Tranfer Three

Date: September 06, 2011
Area: Jamaica, New York
Companions - Sister Lambert, Sister Hughes


Dear Family!

Man oh man! Time needs to sloooow down! Time on the mission is a funny thing! It just goes WAY to fast! I still can not believe that I am on Translado Three!! Ok so we had transfers and I recieved two new wonderful Companions! Hermana Lambert and Hermana Hughes! They are both from Utah and I LOVE THEM! I was a little nervous having to take over the Area - Jamaica! But I know how to do one thing! And that is to Work Hard :) And they are ready to work too!


Ok so first adventure of the transfer :) We were getting on the Subway and Hermana Lambert proceeded to "fearless" ( that means just talking to anyone and everyone we see and give them a pass a long card or such) anyways so she began talking to this lady and she was from Bangladesh and she was a Muslim. Before we knew it this lady insisted that we came to her house for lunch! Hahaa So what do we do?? GO over there of Course :) hehe So we follow this lady and we are in Rego Park and she leads us into her humble abode. She then told us to sit down while she brought us some food! Boy was I scared....as to what food she was going to feed us :) Well I felt like a little kid in Elementary School on the Cartoons where they just SPLASH some goo on your plate! Yup thats what It was! Some mushy noodles stuff with some sort of Raisin thing inside....haha and then she gave us some hot dog buns that were put in the toaster! haha oh man My companions and I just laughed as we tried to swallow down thing mush thing.... Too good! Dad you should be proud! I ate the ENTIRE plate :) haha Prayer works thats all I have to say! We then were able to share with her about the Book of Mormon. I am not sure she quite understood the fact that we were missionarys nor understood our message, however we read from the Book of Mormon and she was MORE Than happy to listen and have us over :) oooo let the fun begin!


This week was Just INCREDIBLE if I do not say so myself! Full of teaching and finding! We had more members present this week than any other week on my mission which was wonderful! Member work is the KEY!!!! I absolutely LOVE my ward! They feel like my family :) They seriously just take SO good of care of the missionarys!


We were able to teach Armando again this week and he wanted to know how he could feel the same joy that we felt! Well Baptism! He is so excited and is continuing to read every day! He came to church on Sunday all by himself!


So you remember those three little girls and their dad whom we were teaching!?! Well we were able to teach them twice this past week and invited them to be baptized and they accepted! We had a family home evening this week with the girls. and one of the girls name is Ruth Mary and she is 12! I have never met a 12 year old with SUCH A high level of comprehension of the Scriptures! This girl has got it down! She is always like "PLEASE PLEASE let me explain!" This girl is amazing! She always makes sure to help her sisters when it comes time to saying th prayer. I love the fact that we are all able to kneel down as a family with them and pray. There is just such power and unity when we are all able to kneel down and pray. It shows humility and I have SUCH a strong testimony of prayer. I have seen miracles on my mission from Prayer and this week was NO exception!


We taught 19 lessons this week, and along with that we had 11 new investigators and currently have 8 baptismimal commits. The Ap's called us last night and we were so scared that they were going to take one of us out of the Tree-o, because one of the Sister missionarys has been sick. I felt my heart sink when I saw that the call was from the Ap's. Then they asked if we could put it on Speaker phone...My heart was pounding... Then They proceeded to congratulate us...I was confused!?! But they just wanted to say good job for working hard this last week, and that we were leading the mission! haha Man that was a Relief and much better feeling :) I absolutely LOVE my companions!


Ali Fredrick if you read this I have a companion Hermana Lambert that is seriously YOUR TWIN!! haha its weird!.... I keep wanting to call her Ali :)


Well this week was amazing! Jamaica is what we like to call the "promise land" here in New York! The people here are so humble and are being prepared to recieve this wonderful message of the gospel! I love the work and I love my family!


Keep being amazing and always remember that you are a child of god :)


I love you!
Hermana Gray



~ "We knew that our purpose was to gain a physical body, to overcome trials, and to prove that we would keep the commandments of God. Our Father knew that because of the nature of mortality, we would be tempted, would sin, and would fall short. So that we might have every chance of success, He provided a Savior, who would suffer and die for us.”

Thomas S. Monson, “He Is Risen!” Ensign, May 2010, 88