Weekly update for august 14th-20th
2nd week here in Passaic! Loving every minute of it! Elder Diewald is the GOAT
(greatest of all time).
My area here in Passaic
We have laundry right across the street so we just throw in laundry and come back home, eat breakfast and then go throw in it the dryer before getting ready for the day. So, by like 8:30 AM we are done with laundry!
I finally got to eat at the missions famous restaurant called Noches De Colombia. For my first meal there, I got some empenadas and a pan de bono which is like cooked cheese bread. It was great!
We finished teaching Wyatt and got his baptismal interview and he passed. :) We just had to get his parents permission. As we went over to get his moms permission she seemed ok with it until her new boyfriend came over and started arguing and didn't want him to get baptized. He was not nice at all. Wyatt was pretty upset. At the end, the mom agreed that we should teach him for 3 more weeks and if she feels that he has changed then she will let him be baptized. So pray for Wyatt.
So, here in Passaic the ward is split between two groups of missionaries. Well we didn't get too lucky because we only have like 10 percent of the members.
Elevator full of Elders
I've only had 2 member meals while I've been here in Passaic. Both were this week. We don't have very many members in our area.
Fried Plantains
I've been praying for opportunities to use my priesthood more lately and in the past two weeks we have been able to give 4 blessings! I love being able to have the priesthood.
One night at like 8:15 PM we didn't have much to do so Elder Diewald felt like we should go visit a less active. We walked over there and knocked the door and no answer. I then felt we should stay in the apartment and knock some more doors so we did and two doors later we met Rosa. She let us in and we shared a mormon message and she began to cry. She told us that her father had died recently and she was looking at a picture of him when we knocked. I told her that I know that the Holy Ghost had guided us to her house. While we were reading some scriptures I felt the prompting to ask her if she wanted a blessing of comfort and explained what it was and she happily said yes! So I gave her a blessing of comfort and the spirit was so strong. She began to cry again and invited us back for the week after.
So ever since I got super sick from that mosquito bite and got that rash. My skin has not been the same. It's been really dry and bumpy and my hands and feet are peeling really bad. It is getting better tho, don't worry mom. My comp being the amazing person he is, scratches my back for a couple min each night since my back itches so bad.
My terribly sad peeling hands
We had service at the food bank again and loaded up on food as well! I love it there. Most of our appointments after the food bank juked us, so we were able to go help the other elders with more service.
We helped some members who just moved in unload their U haul and that was some good work. I LOVE service!! They bought us some pizza after we finished and it was some great pizza.
So we have a new investigator Beatrice who we just taught the restoration. She really liked the message and was excited to read the Book of Mormon and she accepted a baptismal invite! Keep her in your prayers. I love working with the Spanish people.
Orly came to church and this week was an all around great week. There's no such thing as a bad week on the mission. Yes, there are hard times but you know what they say, if your mission was easy, you didn't do it right! So what can I say? I love the mission so much and it scares me to think how fast it's going. Keep reading and praying and have a great week! ❤️❤️
Elder Mason Davis (Passaic New Jersey) Joshua 1:9
mason.davis@myldsmail.net
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