HEY Family and Friends!!!!! I'm so sorry it's been forever since I emailed you but we had a huge mission conference because Elder Perkins came! He came on Monday (which is our p-day) so we moved our p day randomly to Thursday.
Anyways I'm doing super great! We woke up at like 2:30 am and left the
MTC and flew to Atlanta and then to Washington, D.C.
MTC and flew to Atlanta and then to Washington, D.C.
On the plane I
totally talked to this lady about the restoration for like 40 minutes!
totally talked to this lady about the restoration for like 40 minutes!
It was awesome. Also really weird going through the salt lake airport,
all the tsa/airport employees kept calling us elders and sisters. But
we got to the presidents home with 19 other missionaries who
actually were called there. We ate Cafe Rio! I cannot describe with
words the joy of eating not-MTC food, especially Mexican food. I was
assigned Elder McCray as my trainer, he's about 1/4 inch taller than
me and he's from snowflake Arizona. He is very quiet but a very good
all the tsa/airport employees kept calling us elders and sisters. But
we got to the presidents home with 19 other missionaries who
actually were called there. We ate Cafe Rio! I cannot describe with
words the joy of eating not-MTC food, especially Mexican food. I was
assigned Elder McCray as my trainer, he's about 1/4 inch taller than
me and he's from snowflake Arizona. He is very quiet but a very good
missionary, oh, and he's only been out for 2 transfers, which means
he's only been out about 8 weeks longer than me. I've been
assigned to the Mount Vernon area which is fairly close to DC. Our
whole mission is pretty tiny.
And the work goes well! It's really nice speaking a language I
actually know pretty well. So far I've placed 11 Books of Mormon, and
we go tracking occasionally, which is actually not too bad. We are on
BIKES!
We're one of the only companionships in the mission to not
have a car. I got pretty good at biking pretty fast. We have lots of
good investigators, and one on date right now. He wants to be
baptized, but he has MLS and can't move his legs so it's hard for him
to get to church. Yep. He's cool we also have an investigator who's a
High Ranking Green Beret. He's totally cool too! Yeah. The only problem
right now is that most of our investigators are super flaky. If all of
them met us consistently every 3-4 days we'd be booked, but that NEVER
happens. So we tract and street contact a lot. Yesterday we met this
half drunk black guy who was like "HEY Brothas! You still doing the
do?" And we were like......yes. Course we still doing the do.
Our apartment is super nice and we get fed quite a bit. Super stoked
about that. Just me and my trainer in my apartment right now.
Story time: one of my favorite moments of this last week happened
yesterday. I've been learning a lot about how to be led by the spirit
which has been going really well. We felt prompted to start riding our
assigned to the Mount Vernon area which is fairly close to DC. Our
whole mission is pretty tiny.
And the work goes well! It's really nice speaking a language I
actually know pretty well. So far I've placed 11 Books of Mormon, and
we go tracking occasionally, which is actually not too bad. We are on
BIKES!
We're one of the only companionships in the mission to nothave a car. I got pretty good at biking pretty fast. We have lots of
good investigators, and one on date right now. He wants to be
baptized, but he has MLS and can't move his legs so it's hard for him
to get to church. Yep. He's cool we also have an investigator who's a
High Ranking Green Beret. He's totally cool too! Yeah. The only problem
right now is that most of our investigators are super flaky. If all of
them met us consistently every 3-4 days we'd be booked, but that NEVER
happens. So we tract and street contact a lot. Yesterday we met this
half drunk black guy who was like "HEY Brothas! You still doing the
do?" And we were like......yes. Course we still doing the do.
Our apartment is super nice and we get fed quite a bit. Super stoked
about that. Just me and my trainer in my apartment right now.
Story time: one of my favorite moments of this last week happened
yesterday. I've been learning a lot about how to be led by the spirit
which has been going really well. We felt prompted to start riding our
bikes down route 1 away from our apartments. It started sprinkling a
little bit, and I asked if we might need to go back. Elder McCray said
little bit, and I asked if we might need to go back. Elder McCray said
"nah, this isn't too bad, if the Lord wanted us out of this rain he'd
tell us". Right then it started pouring. So we started heading back,
totally soaked, when we saw this lady waiting at a bus stop and
tell us". Right then it started pouring. So we started heading back,
totally soaked, when we saw this lady waiting at a bus stop and
decided to go talk to her. We left her with a Book of Mormon and
testified of the truthfulness of it in the POURING RAIN. While my
testified of the truthfulness of it in the POURING RAIN. While my
companion explained what it was with water pouring off his helmet I
just started smiling. It was awesome, nothing but missionary work. I
love it here in Virginia so far.
Doing great! Here's my address btw.
7512 Republic Court #201
just started smiling. It was awesome, nothing but missionary work. I
love it here in Virginia so far.
Doing great! Here's my address btw.
7512 Republic Court #201
Oh and my email: mason.joshua@myldsmail.net
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