Weekly update for Oct 16th - 22nd
My back hurts, my joints hurt, I’m just so old. Being 20 is crazy. I feel so old. My teenage years are over! I’m officially in my 20s... it’s weird to think that next birthday I’ll be home. This was my 2nd birthday on the mission.
So on my birthday I woke up and made some bomb biscuits and gravy with spicy sausage for my companion and I. Super good!
Then I opened the presents my parents sent me and it was awesome! Thanks to my family for the gifts! I loved the wooden watch so much!
For lunch on my birthday, the other Passaic Elders took me and my comp out to eat pizza. My old companion Elder Ruiz Casas got me bean booozled for my birthday so as I'm sure you already know, we had to play it right then and there. I highly recommend playing bean boozled if you are in the need for a good game (and stank breath).
For dinner my parents had ordered me a ton of food from a place called Noches De Colombia and they got me something I’ve always wanted to try. Una bandeja paisa. Super good Colombian food.
It was a great birthday for sure. Thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes. Love you all.
By my house, there’s a dollar store that is possibly the best store I’ve been to in my whole life. It has everything your heart could ever desire. Like things that would be like 5-10 dollars at Walmart are here for one dollar... but here’s the catch... some of the food that they have is only a couple weeks away from expiration.. but I mean it’s just candy so how could it actually go bad? It’s honestly the most amazing store ever. They even sell tiger hydrating face masks. LOL
ELDER RASBAND CAME!! So on Saturday we got up at 5 am to get ready. The sisters came and picked us up in the van (the only van in the mission is here in passaic). We got to the Morristown chapel like an hour and a half early but it’s better than being late. It was nice to be able to talk to all the other missionaries from around the mission since it was an all mission conference. They had us all gather up for a picture and once we all were gathered up we still had a few minutes until he would arrive for the picture so we sang hymns and it was super amazing! The Mormon tabernacle choir would be proud of us. ;). The moment Ronald A. Rasband came in was such a cool feeling. You could just feel the spirit enter when he did. After we took a couple pictures, we all walked in a line to enter the chapel and we all got to shake his hand. We also had Elder Bennett and Elder Bunker from the quorum of the 70. Elder Rasband really focused on how even though here in jersey it may feel like the place nobody wants to get called, there are tons off prepared people here. He served here on his mission. He also really focused on how everything happens for a purpose and that it all happened by divine design.
I am so thankful for the mission and that I was sent here to New Jersey. I don’t know why yet but I know that the lord has seen fit for me to be here in New Jersey. I may never know but I trust and have faith that I was sent here by god. I have seen so many miracles and blessings here on my mission and there’s no place I’d rather be! The mission has changed my life and my eternity! Serve a mission! There will be no regrets! I can't wait to hear how all your weeks went. Send me an email.
- A couple other pics from this week -
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Elder Mason Davis
mason.davis@myldsmail.net
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