France - Week 3 (St. Brieuc)

Here's our most recent letter from Elder Davis!

 

3/11/13

 

Hello everyone!

 

Life is good here in Saint Brieuc! This past week was pretty tough, but despite all the ups and downs, missionary work is awesome. Last week was "vacance" here in France which means pretty much everyone gets out of school for the week and gets out of work and goes on vacation. So lots of our investigators were out of town and we couldn't see them at all which is always a bummer.

I'm pretty sure this past week we got no-showed 8 or 9 different times for appointments. It's frustrating because there isn't anything we can do about that. Oh well, Elder Adams and I are really excited for this upcoming week. Everyone will be back in town and we have lots of lessons scheduled.

 

Oh, last week I went on my first exchange. An exchange is when you spend 24 hours with a missionary other than your regular companion. Elder Adams went to Rennes (about an hour south and east of Saint Brieuc I think) and Elder Lerdahl (one of our zone leaders) came to Saint Brieuc from Rennes to work with me. It was kind of an interesting experience because Elder Lerdahl has never been to Saint Brieuc before so I was responsible for getting us to appointments and what not. One of the miracles of the week was I didn't get us lost which is very easy to do here in France!

 

On our exchange we had a lesson with a blind man (I cant remember if I told you about him already or not). His name is Claude Franchard and the lesson was awesome! The spirit was so strong during the whole lesson. We had a great discussion and its really amazing to me how much faith and desire he has to follow Christ. The lesson was going so well and the spirit was so strong that I invited him to be baptized... And he accepted! We set a date for March 30th so we are excited for him and hope that he will continue on the path that he is on.

 

Oh, on our exchange we went out to eat. We got these things called Kebabs. I've never heard of them before my mission so I don't think they're in America. They're super good though, google it!

 

Lets see, what else happened this week... Since a lot of our appointments fell through Elder Adams and I spent a lot of time porting (port is the word for door in French, so "porting" is going door to door in a neighborhood and talking to people about our message). Porting is really fun! Sometimes it's a little intimidating, but you meet all sorts of people and have all kinds of different experiences.

 

Oh, some of you have been asking me about Elder Pymm (serving in the Everett Washington Mission) and his sister, Sister Pymm serving in my mission. Turns out Sister Pymm was in my district the past couple weeks (she has since been transferred) so I got to talk to her a little bit at district meeting. Small world. Get this though, so sister Pymm got transferred, and the sister missionary who took her place is Sister Kohlert, Damon Robert's Cousin!!! It's crazy haha, I haven't seen her yet but she's in my district so I'll see her every week at district meeting. Once again, small world.

Let's see, what else... this week we had to give up the car to the missionaries who are serving in Vannes so we've been doing a lot of walking. It's keeping me in shape that's for sure. Especially because Elder Adams is so much taller than me I have to walk much faster than normal to keep up with him haha. Elder Adams is awesome. We always have a good time with whatever we're doing. Whether we're walking around in the pouring down rain or contacting people on the street or whatever, we always have a good time. Our goal as a companionship is to speak only French whenever we're out of the apartment. That's really helped my French.

Anyways, life is good and France is awesome. I love and miss all of you. I hope you are all keeping busy and finding joy and success in all the things you are involved in. If any of you have a few thousand bucks laying around, I'd recommend taking a trip to France!

 

Please write :)

Until next week,

Elder Davis

 

 

Pictures!!

 

#1 Another awesome lunch

 

#2 Close up of the mini missionaries sister Kefford made for us. She is super talented. She even got the hair right!

 

#3 Me and Elder Adams with our little missionary twins Sister Kefford made for us.

 

#4 Me, Elder Adams, Sister Monique Kefford (nicest woman in France; feeds us lunch every Friday and made those little missionaries for us) Jean-Christophe, a return missionary who is in our branch

 

#5 Me in front of an old Cathedral. theres a bunch of buildings like this scattered all over Saint Brieuc and France

 

#6  Brother Banks and I. He is from England and has the most awesome british accent ever. His French isn't super great, but he is always helping us with our lessons. If everyone in the world was like brother Banks, the world would be translated. He would do anything for anyone. This picture was done on a day we were doing service at his house so that's why we aren't in shirts and a tie. Brother Banks and Sister Kefford are our favorite people here in Saint Brieuc!

 

#7 Elder Adams and me. The sign says "the laughing horse" in English.

 

 

 

France - Week 2 (St. Brieuc)

Here's the second email Elder Davis sent us from St. Brieuc during his second week there!

3/04/13

Hey Everyone!

Thank you for all of your emails and letters. I love and miss you all.

Elder Adams and I had a really good week. We taught a bunch of lessons, found another investigator (someone interested in learning more about the church) and have worked our hardest each and every day. Last Thursday I had to go to Paris to do some things for my residency in France. Now I'm all legal! Unfortunately I still haven't seen the Eiffel Tower... But I’m sure I'll have a chance soon! We had a lot of meetings and other things to do this week for legality and what not so we didn't have as much time as normal to do missionary work, but we still were able to teach lots of lessons.

Oh, some really exciting news! One of our investigators (Jean-Pierre) accepted our invitation to be baptized! We still need to teach him some more things, but we are so grateful for him and his faith and his desire to follow Jesus Christ. We now have 4 investigators that have accepted the invitation to be baptized. We are excited for them but still have some work to do to get them ready for this important ordinance. Please pray for them! They have righteous intentions to follow Jesus Christ and join His church, but there is also a lot of opposition that needs to be faced before it can happen. I know Heavenly Father loves them and that the gospel has already/will continue to bless their lives.

Overall we had a good week. When we went to Paris I got to see all of my old missionary friends from the MTC. They are all serving in various cities and countries (some are in Belgium and Luxembourg) so we don’t get to see them very often. But seeing them again was incredible. To some extent, I felt like Ammon in the book of Alma (Book in the Book of Mormon) when he is overjoyed to be reunited with his fellow missionaries. Their testimonies and spirit definitely strengthened me.

My French is getting better and better. Yesterday in church I got to share my testimony and I understood almost everything that was said in church. Oh, I also got to lead the music in Sacrament meeting so that was a fun new experience. For some reason they erroneously think I have musical talent since I can play the piano a little bit. Looks like they are going to keep me busy with various musical assignments!

To answer some of your questions:

We don’t get fed a lot in our mission. Since there are only about 30 active members in my branch, and they all live so far away, we usually only get fed 1 meal a week at a member’s house. That’s ok though because Elder Adams and I have had lots of chances to cook for ourselves. We often cook Ratatouille (Just like the little Disney movie) which is really good and easy to make. We buy baguettes often and put various things on them. We try one new French cheese each week. Last week was camembert (spelling?) which smells disgusting but tastes surprisingly good. I'll send some pictures of some other things we eat. Elder Adams is actually a really good cook so often he cooks and I end up doing the dishes haha. But sometimes we switch off.

Our apartment is really nice. Its small but we have a washer and dryer which are awesome. The only bad thing is the hot water in the shower doesn't normally last for 2 showers so whoever takes the second shower in the morning usually freezes to death ha-ha. Oh well, it wakes you up!

I can’t remember if I told you guys this already but we do have a little European car. It’s called an Opal I think. But we only have it until Wednesday then we have to give it to some other missionaries. When that happens we'll have to take the bus and walk everywhere. No bikes for us!

Overall I love Saint Brieuc and I love the people I am serving here!

Everyone that I talk to in France can't believe that I chose to leave my family, my friends, my home, my country, my language, school, sports and everything else regular 19 year old guys do so I could come to a new country and teach people things in a language I don’t know very well. Nobody can understand why I would "give up two years of my life". For most people, that does seem very strange. But the reason I chose to do it is because of the miracle and the blessing the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been in my life. I have seen the difference the Gospel makes in people’s lives. I have seen the difference before my mission, and now I get to see it every day on my mission. The Gospel has blessed my life in more ways than I could ever begin to describe. I chose to leave all those things behind for two years of my own free will because I know with all my heart that the message I have been called to share can change the lives of the people here in France. I literally see miracles, big and small, each day. I testify that the Heavenly Father knows and loves each one of us. I know families can be together forever. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. And I know that we have a living prophet on the earth today. (Someone who speaks to God as the prophets did in Biblical times such as Noah, Moses, Abraham, etc.)

I love you all! I pray for many of you individually each night. Please write :)

 

J'taime,

Elder Davis

 

Pictures!

 

#1 Me in front of our little car

 

#2 Me and Elder Adams. Like my skinny tie and his scarf? We're turning into Europeans haha

 

#3 Hey mom! Look who did the dishes! We don't have a dishwasher so we wash them all by hand

 

#4 Speed limit on a French freeway. You never see numbers that big in the USA! 

 

#5 Our apartment

 

#6 Flying over Paris, right before we landed. Tons of people live here!

 

#7 It's great to be a missionary :)

 

#8 Dad, there is this little optical shop close to our appartment. They sell glasses and what not, along with telescopes, microscopes, magnifying glasses, etc. Sorry the picture is blurry. I think they have eye doctors in there too but I'm not sure. Maybe you should start selling telescopes ;)

 

#9 I don't know how to spell this but Elder Adams made quiche for lunch. basically straight vegetables

 

#10 What we had for lunch one day. Couscous and Ratatouille and a baguette! Cheap, easy, and delish

 

#11 Hanging out in a freezing cold train station. We take lots of trains.

 

#12 There is graffiti everywherrrrrre in France. Lots of walls look like this one. This is by our church building.

 

#13 Me in front of our church building

 

#14 Me and elder Adams again. We took this picture as he was writing his email home so that is his "focused" face haha

France - Week 1 (St. Brieuc)

Hi everyone! Sorry, I know it's been a while since the last post! I've kinda gotten off track these past couple of weeks, but no worries, everything should be back to normal now! :)

I decided instead of making one super long post with all the recent things going on, I'll just make a couple separate ones...so here is the first letter we received from Elder Davis after his first week in France. He flew out of Utah on Tuesday, February 19th, and arrived in France on Wednesday, February 20th. He wrote this letter on his first P-day (Monday), February 25th.
 

2/25/13

Hello everyone!

I am writing you all today from the beautiful city of Saint Brieuc. This email might be kind of weird because I have to write on a French key board and all the letters are in weird places and have French accents and what not. But anyways...I’m doing really well. Saint Brieuc is a fairly large city and we live pretty much in the middle of it. There is a mall next to us and a bunch of other tiny stores. There’s a bunch of little French bakeries everywhere to haha so we love buying French bread. We walk everywhere! I have never walked so much in my life. We have a car but we don’t really use it unless we have appointments several miles away. When we don’t have appointments we spend a lot of our time outside of the city in the tiny French neighborhoods knocking on doors.

My companion is awesome. His name is Miles Adams from Fallon Nevada, he’s 20 years old and he’s 6 foot 4 (so I hate standing next to him). He has been in France for a little under a year and we get along great and he is a big help to me. His MTC companion was Elder Ryan Lavering so I thought that was cool. Elder Lavering is from Snohomish (I think Lake Stevens) and he is serving in Congo right now.

The church building here in Saint Brieuc is pretty big, but the branch (group of people who attend the church) is very small. Yesterday in church there were only about 30 people there. I really love the members of the branch though. Since there aren’t many of us, it is an intimate little group. In church I was able to play the piano in Priesthood meeting since I was the only Priesthood holder who could play. That was a cool experience. In sacrament meeting I was asked to introduce myself and share my testimony. Again, the members are all awesome. They welcomed me into the branch like I was family. Some of them are from England to so it was nice to be able to speak some English with a couple of them. The only bad part is everyone in the branch lives so spread out. Many live an hour away from the building which makes it hard to get them to attend lessons with us.

Alright... so as far as missionary work Saint Brieuc is doing awesome. Just before I got here elder Adams and his old companion baptized a lady named Dayana. She is a solid member and has been at church ever since. One of our investigators named Joelle came to church yesterday and she is awwwwwesome. The members love her, she loves the members and she wants to get baptized... but she knows it’s a big commitment and wants to make sure she is 100 percent ready to commit. I know the church has already blessed her life and I know she recognizes that. The only problem is she is going out of town for a couple weeks on Wednesday; we just hope and pray that when she returns we can pick up where we left off! She’s so awesome. We are also teaching 2 African families. One just moved to Saint Brieuc from Belgium. Benjamin and his family are solid and want to come to church every week. Jean-Pierre and his family are solid too, but his wife isn’t as excited about meeting with us as her husband. Anyways, we love them and their families and just hope and pray that they will be able to come to church and continue meeting with us. Their families are so awesome. We have a bunch of other investigators... some a little better than others, but we are working as hard as possible to find people and teach them.

Last night was the first time I went trackting in France. You could say it was an eye opening experience. Not a single person talked to us for more than 45 seconds. What’s sad is they don’t know what they are saying no to. As a missionary, I feel like I am trying to (figuratively) shove diamonds into people’s hands. Yet they refuse to accept it. If people knew the blessings and strength and peace that come from the message we are trying so desperately to share, I think they would be a little more receptive. But it’s ok; there are tons of people here to teach.

Oh I forgot to tell you about my first couple days in France. I was exhausted for the first couple days (I’ve never really experienced jet lag until now). We landed in Paris, then right off the plane we went to the city of Paris and started talking to people about the gospel. It was an extremely humbling experience. Parisians speak so fast. We did that for a little while... didn’t really have any success/ but we did get to go see Notre Dame and that one bridge that is covered in padlocks (if you have never heard of that bridge in France just Google it). Unfortunately I didn’t get to see the Eiffel Tower. I couldn’t even see it from the airplane but I’m sure I’ll see it eventually. Our mission president and his wife are awesome. They have the thickest French accents ever so their English is funny. They took us out to an American restaurant for dinner haha. Then we slept in the mission home that night. The next day is when I (Wednesday) met my trainer elder Adams. Then we took our 4 hour train ride to Saint Brieuc and we’ve been working here ever since.

Sorry this email is so out of order haha. It is hard to write about soooo many things in so little time and on this weird key board. I’ll get used to it though.

I’m so thankful for the chance I have to serve here in Saint Brieuc. I know there are people here waiting for me to find them. The church is true. God is our Heavenly Father and he knows and loves us individually. I am a witness of Jesus Christ and I know that he lived and died for us. Death is not the end. We can live with God and with our families after this life because of the atonement of Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon is the word of God and it testifies of Christ. If you are an active member of the Church are invite you to find someone you can share the gospel with. Recommend them to the missionaries serving in your areas. If you are not an active member of the Church I invite you to go back to church, read the book of Mormon, pray to you Heavenly Father. He loves you and wants to bless you. If you are not a member of the church at all, I invite you to talk to some missionaries. Young men and women like me who am eager to share something with you that will change your life.

I love you all. Please pray for the people here in saint Brieuc

Talk to you next week!

Elder Davis

Elder Davis' mission actually has a Facebook page called "France Paris Mission Poznaski" and is updated regularly with all sorts of info and pictures of the missionaries serving in that mission. Here are some pictures from that page that were posted of Gavin and his group that he flew in with.  

 

#1. All the French missionaries after just arriving in France!

#2 All the French missionaries at the mission home

#3. Elder Davis in the mission home

#4. Elder Davis meeting his companion Elder Adams for the first time

 

 

#5. Sorry this is sideways...I'm still trying to figure out how to fix it!! Anyways, this is Elder Davis with his mission president and his wife. President Poznaski and his wife sent an email to our family right after Gavin got there, which was really neat. He also included this picture. 

 

More Pictures that Elder Davis sent...

#1 Calling home from the airport

 (It was so nice to talk to him before he flew straight to France! We talked for over an hour, and his french sounds awesome!)

 

#2  Me and Elder Cutshall getting ready to take off for France

 

#3 Me eating dinner at an American restaurant my first night in France

  

#4 A member fed us on Thursday. This is me eating Sister Kefford's home made lemon meringue pie

 

#5 The only picture I have of Elder Adams while we were making dinner 

MTC 8 - Last P-Day in the MTC!

Here is our letter from Elder Davis! It's his last one from the MTC!

 

Bonjour family and friends!

Crazy to think that this is my last P-Day here in the MTC. This is the start of my 9th week here and also the last email you will get from me while I'm here in the United States. Next time you hear from me I'll be somewhere in France (or Belgium or Luxembourg)!

So the exciting news for this week is WE GOT OUR TRAVEL PLANS!

We leave the MTC around 2 pm on 2/18/2013. Our plane leaves the Salt Lake City airport at 4:55 pm. and then we land in the Paris, Chas De Gaulle airport at 11:25 am France time. I think it’s a 10 hour flight plus an 8 hour time difference from here in Utah. We will be traveling in a group of 12 missionaries (11 elders, 1 sister) who are all serving in the Paris mission. We are all extremely excited and I'll send some pictures that illustrate that excitement. Mom, I'm not sure what time exactly, but I'll be able to call home from the airport sometime between probably 2:30 and 3:30. I bought a special card here at the MTC that allows me to use regular pay phones for long periods of time for cheap. What I'll do is call home (using some quarters) then once you answer and I know you're there I'll hang up and call back using the money on my pay phone card. I don't know if dad is working that day or not, but let me know so I can plan on making more than one phone call if needed. I am only allowed to call immediate family. I'm excited to talk to you guys!

I got to host again this week which was exciting. We had 850 missionaries enter the MTC in one day which (I was told...) is a record for the most missionaries to enter the MTC in one day. I also got to see my good friend Elder Damon Roberts! He is doing great and enjoying his time here at the MTC. He will only be here for 12 days and actually leave the day before me! He will bless many lives. Elder Ragsdale also left for Nevada today and he is super excited to get there and get to work!

This week I met a couple missionaries from Tahiti and Guam. They both speak French, but don't know any English! They are here in the MTC learning English and going to the Montreal mission. It was really cool to run into them because I was able to talk to them in French! I was so excited that I could easily communicate with them. Their French was really good and we just small talked about the United States and Tahiti/Guam and missionary work. From what I hear though, people in Paris speak French MUCH faster than they do in Tahiti/Guam so that will take some getting used to once I'm in France.

We got 36 French missionaries which made our "zone" so big that we had to split in half. Now there are 2 French zones.

Oh Elder Williams and I had an awesome opportunity this past Wednesday. Every Wednesday, on the night when all the new missionaries come in, there is a big meeting where the new missionaries practice teaching investigators. However, before they teach the investigators, a couple missionaries who have been in the MTC for a while get the chance to demonstrate a few different teaching principles and basically show them how to get started. Me and Elder Williams were recommended and chosen to demonstrate this for hundreds of new missionaries. It was pretty intimidating. We had microphones and wires all hooked up to us and we started teaching. Believe it or not, the hardest part was teaching in English! Elder Williams and I have gotten so used to teaching in French that teaching in English was challenging. I found myself constantly wanting to use French words. Anyways, it was a great experience and I'm grateful for the chance I had to teach in English.

On some days, I feel like I'm amazing at French, but other days are very humbling and I feel like I know about as much French as a rock. Overall though, I'm doing great. I've learned a lot here at the MTC and I'll never forget the experience I had here. This place is amazing; I've never before felt the spirit as strongly or as consistently as I have here. I know God is our Heavenly Father and that He loves us. I know Jesus is the Christ and that, because of the atonement of Jesus Christ, we can someday live with our families with our Heavenly Father after this life. I promise that this life is just a small step in a bigger plan that our Heavenly Father has for us. At times, the world we live in is a scary and sad place. I'm thankful for the opportunity I have to take a message of joy, hope and peace to a world that is in desperate need of it.

Thank you for all your love and support. I pray for you all often. I pray for many of you individually. I hope you continue to stay healthy and happy and I wish you continued success in all of your many endeavors. For those of you who have the possibility of serving a mission in the future... All I have to say is there is no greater thing you can do with your life than serve a mission for your Savior Jesus Christ.

Thank you again for all the mail and prayers.

Talk to you next week!

 Love,

 Elder Davis

 

Per request, I'm sending a few more pictures this week than normal. I'm sure once I get in France I'll take a ton of pictures.

(At first, we only got 3 pictures from him, but then at like 8:00 at night we got a ton more! Turns out that the computers weren't working earlier, so he sent them a lot later.)

 

 

#1 Me and Elder Ragsdale in the cafeteria on Monday, the day before he left for Nevada

 

#2 Me and Elder Roberts pointing on a world map where we will be serving our missions. (He is serving in the alpine German speaking mission which covers parts of Germany, Switzerland and Austria)

 

#3 Elder Williams excited for travel plans

 

#4 Elder Jambor and I on the night before he left for Tahiti. He insisted I also used his funny little hand gesture haha

 

#5 Me with my itinerary!!!! Exciting day!!

 

#6 Elder Williams being a nerd haha

 

#7 Me wearing the tie Collin Park gave me. (Mom, sister Park wants a copy of this picture to send to Collin. Please email it to her. Thanks)

 

#8 Itinerary

 

#9 Some of the Parisians with their itineraries

 

#10 Me with my itinerary

 

#11 Goofy picture of me after hosting

 

#12 Another hosting picture

 

 

MTC 7 - 13 Days Until Paris!

Here's our letter for this week!

 

Bonjour tout le monde! (Hello everyone!)

I hope you are all doing well. I pray for you all often. I am another week closed to Paris. 13 more days and I'll be one a 10 hour flight to France. I'm so excited. I say this all the time, but I'll say it again, "I love the MTC, but I can't wait to leave and start working in France".

I got to host this past week. For those of you who don't know what hosting is, basically I get to help the new missionaries find their way around the MTC when they first get here. We had 600 missionaries come in last Wednesday and I was able to help 3 of them: 2 elders, 1 sister, all going to Spanish speaking missions. It was a lot of fun. It seems like only yesterday I was being dropped off at the MTC.

I get to host again next week which is awesome because my good friend Damon Roberts is entering the MTC this Wednesday! There are 800 missionaries coming in this week so I probably won’t get to be his host. But I'll probably run into him here in the MTC. There are roughly 3000 missionaries here at the MTC, it’s packed in here! Since we got 600 new missionaries, Elder Williams, Elder Jambor and I got 2 new roommates. Elder Kelly is from Salt Lake, and Elder Angell from somewhere in Utah. They are both barely 18! They seem so young, but they are pretty cool guys. It was interesting the first night they were here because we had 5 missionaries in the room and only 4 beds (Yeah, did I mention there are a lot of missionaries here already?) Luckily the elders in our neighboring room had an empty bed so Elder Jambor moved in their room and is now a part of their companionship. So now it’s just me and Elder Williams again, no more trio.

We got to teach a lot of awesome lessons this week. One lesson we taught was to a guy who served his mission in Congo (Africa). He spoke great French and we gave a great lesson on the power of the Book of Mormon. Since his mission he hadn't been reading his scriptures as much as he'd like to so we bore testimony to him the importance of the Book of Mormon and how reading scriptures everyday can bless our lives. I know that's true.

I've been memorizing lots of good scriptures this week. So far I have the first vision, the baptismal invitation, Moroni 10:3-5, 2 Nephi 25:26, 3 Nephi 5:13 and most of Helaman 5:12 memorized all in French. Memorizing things in French is tough, but it’s helpful for learning the language.

Oh crazy stuff happened in gym this past week. So the other day, we were playing basketball and some elder (for some stupid reason) decided to kick a basketball as hard as he could in a crowded gym. The ball barely missed my face and hit Elder Steve Ragsdale right in the gut! It knocked the wind out of him so bad that he stood there for a second, and then passed out and fell right on his face!! I witnessed the whole thing, but it all happened so fast that I couldn't catch him. It was actually really scary because once he hit the ground he started convulsing like he was having a seizure!! Me and a bunch of other missionaries were freaking out and tried to pick him up. We got him on his feet and he immediately snapped out of it. He was really confused, he had no idea what had just happened. We ended up taking him to the health clinic and they ended up taking him to the hospital. He is fine now. The doctors at the hospital said he had a concussion so they gave him some medicine for that. Overall, he just has a bad cut lip from when his face hit the ground. Moral of the story, don't kick basketballs in crowded gyms

Another crazy thing that happened, some missionary was playing volleyball in gym and as he was spiking the ball something happened and he landed on his head (Don't ask me how that happened, I didn't whiteness this one, I only heard about it.) I did however see him lying on the gym floor face first completely paralyzed. It was nuts, they had to call an ambulance and everything. Luckily, right before they took him away on the stretcher I saw him move his hands and feet a little bit so I know he's not paralyzed. It’s scary stuff though. I actually saw him today. He looks like he is doing OK now, but he has a thick neck brace on. Moral of the story: volleyball is a dangerous sport haha.

 

Oh, on Sunday I got to play the piano in sacrament meeting. I've never played the piano in a sacrament meeting before so that was kind of crazy. I did well though and I definitely want to practice some more so I can play in France if I'm ever needed. Oh, this Sunday was also testimony meeting which was cool because I was able to give my testimony in French in front of everyone.

Elder Williams was sick yesterday so I was obligated to stay in the room with him yesterday. I was able to get a lot of studying in though!

Oh last crazy fact of the week! Our teacher, Frere (brother) Blosil is Donny Osmond’s Nephew! Crazy, huh?

I love you all, talk to you next week.

Elder Davis

 

Only a few pictures this week :(

Hopefully he'll start sending a lot more once he's in France! :)

 

 

#1. Me and Elder Platt very washed out 

 

#2. Me shining my shoes!

 

 

#3 Me and my new roomates: Elder Angell far left, then Elder Kelly, Elder Williams, then me