Hi Everyone,
Well, David told us that he would e-mail us today,
even though we talked to him for about an hour and a half yesterday, but
all he ended up doing was sending a couple of pictures. He is doing
really well, still loving being in McKinney
and got in a little trouble for having his hair cut too short! I guess
he and his companion had a member cut their hair and it is super
short. He loves it and says he’s going to wear his hair like that when
he gets home, but we’ll see.
He told us a story about what is going on in these pictures. Some church members had a tree with a huge branch that they
were worried was going to fall on their house. So, they rounded up a
bunch of help and David and two or three others
were on the roof. They had a guy, who supposedly knew what he was
doing, cut the branch off, and it was suspended in the air by a bunch of
ropes. Well, it turned out to be harder than they thought and David
said it was super close to crashing down on their
roof, but they managed to get it cut up into smaller pieces, mostly,
before it crashed to the ground, barely missing the house. He said it
was crazy!
He also told us a funny story about getting a card
in the mail saying that they may have won a prize at a car dealership if
the two numbers on the card matched. Well, of course the numbers
matched, so they hurried down to the car dealership
for their chance at winning one of seven different prizes. He said the
guy took them in a back room where there was a roulette wheel with the
prizes on it and they got to spin the wheel. They could have won an
ipad or some other great prizes or….a lottery
ticket. And guess what they won? The lottery ticket, of course! So,
they had a chance to win up to $770 on the lottery ticket and when they
scratched it off, they were the lucky winners of $2! And, of course,
they will be entered into the grand prize to
win a couple of cars. I just thought this was a very typical David
story and it cracked me up!
This is a picture he sent with Sister Rachel Wyss,
who is a friend that he grew up with and they went to school together
all through grade school, jr. high and high school. She just barely got
to the Texas Dallas mission and her first
area is McKinney! What a coincidence! Before she left, Dave and I
went to her farewell and Dave asked her if she would give David
something. She said she would and he took her hand and made a fist out
of it and told her that when she saw David to punch
him in the arm as hard as she could and to tell him it was from his
dad! We had kind of forgotten about that and when we talked to David,
he told us that he saw Rachel at their zone meeting and she punched him
in the arm….really hard! And, she told him it
was from his dad! We got a kick out of that and Dave said he was very
proud of her to deliver that to David! She is an adorable, sweet girl
and her mom is very happy that she is in an area where she knows
someone.
Well, those are the highlights of the call. Our
Skype didn’t work super well and we ended up talking to him over the
phone and seeing him on Skype. It was noisy where he was and we could
hear his companion talking to his family better
than we could hear David at first – so David kicked him out of the
house onto the porch! You can tell that it is weird for him to talk to
us and I often wonder if they struggle a little with that home-sickness
stuff after the calls. He got to see Toby and
talk to all of us. He is looking forward to his final year – his one
year anniversary is this Thursday, on the 15th. He has a lot
of goals set and knows that it will go by really fast. He said the
past year has really flown by for him. He had
an interview with President Durrant last week and told him he wanted to
take him to lunch to get to know him better. President Durrant wrote
down a note and his phone # and told him he would give him a call - I
really hope he does. He leaves in July and
David gets a new mission president. We asked David to speak to Em’s
David in Spanish and he did and sounded like he really knows the
language. Em’s David said he is fluent in Spanish and he could
understand everything he said, which is cool! He even talked
to Tom in Spanish and Tom back to him in Portuguese, and they could
each understand each other, mostly. It was a great call and it was
super hard to tell him goodbye – I really hate that part! But we will
be talking to him again in a short seven months!
Julie
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