Weekly update Jan 16th- 22nd
Well this week nothing super crazy happened, but it was a good week:). We went grocery shopping with the sisters and took our time and went out to the car and waited 30 min for the sisters to finish shopping. Crazy sisters! I found out that one of them is 30 years old! My mom had 5 kids by the time she was that age. We had dinner with a member and he said the same thing a lot of people say. He said my Spanish sounds like Spain Spanish! People always ask me, "Did you learn your Spanish in Spain? Haha I guess that's a compliment.
We helped at Bridges for the first couple hours of the day and it's so crazy the amount of people that have heard of Mormons! We met a cool guy from Columbia! If I marry a Hispanic girl she has to be from Columbia! Lol we had a solid lesson with a recent convert and a less active and they want to go to the temple to do baptisms! I love seeing people grow in the church!
We had to get ready super quick since we had a 1 hour drive to get to Patterson for the zone conference! We had a car inspection while we were there to see what missionaries could possibly get a car upgrade so we made sure it was nice and clean when we got there;). During the zone conference we talked a lot about the importance of the Sabbath Day and how we need to keep the Sabbath Day holy and have people understand the importance of it.
We also talked a lot about the importance of prayer in every day life. We should be praying multiple times each day! All it is is a conversation with our Father in Heaven! That's something I wish I did much better at before my mission... so for those of you who are reading this... PRAY!!!! I promise it will make each day so much better and help you get through the hard times! The same thing goes to the Book of Mormon!! READ IT DAILY!! It is for us in these days. It will change your life for the better.
I love the Spanish program because we always have food and leftovers to make. We eat A LOT!! I never thought I would have to say this but I'm trying to watch what I eat.... I've been trying not to eat so much junk food so I don't come home fat. I'm fine with gaining weight since I need it but I don't want to be overweight.
During lunch time I always clean up while my comp sleeps. I love being clean and organized. But both of my comps have been pigs when it comes to being clean so it's been a little harder! I wish I knew how to be clean when I was home. My mom would be so proud of me if she saw how organized I am;)!
For dinner a member made us a a popular Peruvian dish called papa a la juancayina or something like that. I definitely miss having my moms delicious meals that she made daily! That evening we met with a member and when we left she gave me a super nice North Face jacket! I love these members and their willingness to help the missionaries out!! <3
We had service at Bridges again and part of it we had to bring boxes to their storage and it literally looks like a place where they would film a zombie apocalypse movie!! It's sketchy!! I also picked up a pretty cool pink tie from them. They have piles on piles of clothes they try to give us for free. We met a super cool guy who told us he used to be a professional soccer player a while back. We also got a return appointment;)! We also met a new guy named William who would like more information about the gospel. We picked up dinner from a member and then drove straight to a different members house to have dinner again. We got pizza from both houses... we get a lot of pizza!!
Our car hit 50,000 miles so that was pretty cool :)
The day started with a pretty good day of ultimate frisbee and it was a blast! I love playing ultimate frisbee! We went to visit a new investigator we have but he wasn't home but somebody was sitting on his steps so we contacted him. He set up a return appointment and while we were praying with him in the streets there were 2 people watching us... after the prayer one of them left and the other asked if we were Mormons so we said, "yeah". We talked to him and he wanted to take a pic with us but wouldn't give us his info so he wasn't that interested just excited to see Mormons haha. At night it was super foggy. You could only see like 20 feet. I loved it but it was super creepy!!
We didn't have any investigators come to church but we did have 2 less actives come. I think that is just as cool to have them come back! We also met a super cool English guy while knocking doors. He is super strong in his own religion but he was one of the nicest people ever. Those are the people that we are going to see in spirit paradise before the judgment. People who have a firm believe in God and strong faith. I respect that a lot!
Well that's about it folks. The past week has been pretty warm. It's gotten into the 50s! It should start cooling down tho. The mission is great and the time keeps flying by. Feel free to email me and ask me questions! I love you all and you are such an example to me!! <3 Elder Mason Davis
mason.davis@myldsmail.net
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