LOVE NY
Date: September 19, 2011
Area: Jamiaca, New York
Companions - Sister Lambert, Sister Hughes
Ok so not much time and so much to write. Where to begin. Well on Preparation day my companions and I went to Flushing. Which is like an entirely different world. ha Chinese people EVERYWHERE! We went to eat some Sushi which was absolutely delicious. Althought poor little Hermana Hughes I know would beg to differ :) Anyways then we were able to go into Manhattan on Wednesday because one of my companions had to go to a doctors appoinment. Well lets just say it was wonderful! I love love Manhattan. I even finally saw a Taxi with a Mormon.org sign on it. It was wonderful! It amazes me how literally people come to New York from ALL around the world!!!
As you can see from some of the pictures we were able to do an amazing service project on Thursday. We were able to go as an entire mission to New Jersey. As you know about 2 weeks ago we had a hurrican come through here. As New York did not get too damaged, although New Jersey got destroyed! So we met up with the missionarys in New Jersey - recieved our Mormon Helping hands t-shirts and got to work. ( I have secretely ALWAYS wanted one of those tshirts haha ) anyways we were able to help out and split up into groups. So we were paired up with some of the New Jersey missionarys and were assigned a house. We were to help this man Carlos. He lives in the basement of his mothers house and during the hurricane his ENTIRE house had been flooded with water up to the top. It was heart breaking, he lost EVERYTHING! We worked for over 12 hours getting EVERYTHING out of his house and putting it out on the lawn and also we broke his walls down with hamers and tore furniture out. It was such a humbling experience, and just was another reminder how much material things do not matter, but that the gospel does and that if we hold strong to the gospel we can ultimately be happy- even when things like natural dissaster happen. He began asking questions about our church and what we did as missionarys. Carlos was such a humble man and more than thankful for our help. It was a wonderful experience and really taught be about humility as Carlos was the perfect example of humility.
We have met some really solid people this week. We have found this building that we like to call the "Miracle Building". The reason being because almost every single apartment that we know had let us inside. We were able to teach a lot of first lessons- it was been a wonderful week!
Love Hermana Gray
Dear Family,
Ok so not much time and so much to write. Where to begin. Well on Preparation day my companions and I went to Flushing. Which is like an entirely different world. ha Chinese people EVERYWHERE! We went to eat some Sushi which was absolutely delicious. Althought poor little Hermana Hughes I know would beg to differ :) Anyways then we were able to go into Manhattan on Wednesday because one of my companions had to go to a doctors appoinment. Well lets just say it was wonderful! I love love Manhattan. I even finally saw a Taxi with a Mormon.org sign on it. It was wonderful! It amazes me how literally people come to New York from ALL around the world!!!
As you can see from some of the pictures we were able to do an amazing service project on Thursday. We were able to go as an entire mission to New Jersey. As you know about 2 weeks ago we had a hurrican come through here. As New York did not get too damaged, although New Jersey got destroyed! So we met up with the missionarys in New Jersey - recieved our Mormon Helping hands t-shirts and got to work. ( I have secretely ALWAYS wanted one of those tshirts haha ) anyways we were able to help out and split up into groups. So we were paired up with some of the New Jersey missionarys and were assigned a house. We were to help this man Carlos. He lives in the basement of his mothers house and during the hurricane his ENTIRE house had been flooded with water up to the top. It was heart breaking, he lost EVERYTHING! We worked for over 12 hours getting EVERYTHING out of his house and putting it out on the lawn and also we broke his walls down with hamers and tore furniture out. It was such a humbling experience, and just was another reminder how much material things do not matter, but that the gospel does and that if we hold strong to the gospel we can ultimately be happy- even when things like natural dissaster happen. He began asking questions about our church and what we did as missionarys. Carlos was such a humble man and more than thankful for our help. It was a wonderful experience and really taught be about humility as Carlos was the perfect example of humility.
We have met some really solid people this week. We have found this building that we like to call the "Miracle Building". The reason being because almost every single apartment that we know had let us inside. We were able to teach a lot of first lessons- it was been a wonderful week!
We were able to get the little girls to Church this week :) We were able to take the bus to church. The little girls LOVED it! They are ages 12, 10 and 8. I love those girls SO much! They said that they wanted to be missionarys and even took our name tags. When people would ask Esfany what her name was she would quickly respond - " Hermana Gray"!
Well be strong! This gospel is true! Not much time left but know that I love you! and if we always hold tight to the iron rod we will be blessed! This church is true!
Love Hermana Gray
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