A good week!! A good week!
Still here. Still me. Still a missionary. Still in NYC. Still seeing miracles. Still keepin on. :)
Today we went to the doughnut plant. Those beloved doughnuts you guys. Wow. P days are our treat days. It's our reward day. Or fat day. The one day in the week that WE get to pick our treat. So that's another plus for P day.
We are finding people like maniacs!! What's going on!!! Haha we got 2 new baptismal dates this week! Happy. I really do like when the work is going well. (I mean it's always good.. But it's the BEST when we are busy.)
Here are some real thoughts!
So I have almost been living in Manhattan for about 1 year now. That is kinda unheard of for a missionary. Usually people go upstate then city then upstate then city etc. I guess I'm just a city chika. Wha. Hahaha you guys It's so fun!! But I don't know how much longer I can take the physical stress it puts on me. I go to sleep EXHAUSTED. And then wake up even more exhausted. Haha it was a hot day yesterday. I almost screamed down in the subway station. (HAHA no. I didn't almost scream) I may have felt like it. But I didn't. I get claustrophobic. It gets so hot and SO yucky. Makes me sick. I say prayers in my head all the time when I feel so gross. Ha!! Never have I ever felt as yucky as I have on my mission. But with that, never have I ever felt as good as I have on my mission. Such extreme feelings it's weird. But good. GOOD. So there's some of my thoughts inside my head.
One of the funniest moments of the week was when Sister Sam and I found ANOTHER MOUSE living with us. We even caught the criminal on camera. HE IS SO FAST. I hate him. We were both a mess. I was crying and she was whining and we were both shaking and we looked at each other and just started laughing hysterically. Hahaha tears in eyes and all. So we were discussing how we were ever going to sleep that night with a mouse running around and we decided there was no way. We would have lost all sleep and been tossing and turning. So we decided to bunk our beds together and then move the other bunk bed into our bedroom. So we could both sleep on the top bunk. (We have a two bedroom apartment) So anyways, we bunked our beds. We were sweating and so tired it was some heavy duty lifting. Then we went and un-bunked the other beds and we started to head towards our bedroom. So then came the challenge... THE BED WOULDN'T FIT THROUGH THE DOOR. We were dying. After all of our hard work so far and now we were stuck. Haha we were in our tight little hallway with a huge bunk bed in hand. Never. Have I ever laughed so hard. It was possibly the best funniest moment of my life. I could not breath I was laughing so hard. The sounds we were making, the awkward positions we were in... Good golly HILARIOUS. I was even still in my pros clothes. (Aaaaand not to mention it was like midnight by the time we FINALLY got it through.) haha we were in bed late. #woops #repent #lateforbed. But really one of the top funniest moments in my life. We were so tired. That's the latest I've stayed up on the mission I believe. Confession!! Haha.
Okay we got the greatest new investigator Alaza. She is 15. We found her at Central Park. She was riding her bike and we wanted to give her some free lemonade. So we did! And then like 10 minutes later she came back and said wait what church do you go to? We told her and then next thing you know she was on her way with a Book of Mormon and an invitation to come to church!! Then you can guess what happened next. She came to church!! And stayed for all 3 hours!! And then we taught her the very next day. And set a bap date for October 3rd. Yahoo!! She is totally the cutest thing. I took a pic with her and our recent convert anaiya. We LOVE HER.
As for our French speakers.. They were supposed to be getting baptized on September 6th. But we had to push it back! We haven't been able to teach them all of the lessons due to their busy schedules and the time it takes to teach through a translator. Just some difficulties! But we are not worried about them at all. They said they are for sure getting baptized because they KNOW it is the right thing to do. They felt it. They feel the Holy Ghost so strong. I LOVE THEM MY HEART COULD BURST!! They are literally the coolest people ever.
We had the funniest moment last week as we were teaching them. So imagine them as they talk, it is in broken english. Haha you know when someone tries to speak English and it's just all grammatically wrong and it's just hilarious? Well that's how they are. Well we asked what some of the differences are between our church and their church in Africa (to see their understanding of the priesthood and all that) hahaha Claver goes well. "In Africa we have lots of Joseph's, but no Smiths." Hahahaha. Again I couldn't stop laughing. Claver is the sweetest. He and I could be best friends. We laugh with each other all the time. Love love love. Never knew I could love people so much. (And it's like a charity love, not IN love) hahaha. Anyways. I hope I get to be at their baptism. I will cry if I am not... But I might probs get transferred. Ahh!! We'll see.
Anyways. We have MLC on Friday. President asked me if I would give an interactive training on consecration. So if you want to pray for me I would be the happiest girl in the world. ;) I don't know why president asked me out of all the amazing missionaries. But hey. I'm willing. Haha just need some extra prayers that I can really bring the spirit!! Thx. Love you.
I will leave you with a scripture that I loved this week.
Jacob 4:12 it says:
"... For why not speak of the atonement of Christ, and attain to a perfect knowledge of him, as to attain to the knowledge of a resurrection and the world to come?"
I just really loved that question. WHY NOT speak of the atonement of Christ? We are Christians right? So why not share that with others? Ask yourself that question. And ponder. I LOVE YOU.
(Sorry to cut this short) have much to do with my P days dwindling in this lovely favorite city of mine :)
BYE LOVE ABBB!!!
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