May 5, 2008 One More Week!!

well i guess the first thing you all want to know is when i will becalling....well yes it is true i will be calling! and i am just as excitedas you are. well here is how it works. i guess there is a way i call and mycomp konws what number to call but we go to a members home and i call youand i get one hour! awesome uh? well i will be calling 7 o clock here. so ithink that is like 3 o clock your time. but double check that and let dadknow so he is at moms house to. but ya i will call you and we can tlk for 1hour. i am way stoked. i am glad to hear you got that flag....brasil pridebaby! well i few things that i wrote down in my planner to make sure italked to you about. first the whole mission ties thing is wroking great.when you guys send them via email and they mail them from sao paulo they gethere way quick. so from now on you can do that until one week beforetransfers. that way just incase i get transfered mission ties letters wontbe going to my old area. transfers are every six weeks and i will remind youabout not sending letters through mission ties every six weeks, and withreagular mail if you send it from the states always send it to the missionhome, somtimes it takes a long time to get here and i dont want to be in anew area and have it come to my old area so those just always send to themission home. but the misson ties thing you can send to my house, up untilone week before transers. well one thing i do wish i knew how to do was toplay the piano.....it would have really helped but oh well, what can you do.no one plays down here. they have them in the churchs but no one plays. ohand jake just fyi you would love the bakerys down here, they have the bestrolls you have ever had. and they are way cheap so i eat alot of them :)they´re aweseome. oh and the other night there was a soccer game on and iknow that because when a soccer game is going on, no one talks to you andeveryone is inside watching it on tv. and when someone scores every housegoes crzy and everybody is shooting off fireworks and what not...its crzy.its way loud everywhere you go. and after the game the people who´s teamwon, drive around the city with a big flag on there car and honking for like20 mins stright...no joke. brasilians are crazy. well todays email wont beto long cuz i am going to post some pics on shutterfly, so you can look atthose. anyway things are great here we had 2 more baptisms and things arejust getting better. everyweek is better then the last and eveything isbecoming easier has i am learning. its back to just me and elder leiteagain. the other 2 elders went to a new area so its back to just us. and yesmom i am staying clean..:) my comp hates how clean i am. brasilians jsutarent that clean i am i constantly cleaning stuff so i dont get sick and heis kinda annouyed aboout it but i mean come on, i got to stay healthy right?well i am eating ok i guess, and by ok i try to eat as healthy as i can,which is pretty good. since i left i have put on 11 pounds. puts thats allmuscle trust me :) ha ha ha oh and i saw something funny the other day at amembers house. so dad you konw that big mouth billy bass you have that singsthat song...down by the river or somthing. wel one of the members has onedown here and its in elnglish, they didnt understand what is was saying buti loved it and it made me laugh for a while. well i will go post soime picsnow. i loove you guys so much. your asesome. thanks for always being thereto support me. i love you guys! and i will talk to you this sunday at 7 mytime. so make sure thats 3 your time and be waitin by the phone. make sureeveryone is there! sunday at 3 dont forget! not that you would but love ya!tchau
elder davis