New Davis Family (Jeff & Amy) Blog

Hi everyone! We've decided to try and keep a blog for our family. We'll see how long the infatuation lasts for us. We tend to start out strong and fade quickly. We'll see. You can check it out at http://ourdaviscrew.blogspot.com/

Prom & The BMW

THE TUX

THE GIRL

THE ENTOURAGE

THE KEYS

THE CAR

Carter took a day to clean and stage the car for this photograph.

Eric and Pres and Hna Chavez

Eric has either grown 6 inches or their doors are really short

Celeste learns to turn off TV

Eric's in Chile

My first P-day in Chile, life is really really great. My companion is Elder Hernandez from Honduras. We´re in a local computer rental store something, where you pay to use the computers for a while. for some reason it wont let me view most of the pictures which is sad. We had our first baptism yesterday, another member of a recent convert family. Spanish is coming along great. Soon to be Elder Vasquez is working with us full time for one week, to prepare for his mission in Paraguay. There are dogs everywhere. Tons of them, just wandering the streets, but the only ones that get grumpy with us are those behind gates at peoples homes. I think I´m going to write more in a letter later today, and I´ll probably repeat stuff, but i dont have time to write everything now. I realized I can probably sent you pictures through email, so next week I´ll try to remember to bring my camara. We walk everywhere, and it takes a long time so I usually memorize scriptures or read the Missionary Handbook while walking. I lost my English Preach My Gospel the day before flying out here so i dont have any of the notes that were in there which is really sad, but I´m studying in spanish now and I have a dictionary when I need it so it´s not really worth it to get another one. I was wondering if there is money on my debit card in case I need to buy something, for example: we´re not allowed to use backpacks (I think its because we´ll look more worth robbing) so most elders have some kind of shoulder bag, just big enough for scriptures and a few other small things, I kindof want to buy one but i want to be sure I will be able to eat for the rest of the month to. Speaking of food, we eat lunch with a member every day, and have cereal, yogurt, and fruit for breakfast and dinner. The food has all been great, nothing to strange. We had fish yesterday and it was actually really good. The people speak very fast and drop the S´s off the ends of words, but I´m doing prety good. We´ve taught alot of lessons, contacted tons of people, but we dont really have any progressing investigators. quite a few with potential though. It´s amazing how fast we get to talking about baptism, for my companion, the message isnt the restauration or the plan of salvation, its baptism. It´s usually the first thing we talk about with people. They use pesos here and 1,000 pesos is about 2 dollars. I bore my testimony in sacrament meeting yesterday. I´m really begining to love bearing my testimony. When I do a contact thats all I really want to do is testify, I dont really care about informing them or using lots of scriptures, I just want to testify. I can see from my companion that its really easy to get into routines, his door approach is virtually the same every time, but its not because he doesnt care, its just something he´s done so many times that it kindof gets old. One quote I really liked from the MTC was something like "you can never be burned out in the Spirit, only fired up." I´m starting a list of all the things I´m noticing I want to do the same or differently throughout my mission. One is that I always want to be completely sincere, and another is I want to be constantly improving. Even if I am training a greenie I want to be asking his what I can do better, because there will always be something. I´m so so greatful for the Spirit. I would not have a chance without it. I could not live here with someone i´ve just met, away from home, family and friends, working 24/7 without the support of the Spirit. It´s a good thing this church is true or missionary work would be really really hard. I´m so greatful for this gospel. I´m so greatful for my Savior. I Love You All!!!

-Elder Davis

Celeste's first haircut

Here are after photos of Celeste's first hair cut. She is do darn cut! I know I'm biased.. but for the love.

Spring Break- San Jorge trip-

With Katie having off a full week we decided to take a few days off and do a St. George trip. Cindy's grandfather has a a quaint 2 bedroom home down there at the retirement community of SunRiver .

While there we did some fun swimming at the Sand Hollow Indoor pool. Celeste and Dad played around in the kitty pool. She LOVED IT! She loves water. The only way we can get her out of the bath tub is to drain the water. this place was just heaven for her. And Dad didn't have to share Celeste with Mommy as Mommy is now 6 months pregnant and didn't want to swim. It was great! ;-)
Cindy wanted to get outdoors and enjoy Zion's National Park so we decided to do a quick day trip there. Mom was ambitious. She wanted to go on multiple hikes and stretch her legs. Reality is different though. We settle on doing only 1/2 of one hike. We decide to hike the "Temple of Sinawava" - better known as "The Narrows". We walked about half way up before we agreed to return and be done. At the turn around point we jumped down to the river and let Celeste hang her toes in the water. Again, she loved it! She is just an adventurous little girl.
One fun thing during the hike is that there are tons of squirrels. And they are not bashful. Celeste saw one and pointed to it.. and then started walking over to it to pet it. Screaming in utter joy all the way. We had to pull her away as the squirrels will go right up to anyone.