Blog Letter 3/10/2015

Hello everyone!

This week has been a great week! We have a lot of stuff going on today. So I am just going to inform you all on the biggest things of last week. 

I think the most interesting thing that happened this week was that I went to an argentine cemetery with a mortician. That is pretty cool. 

One of the Elders in our Zone is a mortician. He is from Utah. And we were in Divisions, and we passed a cemetery. We went in cause he is a fanatic for that kind of stuff. Honestly it was really cool. The cemetery here are A LOT different. Really really different. They have like houses. There are very very few tombstones. They are almost all houses. And some of the places aren't very well kept so you can see broken caskets...which is weird. But in almost all the places you can just see the sealed caskets. And they have big almost apartment type buildings just full of these things they call "niches". Or just wear they put the caskets. It is really cool, and kinda creepy. It was different then I expected. 

Other then that this week has been pretty tranquilo. We have been working a lot, and trying to find new people to teach. 

One thing that I heard that I would like to share is this: There is a difference in being active in the church, and active in the Gospel. 

Going to church 1 every month is considered active. But that doesn't make us active in the gospel. It is up to us to be active in the gospel, and it requires a lot more sacrifice, and will power. 

I love you all so much, and hope you are all happy!

Love,

Elder Mason Paul Reid

Blog Letter 3/2/2015

Muchas gracias!

Thanks to everyone that wished me a Happy Birthday. You guys are so great! 

This week has been amazing. We are seeing a lot of miracles. And we are seeing a lot of changes with the members. Missionary work is really Member work. The missionarys are just in charge of accompanying the members. If you guys havent had the opportunity to really participate in Missionary Work. I invite you to repent. and DO IT!

We celebrated my birthday in two parts. Friday, and saturday. We were super busy both friday and saturday so we didnt have a lot of time to celebrate my birthday so we just kinda celebrated a little bit both of the days. ha ha. I didnt do anything special or big for my birthday. We spent the entire day teaching. Which for me was perfect. When we are serving our fellow beings we are serving the Lord. And if I can serve the Lord for my Birthday...well thats perfect. 

It rained a lot this week. A LOT!! It has been pretty crazy. I also figured out that you can tell if its going to rain by looking for Dragon flys. If you see lots of dragon flys in one place...its for sure going to rain. 

I got to go to an area called Terminal to do divisions. It was a lot of fun. I was with Elder B. He is a great missionary, we had a lot of fun and made some Empanadas for dinner. 

I love you all so much. Next week I will send some photos. From this week and the next week. 

I love you all so much!

Elder Mason Paul Reid

Blog letter 2/23/2015

Well not a lot has happened since last Wednesday. 

Thursday: We had a couple of really good lessons. We also did service for an older couple in our ward. The hermano said I was too pretty to know how to work a shovel. I quietly proved him wrong. :)

Friday: We did divisions. I was with Elder S. He is from Argentina. Close to Buenos Aires. He is a really good Elder. We taught some awesome lessons and had a lot of success. I also learned some more 

Argentine slang. 

Saturday: We had a good day. One of the members got married so they had a little fiesta we went and ate a little bit of food. 

Sunday: Sunday was awesome. We had some really good lessons, we had a lot of people in church, and we had a family that we are working with come to church. Which is always the best! 

We don't get as much time to email as we did before so I will have to be shorter with my words. But I would like to leave you with 2 good thoughts that have left me thinking this week. 

1. Which is more important/ neccesary in a car. A wind shield, or a rear view mirror? If anyone has tried driving a motorcycle without glasses or a windshield they can say that it is impossible to drive for any time at all without something to protect you from the wind up ahead. I would opinion that although both the windshield and the mirrors are necessary the windshield is more important. Which I think is Gods way of telling drivers, and his children it is more important to look ahead then backwards. 

2. I was talking with our bishop. We were talking about someone and I said. I just don't understand this person. And he said to me: God never commanded us to understand each other. The only thing he commanded us to do was to love one and other. 

I love you all!

Love,

Elder Mason Paul Reid