Elder Mason Davis : Email - Milk with maggots. Ewww

Weekly update for September 11th -17th

September 11th, at 9:11 AM.

~Twas a great week and I received pretty big news~

On Wednesday at exactly 9:38 pm, I got a call from my Mission President. He asked me to train a new missionary that will be coming in on Tuesday! (Tomorrow). There is only 2 Spanish missionaries coming in so I'll be training one and the AP that just got released will be training the other one. I'm super pumped. Also, 1 of the new missionaries is from my school. Elder Nate Fletcher. He is the grandson of a couple in my ward at home (Jerry and Elizabeth Bliss). So, it's a 50% chance that I train him. You won't know until next week tho! ;)

We have an awesome investigator named Orly and she is on date for October 7th! She is like already a member because she is so awesome. Also, her grand daughter and her friend are super cool and we will start working with them soon.

We had service at the food bank and there was a milk jug that was up on the shelves that you don't need to refrigerate and it had a hole in it... it was full of maggots and it stunk so bad! Super nasty!!

We got some bad news with Wyatt... his parents decided that he isn't allowed to come to church or meet with us anymore. So his baptism isn't going to happen.... my comp cried a lot... it was super sad to find out.

There is a member that's feeds us like every week and he always has groceries and stuff for us. He gave us tons of soap and laundry detergent. He always hooks us up with lots of good stuff. I love the members here.

On Sunday we had stake conference so we took a bus as a ward over to the Morristown, NJ chapel. It was a great time and there were tons of people. It reminded me of a ward from back home. Most of the time it's branches and small wards here. Usually less than 100 active members. I was in a branch of 30 active in Short Hills.

On Sunday night while eating food at a members house I got a call from President and he asked me to be district leader as well. This will be hard having both assignments but it will be a great time to grow a lot and learn a lot. I'm so excited to see what happens.

It was a great week and I can't wait to see what will happen over the next 12 weeks with my new greenie. Keep reading the Book of Mormon it will change your life!

Now for a few random pics from this week.....