Email - Beef Jerky, Love Birds and a Temple Trip

Unedited version of Elder Mason Davis' email home. We are sure proud of him!
 

well my second p day is here! ill just go in order and answer your questions. i was super suprised when i got to the airport and got on the plane because i was the only missionary on my flight! i thougyht there would at leasst be a couple others.yes my companion is the redhed and he is from west valley utah. hes super cool and we are getting along a lot bettter each day. hes pretty athletic.yeah elder marz and i have become best friends hes super cool! he loves hunting and fishing! hes 6 foot 4. i dont think they move anyone up in the spanish classes. we stay with our district pretty much all day long and do everything together.i am progressing a lot in spanish some days i feel like i learn and remember a lot more than others.i would say im like 4th best out of 10 becuase some people are just really good at studying but i still know more words than them. i am getting better at conjugating so that helps. but yeah im super excited to get out and talk to everyone in the field because i know i will learn very fast in the field.  It rains probably 5 days a week and theres always fog in the morning so its pretty cool. one thing they dont have here is cool sunrises or sunsets so i miss that! the houses cover the hills around us! there are houses on the sides of super steep hills its crazy! i would buy a camera but the cheapest one they have here is a little over 100 american dollars. the food has been treating me really well and there have only been a couple gross meals so im super thankful for that. the beef jerky you guys sent me is super good and every one thinks im gunna get fat for how much i eat. by week 1 i was already up 5 pounds! the best foods are probably on tuesday when they have costco pizza!yeah im only able to get on to my email 1 time a week and that is wednesday and we only have 1 hour to email. yeah it feels really good not to be the newbies! we are on our week 3. we have been teaching some newbies how to creat a lesson and how to go about the day so thats pretty cool. im sure the cabin ias beautiful right now with lots of deer! you guys better get some big deer in unit 30a. the days are starting to fly by which i never thought i would say because the first week was so slow! ive made lots of great friends and we play sports with new people every day! we play basketball and ultimate frisbee mostly. yeah let me know what car you end up getting! me and my compánion gave our first lesson without a lesson plan and without the translated lesson witrh us. we did really good and we have been getting better and better each day. so my companion was the district leader which kinda made the district leader also since i had to go to all the meetings that he did. but that was up until sunday when the branch president called us in for a meeting and asked us to be ZONE LEADERS! its crazy that the kids who had only been here for just under 2 weeks got called to be zone leaders. its gunna be a little bit harder beacuse we have to help all the districs in our zone. there are lots of love birds flying around but they are like twice the size of the ones we have.  there is a store here that they sell a bunch of random niknacks and everything is so cheap! you can get emperadors for like 8 pesos which is less that 50 cents! and shirts for like 5 dollars in pesos and magnum bars for like 50 cents. i love going there and just getting a bunch of random stuff. i got a shirt at la tienda for colton and a pin while we were at the temple! we went to the mexico temple today and it was super cool! its super white and pretty inside. going through the veil was a little difficult because we had to do it in spanish. we had people help us but they were super fast! the drivers here are all insane! everyone cuts everyone off and people pass at the worst times! they make you look like a good driver haha. its hard to remeber what to talk about but ill try and remember more random stuff... oh yeah we had a missionary go home this week. he was in our district. not sure why but it was still super sad seeing him leave not even two weeks in. the care packages you guys send me are super cool! thanks a lot for everytghing! well i guess ill try to bare my testimony in spanish. im sure i will learn more and it will get better. yo se que, jose smith es una profeta verdad. a causa de jose smith la iglesia es restuardo. yo se que el libro de mormon puede una bendicion en nos vidas. mediante fe en jesucristo todo es posible y el puede respuesta sus oraciones. yo se que el libro de mormon es verdad y puede cambia su vida. yo se que dios nos ama, en el nombre de jesucristo amen. i love you guys and pray about you daily! i canty wait to hear from you guys next week! ive only got 40 minutes left but just know im doing great and my testimony and knowledge on the gospel grows daily!


mason.davis@myldsmail.net