2012!2012!2012!
Date: January 9, 2012
Area: Long Island
Companion - Sister Lewis
Querida Familia,
Well another week has come and gone....where on earth does the time go? I wish that it would slowww down! But I guess that is life :) Time is a precious thing....we need to make the BEST out of the little time that we have on this earth because it is biennn cortito! Alright well lest see where to start.. Ok How about Monday! Yes Monday was a great day! We had a Family Home Evening at the bishops house. The Familia Mendoza came and we talked about those small and simple things that we can do to keep us strong - such as Daily Scripture Study, Prayer, Church Attendance and so forth. We had a wonderful time, the Familia Mendoza are just progressing up the wazoo and are so strong.
Welp we had transfers! I forgot to tell you :) Well I stayed here in Long Island and My companion got sent to Queens! So I got my new Companion Hermana Hughes! I am SO excited to work with her. Her and I were companions together in a Tree-O in Jamaica! She is an incredible missionary and I feel so blessed to have the chance to work with her again. Brentwood has a lot of good coming its way :)
What else....Well we have been doing a lot of "Finding" this week, in order to have more people to teach :) So yes a lot of knocking doors... Which is always an adventure, let me tell you...you never know WHAT kind of person you are going to run into here in NY :) Actually last night we knocked on this door and this Italian answered the door lol she could barely understand English. I gave her a card and told her that the missionary's could bring her a book of Mormon in Italian, she was happy about that! So we have been also looking up a lot of formers this week. We went to this one lady's house named Maria....We were looking up a man named Jose, but he was not there and so this man let us in and sat us down at the table with his wife and then he left the room. So we began talking before, she kinda looked at us like we were weirdos...but she was nice. We started talking and then come to find out that she actually used to meet with the missionary's and had been to church quite a bit. We talked to her and set up another appointment this upcoming week.
We went to a cita and they were not there, so I decided to give a phone call to a former investigator who we ran into a couple weeks back. He was busy but I told him that we just wanted to come and say hi. So we went and then said hi and met him and his wife and their cute son Jose. We were able to do a little bit of how to begin teaching and set up another appointment for Sunday. ( we will refer to them in a second.)
Ok so....Sunday! We now have 9:00am church, which I was kind of a bit nervous about because I did not think that many people would want to wake up that early to go to Church. However to my surprise the entire congregation was FULL! They had to keep getting more and more chairs because it was so packed! It was a wonderful sacrament meeting! Ada was able to get confirmed, she was so excited to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Ok so Sunday was Fast and Testimony meeting. **(Side note- The other Sisters took Wendy and Rey out to go teaching with them earlier in the week, and Wendy told the Sisters that their whole entire family had been practicing what they were going to say to bear their testimony's. This just melts my heart) ok anyways so during testimony meeting the Entire Mendoza family stood up and went to bear their testimonies! Including Ada, they talked about how as a family they study the scriptures, they have family prayers! They testified about what a difference the gospel has made in their lives. The Gospel really does CHANGE lives! That is what it is all about! We proclaim the atonement! We help people so that they can apply the atonement into their own life's to make changes, to become a TRUE disciple of Jesus Christ!
Sunday Sunday Sunday! We went to go and teach Donald and Xochitl ( those people that we looked up the other day) and we brought Wendy and Rey along. We were able to have a really powerful lesson with them about the importance of the Book of Mormon and talked about how Joseph Smith was just a mouth piece for the Lord, and that really Jesus Christ is the Head of this Church. Wendy and Rey were excellent teachers and were able to bear powerful testimony about how baptism is the Puerta o sea...the door that we enter, it is the gateway. We asked them that if they knew that these things were true if they would get baptized. Donald and Xochitl said that if they knew and if God gave them another chance that they would get baptized. YAHOO! Such an incredible lesson, they have great potential!
Last thing, we went to go and teach a new investigator that we found but the appointment fell through. So then we went knocking.. and we knocked on this front door, no one answered. So naturally we went and knocked the garage door, ok this sounds funny but NO one in NY uses their garage's they use them as houses! SO just laugh if you may :) haha but no then we went and SIster Hughes felt that we should knock the side door, and to our surprise they let us RIGHT in! It was a sweet Dominican Lady and her family. They sat right now and we chatted with them for a while! I just wanted to give a shout out for all of those incredible missionary's who are serving in other country's especially in the Dominican Republic and El Salvador, because a lot of these people in NY have heard about the church from you and have attended church in their country's and talked to the missionary's so thank you! Yes this goes to you Hermana Eryn Hill and many others :) SO thank you :) We were able to have a really good lesson with them and set up another appointment.
I love this Work! This is truly the lords work, and It makes/ brings TRUE Joy! I love NY! I love the Ward that I am serving in, and I love my Companion and I just love everything! I am so thankful to everyone that has sent your love and letters and support my way, it really means a lot! I am truly blessed! Familia Gray I love you so much thank you for your everything! I love you!
Con muchisimo Amor.
Hermana Gray
The Purpose of Missionary Work
"The purpose of our missionary work is to help the children of God fulfill a condition prescribed by our Savior and Redeemer. We preach and teach in order to baptize the children of God so that they can be saved in the celestial kingdom instead of being limited to a lesser kingdom. We do missionary work in order to baptize and confirm. That is the doctrinal basis of missionary work."
Topics: Mission of the Church
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