Neice news and turkey

Hello Family and a special welcome to Tesla (Tess) my new niece who is the cutest little girl in the whole world.

It was such a wonderful surprise on Friday morning, when I received a phone call informing me of the fact that my sister had her baby.  Now I am anxiously awaiting the third child of my other sister.  It is a wonderful time of year as I can now legally sing Christmas carols with out punishment.

Last week we had a wonderful Thanksgiving at a family in the ward.  I'm pretty sure it was the first time I have ever had a fried turkey and I absolutely loved it.  As my companion explained "it's like eating KFC turkey".  Even better than the normal amount of potatoes, gravy and smoked salmon?! the best treat was that they had a golf hole in their back yard.  I had a good chance to practice my pitching skills, but I can tell you that since I've been golfing with my Grandpa, I don't think I've gotten any better.  It was a really good treat and I really enjoyed the time with a family that really loves each other and works well.  That's one thing as a missionary you don't see on a regular basis.  Most of our time is spent going into homes that are broken for one reason or another.  So to just sit and spend time with a wonderful family was so refreshing.

Nothing new for me except we had a really fun activity this morning.  Our district (8 missionaries) got up at 6 and went hiking up a peak about as high as rattlesnake ridge back at home.  As we hiked there was a little cave that we crawled through and it went back 250-300 feet.  Most of the way it was only 2 feet wide and 2 feet tall.  I didn't even make it to the end of the tunnel, but I'm sure it would have just gotten smaller until I couldn't go any farther.  We also on the way saw huge Longhorns.  It was the coolest thing ever.  I'm pretty sure for the rest of the day I'll be walking slowly and stretching.

All in all a really fun week.  I'm looking forward to this Tuesday, one of the families that we're teaching is getting married!  Then on Saturday three of our investigators are getting baptized.  Yipee such a blessed area.

love you all very much and looking forward to an awesome December.

Love,

Elder Davidson

P.S. The temple here has some wonderful Christmas lights.  We went on black friday and really enjoyed it.  The one really cool thing is that all the lights are put up by volunteers from each ward.  It's not exactly the quality display as the Botanical gardens, but it still is very cool.  I got to put up my Christmas lights around my closet. :)

Oh NEW PACKAGE REGULATIONS:

By request of Elder Davidson, this Christmas season, please refrain from sending massive amounts of food.  We're very well taken care of.  In addition I think I have enough hot cocoa mix. :)