Well hello again. This week seemed so long and so much happened!
Thursday was our mission tour with elder Snow. It was awesome.
Everyone had to write a 5 minute talk and by Wednesday night I hadn't even started mine so after planning I wrote some ideas down and set my alarm so I could get up extra early and finish it. I always use my iPad for an alarm, and I guess I left my wifi on or something because it DIED so our other alarm didn't go off until 630 and we had to leave at 715! Needless to say I was praying pretty hard that he wouldn't call on me!
The conference was so awesome. In the last three months president has introduced a lot of new mission 'themes' for lack of a better word, and tons of new goals. It has been really overwhelming, especially as a leader because we are supposed to be the example and the model of all of these new things president has talked about. The conference was such a relief because it went back to the basics. Even president did.
He started the conference by talking about the companionship. He said nothing works if only one companion is trying. How true that is! I'm sure it's that way in life too. Then they talked about consecration and how living that law takes time. Elder Snow's wife talked about the hymns and journal writing, and then he talked about faith, and he said that he is still working on faith and repentance. I think I agree. :) he took some time to invite people to give their talks. He called up one girl and after hers he said okay, now we are going to critique it!
It was HORRIBLE! Definitely a flash back from my public speaking class. He even talked about filler words!
After lunch Elder Snow talked about the links in missionary work and how each of them work together. He said it all goes back to finding, which is so true and I so hate it :) it was so nice to spend some time talking about the basics like working with the word and retaining new converts. It was definitely something I needed!
After the conference was over the leadership got to go to MLC with Elder Snow. He didn't plan anything so for an hour we got to ask him questions about being a leader. Some of my favorite things he talked about were making and setting attainable goals and maintaining a certain standard of excellence. He said it feels so much better to achieve a modest goal than to never achieve any goal at all. That is so true for me! He said missionary work, like life, is 95% rejection so we have to do what we can to find success. He talked about pushing yourself a little harder each week to slowly progress and how that is so much better than setting a really high goal one week and achieving it, and then not even coming close to that goal the next week.
Sorry that was a lot. I hope you realize sometimes these emails are more for me than anyone else :)
Friday we were on a split with our roommates. It's kind of crazy because sister Campbell was companions with sister Barlow and I trained sister Orme, and it just worked out so that we would be companions with them again! Sister Orme is awesome. They are kind of struggling in their area with finding things to do, so hopefully it picks up soon.
Saturday was kind of crazy. We planned with the zone leaders in the morning for zone meeting, and then we spent the rest of the day running around. We invited soo many people to church! We taught Yasmine, our awesome new investigator. She wants to be baptized and she loves the idea of a modern prophet. Her mom used to meet with missionaries in the Bronx so we are hopefully going to teach the whole family soon.
All of the trains were busted Saturday so we walked A LOT. We ended our night with correlation. Our ward mission leader is so awesome. I love talking to returned missionaries who still love the work and are doing their part as member missionaries. Anyway, after correlation we were asking them how we should get home and they gave us money for a taxi. Now no one is allowed to judge us for this next bit. Okay?
All taxi drivers are male. Seriously. The white handbook says that we always need a third member of our sex with us, even in the car. We were really excited to take a taxi and we were praying for a female driver but mostly we were just excited to hail our own taxi :) so we stand on the corner and try our best to hail a taxi. We wanted an OG taxi. Welp... Just our luck (and kind of karma for breaking the rules) the first one that pulled over was a stinkin MINI VAN!! Seriously. The Mormon vehicle of choice. We were kind of dying. And the driver was a guy. So.. It never pays to be disobedient.
Sunday we left our house at 7:15 and didn't get home until 9:30. I was exhausted. We had an interview, did our studies in Central Park, ate dinner with our favorite family and did some lookups to find the 100 people we invited to church because NONE of them came.
Monday was zone meeting. It went really well! Sister Campbell and I taught about how we can have the spirit with us so we can teach by the spirit. In my humble opinion, it was the best part ;) Monday I was feeling slightly unmotivated, so after zone meeting, we went to get some froyo. Oh! I don't know if any of you know the sandwich punching game. If you don't, you aren't missing out. But basically; if you are eating a sandwich and you set it down and don't cover it it is free for anyone to punch. Elder Berryman was eating this HUGE hamburger and he left it uncovered for like 2 seconds and sister Campbell punched it soooo hard. I was dying it was so funny. He was so so mad :)
I can't remember what exactly we did after that... But at some point we visited Nick to find out why he wasn't at church. I LOVE nick. He is so crazy but also so sincere and amazing. We took him to a park and on the way home (he knows everyone) he stopped by some hob looking guy and said "Tom, can I have a hug?" And then while they were hugging he said "Tom.. Jesus loves you!!" I felt the spirit so strong. It was crazy and so cute.
Tuesday I was on another split. This time with sister Jensen that someone asked me if I knew. :) she is so cute! We were in Harlem and we saw so many miracles but I'm just too tired to write about them :)
Today we went to the 9/11 memorial and to battery park. I have a TON of pictures so I will try to narrow them down...
Thursday was our mission tour with elder Snow. It was awesome.
Everyone had to write a 5 minute talk and by Wednesday night I hadn't even started mine so after planning I wrote some ideas down and set my alarm so I could get up extra early and finish it. I always use my iPad for an alarm, and I guess I left my wifi on or something because it DIED so our other alarm didn't go off until 630 and we had to leave at 715! Needless to say I was praying pretty hard that he wouldn't call on me!
The conference was so awesome. In the last three months president has introduced a lot of new mission 'themes' for lack of a better word, and tons of new goals. It has been really overwhelming, especially as a leader because we are supposed to be the example and the model of all of these new things president has talked about. The conference was such a relief because it went back to the basics. Even president did.
He started the conference by talking about the companionship. He said nothing works if only one companion is trying. How true that is! I'm sure it's that way in life too. Then they talked about consecration and how living that law takes time. Elder Snow's wife talked about the hymns and journal writing, and then he talked about faith, and he said that he is still working on faith and repentance. I think I agree. :) he took some time to invite people to give their talks. He called up one girl and after hers he said okay, now we are going to critique it!
It was HORRIBLE! Definitely a flash back from my public speaking class. He even talked about filler words!
After lunch Elder Snow talked about the links in missionary work and how each of them work together. He said it all goes back to finding, which is so true and I so hate it :) it was so nice to spend some time talking about the basics like working with the word and retaining new converts. It was definitely something I needed!
After the conference was over the leadership got to go to MLC with Elder Snow. He didn't plan anything so for an hour we got to ask him questions about being a leader. Some of my favorite things he talked about were making and setting attainable goals and maintaining a certain standard of excellence. He said it feels so much better to achieve a modest goal than to never achieve any goal at all. That is so true for me! He said missionary work, like life, is 95% rejection so we have to do what we can to find success. He talked about pushing yourself a little harder each week to slowly progress and how that is so much better than setting a really high goal one week and achieving it, and then not even coming close to that goal the next week.
Sorry that was a lot. I hope you realize sometimes these emails are more for me than anyone else :)
Friday we were on a split with our roommates. It's kind of crazy because sister Campbell was companions with sister Barlow and I trained sister Orme, and it just worked out so that we would be companions with them again! Sister Orme is awesome. They are kind of struggling in their area with finding things to do, so hopefully it picks up soon.
Saturday was kind of crazy. We planned with the zone leaders in the morning for zone meeting, and then we spent the rest of the day running around. We invited soo many people to church! We taught Yasmine, our awesome new investigator. She wants to be baptized and she loves the idea of a modern prophet. Her mom used to meet with missionaries in the Bronx so we are hopefully going to teach the whole family soon.
All of the trains were busted Saturday so we walked A LOT. We ended our night with correlation. Our ward mission leader is so awesome. I love talking to returned missionaries who still love the work and are doing their part as member missionaries. Anyway, after correlation we were asking them how we should get home and they gave us money for a taxi. Now no one is allowed to judge us for this next bit. Okay?
All taxi drivers are male. Seriously. The white handbook says that we always need a third member of our sex with us, even in the car. We were really excited to take a taxi and we were praying for a female driver but mostly we were just excited to hail our own taxi :) so we stand on the corner and try our best to hail a taxi. We wanted an OG taxi. Welp... Just our luck (and kind of karma for breaking the rules) the first one that pulled over was a stinkin MINI VAN!! Seriously. The Mormon vehicle of choice. We were kind of dying. And the driver was a guy. So.. It never pays to be disobedient.
Sunday we left our house at 7:15 and didn't get home until 9:30. I was exhausted. We had an interview, did our studies in Central Park, ate dinner with our favorite family and did some lookups to find the 100 people we invited to church because NONE of them came.
Monday was zone meeting. It went really well! Sister Campbell and I taught about how we can have the spirit with us so we can teach by the spirit. In my humble opinion, it was the best part ;) Monday I was feeling slightly unmotivated, so after zone meeting, we went to get some froyo. Oh! I don't know if any of you know the sandwich punching game. If you don't, you aren't missing out. But basically; if you are eating a sandwich and you set it down and don't cover it it is free for anyone to punch. Elder Berryman was eating this HUGE hamburger and he left it uncovered for like 2 seconds and sister Campbell punched it soooo hard. I was dying it was so funny. He was so so mad :)
I can't remember what exactly we did after that... But at some point we visited Nick to find out why he wasn't at church. I LOVE nick. He is so crazy but also so sincere and amazing. We took him to a park and on the way home (he knows everyone) he stopped by some hob looking guy and said "Tom, can I have a hug?" And then while they were hugging he said "Tom.. Jesus loves you!!" I felt the spirit so strong. It was crazy and so cute.
Tuesday I was on another split. This time with sister Jensen that someone asked me if I knew. :) she is so cute! We were in Harlem and we saw so many miracles but I'm just too tired to write about them :)
Today we went to the 9/11 memorial and to battery park. I have a TON of pictures so I will try to narrow them down...
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