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Lewis & Clark on the banks of the Potomac

Hello Everyone !!

So how was the rest of Christmas for you guys? Ours was good. We went and had dinner with a family from the ward. They are very big into history so they wanted to do a re-enactment of Lewis and Clark and Sacajewia. They had us kinda dress up and we went out in their backyard (which sits right on the banks of the potomac) and we took some pictures. It was fun haha ! I will send you a couple pics from it. Then we just went and visited some other people. We saw this old lonely lady that lives in this trailer park. Shes kind of crazy but she is way nice. We tracted into her a couple days before christmas and she said she was going to be alone and had no food. So we went over there and tried to give her some cookies but she said she didn't have any teeth so she didn't want them. Woops haha. Should have thought that one out. She ended up giving us these sweet beenies that she made. Its like bright orange and ones yellow. I'll send some pics. Then Sunday...oh man sunday was hilarious. So there were like flurrys of snow in the air. They forecasted a whole 4 inches of snow !!! haha which we know is really nothing. Well we get to church...still no snow on the ground...and they end up having sacrament and cancelling the other meetings !! It never even snowed more than an inch that day. I was like that is kinda weird ! There were only like 50 people at sacrament...it was fun ! Thats really all the new exciting news I have. I know most of you are on vacation so hopefully I will hear from ya next week !! Love ya !!

ELder Davie

Puff Puffs!

Hello Everyone !!!

So I forgot my planner so im going to have to go off memory to fill ya in on my week.

On Saturday we had our ward christmas party. It was good ! We had a couple investigators there and were able to meet some new people so that was nice.

This week so far has been awesome for us ! In the last couple days we have found 4 new investigators. One of them is named Lillian. She is from Ghana. Her sister is a strong member in Britian. We had a great lesson with her and were going back on thursday for dinner (uh oh) and a lesson. They were eating tilapia and fufu last time so I pray that its something different. We were visiting this other ghanain yesterday named bafou. Hes inactive. They gave us some puff puffs. They were like fried dough..it was way good.

We are going to the temple visitors center tonight with some recent converts so that should be good. Its been freezing here though!!! Like 20 degrees. Cold. It snowed a couple inches last week and is supposed to snow again I guess on christmas. Should be exciting. I got your package mom !! 12 days of christmas haha. Some of the gifts were opened when I opened the box. There are a couple left still though :) Thank you so much !! I love the tie. Good pick.

Well thats pretty much it for me. Not to much new stuff to write about. I hope you all have a great christmas !! I love you guys !

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Me , Robert, and Elder Bell. This guy is awesome ..hes hilarious ! We are teaching his 13 year old son. Robert is hardcore baptist.



This was us at the temple....one of the best days of my life!!

Loving Life!

Hello Everyone !

We just barely got back from the Christmas conference. I don't have very much time so hoepfully I can get all my thoughts out ! Christmas conference was great. It was just at the centerville stake center. We had a talent show type thing which was hilarious. Our zone played some song on kazoos...i got it on video. Elder Bill Marriott (Owner of Marriott hotels ) and member of the 70 came and spoke to us which was cool. Then president and sister albright spoke. President Albrights son was here also and him and his wife performed like 10 songs. Hes pretty dang good. You should check him out ....his name is Brandon Albright. Our week has been great. I am LOVING this experience im having right now with elder bell and serving in alexandria (bellehaven) Its awesome here. I got to eat fried plantains a couple days ago...I was not a fan haha. Good experience though. I don't know if you remember Gina Dickelman....she is a recent convert from Garrisonville. I taught her ex boyfriend Andy . Well she went through the temple last saturday and so me and elder bell were invited. It was AWESOME!!!!! Gosh dang it was good. What a neat experience to see someones life change and to be apart of it. I got to see the randalls which was so good. Gina said andy is on fire right now and has changed so much because of the gospel. He was baptized in August so hopefully this time next year I will get a call that hes going through the temple. Thats a day i wont' miss. Everything has been going well. I got the christmas cd...thank you so much ! I love it !! I just got a slip in the mailbox today saying I have a package so I will go pick it up tomorrow morning. You guys are amazing. Man I love my family SO much. I reflect daily on the relationships and the love that we have between each other. Its incredible. This area I serve in is more of a poor area. It breaks my heart to see the pain and suffering these people go through and to see the humble circumstances they live in. Alot of them live in small apartments with big familys and work multiple jobs. I talked to Craig a couple days ago. He misses "Davy Jones " as he puts it haha. He said hes "warming up " to the idea of baptism. Man I miss that guy. Ive been so blessed the past 14 months its unbelievable. I felt so much gratitude today to be able to serve in the dc south mission. President Albright is something else...he is so good. I hope you can all meet him one day !!!! Thank you guys so much for EVERTYHING!!! Your always in my prayers. I love you !!!

Elder Davie

FuFu = No Bueno

Hello Everyone !

So last week was pretty good for us. Last Thursday we had a bible study at the church. I guess every week they have it. Its fun. One of the guys who comes cooks up a ton of good food.

Friday : We had a lesson with one of our investigators named Paul. Hes from Ghana. He is great. Hes one tough investigator though because hes stubborn ! He knows what he needs to be doing and he knows it will bring him happiness but hes not doing it !!! He progresses slowly every time we go over there. He said he will try and make it to church in the next couple weeks.

Saturday : Well it was definatly an interesting day! We had a lesson with Jonathon. He flew in from Ghana about 3 weeks ago and just got baptized last week so we were teaching him the "new member" lessons. He lives with his sister shirley. Shes not a member but she loves the missionaries. Well when we got there she let us know we were going to be eating fufu with them ! I stomach dropped. So I had no choice but to eat it !!! It looked like a big pile of dough in this bowl with some weird soup. Then you just pick pieces off and rub it in the soup and eat it. The taste really wasn't to bad , but the texture...oh man the texture got me. I finished it all though. It was like the size of the pizza dough balls at little ceasars nate...remember those? It goes down way heavy though so it fills ya up quick !!! Then we had a lesson with Demetrius, our 13 yr old investigator. He lives with his adopted dad robert. Robert is hilarious. Hes baptist. He loves the missionaries though. He says we are his best friends haha. You guys will have to meet him one day. Then we finished the night with a lesson at lawrences. Hes a pastor. We shared with him like a 10 min restoration lesson then he took over haha. He wanted to read Romans 1 with us. It took about an hour and a half to read it !!! He like preached a sermon to us. Weird.

Sunday : I woke up and felt sick again !! I have been getting sick like every month...I don't know whats wrong with me ! I felt like I had the flu. I had some leftover amoxicillin because I forgot to take it all when I had strep. So I took that and now I feel great again ! Sunday night we had dinner with an ethiopian family and our investigator who is from Ethiopia. Needless to say we had ethiopian food !! I was starving since it was fast sunday ...all I wanted was some american food...pizza...hamburger...something !!! But instead we had durawatt. Not sure really what it is...but I don't think im a big fan. Then we had like this bread stuff. It looked like the rollups you make but they were purple and they were a little puffier and really soggy. I thought I was gonna lose it.

Those were some of the highlights I guess. Yesterday we went and checked on this new investigator we found. His name is Immanuel. Hes from Ghana also. We left him a restoration dvd last week. We went back and he said " I LOVED the movie you left me ! I have watched it several times. I feel good when I watch it ! " I thought he was just sayin it cuz some people do that...but then he like started quoting the movie !! It was amazing. He said hes already burned a couple copies and sent it to his friends in ghana haha. So were meeting with him in a couple days and he will probably get baptized soon.

Tonight we are going to the temple. Were heading down at 4:30. They have all the temple lights up and so we get to do down and do parking or something for it. Im excited its going to be fun !! The only downfall is that its been like 20 degrees.. Its FREEZING !!! I can't find the outer part of my coat that I have....so im trying to decide what to do. Im gonna buy thermals at least.

Well that was my week ! It was a good one. I am enjoying this area. It is so different then what im used to. What a great experience its been for me. I am lucky. I love you guys !!!!!