Mason's Mission: Un misionero con elote y música

Day: second pday of the year

Pushup Count: 214

Hola y'all! Nothing really crazy happened this week. It's been weirdly wet and cold here, even to this Utah boy. I definitely don't envy missionaries serving in cold climates cause it's bad enough tracting in 40 degrees and rainy . Highlights from this week:

- We had some crazy fog roll in that made it feel like we were driving though endless nothingness 😵‍💫

- THE FRUIT FLIES ARE BACK — different apartment, different city, different season, but they want revenge

- We had interviews with president, and he hinted that I may be leading Buena Vista next transfer...

- I went on intercambios on bikes again — I was very greatful for my new gloves (thanks mom )

- Elder Purcell bought me my first elote, and the cart owner insisted that I have hot sauce on it... It threw off the flavor a bit, but it was still super good

- I got mad distracted by the interactive table at McDonald's when we were comp studying

- We did service on exchanges and they let me take home a bag of food

- We've been finding more in the last couple weeks that I have in my entire mission so far and it's sooo cool — God is blessing us for our grind last transfer

- We had the baptism of a ward member named Maher. He's this little kid from southern Mexico that we've been teaching a little bit because his parents wanted him to really understand baptism. It was super fun, and guess what, I played the piano for it

- We had a strange door contact where this guy and his daughter seemed interested and then he said that his daughter needed a boyfriend... Dude was literally just trying to get her married to a rich white boy. Buuuut, we still gave them our number so we'll see if they actually cared about the church

- I got emergency called on to play piano in sacrament meeting, but the pianist showed up at the last second so I didn't have to

- Okay I lied. One actually crazy thing did happen this week. We were contacting grey dots (people who were interested at one point but got dropped) and we stopped by this guy Alex, who we've been building a relationship with for months. We've always known that he was a musician and that he worked in a recording studio, as well as the fact that he had a little home studio. We knocked and he opened the door and agreed to show us his home studio. We walked in I kinda lost my mind. He had a $2,000-3,000 microphone in the corner with a super nice compressor and huge stereo monitors. So I already geeking out, but then I look on the wall and he's got a silver YouTube play button as well as two framed CDs congratulating him for 100k record sales on both He starts playing us some of his music (which was super good), and Elder Ireland started googling stuff. Turns out our grey dot Alex was actually a successful latino rapper named Dyablo, and he not only worked in a recording studio, he literally owned it! He was super nice and humble about it all and said that he was super down to help us record our Easter music videos alright, thanks for listening to my story, go listen to Dyablo

Anyways, pretty average week here besides the weather and Dyablo. But we're going to film a new video this week about a cool conversion story, so things are gonna start to get busy again. Let me know how your holidays went and what you're looking forward to this new year!

Spiritual Thought:

I've been doing a lot of study on covenants this week and the power we gain by being connected with God. For anyone who doesn't know, a covenant is basically just a promise we make with God to strengthen our relationship with Him (ex. baptism). Anyways, it's pretty interesting, and I'd love to invite y'all to read the talk "Sir, We Would Like to See Jesus" from this last general conference (if you don't know how to find that, lemme know). It makes you think! And of course it focuses a lot on the fact that God loves you, so of course I love it

Mucho amor,

Élder Page

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