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Weekly update for April 10th- 16th 

(My new comp Elder Miller)

Weekly Bullet Points:

I caught my first fish here in New Jersey! A whopper of a whole 

9 (ish) inches. A nice rainbow trout. 

We had a beautiful zone conference and learned so many 

things as always! 

We found 10 new investigators. 7 of them came to church. We now have a total of 9 people on baptismal date. It was just a great week FULL of blessings and miracles....

1. Doors that I've knocked 5 times were opened.

 2. People who hadn't come to church, came.

 **We will continue to see so much success**

I finally beat my comp in a Rubik's cube race!! I'm down to 2 min now! ;) 

I'm sorry this weekly was super lame but I promise my week wasn't! I received so many blessing that I've been writing in my journal! I still haven't missed a day writing in my journal ;) 

The mission is so great! It's crazy to think of how fast it's going!

(Random pics)

Also while we were fishing I found a tick on my leg! So hopefully I don't get limes disease! They say over 65 percent of them here carry it. But I don't think it ever bit me... guess we will find out.

Love you all!!

Elder Mason Tanner Davis

mason.davis@myldsmail.net

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Weekly update for April 3rd- 9th

Weekly Bullet Points:

⤑We had transfer calls and I am staying in short hills for the 4th transfer and elder miller will be leaving west New York for the first time in 7 1/2 months to come here and be my companion! 

⤑For my last p day with elder Ruiz casas we went to the zoo and it was pretty lame but oh 🐋.

⤑I got my fishing license! Now I can go fishing! I actually went fishing today but didn't have any luck... I guess this is why nobody likes fishing here in New Jersey. 

⤑I met some guy on the street while we were walking to the river and she saw my tackle box with 1 pack of hooks, 1 bag of weights, and 2 lures and he felt bad and he hooked me up with a bunch of his lures. Cool guy! 

⤑We found a new family of 4 who we are teaching and they are also super interested in English class! I really hope things go well with them! Keep them in your prayers! Work is tough here in Short Hills! 

⤑We got 10 referrals from members! Now we need to teach them.  Don't worry, we got this. 👌 

⤑We put a guy named Mario Mexica on date! We are excited to work with him and see how things go! 

⤑This was a great week and I sadly don't have very many pics at all so please don't hate me... I love you all and stay gorgeous! 

Elder Mason Davis

mason.davis@myldsmail.net

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Weekly update for March 27th- April 2nd 

Weekly bullet points

➽We played March Madness with zones 1-4 and it was tons of fun!

➽We played bingo with a less active and won all 3 times ;) 

➽Went on an exchange with Elder Sudweeks and Elder Shaw in Patterson and ended the day with a milkshake at Baskin Robbins.

  

➽We finished visiting everyone in our area book who had an address and found lots of new people in the process :)

➽We had a super busy day with 6 appointments in a row! 3 of them were meal appointments.

➽Went on an exchange with Elder Silva in Caldwell and he goes home in like 1 day! We spent a lot of the time knocking doors in the pouring rain :-)

➽We went to the zoo today for p day and it was tons of fun. 

Half of the animals at the zoo, I've either hunted or seen... haha They even had a crow exhibit! Like what in the world?! 

➽Well now for the news you have all been waiting for! Transfers!! Well..... I'm staying in Short Hills for my 4th transfer! So, by the end of this transfer I'll have been here for 6 months!

➽ My beloved companion elder Ruiz -Casas, who I have spent every minute of the past 4 1/2 months with will be leaving me to go to Union City! I'm gunna miss that guy a lot!

➽ My new companions will be Elder Miller. We came in together and we were even in the same MTC district. We will be doing lots of fishing when he gets here ;) I have faith that we will baptize this transfer and break the 10 month dry streak here in Short Hills. I'm super excited to see what comes from this next transfer.

➽I hope you all were able to watch General Conference! I loved so many quotes and stories from there and I could go on and on for hours! I testify that what they said is so true and as we listen to their teachings and act on them, we will be guided and helped in so many ways! 

💗I love this gospel and how I'm able to preach it every day. I am doing my part and will blessed for it! I love you all and can't wait to tell you about my new comp next week! 

mason.davis@myldsmail.net

Email - The Miracle Story of My Whole Mission (Who knows it could have been an angel)!

weekly update for march 20th-26th

Bullet points for this week:

➤I hit my 8 month mark in the mission!! Time flies 
when you work for the lord ;) 

➤I bought a fishing pole. Now I can go fishing again!

 Nobody likes fishing in Jersey tho... 

➤I went on an exchange to an apartment where both of the missionaries go home in 2 weeks... it was the dirties house I've ever been in and I felt disgusting haha. 
(Here's a pic of the potatoes I found in their house)!

➤We spent lots of time knocking doors and looking for new people to teach and we found quite a few new investigators!! Short Hills is waking up again!! 

➤My good old friends/neighbors, Sal and Ange Alcantar came here and took me and my comp out to lunch.

  ➤The Alcantar's had also brought some treats from home and hand delivered some of my favorite goodies sent from heaven (my mom)  

P.S. Mom I've been eating them every day and they are delicious;) 

➤We helped a member clean up her backyard and she took us out to get some Colombian food after! 

➤Now it's time for the miracle story of my whole mission 
So, during the middle of the week we were visiting people and knocking doors. We see an old Hispanic lady walking down the road so we contact her and tell her what we do as missionaries. She was very happy to meet us and told us she had recently gotten here from Guatemala. She told us her name was Maria and she gave us her address and told us to stop by on Sunday. So Sunday came along and we brought a member with us and we went to the house to find Maria. We knocked on the door and a younger lady answered the door and we introduced ourselves and asked if Maria was home. She then looked at us and said, "I'm Maria". We were so confused so we asked if her mom lived here or if there was any other Maria's but she said she was the only one... We were then invited into the home of 3 individuals living there and started with a typical first discussion. We taught about the Book of Mormon and read the intro with them and they loved it! They accepted a baptismal date for Easter!! We were so confused as to who that really old lady we met on the road was and said her name was Maria and sent us to that house to find 3 people who were ready to accept the gospel. One being Maria. I believe that this person was placed in our path for a reason and who knows, it could have been an angel who was sent to tell us we needed to find this girl Maria and teach her. 
Miracles are real and the Lord is in the details. It strengthened my testimony so much and I'm so excited to continue to teach them and see what comes from it! I love you all so much and I hope you have an awesome week. Stay strong!

 My missionay companion Elder Ruiz-Casas

Elder Mason Davis  

mason.davis@myldsmail.net