NYC week 2

Mi familia!

I just finished my first full week of proselyting in NYC. Crazy? Yes. Smelly? yes. Awesome? Totally.

The area we live in has mostly black people that live here so we do a lot of contacting on the subway and on the buses. That means lots of referrals for missionaries in other areas because most of the people we talk to live out of our area. This is okay though because we are still doing the work, even if it's not us doing the teaching.

I feel like I have so much to tell you and not that much time soooo...

Some highlights of the week were: .

Last Thursday we taught a lesson to an inactive member named Edward in the church that is joined with the temple, let me just tell you that that part of the city is SWEET!!!!!!!!! The temple is beautiful, and after the lesson Edward bought us hot chocolate. So, in case you were wondering if it has ever been my dream to walk around NYC at night drinking hot chocolate as a missionary, you were right because goal totally accomplished!!!! I felt like I was in a dream!

The other day we were tracting in the projects (I wish I could send pics cuz it's CRAZY) and as we were knocking another lady opened her door and said "You Mormons?" we said yeah and she said "don't knock there, come in here" so we went into her apartment where she lives alone with her dog and cat. It was so sad! Her apartment could have been from "hoarding: buried alive." Really messy! She just talked to us about her sad life and we just listened. Then we left. We went to a nicer apartment complex and talked to a lot of non interested people (including a charming young man from Germany ;)) and then the very last door we knocked they guy was interested! It was funny cuz he pointed at me and said that I had talked to him before. I hadn't. Anyway, it was a blessing to finally find someone who was interested. Last week we taught a REAL investigator named Gerardo. I was really nervous but the Spirit was totes there and we got through it :) We are visiting him again this week on Friday I think. I feel like my Spanish is getting worse and worse BUT please keep praying for me. We also talked to another lady yesterday who pointed at me and said I had talked to her on the subway. I guess I have a twin missionary here in New York. haha.

Also something funny that happened was we were stopped on the street and this guy comes up to us and tried to sell us binoculars. We started talking to him about the church and he went off on something about Christ and kept looking at each of us and saying "listen". He said it like a million times. He might have been high...

Anyway, the work is progressing slowly but surely! Keep me always in your prayers as I keep you in mine!

I love you all so so so much!!

Hermana Richardson