First week in Reims

Family,

How is everyone doing? It is good to hear about the Bryce's and Paul's sports. I am also so happy to hear that Mom is doing good. I love you! Well to start i will answer your questions by opening a new area i mean we came to the city and started a team that was not here before. So we started with nothing and have been able to go out and just start finding new people. My Companion Elder William is great! We get along really well and have already started to see a lot of success. He is from Northern California and did track and field. He is the opposite of me in the sense that he has two older brothers and two younger sisters. He is a really hard worker and really has the language down. He also came from the other mission when we merged so i don't know any of the places or people he served with before hahah. The city itself is also really great. It is one of the cleanest cities that i have been in. Also it has a lot of things to see and makes me think of Temecula because there is a lot of wineries. The ward is so great. The are really good at working with the missionaries and one even helps us with french once a week. Oh another thing is the apartment here is the nicest one that i have seen so far. The other set of Elders are so great. We have a lot of fun living together. Well this week we had to go up to Rouen,a city in Normandie, for Elder William's legality. It was a really cool city. To sum of the whole thing we ended up waiting in lines for a total of 6 hours waiting for his legality. That and the train rides back plus getting through Paris with a box of Book of Mormon ( les Livre de Mormon), lets just say it was a long day. I have to do mine soon so hope that here in Reims it is less crazy. We found three new people to teach this week and a lot of potentials. I am getting really excited about the work here things are just moving forward. One amis we saw this week was so cool. He had so many questions we could hardly keep up and even had to write a bunch down because we just were not sure. But he is really looking for the truth and wants to know why he is here. I can't wait to see him again. One thing that i really learned this week is how important it is to work hard but not lose track of what is most important. We were out everyday just talking to anyone and everyone, but not until we really started to show interest in the people, more then just we are looking for people to teach, did we start to find the ones who are prepared for the Gospel. It really showed me how showing your love and care for others is so powerful and so much more important then all the tasks we feel so pressed to accomplish each day. If we don't focus on the ones we love and people we see each day, it seems to me that all the other things we do could have just gone undone because where things really count nothing happened. The Pure Love of Christ. Moroni 7:45!! Well i am so happy to be out here and feel so blessed that i have such amazing family and friends. JE T'AIME!!! Thanks for everything! I will be praying for you all! Hope you have a great week.
Elder Davis