So, as you may have noticed, my preparation day was moved to Tuesday
this week. Elder Jensen hit hit year mark a couple weeks ago and is
currently on a temple trip. They only do temple trips on Tuesdays and
have it take a preparation day. Right now, I am on an exchange for the
day with Elder Parkinson and Elder Peńa. Their companions are also on
the temple trip.
Alright, here is my week for you :)
Last Monday was pretty bland and regular until something super cool
happened. We were at the laundromat doing what most people do at
laundromats: laundry! Yay! Haha anyway, we were planning to just throw
our clothes in the washer, go get lunch, come back and switch them to
the dryer, write emails while they dry, then take them back to the
apartment. This plan worked pretty well...for my clothes at least
haha. Elder Jensen wanted to save money, so he decided to wash his
whites and darks all together; something he had done for pretty much
his whole mission. In doing so, he didn't realize that he put a pillow
case, which his family had written notes on with red marker, in the
washer. When his clothes had finished washing, most of his white
shirts had large red stains on them. This altered our perfectly
planned laundromat experience just a bit. He showed his shirts to the
workers there, and they said they would fix them and to come back in
about 30 minutes to pick them up. At this point, we had both finished
our emails for the week, so we decided we would go street contacting.
We walk outside, and there is not a single person to be found walking
down the road. So, we then decide we will go knocking on the closest
street to us. We knock two houses down the road when we see a
door-to-door salesman. We went over to talk to him and had a really
good conversation. He asked us what organization we were from, so we
explained to him about our mission and what not. Then he asked what
set our church apart from other churches. We then taught him the
Restoration and gave him a Book of Mormon. We had him read the last
two paragraphs of the introduction. Right after he read it he said,
"Great! Now you got me interested!" Hahaha. He lives out of our area,
so we referred his information over to the missionaries in his area.
The Lord works in interesting ways to further His work :) haha
So, Sister Rivas asked me to be her accompanist for a musical number
in sacrament meeting. She gave me the sheet music on Tuesday night
haha she has an amazing singing voice! The musical number went very
well and definitely brought the spirit. I recorded it, but I don't
know if I will be able to send the whole thing. We will see I guess
haha
So, Nicole Juliano dumped us... She was the golden investigator who we
had on date to be baptized. She texted us and told us she was happy
with her religion and friends and didn't want to be taught anymore. We
were very devastated for her. However, we met Nadia and Chris this
week! They have been taught by missionaries for a while now, and when
we went to visit them for the first time, they said that they were
ready to be baptized! We gave them a date to work toward and are
really excited for them. They have a very strong desire to follow
Christ and both have a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon! Our
goal with them is to have them at church four weeks in a row, then
they can get baptized :) the only problem with that is that they don't
have a car or very much money for the bus or a taxi. They have a
common problem with pretty much all of the people we are teaching. We
have turned our Ward members into a taxi service hahaha. We are
constantly trying to find people rides to and from church. It can be a
struggle, but the members here are so willing to help out!
We have a few CD's in our car, but a bunch of them are filled with
Christmas music! Hahaha so we have been listening to a lot of "Oh,
Holy Night" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman". I know we are 4 months
from Christmas, but the music definitely makes you happier :)
Quote of the week:
(We were talking to a nurse lady who was there to help take care of a
very nice disabled man named Ronald)
(Ronald comes to the door and cuts in the conversation)
Ronald: "Hiiiiiiii. I'm Ronald. I did not crap myself!"
Nurse Lady: "They don't want to know about that, Ronald."
Anyway...I love New York, and I love serving our Heavenly Father!
Elder Snell :)
There are wild rabbits everywhere out here!
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| Wild Rabits! |
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