatful for you all!!

The Lord has been my strenght and i know that he can and will help me throughout the rest of my life if i rely on him!!

 

Sincerely,

 

Elder Davidson

March 16th, 2010

Hey family :)



Well i'll tell you it was a quite the week, full of the good ol ups and downs haha, sounds like madre you are have a good time kickin it with the morris family :) first off tell rob that when i get home i will for sure be hitting more dingers on the softball field then he will be haha!! I know i still have the big bomb swing going on haha even though its been a year i still got my game i guarantee it :)

The work is pressing forward i got a random call from president, apparently there still is some random drama going down in Loughbourough, one of my recent converts named Zoe had told some of the YSA girls that she had fallin in love with me while we were teaching here and so President might be having to transfer me this transfer because we are in the same zone and he doesn't want here to drive to leicester, just the good ol drama in Loughborough it will never stop i guess! Me and President had a talk and he knows that i was just doing what i was called to do and nothing else and so hopefully i won't have to go anywhere because i love the westcotes ward and the are we are in but we will see!! Other then that it is the typical missionary stuff just working working working and i just love it!! The days are flying by which is good it never seems like i have enough time in the day to get done all that i want to but what can you do!! Me and my companion have been working on serving all the teams in our zone and it has brought me alot of happiness to just see the trust that we are building and ever since we have been doing that the missionaries have been counseling with us more and seeking our guidance so it has been a great blessing to build those friendships!!
Other then that thats about all of the week haha not much exciting going on!! ONe thing though Madre something has been going on with my missionary fund and so they have to send me a new card so as of now i am living off my personal funds! so i have been trying to eat not as much haha so i didn't spend as much money but i am out of even the skimp haha so I am going to use some of the personal funds for groceries and they said they will reimburse me when i get my new card! so if the money goes i'm sorry!!

I love you all! Happy birthday Hannah :)

Elder Davidson

March 9th, 2010

Dear Family,

Haha gotta love it :) I love my bonnie she is just amazing, looking out for me while i'm not even there haha!! But no worries she is engaged there is somewhere there haha i'll find her some time :) but don't be afraid to give my address to some of the cute girls you meet :) But your right mom that is messed up of dad a t-money not to wait for you to come home before they go to the jazz game!! What would be even worse was if they didn't buy a souveneir for Elder Davidson and ship it out to him from the game ahah :)

Life is going good!! This week was amazing, me and my companion went to work and i just loved it!!!! Because we white washed in we didn't have anyone to teach so me and my companion just decided we needed to go to work so we just skipped our lunch and dinner and just went to work ahhhhh the time flew by but the Lord blessed us!! We ended up getting a few people to church who are just prepared!! They should be good and we are excited to help them prepare for baptism!! I personally saw the power of fasting this week!! The zone had been struggling a bit with a few things so Elder Perry and I just decided to fast and invited the zone to fast with us and in the zone we saw miracles we doubled almost every number in our key indicators and got double the amount of people at church!! It just got everyone the spirit and people were just asking to be baptized and to learn about the restored gospel! It just amazes me the truthfulness of the gospel and the blessings that come from a little sacrafice!!

Funny story though, so we live in our new flat ya and well it has a washer and a dryer and well i did my wash this week and well i put in on wash and dry and all my clothes my G's my chill shirts and my hoodies just shrunk haha so i'm wearing these clothes that are a little small haha, It might be that i put on a few pounds since i have been in the car but i'm pretty sure they shrunk alot haha!! I thought i was all cool finally getting to dry my clothes just like home instead of on a drying rack and they just all shrunk haha gotta be humble i guess :)

Anyways family your amazing!! I love you all and am greatfull for all you do!! Have a great week!!

Elder Davidson

March 2nd, 2010

Dear Family,

Well this week went by way to fast, it was kind of a blur. We had to say goodbye to all the amazing recent converts here in loughborough and i must admit even though i was here for so short of a time a got attached to alot of them and am going to miss them! They just kept saying "we will miss you elders" and that is just what a missionary wants to hear!!

We got all moved in on friday but we had a baptism back in loughborough so we pretty much spent saturday and sunday there didn't even feel like i had got transferred haha! But we got to work monday here in westcotes, and i can't wait to just keep on keepin on. this area is amazing it reminds me of coventry so i just love it, its like i'm back on home turf and i don't have to adapt to a new accent or a new style of people so that is the good thing!! Are new ward mission leader is just the man, just looking to help us so now that we have the ward behind us as well I think the Lords work willl press forward a little bit easier and more success to come so me and my comp are excited!!

So, i was talking to President a little bit and I asked if i could extend my mission because to be honest i'm scared to go home, kinda like you were saying mom i'm kind of scared to leave my little bubble haha where the Lord is constantly each second of the day right by my side, and President filled me in on Elder Davidson there is a life after mission and the Lord he has a plan for you and you have to fulfill your mission back home as well! So even though i am scared to come back to the world i know that my mission will never end!! But I'm not worried because i still have 6 months to serve the Lord and I won't stop tell they tell me i have to!! I love it to much!! and I owe the Lord!!

I love you family, and thank you for all that you do for me!! May God continue to bless you and watch ove you!!

Elder Davidson!

The new address is....

130 Alexandra House
47 Rutland Street
Leicester LE1 1SS

P.S. Mom would you please see what i need to do to start signing up for university and Dixie?? my comp told me that we need to start signing up now and i'm not sure so will you please just ask and if needed sign me up?

Love YOU!!

February 23rd, 2010

Hey Hey Hey,

Well things are starting to get better, We think we have found a flat. We are just waiting to see if the Land Lord will rent out to the Church so hopefully he will, and well if he will we should be moved in on friday but we will see!! We have been able to go back to work this week and I love it!!! The Lords work just brings happiness I don't care it does!! We had transfers last week and we have some new elders and sisters in our districts so it has been good to get to know all of them!!! We had Zone Leader council yesterday (monday) and President was talking about how much a mission can change and Elders or a Sisters life, and I went home last night and i was just sitting next to the heater in the flat (the flat is cold :) ) and I was just looking back on my life on the first of my mission and i have noticed how different i truly am, its scary but all of it is for the better!!! The Lord truly does mold boys into men on there missions!! It just put a smile on my face!! So ya the weather has been cold, it has snowed then rained then shined. The days when the sun is out are usually the coldest so we usually pray for rain or snow haha!! But it has been good, I am ready for the summer though it just makes things a little bit easier to be Diligent and happy and well dry :) Everything is going good, finally the Bishop decided to confirm our investigator this sunday so alot of stress was relieved there! We should have a baptism this week but i guess we will just see if we get moved or not we should be able to come back anyways its not to far away! It was fun this week we played basketball with all our chinese investigators and also the recent converts and man I have lost a few little skills but for the most part I still have my game haha!! it was fun the chinese are shooters though so it was like being back home in a legit game so it was fun!! One of our recent converts is hooking me up with all the stats because Sned isn't doing a very good job this year haha!! I know he is busy but come on i should be his priority haha jk!!

Hey tell Jordan congrats for me!! you will have to send me a pic of jordans fiance when you are at here shower so I can see what he is getting himself into?? As for needs i'm pretty good the lord is taking care of me and i don't need much! On second thought maybe a weight loss programm haha because we are on the road so much we eat alot of "fast food" and I have less time to work out so Elder D is puttin on the weight haha but its good a little extra warmth to get me through the winter i guess :) No everything is good!! I am greatfull for all you do though!! Hope all is well I miss and Love you all!! Good Luck Rob your the man!!

I love you all, God Bless,

Elder Davidson

February 17th, 2010

Family,

Well i don't have much time because i have to be heading to transfers, turns out me and my companion are staying in loughboro but only until we find a flat in leicester, because we cannott live with the member because we aren't on the normal missionary schedule. This week i learnt something though as we were searching for a new flat this week we have been spending alot of time in leicester viewing places and talking to real estate agents and we have spent less time talking with people and i tell you what it was probably one of the worst weeks on my mission. Me and my comp have kind of been on edge because we of the stresses of feeling like we were back part of the world it was rough but on sunday we just speant the whole day besides church finding and talking to people and it just made me so happy, i have realized how much love i have grown for the Lords work and his Gospel and sharing it with my brothers and sisters and I don't ever want to stop, I love this gospel and the most happiness i have felt in my life is since i have been out here sharing my testimony of my saviour!! I know that he has carried me through all the hard times and he willl always be my best friend standing next to me never to let me down!! Thank you Mom and Dad for your testimonys and for sharing them with me it was the starting blocks to my testimony!! I love you all!! Thank you for all the love and support you have shown me!!

have and amazing week,

Elder Davidson

February 9th, 2010

Hey,

MOmmy thank you for the Tesco's it was perfect, It came perfect timing right when we were walking in the door the guy pulled up!! I appreciate all that you do!! The weather is cold but it is good, no more snow just some nice rain and then wind but it hasn't been to bad i think i am used to the winters here now!!California sounds nice though haha just baking up the sun, have fun and enjoy the spa treatment you deserve it!! Send lots of pictures!!

You are right about one thing though mom, President Ogden helped me realize that in one of my last interviews, He said don't take the Book of Mormon for granted it is for our day and age personally it came forth just for us in these last days to guide and direct us, and its true it was writtien to guide us in these latter days! The book of mormon is my favorite thing to read if i don't get a study in the morning the rest of the day i feel i little weak its just my spiritual energy drink haha!!

Wow so what a week, well we have had some trouble here with the Bishop, all i can say is he doesn't really like or agree with the England Birmingham Mission and so apparently for the last year or so he has been making the missionaries job alot harder! and this week we saw it, we had a chinese investigator who got baptized a couple weeks ago and well because the past missionaries have been trying hard to work with the ward better they do sunday baptisms here and then the following week they are confirmed which is just crazy talk making them wait that long to recieve the holy ghost but it is how the Bishop wanted it, and well anyways Luyi got baptized and was supposed to get confirmed this week but he had some visa problems and well is probably going to have to go back to china to sort everything out, and he wasn't going to be able to make it to church this sunday because he had to go to London to sort out somethings with his lawyer and he wasn't sure if he was going to be coming back to Loughborough so we called President on friday and asked what we should do and he said call the bishop and ask him if we can give him the give of the Holy Ghost before he leaves for London, so we do and well the Bishop wouldn't do it for no reason at all he just wouldn't do it so we call President and he was fuming because apparantely it has happened before and well we haven't been able to contact luyi and we think he may have gone back to China and it is breaking our hearts!! We have been talking to President and well he says that he can't have 2 of his best missionaries having to worry about the Bishop and a Zone its to hard so by next week we are pretty sure we are going to be getting transferred to a new area in the Zone!! So its been a crazy stressful last week but i have learnt alot!

thanks for all you do!! have an amazing week!!

I Love You

Elder Davidson

Pictures - February 2nd, 2010

Here are some pics,



these are all the Chinese investigators and Recent Converts that we are teaching!!



also the castle we went to last P-day!

February 2nd, 2010

Hey Hey Hey

Wow sounds like B-town is just popping with excitement just all this good ol marriage and just love in the air haha valentines day must be just around the corner! I can't believe my boy swindlehurst is getting himself hitched?? hahha who is this girl that he is getting married to hmmmm?? He best be on his way sending me some pics so i can approve!! nah jk i'm sure that he picked a winner, any girl would wanna be with him he is the man!! But crazy i'm going to have to get all new friends to go chill with all of them are going to be with there wives!! Moss better still be waiting for me haha!! Mom will you ask moss if he will be my valentine haha??

Well this week was a good one!! First off i must start by telling you that i passed my driving test :) yay now i can officially legally drive, Driving the last couple weeks has reminded me when i lost my license for a month and then I still managed to drive a little here and there haha living on the edge :) but it was good good!! The sweet thing was is that we had to drive to coventry to switch cars there because we only had an automatic and i wanted to take my test in a manuel, so we went to switch cars and i got to talk to the Elders about all the people I had grown to love while i was there and i even got to see some of my recent converts there!! I tell you what there was not a better feeling then the one I got when i found out that most of them were still coming out to church!! We are going to go take the car back today so we are going to take our p-day in c town so i can visit them and all that good stuff i'm way excited!!

The Zone is doing well, we are getting a little scared to invite people to be baptized with all the new things that President Ogden has put in and taught us, so the baptisms are lowering all around the mission, but we have so good plans to bring the boldness back into the work and so even though its going down now we can get it to x-plode when we combine the 2 so i'm excited!!

Nothing else to exciting is happening!! But i am just happy as can be, the Lord is blessing me and the area we are in and I recognize those blessings and appreciate every one!! I hope all is well back home! I miss you all and hope you know that i am greatful for all that you do for me and that i love you!!

Have an amazing week and i will talk to you soon :)
Keep on Trucking :)

Elder Davidson

January 19, 2010

Hey Family :)

Well its been quite a good week down here!! The snow has come and gone and now it is back to the good old english rain :) Loughborough is the place to me its a blessed land with so many people prepared by the lord! It feels like i haven't spent much time in loughborough to be honest we have just been trying to take care of all the other teams and help them get things all sorted out so we can make sure they see success in there area's! I learnt something that is when you are in the service of your fellow beings (missionaries) you are only in the service of your God!! Even though we didn't spend much time at all in our area and didn't get to work much to find people the Lord blessed us with people coming to church!! We had probably about 3 hours all week to find people and miracles happened we found 4 people that came to church and were just prepared by the Lord and ready to be taught the gospel!! And I bet even if we would have spent 20 hours in our own area and not worried about the rest of the zone that we would have not had those 4 to church!! I love it!! This is why being a missionary is so amazing every week i see so many miracles and i just love it!

I'm glad to here that the Lord is taking care of the familie I hope you know i pray for you every night and am so greatful for all the support i recieve!!

Hydi and Matt hope you plan on taking me to disneyland with the boys when i get home :)

Rob and Jamie keep the missionary work up :)

Katie and Zach give those beautiful children a kiss for me :) and congrats on the good work sned!

T-money sport the Davidson name and make sure you show them how we ball it up!

Carlie getting to be an oldie look at you your almost 60 haha jk jk still my little sister and i love ya :)

Dad and Mom thank you so much for all you do!! I miss you and am so greatful that i have such amazing parents to help me on this journey!!

all the beautiful Nieces and Nephews ahhhhhhhh I can't wait to see how big you have all grown and just to be able to play with you and all your sweet toys!! Be Good for your parents ya?? :)

I love you FAMILIE, and am greatful that we have such an amazing familie there is not another familie in the world i would want to be apart of!!

I hope you have a great week and I will talk 2 you soon!!

Love,

Elder Davidson

January 12, 2010

Hey Hey Hey!

Well I finally made it to good ol Loughboro :) It has been a fun few days being here and me and my comp are already being blessed so its amazing!! This is a blessed land because of the obedience of the last missionaries so we will for sure be keeping that up this transfer so we can see success! My position started right when i arrived day 1 on our way home from the mission home where I met my comp he told me we had to go and fix some missionaries and correct some of the things they shouldn't of been doing so, he sent me on exchange with the senior companion and well i learnt that my job is going to be easy haha but it was good i'm stoked to start it and to be that example and the whole zone are sweet, so we will see success this transfer for sure!!

My comp is Elder Perry, he is from Draper Utah!! He is the man, just a stud I love him already, we have had alot of fun in the snow, it has just kept snowing and snowing but that hasn't stopped us we are the only ones in loughboro that will drive in it haha its funny people just think we are crazy and we just smile and say just like home haha I love it!!

My last companion Elder La Vita stayed back in Caerphilly and he is going to make sure he gets those people that we were teaching baptized so I'm pretty stoked to hear about that one!

The new address is......

11 Thomas Street
Loughborough
LEICS LE11 1SH
England

I'm pretty stoked to get those T's and some goodies from home!! but we have a Tesco here as well so if you want to order me some food sometime tha would be amazing as well, our phone # just in case you need it is 07800614586.

Man but sounds like you are getting on well, good ol Jazz game, that'll be fun to go to when I get back, they better have won but knowing them the heat probably did come back haha!

Make sure you tell big D next time you see him that he best be writing me a letter asap i best be getting one in about 2 weeks at the latest or i will come home and smack him one haha!!

Everything is going well the work is moving forward and i'm stoked to be here, my time is so short so i got to go to work and i willl for sure be giving it my all the next few weeks!!

I miss you all and Love you!!! thanks for all you do to support me!!

Love

Elder Davidson

P.S. I am sending some stuff to carlie so it prob won't make it but tell her it'll come!!!

Tell her Happy Birthday for me though ya??

January 6th, 2010

Hey Hey Hey



Well what a week :) Happy New Year all :) We got a good 6 inches of snow last night so its amazing! Just like home its cold, kids are throwing snow balls at us, i'm throwing them back (still got my throwing arm) haha everything is amazing!! But sounds like everyone got a good ol relaxation moment just to chill haha well not Elder Davidson no chill time for him haha!! I loved it this week was great we had one of our investigators get interviewed for baptism and she passed and is doing so good her name is Emma Simpson. Also this less-active familie we are teaching has alot of familie that aren't members who are now really interested in the gospel and all have accepted a date to be baptized and well to say the least Caerphilly is exploding and the Lord is blessing it with loads of success!

The not so good news but the good news at the same time haha is that Elder Davidson is getting transferred to Leicester, where i will be serving as a Zone Leader there! President called me on monday and asked me and I was shocked i just said uh uh uh sure President, are you sure you dialed the right number haha, but i am excited it will be good! The even more crazy thing is I will be serving with an Elder that i came out with named Elder Perry!! He is the man and i am stoked to be able to serve with hime!!

The Snow however is kinda stopping me from leaving haha, noone in the UK knows how to drive in the snow so the country has shut down temporalily but no worries I will get to Leicester soon enough haha!! I don't know my address quite yet but I will send it to you next tuesday when i get there!

I learnt something this week which ties a little bit in with Katie's email, she talked about a song that her and Gracie sing called I am a child of God, well while we were sitting in sacrament meeting this sunday I was just pondering as i always do and thinking about the week and thinking on some things i could do to improve, and well the closing hymn came and it was I am a child of God so we started to sing it and the last verse sayed a line that touched me, it says "if i but learn to do his will i'll live with him once more" and wow I have sang that song a million times but this one time it hit me, its so simple, if we just learn to do his will we will llive with him once more, we will be happy in this life and we will be successful!! Same with my mission if i just simply learn to do all the little things no matter what, even Excercise in the morning no matter how tired i am I will have success!!

Now this familie is why i absolutely love my mission!! I learn something new every day and i understand how simple the gospel is and the plan that a father has for us!! I love it!!

I love you familie and i am greatful for the knowledge that i am a Child of God :) I miss you!!

Elder Davidson

November 3rd, 2009

Hey Hey Hey :)

How is everybody!! OH man mom i am so sorry i had it in my notes to do list to tell Grandpa Happy Birthday but it just was gone out of my mind!! So will you please tell him i miss him and Happy Birthday from his favorite Grandson :) Take him a pic to have so he won't forget my face when i come visit him!!

Wow so about my week!! oh man i have had better thats for sure, but i love it all there to make you reflect, be humbled, get stronger, and CHANGE!!! so it was good!! The Lord liveth i do know that!!! and I love it!!! This week on tuesday as soon as i got done with emailing i went on exchange and it was with a team of mine that is really struggling with finding people and well I think i am pretty good and finding people and giving out Book of Mormons and all the things they needed so i was excited but for some reason I lost all my stuff all because i thought i was good enough to do it all but i lost it, It was weird it was like I couldn't speak! I learnt the next morning in my study why it was like that!! I put my trust in the arm of flesh to much and I didn't put any trust in the Lord, and just as it say in Nephi Cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh!! So i repented and changed and it got alot better by the end of my exchange and I well the Lord helped them find some people to teach and work with!!
Then we had Zone Conference on Thursday and my Trainer Elder Skidmore gave his departing testimony!! He is going home at the end of this transfer and i almost cried!! It made me realize that my mission does end that it is going so fast and i only have a short period left!! I am really past my year mark!! Ahhhhhh it killed me!! I Love serving my Savior Jesus Christ and I don't know what i'm going to do when my time runs out!! But I gotta work work work thats all i know i can't think about it i just gotta work!!!
Then on Friday we went down stairs after weekly planning and went to the bike shed and someone had broken in and stolen Elder La Vita's bike!! They left mine!! but took his ah man so we spent all day walking to the town to try to find him a new bike!
Then Saturday Halloween ha it was a good day until all the families went to bed and only the punks were left out ha!! then things got a little dodgie haha!! I got hit with an onion but no biggy just a bruise on my arm haha!! luckily thats all that happened!!
It was just a learning week!! something that kept coming back though every time i thought about it was stop trusting in yourself! Your Weak Elder Davidson but if you trust in me i will make you strong!! And I am weak i am!! But you my famile, my friends, everyone makes me stronger! But without the Lord I am nothing!!

I love you all thank you for all you do!! You lift me when i am down and i wouldn't be able to do it with out you!! I love you all so so much!!

Elder Davidson

Mother

My address is actually

Knights Walk instead of Knightshalk haha!!

Sorry another thing I found out this week!!

Not my fault i am blaming it on my comp haha!!

Love you!!

Elder Davidson

October 27th, 2009

wooooooooooooooooooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)


I love it look at those yanks go!!!! Thats what they do baby booo!!!! Yup ship Elder Davidson out some yanks stuff i gotta sport it!! haha!!

Well wow sounds like you had some fun in Kansas!! ah thats the best!! Thanks james for all the pictures i loved seeing them!! Looks like the old man still has his swing haha!! hopefully he doesn't lose it before i get home, i don't want to beat him to bad haha!!
Speaking of dad, no i didn't get his email or any of his letters, they might have all gone to the cov flat and so hopefully i should get them this week at Zone Conference. There was a 4 day strike over here in england with the post that ended i think saturday so hopefully i should be getting post soon haha!!

Anyways this week was great, the work is really moving forward, we are finding new people to teach everyday in everyway!! The Lord is really taking care of us and I know he only can keep blessing us if we keep on working so that is what we will do!! My comp and I are getting along great, we both like to have a good laugh so we can joke with one another so it is good, He is a young missionary that hasn't had much success at the first of his mission (just like me) so it is good we can talk and i can relate to him. and hopefully with your prayers and our faith we can change that together and both see alot of success!! He is a stud though!!

I love my mission! i am so greatful to be serving at this time! Oh man so many miracles so many answered prayers it has been amazing! The Lord has blessed me and i love him for it!! I love him for the hard times when life is a struggle!! I love the rejection every second of it!! But most importantly i love seeing the change in people when they accept the true and living gospel of Jesus Christ!!! The way they just glow ahh it has changed me!! This is the lords work and i am here to do the work!!! And I will!!!

Thanks for all your support!! I love you all!! I miss you!!

Elder Davidson