Weekly update for September 25th - October 1st
First off I want to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my amazing sister Sheridan Nicole Pulsipher! She turned 22 on October 1st!! Have a good one for me! :-)
This week was a good one! Really hot weather and now it has been cool for a couple days. Here's a few points on the week. Hope you enjoy.
Elder Williams had his first P Day in the mission and we did the normal missionary thing. Laundry at the laundry mat, shopping, emails, stuff like that. Yeah sounds fun right? :) it's the best, I love it! "Nacho Libre voice"
I had an exchange with Elder Ruiz Casas and it was tons of fun! We knocked a ton of doors and everyone juked us! We ended the day with some food from Noches De Colombia.
Elder Ruiz Casas has 4 weeks until he goes home.
Orly will be getting baptized this Saturday, October 7th!
Crazy story that happened while we were at her house... she said she had diabetes and that she wasn't feeling good so she checked her blood sugar and it was almost 500. That's super high. We should be around 100... So we gave her a blessing and nothing bad happened. She is awesome. She watched General Conference with us.
We met a new investigator. His name is Bienvenido and he lives with a member. We taught him and he excepted to work towards baptism. So we will be working with him for the next few weeks until hopefully he is baptized. The work is great here in Passaic New Jersey.
We set up a Book of Mormon for contact with QOTS (questions of the soul). So what it is, is 10 questions that people often ask. we have them pick one of those questions from a page in the front of the Book and then we answer that question using the Book of Mormon. Lots of amazing scriptures in the Book of Mormon to answer the questions of the soul. It's been working great! Lots of new people to teach with it.
We are teaching an awesome family of 5 right now. They are looking for a good place to raise a family and we are helping them see this is the place for that. We have had members come with us every single visit and it's helped so much. To all you members out there, do all you can to try and go on team ups with the missionaries and help them teach and be friends with their investigators.
As you all know this week was General Conference. Man how exciting conference is. I'm so thankful for the opportunity we have to listen to the Profetas (SPA) and apostles! It's the same as listening to God. Very sad that Thomas S. Monsons health was not good. Also very sad to hear that Elder Hales passed away during conference. I know he is in a much better place right now still working away.
This conference I feel like the two things that were mentioned a lot were repentance and the Book of Mormon. The Book of Mormon clearly teaches us the purpose of life in Alma 34:32 - 33.
"For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors. 33.And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed."
I invite you all to really think about those 2 verses and think of how you can apply them to your life to come closer to our Father in Heaven and really prepare to meet him. I also invite you to try the prophets invitation to all and STUDY the Book of Mormon each and every day no matter the sacrifice you have to take and do all you can to gain a firm testimony of it. The Book of Mormon has changed my life in numerous ways! I will raise my family on the teachings of the Book of Mormon and the modern day prophets! I love you all so much and want the best for each of you.
Please send me your favorite stories of the scriptures as you read every day.
Elder Mason Davis
mason.davis@myldsmail.net
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