Hello Family! December 16, 2008

well as christmas is getting closer and we are all feeling the spirit of
natal( christmas)....FELIZ NATAL!!! (merry christmas). so i hope everyone is
doing good, its been awhile since i have heard from some of you but no hard
feellings, still love ya all. well first off its been awhile since i have
added some pictures and i think i added like 91 or something today, so it
will give you all somthing to look at. alot has happened these last few
weeks, the most significant thing is that i am BEING TRANSFERED!! i am
leaving gama, i never thought it would happen. but it came, i am going to an
area called san antonio descoberto...... and i will be companions with an
american who arrived last transfer....scary! hahah this is my first american
comp, all the others have been brazilian. its been fun but we will see how
its goes. well i will try and explian some of the pics cuz i took alot these
last few weeks. sat was the ward christmas party but here they do it
different, they rent this place that has futebol fields and a place to eat
and aton of different stuff, and then they pretty much spend all day there.
so the bishop told us that we better be tehre so we went and it was pretty
sweet. played a bunch of soccer and i brought the baseball gloves,ya those
things were a big hit no one really knew how to play but they all wanted to
use so it was kinda funny to watch them, i put a video on shutter fly that
is the bishop throwing the ball to his son...ya its ugly...hahah! well there
are alot of pics of that and of sunday night. we had an investagator that
invited us to his house with his family ro eat dinner, its the family that
will get married then baptised!!! so we went there and he made dinner and i
made brownies! haha it was pretty good, we have been workin withthat family
for awhile and now we are planning the wedding and the baptism, to bad that
i wont be here for either of them becuase i am leaving today for my new
area...sad uh? :( but they will still join the church with or with out me so
thats what matters!!! lets see what else...ya i am not remember to much
right now so sorry, but ya finally leaving gama but its been aswesome here.
the members have been great its like family. when you are way far from your
family you create more families here and its been pretty hard to leave here
today....it feels like i am leaving alot behind but thats how its goes
right? oh and i put all the pics of the suitcase on there...thanks again
for everything guys! i loved it all. mom metioned to me that i hadnt
metioned some of the stuff that was in the suitcase, i loved everything that
was in it, and i have been using it all i just didnt rememeber evertything
when i sat down on the comp. :) but thanks again everyone...it was awesome.
hope ya like the pics. well what else....things have been sweet, i love
gama! now its off to another palce and i willhave to make friends fast to
find someone to spend chirstmas with...:) but that wont be hard after some
time here on the mission you learn to talk to anyone. but i will tell you
next week the number that you can call and the hour and all that. because it
will be in a new area i wont know until next week but i will tell yanext
week for sure, and yes mom i will get the address to my new house when i get
there and let ya know. haha well i hpe everyone is doing well. it should be
the school holidays by now...hows that erin and jake? any body got any cool
plans for the holidays. brazil here during christmas is alot different.
first of all there is no snow thats the hardest thing for me. and the people
here dont put up lights, very few do, i took a pic of a house that had
lights. but ya its weird cuz i dont see snow and i dont hear christmas
music, it just doesnt feel like christmas to me. its been raining alot so
its a nice change from the heat but even with that it doesnt feel like
christmas. but its all good though, i will definitly celebrate it with a
member or two in my new area wth my new comp the gringo! haha today was the
first pday in awhile that i had time to write and wasnt pressed for time.
anywho i love ya guys tons! thanks again for everything and i hope everyone
is haveing a FELIZ NATAL!!!

um grande braço,
elder davis