Week 11

Family,

Well this last week was so great i loved it and it went so fast, but at the same time i feel like i have been here for months and it has been just over a week and a half being in Tours. haha funny how that works. Well we had some trouble meeting the lady who is going to get baptised because she broke her feet and was in the hospital but we are seeing her tonight so we will see how everything is going. We met with Pamala the lady i told you about who had started the Book of Mormon. We taught the Restoration and it went really well and we are going back for another lesson so it is going great and she said she is going to come to church in two weeks. Oh btw i am so excited for Conference we are working on being able to watch it in English if not we are going to get them off line later but i hope we work it out other wise that is going to be a hard time trying to understand conference in French haha. Well i taught my first lesson to a less active family (Fraize family) well the daughter just got baptised and her and her mom started going to church again but not the Dad so we went and teach them, they are the family that feds us it is really good and again we end the meal by geting out all they cheeses and having cheese and bread ( pain et fromage) but i really like it well most of the cheese hahah. Well my lesson to them was really cool we were teaching about to receive personal revelation you need to go to church, read your scriptures, and pray. And it was hard for them to understand everything i said but in the end and with alot of help from the spirit they got it. It was really cool to teach in French. Well some trials so far is that we make appointments and the people either just forget or just made an appointment to be nice and we get stood up it has happen twice and one they just forgot and we made another one but the other was just they were not interested. So that was hard this week and also contacting is hard because they don't really understand me and people don't like to be stoped but you have equal good and bad experiences contacting people.

It might sound funny but my favorite thing to do so far in missionary work is porting (knocking doors) it is really nice to just go from door to door and talk to people and one lady invited us in and we found out she was in recovery from breaking her leg and she had met with missionaries about 20 or so years ago and they had knocked on her door last time she was in recovery from breaking her leg and could not go out, so it was funny to see how the lord works, even though she did not want to much because she already has a church she loves hearing our message is what she says so we shared a spiritual thought and left with a pray so hopfully some day she will find the truth. Well more about my companion. Seth Gardner He has red hair and is about the same height as me. We have alot of fun together and he knows so much about everything well it might be because i am new but thats how i feel. Also he is a computer expert he has been fixing computers sense he was about 11 and said that we might get calls from the office because they always ask for his help, so if that happens i will get to see more of paris. Well he is one of eight kids and he is number 5. Well Elder Woods is doing great we are doing exchanges with him this week so after that i can tell you more how things are going for him. But it is funny because at district meeting he was saying how we have never talked outside of ultimate Frisbee at campout hahah. Tell everyone to have so much fun in spring break. I was just telling Elder Gardner about going to the river house over spring break and i am a little bit jealous, but then again i will Mom is right i will have years to spend with the fam. Also i am in France and after this we are going to go get some pastries and go to the Old Cathedral in Tour so i am good hahah But really i hope that you all have a blast. Oh and tell bryce that he is spoiled to be Cory's friend. Oh a side note tell everyone that if they send me a letter to write

Elder Davis

Les Missionnaires

Then the address

It will get to me easier that way so tell Kira and Nicole that and that i want to hear from everyone Bryce and Paul should email me. So i am so excited for Josh and Jon they are going to love their missions and that just fits it is so funny. Oh so exciting. So how do you like the roof of my apartment. We have been rearranging the whole thing because there is just so much random stuff over time but it is starting to look a lot better. I like it a lot. Our territory is huge. I don't really know how to explain it but i will get city names so next time you can look up how far it is, but is big enough that one person we teach we take a thirty min train ride then an hour walk to their house and we are not even half way into our area that way. That is sad to hear about Roy, i will pray for him and it is so true how blessed we are to know this plan of happiness. I mean i was studying the other day and started to think that it is the plan of happiness and that we are all here to be happy. So we need to pick up our heads and stop just looking at the ground or three feet in front of us and look at all life has to offer the whole picture the full plan that lays ahead and then we can see that maybe two feet in front of us looks bad but when we look up we see that the happiness and joy is so much greater and after we see that we can help others see it to. I have been studying Christ life and it is amazing how much love and joy he had and it was because he saw the whole picture. Thanks for scriptures to read Dad i will do that tomorrow morning during study. Oh a quick typical day for me is that i get up at 6:30 get ready eat and work out. At 8:00 i do personal study (one thing i do is read the french book of Mormon and write down everything i don't know wow that make reading so slow but it really helps). Then at 9 comp study and 10 french study. After that we leave the apartment and do missionary work until 1 for lunch and then 8 for dinner. And then at night we listen to a talk usally until be at 10:30. Well I love you and hope all is great. Tu me manques et je t'aime.

Elder Davis