Weekly update for Jan 8th-14th
Saludos a todos. Hope everyone is doing great.
So, let me tell you this story I forgot to tell from last week. Well, it was p day morning and it had snowed all night. The sisters couldn’t park their car by their house so we had to drop them off the night before and park it by our house. Long story short, when we went to pick them up to go shopping the next day, we pulled up to their house where there was a fresh dead possum... frozen but fresh. The van only has 1 door that opens, so as you can probably already guess, I pulled the van up right to where the possum was right below the only working door. When they came out I knew it would be good so I had my IPad out to video tape it. It may possibly have been the best video I have ever taken. The only mistake I made, was I missed their first face reaction with the camera. Let me tell you, it was priceless! I will try to send the video. If the video works you may see my Olaf pjs and that is because their were some people who dared me to wear them. So, I did. FYI, my basketball shorts were under them for sports later in the day though. Haha.
Last P Day was a zone p day and we had a great time. I love people so much. Just being around people makes me happy. We played a lot of basketball and I also got to play half a game of Settlers or Catan and it was soooo fun. I haven’t played that game is years. We also ended the day with chick filet, and let me tell you, that’s rare here in Jersey. I’ve only had it like 3 times maybe 4 while on the mission.
Last week it was nice and warm for 2 days. On Friday I only wore a long sleeve white shirt. I haven’t done that in a long time. It was in the 50s all day long and even got into the 60s for a couple of hours. But the next day it was back to 20 degrees. The weather here is like a roller coaster. Also, some crazy news... I officially have less than 6 months left.
Here’s another great story from this past week. We have been teaching a less active lady named Gina and she has an inactive son who we have been trying to teach. We have invited him to church many times and he has committed but never came until 3 weeks ago. Now yesterday, he came again. We talked to him and he said that he felt he needed to be back in church and then about a month ago his son turned 8. We told him that if he becomes active again and talks to bishop he could most likely baptize his son. That would be amazing.
This week the whole mission had a huge activity called 2HourPower. On Saturday between the hours of 5-7 PM, the whole mission had each companionship praying the whole week to know where to go and who to find during these 2 hours. So at 5:00 the whole mission got onto a conference call and we said a prayer and were given a little pump up motivation talk. When the call ended, everyone in their own area got to work. Elder Williams and I felt we should street contact down a certain street and then knock doors. It may have been the coldest I’d been on the mission. The weather said 30 degrees so we didn’t get very prepped, the wind chill destroyed us.
Any way we still saw so many blessings. We set up like 6 return appointments and got into a couple houses and shared a message with them. We got 4 new investigators and it was a great time to know that the whole mission was working very hard at the same time. It was a great week. Next time I email you I will know if I stay here in Passaic another 6 weeks or where I will be going. I really feel that I will be leaving Passaic and Elder Williams but we will see. Sorry if this was too long... but, just for a good laugh I thought I’d tell you another quick story. While we were walking down the street in the rain I slipped on a bag of dog poop... I didn’t fall completely but nearly. It was almost terrible! 🐶💩
Hope y’all have a great week! Love you! Read some books “Nacho Libre accent”
Elder Mason Tanner Davis
Morristown, New Jersey Mission
mason.davis@myldsmail.net
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