HEYYY.
A very good week. Let's jump right in!!
We had MLC on Friday. We left at like 9 am, hopped on the Metro North train and got off in Scarsdale! It was President Smiths first MLC! He and his wife are boss's. I LOVE THEM. Their kids are fantastic as well. (Speaking of his kids I'm with Savannah and Lauren right now!) P day buddies :) anyways. At MLC each zone was asked to prepare a presentation about our zone! So we are the Central Manhattan Zone. We shared lots of goodies about our zone. Our zone wins. Our zone is ALL of Manhattan. We also the have American Sign Language Elders in our zone. WHICH IS SO FUN. Haha I'm learning sign language. I love my zone. It's been so fun to be STL here. So MLC was just dandy. We ate lunch together it was good. Ha more pizza! Then MLC ended at like 3 ish and all of us just straight headed for the...
YANKEES GAME!!!
There we were! All of the NYNYN missionaries. So cool. We all got free Yankees hats. We were on the big camera! We listened to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing! We cheered loud. It was so fun. Haha (all of us haven't had that much fun in a loooong time) so we were all just so smiley and happy. Hahah I love missionaries. Missionaries are SO funny. It was a GOOD time. And the YANKEES WON. Ha we of course had to leave early to be home on time. But they ended up winning and it was a good game. (Ask me if I even understood what was going on..) because I totally don't understand baseball. But hey. GO NEW YORK YANKEES. I can tell you I am a Yankees fan. Yes.
The FOURTH OF JULY!!
It was a good day. Haha definitely weird to proselyte on a day like that. Everyone is doin their own thing. We ate dinner with the funniest awesomest couple in the ward. They had us over at their apartment and they went all out. Made such a fun meal. Hot dogs, HUGE yummy pickles, potato salad, and a lot of other unhealthy things. We made paper hats and we laughed our heads off at each other. We looked hilarious. They also played this YouTube video on their projector called 10 hours of fireworks. HAHAH. We sat there and watched them the whole time while Mormon tabernacle choir played in the background. WHAT KIND MEMBERS to have the missionaries over on the Fourth of July!! It was a good time and I'm grateful for the kind members who care for us. I love people.
I totally just have to be excited for a second k? WE HAVE SIX BAPTISMAL DATES. That is SO HAPPY!!! You guys. It makes me smile so big. I'm so happy for the six people that we've been meeting with and for their desire to come closer to Christ. Their lives will FOREVER be changed for the better. I love the gospel and what it does for us.
Cool story. Im going to try to make this detailed story a lot shorter..
So like two weeks ago Sister Sam and I were headed home for the night. And it was pouring rain. It was like 9:00 and I was tired and just wanted to go to sleep. Well we were standing at the bus stop and there was a man standing next to us with an umbrella just minding his own business. I wanted to mind my own business too because I was so tired and I was soaking wet. I felt gross hahah. Well we had been standing there for like 10 minutes and I had the biggest impression to walk over to this man and talk to him. In my head I was like "mmm nooo... this is so awkward... We've been standing here for 10 minutes now and it will be so weird if I walk up to him and talk to him!!" So I just kept standing there. And the impression would not go away. So I finally just swallowed my pride and walked up to him and said "Hi, how has your day been?" I introduced myself as a missionary and just invited him to come to church. I gave him a card and then got on the bus and didn't think much about it at all. He didn't speak much English. Basically all he said was okay thanks.
Well two days later we received a text and it was from him!! He asked what time church was and we gave him the info. (I didn't think he would actually show up just because that's how things roll here in missionary world) well to my surprise he showed up!! And he brought a friend!! And sat by us. But he doesn't speak English hardly at all!!! Like I would say something and he would just blankly stare at me hahah. So funny. (This is the FRENCH investigator I was telling you about.) he's from Africa. Well they had to go and we just didn't really know where to go from there.
Okay fast forward a little. He and his friend came AGAIN the next Sunday. And we were like wow! They come even though they don't understand a word!? Cool. They must feel the spirit. Well luckily we found a member in the ward who is from France and is here on a short intern. So we set up an appointment to meet all together. The French member explained a little more to these two to clear up their confusion. Well something SUPER cool. So we were in our lesson after church and our French member was talking to these two and they were just having a conversation in French while Sister Sam and I sat there confused haha. Well then our French member turned to us and told us a story that this man told him. He explained that this man came to America about a month ago. And he lived in Burkina Faso. He said that before he came here to America he had a dream that God sent two girls to him to help him change his life. (He had no idea what missionaries were at that time.) There were more details but that's the shortened version. When our French member explained this dream to us he had tears in his eyes!! I was like woah. Woah. This man from Africa said he knows that God is in his life and he knows that this is the start of something. WHAT!! How cool. So we then taught them more and we then extended a baptismal invitation and boom. Two baptismal dates. Pure happy. You guys, can you imagine if I hadn't of OPENED MY MOUTH on that rainy rainy tired night??? It was SO important for me to follow that prompting because now this African mans life is going to change!!! And I have been able to be an instrument in Gods hand in this mans journey. HOW COOL AND SPECIAL. I have the strongest testimony of the spirit. I know that's it's real. And I know how important it is that we listen and we obey that spirit.
I. Love. This. Work. I love it so much!!
Go share the gospel everyone!! It's the most important thing you could do.
Love you alllll!!!
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