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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Happy Valentines Day!!!!

Family,It was so good to hear from you all this week. I miss when all the family would come over to our house. I hope that everyone had a great time. Well Valentine's day is tomorrow and because as a missionary that does not mean much i guess i can can just say I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!! And take this holiday to also focus on the love of the savior and how you can share his pure love with those around you.This was a good week! We got the e-mail for the transfer and i am staying in Reims with Elder Williams, i am so excited about it. Also we found out that Elder Newell is leaving and the new Elder coming to Reims is Elder Lee and all i know about him is that he is from French Polynesia. I will let you know more after he gets here on Wed. He has been out for a couple months, so i don't know if he speaks English. Well the work was really good this week. In the middle of the week we got stuck in Paris because the trains home were full. We ended up having to reschedule some rendez-vous, but after that everything went great. This week we did a lot of finding, well we always do a lot of finding, but this week we found some really good people. Yesterday was such an amazing day. Really it was just a day of miracles for both me and the other team here. One really cool thing is that one of our amis got really mad in church and started to yell at everyone because she got really offended by what someone said and then she told us she was done being taught. So we just started praying and first she decided to stay for sacrament meeting. After that the whole meeting seemed to just be so full of the spirit and after she knew that she needed to keep going with the lessons and forgave the people who offended her. Then on top of that she ran into a friend and started to share the gospel with her and we got her number. She told us that her friend had so many questions and she wanted us to teach and answer them. She even invited her friend to church. As the day went on we kept seeing more and more miracles and that night we started to tell the other Elders about our amazing day and they had just as many stories to tell us. We are on the lords mission and he does direct it. Well a few other things about the week. The temperature is going up so i am happy about that, after it snowed two more times hahaha. We were able to get a hold of all our amis that we lost contact from and things are going well. Last I just finished transfer deep cleaning and i think that our apartment has never looked so clean. This morning i was actually reading a talk on learning and it talked about before we have good teachers we must learn to be good learners. At first i did not really get it but i ended up getting so much out of it and learned a lot on how i can improve. Some things that stood out to me is that if we are ever bored in a meeting, lesson, class, sacrament, ect.... It is your fault. The spirit can be there and will testify and bring you personal revelation but only if you put in the effort. The other thing was to always be learning. Look for opportunity and pray for it. Well that just really hit me on how much more i can be getting out of each day and how important it is that we constantly are growing and improving. I Love you all so much. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!! JE T'AIME!!!!Elder Davis

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