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BOA TARDE DAVIS FAMILY!!! hows the gang? hanging in there, the day to day
busle(spell check)...anywho from the little that i have heard everyone is
doing great....so funny story( yes random sorry) so these last few days have
been super busy for us here in the office, and the post office has been on
strike aswell so we havent been receiving anything for the past few weeks,
we today i was running in and out of the office and when i got back to write
some emails i sat down and starting writing, as i was writing i was feeling
like some american candy...yes i know pathetic....fazer o que....well i left
my computer in search of something to eat..seeing how i havent eatin
yet...and i walked over to the place where we keep some food, and i found 2
packages on the floor, well thats not where they should be so i picked them
up to put them where they should go and come to find out one of them was for
me! that defintily made my day!!! so once again thanks kari and mom! you
guys are the best....i am so making pancakes next pday....its the pancake
breakfast we do it every month.....

well as i just got done telling you this last week has been really busy, i
havent spent much time in the office, i have always had to leave to go do
someting somewhere or go buy something for someone....its been fun. i have
spent alot of time out of the office this week, however not where i want to
be..:(  friday morning i had to go to a city in Goias, another state to a
city called Lago Azul. We have a house there for the missionaries and we
deciced to take them out of the house for reasons that i wont tell mom..haha
any way to end the contract we had to reform the house, and i am usually the
one that goes and looks at the house and decieds what needs to be fixed or
painted and then i go buy all the mateiral to do the job and then call
someone to do it for us( its alot cheaper this way in Brazil) so ya i have
gotten good at that here in the office..haha anyway that took up a good part
of my day on fri, by the time i got back there were alot of stuff that had
piled up on my desk having been gone all day and i had to finish up a few of
those exciting things. by the time i got done with all that, me and my
companion hit the road running to get to our appointment that night, with a
family that we had been teaching just these past few days. thats proabably
the best part of the day, when you get to leave the office to go do real
work. we were able to teach a few families that night, each about the book
of mormon, man i love teaching about that. the spirit is always so strong
when you teach someone aboutthe book of mormon, you get to show them how
they can know that this is the true church of christ, its amazing the power
that the book of mormon has to convert the hearts of its readers.
our area is a pretty poor area so not very many people are married, some of
the families that we are teaching are not married, so we have been helping
them to prepare to get married so they can get baptised. the other night we
went to one of the  families and the mom and the dad werent very thrilled to
get married so the night before we had taught about eternal families, when
we got there the next day they keep referring to each other has their future
wife, or future husband....i thought it was pretty sweet!  oh random
thought, so we started to tell them about conference that was coming up and
that the prophet of God was going to speak to us, they started to ask when
they could go and what time it started and all that, man i love Conference,
its like that best thing ever, during my mission everytime that we have
taken people to conference they always walk out wanting more....that or they
walk out with a testimony. its like the best thing that ever happened! i
mean you get to listen to God speaking through his prophet, telling us what
we can do to be more happy, to have more peace, to be safe for the world, to
hold fast to the rod. there isnt any better advice on this earth then from
the Prophet.
so this leads me to a question....are you guys excited for confernece? i
hope so cuz its like the best thing ever!
well has for next week man transfer week is like the craziest week of the
transfer. monday is when all the trades happen, when all the missionaries
trade companions, and ya its crazy, we have to organize it all and get it
all ready at the chapel for that to happen. then tuesday is the day that all
the people leaving go home and all the new missionaries arrive. so we have
to get all the missionarios home to the airport, pick up the new ones later
that day, have all the trainings with the new guys, take them to meet their
trainers and abunch of other stuff, then wednesday we have Elder Brinton
coming to the mission, he is the guy that is incharge of the health of all
the missionaries in Brazil. he is going to come talkto everyone on
wednesday, so there will be a big meeting with him.....and then the rest of
the week we will have to try and catch up on what we normally do mon. tues.
and wed. so its going to be busy!
well i hope that everyone is doing well, thanks again for the package it
really did make my day! :) LOVE YA ALL TONS!

Amo vocês,
Elder Davis

ANIMADÃO!

Well how is everyone!!! hope you are all doing well, as for me, things here
are great! a few weeks ago we had found a less acitve family in the street
and went to teach them later that week, well when we got there the dad of
the family has his brother living with them, the kid has got 18 years, and
is really an awesome kid. His name is Juliano, and he will be interviewed
tonight for bapstism tomorrow!!!! so me and my companion are way stoked, my
companion is way new on the mission, so this will be his first baptism and i
am definitly goig to make sure that he gets to baptise Juliano! ITs going to
be so awesome, the other couple in my district is going to have a baptism
too, its a single mom of about 35 years. i interviewed her last night and
man has she gone through some problems, but she is so firm and is way
excited to be baptised! its the best when you have people like that! So ya
our district is way excited for tomorrow, plus we go to the same ward, so
the baptisms are going to be together! it doesnt get better then this, when
you can help someone else on the path to eternal life.

well has for things here in the office, we finally finished the audit
reports, so i wont have to leave to do those anymore, which i am very glad!
haha they werent that fun! haha but this next week is the last week of the
transfer so we have a bunch of stuff to get ready for the people leaving and
the people coming! so this next week is going to be a busy week here in the
office. but busy is good right? ya thats what i keep telling myself..haha
well thats whats going on with me!
has everyone been sending letters to jake, it might need it for a few
months, i know thats kinda a long time, but it will really help him. he will
start to get better, especially when he gets out into the field. anyway hope
everyone is doing great! thanks again for everything you guys....EU AMO
VOCÊS!!!!


Elder Davis

September 12, 2009

Helllo!!! well goodafternoon! so we found a little bit of time in between meetings to run to the lan house. but how are you doing! from the sounds of it, not to bad. i did get the chance to talk to jake....man was he a wreck....when he was talking to me he told me that he was going home for sure.that all he wanted was to cuddle up with you on your bed, and that the only thing in the world that would make him feel better was seeing you. we talked for almost 2 hours and we talked and talked, i shared scriptures and experiences but he just didnt want anything to do with it, all he wanted was to go home. by the end we were both balling our eyes out. he had told me that he had prayed, fasted and studied everything to feel the spirit but it just wasnt coming. and i am sure thats all becuase he was very very surprised and all that to be in a new place, where he didnt know the food the people, the language, and pretty much everything else. i am sure he is having a harder time then me...i had a great companion...i am sure his companion is great as well, but if you dont get along with your companion the mission becomes very very hard...i have had that happen a few times in the field. but thats the best part you learn to love your companion, but in the ctm your still new at everything, so loving your companion is like the last thing on your list...haha but he will learn. the only thing that i would suggest is contine to write him....the one thing that will help him continue to feel your love and suppport is all the letters and packages. he will need as much as possible. so if anyone sits down to write either of us always write jake first. that way if you dont have time for 2 then at least you will have written jake. he needs it alot more then me......so tell everyone that they need to write at least once a week if not more, he will really really really need your support. he is freakin out cuz he is so far from home, and doest know what to do. so continue to write him, and packages help alot too. i really dont need anymore, i am almost home, so you guys just hang on to that money and take me out to eat, but jake will really really need your help. from everyone!!!! so letters packages even if its just a little package, it doesnt have to be a big one every few months, it can be  a small one more frequently, but just send something, he really needs to feel the love that everyone has for him.
its true the ctm feels like a prison after awhile, cuz you are stuck inside for 2 months, and only leave once a week. but its all good, the only thing that you guys can really do is send a lot of letters, thats whats really going to help him.
 
anyway on my end of the world....man have things been busy. i have been able to leave the office and teach but not as much as i would like to, we have been really ridiculously busy this week espeically becuase of the zone conferences.so this entire week was running around running around and more running around. but this next week will be a lot better. last week however we found a less active member family in the road and went to visit them last week. well they are a great family, that moved into our area in the last weeks, and really wanted help to come back to church. well the dad of the family, his brother is living with them and he went to church with them last sunday, so we have been working alot with him. he is a great guy, any time we had this past week, we went and visited him. we have marked his baptism date for the 20th of sept. which is next week.
my time is the office however, i am not sure what is going to happen., i know that i will at lest be here till november because i am not training anyone, so if i start training next transfer, then i will leave in the second week of nov, if i dont start next transfer then its a big probabiliy that i will leave at the end of dec. thats what i think, but we will see what the lord wants. this however is my last audit that we will be doing this year. we did one of them this morning and man......they were alot of stuff wrong, so we havent even finished, we left for lunch and  a little break and then we have to go back to figure things out...(everyones head was going to explode so we stopped for a little bit) hahaha anyway like i said yesterday it is really hot here, i thought braslilia was hot, but man i would take brasilia over this heat anyday! its so much nicer in brasilia right now then here in tocantins! its like that walk out in to the sun thing and start melting!!! haha but ya gotta love it baby!
 
oh and this thing about you coming down, that would be a great idea, like 2 days in brasilia and then 3 or 4 days in são paulo. and yes the temples are close enough to go to both of them, they are like 2 hours away form each other. so its not like really close, but if you go by car its like 2 hours. as for são paulo i dont know if renting a car would be a good idea cuz no one will know the city, so i think it would be better to not get a car in são paulo, but here in brasilia, i think it would definitly be better to rent a car for a few days then taking the bus. i have driven around the city so much running errands and such that we could get a rental car and have no problems getting around. if you need help getting a good hotel or a rental car, i can help you from here, if you need. but ya those are my thoughts on everything.
 
plus there is a family here that both me and elder buck know because we both worked here in the office, and i told them that you were going to come down, and i think they are going to have us all over for lunch one day, so you can pretty much plan on that.
 
hey one other thing, you should really work it out that jake can see me here, if its possible it would be a lot of help to him i think, i will definitly be in the office at that time, and it would be really easy for me to be at the airport, so we just ahve to work it out that he will have a layover with enough time to talk to me. if its possible. anyway one thing that will really help him is lots and lots of prayer, and fasting for him. and LETTERS AND PACKAGES!!!!!! seriously they help alot. well i tink i better get going to not be late to the next meeting. tell everyone hi for me, let them know that i love them and that i am sorry for not writing to everyone. but just remember that i love you so much!!!! thanks so much for all the support you ahve given me throughout my mission and the support you continue to give me. hope everything continues to work out inthe garden....i am alittle jealous! hahah
 
TE AMO!
 
Have a Great Day!
 
Bonnie Davis
Ph: 801-262-4285
FX: 801-262-3188
bonniedavis1@gmail.com
 

SUP ya´ll

well well well, i cant really get on you guys for not writing me, cuz i
kinda of been slacking these past few weeks, but it was for a good cause.
the first 2 weeks we had those audits that i am sure that i told you all
about. however this weekend is a bye weekend for the audits, so we get to
have a normal weekend this weekend, but then next weekend we are going back
out to do some more audits! we still have 2 left, both are really far away,
so we are going to leave friday and will be back on monday. so i am not sure
how things will work with the email and all that but we will find a way, if
not, then its going to be a few weeks but fazer o que.... well jake big
fellow!!! hittin it up in ctm dog! dude its the best place ever man, to bad
that none of you guys will know what its like, jsut me and jake.....jk
think bout it, when jake and me are both home, we are only going to speak in
portugues all day and none of you will understand...its going to rock! thats
right we missionaries rock! :) well there is not much to say, i would like a
report a big old list of stuff but that stuff that has been happening this
week was really mostly office stuff. its been way busy, the presidente has
been chagning alot of stuff up.

this month i will have to go to the airport 3 times! man i really dont like
the airport, you see people leaving and you see people arriving with the
families and all that stuff....man...airports are no fun...i went there
yesterday, then i have to go back on the 15th and again on the 29th! when i
was there the other day, i bought something to drink, and the only thing
that the airport has in common is that everything is ridiculously
expensive...pois eh! well hope everyone is haeving a fabulous
weekend....HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!!!! ( its the independence of
brasil...from who i am not sure, i think it was portugal...something like
that)  anyway love ya´all...oh and erin...now that you are starting this 3
year jornada ( journey) we are going to make some sweet guidelines------
1st-no dating untill i get home   2nd- you can only date the guys that i
talk too, if i dont meet them, no dating them and 3rd- you cant date anyone
3 times in a row....you got to change it up and date different guys....

ok.... these guidelines( rules) regras---- are offically in action, and will
continue untill your graduation.

signed by
Benjamin Byron Davis
Erin Davis





ok well love you guys! hope you all ahve a great week!

jake take advantage of the ctm man, its one of the best places ever!


Elder Davis