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Hello all!<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is incredible to me how quickly the time goes by here in
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mission field. I can't believe that it is my Preparation day
here. The<o:p></o:p></div>
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days are flying by and I am truly grateful for all of the
moments that<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have left here.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This week and this past transfer of my mission have been
wonderful. I<o:p></o:p></div>
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have been learning so much and am loving being a missionary.
It is truly<o:p></o:p></div>
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a blessing to be here and to serve with such great people. I
am so<o:p></o:p></div>
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happy that I have been able to serve the fantastic people of
New York<o:p></o:p></div>
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City for this time in my life. I would not rather be
anywhere else in<o:p></o:p></div>
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the entire world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This week was such a blessing. It truly was. We were so
guided to many<o:p></o:p></div>
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people who were so prepared to receive us but most importantly
the<o:p></o:p></div>
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message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that this
message of<o:p></o:p></div>
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hope, happiness and faith is true. I know that Jesus Christ
lives and<o:p></o:p></div>
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loves us. He is our Savior. He will never leave us alone. He
is always<o:p></o:p></div>
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with us to give us comfort, to strengthen us and to help us
through<o:p></o:p></div>
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the challenges of life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I just want to express how grateful I am for the<o:p></o:p></div>
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time that I have been able to have to be a missionary. It is
truly a<o:p></o:p></div>
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blessing. I know that our Father in Heaven has a plan for
us. He truly<o:p></o:p></div>
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loves us. I know that as we truly strive to love others our
lives<o:p></o:p></div>
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change. We come to know who Christ is and we are filled with
joy as we<o:p></o:p></div>
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follow him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored! I know it! As
we learn<o:p></o:p></div>
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and live it we are happy. I know that. The people here in
this city<o:p></o:p></div>
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are such good people. There are so many who are looking for
the truth<o:p></o:p></div>
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and just can't find it. I am so happy that I have been able
to be a<o:p></o:p></div>
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messenger of direction here. Miracles are possible in every
day. I<o:p></o:p></div>
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know that is true. I love you all and I am so grateful to
have been<o:p></o:p></div>
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able to serve a mission. I love my Father in Heaven and my
Savior<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus Christ. I am grateful for the Holy Ghost. He teaches
us when we<o:p></o:p></div>
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are ready and willing to learn. I know that he guides us
daily if we<o:p></o:p></div>
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are willing to listen to and follow him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know that this church is truly Christ's church. He leads
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it! I love you all so much!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-56294982121790764832014-11-12T12:53:00.001-08:002015-12-03T15:54:39.357-08:00"The Lord did a lot of good here"<div class="MsoNormal">
Hey there everyone!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am still in Corona! Yay! Transfers are tomorrow and Elder
Schenk is<o:p></o:p></div>
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leaving which is pretty crazy. We were only together for one
transfer<o:p></o:p></div>
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but it was a good transfer. I really learned a lot and we
did a lot of<o:p></o:p></div>
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good here, well The Lord did a lot of good here.<o:p></o:p><br />
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On Tuesday we visited with an awesome family from Ecuador.
They have two little boys who are always running around with a bunch of energy.
We have been trying to help them to come to church more often and to strengthen
their relationship with God. They came to church last Sunday and it was awesome!!
Hallelujah!<br />
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I love when people come to church! Because whenever you go
to church you feel the<span style="color: black;"> spirit</span>, are uplifted and feel good. FACT! That is what I
want for everyone. Anyway, They were so happy and he shared his testimony in
Sacrament meeting which was fantastic. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
spirit there was so strong. We then watched Earthly Father, Heavenly Father the Mormon message
and</div>
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wooooo!!! That whole room was basically in tears. It was
such a<o:p></o:p></div>
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beautiful experience! <o:p></o:p><br />
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On Wednesday the senior couple the Bradfords came over to
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apartment to put blinds in because we have bed sheets
hanging up as<o:p></o:p></div>
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drapes. Ha-ha :) She told us that is why we need women in our
lives to<o:p></o:p></div>
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make us spiffy and so that way our houses don't look
horrible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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THURSDAY WAS A DAY OF STRAIGHT MIRACLES!!!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We visited a super awesome family. The husband is from
Colombia, There is a place in Colombia called Cali, so whenever I talk to people
from Colombia I tell them I am from there and they have a mini heart attack every
time because they get so excited, but then I say no actually CALIfornia and
they just laugh and are like of course! </div>
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Then after that we visited with this family that I met on
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one day. The guys name is C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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about our appointment that we have today? It is at 6 and
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anywhere else to eat because we are going to give you Lomo
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was soooo excited. I literally have never had that happen in
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family gave us cereal on the way out as well! Can you say MIRACLE??? I think
so! Because earlier in the week I had completely ran out of my important life
staple and was dying...okay...not really but I had no food basically and then BOOM! Tender
mercy from The Lord! I basically heard a choir singing Hallelujah!
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head ha-ha! We are so blessed!<o:p></o:p></div>
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On Friday we had a super sweet visit with a family from our
ward who<o:p></o:p></div>
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made us bomb Mexican food! Oh man! So good! I love Spanish
food so<o:p></o:p></div>
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much. For real. And we had a super fun spiritual thought
with them<o:p></o:p></div>
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about how we can restart every week as we take the
sacrament. The<o:p></o:p></div>
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lesson was of how as we draw something we can never do it
perfect but<o:p></o:p></div>
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every week God gives us a perfectly clean slate through the
sacrament.<br />
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God is amazing. I have never felt so guided on my mission
before. I<o:p></o:p></div>
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know he lives, loves, and guides us. He is a God of
miracles. If we<o:p></o:p></div>
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ask for them, then go out and look and work for them, they
come. Fact.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know that to be true. I love my mission and I love this
place, these<o:p></o:p></div>
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people and God!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Life is pretty dang good over here in New York. We had quite
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eventful week with a lot of great things that happened.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We did a sweet flash mob activity with the missionaries in
Woodside on the 7 train. It was really cool! We sang "A Child's Prayer" (see the video below to hear what we sang) and the people on the train seemed to like it a lot. It was a lot of
fun and afterward we did it in one of the stations and because of
that a met a really cool kid who I talked to for a while. He lives in
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told us how he really liked what we did as missionaries. It
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Friday was such a sweet day! I had so much fun! It was
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it was Halloween and there were sooooo many people outside.
It was funny because every time I had eye contact with someone on
the street I just yelled Happy Halloween to them it was pretty funny :)</div>
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What is different is that here in New York, is that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all of the kids that go trick or treating go
from store to store on the street to get candy because everything here is in
apartment buildings. It was weird to see but it is pretty cool! That night we have to be inside early so then we planned and I carved a
pumpkin! Pretty fun. It was an awesome day.</div>
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and coco that are coated with some sweet sugary goodness and
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always has us pray with her and then she gives us free nuts!
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cool! She is Colombian and says that she is our mom while we
are out<o:p></o:p></div>
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here on the mission ha-ha! I love her! Then I got to dance
to that<o:p></o:p></div>
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sweet Ecuadorian music on the street and I was loving it! I
got the CD<o:p></o:p></div>
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After that we did a finding activity right off of the 7
train and I met a super cool kid. He was from Ecuador and we had such a good
conversation. It was probably one of<o:p></o:p></div>
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the best conversations that I have ever had with someone on
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on my mission. He was telling me how he wanted to change his
life and<o:p></o:p></div>
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I told him that the Gospel was the answer! I gave him a Book
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Then after that we met up with his guy who I met back in
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was with Elder Rogers! It was so cool! He was super nice and
we talked<o:p></o:p></div>
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to him in Dunkin Donuts for a while and gave him a Book of
Mormon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Moral of the story is you can literally have a lesson
anywhere in New<o:p></o:p></div>
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York! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Last but not least! Everyone should study the talks from L.
Tom Perry<o:p></o:p></div>
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and Richard G. Scott from this last conference. INCREDIBLE.
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amazing. That is all. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I love you all so much. I am grateful for the wonderful plan
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has for all of us. He really does have one. We just have to<o:p></o:p></div>
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communicate with Him to figure that out! :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Much love from Corona Queens!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-28760234054734282562014-10-06T20:03:00.001-07:002015-12-03T15:55:33.772-08:00Much Love From Corona!<div class="MsoNormal">
Hello Everyone!<o:p></o:p><br />
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Well, I just recently got transferred and I am in a little
area known as Corona, Queens. I learned about this place before I came on my
mission that this place consisted of the most Spanish people in the mission. When
I heard this it was my dream to serve here. Why? So I could be surrounded by a
bunch of Spanish people all the time! Needless to say, I know that God knows
His children so<o:p></o:p></div>
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well, because I am now here and it is a dream come
true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am still trying to take it all in! I love it though!</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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My new companion is Elder Schenk! He is great! He is full of
energy and his Spanish is super good. At transfer meeting we also watched a pre
screening edition of Meet the Mormons. That movie is awesome. I would recommend
truly to anyone. It is really informative, funny and full of life. I really
enjoyed it and I hope everyone who is reading this at least gives the trailer a
look!</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because then you will want to go and watch the movie :) Please watch the trailer below and then and check out their website: http://meetthemormons.com/ . On their page, you can find a theatre near you, by selecting your state and your city. Don't miss out! All net proceeds go to the American Red Cross! <o:p></o:p></div>
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On our first night here, I was just blown away by how many Spanish
people there were around here! :) It is seriously so cool! I was just so
excited to talk to the people here. I am so happy. I love sharing the gospel in the Spanish language. There is still people here from Bangladesh
and that made me really happy because I still get to surprise a lot of the
people and speak a little bit of Bengali to them which is always a lot of fun :)</div>
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We were able to meet some cool people on the street and invite them to come to church with us and to
watch General Conference. It is always kinda interesting when you tell
people that there is a person that was like Moses that is on the Earth
today :) We do have a living prophet on this earth today, who is the mouth piece for God, just as Moses was in his day. God loves us!</div>
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The other night we met a really cool family on the street
and talked to them for a while! Right after that I started
talking to another guy and he about had a heart attack that Elder Schenk and I both spoke spanish and
just kept saying how cool it was that we did, even though I sound like a</div>
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total white guy :) But hey I will take the compliment :) <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was a really fun week and I am really grateful to be
here! :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Much love from Corona!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-41396931570530365422014-09-07T20:13:00.002-07:002015-12-03T15:56:54.139-08:00"They just make all the work that we do worth it"<div class="MsoNormal">
Hello there everyone!</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have been having so much fun here in Woodside. I just love
being a missionary. I keep realizing it more and more every day that I am here
serving of just how special<o:p></o:p></div>
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the time that I have here is. It goes by so quickly and I am
just so<o:p></o:p></div>
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grateful for everyday… For the good and the sad times and
for<o:p></o:p></div>
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everything in between because that is what makes a mission
just so<o:p></o:p></div>
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worth serving. I am learning day by day on how to become
better and to<o:p></o:p></div>
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use what I have learned in the past to help me act now and
it just<o:p></o:p></div>
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makes me grateful for all of the things that I have
experienced to<o:p></o:p></div>
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help me grow on many levels.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So last week! On Monday Elder Martinez and I returned to
Brooklyn! We<o:p></o:p></div>
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went to Park Slope and went out to lunch and got Thai food
for his<o:p></o:p></div>
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birthday! It was pretty fun. So we got the same plate of
food and the<o:p></o:p></div>
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lady told us that the noodles were mild on the spicy level.
So I<o:p></o:p></div>
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thought that mild on the spicy level would be pretty much no
big deal<o:p></o:p></div>
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because I have eaten some pretty dang spicy Spanish food
right? WRONG!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was dying! They were so so spicy and my mouth was on fire,
but the<o:p></o:p></div>
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good news is that it was really tasty! :) We then went out
and walked<o:p></o:p></div>
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around Brooklyn for a little bit which was really nice. I
love it<o:p></o:p></div>
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there! Actually we went there again today! For a BBQ at an<o:p></o:p></div>
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investigators house in Bushwick. It is so nice because Elder
Martinez<o:p></o:p></div>
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and I both served there so we both know a lot of the same
people. Then<o:p></o:p></div>
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that night we went and visited a family in the ward and had
a Family<o:p></o:p></div>
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Home Evening with them it was awesome! They are a great
family and we<o:p></o:p></div>
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had a lot of fun there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On Tuesday we had our usual district meeting and we had our
finding<o:p></o:p></div>
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activity as a zone! It was pretty good! They are always
really fun and<o:p></o:p></div>
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helpful to get us excited. Then later in the day we had a
sweet visit<o:p></o:p></div>
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with a recent convert and we talked about how we as children
if God<o:p></o:p></div>
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can reach our full potential by doing small and simple things.
It<o:p></o:p></div>
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really is so true. I love how it is written in the
scriptures, in Alma<o:p></o:p></div>
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37: 6-7.<br />
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As we do simple things like read the scriptures
everyday,<o:p></o:p></div>
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pray, and go to church… this is how we show our faith to God
and how we<o:p></o:p></div>
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receive many blessings from our Father in Heaven. This I
know to be<o:p></o:p></div>
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true because I have see it have a huge effect on others
lives here<o:p></o:p></div>
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that are around me. Also that night we went to a families
house that<o:p></o:p></div>
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are from Bolivia. They are so cool! The mom always cooks
SOOO GOOD!<o:p></o:p></div>
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She made us a meal called Silpancho and it was so good! She gave us so
much food</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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and we had so much that we took some home! It was nice! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Wednesday we taught F. It went pretty well! <o:p></o:p></div>
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We also that night taught the Y family. They are from Peru
and are really<o:p></o:p></div>
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cool! We had a good visit there and their daughter had been
gone in<o:p></o:p></div>
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vacation in Peru for the summer so the father asked us to
teach her a<o:p></o:p></div>
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few things and it was the best lesson that we had over there
in a long<o:p></o:p></div>
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time. And to finish the night off they have us some Chi cha
Morada and<o:p></o:p></div>
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Inca Kola! They are both super Peruvian drinks and are
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The first one is made out of purple corn and the second one
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stuff!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Thursday we had our MLC meeting which was really good! It is
always so<o:p></o:p></div>
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good to see our Mission President. He is just so full of
wisdom and<o:p></o:p></div>
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always has so much to teach us which is so great to be a
part of those<o:p></o:p></div>
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meetings there. After the meeting I went on an exchange with
the new<o:p></o:p></div>
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Assistant Elder Nugent. He just got called to be the new
assistant and<o:p></o:p></div>
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we had a pretty good night together. We talked to a lot of
people that<o:p></o:p></div>
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night and got a few new potential people to visit which was
pretty<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
awesome. One guy we talked to Elder Rogers and I had met
earlier. He<o:p></o:p></div>
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is from India and he also speaks Spanish! Pretty crazy
right? Elder<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nugent and I were talking to him for a little while by a
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him and learned more about Hindu religion and culture which
was really<o:p></o:p></div>
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interesting! Then we <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>taught a lesson to the ward about having Faith in Jesus Christ and how that is important to have and to share. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Friday was a great day in that we talked to some really cool
people<o:p></o:p></div>
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before we another meeting with the district leaders in our
zone. We<o:p></o:p></div>
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had a good meeting together and then Elder Martinez and I
exchanged<o:p></o:p></div>
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back! Reunited! We then went to go and teach M! We had a<o:p></o:p></div>
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really good lesson with her and we brought a recent convert
with us who<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
had just gotten his mission call. It was a great visit
there. She has<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
been in dialysis for a long time and just found out this
week that she<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
was available to receive a transplant. She told us and just
started<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to cry because she was so happy. It was a beautiful
experience!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Then on Saturday we did service and that was a lot of fun!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We did a lot a painting and that was good! Then after service
we<o:p></o:p></div>
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taught a teenager that did service with us. It was so good!<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Probably one of the best lessons that I have ever taught on
my<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
mission. He asked a lot of questions while we were doing
service with<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
him and then we took him on a church tour. There we taught
him and he told us of how he wanted to change his life. It was amazing. We
helped him to recognize the power if the Holy Spirit as we taught him and he
loved it. He told us how he felt<o:p></o:p></div>
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something different, but that it felt good. I love those
experiences so<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
much! They just make all of the work that we
do worth<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
it, to help one of God’s children to recognize the spirit to
tell them<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that what they are learning is true. It is such a beautiful
thing. He<o:p></o:p></div>
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asked us what the purpose of life was and why he was here.
As we<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
taught him you could just see that the eyes of his
understanding were<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
opened. It was such a wonderful thing to see. We are going
to see him<o:p></o:p></div>
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next week and teach him again! We are excited! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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some people at home and ended up finding a new person who
was<o:p></o:p></div>
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and we are<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
going to teach him soon!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
It was such a good week! We also had a funny experience with
an intoxicated man who was jumping all over us on Saturday on our way to the
meeting. He yelled at us from afar saying “My boys… the Mormons! I love you
guys! “ Gotta love it! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Love you all!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Elder Waidmann<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-32219460595564438512014-08-20T19:52:00.000-07:002015-12-03T15:57:34.328-08:00"I would not change what I am doing for anything"<div class="MsoNormal">
Hey hey hey!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I mean hey! How are you all doing? I hope that you are all
doing well<o:p></o:p></div>
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and that life is treating you all great! Because life here
in New York<o:p></o:p></div>
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is incredible!<o:p></o:p></div>
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This week has been such an incredible week. Probably one of
the most<o:p></o:p></div>
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memorable and fun weeks on my mission. It has been so full
of<o:p></o:p></div>
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blessings and miracles. I really don't even know where to
start.<o:p></o:p></div>
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First off, I want to tell you about our investigator “R”! Holy
moly!<o:p></o:p></div>
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This guy is a miracle! He had been taught by the missionaries
in<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mexico before and he was pretty interested and we found him
last week<o:p></o:p></div>
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at our miracle building! WOW! He is such a great guy. So
humble and<o:p></o:p></div>
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full of love. After our first lesson with him he shook our
hands and<o:p></o:p></div>
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just gave Elder Rogers and I a big hug. I was really
surprised to be<o:p></o:p></div>
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honest, but hey! We had a sweet lesson with one of the
members of our<o:p></o:p></div>
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bishopric and “R” together on last Monday and it was great! “R”<o:p></o:p></div>
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loved it and he was just so happy to be here and to have met
us. We<o:p></o:p></div>
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love him so much and he just really wants to change his
life! He came<o:p></o:p></div>
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to church on Sunday and he loved it as well! It was so cool!
There is<o:p></o:p></div>
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a brother who is offering a painting class and “R” asked me
if he<o:p></o:p></div>
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could come and then the Elders Quorum President told him
"Of<o:p></o:p></div>
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Course!" It was awesome :) He is such a good guy and he
is so fun<o:p></o:p></div>
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to be with. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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On Monday night went out and were talking to some people and </div>
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we met a guy from India who wanted us to come to his cafe and buy coffee from
him. Obviously we didn't, but he was a super cool guy and he told us that he knew how to speak Spanish </div>
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(he
really didn't which was pretty funny haha). Anyway so we </div>
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kept walking and we heard
someone shout "Hey guys!!" So we turn around and see a
young guy point his fingers at us and motion for us to come to him. We were kind
of</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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surprised and then went to go and talk to him. His name is “L”
and he<o:p></o:p></div>
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is from Colombia and has lived here for 6 months. He is so
cool!<o:p></o:p></div>
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He told us how he wants to consecrate his life to God and to
change<o:p></o:p></div>
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and become better and how we knew what we taught was true!
What in the<o:p></o:p></div>
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world? Come to find out, later he said that he had seen us
talking to<o:p></o:p></div>
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people on the train and knew that we were servants of God.
So cool! :)<o:p></o:p></div>
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We taught him on Friday, Saturday and Sunday! It was so cool!
He<o:p></o:p></div>
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loves learning! He is really smart and he knows the bible
really well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He is such a fun guy to be around! We had a ward activity on </div>
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Saturday and we taught him beforehand and then he came to the activity with us </div>
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and he loved it! :) He was introducing himself to everyone and they loved him!
It was so so so funny. He would say hi to people and they would ask him where he was
from and he</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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would always say, "Soy Colombiano!" "Hasta
las medias" and they would<o:p></o:p></div>
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just all die! :) In Spanish it is hilarious, but in English
not as much<o:p></o:p></div>
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haha. In English it means that he is “Colombian until his
socks”. Pretty<o:p></o:p></div>
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great. Let me just tell you all. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were talking to him the first time we<o:p></o:p></div>
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met him and he said "Are we going to talk about
Doctrine or what?" and<o:p></o:p></div>
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we said of course! :) He is loving learning about the church
and<o:p></o:p></div>
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loves the Book of Mormon! When he read that HE could pray to
know that<o:p></o:p></div>
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the Book of Mormon was true (Read Moroni 10: 3-5) he just smiled and said “Amen”!
Then when we told him that Jesus Christ came to America and his face was just awesome!</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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He was so shocked and then so happy! :) Needless to say he
is amazing!</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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I love New York and all the crazy awesome things about it! Even
if it means running after a bus for about 10 minutes not catching it, then
having to walk home for over a half an hour in the rain with my companion. I wouldn't
change what I am doing for anything. I love my life. I love God. He is our
Father. He hears our prayers and answers them in HIS time. Miracles are real
and we just have to have the faith and show Him that we really truly do desire
the best for others around us. Love<o:p></o:p></div>
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and Charity go a long way. You can never go poor by giving
away love<o:p></o:p></div>
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and I know that is true!<o:p></o:p></div>
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New York is my home and I love it here!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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Much love!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Elder Waidmann<o:p></o:p><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-9914050222174975702014-08-11T20:50:00.000-07:002015-12-03T15:58:00.198-08:00"The teaching that is going on here is really great!"<pre style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px; white-space: normal;">Hello all! </span></span></pre>
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<pre style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px; white-space: normal;"> This is going to be a shorter email this week because today was a
pretty crazy day! We had our regular once a transfer zone activity
which was pretty fun! We traveled to Rego Park, which is an area in
the mission, and we went to a place called Juniper Park and played
some kick ball and ultimate frisbee! It was pretty fun! I also got to
play a little but of tennis with one of the sisters who was in my
district in Bushwick because she is serving in Rego now and we had a
combined zone activity with their zone. So it was sweet! Also I got to
play some catch with another Elder who had a glove and a baseball! Man
I haven't done that in a pretty long time and it was a lot of fun! </span></span></pre>
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<pre style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px; white-space: normal;">This week was a lot of fun! I learned some more Bengali and some Greek
as well! It was really cool! Last night I actually talked to a lady
from Greece in Greek! I mean it was a very tiny conversation but it
was still pretty fun! I told her that she was beautiful and that I
loved her haha! :) She was pretty happy! Don't worry she was about 80
so I wasn't flirting if that is what you all are thinking haha! </span></span></pre>
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<pre style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px; white-space: normal;"> So some cool things that happened this week! We met a really cool guy
from Mexico! We met a guy outside a building by our house and we talked to him and set up a time to go and visit him on Friday! He has only been here in the US for 2 months and he is
so humble. He has been taught by the missionaries in Mexico already a
little bit and he is just such a loving guy. So on
Friday we talked to him and taught him about the importance of Baptism in the
church and how it really is a gift from God that he has given to us to
be able to come closer to Him and how we really desired that for him. He was so happy and just saying thank you. He feels that he wants to come closer to God. We invited
him to be baptized and he was really accepting and is excited. We are
going to teach him tonight with a member of the Bishopric and we are
amped! He is so great! Ordale! </span></span></pre>
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<pre style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px; white-space: normal;"> We also taught our investigator from English class this week and he is such a loving guy. We are excited to keep teaching him! We had some really good lessons this week! The
teaching that is going on here is really great and Elder Rogers and I are having a lot of fun.
We had a sweet experience this week! Our investigator couple from
English class invited us over to come and eat Paella! It is a typical
Spanish dish from Spain! It is pure seafood. And if you know me,
well me and seafood, we aren't the best of friends but let me tell you
it was so good! Maybe I got the gift of tongues in the sense of to
have stuff taste good that I don't usually like haha but I am not even
kidding it was great! It was full and I mean FULL of shrimp, mussels,
clams, tentacles, and all this other stuff with rice and it was great!
I had a lot of fun there. They are such great people. Right now, the husband
is just really set on not being religious and we will just take it one
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<pre style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px; white-space: normal;"> Saturday I got to go on an exchange with Elder Rees who is from
Tennessee and maybe Evan and him know each other! We had a
lot of fun and had to eat a lot of food. I literally almost lost all
the food in my stomach at one point at a members house and it was
scary. But I survived! We had a great day together and had a lot of
fun. </span></span></pre>
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<pre style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px; white-space: normal;">Exchanges are just always full of miracles and it is so cool. We
went and taught a former investigator of theirs! First cool thing he
loves tennis! Connection there! He has the tennis channel on when we
were in the house and I was so distracted at first....I haven't seen
that channel in an eternity and so it was like a tender mercy from The
Lord... slash a temptation haha :) But we had a great lesson with him! He
already has a testimony of the church and he wants to join the church
holla! :) It was such a cool experience! It was a really fun day.
We also had a really uplifting zone meeting this week and it was so
great to be taught and uplifted by the spirit there. Elder Rogers and
I taught a workshop on the doctrine of Christ and I learned a lot
through studying and teaching it. It was great. The Spirit really does
truly teach you as you teach others. It is such a cool principle of
the Gospel. This week has been such a blessing. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is wonderful! I love it! </span></span></pre>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-22330629385337776892014-07-14T19:47:00.003-07:002015-12-03T15:58:11.932-08:00The Lord Throws You A Bone!<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey there all!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Wow! What a sweet week that this has been! Man the time flys by so quickly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">This week was quite an adventure! We had our transfer meeting on </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">Tuesday and those meetings are always incredible! The spirit is always </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">so present there and it is a very uplifting and edifying experience. I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">love it.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"> So we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">had some changes in the zone and there is just energy for days here! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">We have so many new missionaries here and it is so cool! In the E</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">nglish district there are four missionaries that are being trained so </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">they bring great positive energy here to the zone and it is just so </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">cool to be able to be a part of. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">At the transfer meeting our mission president talked about the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">principle of obedience and why it is so truly important to us. I know </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">that being obedient really does bring us blessings. I have seen this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">here in my mission and I know that as we are obedient in life we are </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">truly happy. When we are disobedient we receive happiness for a very </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">temporary time and then we regret our actions. It is only when we are </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">truly obedient that the happiness springs forth from within us and it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">is everlasting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">That night we went and visited a Bolivian less active family and it </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">was really cool! We had a traditional dish called Silpancho and it was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">he bomb! Man! I love spanish food so much!!!! If I come home and I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">disappear randomly it will probably because I moved to another country </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">because I like their food so much. Sorry America.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">On Wednesday we had a finding activity as a zone and it went really </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">well! We went out and we gave out copies of the Book of Mormon and R</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">estoration pamphlets. It was a lot of fun! Elder Rogers and I were </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">walking down Woodside Ave. and we walked by this church called the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">Winfield Reformed Church and there was a Chinese lady outside and I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">started talking to her in Chinese and surpridingly enough she </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">understood me! Usually when I do it the people usually say hi back to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">me and laugh haha. BUT! This time was different! She started talking </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">back and then I I just thought "Oh no!" So I just kept walking and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">then I realized that I love talking to Chinese people so Elder Rogers </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">and I turned around and we went back and then I started talking to her </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">again and then I told her in Chinese that I didn't speak Chinese. haha P</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">retty ironic I know right. But then she wasnt really understanding my </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">English and then I forgot that when I speak English with a Chinese </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">accent then they understand me perfectly! So I did that and it was so </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">much fun! It just brought me back to Dyker Heights!! Elder Rogers was </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">just laughing so so so so hard when I was talking to her because I </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">sounded so weird. Haha so the lady and I had a great convo and we said </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">bye! Elder Rogers then said that to him I sounded like a foreigner </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">from a Chinese country. He was wondering why I wasn't a Chinese elder </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">haha! :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">Later that day we were out trying to find people and we were trying to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">be really diligent and we didn't have too much success in the sense of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">finding the people that we were looking for. Then on our way back we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">said hi to this lady and straight miracle!!! She is from Colombia and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">is from Medellin! It was a tender mercy! Elder Rogers and I love the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">people from there because they are so nice and their accent is so </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">cool! ;) In the words of another missionary when you do your best the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">lord throws you a bone haha :) We also taught English class that night</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">and it was a lot of fun! We always say so much spanglish in there and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">it is so much fun! :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">This week was 7-11! Did you all go??? I hope so! free slurpies! It was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">the bomb! :) That morning we were out trying to find some less active </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">guys and then I said hi to an old lady and tried talking to her! I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">thought that she would be super cool and nice! But nope! When we were </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">standing and waiting to cross a street she turned around and asked me </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">this: "Why do you go around picking on old people??!?" And I was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">really confused because I was nice to her haha....so yeah that was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">funny haha :) Also that night we found a brand new family!!!! They </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">were former investigators and they are so awesome! They have two </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">adorable little kids and we are so excited to be able to teach them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">On Thursday we had our monthly MLC meeting and our mission president </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">really wants us to focus on PMG more! That is what Elder Neilson, who </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">came and visited the mission, received inspiration on what we should </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">improve on. This week Elder Rogers and I have been studying the guts </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">out of that book and there are so many incredible promises and all we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">have to do as missionaries and as members of the church is just to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">have the faith to act upon them and they truly will happen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">One of the reasons why Elder Rogers and I have had such a good week </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">this last week is because some of our mission heroes went home this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">last week. Elder Jensen and Elder Carlson, who I served with in Little </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">Neck, and Elder Briles who trained Elder Rogers and was the assistant </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">for the last 8 months went home. Wow. That was a tender day. We were </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">just so motivated to carry on this work because those missionaries </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">gave everything they had and it was so hard to see them. We love those </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">missionaries and we learned so much from them. We have been seeking </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">ways that we can improve ourselves and our efforts and we have just </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">been so guided this week. It has been incredible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">So this is my scripture of the week! :) It is found in D&C 123:13 "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">they are truly manifest from heaven--"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">I want to continue to waste and wear out my life in this service! We </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">can never serve God enough :) I am so happy to be here! I love you all </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">so much! :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Much love from the Goodside!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><br />
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Elder park and I went to flushing! Frushing!!! :) haha (that is how the Chinese people say it here which is pretty funny)<br />
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So we joined their compliment street sweep! They just had a bunch of posters saying good things about people and telling them to be happy and smile and that they were loved and such and it was pretty cool! And this was in Flushing which is like 70% Chinese so that was pretty great! I got to use my limited Chinese again with people and that was pretty cool! So all of the missionaries were just saying hi to everyone and complimenting them on things about them and making them feel happy and loved! And to make them smile of course! Holy cow that was so much fun! I love the city! I really do! It is so much fun to go back in there and just be able to have people all around you. It is something that I love! Especially as a missionary! It was great to see elders that I have been around and served with in the past! Lots of fun! Flushing is a great place! It is one of the few times that I have been in that area and I love it!<br />
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And Josef! or Jose! Our new suuuuuuuper borracho (drunk) friend who loves to curse at everyone! The guy was a little off his rocker that day let me tell you! Seriously though. I have never seen someone that drunk before and that diligent to talk to us at the same time. He hugged Elder Izaat like 10 times! And very awkwardly as well. So Jose told me that I am from England and that he is from America even though he totally hails from Honduras! He has been to England 3 times! More English than me haha! He was speaking in Spanish when he said this to me "Look we live in America right?" and I said yeah of course! And he said "Where are your parents from?" and I said America of course. And then he said..."No they aren't! They are from England!" So apparently my parents are from England now. Fun fact of the day!<br />
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So let us go to the beginning of the story...how we met Jose. Our new beloved friend. He started talking to us by cursing at a Sister and an Elder as he walked by them using some not so nice language. Which is sometimes pretty normal as a missionary here in New York to hear from people. Most of the time we hear it and it just rolls right off because we don't let it bother us. But, with our new friend he stayed and kept talking and that just started off bad. Then at that point I kinda knew what the situation was starting to turn into. Then is when he began talking to us and saying the same thing over and over every couple minutes. In total it lasted about an hour which was pretty great!<br />
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So as he continued walking after saying some words to the Elder and Sister missionaries that he talked to at first he made his way over to me and another Elder and Sister and came right up in front of us. He was in our faces pretty good. This is when I realized he was seriously under the influence of some alcohol. You could smell it emanating off of him. He kept trying to say things to us which didn't make too much sense because he was slurring his words and what he was trying to say just wasn't coming out right I guess. He started to harass the sister missionary that was with us.<br />
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Sister Elder izaat called him to repentance and told him to go home and stop drinking and to take care of his family.<br />
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And that is when this great love just formed between Jose and him. He called Elder Izaat "his boy"<br />
after he told him to stop being drunk and that is where the constant hugging began. We also told him to stop wasting his money on that stuff.<br />
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He then proceeded to talk to me in spanish about elder izaat for about 10 minutes and then just like he did to elder izaat he hugged me. Like 5 times oh my goodness it was ridiculous. He smelt of alcohol sooooo<br />
bad! and told me to pray for izaat because he is dangerous and could kill me and 5 people and could break our bones....yeah.. and to pray for izaat and to pray for him. I told him to stop drinking and to stop cursing. Haha and to top it off earlier in the conversation he totally blew his nose right in front of us and then tried to wipe it on sister dean...for real...yeah ridiculous. This guy. He is a child of our Heavenly Father. I was super annoyed at first and at then end a little frustrated but now that I think back on that, I would have NEVER<br />
talked to that guy if I wasn't a missionary. NEVER. It just goes to show how much love The Lord can pump through you when you need it and I really was able to be patient with him even though he was super drunk and completely crazy. It is situations like this that make me grateful for the lords protection and his care over us as His missionaries. It was super sketchy at first and he was trying to get all up in sister deans grill and I was not having that at all. I was trying to stand in front of her and get her out of the way but little sister energy filled dean is just so nice and loving and wanted to talk to him still haha. It was a very interesting experience<br />
nonetheless and crazy to say I am so grateful for it. I know that I will never forget it as long as I live. Oh man. Jose. If that is even his name. Thanks be to God for his love because I really hope that Jose can find it. Because he needs some mercy in his life! ;)<br />
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The Lords hand is so gentle that he puts these little attributes such as patience in you to help you deal with, or talk with people like this and somehow develop love for them and not punch them no matter how much the natural man inside of you wants to haha. Josef. Really liked to curse. Drink, that's for sure. Is from America? NO, Honduras let's be real here. Speaks english and spanish. Loves touching Elder Izaat's head and hugging him for no reason and calling him "His Boy". Hates me at first but loves me at the end. Quoted Nacho Libre<br />
<b>PERFECTLY</b> when he said "Take it easy!" and put his arm up to block me from talking to him and told me to be quiet. Even though I am pretty sure he has never even seen the movie at all. Loves to leave his backpack on the ground when talking to you and when you try to give it back to him he says "it doesn't matter" even when you try to convince him that someone is trying to steal it....love to hug you. Very touchy<br />
dude. Loves to tell me how I need to pray for Elder Izaat because he could kill me, 5 other people, break my bones, he is effing strong, no, just strong after a clean up of language, and loses his balance a little when he talks to you. He also wreaks of wonderful alcohol breath and loves his Michigan Wolverines, I think, his jacket said so at least. He loves to talk to sister dean and cuss out sister lee and elder woodward. He also thought that I was going to hook him up with my sisters...yeah I told him that "Ellas ya son casadas" (they are<br />
already married) so he was pretty sad about that one haha. That is when I am proud to have older sisters. He asked if I had a little one and he wanted me to "presentar" (introduce) him to them. Yeah right bro....let's be honest here. No hispanic drunk dude who looks like he has a mini beard from the shang hi dynasty, and who spits before he leaves and he is done talking to me is going to meet any of my family let alone my sisters...I was already uncomfortable enough when you were trying to get in Sister Deans face. Nope! You are wrong my friend. Go and be sober brotha! Yeah that is Josef for you....we go way back...like for about 45 minutes worth and almost the same conversation on repeat ever 10 minutes. I hope he doesn't drink anymore and gets the Gospel in his life, because lord knows that he needs it!<br />
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Anyway after that we tried to visit some Korean members in flushing! Park bong ye! And that was dec! And I realized that I lost my wallet! Oh snap! But after searching at the church and having the feeling that<br />
it was in my Brooklyn industries bag the whole time....it was. The spirit never lies haha. And The Lord answers and hears all prayers!<br />
G.O.E.! :) I love that!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-5790832581717502342014-04-10T16:03:00.000-07:002015-12-03T16:04:40.704-08:00Potentials...Meeting someone and telling them that a BOOK of all things is going to help them feel closer to God and then telling them that it can help them in their everyday life sounds really weird right? Yeah I know it might! Well, me as a missionary I tell this to people all the time about the Book of Mormon! So forgive me for my weirdness. I just want people to be happy like me! And that is just what the Book of Mormon brings...TRUE HAPPINESS!<br />
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I love the Book of Mormon so much! Why you might ask? Well to be completely honest it has changed my life. It has brought me closer to my Father in Heaven and especially to my Savior Jesus Christ, whom this book testifies of so many times. I know that this may sound cheesy or like so many other people talking about the Book of Mormon, but I can promise you that it is true. The Prophet Joseph Smith said: the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book." Of this I can completely agree!<br />
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I know that this promise is true. I know it because I have read it cover to cover and the stories and doctrine inside have come alive to me. I have become a better person because of it and I truly treasure this book of scripture. I invite you all to read it! :) I promise, you won't regret it!<br />
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Now let me tell you about some of these sweet experiences that I have had talking with New Yorkers about this wonderful Book! On March 21st in the wonderful city of Great Neck we got together as a group of missionaries that are in our area and we went to a Long Island Rail Road Station. Our goal was to invite people to come unto Christ and to have happiness and joy in their lives by reading the Book of Mormon. We were there for a while and I had gotten the chance to talk to a few people but most of which were not interested in the slightest! Which is sometimes not so surprising as a missionary here in New York haha. But I came across a man who seemed like he needed a little brightening in his day, so I decided to talk to him and try to bring a smile across his face. Well it didn't work haha. I began talking to the man and he said that he didn't want anything to do with me or the Book of Mormon, and when I continued on about how it would help him be happy he turned and faced me. He was about 6'3 or 6'4 and huge! And he was very upset with me. And then he said "When I say no, it means no!" And I apologized and told him to have a great day with a smile :) He then shouted very angrily as he walked away "I don't believe that anyone can be that nice!" It was an interesting experience and while I was talking to him the whole time there was another man who was above us watching this whole thing play out on a flight of stairs up to the train station. He was relaxing and eating a Kit Kat bar! Oh yeah! He was really shocked that the other man was so upset with me and he was shaking his head and saying wow. I went up to talk to him and he made a comment about the whole situation that happened and asked what we were doing out here. I then started to talk to him about the Book of Mormon and he was really interested and I was able to share my testimony with him about it which was great! He gladly took a copy and then bounced down the stairs to catch his train! The worst part was though that I totally forgot to use a sweet pun that was in my head! I was totally going to say "man that guy wouldn't give me a break" and I totally forgot! Haha get it "break"? Maybe not so funny but I totally realized afterward that I forgot so my funniness didn't work so well I guess!<br />
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Throughout that time though I got to talk to some people who were really cool! I gave out another copy to a Spanish lady who was really excited to read it and that was great! I love when people actually listen to you and trust you that this will help them grow closer to God. It is so cool to see them accept the challenge and then take your word for it and to want to try it! I was also able to talk to a Jewish guy for about 5 minutes and that was really cool too! I also met a guy who grew up in California and said that some of his friend gorwing up were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as well which was really cool! I love being able to have conversations with people about our faith where both of us are mutually respectful and are there to learn and love one another. I love how that common respect can still exist between people. It is definitely a comforting feeling! But on the New York roadways...I am not sure how much that exists haha just kidding...but really though :)<br />
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So now fast forward a little to March 28th! In Bayside Queens at another train station! We got there and I said to myself well it is time to go spread some of the word of God to help others! The first guy that I saw I went up to him and started talking to him about the Book of Mormon and he was really interested! He was from Turkey and he also had a lot of friends, he told me, that were members of our church as well! So that was cool! I gave him a Book of Mormon and he said that he would read it and he put it right in his bag and was really excited to have it! Which was so cool! :)<br />
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Then a few minutes later there weren't many people on the street so I figured I should walk down the sidewalk a little and I came across a guy by the name of Brandon! Hey fancy that! Coincidence?? I think not! So then I started to talk to him and I gave him a Book of Mormon and I got to tell him how it could help him in his life and he looked at me and said "Thank you, I know that this was for a reason" and then his ride came and he had to leave. But that was such a great experience to have! He was so happy! I know that this message brings great happiness and joy to all! I promise! I invite you to read the Book of Mormon and find out for yourself how it can make you happy! I know that it is true! Life in New York is great!<br />
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Much love!<br />
street sweep on fri in bayside train station<br />
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gave bofm to first guy I talked to from turkey! so cool! he was so down! put it right in his bag and said that he wanted to read it! :) knew mormon people already in woodside queens<br />
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gave bofm to brandon! such a great guy he said that this was for a reason and he was so interested as well, it was amazing<br />
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vincent jerry garcia tie while smoking was super excited and then sper upset once we started talking about religion and when I testified to him but I could feel the love that HF had for him as I talked to him I was trying so had to see him as god saw him. good experience hard street sweep at first but way good!<br />
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cooking more and experimenting, for my comp<br />
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what we have been trying to do to find people<br />
----------------handball, oh man!, ping pong on mutual<br />
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jeffrey the experience, feel the love of God pulsing through me to get to him,<br />
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the love of god is all around us! we just have to look for it!<br />
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feel the hand of the lord when we look for it<br />
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as we look for ways to serve others they do come<br />
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zone conference, faith to find, go and make it so! the spyglass, look forward with faith and hope,<br />
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the daily things! dont forget the details,<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-40263108082997782432014-04-08T13:37:00.003-07:002015-12-03T16:04:58.875-08:00On the Streets of New York! Meeting someone and telling them that a BOOK of all things is going to help them feel closer to God and then telling them that it can help them in their everyday life sounds really weird right? Yeah I know it might! Well, me as a missionary I tell this to people all the time about the Book of Mormon! So forgive me for my weirdness. I just want people to be happy like me! And that is just what the Book of Mormon brings...TRUE HAPPINESS!<br />
<br />
I love the Book of Mormon so much! Why you might ask? Well to be completely honest it has changed my life. It has brought me closer to my Father in Heaven and especially to my Savior Jesus Christ, whom this book testifies of so many times. I know that this may sound cheesy or like so many other people talking about the Book of Mormon, but I can promise you that it is true. The Prophet Joseph Smith said: the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book." Of this I can completely agree!<br />
<br />
<br />
I know that this promise is true. I know it because I have read it cover to cover and the stories and doctrine inside have come alive to me. I have become a better person because of it and I truly treasure this book of scripture. I invite you all to read it! :) I promise, you won't regret it!<br />
<br />
Now let me tell you about some of these sweet experiences that I have had talking with New Yorkers about this wonderful Book! On March 21st in the wonderful city of Great Neck we got together as a group of missionaries that are in our area and we went to a Long Island Rail Road Station. Our goal was to invite people to come unto Christ and to have happiness and joy in their lives by reading the Book of Mormon. We were there for a while and I had gotten the chance to talk to a few people but most of which were not interested in the slightest! Which is sometimes not so surprising as a missionary here in New York haha. But I came across a man who seemed like he needed a little brightening in his day, so I decided to talk to him and try to bring a smile across his face. Well it didn't work haha. I began talking to the man and he said that he didn't want anything to do with me or the Book of Mormon, and when I continued on about how it would help him be happy he turned and faced me. He was about 6'3 or 6'4 and huge! And he was very upset with me. And then he said "When I say no, it means no!" And I apologized and told him to have a great day with a smile :) He then shouted very angrily as he walked away "I don't believe that anyone can be that nice!" It was an interesting experience and while I was talking to him the whole time there was another man who was above us watching this whole thing play out on a flight of stairs up to the train station. He was relaxing and eating a Kit Kat bar! Oh yeah! He was really shocked that the other man was so upset with me and he was shaking his head and saying wow. I went up to talk to him and he made a comment about the whole situation that happened and asked what we were doing out here. I then started to talk to him about the Book of Mormon and he was really interested and I was able to share my testimony with him about it which was great! He gladly took a copy and then bounced down the stairs to catch his train! The worst part was though that I totally forgot to use a sweet pun that was in my head! I was totally going to say "man that guy wouldn't give me a break" and I totally forgot! Haha get it "break"? Maybe not so funny but I totally realized afterward that I forgot so my funniness didn't work so well I guess!<br />
<br />
Throughout that time though I got to talk to some people who were really cool! I gave out another copy to a Spanish lady who was really excited to read it and that was great! I love when people actually listen to you and trust you that this will help them grow closer to God. It is so cool to see them accept the challenge and then take your word for it and to want to try it! I was also able to talk to a Jewish guy for about 5 minutes and that was really cool too! I also met a guy who grew up in California and said that some of his friend gorwing up were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as well which was really cool! I love being able to have conversations with people about our faith where both of us are mutually respectful and are there to learn and love one another. I love how that common respect can still exist between people. It is definitely a comforting feeling! But on the New York roadways...I am not sure how much that exists haha just kidding...but really though :)<br />
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So now fast forward a little to March 28th! In Bayside Queens at another train station! We got there and I said to myself well it is time to go spread some of the word of God to help others! The first guy that I saw I went up to him and started talking to him about the Book of Mormon and he was really interested! He was from Turkey and he also had a lot of friends, he told me, that were members of our church as well! So that was cool! I gave him a Book of Mormon and he said that he would read it and he put it right in his bag and was really excited to have it! Which was so cool! :)<br />
<br />
Then a few minutes later there weren't many people on the street so I figured I should walk down the sidewalk a little and I came across a guy by the name of Brandon! Hey fancy that! Coincidence?? I think not! So then I started to talk to him and I gave him a Book of Mormon and I got to tell him how it could help him in his life and he looked at me and said "Thank you, I know that this was for a reason" and then his ride came and he had to leave. But that was such a great experience to have! He was so happy! I know that this message brings great happiness and joy to all! I promise! I invite you to read the Book of Mormon and find out for yourself how it can make you happy! I know that it is true! Life in New York is great!<br />
<br />
Much love!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-56070410935486441222014-03-21T12:27:00.004-07:002015-12-03T16:05:18.624-08:00Winter has ended but the Blog has not! Hey I am alive!!!<br />
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After going MIA randomly I am back to the blog! Yes I know it has been forever since I have been on here and it has been a little weird being out of the updates on what is going on here in the amazing place of New York!!<br />
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So it has been since late January that I have made any updates and a lot has happened since then! But to some it up quick...lots of snow, snow shoveling, driving in the snow and cold cold cold! The good news is that it has been so much fun this winter season being able to serve my fellow New York neighbors!<br />
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I have had so many opportunities to be able to get to know people by helping them get their car out of the ice wall that was made by the snow plow going right by their car and making it almost impossible to get out! I have been able to push and shove and use a pick ax on some serious ice helping people get unstuck from the snow as well and let me tell you it is quite the endeavor but way fun!<br />
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I love being able to do service! It really is the best thing ever. I am so grateful to be a missionary where that is what I am here to do everyday. It is pretty awesome I must say! :)<br />
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Let me share one story with you...<br />
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So Elder Hooper and I get a call one day from a member of the church in Rego Park asking if we could help her friend to clean her car off form the snow. It had snowed a couple of days earlier and it hadn't snowed too much and so we figured it would be a five minute max project. So we thought okay sweet! Easy we will get this done super quick! I mean we were becoming quite skilled at this I must say :) So we headed over to where this lady lived and she told us on the phone that she was not home from work yet and that she was in traffic, so we figured, okay we just need to know what car it is and we will get it taken care of right? Wrong!! So she told us what car it was and the license plate number and after an epic search we finally found it! We assumed that it would just be parked in her driveway, yeah well it wasn't. It was one of those cars that got stuck from the snow plow and it wasn't going anywhere any time soon. The problem was is that a few days before the most recent snow it snowed soooo much! But soooo much like a little over a foot but not too bad haha! So we got out of our car and went to work! Bad news was is that the snow after like a day or two turns to straight ice because at night in the city it was getting down below 10 degrees so everything was frozen solid in the morning! Yay! Fun! So we went at it and finished in about 30 to 45 minutes! So not too bad really which was great! The best part was that it was so much fun doing it! I have no idea why but I really love shoveling snow haha. Everyone else from Utah thinks that I am crazy...maybe I am. Or maybe I just haven't had to shovel snow my whole life as well so that could be a reason too! :) But nonetheless I love it!<br />
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So after we had taken down that project we called the lady to tell her that we were done and that we were leaving to go, she said to me on the phone, "No! You do not leave! I am coming here in five minute! I be there in five minute! Stay and wait for me!" I began to tell her that we had to leave becaus we had to be at the church for a meeting and we were already late and she just said "No! I be there soon! Stay!" So I figured okay five minutes then haha. Then in the mean time there was a guy who had one of those vans that are like the size of a bus that was suuuuuuuuuuuuuper stuck in the snow, well more like deep ice at this point and he had been going at it trying to get his van out for the whole time that we were there getting our new friends car unstuck. So I said to Elder Hooper " We gotta go and help him, there is no way he is getting out of there." so we went! And man oh man was he stuck, and the worst part was that out shovels were nice but they were just hard plastic and when we went to try to shovel him out using our shovels it was basically like trying to shovel a brick wall....yeah not happening! So by this point the sun is almost down and I can't feel my hands! Sweet! :) And then this guy had a pick ax! Now that is what I am talking about!!! I was so pumped! So I took that and went to town on that ice! Still it was quite the struggle because if you know me I am the scrawniest weakest kid you know and my muscles can't do much, but I was trying! :) So after a good long struggle our friend arrived and went and looked at her car and came back to watch us help this guy with his can. After the van finally was free of the ice trap, which took a lot more effort than I realized, we were pretty tired! :) But it was a good feeling though! And our friend....lets call her Bagda, she said to us "Okay you coming with me now to my house so I make you food and so you can get snow off my driveway" and we told her uhhhh we gotta leave! Then again she said, (she was really persistent haha) "No you coming with me here inside my house so I give you food! [Oh and also she has this accent that I still have no idea where she was from...imagine a mix of Hindu, Russian, and King Julian from Madagascar, and that does it a little justice :)] So then we said okay we will look at your driveway. So we follow her to her house, and I am not even kidding okay maybe a little but she basically had an Olympic size ice rink on her street/driveway/sidewalk and it was like a foot thick! NO JOKE! Haha and the first thing I thought was, there is nooooo way we are going to be able to get this out of here! I began to tell her how our shovels were plastic and would break and there is no way the ice was coming up and then she sadly agreed that it was quite the project. Then for a last persistence she said "Okay now I going with you to Key Food and I buy you chicken! And I go with you in your car." And I was thinking...what?? Where did that come from???? Haha it was soooo funny though! Then we told her that we really had to go and we couldn't stay which made her kinda sad but in the end she was really grateful that we helped her out :)<br />
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Experiences like these have helped me to realize that I am so grateful to be on a mission. I get to have the craziest and the funnest things happen in my life and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I am grateful that Heavenly Father can trust Elder Waidmann to run some service errands for Him. I wouldn't have it any other way. I know that as we love and serve others we truly do find ourselves. We create lasting memories and we as the people serving, are so much more blessed than those that we assist and help. I know that this is so true! I am grateful for the Savior! Jesus Christ is the best example of service to us all. He gave His life for each of us. This is true. I know that He loves us so much. He wants us to be happy! Sometimes we need to just relax, take a step back and breathe and look at all we have. We are so blessed just to be living. Life is a gift that is why we live in the present! Keep it real out there everyone and serve it up! :)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So this is from 1-27-14 to 2-3-14,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I know that I havent done this in quite some time but I hope that you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are all doing great! I love you all so much! Just thought I should let </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you know that! :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hospital with the Motzing Family</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So after teaching Jeffery at the church I saw that we had a missed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">call from call from Sister Motzing, who is an awesome lady in the ward</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and her husband is in the bishopric. I talked to her and she was just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in tears on the phone, which really shocked me. She told me how she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wanted us to come to the hospital to her her father in law a blessing.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bro Motzings Dad was admitted on the day before and she told me on the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">phone that the doctors told them that he only had little time left. It</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">made me so sad. SO I called the other elders and we motored over to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the hospital as quick as we could. The news came as a shock to them,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">all of a sudden he had gotten really sick and then they took him to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the hosptial. They had thought he had around 5 years left. So they</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were not really ready for what had happened. As we got there we were</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">trying to find the room and then we asked the nurse at a desk and then</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I heard her say that that he was in hospice and then I knew</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">immediately that he was on his way out of this life sadly. We got into</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the room and sister motzing was in tears and brother motzing was so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">somber looking. I went and gave brother motzing a big hug and just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">told him that I loved him. And then there was their little 7 year old</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">son Liam curled up on the bed right next to grandpa motzing fast</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">asleep. It was so sad to see this man only 76 years old so frail and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">just fighting to be able to breathe. After visiting with them for a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">good amount of time the Bishop got there and then we gave him a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">blessing with Bishop. It was so sad to see this happen, but it was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">also an experience I was able to learn a lot from. The spirit was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">strong in that little hospital room. I could feel the truth of the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">plan that God has for us. It only makes sense for life to continue on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">after death and I am so happy that I get to share that with others</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">around me. It just made me think about how great a calling I have to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">be serving The Lord and representing him everywhere I go. Bro</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Motzing's Father passed away the next day sadly.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Seeing the Motzings share stories about him, was so cool. This man was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">incredible! He is from Australia and is extremely famous over there.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He conduted orchestras in the sydney opera house for years and taught</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">there for even more. He was in the music and film industry for many</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">years and was super highly regarded in australia for his</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">accomplishments. It was sad to see and hear their regrets in what they</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wished they had done more with him and and the things they were glad</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">they had done. It made me realize how important it is to live each day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to the fullest. That principle really is so important! No regrets.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">That is definitely something nice to have in life. One of their</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">biggest regrets was never really encouraging him to investigate the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">church, so he never joined. That is definitely something that I can</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">always apply in my mission! :) It was such interesting experience! One</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So I am not sure if I have said this but Elder Hooper is a Chess</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">master!! He loves it and is way good! He is really pumped to get</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">involved with the community and found a chess club near us that meets</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">twice a week which is amazing! I am super happy that he did! :) It is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">something that I never would have thought of! So we have been going to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that and it is way cool! I still don't know how to play so I work on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">others things like transferring our paper teaching records into our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">electronic area book app while he plays with the people. The people</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are super friendly and way cool and around 50's probably so it is cool</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to be able to interact with them. They ask us questions and things</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like that which is way cool! So that is great to have happening. If</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">only I could find something like that with tennis...oh man I would be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in paradise haha :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So since I am a district leader now I go to these meetings every week</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">called Leaders Meeting. Pretty original name right haha :) There we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">discuss things about the dsitrict and if we are on track to hit our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">goals and things like that. Also they teach us about how we can do</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">things better. The zone leaders who are in my district and are Elder</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Carlson and Elder Jensen they are awesome Elders and I love them a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lot. They are my good friends here. I look up to them a lot and I am</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">grateful for them helping me out at all times. We go to different</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">chapels to have the meeting and we went to the plainview stake center</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">one this week which is about 30 minutes away from little neck. At</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">leaders meeting this week, we had crepes! And they were super yummy!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">They had this stuff called Butter milk syrup! It was pretty good and I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">even got to make some crepes as well and use my cooking finesse that I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have. Haha completely kidding :) I really am not sure if that exists</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">or not. I like to think that I can cook though. Also in there I had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hot chocolate. But not only did I have hot chocolate Elder Jensen and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I went at it during the meeting. We had a competition kinda silently</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">as the meeting was going on with who could drink the most without</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">going to the bathroom first. The hot chocolate was really good at</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">first but after cup number 9 it was kinda getting to me a little bit</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">haha :) Anyway we continued through the meeting just pound them down</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">until at the end elder jensen was done at cup 11 I was only at 9 at</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the time I think and I HAD TO BEAT HIM haha :) I have no idea why I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wanted to do this so bad BUT I did :) Anyway after the meeting had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ended I finally threw down cup 13 and boom! There it was! I beat him</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">by two! He asked why I did and I just needed to give myself that extra</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cushion if he wanted to come back haha :) But he said there was no way</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that he was drinking more of that stuff ;) What I usually did out side</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of the meetings though when I didn't have to go to them was just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">language study and write in my journal which was nice. But now I am in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">them for a good while it seems so my companion who has been a district</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">leader for like half of his mission gets a break which he likes :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">On Saturday us and the Sisters, who now were switched to be Sister</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Training Leaders {which means that they go on lots of exchanges with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the sisters in the mission and train them and they also go to Mission</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Leadership Council Once a month with President the Zone Leaders and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the assistants.} When I got here there was only one companionship of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">them and while ago there was another formed and now there are three!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Which they just started this transfer! And I am lucky enough to have</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">them in my district! They are great sisters! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We went to Plainview to help out with the Bishops</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Storehouse. It was my first time ever doing it! And man it was a lot</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of fun! It is quite the production really! They church just amazes me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with how we take care of those who are in need. It is so cool to see</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">all of this food going to those who are in need But anyway, first the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">truck pulls up and we unload hundreds of boxes. Then all the boxes are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sorted on tables throughout the gym. Then we get the order forms and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">fill all the orders, and then put the bags and boxes under th right</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ward or branch, then we take all the orders out to cars of people</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">representing those wards... It took about 40 people 2 or 3 hours to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">get it all done! It was super fun! I thought that I would take the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">liberty and do the orders that were in spanish and I realized that I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">didn't know a lot of the stuff you have in a kitchen haha so it was a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">little learning experience for me! Yep I am still the little white kid</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you all know...sadly not Hispanic. YET :) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The church is just awesome! It is things like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">these where I think man the church is true!!! :) It was a lot of fun</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">though! I got to see Elder Hernandez which was great since he serves</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in that area. And also the missionaries got to take extras home! Yay!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">:) So we got some brown sugar for oatmeal...score! And a loaf of bread</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and man this was one honkin loaf of bread like 24 slices! :) And then</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">some raisins, honey nut scooters! :) Oh yeah cereal :) And some</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">evaporated milk for my Arroz Con Leche that I make :) So that was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pretty sweet! ;) It was a fun and cool experience.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And last monday it snowed sooooooooooooooo much like about a foot. So</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much snow that everyone besides us got stuck in the church parking lot</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">haha :) Luckily our car is a Subaru and is a champion!!! But when we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were leaving the church a snow fight erupted between all of us and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">there was not too much mercy haha :) and all of a sudden our ward</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">mission leader showed up in his truck because he does maintenance on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">all of the buildings here so he comes and checks on them and then he</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">joined in on the snow ball fight with as well! It was super fun! :)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Its little moments like these that just make everything better :) Haha</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and one of the sisters and I were just chowing down on some snow :)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Tasted great! Especially when it was getting thrown at your face :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello I hope that you are all doing great! Just thought I would let</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you know how life is in the best place ever! Cuellito!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So last last monday as in Feb 3rd I went to get my free hair cut! And</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">man it was great! If you don't know the story! Well here it is!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Flashback!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> A while ago as in like a while ago before Christmas while...we were</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">out doing a "Street Sweep" which is where we go out onto the streets</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and try to talk to people about the Gospel in different ways...because</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">if you keep the same approach over and over, you really aren't gonna</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">get anywhere. So we gotta be creative! So we got our snow shovels and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the sisters took a cookie recipe from The Friend magazine, yes they</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really did :) and we went to the busiest street that there is when it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is snowing...well there really aren't busy streets when it is snowing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but I think that you guys catch my drift here :) Anyway so this street</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is called Bell Boulevard. It runs through a town called Bayside which</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is in our area here in Little Neck. The only thing is that on a normal</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">day the street really isn't super full with people, only a few here</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and there. So in the snow when it is snowing kinda hard you could</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">imagine the surveying scene! Fun stuff! So after we found parking we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">went right to it! We got our snow shovels and started shoveling on the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sidewalks and things like that while the sisters sang hymns and tried</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to give out cookies. Haha we got a lot of weird looks for doing that.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But I guess that is what happens nowadays when you have people singing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in the streets of New York with a plate full of frozen cookies haha :)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anyway as we shoveled we would talk with those that passed by and what</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">not and it is great. I really enjoy talking to people. Sometimes it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can be kinda weird and people just will not give you the time of day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and then there are other times where people are so surprisingly nice</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">back that you forget how to even respond haha. That happened to me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">when I got here from Brooklyn :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anyway talking with people was tough for me when I started especially</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">because most of it was in Spanish and I had NO CLUE how to talk to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Spanish people at the time. But now I have realized that if you are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">just yourself and generally happy then others are happy as well! Shout</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">out to DAD for that little piece of wisdom :) Love ya! Anyway I really</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">love talking people now because here, especially in New York there are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so many different people with so many different stories and I love it.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And a lot of the time I come away just feeling as I have learned</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">something or that I tried my best to bring a little smile to someones</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">face. Like for example we were driving the other day and a lady was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">directing traffic and waving me on very hurriedly because I was going</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to be the last car to go around the corner and I just smiled at her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">super big and waved and the smile that cracked on her face just made</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">my day haha :) That makes my day knowing that I made someone smile</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">just once :) That is what I love doing most when I try to talk to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">people. Is just to be me and then have the Gospel flow naturally from</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that conversation and when we do it out of love it really can work</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like that! It is amazing. It takes a while to get into that kinda flow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I guess you could say but it works! :) The culture hear in the New</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">York South Mission everyone calls it "Fearlessing" instead of street</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">contacting because you gotta be "Fearless" to share the Gospel with</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">those that surround you! :) It is definitely tough at first but can</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really be so much fun if you get out of your comfort zone :) Okay mid</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">paragraph apology! Sorry I have been going on a lot of tangents in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this story so I am gonna try to stay on track here but if I don't I am</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Haha ANYWAY! I was shoveling outside of the store Super Cuts and other</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ones as well but when I was in front of Super Cuts some lady was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">shoveling as well and I said "Hey! Go inside I got this taken care of!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">:) And then she asked if I was sure and I said Yep! So she then asked</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">if I needed a hair cut or trim, but I had just gotten one like 2 weeks</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">before or something like that so I told her thanks for the offer but I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was okay. Then about like 5 minutes later another lady strolling by</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">came up to mea nd was asking why I was shoveling outside the store and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I said "Hey we gotta keep this street running somehow!" Or something</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really unclever and not original like that haha. Then she said all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">excitedly "We need to get you a free hair cut!!" And then I said are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you sure and she said "oh yeah!" So that was pretty legit! I was super</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">excited about that! :) So she came out and gave me a little card</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">written on it "free hair cut" and there it was! They were so grateful</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it was so cool! :) So then after my hair had grown for a while it was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">time for me to go back there! And I did! I went in on monday and yet</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">again it was snowing! :) Haha and I almost got hit by a snow plow as</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">well! Pretty scary! Haha so I went in and showed a lady my coupon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thing that I had and she was a little skeptical at first, because it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wasn't the same lady and then when I told her how I got it she was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">soooo happy it was great! She said "oh that is so sweet!!" And then</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">boom I got my hair cut from this really nice lady and I talked to her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about everything it was awesome! I love little experiences like those</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">because it is such a comfortable environment and it is so easy to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">share the Gospel and what we do as missionaries. So overall getting</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that hair cut was so cool! It was a great experience! Super long story</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I know! :) Hopefully you aren't too bored by now :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So these district meetings have been going pretty interesting so far!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">With this one it was quite interesting! So I had a great idea! Or so I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thought! I asked Elder Carlson to give the workshop or training for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the meeting on the spirit and following promptings. So I thought that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it would be cool to do something fun to lead into that! So I thought</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of a game or well copied at least... we had district meeting in one</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">room of the church and then I asked for volunteers and the sisters did</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">first! So they were the ones! So then we went into the Relief Society</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">room and set up an obstacle course for one sister to go through blind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">folded while the other one lead her through with her voice! And the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">rest of us were distracting her without her knowing that we were not</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"the sprit" :) and her companion lead her the wrong way one time and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">then the right way the next time! :) So I thought that it applies to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us as missionaries and also all of us really. God really is trying to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">get us to trust Him at all times and to listen to the spirit and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sometimes the spirit takes us into paths with no results we think. And</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">one thing that I have realized is that God does this to see if we are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">consistent to listening and then acting upon the promptings that we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">receive on a daily basis. So he tests us with these small and simple</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">things and once we have proven ourselves He gives us the same</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">prompting and then we follow it and we are rewarded in the end. It is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">an amazing principe to think about really and it is so true as well.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anyway so at the end of it all the reward was a big batch of arroz con</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">leche that I made for the entire district! But the worst part was that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I forgot it and I realized that I had forgotten in right when we got</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">into the church parking lot. Yeah to say I was suuuper frustrated at</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">myself would be an understatement haha :) But it is okay though it all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">turned out well in the end.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So after district meeting we had to come up with a song to sing at</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Brother Motzings dads funeral. So we chose lead kindly light! It was a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">good choice we felt and we practiced for a while. Me and Elder Jensen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">were going at it practicing for quite a long time and man we were</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">getting nowhere. It was BRUTAL. We sounded like dying oxen on the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pioneer trail. Okay maybe not really that bad but still we were pretty</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">bad! So I was chosen to practice the tenor part. I thought that it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">would be no big deal really because I had sung tenor before and it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wasn't too hard....well....I guess after a year of not singing parts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">destroyed me completely. Like seriously I was dying trying to sing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that high. So the conclusion was my range in the high</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">notes....definitely gone haha :) It's okay though because if I sang</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that high it was probably going to be really gross sounding and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">annoying haha :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Snow Shoveling=Awesomeness!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So on wednesday 2-5-14 it snowed like it has been like the whole</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">winter here haha! Like for real though I have never seen so much snow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in my life and like Dallin says somehow I am not frozen yet....even</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">when I totally forget it is like 25 degrees outside and I just have a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">short sleeve shirt on and a jacket...whooops. Haha anyway! Since it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">had snowed I thought hey we should go and do some service and help</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">people out! And then! Danielle Rome, I am not sure if I have told you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about the Rome's yet but I will explain right in here :) Anyway</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Danielle is a recent convert to the church and she called us months</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ago to help her parents to get a treadmill out of their house, her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">parents aren't members at all as well. The mom is suuuuper Catholic</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and the dad is suuuuuuper Episcopalian. So it is quite the interesting</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">religious mix in their house. Danielle is about in her 30's and so</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">after we helped them we stayed for dinner and it was awesome! :) Then</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we went another time weeks later and visited with them. But since then</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we hadn't seen them since. Anyway! Danielle had texted us that morning</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">asking us to go over and check on her parents and so we did and we got</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">there right when Don, the dad, had gotten out there with his</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">snowblower. FIrst thought was dang, he has a snow blower but then I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">just thought well he is gonna get extra help! :) So I jumped outta the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">car and went to see him. He was way excited to see me! Yes! I was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pumped about that :) So then we got straight to work getting the whole</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">area around the house done! Man I seriously love shoveling snow.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Everyone else HATES it but man I LOVE IT!!! It is just such a great</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">opportunity to go out and to be able to serve people! And I don't even</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have boots so I am just doing it in my dress shoes that have like no</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">grip on them so it can be pretty interesting at times haha :) But</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">anyway!!! We finished and they invited us in to have lunch and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everything and it was super great! :) We had a great visit with them!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Don gave us extra sweatshirts because he says that we come over</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">unclothed all the time haha :) and also they gave us some soup as</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">well! They are seriously such good hearted people! I love them a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">bunch. I just am trying to figure out a way to get an in with them</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Gospel wise because they do not want to be taught at all. They love</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and respect us but just don't want change it seems. But we'll see if I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can work my magic with them haha! Totally kidding! The conversion</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">comes by the spirit not by me! So it was such a cool opportunity to be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">able to visit with them again! They have a son that works for the NYPD</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in undercover narcotics! Pretty intense right? :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Then after that we raced back into our town to get ready to surprise</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Elder St. Rose for his birthday! So we had everything perfect! We were</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">waiting for them to come into the church because they had just</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">finished shoveling as well and we were hiding on the stage and the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">other elders were supposed to be keeping watch...well they found the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">basketball and were messing around with that and then all of a sudden</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Elder St. Rose walked in and oh man....it turned into the worst</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">surprise ever. He just walked in and said whats up guys and the other</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">elders were like uhhhhhh....nothing....and then he came onto the stage</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and found us all and he never goes up onto the stage! Ugh! The one</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">time haha. So needless to say the surprise wasn't very surprisey haha</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">:) Which was kinda sad...but it was okay because we made him cinnamon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">rolls which made him happy! :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So having to do with shoveling snow we were pulling into our building</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to grab a couple of things for elder st rose for his surprise and then</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I saw a little old man whose car was just completely buried in the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">snow right outside of the building and he was just struggling trying</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to get his car out, and seriously here it is ridiculous! Hopefully I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can get a picture to show you guys how some of the cars look. But when</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the snow plow goes by it just puts a huge wall of snow by the car</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">which then later becomes straight ice...yep if you can imagine it is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pretty crazy! So that is what my good friend Herm was dealing with. So</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I jumped out with my shovel and got to work on his car! :) Elder</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hooper wasn't feeling so good...he had been sick for a while so he</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">took a break and then I helped him get his car out of there! Man it is</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">such a good feeling to be able to help people...I love it! He was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sooooo grateful and I just love older people because they are sooo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">nice! :) he tried shoving a ten dollar bill in my pocket and I was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like uuh! Nope! No way! And he was asking how he could repay me and I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said come to church! :) And he said that he really wanted to which was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wayyy cool! :) Okay I just realized that I might have shared this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">story last week....if so you got it again! If not....well I am</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">crazy!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Catholic Funeral!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Son friday 2-7-14 we were invited to go to a Catholic funeral!! So let</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">me explain first :) a former investigator named Gabriella who is super</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">nice who another companionship is working with, her husband sadly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">passed away from a neurological disease. So we were invited to go to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the funeral. Wow it was quite the experience! I remember when we went</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to a catholic baby blessing when we lived in Wheatland and that was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">years ago. This experience was way different. It was pretty incredibly</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">different than anything I have ever seen. I was pretty amazed how the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">priest didn't even know the man who had passed away, it was kinda</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">weird to me but I think that it helped me out a lot to open my eyes to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">other churches and how they runan d how they do things. There was a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lot of standing and sitting involved haha :) I finally got all he</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">jokes about Catholic Church services that people make when you are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">somewhere and you do a lot of standing. Haha so it was really</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">interesting. They brought out the communion and the elders that were</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with me were all looking at me like I was supposed to know what in the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">heck was going on and what we were supposed to do and I had absolutely</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">no idea what in the heck was happening. It was very interesting! :)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But it was a good experience and the lady was really happy that we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">came. The best/most scariest part was when the priest said to give</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everyone the sign of peace and then two girls in front of me kissed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">each other, on the cheek no the lips just for clarification haha :),</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and then they turned around and said "peace be with you" and then</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">looked at me and I was soooo scared that they were going to try to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">kiss me!! But then they just stuck out their hands haha :) And I shook</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">their hands and it was no big deal haha :) But this all totally</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">happened in slow motion and I was freaking out internally haha :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bagda! :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So Elder Hooper and I were at the library and we got a call from a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lady in the rego park ward that her friend needed help and then her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">friend called us and at first I thought that I was talking to a hindu</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lady and it was pretty crazy. Then we found out that she wanted help</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cleaning out her car from the snow. So we just figured that it was to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">get ice off of her windshield and stuff and then we found out that she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was pretty buried in the snow....well more like ice haha :) And so me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and elder hooper got to work and we went at it! :) it took us a while</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to get it done but it was a lot of fun to be able to help the lady</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">out! Then we finished and the lady called us and told us to wait but</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we needed to leave...but we waited and while we waited we helped</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">another guy who had one of those big passenger vans stuck in an</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">iceberg basically and we helped him to get that out! Man he was wayyyy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">stuck! It was crazy! :) Luckily he had a pick axe that thing was a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">champion and we got him out after a lot of using that pick axe and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pushing! :) It was intense! So then Bagda finally showed up and she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wanted us to come to her house and help her even more but we kept</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">saying that we had to leave...so we went to her house and she wanted</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us to try to shovel out an ice rink that she had in front of her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">house. No joke it was the size of a mini ice rink! It was ridiculous</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and we told her that we couldn't though and then she tried to get us</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to give her a ride in our car to key food which is a grocery store</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">here and she wanted to buy us food! And then we were just like thanks</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but no thanks! We gotta leave! And she kept saying...NO! You are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">coming with me here and I am coming with you here and all of this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">stuff. Needless to say it was really funny! :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So I went to 2 funerals within 2 days! That is super crazy! That like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">never happens! It was pretty weird! So we got there early and so since</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we did I started to clean up the church just to make sure that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everything looked nice. And what was weird is that the family wasn't</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">there and they brought in the body and were asking me questions about</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a bunch of stuff and I was thinking..uhhhh I am not in charge here</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">haha :) But then they eventually got there. And what was kinda sad was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">how at the funeral there really was almost no one there for this</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">amazing and humble man. If it had been in Australia it probably would</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have been overflowing with people trying to honor this amazing</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">musician and composer but since it was here not a lot of people came.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But it was a good service and then we as missionaries performed and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the sad part was that Elder Jensen and I were the worst that we had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ever been on that one..but nobody noticed so that was the best part!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">:) It was an overall good service though! There is a lady who came and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she sang opera and man it was suuuper intense and way good! It was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">such a good and special spiritual experience that we had with the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Motzing family. I really do love them so much and I am so grateful for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">them.</span><br />
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Agency. Have you ever thought about that word before? It is an interesting one really. One that is important. Extremely important. But why?<br />
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Agency is another common word for the ability to choose. This is something that all of us use on a daily basis. Frequently we use it minutely and sometimes even every second. If we think about this, it really is something amazing. The power to choose and to decide is absolutely incredible.<br />
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I am so grateful that I have this ability in my life. We literally have agency over everything. We can choose to be happy or to be sad; frustrated and stressed out or at peace happy. This is something that is part of the daily adventure of life right? We can choose what we are going to wear, what to eat, who to talk to, where to go, what goals to reach, to do homework or not :), and the list can really go on for forever. I am sure that I missed a few good ones in there so please, do excuse my ignorance of...maybe Cheetos or Doritos...oh wait there it is! Anyway, as you can see these choices sometimes are so easy! Then there are decsions which may seem much harder. For example: What career should I choose? Who should I associate myself with? Should I pursue and try to develop a relationship with God? Where should I work? And should I really have that last piece of cake?...okay well the last one maybe not so serious :) Or it could be! But I think that we all get the picture here. Right? I mean we are all faced with decisions. Oh those dreaded or delightful decisions! Sometimes they are pounded upon us. I will be the first to say that making decisions is hard! Let me tell you it really is. It is something that I struggle with! Decisions are so important and they need to be made carefully and that can be overwhelming! I know how it feels to have to make a lot of decisions. It is something that we are faced with daily as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We have to decide a lot of things all of the time. That has been a huge learning experience for me!<br />
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Something that I have realized though is that all of this decision making is a gift. It is a gift directly from our Heavenly Father. He loves us. He loves us so much that he has given us all, every single one of us, the ability to choose. We all can see the good and the bad that is happening today in the world. Many things are clearly set before us. We can see between the gracious and glorious good works of God and the temptations, doubt, and despair that come from our common enemy the adversary. We all have this right and wrong set before us. It literally is right in front of us at almost all times. We live in an age where we can use our agency and access good and bad instantly at the click of a mouse or the touch of a finger on a screen. A lot of the time in these days we have to be careful. Why do I say that? Simply because things are changing and progressing at a rapid rate. And that means that Satan is too. This age is really his "A game". As many of us can see he is hitting hard everywhere. Books, movies, advertisements, TV shows, and also families. Many things that were once called evil are now called good. Also the good in the world is seemingly almost looked upon as bad and "not fun".<br />
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So what does this have to do with agency you might ask? Well it has everything to do with it. Trust me. Our Heavenly Father has given us this gift because it is at the core of our existence. The biggest choice that we have of all is if we will follow in the footsteps of our Savior Jesus Christ. That is most likely the most important decision that we can make in our entire lives. That is the reason why our Heavenly Father has given us this gift. He so desperately desires for us to follow His Perfect and Sinless son. Why? Because Christ is the only way! :) As we love and follow Him we are Happy! Trust me it's true! He is our greatest example. He is our Redeemer. As we CHOOSE to follow Him we will be blessed. That is why AGENCY is important. Our Heavenly Father loves us so much that He has given us that ability to choose whether or not to follow His son. Why? Because it is just like trying to force a child to eat vegetables! Haha it really is! :) You could force the child to eat them but they wouldn't be very happy about it afterward. So most likely the first the first reaction is no, but as they see the good that comes from it, they are willing to try and then experience the true benefit that comes from "eating healthy". Or in this case being spiritually healthy. As we choose to follow Christ we will be happy. FACT! Trust me! :)<br />
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Well that was my little two cents on agency I guess. I had just felt so prompted to write about it. As I did I felt and I learned myself about how much our Father in Heaven really does love us to give us this wonderful gift. As for me I am doing pretty good! There was quite the snow storm here on this Tuesday! It was quite the adventure! We had transfer meeting and I got to meet my new companion! Elder Hooper! He is a great guy and he is from the one and only...Utah! I have realized that all of my companions have been from there! Pretty funny right! Also I found out that Elder Hooper doesn't speak Spanish. But yet I do. This is going to be interesting...As missionaries we are called to preach the Gospel in different languages and mine is Spanish and Elder Hooper is English. So we are going to have to figure something out to do with the Spanish people that we are teaching! It will be an adventure! Anyway we got to do some sweet service yesterday of shoveling snow! It was so much fun! My hands were about to fall off because for some reason my gloves aren't very good at keeping my hands warm. I had a blast though!! We did it in the morning and we had the wonderful opportunity to help out a lot of people in the community! I loved it! We met a guy who had worked in the TV business for 35 years and another who was from Bulgaria and spoke FIVE languages! Super cool! There was snow everywhere! It was great! Cold, but a lot of fun! And I also had the opportunity to eat some Balut! It was quite the day yesterday!<br />
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Being a missionary is tough! It involves a lot of decisions and using your agency :) It is amazing! This is a great work! Helping others receive the knowledge that they are sons and daughters of a Father in Heaven who loves them more than we can imagine is incredible! As we strive to become better daily we really will! And just like the quote says, when we have consistent and simple good habits we will receive so many blessings! This I know is true! Life is great and so beautiful! We are all on a tough journey but if wasn't tough we wouldn't learn right? Just remember that! Thanks for being great, and remember choose wisely out there! :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-55009947745098505762014-01-07T11:06:00.001-08:002015-12-03T16:07:19.619-08:00Happy New Year! Hi! I know that it has been a while! But the good news is that I am alive! Well I hope that is good news to all of you :) I hope that everyone had an awesome Christmas and a sweet new years celebration! Can you believe it?? It really is 2014! Wow! <br />
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It really is so great to be a missionary for The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! I can't believe what I would do
without these experiences that I am having! I am so grateful for every
single one of them! :) No matter what may have happened I know that from
everything that happens out here it is meant for me to benefit from it.
I know that this is so true for all of us in life really. There are
things that we go through and we wonder: Why ME? What did I do wrong to
have this happen? What did I do to deserve this? Why God, did you do this
to me?? I know that all of us have felt this way in one form or
another. It is true. It happens to everyone. It is our natural reaction when bad things happen or when things just don't work out. We just always think why?? <br />
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And the answer I have realized is that a lot of the time it is for our benefit. Then we think "Well how in the world is what I am going through for my benefit??" Don't worry!! If you are thinking that, you are not alone. I know that I have thought that so many times in my life. Especially a a missionary. Missionary work is hard! It really is. I can't lie about that one :) But hey who said it was supposed to be easy right? Being on a mission you learn so many things! So many things that sometimes you don't even realize that you learned it already. Let me promise you missionaries aren't perfect! We try our best but we think the same things that many other people do! Things like "Why did this happen??" and the many other why questions can easily creep into our minds. But as we take a step back and think "Hey it wasn't easy for the Savior himself, so why should it be easy for me?" That really does help. What helps more is realizing that we can pray for the extra strength that we need to get through the rough times in life. As we sincerely ask help will come. That is why Christ did what He did! :) It is such great news! We can ask for help and it will come because someone has been there before! Christ has. HE has done it all so He can help us when we need it most. I know that is true. SO! When you catch yourself thinking "WHY???" Let this piece of knowledge come to you....God loves you and He wants you to learn from what you are going through :) I love this quote from Richard G. Scott too, he said: <strong><em>“Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding and compassion, which polish you for your everlasting benefit. To get you from where you are to where He wants you to be requires a lot of stretching, and that generally entails discomfort and pain.”</em></strong><br />
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Just to let you all know how life is in New York! It is a beautiful day outside here! This past week was so great! We got to visit a family who is just so awesome! They have two sons who are just hilarious! The husband who isn't a member is such a great guy! He has been visited by the missionaries for a couple of years and he is so cool! He loves tennis! Heck yeah! It was so cool to be able to talk to him about that! Let me jus say that we get along super well!! :) We had an awesome dinner with them and then talked about how God loves us. So simple and yet so true. The spirit was so strong in that lesson as we shared how knowing that God loves us can bless. That knowledge is amazing! :) It was such a fun time visiting with them!<br />
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We also got the opportunity to visit four less active brothers in our ward and that was so great to be able to visit with them. They are all so different and so funny in their own way! Javier, Juri, John and Jeffrey! The 4 J's! We are trying our best to help them all come back to church! I love them all so much and they are great guys! John is a huge football fan so he keeps us updated on everything that is going on in college and the NFL which is funny! He loves talking about football! Jeffrey is a cat lover and a huge hockey fan! He is super funny and basically never leaves his house except for recently! Because we got him to come play hockey at the church. Now that is sweet! Slowly we are gonna get him to come to Sunday Services again. Juri is an older guy with a lot of health problems. He really is a living miracle and he teaches us more than we teach him! He is a book worm and basically has the stories in the scriptures memorized! Then there is Javier! We just started meeting with him recently! He is a nice guy and he has also even written a book! Pretty interesting! He says he wants to be coming back to church soon which is great! All of these guys are awesome!<br />
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That is what is going on here in Little Neck! :) I love you all so much and hey remember when you feel that something isn't right, think of this scripture...<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="1"> </a><span class="verse"> </span>To every <span class="clarityWord">thing there is</span> a <span style="color: black;">season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecclesiates 3:1. It is true! God has everything figured out! So just be patient and love the ride! :) I love you all! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-53453138405075858332013-12-17T13:31:00.000-08:002015-12-03T16:07:46.471-08:00Service!! Smiling while Shoveling Snow :)So I bet you all are wondering....what is up with this title?? So I must tell then right? Well this past week was pretty interesting! Let me tell you! It was great though!! Man I had so much fun!<br />
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So this past week we had the wonderful opportunity to be able to go and carol to some people in the ward here and also to investigators! It was so much fun! We, as in the sister missionaries :), made cookies to bring to the people that we went and caroled to and that was just awesome! They got the cookie recipe from The Friend! Can I just say that is using the church materials for good? Because I think that it is! I can say that we were pretty good at caroling without a lot of practice! :) I was super happy with that! It was a lot of fun though!! We did that for a pretty good portion of the night and it was great! The people who we caroled to loved it! So that was pretty sweet! :) Then the next day on Saturday we were supposed to have our ward Christmas party! Oh yeah! It is definitely safe to say that we were all really excited! But so as the day went on we heard about snow that was going to come in and we really didn't think much of it. Then we had a lesson with a guy named Juri Hein with our Elders Quorum president Brother Wilkes and that was really sweet! Juri is an awesome older man with a great testimony! He teaches us a lot! He is such a fun guy to visit! Our time with him was well spent! Then we got out side and boom! There was snow everywhere! And we got news that the ward Christmas party had been cancelled. That was pretty sad. Oh my goodness I was so sad! I was looking forward to this awesome gathering and then it was cancelled because of the weather! Which makes perfect sense, because we don't want someone getting hurt or losing a life over coming to a Christmas party. So then we had a lunch after church the next day instead.<br />
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But!!! What happened the rest of the night was so awesome! We went out to a street called Belle Blvd. and we did some more caroling and giving out cookies and talking to people! Oh my goodness it was sweet! Better yet we brought snow shovels with us so we started to shovel the sidewalks along the road which was good because we don't want anyone slipping on the snow right? So we started to do that! Let me tell you I loved it! Every second of it! I was shoveling outside of a super cuts store on the road just clearing it off and a lady came up to me and asked "Why are you doing that? Why are you shoveling right here?" So I responded saying well because we love to help out! And we gotta keep this place running somehow! :) She was so happy that I was doing that and she said "We need to get you a free hair cut!" Boom! I was so pumped! She went inside and a couple minutes later nonetheless she came out and gave me a coupon for one. I was so surprised! I had no idea that something like that would ever happen! I am super happy about that because that means next time I go back I get to talk about why we were doing that and share a little with her about the main message we carry! How God lives and loves us and how Jesus our Savior and how His church has been restored on the Earth today once more! :) So I am a little excited for that! :) After that wonderful experience we went to other peoples houses and shoveled their driveways and sidewalks! It was so awesome! I was having so much fun! :) I just love doing service! We did some members and investigators driveways and then we would go and do their neighbors and a lot of people on the same road! :) So that way people had an idea of who these mysterious people were shoveling their driveways and sidewalks and walkways up to their houses, every time that we finished an area I shoveled a HUGE smiley face in the road by the houses! It was awesome! I mean now these people know that the people who did this were happy while doing it! I called ourselves the Smiling Snow Shovelers! :) :) So we did that for like 4 hours straight! And man! I could have done it all night long! It was so much fun! I specifically remember one house that we did all of us Elders, that is 6 of us!, lined up on the driveway and shoveled the whole thing at once and I looked up and a man in the house was looking down at us just kinda smiling and probably wondering why we were doing that. THAT in and of itself, really that is the best part about Christmas and this season. When we do things without being recognized but we get to see the reaction of the person who we helped or gave something too. It provides us with that warm and good feeling inside that we did something good. That feeling is contagious! That feeling is the Spirit of goodness, which is the spirit of Christ! I love that!<br />
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I know that as we serve others, especially in this season we will be blessed with the happiness that comes with helping others. It is one that cannot be described! Only experienced! So please! I invite all of you are are reading.....GO AND DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR SOMEONE ELSE! YOU WON'T REGRET IT! I promise! :) I hope that you can be up to the challenge! I am! I will try my best to do something better and to help and serve someone too! Spread the joy along. Please do. Others need it! No matter what it is you do...do it great! :) And with love. That is the most important thing about this time of year. Christmas and the Gospel of Jesus Christ are centered on love and selflessness, not being selfish greedy and self centered. Because we truly do find our inner selves when we love and serve those around us. No matter who they are. I love you all so much! My advice...LOVE, SERVE, and SMILE! You won't regret it! I promise! Life is amazingly beautiful when we do these things! Remember the reason for the season! :)<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-44826631794329933362013-12-11T12:25:00.000-08:002015-12-03T16:08:11.318-08:00Let Us Remember...Wow the holiday season is continuing right? It is so good to see! I love this time of year because it gives us that wonderful chance to reflect back on what has happened and we can see how grateful we are for the things that have happened and for the things that we have accomplished. It is just awesome and I love it so much!<br />
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This past week has been so wonderful and I am just so happy to be a missionary! Man is it a privilege! It really is. When I think about it I realize how blessed I am to be able to be doing what I am doing right now! it is just so wonderful! It isn't all of the time that I get to take two years and dedicate them to the Lord! So I am so grateful for this opportunity that I have to be here!<br />
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So last week we got to visit and meet with Mike and Sandy at Sandy's house and that was a lot of fun! We had a great lesson with them and enjoyed it a lot! Mike is just such an amazing guy! He really is! He is an awesome New Yorker and he is just loving learning about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and applying it in his life. It really is so amazing to see his progress and to see how the spirit works with everyone in their own individual conversion. Mike really is doing so well and Elder Schreiner and I are so happy to be able to know such a great man! He is such a great friend to us and we are in contact with him all of the time. He is just such a good hearted guy with a desire to keep on the path that he is on which is so great to see. I love having the opportunity to share this wonderful message of hope with others! :)<br />
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We also got to teach out free English class last week which was a lot of fun! Our regular friends came! Roger and Franklin! Franklin is from Costa Rica! Oh yeah! He is the first person from Costa Rica that I have ever met! So that is pretty sweet! And Roger is from Peru! Which is also sweet! These guys are just so awesome and they are so dedicated to learning English it is great! Roger has only been in the United States for around 4 months and man you guys should hear him speak! It is so cool! And Franklin! Man he is so cool! He knows a pretty good amount of English too and he is doing just fantastic also! What is sweet is that we gave Roger a Book of Mormon about 2 weeks ago and he is already in Mosiah! It is incredible! He works all the time and he says he just reads when he has free time! And I am thinking....uhhhh...how do you even have free time? Because he is so busy! And what is so cool is that he is using that time to read the Book of Mormon! Oh yeah! So awesome! And Franklin said to us when we started talking about the Book of Mormon all excited "Why don't I have one????!!?" It was so awesome! So we went and got him on eand gave it to him to read! We asked him if he was familiar with the bible and he said that he had a bunch of Bibles that he had been given previously but he hadn't ever wanted to read them. But this time he said he was really excited to read from the Book of Mormon and read from it! That was so cool to see that excitement in his face and that light in his eyes! That is what the word of God does! It makes us excited about life! :) <br />
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On Friday we had the wonderful opportunity to help a family move a treadmill out of their house! That was great! The daughter called us and asked us to help and we were way excited to do that! We went there and the parents couldn't do it because they were in their late 60's and we had to lift it down some stairs and stuff, but the best part was that we got to stay after and have dinner with them and get to know them! It was awesome! The daughter was a recent convert and her parents and boyfriend weren't members of the church and it was just so great to be able to sit down and have a "family meal" I loved it! The dad had a HAM radio set and we got to use it and talk on it! Man I was loving that! :) It reminded me of Grandpa Densley! :) It was so much fun to meet them and we hope that we can see them soon again.<br />
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Saturday we had a great chance to visit some less active brothers form the ward! That was a lot of fun! They are great guys! One is originally from Germany and has some crazy stories about WWII and that is sweet and the other one is born and raised here in New York and we always have a great time seeing him. Our Elders Quorum president came with us and it was great! :)<br />
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Sunday was such a wonderful day at church! Mike came! It always is so great to have him at church! Later that day we had the privilege to go to our mission presidents home to have a lesson with Mike and sandy and President and Sister Calderwood! Wow! It was amazing and so powerful! I am so grateful for them! President and Sister Calderwood are the best! They are amazing teachers and so dedicated to helping us missionaries here in the New York South mission! Then right after that we had the blessing to go to a member family's house to catch the end of the Christmas devotional! That was awesome! We love the Motzing family so much! Brother Motzing and Sister Motzing are just so great! They are so loving and so nice to us missionaries! And oh my goodness their son Liam! Man I love that guy so much! He is a 6 year old just full of energy! Kids just make me laugh so much and I just love being around them! :)<br />
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Monday we got to visit with the Hartrick family! They are so awesome and we love being able to visit at their house. Brother Hartrick isn't a member and they have two sons! They are such an awesome family and so fun to be around! The boys are just hilarious and they remind of the old times of our fun family dinners! :)<br />
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Oh my goodness yesterday was transfer meeting tuesday! Holy cow was it inspiring! President and Sister Calderwood are the best! They just teach us missionaries so well! Elder Schreiner and I are staying together! Woo! :) And Elder Hernandez came to my zone where I am now! Oh my goodness I am so happy about that! Also we have a new sister in the district which is way cool! We got some trio greatness going on! 9 missionaries in Little Neck! All I gotta say is we are ready! :) Also Sister Ellsworth left! Oh my goodness I couldn't believe that! I served around her for 2 transfers in Dyker Heights! She is an awesome sister missionary and I am sad to see her go! She taught me and so many others a lot and she left a great legacy of service! <br />
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It is a new transfer once more and I am so grateful for this wonderful holiday season that we have to be a part of right now! Let us all remember the true reason for the Season! I know that a baby born in Bethlehem grew up to become the Savior of the World. I love him and I am so grateful for him. Being a messenger of Christ isn't always easy, but it is so worth it! :) This is the place to be! I love it! :) Love you all! Thanks for reading! :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-14944075138639757942013-12-03T13:18:00.001-08:002015-12-03T16:08:25.468-08:00He Will Guide Us!Well hello there! It is me! Oh my goodness! It is officially December once more! :) I really can't believe it! I am so happy for this time of year though. It really is so important! And it helps us to put things back into perspective! :) I love it! I really think that this time of year is so beneficial to us and to others if we really try our best to help others who need it most.<br />
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I was thinking of how sometimes we get to those points in our lives where we feel like we really don't know what to do and where to go and sometimes even how to act. I have found that a lot in my life! And especially here on a mission for my church. There are so many things that we are supposed to do and love! Being a missionary has really blessed me and my life so much. I have seen the Lord bless me so much and strengthen me in my many times of need. He really does know us all perfectly! I really have found that I am happiest when I am doing my best to not think about myself and to only think about others. I know that as we do that in life we really will find ourselves and our true character. I have noticed and see as we are up and about doing our best to serve those around us we find the answers that we have been looking for the whole time right in front of our very faces!!! :) I have realized that it isn't that we are ignorant in the first place, it is that we needed to go to a loving Heavenly Father and ask for help. And when we do this he seems to open our minds, hearts, and our eyes to see and feel the things that we need to help us! :) It really is so simple but so true.<br />
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He truly will guide us! All we have to do is entrust everything in Him and Him only. Because as we do this we are showing our faith that we know that what he has in mind for us will help us so much more than our own plans.This really is so true. Sometimes it is so hard for us to accept especially if we are struggling with our belief in God. But something that I have learned that is said by an apostle is to lead with your belief and not your unbelief! That is so important! Because when we lead with our belief we feel more confident in ourselves and in God! But it we lead with our unbelief it is "like trying to stuff a turkey through it's beak!" I love that analogy! It is so true though! When we may be struggling through anything we need to hold onto the faith that we already have and trust that God is in control at all times. He really is. All we have to do is trust him! And when we do he blesses us so much more than we can imagine. Yes sometimes it takes time, sometimes it takes a lot more time than we want for the help we need to come, but as we do our part we will always be blessed! :) When we recognize that God is in the details of our lives, when we try to develop a relationship with him, is when we will see that he has always been there and always will be, and that one reason why is because he loves us. He wants us to become like him! :) I know that as we try to serve others and help those around us we will find the answers to our prayers. Like Thomas S. Monson says..."There are lives to brighten, There are hearts to touch. There are souls to save." Let us be the ones to brighten others up touch their hearts and save their souls. We will be so blessed as we do this. It only begins with a simple sharing of what we believe! :)<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-1658411870083823802013-11-30T13:26:00.001-08:002015-12-03T16:09:17.285-08:00Grateful & Giving; The Way We Should Live DailyCan I say where did the month of November go?? Holy moly! It flew by! I can hardly believe that it is almost December! I feel like it was just yesterday when I arrived here in Little Neck and that was at the end of October. The days sometimes seem to go by so slow and at others so fast. Then all of a sudden it is another new month. This is something that I always remember my Dad telling me as I grew up, was that time starts to fly as you grow up and it really is so true. I feel like I was looking at the Calendar a while ago and thinking man it is five months til December that is forever away. And then boom! It is here facing me and all of us! And I think that I can safely say that for all of us we are so grateful for this time of year and that it has come around once again! I am so happy that it is this time of year!! :)<br />
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There are so many wonderful and beautiful memories that I have of these wonderful times. Especially of how they go right along with my faith. I am so grateful that God allows us to have these experiences during this holiday season. I love how we go from Thanksgiving to Christmas in about a months period and it is such a wonderful thing to see. I love it!! We go from realizing how blessed we are and we can see how we have much to be grateful for, even in the midst of trials and troubles in life, to giving to others. That is one thing that I love so much about this time of year. It is so precious and we really should treasure it. Please do. It is one time of the year where we all can feel the love of God and the goodness of others around us so prevalently. We go from Grateful November to Giving December. I love that so much. We have so much to be grateful for and then we receive the wonderful opportunity in the coming Christmas season to give of what we have to others, whoever they may be. This really is such a wonderful way to live. Yes, we do it in this time of year, but wouldn't it be so wonderful if we could live like this all of our lives no matter when and where we are. I love taking the opportunity to take a step back and look at how blessed I am when I am in a period of when I am down or discouraged. Because this, I feel, is how God wants us to look at things! Instead of looking at what we don't have or what we haven't accomplished we can look at what we DO have and what we have ALREADY accomplished. Yes, we still need to look forward, but sometimes as we take a step back and see how blessed we are we become so happy in seeing how much God has blessed us. And that is what I love about how this time transitions into the Christmas season! Oh yeah! As we lose ourselves in the true goodness of this time of the year, we find that by giving we truly receive. I know that sounds so cliche, and it is! But it is so true! I can testify as a missionary and as a representative of Jesus Christ as we give and lose ourselves in the service of others, we are truly happy. I know that this is true with all of my heart and soul. I have felt the power of giving so much in my life, whether it being giving someone their favorite candy as a surprise when they are having a bad day, teaching someone about the plan of salvation and helping them understand they are a true child of God with divine potential, or wrapping up something to give someone for Christmas! :) All these things bring joy into our lives! Because when we give to others we are doing as Christ would. You know that good feeling you get when you give something to someone and they are happy? That is the light of Christ! That is what He wants us all to do! :) <br />
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This past week has been an interesting one that is for sure but a great one nonetheless! Tuesday was another sweet day! We were on exchanges again and this time I was with the champion Elder Park! Man I love that Elder so much! He is from Korea! And he is the Elder that is speaking Korean on the video that I put up on Facebook about our mission! He is so cool! He speaks like perfect English and has mostly learned it here in the United States. We had a great day together and I learned a lot from him. Man he is a great teacher of the Gospel let me tell you. When he speaks and when he teaches I just sit there and am amazed at the ability he has to explain things so clearly and simply as a missionary. I feel like I am being taught! I love it! We went to visit an awesome member in the ward and his name is John Borsic. We also took the Living Legend Robert Michael Goldfine with us. He is seriously the legend of all the Little Neck Ward. Every missionary that comes here knows him and loves him! Ask Justin Casper about him! He could tell you lots I am sure! But we took Robert with us and it was such a wonderful visit. John hadn't been to church in a while and Robert definitely took care of inviting him back! :) He is the best fellow-shipper and such a loving man. Our lesson was great and we talked about how Christ, for us, has overcome the world. He has done all things that we can't. He is always there for us and one way that we can feel His love and His presence is by going to church and partaking of the Sacrament. Or as others know it, The Lord's Supper, or Communion. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints we have the privilege to partake of this ordinance weekly and it is something that I feel so blessed to have in my life. As we know Jesus instituted or in other words started the ordinance of the Sacrament when he was with His disciples. We can find it in the New Testament when He does it! :) I love that so much! We do this so that way we may remember Christ in our lives and also for us to renew covenants or promises that we have made with God. This is something so simple and beautiful that we get to participate in on a weekly basis and I am so grateful for it! I know that when we go to church we feel the Spirit there. He comforts, counsels, consoles, and strengthens us. I am so happy to bring joy into others lives through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It simply beautiful and beautifully simple.<br />
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I know that as we give to others we receive such a great amount of happiness in our lives! It is so true! I am so grateful for this time of year! As we are grateful and find ways to give I know that we will feel the presence of God more closely in our lives. We will recognize His loving hands in all things. We will come to trust and love Him so much more. I know God lives and that Jesus is the Christ! Este Evangelio es Verdadero! :) I love all of you so much! Thanks for reading! :) And check out the links below! I promise they won't disappoint! You will LOVE THEM!!! <br />
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I hope that you all are having a wonderful and blessed day! I am so happy to be able to update you all on what is happening in the most wonderful mission in the world!<br />
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This past week has just been beautiful as always! I am so grateful to be able to be here in New York. Man it is one awesome place let me tell you! Fall is in the full swing of things and I am so grateful to be able to see the leaves on the trees changing to their beautiful colors and then fall to the ground. It really never gets old to me! I love being able to see the turn of the seasons. It really is just a witness to me that God is just in control of everything. As I continue to get older day by day I am starting to recognize the little things in life that really just bear witness of our wonderful creator. Our Heavenly Father, who loves us so much. That is why the seasons change, the wind blows, and the sky is blue and why there are the most beautiful sunrises and sunsets. He, controls it all and we have the amazing privilege day by day to witness it. <br />
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I have seen so many blessings in my life so recently and I am so grateful for each and every one of them. I am so grateful for a loving family who supports me in every step that I take here on my mission. They are my rock. Especially my mom and my dad! I can't even begin to express how grateful I am for them. They really are the most incredible parents in the world. I love how when I am teaching and I find myself quoting things that they have told me so many times. I would not be the missionary or the person that I am without them and their righteous examples to me. Especially of trusting in my Savior Jesus Christ. The testimony that I have of Him is real. And I cannot deny it in any way, shape or form. I know that He truly does live and I know that He truly does love each and every one of us. His love is real. His forgiveness is real. The amazing part is that all we have to do to receive it is try our best to follow Him and His example for us. We have to repent. That word sometimes can take on a negative connotation in our day I feel like and many people turn away from this word and action because we don't want to have that word placed upon us. But something that I love is how in the bible dictionary it says <i>"The Greek word of which this is the translation denotes a <b>change of
mind</b>, <b>a fresh view about God</b>, <b>about oneself</b>, <b>and about the world.</b>"</i> I love this so much. Repentance really in all ways means turning towards the light. And I know that is true. The joy that comes through true repentance is something that is so beautiful and so real. It is incredible. Even repenting of the littlest thing can bring us such great peace and hope.<br />
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I just thought that I would share that with you all! :) I just wanted to update you on a super awesome day which was yesterday! We had a huge combined zone conference with zones 7,8,9 & 10! Oh my goodness was it wonderful! I was reunited with Elder Goates and Elder Woolley! Oh man that was so cool! I hadn't seen Elder Woolley in forever and that was great! He is an awesome Elder! And it seems as though I and Elder Goates are never far away from each other which is pretty funny! :) Anyway the day yesterday was so filled with the spirit! We talked a lot about the how and WHY of missionary work and how the work is going on. Why we are here doing what we are doing. And ultimately it is to help everyone return to our Heavenly Father. That is why we are here!<br />
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In our mission we talk a lot about vision goals and plans and how important those are in our lives, and also how this is the patter of our Heavenly Father. It is so cool to learn about! I love it! It is so cool to see how our Heavenly Father's vision for his children is for us to receive eternal life and live with him forever! He has said it so much and clearly in the scriptures. And one of His plans is something we know and cherish! Which is the Plan of Salvation! We are a part of this plan of happiness! And our duty is to share it with our beloved brothers and sisters! We learned about yesterday how important it is to show the people we are talking to that we love them and that we want them to be our friend. This is so important! A we truly show others around us that we love them they will want to know and experience what we have. It is so simple to share and something so great to be cherished.<br />
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After our wonderful meeting yesterday we headed to our church building and had an awesome activity called our Ward Culture Night. It was incredible! Saying that The Little Neck Ward has culture is a severe understatement! :) It was so awesome! The food there was plentiful and amazing! The people were warm and loving as always and the experience was incredible! It is amazing how places such as Israel, China, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Italy, The Congo, America, Canada, Brazil, The Philippines and many others came together under one roof to celebrate each others culture. It was awesome! It was a wonderful turnout and so much fun! It is days like these where I can sit back and see how incredibly blessed I am to be here!<br />
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I am grateful for these experiences! I am grateful for the good and the bad days! And the crazy things that happen where you forget the phone in the car one night and you are on exchanges. Then the next day when you leave to go out and grab it in the morning you realize right as the door shuts that your companion didn't grab the only keys to the apartment. Then you panic. Then you think how in the world are we going to be able to get back inside??? And then you try to find a way onto the lower roof...then once you do you hope that you pick the right fire escape to climb up. Then once you jump and climb up the fire escape, looking ridiculous,to your room and try to open the window, you realize it is the wrong window when you are taking of the screen to try and get inside when an old man yells at you "What are you doing??!!??" Then you try to explain how you thought that this was your room and that you aren't trying to break into his apartment. Then you take off your OWN SCREEN on YOUR OWN WINDOW and then your exchange companion has to climb up the fire escape too and loses his slippers on the way up. Then you finally make it inside and think "Wow!" Then you go and apologize to your neighbor for scaring the heck out of him and go to retrieve your companions slippers on the lower roof and finally get the phone out of the car. Then you get back inside and your neighbor comes and knocks on your door later and apologizes to you for yelling at you. Then you tell him about how we are missionaries and what we do and how we help people with family history and how we would love to talk with him more. Then you are friends with your neighbor who you have never seen or talked to before. Then you think, did those keys get left by accident? Maybe so. But did something happen out of it that was beneficial? Somehow, incredibly and miraculously...yes. I am grateful for that! Someday I will look back and laugh on that wonderful crisis this might have happened to me. Might have. Okay it did! Haha! But it was so awesome! We are now such good friends with our neighbor Ed! He is way cool!<br />
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I am grateful for the crazy days! And the ones with these experiences. I am happy to be a missionary. One who forgets keys and climbs up the apartment fire escape looking like a thief to get back in. One who isn't perfect. One who loves this work. One who knows that the Gospel equals peace. I'm happy to be a 2 year New Yorker. I love being a missionary. NINE MONTHS has past to where? I have really no idea how it is gone. I know that this time is wonderful and that it should be loved. I love it. I really do. I love being here! Our lives are a race! We need to look for the finish line and find joy in the journey as we do so. God will lift us up in our times of need. <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">His light</span></span> is real.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-39947962664097945502013-11-19T13:48:00.002-08:002015-12-03T16:10:21.109-08:00Through Christ We Can Feel FreeHey hey! It is almost Turkey Day!<br />
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Okay I know that was a really bad rhyme! Hey! Sorry that it has been so long since I have been on the Blog and created a post! We haven't come to the library in Great Neck in quite a while! But the good news is that we are here! :)<br />
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So the big news is that the missionaries in our mission have ipads! Oh my goodness what a blessing it is to have one! Holy moly! You can do so much good! I have been learning so much greatness from the scriptures so much faster! Seriously the Gospel Library Application is AMAZING!!! It has a bunch of the Bible Videos that I am absolutely in love with, and mormon messages which are just as incredible and you can go from scripture to scripture in seconds! I love it so much. It has helped me to continue to learn a lot! :)<br />
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This last week I had the wonderful opportunity to be able to talk to one of my great friends Dylan Newton through skype! Wow that was so cool! It was the first skype lesson that I have had on my mission! I loved it! It was so cool to see Dylan! I missed him a bunch and it was great to be able to connect with him again. I loved being able to talk with him about or relationships that we have with Christ in the midst of a world that is slowly becoming less and less religious. It was awesome! We talked of how this world and the people within it need God more than ever before and how God really loves us so much. One thing that I love is how we can be of different religions but know that God loves all his children no matter what. It is so true. I love how our Heavenly Father is so beautifully merciful to each and every one of us it is just so true.<br />
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I have been learning so much here in Little Neck. I am loving it! There are times when it is hard and easy but that is all part of the life of a missionary right? But the thing that I am most happy about is to continually be able to feel the cleansing power of the Atonement in my life. I know that what Christ did for us is real. I know it without any doubt in my mind whatsoever. The reason why is because I have felt it first hand many times. I know that through Jesus Christ we truly can be clean from sin and from the things that bear us down day by day. I know that this is true. The worst pain can be replaced by the sweetest <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>joy.</b> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> <span style="color: black;">I know that this is true. When we are trodden down by guilt, pain, sorrow, or whatever it may be, there is one person who can heal us. And that is Jesus Christ. He knows us and He loves us more than we know. This I know with every fiber of my being. He lives. I know it. It has brought me so much joy and that is all I want for others to know too. I promise that through Jesus Christ we can feel joy and peace in the times where we struggle and wonder if there is one who understands us. Through Christ we can feel free of all our sufferings. I know it. :) </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;">I know that as we hope on and journey on we will be blessed. Hold onto hope. And never let go of what you know to be true. I love you all! :) </span></span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/UbsU3b2srQA" width="560"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-12528081954513101622013-11-07T11:36:00.001-08:002015-12-03T16:46:29.024-08:00You Too Can Be A LightHey everyone! It is Elder Waidmann here again!<br />
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I hope that all is well with everyone! Life here in New York is just so wonderful! Day by day everything that happens to me I am just so happy to experience. This area of Little Neck is such a blessed place! I am still learning my way around and trying my best to not get hit by anyone on the road! I thought that the driving here would be a lot calmer but it is still pretty crazy! :)<br />
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Being a missionary is a once in a lifetime experience! Something that I have realized though is that we can all be missionaries at any time. We need to be in all reality. The world is changing day by day and what is needed is people who can bring true hope, joy, happiness and peace. That is where we come in as missionaries and as members of the church! We have a knowledge of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! And hey! If you aren't a missionary or a member of<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints</span></span> then check us out! It is something that will bless you for the rest of your life! I promise! So just take a second and think if a gift was offered to you that you were told was the best thing you could ever have and it was free! Would you accept it? Well let me tell you I would!! :) So please accept our gift of a hand of friendship and take this great journey that we call life with us!<br />
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On the subject of bringing hope into a world that sometimes we think seems hopeless I can promise all of you that there is one solution to this all. Yes it may seem too simple and sometimes others think that it can't be true because it has to do with God. However I know with my whole soul and being that this is what can mend broken hearts and spirits. It can lift the hands of the weak, bring joy to the dreary and downtrodden and it can bring what we all need in life, light. What is the solution to these problems and the sure for the pain? It simply is the Gospel of the Master Teacher Jesus Christ. I know that it can solve these problems because I have seen it first hand here in New York. And I know that is works! :) It makes me so happy to see others that receive a renewed sense of hope and joy in their lives because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He truly can bring us peace and a sense of security in an often distressed and troubled world.<br />
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Christ truly does bring us hope and joy and light. He himself taught <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I know that as we truly do follow the Savior Jesus Christ in all that we do we shall experience true and everlasting joy, peace, and happiness. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">But t<span style="font-size: small;">he<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">question<span style="font-size: small;"></span> is how do we follow <span style="font-size: small;">Him? <span style="font-size: small;">The answer is fairly simple. We learn of <span style="font-size: small;">Him and His ways. As we do this we come to feel a sense of closeness with our Heav<span style="font-size: small;">enly F<span style="font-size: small;">ather and with Jesus <span style="font-size: small;">Christ that we have never felt before. I can promise tha<span style="font-size: small;">t<span style="font-size: small;"> I know that <span style="font-size: small;">this feeling is real and that it is true. As I have <span style="font-size: small;">been serving my mission as a full time missionary here in <span style="font-size: small;">New York I have felt <span style="font-size: small;">so much closer to my H<span style="font-size: small;">eavenly Father than I ever have be<span style="font-size: small;">f<span style="font-size: small;">ore. I have learned who the Savior is and how <span style="font-size: small;">He wa<span style="font-size: small;">nts us to treat others. I know that He lives and that He <span style="font-size: small;">is real and that He tr<span style="font-size: small;">uly does love us. We who <span style="font-size: small;">have this knowledge need to s<span style="font-size: small;">hare it with others. <span style="font-size: small;">We have a light<span style="font-size: small;"> within ourselves that sometimes w<span style="font-size: small;">e forget <span style="font-size: small;">about. We need to let it shine unto all of those that surround <span style="font-size: small;">us. I promise that as we try to <span style="font-size: small;">share this wonderful knowled<span style="font-size: small;">ge with those we care about we will help them receive<span style="font-size: small;"> so much happiness and so much love in their l<span style="font-size: small;">ives. As we share our light with our fam<span style="font-size: small;">ily<span style="font-size: small;">, fr<span style="font-size: small;">iends an<span style="font-size: small;">d those who we see <span style="font-size: small;">o<span style="font-size: small;">n a daily basis the light in their <span style="font-size: small;">eyes begin to grow. I know that <span style="font-size: small;">this is t<span style="font-size: small;">rue! The hope of God's light is real! Let us share it! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">God lives and loves us! He wants the best for us! That is why we are here learning a<span style="font-size: small;">nd growing together<span style="font-size: small;">. Let us reach out and <span style="font-size: small;">take a hand<span style="font-size: small;"> and s<span style="font-size: small;">mile! :) I love you all! And for those of you <span style="font-size: small;">who <span style="font-size: small;">would like to receive this gift of love and hope..<u><b>.Come Join <span style="font-size: small;">With Us! :)</span></b></u></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-19047896795320600302013-11-05T14:28:00.001-08:002015-12-03T16:47:29.351-08:00Service is The Best!Well hello there everyone! It is has officially been a week since I have arrived here in Little Neck! The current status is that I am loving it!<br />
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Being here has been such a blessing! The Lord is so aware of us and he knows exactly where to put us at the right time. There really is never anything that happens by chance or where it isn't planned out. The Lord always knows that there are certain times for everything. Even though we may not see it or recognize it, the Lord's timing behind everything. I am loving this area so much. It is definitely quite the difference from Dyker Heights in the heart of Brooklyn let me tell you that much! But it is a place that I know that I am going to learn to love.<br />
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This past week has been great! I have already learned a lot! I am continually learning so much each day! So I am learning the area as I go! I am driving every so often and it is super weird to be behind the wheel again after 8 months! So yeah I have gotten honked at a few times I can't lie about that one, but also the people here literally honk if they think that you breathe wrong...okay not really but I think that you all get the picture! :) It is great here though. The fall has definitely come here and it is so beautiful! I love it! I have always heard about how here on the east coast the trees are just so beautiful and it really is so true! Everyday I am just amazed by all of the wonderful beautiful things that I see here!<br />
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On Saturday we got to do a service project! Oh my goodness was it fun! I loved every second of it! It was so much fun! We drove quite a ways out and the service project was a lot of us missionaries and other members from the Planview Stake. We all put on our <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Mormon Helping Hands</span> </span><span style="color: black;">vests and went to work! Man I still can't believe how much fun I had! We got to rake leaves and put them in bags and beautify the area that we were at. It is just a testament to me of how as missionaries we take being set apart from the world so literally and sometimes we don't even realize the effects of it on us. Normally, I can't lie about this one sadly :), but when I knew that it was time for us to get out into the yard and rake leaves I wasn't super excited to go and do that. Also while I did it I can't really say that I loved every second of it. But jump to now this last Saturday, I have never had so much fun doing service. I have never felt such excitement in doing such simple things as raking leaves and cleaning </span><span style="color: black;">up a</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span>Veterans Facility. Then as I now think about it, I realize why. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ for two years of my life. I have given up much to accomplish something much greater. And that my friends is the Salvation of souls. It is helping and blessing others on a daily basis. This isn't something that is a burden to me at all. It is a blessing. Sure the days long and tough, but hey I love it! This period of my life I wouldn't trade for anything. There is much to be learned each day and also to share with others. I have learned that as we serve others and do the littlest things we truly are happy. It is when we lose ourselves in serving others that we find true and lasting happiness. We don't worry about ourselves and the problems we have. We are involved with trying our best to serve our fellowman. That is what life truly is about. That is why we follow Jesus Christ. He was perfect. He was always blessing and serving others regardless of their circumstances. I know that as I missionary I have this opportunity daily, of which I am so grateful. I am so happy to be blessed with this time to serve my fellow New Yorkers and to bring the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ into their lives. Thank you for all you do! You guys rock!<br />
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With Love from Little Neck,<br />
Elder Waidmann Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06549645798448641197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348262740134808440.post-9116069969533961422013-10-30T13:33:00.000-07:002015-12-03T16:47:56.946-08:00Little Neck: The Big BeginningWell just as the title says! I am in a great big place called Little Neck! It is crazy! I thought that I would stay in the City for almost my entire mission! Well I guess not! However I am so happy to know that this is where my Heavenly Father wants me to be for a specific purpose. It was a tough goodbye with Elder Martinez! I love him with all of my heart and I will never forget the time that I spent with my best friend and companion in this mission here in New York, but I am here and I am ready to start anew once more!<br />
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I figure that I should say who my new companion is! I am now with Elder Schreiner! He is great! I served with him when I was in Zone 1! So that was a sweet surprise to be able to get a new companion who I already knew! I am so grateful to be with him! I am excited for the time that I am going to be able to spend with him. I always learn so much from my companions so I am grateful to be with Elder Schreiner and to be able to learn and grow with him here in this part of New York where the Lord has trusted us to work. <br />
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It is an amazing area here! Wow! I love it already! I have missed nature so much and it is here! The trees are so beautiful with the fall colors on the leaves. It is just these little things such as the seasons changing that just makes me so grateful for all of God's creations; little and large no matter what they are.<br />
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Transfer meeting was so great and inspiring! I always love being able to hear from our mission president and his wife. They are such wonderful people and so loving. We all feel a sense of urgency for this work of salvation that is happening here in New York and also all over the world. I know that it truly is the work of our Heavenly Father to share this wonderful knowledge that we have as missionaries and as members of this incredible church. I know that it is true. Not because someone told me it was or because other people have told me it was. I know that it is true by the power of the Holy Ghost. That is what I love about our Heavenly Father so much. He could give us all of the facts that we want to prove something was true. But yet he doesn't. I had always wondered why there weren't things that could prove the church was true specifically and something that could just say "HEY THIS IS THE TRUTH!!!" and then we would accept it and know. Now I can say I understand why. Because we wouldn't be living by faith. It really is that simple. If we didn't live by faith and trusted man and material means to prove these things to us, we wouldn't be fulfilling our purpose here on the Earth. We came here to learn and to grow and to live by faith! That is why we are here! To become like our Savior and our Heavenly Father.<br />
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One analogy that I always love to think about is this: Being here is like taking a test. If we are sitting in a room and taking a test and all of the answers are up on the wall, the only thing that we are going to do is copy the answers down turn it in and say we are done. Then we know it is an instant pass and 100%! Yeah sure that is great and all but in the long scheme of things did we learn<b> anything? </b>The answer is no. BUT. If we go to the other way of going through the same experience, as we are taking the test and trying our hardest to get things right and to get the best grade that we can, at the end of it we really have learned. Yes it was hard, but when we come out of the experience we are so grateful when we see that the efforts that we have put in to prepare and during the test were worth it.<br />
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Life can be the same way and so can be trying to figure out what God's plan for you is. I love it. I love our Heavenly Father. He is so good to us. Yes sometimes change comes and we are not happy about it, but we end up finding that the change was to benefit us, even though at first we fought against it. I am grateful for trials and for change. Not because they are easy but because I learn so much through it and and grow closer to my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Also I learn so much about myself and the eternal potential that I have. I am so grateful to be here in New York. It is the experience of a lifetime. I am grateful for faith. I am grateful to have a loving family. I am grateful for the spirit and communication that I receive through this great gift in my life. It is something that is so wonderful! I am grateful to be here! I am grateful for all of you! God bless you all and remember to walk by faith, even in the hard times.<br />
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