Loving life and missionary work ;)
Date: July 17, 2012
Area: Brooklyn
Companions - Sister Delong, Sister Cahill
HAPPY 13th birthday Courty Shorty :) You are a teenager! Stop growing up haha I love you!
This was another WONDERFUL busy week! Full of changes and fun! Alrighty...so the last Monday night we were able to go and look up an investigator and while knocking on the door Jeffrey who we were looking for came walking up the stairs and then told us that he had actually been wanting to talk with us. It was really neat to see as we followed the spirit what things he needed to hear.
We had President Interviews this week. I felt like it was a PPI :)
President Calderwood is simply incredible and I am loving learning from him. I know that he truly was called by our Heavenly Father by a Living Day Prophet. It was really neat to be able to talk with him about some of my goals that I have as a missionary and to be able to have him give me advice so that I can become the missionary that my Father in Heaven wants me to be. I know that he has been called here to the New York New York South mission at this time for a reason. I know that we are going to see GREAT and Marvelous things come to pass. He truly is amazing! ~ Dad he reminds me of you.
Wednesday night we were able to go to a Family Home Evening. The familia Bonilla invited 2 non members over to their house and we were able to teach them the Restoration of the Gospel. It was so helpful to have them in a members home and to hear both Hermana And Hermano Bonilla bear witness and simply yet powerful testimony of the Restoration and of the Book of Mormon. It is the IDEAL situation when a member invites a friend over and then invites the missionary's over. They then are able to have a instant friend and support when the missionary leaves. I invite you ALL who are reading this to invite a friend over to your home and then invite the missionary’s to teach or have a Family Home Evening :) I promise you that you will feel the spirit of missionary work and that you will be happier! TRUST ME :) Missionary work makes you happy! Why do you suppose that all of the missionary's are ALWAYS SO HAPPY? :)
On Thursday we were able to go and have exchanges. Hermana Delong stayed with me and Sister Faiva (who is Samoan and Hawaiian). We were looking up a bunch of people knocking doors the whole time. Then when our last appointment fell through we went to go and look up this Lady named Lucia who I had talked to in the streets like 3 weeks ago. So we went to go and look her up and she was there. She let us in and we were able to teach Her and her son named Luis (age 13)and her daughter named Jazmin (age 9). We were able to teach them the restoration. It was a powerful lesson and it was really neat to see how the spirit worked on each of them individually and how their hearts were softened. We asked Jazmin if she wanted to know if its true and she shouted OF COURSE :) Lucia was thrilled when she found out that church was in Spanish and full of hispanics :) I am SO excited to be able to teach them.
Friday we had a member have his farewell party! His name is Jeffrey and he is going to Salt lake :) I am so excited for him and his family. It feels like it was yesterday I had my farewell party. Saturday night there was a wedding! There is a member who was baptized in this ward here 10 years ago from Peru. She is the only member in her family and so she FLEW out here from Peru to get married in the church because her fiance now husband is not a member and she wanted to set a good example for him. It was such a neat experience to be able to see her still strong. She is going to feed us this week :)
We taught Maria Jose again, and it was such a wonderful lesson. We were able to talk a little bit more about the Plan of Salvation. She is so amazing and strong. She just recently moved here and the first thing that she did was she went and found the missionary's. That's us :) Sunday was great except for the fact that they took Hermana Cahill from us. A sister missionary went home so Hermana Cahill went to flushing with my old companion, Hermana Allen. So now it is JUST the two of us!
Yesterday we had MEGA ZONE CONFERENCE! It was amazing! we talked about the GOSPEL of Jesus Christ and implementing it more in our teachings. President Calderwood is SO inspired and I loved the workshops that the Assistants gave, Elder Hall and Cabanilla. They talked about the Book of Mormon and how it really does answer the questions to our souls. Last night we went looking up people and we were tired.....and just about to go home when we decided to knock ONE MORE DOOR. To our surprize an ENTIRE family of 7 let us in. We taught them all. IT was a different lesson than normal, however we were able to implement the gospel of Christ and the questions of the souls . He had a question about infant baptism so we turned straight to Moroni 8 and talked about how infants have no Need to be baptized and that they are alive in Christ. It was really neat and they invited us back.
I know that this gospel is true! I know that Heavenly Father loves us so much that he gave us familys and prophets and this beautiful gospel. He loves us so much he gave us other scripture. Another testament The Book of Mormon, and through it we can come closer to our Heavenly father than ANY other book. This is the true church!
I love you all!!
Hermana Gray
“You may sometimes be tempted to say, ‘Will my influence make any difference? I am just one. Will my service affect the work that dramatically?’ I testify to you that it will. You will never be able to measure your influence for good." —President Thomas S. Monson
This was another WONDERFUL busy week! Full of changes and fun! Alrighty...so the last Monday night we were able to go and look up an investigator and while knocking on the door Jeffrey who we were looking for came walking up the stairs and then told us that he had actually been wanting to talk with us. It was really neat to see as we followed the spirit what things he needed to hear.
We had President Interviews this week. I felt like it was a PPI :)
President Calderwood is simply incredible and I am loving learning from him. I know that he truly was called by our Heavenly Father by a Living Day Prophet. It was really neat to be able to talk with him about some of my goals that I have as a missionary and to be able to have him give me advice so that I can become the missionary that my Father in Heaven wants me to be. I know that he has been called here to the New York New York South mission at this time for a reason. I know that we are going to see GREAT and Marvelous things come to pass. He truly is amazing! ~ Dad he reminds me of you.
Wednesday night we were able to go to a Family Home Evening. The familia Bonilla invited 2 non members over to their house and we were able to teach them the Restoration of the Gospel. It was so helpful to have them in a members home and to hear both Hermana And Hermano Bonilla bear witness and simply yet powerful testimony of the Restoration and of the Book of Mormon. It is the IDEAL situation when a member invites a friend over and then invites the missionary's over. They then are able to have a instant friend and support when the missionary leaves. I invite you ALL who are reading this to invite a friend over to your home and then invite the missionary’s to teach or have a Family Home Evening :) I promise you that you will feel the spirit of missionary work and that you will be happier! TRUST ME :) Missionary work makes you happy! Why do you suppose that all of the missionary's are ALWAYS SO HAPPY? :)
On Thursday we were able to go and have exchanges. Hermana Delong stayed with me and Sister Faiva (who is Samoan and Hawaiian). We were looking up a bunch of people knocking doors the whole time. Then when our last appointment fell through we went to go and look up this Lady named Lucia who I had talked to in the streets like 3 weeks ago. So we went to go and look her up and she was there. She let us in and we were able to teach Her and her son named Luis (age 13)and her daughter named Jazmin (age 9). We were able to teach them the restoration. It was a powerful lesson and it was really neat to see how the spirit worked on each of them individually and how their hearts were softened. We asked Jazmin if she wanted to know if its true and she shouted OF COURSE :) Lucia was thrilled when she found out that church was in Spanish and full of hispanics :) I am SO excited to be able to teach them.
Friday we had a member have his farewell party! His name is Jeffrey and he is going to Salt lake :) I am so excited for him and his family. It feels like it was yesterday I had my farewell party. Saturday night there was a wedding! There is a member who was baptized in this ward here 10 years ago from Peru. She is the only member in her family and so she FLEW out here from Peru to get married in the church because her fiance now husband is not a member and she wanted to set a good example for him. It was such a neat experience to be able to see her still strong. She is going to feed us this week :)
We taught Maria Jose again, and it was such a wonderful lesson. We were able to talk a little bit more about the Plan of Salvation. She is so amazing and strong. She just recently moved here and the first thing that she did was she went and found the missionary's. That's us :) Sunday was great except for the fact that they took Hermana Cahill from us. A sister missionary went home so Hermana Cahill went to flushing with my old companion, Hermana Allen. So now it is JUST the two of us!
Yesterday we had MEGA ZONE CONFERENCE! It was amazing! we talked about the GOSPEL of Jesus Christ and implementing it more in our teachings. President Calderwood is SO inspired and I loved the workshops that the Assistants gave, Elder Hall and Cabanilla. They talked about the Book of Mormon and how it really does answer the questions to our souls. Last night we went looking up people and we were tired.....and just about to go home when we decided to knock ONE MORE DOOR. To our surprize an ENTIRE family of 7 let us in. We taught them all. IT was a different lesson than normal, however we were able to implement the gospel of Christ and the questions of the souls . He had a question about infant baptism so we turned straight to Moroni 8 and talked about how infants have no Need to be baptized and that they are alive in Christ. It was really neat and they invited us back.
I know that this gospel is true! I know that Heavenly Father loves us so much that he gave us familys and prophets and this beautiful gospel. He loves us so much he gave us other scripture. Another testament The Book of Mormon, and through it we can come closer to our Heavenly father than ANY other book. This is the true church!
I love you all!!
Hermana Gray
“You may sometimes be tempted to say, ‘Will my influence make any difference? I am just one. Will my service affect the work that dramatically?’ I testify to you that it will. You will never be able to measure your influence for good." —President Thomas S. Monson
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