Week 8

Hey,

So this week was really erxciting cause i got my travel plans so that means it is for real i leave at 6:00 PM from Salt lake on the 14th. We are all really excited. We have 10 days. it is a little sad because two elders in my district got delayed another week so they leave the 21th so we are all really sad for them but at least it is only a week. i can't wait to get to france. this week has been really focused on studing all i can before i leave and i started to stress a little over all the french i did not know, but then i got to see Shane and it was all good from there. It is a joke here that you feel like you were born in the MTC and you will die here because time feels so weird and you all just want to get to the field, but it has been good. Ok so i loved seeing Shane (ps tell him i never got his e-mail so i don't know his address or e-mail thanks). We were able to talk and it was so nice to see him before i leave to france. It was crazy because some russian speaker walked by and shane started talking to him it was crazy i can't wait til i can just speak french without having to think really hard. Well it was nice to hear about everyone and the ward back home. I can't believe Dane is home. thats crazy. I loved hearing about the pole vaulting that sounded like a fun trip tell everyone good luck from me. I heard from Kim and she is loving pole vaulting at Mt Sac. Oh ya i saw Kegan his first day and was able to talk to him. It was nice to hear about t-mec and just talk to a familiar face. He seems really excited to be here and to start his mission. Tell Bay good job and good luck in swim also that is awesome he got 1st in all the races. This week my district started to do this things called Work Shops and they have been really good they are just times you plan with teachers and they teach different things out of PMG they are to get you ready for things out in the field and i have learned alot and just can't wait to go out and use what i have learned. Me and Elder Tree are going to start training the new zone leaders this next week and have started planing a zone conference. It has been really fun in class because we have started practicing doing things like shopping, makeing a phone call, and giving directions in french. So we have all been doing alot of role playing and we try to use different vocab everytime so we act out the crazest situations and i end up just laughing the whole time. This last one we were shopping and wanted to by pants but we for got out credic cards so we called up someone to bring us our card but on his way he ran over an elder so we had to get directions to come help and then for some reason the car blew up but everyone was ok so we needed to go bye some stuff to clean up the mess and you get the point everyone just says what ever comes to their mind and it gets to be really random, but it is getting us all to practice the language so thats good. Most of this week i have been studing the idea of desire, faith, hope and charity. It is crazy how everything ties together and that if we want to sucessed everything needs to revolve around charity and love, because that is how christ taught and all he did was out of love. I have been focusing on finding what i truly desire and how my faith and hope play a huge role in what i can acomplish. It is has been really good thing about what i am here to do and how much the gospel just makes sense. We are blessed. Well Je t'aime and i hope you got my letter and pictures. let me know if you did. Write back and let me know how everyone is doing. I miss you and can't wait to tell you how France is. woot woot.

Love,

Elder Davis