6 Months!!!!!!!!!!

Hey,

So to start off WOW that is cool that we are not moving. I love Temecula! Well it is crazy tomorrow is my six month mark and the 14th (for the french the 14th of July is equal to our 4th of July) will be my four month mark in France. I really is just amazed how fast time is flying. Also this Saturday we have transfers so i will let you know if i stay or go to a different ville. It is exciting because i meet the new mission president tomorrow, and because we all have to go to Anger
(french city just northwest of Tours) to see him we have some Elders staying at our apartment so they don't have to do the whole trip in one day. We are going to take them to see a cool Castle so i will let you know what one we go see. Well it sounds like everyone is doing great and really enjoying the summer. I had a really good week this week. I went to Bourges for a day with the zone leaders for an exchange and that was really good. I was able help teach an investigator from there and we committed her to a baptismal date so that was really cool. Another highlight from the week was we had a visitor at church and before sacrament we were able to talk to him and he said that he was a really old amis but all these years he just could not forget the teachings of the church. So he came to church while he was passing through Tours because he said that he just felt like the spirit was drawing him back and now he wants to start learning again and get baptized. It was amazing to see that an Elders work for years ago had stayed with this man and God had been working with him to bring him back. It is true that we as missionaries can do the best we can but in the end God and the spirit is the one who really works in their heart. We did a lot of finding this week and it was really tiring but it is cool that by just sharing the message and handing out anything to bring people one step closer to Christ makes a big difference just by doing all the small things. Also a little girl in the branch had a baptism and a lot of non members came and we were able to share a quick message about the church and the baptism went really well. It was cool the little girls extended family are not members but they really felt the spirit and were really happy to see her choose to follow Christ. Another exciting thing about this week is we have an American in the branch who married a French man and they randomly invited us over for burritos after a huge service project (to build dog house for the lady with 40 dogs hahah), because she is also from California and she said that we needed some Mexican food hahah, it was really nice. The last really exciting thing from the week was we had an Amis who has not been progressing in a while and when we visited and she told us that she felt bad that she had not been reading the Book of Mormon because she was always tired and at work so she started to throw it in her bag and read it while on the bus. And now she said she loves it and she has been making notes on the pages and highlighting her favorite Scriptures, it was really cool to see the huge change because she started to really feast upon the words. And when we left she prayed for the first time out loud and you could tell that she really felt the spirit, it was a really cool experience. Well I have to say that i am loving everyday. It is funny because i get home each night tired and ready to just go to bed but when we plan for the next day, before we go to bed, i just can't wait for the next day to come. It is work but i love it. Well i hope everyone is having a great summer vacation. Je t'aime! Remember if you love others as Christ did you will always be happy.

Elder Davis