Well familia, another week has
come and gone. This week FLEW by. I don't even know what happened. Time
is going by so fast, we are already half way through this transfer.
Today is the start of the 4th week of the transfer. I don't want this
transfer to end it has been so good! We are going to get a baptism if
it is the last thing we do. THE ENEMY IS REAL! we have two
investigators we have been teaching for a long time who are SO READY!!
They are just impossible to dunk for some reason. Something always
comes up! We're working on it though. I am not letting these two get
away, I love them way to much. If they don't get baptized this transfer,
they will FOR SURE the next transfer. I just want Sister Weinstock to
be here for it. We think she'll probably leave next transfer, this is
her fourth transfer here in Amboy.
Everyday I am loving Amboy more and more, I just love this
branch and I love it here in a very different way that I loved West New
York. I will always love WNY and it will always be a place really
special to me, but I love this area in such a different way. I feel
like I am finally to the good part of my mission. I know the language,
I have teaching skills, I've finally just bloomed as a missionary. I'm
not just going through the steps anymore, I'm working because I love
working. Its not even work, its fun.
I LOVE New Jersey. I cant wait to bring you guys up here
after my mission. It is such a different world compared to the west. My
companion and I renamed New Jersey as "the pothole state" because we
have seen a whole lot more pot holes than we've seen gardens. hahaha oh
man I hate potholes. You cant even drive the speed limit here because
they re so bad! Y'all wouldn't believe your eyes. As missionaries we
always joke around about all of the weird New Jersey things that we are
going to say when we come home. For example, I'll probably never use the
word bus again, In New Jersey its called a wawa. It is so funny to hear
people just talking about the wawa, especially in Spanish. They'll just
be speaking Spanish then all of a sudden they throw the word wawa out
there and it sounds so funny. "trabajo en nueva york y me voy por la
wawa" I don't know. It sounds something like that. It makes me smile.
This month our monthly focus for the mission is on the Book
of Mormon again. I am so excited. President Jeppson said that he wants
all of us to have a Book of Mormon in our hands at all times and to be
contacting AT LEAST 10 people a day and trying to use the BOM in all of
our contacts. He promised us that if we do this the teaching pool will
double for the whole mission. It is such a neat to have such a powerful
promise from our mission President. This week we saw some HUGE
blessings from this challenge and we also had some super super funny
moments, some of those moments that I am always going to tell when
people ask about my mission.
MISSION MILESTONE: I got the door slammed in my face for the
first time on my mission. In the most literal sense. Slammed in my
face. It was so awesome, I was so excited. Sister Weinstock and I were
in this one neighborhood in Woodbridge trying to get our 10 contacts
for the day we had 9 and we needed 1 more then we were going to head to
an appointment. We walked up to this house and I lifted up my hand to
knock on the door and right then it flies open and this lady is standing
there and she screams, "YOU DON'T KNOCK ON THIS DOOR!!" then she slammed
it... I didn't even have time to put my hand down. My companion and I
just looked at each other then ran down the steps and ran down the
street and just started laughing so hard. It was hilarious. We have no
idea how she knew we were out there, we didn't even knock yet! She must
have seen us coming from around the corner or something. hehehe.
Then right after that we were still just feeling giggly and
we were walking back to the car and we saw a man walking toward us. We
get excited when we see people walking on the street because in our
area everyone is always inside and we don't really get any good street
contacts. So we see him but I noticed that he was looking pretty ratty
and he was walking very crookedly so I could tell he was drunk, so I
said, "hey Sister Weinstock, he looks pretty drunk, I don't think we
should talk to him" so she said yeah, ok lets just keep going to the
car, then he got closer and closer and he was passing by us and Sister
Weinstock just couldn't handle letting him go so she says to him, "Sir
can we give you this card?" so he turns around and he smiles at us and
says absolutely then he asks us where were from and all the regular
stuff then we could tell he was VERY DRUNK. We were looking at
each other trying to figure out how to say bye to him then he just says,
"you two ladies are looking fine today, are you married?" I just gulped
and looked at Sister W. and she looked at me and didn't know what to
say, so before I could even think I just said "YES!" then he started
walking towards us with his arms out like he was going to hug us and we
both started backing up and he noticed so he just put his hand out and
said "I just wanted a hand shake" so we shook his hands and took off.
We took off without looking back and got in the car. We almost died
laughing about how I told him that I was married. It was so bizarre. We
had two really really bad contacts in a row within the same 5 minutes.
It was so awesome and we got a really good laugh out of it.
We had a two miracle contacts the following two days though.
For the first one, we were in Carteret and we were knocking an area
that is a little bit sketchy and has a ton of apartments and smaller
houses. Most of the Hispanics in our area live in the Carteret area, so
this is a great place for us to contact and knock. We were knocking
doors and we were on contact number 8 and we really wanted to get in a
contact lesson. I got a feeling that we should go to this one door in
this apartment complex. We go to the door and this lady lets us in. Her
name was Lucy and she loves cats and she has really strong faith in God
because she just recently beat cancer and loves learning about Jesus
Christ and was excited to talk to us. We taught her about the Book of
Mormon and we testified of how it has brought us closer to Christ. We
could tell that she wanted one, so we gave her one and told her that it
was free. She looked at us for a second and said "wow, are you sure
this is for me?" and we said, yes, it is for you, we have more. Then
looked up at us with these big tears in her eyes and said, "wow, thank
you so much sisters, I am going to read it".
The second miracle contact was yesterday in the same town,
Carteret but in a different area. We had never really been to this area
before and we weren't sure what kind of people lived there but we
decided to give it a try. We had about 20 minutes to our next
appointment and we had already contacted about 7 which were all
rejections so we decided that there was a lot of doors so we had better
let the spirit tell us which doors to knock. We were staying on one
side of the street so that we could remember which doors we had already
knocked for when we came back in a couple of weeks. As we walked down
the street I was looking at each door closely, trying to chose one,
then I got this prompting that we should cross the street. I kept going
a few more steps then I got it again but stronger. Right as I was about
to open my mouth to ask if we could cross the street, my companion beat
me to it. We had both felt the prompting super strong. We chose a door
and no one answered. As we were standing at the door step, the neighbor
walked outside to take her trash out. Before I could even think about
it I was walking over to her. We talked to her and she was so kind. We
introduced our message and she was very interested. We gave her a
pamphlet about the restoration and explained a little bit about it. She
asked us if we could come back and teach her about it. We told her we
would be happy too. We whipped out our planners and before we even had
the chance to ask her she gave us her phone number and asked us to call
before we come over. We left and headed back to the car. We both knew
that she was the reason we were both prompted to cross the street. I'm
super excited to teach her next week.
Well, that's about all I've got time for this week! I love and miss you all! Have a good week!
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