Saturday, March 30, 2013

NYC Week 9

January 9, 2013



Familia Familia Familia!!

First of all, for those of you that sent me christmas cards/letters and read my blog, THANK YOU! I wish I had time to individually write each of you, but know that I am extremely grateful for all of you and was super happy to hear you are all doing well!

This week has been a week of growth and realization that I AM NOT PERFECT :D surprise surprise right? I have been praying super hard to Heavenly Father that he will help me with my weaknesses and I have never felt closer to Him! I love this opportunity I have to grow closer to my Heavenly Father and learn more about myself and what I am capable of.

Manuel is still right on track for baptism so on January 19 he will be baptized! Woot woot! I love watching him learn and grow and increase in his faith and in his knowledge of the gospel. It makes him so happy!

This week....I forgot my journal when I came to email so forgive me while I search my brain for what happened.

Saturday we did service! We cleaned out a couple backyards and then spent the rest of the time ripping out linoleum from 3 hours. It was super tedious but working with the other missionaries from my district was super fun. Our district is the bessssst! :D We have a new zone leader named Elder Hulme and he is awesome, simply put. He's from Orem and basically is a genious.

We've found a lot more people to teach, the other day we were tracting and doing look ups from our area book. All the ones we went to look up were not home...but...after we knocked on this one door with no answer I heard some kids across the hall so I said Sister Aguirre lets knock! We knocked and it ended up being a house full of  Dominican ladies. A great grandma, grandma, daughter, and granddaughter. 4 generations! They were super nice and we are going to go back and teach them soon.

Tomorrow we have a sisters conference with president and all the sisters in the whole mission. It should be super awesome! There are lots of changes going on in the mission, some of which include key indicators (numbers). The key indicators that we counted before were how many lessons taught to non members with a member present each week, how many referrals and contacted, etc. Now we are focusing a lot more on reactivating less actives and are actually going to start counting reactivated members just like we count baptisms! So if a companionship reactivates someone it's counted the same as a baptism. Which makes sense right? Both ways you are bringing people unto Christ.

Spanish people are awesome, the mission is awesome, and New York City is awesome.

Estoy mandando mi amor a todo!!!!

Hermana Richardson


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