HAAPPPPY ABBBEY

Okay my people it's time for another one of these! 

First of all can I just tell you. I'm so happy. I LOVE LIFE. 

I usually sound extreme and dramatic when I say this but... I. LOVE. MY. MISSION. 

There are moments in every single week where I literally just breath in and out.. and think to myself "I LOVE THIS PLACE." It's an overwhelming love.

I am unable to describe how I feel. Heavenly Father is so aware of me. It's like the theme of my mission. Heavenly Father is so aware of all of His children. He's manifested that to me maaaany times. 

All I know is that I am coming back to live here one day. It is my life goal. Ah my heart could just burst. I feel like I belong here. Abbey looooves east coast. oh boy. And today we are in Manhattan to go to the temple. I love this place and these people. 

There was a scripture that I passed by this week and I just felt so close to it. I love reading the Book of Mormon as a missionary because I connect to it in a special way. You know?

It's in Alma 28. Pretend you're reading about ME on my mission and my journeyings in the land of New York. ;)

Verse 8 says this:

"And this is the account of Ammon and his brethren, their journeyings in the land of Nephi, their sufferings in the land, their sorrows, and their afflictions, and their incomprehensible joy..."

I absolutely love when it says incomprehensible joy right after listing their challenges. Because that is how I feel exactly. I can't even say more. I feel joy. 

Anyways.

The work here is great. We have a baptism TONIGHT. We are excited. Hopefully we will get some pictures to send home next week. Steven is so ready. And so excited!! What a special day for him. 

We went to the meeting that we got invited to on Thursday. With two of the members from the missionary department. It was a training on planning. Like a 6 hour training. Loooooong. And lots of information. It was really good for our mission. Im excited to apply what I've learned for my last 7 weeks. 

Monday night we did a look up of a less active and miracle moment when she let us in. Haha it was just another one of your weird daily experiences as a missionary. I'll explain.

She had like this giant room with books everywhere like a big library and every single book was a book about religion. She was so interesting. Her husband was Jewish. They had the funkiest stories to tell us. They talked and talked and talked. They gave us tea and we awkwardly didn't drink any of it. They had like 4 dogs that were licking my shoes my hands and just chillin on my lap. I was dying. We were right by the ocean looking out the window at these cute little sail boats. It was just such an interesting

40 minutes. It was one of those moments as a missionary where you laugh to yourself and think what the crap am I doing. Like these experiences are so abnormal. It's the weirdest best thing I've ever done in my life. Just thought I'd throw that in my email. Because I have those feelings quite often. 

Oh yeah we've been raking a TON of leaves. SERVICE. Sister Dunford is queen leaf raker. Just sayin. 

Also we go to this old folks care center place. Called Waveny Care Center. I LOVE it. We just get to talk with old people. People that have like dementia. It is probably one of my favorite service activities I've done on my mission. The old people there are SO funny. I need to write down some of my favorite old people quotes. They keep me laughing. 

Anyways. I've gotta run! 

We're off to PINKBERRY and then to the temple. 

I am so happy! I love this thing that I'm doing. 

LOVE abba