Weekly update for Nov 27th - Dec 3rd
Wow only 3 more weeks until Christmas. Maybe it will be a white Christmas! ;)
So to start off the week, I had an exchange with the biggest elder in the mission. His name is Elder Bailey. He is 6 foot 6 inches and 350 lbs. He’s a big guy! He came here with me. The first thing he did when we got to the apartment was drink 1 1/2 liters of orange soda. Then later that day he ate a whole bag of Popcornopolis zebra popcorn and a couple handfuls of candy. He said he felt like junk. haha! Well, what do you expect!?
He gave the baptism interview to Melanie and Hanelly and he said they are both super awesome.
For dinner a member had us over and gave us chicken foot soup. She wasn’t going to give us a foot, but since Elder Bailey didn’t speak Spanish I asked for her to give him one in Spanish and she did! I was trying to hold back from laughing so hard, I had tears running down my cheeks. She also gave us both crickets but I’ve had those a few times. Not too good but I can eat them easily.
Elder Bailey
We did a light the world table stand with the sisters and it was pretty cold and not many people wanted to stop but we will have it be earlier next time and it will be better. For those of you who don’t know what light the world is, it’s a campaign that the church is doing and I invite you all to check it out and try and do the act of service that it asks every day. It will really brighten your day and bring the Christmas spirit into your life.
Light the World Campaign
So on Thursday we woke up at 3:45 AM to get ready to go to the Manhattan Temple! We drove with our ward mission leader and it was a great time. Super early though! I wish I could go to the temple weekly. That’s my plan after my mission. I invite you all to do what you need to do so that you make the temple one of your top priorities.
Temple Day
So we were doing some door knocking and found a super awesome Dominican family that let us in and let us teach them. After they invited us in they fed us a delicious home cooked Dominican spaghetti and tostones meal. Soooo awesome! So cool how you can knock on someone’s door and they willingly let us random white people in and then feed us! #Blessings
This week a lot of our focus was preparing for the baptism. We we made tons of calls and so did the sisters to all the members. We invited them and asked them to bring a little food and on the day of baptism we had tons of people come. We had about 25 people and plenty of food and snacks. It was amazing to be able to baptize Melanie and my comp was able to baptize Hanelly. The next day on Sunday I got to confirm Hanelly and my comp got to confirm Melanie. I’m so proud of them. Thank you for all the prayers!
At the place we do service, they had a big Christmas sale. Tons of Christmas stuff! So for $11 we got a 7 foot Christmas tree and about 50 ornaments! Super great deal if you ask me and now our house feels like a home! Well... more than it did before.
Well that’s about all the really cool stuff that happened this week! Hope you guys don’t get too bored with my random stuff every week. I love you all and hope you have a great week. Read the Book of Mormon. It will make your day better I promise! ❤️❤️
Elder Mason Davis
mason.davis@myldsmail.net
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