Weekly update: January 2nd- January 8th
Monday: I've come to realize it is super nice to have a washer and dryer in the house but these ones take like 1 hour to wash and 1 1/2 hours to dry so that's super annoying!
There's this nice silver Casio watch that a missionary had and I really liked it and he told me they sell it at Walmart. So, for the past 2 months I have looked for it every time we go to Walmart... today it was finally there!
My new Casio watch
We had lunch at Burger King since we got some coupons.
Let me tell you what my companions ate .... 2 burgers, 2 loaded hot dogs, a large fry, a large onion ring, and a large drink... he downed it ALL!!! I was impressed and grossed out...
Seriously lots of food!!
Well, after that we went to the bowling alley with the whole zone! It was tons of fun. We all played 2 rounds and 14 people played. Not to brag or anything but I did get the highest score for the day ;) I only got 128....
I guess my 2 semesters of online bowling kinda paid off. LOL
After, we had dinner at an English members house so it was super weird to get a small meal! Like 4 carrots, 1 slice of meat, and some other steamed veggies... white people these days man. ;)
Tuesday: we had a solid meeting with the zone and they talked a lot about listening to the spirit and asking lots of questions to people so they can answer the question them self. We have 3 of the elders going home in like 3 weeks! They are almost "dead"!! It's crazy to see people make it to the end because some days it feels like this is just how life is and this is how it will always be. After that we had an exchange and I went to Patterson with Elder Anderson. For those of you who don't know that place... it's super sketchy! We went and met a person they had met a couple days earlier knocking doors. When we got in they spoke very little English... they could kind of understand him when he spoke English to them so I had to translate quite a bit... I would just share what I had to say in Spanish and then tell him what I said. We ended up giving them the baptismal invite and they gladly accepted! They are super solid! I bet they will get baptized!! Quick story... while he tried to park, he bumped the car next to us but luckily there was no mark on either! Blessings! Later that night we were knocking doors and we talked to an Arabian guy who told us "Get out of here" so we left and he tried chasing us but his friend stopped him... what a great way to end the day;)
Wednesday: We exchanged back and when we drove home 40 minutes we realized we had their phone and they had ours.... we told them we would have time to get it back later that day. We made cookies for one of our less actives since it was her b day.
Later we had an appointment with Ronny and Lady and we brought Brother Thomas to check up on her foot. After he checked her foot, we taught Ronny and Lady about the difference of the Godhead and how they are all different using scriptures. They said, "Why would anyone say that they are the same?! With these scriptures you can clearly see they are different!" We also talked a little about how everyone will get a chance to learn after this life. The spirit was very strong during the lesson and they felt it too. These are the things that make me love being a missionary! I also found out that while I was gone on the exchange, Elder Ruiz Casas ( my companion ) put José Salazar on date for the 5th of February! We now have 6 people on date. :) now that the holidays are over we will be able to meet with our investigators more!
Thursday: We had weekly planning and it was awesome to plan for all of our people and see how we can best help them! We met with a new referral we got and the member who referred her came with us. We were told that she was from Brazil but she knew Spanish... Really, she understands Spanish but doesn't speak it..... so the whole time we taught she would just reply in Portuguese and share all sorts of stuff in Portuguese which was a fun lesson! It's hard to understand them but I can pick up enough! We then went over to one of our members and shared the importance of family home evening and the blessings that come from it! After we talked about Mexico and I showed them some pics since they are from Mexico! Nobody has ever heard of the place we go though... :/
Friday: we woke up to like 2 inches of snow and headed over to bridges to do service. We mostly moved boxes and sorted stuff. I'm super proud of myself because they offered me a bunch of cookies and candy and I said no! Man I never thought I would have to come to a day where I had to turn down sweets... :(. We went over to a members house who is a RM and he told us some of the pointers for the mission and some of his favorite scriptures. He is a cool guy! We came home and did TAC and that's where the last week of the transfer every missionary deep cleans their apartment. I actually like it because I hate having stuff not where it should be or dirty. I picked my cleanliness up from my parents ;) thanks guys! Sorry I wasn't like this when I was home. My trainer, Elder Rios called me and told me that we were going to the temple tomorrow with Christian our recent convert. I'm so glad to see he is still active and is now going to the temple! We had a big dinner at the Riveras house and it was good:) it was pretty normal food though....
Saturday: We woke up and drove back to where I was "born" in Ironbound in Newark! We exchanged and we went over to our recent converts house with his wife and their friend. We walked about 40 min through the snow storm over to the Newark Penn station and took a train over to the New York Penn station. We had about a 1 hour walk through the snow again to the Manhattan temple! It was so sick! New York with snow.
Sadly I didn't get very many good pics! We finally got to the temple and they went and did baptisms for their close family which was amazing!
After we got out we stopped by Century 21 and got a sick floral tie!
We then had another 1 hour walk through about 6 inches of snow! I loved it! I was all wrapped up so I didn't feel anything! We got home and exchanged back and had to pick up 2 meals and met the son of a less active who isn't a member yet. He's super cool!
Sunday: At church we had our branch council for the first time in a while and we got to talk about all our people we are working with and how the branch can best help us. This branch is solid member missionaries!! I wore my new floral tie! ;) we had 2 new investigators come to church today! The whole branch was so excited and involved with them and made them feel so welcomed. We plan on putting them on date tomorrow. They seemed to love it here and they learned so much.
One of my fave families in the ward is moving back to Peru. They were only visiting for the past 6 weeks. I'll miss them a lot! After church one of the members had a big break your fast meal at her house and it was Mexican food. The main dish was called pazole. I don't know why people always put bones in everything tho... it's guácala! (Nasty) not the soup but they fact that there is bones in a lot of stuff. I got to meet some new people when we went to visit a less active. They were so surprised to see a gringo like me having a good conversation with them! They said they were super impressed, so that made me feel good! We got to talk to lady a little more about baptism and the Holy Ghost and she seems to get it. Sadly that said her mom wants to be there for their baptism the middle of February! I guess that's good but it's so far!!
We had conference calls and I will be staying here in short hills for another transfer with Elder Ruiz Casas. Love you all so much.
mason.davis@myldsmail.net
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