HEY, BEST
FAMILY EVER!
Oh my
goodness! I love you so much it drives
me crazy! How are you?
I’m SUPER
exited to talk to you on Monday! I decided that
the kids need to just go to school late that day so I can talk to them
all. Another thing…I think that a
disposable phone would be best because that way I won’t be tying me AND my
companion to a phone booth for hours on end ;) and that way if anything odd
happens with the phone booths or if I don’t want to hog it I can just call you
on the mobile. I don’t think any rules
have been made about it. I think it’s one
of those “better to ask forgiveness than permission” situations. I’m sure if I were to ask they’d say no because
it could EASILY be misused and cause a lot of problems…but we all know I won’t do that! I just want to talk to my family as much as
possible while inconveniencing the FEWEST/least amount of people possible. AND
if I have a disposable phone you can call ME if need be. Like if you get busy and need to call me back. So yeah, that is my opinion. I just can’t wait to ACTUALLY talk to
you! It’s going to be the BEST THING
EVER! Because guess what….I LOVE YOU…and
miss you!!!! And I will actually get to REALLY tell you about stuff!
Oh! …and that Sister you mentioned (Anna
Berbert) is going to be our travel group leader according to my travel plans,
so I should be meeting her, finally.
How did you
find out about Karli Farmer (*a cousin who works in the MTC cafeteria)? I’m so excited to see her now. I’m going to stalk her down on Monday!!! LOL LOVE, love that girl!!!
I think I
pick Alma 7:9 for my plaque scripture.
Find a good picture of me. Some
pics should be coming your way via e-mail all the sisters in our district sent
mass e-mails so we could share. If there
aren’t good ones on there check Face-Book, if that’s still not what you’re
looking for, let me know & I’ll make some time to take a good one &
send it.
So giving a
talk in Church and in Spanish was scary, but I kind of felt like it was coming
haha. Afterwards, the Branch President said “bien preparado” (*well prepared). :-) See, I’m a good girl!! Even Hermano Urquhart thinks so! I won estraiques (* 3 strikes) again this week (well,
only kind of) …Halfway through the game
Hermano U. changed the rules so that no matter how many estraiques (*strikes) you had, if you got all 3 sentences right in a round
you could come back in the game. So
pretty quick it was down to me and one other sister and she got out, I stayed in,
but someone else got back in, which is kind of ironic because one of the
sentences H. Urquhart made us write was “Hermana Davis won the game”. (Because he was expecting me to win in that
round but since other people got back in, I didn’t). By this time everyone else had at LEAST 4 or
5 strikes and I only had 2, but for the last round, I finally struck out and
another Hermana got back in so TECHNICALLY she won the game, but even Hermano
Urquhart “whispered” to me in front of the whole class, “you actually won the
game.” And at one point he said, “Hermana Davis es mi estudiante estrella” (*Sister Davis is my
star student) and then pretended to draw a star next to my name on
the board! It makes me this: (& she drew a picture
of a huge blushing and smiling face saying, “I’m a good girl”). It’s kind of awesome because he’s the kind of
person that people just naturally want to please or to be on his good side.
So, in response to your question, yes, I
know Hermana Oldroyd! Love her! She was one
of Hermana Call’s companions in the MTC.
There’s this
Hermana on our floor in our class building, Hermana Tolar, she looks like a
princess! But more importantly, she’s
from Chile so sometimes she comes and talks to us about Chile and tells us some
fun facts.
Recently, I
started playing basketball during gym time.
I forgot how much of a workout it is!
It’s like freaking interval training, especially when I play with the
Elders! Gym rules are such that 2
sisters can play with Elders - they just have to guard each other. I can’t really decide if I like playing with
Elders or Sisters better. I like playing
with Sisters because we use a 28.5 ball, so “their balls aren’t big” (an inside
joke & reference to one of Ynez’ most embarrassing moments). But it’s pretty fulfilling playing with the
Elders and watching their reactions as they realize I’m actually pretty good
and they start passing me the ball more and more and making comments like “this
sister is a baller!”, or my favorite (after I made a play on the inside
underneath the basket)…”thanks for showing me how to do that move” lol. :-)
So my 1st
investigator (H. Urquhart) Vincente is getting baptized. We finally helped him resolve his doubts and
set a date. It was really cool though,
we are learning so much about teaching. It’s
insane! I love, love, love it!!! I’m really learning how to LISTEN and
to listen to understand, not just respond.
Did I ever
tell you about Zach’s parents (the Asbell’s) being here in the MTC and coming
and eating dinner with me? I ran into
them in line for dinner a couple of Sundays ago and they came and sat with me
and my district and talked to me. They
are SOOOO SUPER SWEET and nice to me.
Another
funny story: Prior to playing basketball I played a lot of volley ball with my district
and I guess I like broke this Elders foot or something. One day while we were playing, the Elder
& I were on opposite teams and we ended up crashing into each other like
through the net because we were both going to spike the ball over. I was 100% OK but he kind of limped away and
I remember laughing and saying some smart-aleck comment like “I like how I’m
the girl and walked away fine!” …or something like that-trying to make a joke
out of it (while at the same time telling him to put his man pants back on and
at least HIDE the pain). A couple
minutes later he left the game. Saw him
the next day…..still limping…2 days later on crutches…4 days later a metal
boot!!! Is it bad that the first thing that
comes to mind whenever I see him is “wuss”?
The other sisters and I joke about how DANGEROUS I am now. They call him BF, or boot foot, or my friend
with the boot. We also joked that next, we’d
see him in a wheel chair, and after that a prosthetic leg! Poor guy!!! I’m really hoping something ELSE happened to
his foot, but we don’t know so pretty much everyone in my district jokes about
it now, even the Elders.
Mom! I found
another way that I’m like you! We got
the OPPORTUNITY to listen to some Elder puke outside our classroom
yesterday. As soon as I figured out who
it was I started getting hand sanitizer from the dispenser and rubbing it down
on everything. At one point, later in
the day, he came into our room and touched stuff so I went and borrowed the
container of disinfectant wipes from the computer lab and practically wiped
down our whole room. Then I handed one
to Elder Israelson (who had a cold) and said, “Wipe off EVERYTHING you have EVER
touched.” LOL.
I love my
district and my companion, but I am also ready to get out there. I will miss them but I’m ready to do what I
came to do.
Tell each
kid I love them! Tell Zoe and Trent to
write me again and I promise I’ll write them back this time.
Last full
week in the MTC! …can’t believe it! I’m scared and excited out of MY MIND!!!!
I love you
all XOXOXOXOXOXO . Please, please,
please keep writing everyday while you still can. I love you, I love you, I
love you!!!! So sorry for the messy
writing and horrible grammar.
Love,
Hermana
Davis
[Postscript info update by parents: a "disposable phone" to use at the airport was bought and overnight-ed to her at the MTC but the day before leaving, the missionaries were told that they should not have or use such electronic devices so Hermana Davis mailed it back home without using it.]
[Postscript info update by parents: a "disposable phone" to use at the airport was bought and overnight-ed to her at the MTC but the day before leaving, the missionaries were told that they should not have or use such electronic devices so Hermana Davis mailed it back home without using it.]