Woohoo 6 months! It went by super super quickly for me, I'm not sure about how fast it went for all of you. Anyhow, here's the stuff that happened this week.
So, after emailing all of you people, we (as in, Elders Kroff, Berryman and me since Elder Potter was in the temple) went shopping at Century 21 (I got myself a nice looking tie), and then went and got lunch at Subway. We then came back to the temple for a while, played some basketball, a game called gatorball (basically soccer + if the ball goes into the air and someone catches it, you can run with it and throw it to other people until you get tagged), and we did that for pretty much the whole time until they got out. Once Elder Potter was done, he wanted to go to the NBA store (again) to go buy himself a hat, so we went, and ended up spending half an hour there without him actually deciding on a hat. Sigh. We then headed over to our dinner appointment at the Engs, and were late (stupid nonexistent hat), and had some nummy food there. Their daughter also made some super good cupcakes (they looked like hamburgers, vanilla cupcake on bottom and on top with different colored icing and a brownie in between), and after that we headed home. No one in the zone got training calls (really odd), but I heard that Elder Jensen got one, kind of to make up for not being able to do it the last time I guess.
Thursday, we did our studies, and then headed to the chapel for a lesson with Vlad, which went pretty well (we avoided swimming in super deep doctrine by reading a chapter of the Book of Mormon with him), and then we headed to lunch at a place called Katz's Delicatessen (apparently super famous New York place) with a member from the YSA ward named Jessica. She brought one of her friends (a member named Eric), and we had lunch and a lesson there. They're renowned for their sandwiches, and the one I ended up getting was pretty much 5-6 inches thick. Yeesh. It was pretty good, but REALLY BIG so I didn't quite manage to finish all of it. After stuffing ourselves, we went back to the chapel and did some weekly planning, and then headed down for a lesson with Andre. We went over the Plan of Salvation, and he remembered pretty much all of it from the last time he was taught it (however long ago that was), and didn't really have any concerns about it. We then went from him over to Isaac, and read some from the Book of Mormon with him. After we finished with him, Elder Potter decided to go to some place called Flight Club (another place that sells hats), and still didn't decide on one, so then we went home.
Friday, we did our studies, had lunch, and then went over to a less active named Petra's apartment to help her move a TV (it was enormous, I'm surprised I still have a back), and then we talked with her a little bit. She is what the mission refers to as a "Hajje Special," due to the fact that she was converted by an Elder Hajje. The reason why there's actually a distinction between those he converts and regular ones is because he was so charismatic that people would get baptized, but not actually have a testimony. And apparently this happened enough times for them to have their own category. So anyhow, that happened, and then we went and finished weekly planning, and then went out to dinner with Brother Barrett at a place called brgr. He then treated us to Magnolia's cupcakes again, and I got some delicious banana pudding. After that, we headed back to the Flight Club place and once AGAIN, indecision defeated Elder Potter. I, on the other hand, got a nice $10 Mariners hat, interesting colors, but nice. After that, it was home for the night.
Saturday morning we went over and helped someone from the YSA ward move (the zone leaders had two people that needed help moving so they asked us if we could help), so we did that, and then we went and grabbed lunch, and then did some more service over at Andy Lam's (he's in a wheelchair and needed some stuff moved off of his balcony), so we did that (and of course it started raining), and then we were going to go do some service for Andre, but he had to go help his sister with something, so we instead went and got dinner, and then went up to the NBA store one last time and Elder Potter finally got a hat, and then went home. Transfer calls came that night, and I found out that I was staying again and that I'd be getting an Elder Edmunds, who trained Elders Fronk, Thompson, and Filoso (all of whom are still in our zone). So we'll see how that goes.
Sunday, we got up and went to the YSA ward's sacrament meeting (for Potter's sake), and then did our studies. We then went up to ward council, and then had our church. Apparently it was the ward's one year anniversary of being a ward, so we had some cake afterwards. We then attempted to have an online event, but nobody came. After that, we went to dinner at the Hanlon's (they're always so fun to go over and visit), and then we went home.
Monday, we did our studies and then went to district meeting, had lunch, took zone pictures, and so forth. We then did some online proselyting, and then went over for a lesson with Andre. We taught him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, once again pretty much review for him, and then took pictures with him for Elder Potter. We then went over to Grand Central and got our shoes shined (they did/can do a better job than I ever could), and then we went over to a lesson with Yolanda and her kids. It went really well, and the kids (who are mostly less active) seemed really engaged and seemed to really enjoy it. We then went home (also, I've never eaten more rice in my life, easily never that much in one setting).
Tuesday, we did personal study, and then went over to the temple for Elder Potter's exit interview. After that, we went over to visit a less active named Renee who we'd set up an appointment with, but she juked us. So instead, we went over to Shake Shack and got lunch (I got some nummy custard). We then did some planning, and then we went on a small split with the zone leaders, and I went with Elder Kroff. We went over to an appointment we had with the Winders, as well as Fletcher and his fiancee (who is not a member), so we had dinner and then had a lesson. It went really well, she seems super interested in what we had to say and we're going to see if we can meet weekly! She's from Ukraine and is super nice, so hopefully we can start teaching her more. We also found out that Fletcher is the one who sold that ride in Disneyworld called Mission: Space to Disney, that one Roland talked about the last time he was here, so that was really cool. We went home after that and got Elder Potter all packed.
Today, we got up, got ready, and then came up to the chapel for transfers, and now Elder Potter's elsewhere and I'm waiting for my new companion to come down from upstate! Hope everything is going well for all of you, and I'll talk to you later!
Elder Ralph Smith
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