This week has been full of holiday-grams and anti-biotics for me (I think I'm over my sinus infection now) We've delivered about half of the holiday grams, which is good. We're hoping to see some fruits of those labors.
Also, we sang in church yesterday. We sang a duet of 'O Holy Night' with the choir and the organ coming in at the 3rd verse. It was super super cool. I really love this ward, they treat us too good.
Okay, last and coolest part of this week. On Monday we went to deliver a food order to a family who's house burned down the day after Christmas. They aren't members, but they were renting their furniture from Rent-A-Center where a recent convert works and he called us and we put the food order together for them. It was huge! There were like 6 gallons of milk, and about 10-12 other boxes full of cans and pasta and some more boxes with meat and eggs and stuff. Well, R*** and J**, who are the ones who's house burnt down, are living with J**'s father which just happens to be the house next door, until they can fix up the trailer they're going to live in, which is behind the house. Well, they were so grateful. I really love these people. They are the most Southern people I have run into in this area thus far. They've lived here for 38 years, so back when it was just open land and dirt roads, and they are pretty "red" (if you don't know what I mean ask Greg for interpretation) I'm pretty sure all of J**'s teeth are about to fall out and as for the rest of the family I think only half of them have teeth. But we went over later in the week and taught them about the Book of Mormon and they said they would read a few verses that we picked out for them. We'll go over again this week and just check up with them and try to continue to teach. They said we're always welcome in their home after what we did to help in their time of need. Service is really one of the best tools here in the South.
Love,
Elder Davies
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