Pictures!

I traded in my bike for this one!


Zone conference. Can you spot me?

Bapisms Galore!

How has your week been? Everything has been fine here. So we had transfers last Thursday. I ended up staying here in Mt Vernon and my new companion is Elder Kotyk (koh tick) from Tooele. Hes good. We have had a really good week. We got a member referral who is going to be baptized on July 16th! Were also teaching another lady who will hopefully be baptized on that same day! Then we just set our other investigator on date for July 30th! So things are definatly looking good. We have been teaching this new family from Ghana but it looks like their going to be moving to Atlanta this week. We have been trying to do everything we can to help them stay but its not looking like its gonna be able to happen. Last Saturday they had us over for lunch....I had the BIGGEST bowl of fufu with goat meat and tilapia. Mmmmmm!!!! I was so full afterwards. The weather has been good here...its been in the low 80's so that is nice for a change. Well I hope your all doing good! I hope to hear from you!!!! I will send some pictures now!! I love you!!!!

Hey !

How are you guys doing?! Sounds like its been a pretty good week. That is crazy that Ashley is about to move!!! I still can't believe everyone is going to be gone when I get home...who woulda though?! Did you go visit Dennis & Kim mom? Maybe thats not till later in the month. Well its been a good week for us! We have transfers on Thursday so thats always a busy time. Im pretty sure that im staying in this area but who knows. I will find out tomorrow night. So there was a guy I found and taught in Annandale named JC. I don't know if you remember me talking about him but he was sweet! He had just come from afghanistan a couple years back. It was kind of hard to teach him because his english wasn't great. Also he was of the Muslim faith. The first time we taught him though he kept saying " I believe the Christ, I believe the christ!" This was unusual because he grew up muslim but at the same time he came to know that Christ is the Son of God. We kept teaching him and he started coming to church every week. I just found out yesterday that he was baptized last night!! I was going to go but we had to much stuff going on in our area. Its sweet though. We also found a couple really sweet people! We were tracting on Monday and this Lady named Sharol Boateng let us in. She was from Ghana ofcourse. We started teaching her and she said " Come back around 1, I want you to teach my kids! " So we went back, went to the wrong building on accident and never heard from them. The next day we went back and realized we went to the wrong building so we found their door again and she let us right in and her kids were there! She was like " I was waiting for you all day yesterday! " They are so eager to learn. They are moving in a few weeks because she hasn't been able to find a job here. She said for the past few months she has been praying that God would send her some help. SHe said " If you guys would have started teaching me a while ago I would have become a member!! but Im moving... " It made me think like man....why didn't we find her earlier? Its frusterating. We had some great lessons with them and they all came to church on Sunday!! All the ghanains in our ward fellowshipped them and their trying to find a way to help her stay here!!! She loved church!!! It was great. Then we also got a sweet referral from a guy living in our mission. Hes good friends with Orrin Hatch. Anyways hope you all have a great week!! Im gonna send some pictures. Love ya!!

Last Week of the Transfer!

Hows everyone doing?

Did you get a chance to look at the video from the link I sent you? Haha its pretty funny! Its been a pretty good week for us. We have had some ups and some downs. We had one person on date for baptism but she fell off date this week. Her husband is a leader in their Ghanain church and so she isn't able to come to ours. Its sad because she loves the missionaries and the church!! We have a few people who are really close to being baptized though so that is good! We have seen alot of good things happening here this transfer. Only one more week until the transfer is over...that is So crazy!!! It has flown by. I really enjoy my companion I have right now. His name is Elder Morrill. We have some good times and are always laughing. Hopefully we will stay together one more. Gabriel got confirmed yesterday in church. It was awesome!!! He is doing SO good. Theres another guy that I found and taught in Annandale that is getting baptized next Saturday so that is pretty sweet. We got asked yesterday if we would speak in church next Sunday...ahhhh!! You guys know how much I love speaking in church!!!! Ofcourse im freaking out but oh well. I have to speak for 10 minutes on faith. Thats a hard subject because its so broad!! I started writing it this morning though so we will see how it goes...I will let ya know! Besides that everything is going well here! I think today were either going to the Pentagon City Mall or were going to go down to Old Town Alexandria and walk around the shops and maybe go to the harbor...it will be fun!! The weather has been crazy hot!!! It was in the 100's a few days last week....with the humidity the heat index was at like 110!! Man I was just sweating all day long. Some of the africans we teach dont use their air conditioner either so that makes it hard. Sounds like you guys are having some beautifull spring weather though!! I am jelous you got to hang out with emily and the girls all week!!! Lucky!! Well I love you guys !!

Elder Davie

I'm in a Movie!

Some people in the DC area made a short video about LDS missionaries, and I'm in it. Check it out!!

Zoo Day!

How are you guys doing? Man its been a long pday so far....we actually headed up to the zoo today haha. It was free so that was awesome. It was fun, just a lot of walking. After that we walked over to the National Cathedral....that thing is huge!! It was fun. Now im here emailing!!

The week was really good for us. Last night at 5 we had the baptism for Gabriel!!!! It was awesome!!!! Such a good service. President Albright was able to come down for it which was cool. I will have to send you some pictures of it next week. Besides that we have just been working to build up our teaching pool and get some more baptisms!!

I can't believe I am under 5 months now...it is to crazy to think about it. The time has gone by so fast and keeps speeding up it seems like!! I can't believe transfers are in 2 weeks already!!! Crazy. I was never able to find my scriptures....my only guess now is that I left them on the car or something and drove off...im pretty sure I didn't do that though so who knows...hopefully I will find them sometime. Well I love you guys !!!! Hope you all had a great time with emily!! IM glad the weather is getting nicer for you and not raining every day!! Thats funny that you had dinner with the randalls haha. THey are sweet. ANd thats sweet you got to meet Elder Petersons mom. He is a good friend of mine. Well I love you guys !!

Elder Davie

Pictures!

Maxwell, Elder Bates, Nanah, & Esther. Nanah & Esther were getting baptized! Maxwell has been a member for a while now and keeps giving the missionaries referrals all the time! He's awesome!


Me and Jonathan Samlar. Elder Bell and I baptized him. He's doing awesome!


FuFu for dinner


Frog Intestines for dinner!! Kidding, it's more FuFu! Yum!

Praying for Gabriel!

Hows everyone doing?!

Sorry that its Wednseday and im just now emailing. The libraries were closed on Monday because of Memorial Day and we were going to email yesterday but we got to busy, so here I am now!

Its been a pretty good week for the most part, but it didn't end so well. We were supposed to baptize Gabriel Saturday at 12:00. Well on Friday night we got a text message from him that said this : "Hey brother Morrill and brother Dave. I know it will be a surprise to you but I think it is the right decision to take. I really believe I am not ready for this baptism. I don't have the peace I needed for the baptism so I am suspsending the baptism. I love you all. Your all great. Thank you all. " It broke my heart!!! It was exactly 4 weeks before that when Freddy had to cancel his baptism the night before because of his mom. I was just like man what the heck am I doing wrong???!! We had been teaching Gabriel for so long. That was a tough on to swallow. Well we ended up going to his house the next day and sitting down with him. He explained that him and his wfie were having some problems and it just put a lot of stress on him and he didn't wanna be baptized with all these things going on in his mind. Of course its understandable. He said " I just want to feel more peace in my life, I want my mind to be eased!" We offered to give him a blessing and he accepted. We also invited him to come to a different baptism for the other ward right next to us. He came and loved it! Two ghanains got baptized so we were happy he came and saw. The next day, Sunday, he came to church. Hes been like 15 times. He told us ever since we gave him the blessing he felt a lot better! We went to his house after church with our ward mission leader and talked to him for a while. He agreed to be baptized on Sunday at 5:00! Please, please keep him in your prayers. He is awesome, he is one of the best people ive met out here. I just hope satan doesn't try and mess things up again.

On Monday we went up to the temple and did a session. It was awesome! It was my second time going through that temple so it was fun to be there again. Afterwards we went over to the bookstore which is just a couple miles down the road. I had to buy a new book of mormon. I lost mine last week. I have NO idea where it is!! I am so bummed because I had like 4 years worth of notes and studying in it thats all gone!! And I didn't know Book of Mormons cost $50!!! Thats a lot....but I had to do it. Hopefully I will find my old one somewhere.

Well I love you guys!!! I hope to hear from you today if your'e around.....Love you !!!!!

Elder Davie