Flushing Loving!!!

Date: March 5, 2012
Area: Flushing, Queens
Companion - Sister Lambert


Querido Familia!

You want to know why I am SO happy!?! Well The answer is the Gospel! As Benjamin De Hoyos states so beautifuly
"My beloved brothers and sisters, we need to recognize that “wanting to” is the determining factor which leads us to lay hold upon the word of God and be happy. Perseverance in making correct decisions is what leads us to happiness.Happiness comes as a result of our obedience and our courage in always doing the will of God, even in the most difficult circumstances."
We are truly happy when we live the gospel!

This week was MARVELOUS! Just loving it all! Ok where to begin! Well on Preparation day we went to go and see the Globe here in Flushing Meadows park! I have wanted to go there my entire mission and we finally got to go :)

Zone ConferencE! We had a megazone conference which was amazing!! Talked a lot about the atonement!

Sunday Sunday Sunday! Ok so we had church and Guillermo came as well as the Sanchez Family! This was exciting News! So **Funny Note** ok so we were sitting there in Sacrament meeting... and just a side note- you NEVER know what is going to happen in Sacrament meeting here in NY, ha its always a surprize! So anyways....we were there listening to all of the testimonys and all of a sudden Stavros ( A young single adult from Greek who is in the English Ward) walks in with the CUTEST little chinese lady walks in with him. She then goes and sits up at the front. My first thought was who is this crazy chinese lady....haha dont worry it gets better. So next thing I know this old lady was going up to the stand. She then went up to bear her testimony. I looked back at some of the Elders and we just sat and thought we were in for a real treat. She went up to the microphone and had a lady translate for her. This lady bore the MOST powerful testimony that I have ever heard! She started out by saying, " I want to thank the missionarys! She then went on and said, THIS IS THE TRUE CHURCH! THE ONLY TRUE CHURCH!" She said that about 9 times! She testified of Joseph Smith and just went on. Everyone was just in shock, not expecting such words to come out of her mouth. Can't judge a book by its cover...thats for sure. So afterwards I went up to her to give her a hug and she just gave me the biggest hug. She then proceeded to tell me that she was 94!!! And she got baptized in 1957 in Hong Kong. She then showed me over to the couch and said that she had brought food for all the missionarys. She is the cutest lady ever and just full of so much energy and just LOVES the gospel and being a member. She is still hip and running! She said that a lot of times people ask her what her secret is, she then said, "Just pray to God a lot".

We had another really good lesson with the Sanchez Family! They agreed on a baptism date!

I know that Heavenly Father Lives!

He loves us!

Jesus is the Christ!

The Book of Mormon is True!

I love you all!

Love Hermana Gray