Hey everyone! Hope everything has been going well.
So last week after I finished writing, we went off to Times Square and did some shopping at H&M, Toys R Us, Hershey's World and other assorted locations (well, other missionaries shopped, I only bought a couple of things), so yeah. We did that for foreeeeeever, then went back downtown to visit with Alex, and then we went and got groceries and dinner and then came home and ate, loaded up the fridge, and so forth.
Thursday, we did studies, then had lunch, then we did weekly planning, and then had the interview with Sisters Jensen and Roberts. We then did a little online proselyting, went out for dinner, and then went home.
Friday, we did our studies, went to the chapel and had lunch, and then had a lesson with Vlad (swum a little less deep than usual into doctrine). We then went out and did some lookups, tried visiting Aleta (the Christian Scientist we visited back in January), and a couple other media referrals, but no one was home. Whilst we were traveling around, we ran into this man named Grahambell who we talked to and taught for a bit, and said we were free to come back and contact anytime. We then went to the 15th St. chapel to meet up with the zone leaders for contacting. After that we went out contacting in Union Square (I went with Elder Higbee), and we just went around the Square talking to people and giving out Books of Mormon. We actually ran into some members from Gilbert, Arizona (the place where the newest temple was just dedicated), and they gave us money for dinner!!! That was super nice, because we didn't have a dinner that night either. We also managed to give out around 6 Books of Mormon, and more pass-along cards, so that was really great. We also got a new investigator from it (her name is Cindy)! We then went back to the chapel and had an online event on baptism, which Jason came to (the cancer patient I mentioned last week), so it went really well. We then went to dinner (McDonald's for life), and then went home.
Saturday, we had correlation meeting in the morning in which we discussed moving the Spanish work forward again for the umpteenth time. We then had lunch and did some online proselyting, and then went and visited with Jason. We got there a little late, so we didn't have too long with him, but we got to talk to him about the online event, see how he was doing, and so on. We then went uptown to the temple for a baptism (Schneider & Steiner's), and then went back over to the east side for dinner with Bro. Russell. After that, we went home (with lots of Chinese leftovers).
Sunday, WE HAD DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME WHICH IS THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE MY POOR AMOUNTS OF SLEEP, and then we had studies, and then went to lunch at the Yamada's (bacon, fruit, the most amazing homemade muffins I have ever had the pleasure of devouring, etc.), and then we went to church. Anthony, Norka, and Alex were all there. Elder Jensen and I went to go pick up David from the train station (the blind less active who was Kim's friend), and we got him in just as they started passing the sacrament, so he was super happy. He also got to meet Bishop Yamada, and we're getting his records transferred to our ward. We then went to Sunday school (Anthony and company actually stayed for the first time!), so Norka went to the Spanish class with the Sisters, and Anthony and Alex came with us to Gospel Principles. We had to take David back to the station in the middle though since he lives in a care center that either doesn't let him be out too long, he has to be back by a certain time, or something like that. We then went back to church pretty much just in time for priesthood, and then Anthony picked me to give him the Aaronic Priesthood. The spirit was so strong, and I'm so grateful I had the chance to do that for him. Norka then invited us over for dinner (which was really nice since we didn't have a dinner that night due to lunch), so after we had a mini correlation meeting and then an interview with the Hermanas, we went over and had some spaghetti and got to talk with them. We then went home for the night, and had happy happy number collecting. We taught 14 lessons that week! That's the highest we've been at for a long time, so we were super grateful for how The Lord had blessed us.
Monday, we had personal study, and then had district meeting (it was on Prayer), and then we had lunch. After that, we helped the Hermanas get a calendar established (Bro. Barrett wants a 3 month calendar from us, it's very strange planning for things when you might not even be there anymore), and then did some online proselyting, and then went out to Union Square again and did some more contacting. We gave out 5 Books of Mormon in half an hour. Yeesh. It went super duper well, and it was very warm out so there were lots of people out and about. We then traveled up to 47th St. and had dinner with the Daytons (which was filled with far less awkward silence than our last dinner, not sure why), and they gave us ICE CREAM YAAAAAAAAAY. Ahem, Anyhow, we then went home.
Tuesday, we did our studies, then went to the church to do some online proselyting, and then went and picked up our mail (nothing for me this week).We then went out and did another Kindness Cards Area Proselyting Focus in Union Square (like the one we did in Decemberish), though I only talked to one person for an hour and a half. His name was Donald, and he was quite the talker, and also happened to be a theologian (man, I just have a way to pick them don't I, professors of religion, pagan druids, sheesh), and so we talked a lot about the Bible, stuff from the Apocrypha (good heavens), and the Book of Mormon, and I ended up teaching the Restoration, Plan of Salvation, and Gospel of Jesus Christ. He also gave me a really cool quote from a New York Pulitzer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, that went something like this: "We are duty-bound to consider our notions of who and what God and the devil are to us." It was pretty profound in the way that he explained it, as he talked about how important it is to consider and remember who God and Satan are, and how acknowledging that both exist is something that we should all do, especially as the devil is trying to convince people that both don't exist. It was a really cool discussion, and he's a sailor so he's been pretty much all over the world, and was heading back to Istanbul for the second or third time next week. We left him with our information, he says maybe we'll see him in the park again sometime, since he's gone for most of the time. So after that, we went back to the church and put in the lessons we had, and then went to the Runyon's for dinner. After that, we went home.
Today, we did our laundry, and then trekked up to the Temple to eventually meet with Elders Longo and Fronk and then head down to the 9/11 memorial again. We also have a lesson with Alex, so we'll see how that goes.
Hope that you all are doing well, and hope you all have a good week!
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