My oh My, humblest apologies that it has been so long since I last wrote a mass email. Things in all honesty have been crazy!
I arrived safely to Decatur, Alabama! It is amazing here! My new companion is Sister Baird, she's from Rexburg, Idaho. Graduated from BYUI with her Bachelors degree in Recreational Therapy and so awesome! We have a lot of fun working here together.
So, weekly happenings for the past couple of weeks:
We're doing A LOT of finding. Decatur has so much work that needs to be done. It's definitely a biking area. One day we were biking to go teach a guy that we met at the food pantry who's in jail. On the way there I hit a loose pile of rocks and completely biffed it on my bike. Luckily I didn't receive any major injuries, just some bumps and bruises, but my front bike tire popped. We went to the store to replace it, the elders helped me put in the new tube. Right as they were about to leave we heard a loud pop- the brand new tube exploded! We're sharing a car with the Spanish elders here, but one of the elders hurt his ankle pretty bad while playing basketball, so Sister Baird and I have done a lot of walking. Because of all the walking I received a lovely gift of poison ivy all over the backs of my legs. It was pretty brutal not going to lie.
We had several other trials that I won't go on and on about, but after much trial and tribulation we have been able to find so many elect children of our Heavenly Father who are prepared for the Gospel!
One of our investigators, the sisters were already teaching him before I arrived, named Greg came to church yesterday! We had a really great discussion with him the Friday before about the Priesthood and keeping the Spirit with us always. He knows this church is true and we're pretty sure he's going to be baptized soon!
While store contacting at the mall we met a lady named Pearl there who we struck up a conversation with. She started telling us how she grew up Pentecostal and felt really out of place at her church. She said she believes that we lived with our Heavenly Father before this life and that our life here on earth is to prepare us to meet Him again, and everyone in her church rebukes her whenever she declares this belief. She told us she feels like she's crazy, but that's what she believes. So when we told her that we must be crazy too, cuz our church preaches that she got so excited! We exchanged numbers and she said she really wants to come to our church.
There's another investigator of ours named Cathy. She knows this church is true and said she will be baptized, but she feels like God has told her that she needs to stay in her church for a while to help someone there. So, if ya'll will please keep her in your prayers that would be much appreciated.
The field in Decatur is white already to harvest! I am so grateful that our Heavenly Father gives us trials so that we can prove ourselves worthy as we press on enduring in our faith. I am so incredibly far from perfect. I know I have a very long way to go, but I am grateful for the Savior and His tender love and mercy towards me and my imperfections. I have felt His redeeming love through His Atonement more in my life than ever before. I know that it is through our patient perseverance that we will receive more amount of blessings than our trials and sorrows.
I love you all so much! Thanks for being my friends, family and loved ones.
God bless
Steadfast in Christ, Sister Mason
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