Hey everyone! Hope you all are doing well. It's been pretty cold these last few days, but it's supposed to warm up soon (thankfully).
So anyhow, last week after we got done with emailing, we went to that rec center place which had ping pong tables, pool tables, and a golf simulator (and a gym which we didn't use yet), so we spent a lot of time there just playing around. After that, we went shopping and also stopped by a McDonald's to help us find stuff via the wifi (Shamrock Shake season has started, yum). We then went from shopping back home super quickly, as we had to change out of our everyday clothes into our white shirts and ties, and then went quickly back to the train station after that. It was SUPER COLD as the wind was just awful, so we did our best not to freeze to death. We then hopped on the train to go to Roosevelt Island to meet with Bro. Brown for dinner, and it was even colder on the island. We finally got to the restaurant he was taking us out to, and we got to talk with him and his kids while we ate. We then went back to the same train station that we'd been at earlier and made the trip between it and home for the third time that day (all of which we were speedwalking, blech), and then we got home for the night.
Friday we did studies, then went to the 14th St. chapel for some online proselyting, and then we had an interview with Sisters Jensen and Roberts. We then went out for a small lunch, then raced uptown to get to a hospital to give a lady a blessing. She had just had surgery to have a pacemaker installed, so it was mainly to help out with her recovery. We then went from there (about 68th St. on the east side), all the way down to the west side of the financial district for dinner, so pretty much the opposite corner of Manhattan. We got taken out to dinner with our roommates by the member in their ward, and we went to a restaurant called The Palm. Apparently it's pretty famous. So for appetizers we had kalimari, bacon wrapped scallops, and mussels of some sort. We also had a variety of soups (I had the best chicken corn chowder to have ever walked the face of this earth, I'll never be able to eat the one from a can again), as well as some lobster macaroni and cheese. Then, for dinner, I had what was termed a "14 oz. Prime New York Cut" of steak with béarnaise sauce. The others had chicken parmigiana and filet mignon. We then had cheesecake for dessert. Anyhow, after having yet another one of the best meals of our lives, we went home.
Saturday, we had personal study, then went off to ward correlation meeting at 10. We mainly discussed how to get the Spanish work moving forward (seems to be all we talk about these days), and then we had a zone "learning how to better contact people" activity, which pretty much involved twenty thousand role plays with other missionaries. We then went out to lunch at Chipotle with Bro. Barrett, and then went back to church and did some online proselyting. We then proceeded to call an army of media referrals, potential investigators, less actives, and others to see if they were interested in being taught, anything they needed, and so on. We then went back to our apartment (the Hermanas had an appointment on Avenue D so we just went back there with them) and we did a few more calls. Once their appointment finished, we went down to the Bennion's together for dinner, and the Seacrests were also there (other members of our ward), so we talked with them for a while. Afterwards, we went home.
Sunday we studied, then went to church (oh, and we were fasting), and then we went to Sunday school (lesson was on the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham), and then we went to Priesthood. Some fun stuff I discovered at church, so you remember that one guy I told you the conversion story of? The one who lived off of pears for a month? Guess where he's from. SPOKANE!!!! Guess what stake he's in? OURS. Guess what ward he's in? Ok, not ours, but he's in Greenbluff and was baptized 4 1/2 years ago. So if Papa wants to tell whoever the Bishop of the Greenbluff ward was at that time that I've met a Fletcher Macbeth in New York, he might remember him. Also, our Sunday School President (Bro. Smith) came up to me today and said that he just realized that my first name was Ralph via Facebook, and told me his middle name is Ralph and his father and grandfather's names were Ralph Smith. Fun stuff. So after church we had a mini correlation meeting, and then we had an interview with the Hermanas, and then we went to dinner with the Price's. We then came home and had our happy happy numbers night. That also involved a hug between me and Elder Higbee turning into a wrestling match on our couch (that was fun).
Monday, we did personal study and then went off to zone meeting, where we focused a lot on how our trials help to make us stronger, and how prayer is one of the best tools we can use to both receive revelation and to be able to receive strength and comfort. After that, we had lunch, and then we went off and taught Isaac (read some more out of Preach My Gospel from the Book of Mormon chapter), and then we had a lesson with a man named Jason. He is/was an investigator of Higbee and Kroff, but since he's not YSA they're passing him off to us. He's 50, from Africa (not sure which part), and is currently going through treatments for cancer. We talked with him for a while, he's super funny and has a really positive attitude despite the fact that he's in nearly constant pain between the cancer and its treatment, it's really cool to see how he can still be so positive despite all the problems he has. After our lesson with him, we hauled ourselves all the way uptown to 70th St. (being pretty much at negative 3rd St. beforehand) and had dinner with the Smiths (the one I talked about on Sunday). We then went all the way back downtown to home for the night.
Tuesday, we had studies (oh, just so you know what I'm studying, I've read Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, part of Joshua, the book of Moses and the book of Abraham, as well as additional study for our investigators and parts of the Book of Mormon just to fulfill the "read the Book of Mormon every day" challenge), and then we went to the church and did some online proselyting. We then helped the office elders to bring in all the mail, I got a letter from Mama, Oma, and then the package from Mama as well, so I read through all of those. We then had a lesson with Vlad (question of the week is why there is no beginning and no end, and how come no one in Outer Darkness will ever have the desire to change and if God is so merciful why can't he let them, gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah), so always a learning experience. After Vlad, we went to lunch/interviews with the ZLs, and then went back to church and set up our online event. We then went to dinner at the Soffe's (Bro. Soffe and Bro. Ford are business partners in the photography business), and then we came home.
Today, we got up early for laundry, had some weird game of tag involving throwing a sports shirt at one another whilst running around the apartment, and then traveled up to here! So today Elder Jensen wanted to go shopping some more, so I'll probably just be window shopping most of the time. Then we have a lesson with Alex, then dinner, then back to home. Not too much going on, but hey, such is life. It's weird to think that I've almost been with Elder Jensen an entire transfer already (I mean, it's already only a week until training calls again). Time is flying so fast!
Anywho, I guess I'll talk to y'all next week, and hope everyone has a great week!
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