PDay 4-4-2011

Hey,


I barely received your letter! I haven't really read much of it yet because I barely picked it up from the apartment. It's a nice day today. We were originally going to visit Brooklyn Bridge today but it's overcast and cold. I don't have any idea where to start. The city is great. We took the Subway here. Talked to a man on it. Unfortunately, he was gay. On our way over here we heard somebody say "God bless you!" We turned and saw that it was from two teenagers. People are usually kind. For example: We were in this apartment building and we were knocking a couple doors at the top of these old stairs while a man walked past. He greeted him and he said...."sorry guys, not interested but good luck with everything".

On another occasion, we were approaching an apartment where our investigators lived. Outside stood this dirty and scary looking man with skulls and crap on him. We walked up the stairs of the stoop until we approached him. He stood in the way and said...."try the other building" (the problem is...is that many families live in a single building: once inside...you walk up stairs and stairs and there are doors here and doors there for many floors-in other words....not only one single family inhabited the building). We hesitated (because our investigators Felipa and Julian lived inside) and he said ".....the Devil lives inside there. Go try over there or better yet that other one....but not in here". We backed down and pretended to look for somebody in our planners next-door. We walked only a minute (barely out of sight), literally, and returned to the building where he was gone. We entered and found our family. Taught them an d it was a marvelous lesson!!

I called my family (Anthony's Jonathan's) in Brentwood last night! They were extremely excited to hear from me and it was exhilirating to talk to them. Marvelous! Raphael asked when I can see him again and then added, I want you to come when I'm baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO HAPPY! Elder Clement and Elder Lunt are doing well with them! I need to call them again because I couldn't talk for very long....too late at night.

Also, did I mention that my companion was transferred last transfer here? He's new here as well. In fact, I replaced him as Elder Griener's companion in Brentwood when I arrived in the Mission. He left and served in Far Rockaway, Queens before being transferred here. He's really cool! Very used to talking to people on the street.

Because we're both new, we hope that we'll stay together for next transfer because we don't know very many members of the ward yet. Some, yes. Also, we're going to teach with the members. We also desire to visit less active members!! We also need to find more people to teach.