tudo bem! December 8, 2008

ok so i will be fast before it erases againa, i am getting very mad at this computer, it has erased my emails 3 times now, soi have abeen writeing to you guys but this comptuer is awesome, i found the worst computer in the world in gama leste! how lucky am i?! so anyway things are going very well here! we have been working with this family these past few weeks, this is a golden fmaily! they have abeen ready for baptism for along time now, they knew the missionaries a few years ago and have been waitin to get married so they can be batized! so we helped them out and took them to the civil place and now they will be married next month and then baptised!!! aits all gold here in gama! these last few weeks have been alot better too because we have been living in our area and not walkeing like a million miles to the district leaders house. well on other news, i took my shoses to the shoe master the other day and got a new sole put on them, like new again!!! i wanted to send those pics that i took of me and the suitcase and the dr pepper!!! i loved it! all the americans that i told bout it were pretty jeleous! ya thats right ihavea family that aloves me 6 cans of dr pepper worth...down here thats aton!!! hahahah well lets see what else, soory nothing is running through my head, but maybe cuz i dont have that much room up there for stuff to run through, but anyway i am not thinking, iam very stressed out with this computer and i just want to hurry and send this before i have more problems... hope everyone is well. i am doing GREAT! did you guys get the other tape yet....no one has said a word yet...i sure hope so. well hope everyone is having a wonderful christmas season! christmas is sure different down here but its awesome.....i think i just cry now becuase of the lack of snow..hahah jk! but i do miss the snow... well gotta go before this deletes again!!! love ya guys tons1 thanks again for everything!!!
eu amo voces!!!!!!!
elder davis

after 2 weeeeekksss!!! DECEMBER 2, 2008

its been awhile ya´ll!!! whats new with the fam? well i bet your all wondering whats new here, well first of all this last week on pday we had to go into brasilia and pick up a contract to our house. and we stopped at burger king, of course and by the time we got back to our area we didnt have time to email so i sent a quick one to mom to let her know that everything was good and that i was just with out time. and once again i am rushed for time today because we arrived in our area late, but with just enough time to write you guys. :) but the new news here is that we finally found a house but sorry mom i still dont havce the cep for that house, ihave the address but not the cep so you will have to wait till next week. you guys know that you can send letters to the office, its alot safer....just send them there, i always get them, mom you ahve that address, its on the back of all the letters i send to you guys, just send your letters there, you dont need to wait for my new address just send them there, oh and before i forget...HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN!!! hope you had a great birthday sis. love ya! i cant believe you are 15, thats crazy, and once again thanks EVERYONE FOR THE SUITCASE! it was awesome, everything in the suitcase was just what i wanted. the only thing that happened that i didnt like is that i didnt have time to find and give out the kids clothes, so i gave them to irma ruth because she is the 1st conselor in the relief society, and i thought she would give them out, but she ended up giveing them out to members that already had kids clothes, not to the poorer members, and she wanted a bunch of ties to give to people in the ward, she metioned the stake pres. and i was thinkin why? there are aton of young men in the ward that dont have ties, so i am keeping the ties and giving them out as i see fit... :) but anyway everything went well, the suitcase was great, i took a bunch of pics but dont have the memory card with me today so ya you´ll have to wait on that one. other then the move nohting else way big happened, me and my companion chowed down on the dr pepper and the m &ms, that was awesome! can you guys believe, that i will be calling in like 3 weeks or so! ya i am way excited! this year is almost over and then i will reach the one year mark and then bam its all over, time passes way to fast here in gama. hows the snow been going there? here its been raining for like 2 weeks straight, i like the rain but not that much. i have a bunch of new pics to add on to shutter fly but that will have to wait till next week. so with the work going on here, these last few weeks we have been running into alot of less active members that we make contacts with, so we have been visiting alot of them trying to reactive them, so we have been working alot with them this week, less active members always hav alot of references, which is great! we had a missionary here in my ward, leave for new york to serve there, he was way excited! oh and i dont know if mom told you but she wants to write to elder nunes, my last comp, so ya you all will write to him....:) ok? anywho i am great and things here couldnt be better. hope all is well up there in salt lake, love ya guys tons!!!THANKS AGAIN FOR THE SUITCASE!!!! LOVE YA GUYS!!!!

elder davis

asgioid---portuguese? BENS LETTER NOV 18, 2008

hello hello hello!!! how is everyone, first off i would like to thank everyone who helped with the suitcase, THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH! it really means alot to me that you guys did that, i really am so gratfull to have a family like you guys,. I LOVE YA GUYS TONS! thanks so much. well mom was telling me that my letters are getting a little dry...for lack of a better word..hahah jk mom love ya but i can understand, sometimes i get to pday and i forgot alot of things that happened, cuz alot of stuff happens in a week here, and when i go to write, i forget everything and i just put the stuff i remember that usally isnt very much..hahaha but this last week we visited this old man, and we spent about 10 minutes in the door talking to him, after awhile he warmed up to us and invited us in. he wanted to show us this room, so we went in and the room that he showed us was filled with antique stuff...he had like a million things, really. everything you can think of he had, money, sewing machines, cameras, insects, tvs, books, shoes, key chains, lots of coins, i mean everything, and it was all from like the 1920´s. it was like a little museum, we let him show us around and before we knew it, we had been there 3 hours! haha it was pretty cool, he was way into doing family history work, so we are going to help him get all the info to do his family history! it was way cool, he was just a little old nice man, that had alot of cool old stuff. he had a book of mormon that he found years and years ago, and we marked to go back and explain the book and teach him about it. the lord works in his own way. we are just intruments. well now on to the reading...so how is it going with everyone...everyone still on track or at least close to finish before the end of the year? this last week was awesome! i have definitly developed a love for the book of mormon, there is so much stuff in there that we can use, that you really have to read it a million times, and even then you cant get everything. well i hope everyone is doing great. thanks again for the suitcase, you guys are awesome!!!! hope everyone has a great week!!!
THANKS SO MUCH, LOVE YA GUYS TONS!!!
um braço,
elder davis