It's Heating Up!

Hows everyone doing ? Things are going well here in Mt Vernon ! We had a pretty good week. When I was here 4 months ago with Elder Larochelle we found this guy from Ghana named Gabriel ! He was awesome ! We taught him for a few weeks and then I got transferred and they continued to teach him. Well now that im back I was able to go back over and teach him again ! We had a really good lesson with him on Saturday and we set him on date for baptism ! He is going to be baptized on Saturday the 28th ! We are very excited. He loves the church ! He has been coming every week and reading the book of mormon. Right now were trying to find more people who are prepared and ready for the gospel ! This area is a lot different now that the ward boundaries have changed. We are going to rely upon the members a lot more to help us find people to teach. That is really the only update here in Virginia ! We are just working hard and hoping to see success !! Its getting hot here ! Its been in the 80's all week...ughh...I would rather have the snow come back!! Love you guys!!

More Pictures!

If you look closely you can see a roach hanging out inside of our oven clock. We moved into the apartment last weekend and it was infested with roaches, so they quickly moved us out that same day and now we live in a roach-free apartment!



Me with CJ Sidener, a recent convert. He was on a mini-mission with us. He's one of the most dedicated people I've ever met when it comes to living the gospel.

Elder Bell and I with Russel. I love that guy. He's one of the funnest people I've taught.

Me with Elder Bell. He came back for a visit!

Pictures!

Me with Elder Edgington


Shaheed and Sidu with Elder Church, me, and CJ Sidener.


Elder Church and I with Konnie, Shaheed, and Sidu. They're from Sierra Leone. Awesome family!


Elder Church and I with Jose and Yesseniah. They are the sweetest family!


Me and Bill Smith. He's one of the coolest people I've met out here!

I've Been Transfered!!

Hey everyone !

Wow what an eventfull week it has been !! So as you found out from Sister Randall, I did get transferred. It was hard because we had a lot of good people we were working with in Annandale and the ward was awesome. Remember a when I left Mt Vernon how upset I was and how much I didn't like Annandale at first....that all changed very quick. Annandale was one of my favorite areas by far. I LOVED it !!! It was difficult to leave and to say goodbyes. I was able to meet some awesome people there and to make more friends. As you know I did get transferred right back to Mt Vernon !! I am in the same exact ward I just came from 3 months ago. It is called the Bellehaven ward. The only difference is that the stake made 3 new wards and all the boundaries changed . The bellehaven ward got removed and so now im really in the Mt Vernon ward. It is completely different than the ward I was in before cuz of the boundary switches. We went from having like 15 ghanains in the ward to having 1 which is an investigator that me and elder larochelle found when I was here before. Because of the boundary changes our area is alot tougher now. Alot of apartments we spent our time in are now gone and we have mainly houses to tract so its going to be interesting. I am very excited to be back here in this part of the city. I LOVE Alexandria....it is a fun place to be !! I was talking to the assistants and they told me how I got back here. They were with President albright doing transfers and president said "Who of the zone leaders loves Ghanains the most ? " They both were like Elder Davie !!! So president was like awesome hes going back to mt vernon then !!! I was so excited. I have been able to see alot of people I taught before and some of those who were baptized so its been amazing. We had bible study last thursday at the church which was a blast. Do you remember Elder Bell ? He was my companion a few transfers ago...he was back in town and brought his family to the bible study...I have pics im gonna send. He is amazing...one of the best friends ive met out here so it was so good to see him ! It was like seeing an old friend from back home...it was awesome. After bible study me and elder bell went and visited this ghanain guy we found and taught when we were comps....this guy was freaking out when he saw us haha it was hilarious !! I got a pic I will send you. So I got transferred and we came to our area. We got a new apartment on friday so we spent all day moving in. When we moved in though we noticed a few cockroaches running around. We didn't think it was a huge deal at first so we delt with it. Well Saturday came around and there were hundreds of roaches everywhere !!!! There were big ones, small ones, baby ones, giant ones...they were everywhere !!!!!!!! Me and my comp were like no way we can't do this. We went and talked to the apartment office and they got us a new apartment that same day.....so we spent all day friday and saturday moving ! Now were in a different apartment and its much better !!!! It has been a stressfull weekend though thats for sure. I am definitely excited to be back here though. I am still a zone leader. My companion is Elder Morrill from Idaho. Hes pretty cool. I woke up this morning not feeling well again...I don't know if I have allergies or what but i have a bad cough again so who knows.... Well I can't think of what else I was gonna write....I love you guys !!!

Elder Davie

Pictures!

Sunday Surprise!

How are you guys all doing ? Sounds like your still getting alot of rain and snow ?! What is up with that ? It has been like summer here....blue skies and like 90 degrees. There were some tornados down in Culpepper but thats the very bottom of our mission....no one was hurt or anything. I heard about the crazy tornados in alabama though...President showed us news clips from it at our last leadership meeting a couple days ago. Pretty crazy !!! We still weren't able to have the baptism for freddy on Saturday. He plays high school soccer and club soccer....between the both of them he is never home !!! Its so frusterating. We went and saw him last night and had a good visit with him. He wants to get baptized and everything its just hes to busy to get interviewed and stuff. So tonight at 8 he said he will be home that we can interview him...well our district leader will but keep him in your prayers today that everything will go through !! If so then he should get baptized on Saturday...I know ive said that the past 3 weeks but hopefully for real this time !! We also have a couple awesome people who were working with but man satan is doing his job and is doing it well !! He is throwing all kinds of trials and problems to those were teaching and its hard !!!! We have to always be working our hardest and doing our best or we could lose these people. I did have an awesome surprise yesterday at church !! I was at church talking to some people and waiting for investigators to show up...I walk into the chapel and I look ahead and Brad was there !!!!!!!! I was like holy crap !!!!!!!!! I wish I could have spent more time talking to him but things were crazy trying to get the investigators situated and what not. He was only able to stay for sacrament which was a bummer. It was SO good to see him....so good. Things have been so stressfull lately and were not seeing as much success as we could hope for. I don't know if he realizes how good it was to just see him for an hour and regroup. I definatly needed it. He is going to be at the Why I believe fireside which is at our stake center on may 15. Elder Hollands son is speaking so it should be good. Hopefully we will be able to go !!! Theres a family in my ward, the dutsons, who are moving to riverton this week. I am going to send a box home of junk with them....I will just have them call you mom and set up a time for them to drop it off or something....they are probably the sweetest people ever !! I love them. Thats pretty much all the new and exciting things going on here !!! Everything is going fine...I can't wait to call you guys next sunday ! I feel like I just called you on Christmas !! Crazy. Thanks for sending pics of the set mom...that looked awesome ! It would be so nice to be able to go and watch them film something. I wonder if they would let us? Well I love you guys !! I wish I had more news to say but I can't think of anything !! I love you guys !!! Congrats to Brandon for graduating !!!