Working send emails with Laravel 5.4

I'm using Laravel for sending emails.

I'm trying to send a email with a message and save in Database.

But this happens:

• The email is sent to the correct address but not the message.

How can I show the message in the view of the email?

This is my function to send the email and save the records in Database:

public function SendEmailGift(AudiobookSendRequest  $request, $id) {

    $email      = $request->addressee;
    $message    = $request->message;

    if (Auth::user()) {
        $audioGift  = AudioBook::findOrFail($id);  
        $userCheck  = Auth::user()->$id;
        $send       = AudiobookSend::where(['user_id' => $userCheck, 'audiobooks_id' => $id])->first();
        if(empty($send->user_id)) {
            $user_id                = Auth::user()->id;
            $audiobooks_id          = $id;            
            $send = new AudiobookSend;
            $send->user_id       = $user_id;
            $send->audiobooks_id = $audiobooks_id;
            $send->name          = $request->name;
            $send->addressee     = $request->addressee;
            $send->message       = $request->message;
            $send->save();
        }

        Mail::send('emails.send',  
            array(
                'name'          => $request->get('name'),
                'addressee'     => $request->get('addressee'),
                'message'       => $request->get('message'),
                'location'      => $id
            ), function($message) use ($request)
        {
            $message->from('no-reply@bdc.com.co');
            $message->to($request->addressee, $request->name)->subject('Te han regalado un Audiolibro.');   
        });
      return back()->with('info', 'Se ha enviado el regalo exitosamente');

      } else {
        return redirect()->route('login')->with('validate', 'Por favor inicia sesión para regalar este audiolibro');
    }
}

And here is view for mail:

<h1 class="page-header">Biblioteca Digital CONFA.</h1>

</br>

    <p class="text-justify font-bold">
    {{-- $message -> Debe de mostrar el mensaje, tira error, htmlspecialchars() parece venir vacio desde la función. --}}
    {{-- <strong>{!! $message !!}</strong> --}}

        <strong>Mensaje</strong>

    </p>


Para ver el audiolibro, presiona el siguiente boton. 
<a href="{{ route('audiobooks.show', $location) }}" class="btn btn-outline-warning">Presioname</a>

Everything works, except show the message in the email. Please help me =(

You have a variable collision. First you are setting $message as some content from your user:

'message'       => $request->get('message'),

But then you use $message in to the send method to identify the mailable class instance. From the docs:

Once you have specified your recipients, you may pass an instance of your mailable class to the send method

So when you do:

), function($message) use ($request)

You are actually redefining $message as the instance of your mailable class, and your original $message is overwritten.

To fix, just use a different variable name to avoid confusion:

Mail::send('emails.send',  
    array(
        'name'          => $request->get('name'),
        'addressee'     => $request->get('addressee'),
        'user_message'  => $request->get('message'), // <- changed
        'location'      => $id
    ), function($message) use ($request)            // <- do not change

Now in your view you can access your $user_message.

<p class="text-justify font-bold">
<strong>{!! $user_message !!}</strong>