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Weekly update February 27th- March 5th

This p day was a little different. We didn't go to the chapel to ball it up... I got like 85 pictures from my mission printed out and put them in a photo album that I'm going to start making of my mission. We did go to our chapel and played volleyball with a few of our members friends and stuff. It didn't go too well since none of them tried at all but hey that's alright :/. We had a good dinner at the Fuentes and shared with them how easy it is to share the gospel with social media in a matter of minutes! I wish I did that more when I was home! 

We had a super good district meeting about repentance, faith, and the atonement. After lunch we had a little training on how to help people repent and it was also very good. Repentance is one of the greatest gifts that we have and we should use it daily. We spent a lot of the evening knocking doors and got to share the gospel with a ton of people and got some return appointments. It made me feel good with my Spanish since I did like 90 percent of the talking and conversations. I love sharing the gospel even if I get rejected. I know that I'm doing my part. 

First off congratulations to my cousin Carly Eaves for finishing her mission in Bolivia!! I'm so proud of her and the work she did. I can't believe it's already March. What happened to the first 2 months of the year?! We had a lesson with Ruben, our awesome less active who still reads the Book of Mormon each week. He is awesome. He just works every Sunday, like 99.99999% of the people here in New Jersey.  Later that evening we had a great lesson with Emiliano about the power of the Book of Mormon and the importance of it to us as a family. It was super powerful and the spirit was so strong. He easily committed to read, ponder and pray about the Book of Mormon to know if it is true. Lessons like this make the mission so worth it. Also congrats to my friend Jake McGrath who got his mission call to Ukraine! That's so awesome! He will do awesome.  

The only highlight of the day was when the whole ward and investigators got together and played volleyball! It was tons of fun!! 

So our investigator Carolina moved and we got some super bad directions but we turned into the FBI and used some google earth and we found a house that we decided it could be . So, we drove over then knocked on the door and it was her! Mission miracle.

We played frisbee and it was windy and cold and my comp messed up his knee and someone also tripped over me and messed up his ankle and now they said he won't be able to do anything for like 3 weeks... I felt super bad! 

Well our less actives son had his birthday party so she had us come over and it was crazy... they had clowns and it was way weird!!

 Also there was this guy who is insane because of how much alcohol he drinks. He would randomly scream cuss words and yell super nasty stuff. He was super scary haha. DONT DRINK ALCOHOL PEOPLE!!! He literally has mental problems now and it's not good at all! He told me some pretty disturbing things !Yikes! 

Well a scripture that I found this week and really stuck out to me is Enos 1:26 (read it) I like it so much because it talks about how he preached the gospel his whole life and the gospel brought him joy out of this world. I can testify that sharing the gospel brings me so much joy and watching the gospel change others is a joy you can't feel anywhere else. Be thou an example. Being an example is doing missionary work. I love you all and just want you to know I'm doing great and the mission is awesome!! Talk to y'all next week!

Elder Mason Davis (Short hills New Jersey) Joshua 1:9