Transfer #3 and New York City!

Mis amores,

This week has been insane! I am still in the good, old Hightstown area which has everything from intense city to suburbs, to farmlands. My trainer is back in the "real world" in Utah, and Sister Daniels in is a different area training her new sister! We went to transfer conference last Tuesday, where we received some inspiring instruction from President Jeppson and his assistants, and then got paired up with our new companions! There are about 10 sisters who have been called as trainers after their first 12 weeks in the mission field.

 

My new trainee's name is Sister Stansel- and I am so excited to be serving with her! She is from Idaho Falls. She is an adorable little missionary with a burning testimony and a sweet disposition. She is very intellectual and fun to talk to. Her pure, bold, and loving testimony is just what the people of this area need! We are getting along just great! :)

 

Our wonderful investigator, Abraham Alejandro, agreed to be baptized and had his baptismal interview with our district leader, Elder Greer, yesterday! His baptism is being planned for right after church next Sunday! We are so excited and grateful that my other sister companions and our friends Destiny and John Fihisetau and other members have helped him in his conversion process. But Hermano Abraham is so amazing all on his own. He bears his testimony to us and references things that he has learned from the scriptures and pamphlets we've given him. He even shared that he realizes that Joseph Smith was foreordained to be a prophet for our days and that the Law of Tithing relates to the Word of Wisdom, in that we shouldn't take into ourselves more than that which we need! Hermano Abraham amazes me and you can see the Light of Christ in his eyes.

 

We went to the Manhattan Temple this week! It was my first temple experience in the mission field. I drove with my companion to Union City, New Jersey, where we met some of the other elders at a church and took a little bus across the border into New York and then walked about 20 blocks right through Times Square! It was so exciting! It is a unique feeling to be viewed as a missionary representing the Lord in such a wild, and worldly place. The temple is right off of Broadway, and my companion and I were excited to be right there where so many famous musicals have started out!

 

This was so cool! And the temple was such an amazing, spiritual experience! I love my new companion too. :) She appreciates musicals as well, so we're good. :)

 

(No, we are not advertising for the play...)

 

This is a picture of 2 "zones" (with the most sisters we've ever had in this group) when Elder and Sister Koelliker came and spoke to us on a mission tour.  We are awkwardly on the top with the elders for some reason.