boa tarde! September 8, 2008

so how is everyone? hope all is well up there in zion. first ihave to start off with a little review. does anyone remember what i wrote last week, i hope so. so who took my challenge.....i got 2 emails this week from sibling who wanted in.....i am still waiting on the rest of you. for those of you who did, and are reading at least 5 pages a day, you should be around page 35 or at least close. well i hope that everyone who didnt start with me last week will start this week. there is one thing that i am come to love.....that is the scriptures. you really can find any answer in them. everytime i read them, i always feel the spirit and my day is always better. i am so gratefull for that oppurtunity that i have everyday to sit down and read from the scriptures and study the gospel, i have learned so much. i promise you all that if you start reading the scriptures everyday, that any difficulty that you are having will seem smaller and that everyday will be better. the gospel is amazing, it was really hard to realize that being home and dealing with all the worldly things, but being here and having the oppurtunity to put every hour of the day to serving the lord and his children has really opened up my understanding of the gospel. i have no doubt that this, is the true church. i love you guys tons and i am so gratefull to have my whole family in the church. both of my companions are the only members of their family in the church. i cant imagen, thats gotta be difficult. but anyway about the scriptues, you guys can email how your doing and where you are and experiences your having...i like. so anyway on to other things, i know everyone has been waiting to get a tape from me and i have sent 2 and 2 have been lost...so we are 0 for 2 right now but the 3rd time is the charm. i will try and get another one home in the next month or so...so dont be waiting around for it but one just might show up. haha who knows maybe the other ones might just make it to the end. their are fighters i know it. well i am still kickin it here in gama, transfers are coming up so i think this could be the last one here in gama. but its has been fun, the members here are way nice and i really like my bishop, he is a good guy. so i have been making a lot of cookies latly, mainly oatmeal, and i have been giving them to members and investigators and what not, its weird but no one here knows what a homemade cookie is, they only have store bought, and they arent the best, good but not the best, i really think i could make some money selling cookies if i wasnt on the mission. haha maybe i will open up bens world of cookies after the miss or something. ha ha ya proably not but good name right? i like it. so kari was critizing me on my awesome missionary humor...k i know its lame....i will get help when i get home, but for now....this is how its going to be. anyway cant think of to much else to say, nothing to new going on here, just workin away here in good old gama. i have been talking a little bit of english with my comp, but its really hard to understand him and most of the time i think he says something completly different then what he actually said, so ya good times with that. he is a way cool guy though. he definitly liked the cookies though and wanted to know how to make them. oh and i had some members asking me to come to there house and show them how to make them...ya everyone loves your cookies mom! we are having a cookie/family home evening tomorrow where i will be making lots of cookies....its a cookie feista!!! well i know there is something that i wanted to tell you guys but i cant rememeber and i forgot to write it down so i guess we will both be wondering what it was....forever and ever and ever. anyway love you guys tons, hope everyone has a great week! until next monday, which i am pretty sure is right around the corner. LOVE YA GUYS!
elder davis