Davis Doings

Well, as most of you know this month has been a very busy one in our household.


Spencer is home from Germany! :)

Bill, Christian and I had a wonderful time going there to pick him up. I especially liked meeting the mission president and his wife, Pres. and Sister Thompson. You could really feel the spirit in their home. They have definitely been a help for the work of these missionaries. They will be released in July when the Hamburg Mission will be closed and divided between the Berlin and Frankfurt missions. :(

We had such a great time travelling and getting to see many of the areas where Spencer served. I learned that taking German in school 25 years ago did not prepare me to speak and understand much while I was there. We were glad to have Spencer to help us out.

Spencer gave a wonderful testimony in sacrament meeting on April 18th, and then gave more of his experiences at the Family Fireside this month. We also participated in our Stake Cultural Fair where we displayed things from Germany and made some German foods to share.

Spencer is now back to working in the office and will be going to school soon. This promises to be a full summer for all of our family.

We love you all!

News Needed....Where's Yours?

Scott says.......
I just want to say a thank you to Paula and Mom especially for doing a newsletter! We have kept every one since it started. In a way it is part of our family history. I get excited to see it. It is our main connection to our family in America. Sure it is nice seeing people's Blogs or catching up on facebook and I love talking to Paula's family and Mom on skype (I still need more people to use this free service by the way), but the newsletter is like the Reader's Digest of our family news. (That means it is a real good read when you are on the throne.) I appreciate Paula and Mom for their dedicated effort. I know I couldn't do what they do. And so I hope I can at least support them by getting some timely news in on a regular basis.

I also know that these newsletters get out to our missionaries and that they enjoy them. That doesn't excuse us from writing to our missionary(ies) personally, but lets face it our family is terrible at writing letters. I can prove it, I have a spreadsheet from my mission showing who wrote me and who I wrote and when. I have had more information about and from David and Mark the last two years through the newsletter than I did during my mission (when we didn't have a newsletter). So if you are going to write send something into the news letter.

In the past year it has slowly been losing momentum as Mom and Paula has stopped trying to remind everyone and every one is too lazy.. I mean busy.. to set a time to have their articles in once every month or two. Please, we should have at least nine articles in the newsletter plus Mom's. That's a pretty small number considering Margaret's kids usually put a couple of articles in wether or not Margaret does.

English Meldrum's

Hi All,
Here is some of our news. March saw Kamyla turning two (though she has been in her terrible twos since she was 18mo). I also got older too.

Jared had replaced Rachelle in the bruise department as he comes home from school with new bruises and scrapes almost every day and sometimes returns to school with some he loves wrestling. I don't know where he gets that from.

Rachelle is more settled into Senior school now. It is always hard to be in the youngest grade in the school there is no one to pick on!

Krystal is doing very well in school and is above average in most of her subjects I've never had a child that I had to threaten with grounding her for doing her homework!

Britainy is doing briliantly at college dispite her cronic fatigue she is getting an A* in maths which I worried about earlier in the year as she had transfered out of an easy class into a harder class. wow she's smart! (too bad she can't wash the dishes with such enthusiasm)

We have taken up calling Kamyla Shirley Temple because of all the curles in her hair and the way she makes us smile.

Kim is just wonderful and certainly the glue that keeps our family together.

I finally got my English Drivers licence it is too long a story for here but suffice it to say it was long overdue.

I would say that over the past year our greatest blessings have come through setbacks and dissapointments. That is usually the hardest way to recognise your blessings but they are still there.

One thing that has been on my mind is the european area presidencies vision for the next ten years. Spencer probably is familiar with it since Germany is part of the Area. They plan to double the active membership in ten years our stake has set similar goals for continued sustainable growth. This excites me alot to be a part of it. Can it be done? We did that in Swindon ward in the last five years! So yes it can be done. we are now being audited to see about extending our five year old chaple to make more needed space (see Isaiah 49:19-20).

It was May Day weekend so we had a long weekend. We went camping, stupid!! Two words cold, wet. Ok it wasn't all bad but it did take a day to thaw out. the actuall place was nice. Brixham is part of the English Riviara where I had served part of my mission. Mom might recall staying in Torquay one night with the Bezwicks. we were camping on the opposit side of the bay. It was beautiful. too bad it was cold. I was excited to see they had their own chaple about two hundred yards from the beach front! wonder what their Ward activities are like?

Love you all

Scott Meldrum
TechnoServ/Hydrolutions
Phone: 01793 347277