On Monday we went to the park and we played football all day. It was ok. I don't like football that much so I just kinda played a little and then watched a little. We had two zones there and a lot of people showed up so it was fun to see them all. The park is super nice! Way big and there's even a pond! It made me want to go fishing! I kept on looking and pointing out fish in the water and my companion thought there was something wrong with me😂
Tuesday we had zone meeting which was in Englewood (like 40min away) and it was awesome. President Taggart and sister Taggart were there and they gave us some awesome trainings and things to practice. The group that came with me in the beginning of September was a lucky group because we had all the big meetings and trainings in this transfer (our first) sister Taggart said this was the first time she's ever seen this before. She said that that we are going to be the best missionaries that she's ever seen because we are going to have these trainings right off the bat. We've had meeting after meeting every week and they are all like a hour away but now that we are done with big meetings for a while (zone meeting is in January) we can really get to work!
Wednesday we got up and went to this philipino bakery around the corner and got some donuts for comp study, let's just say they were way good! Remember K.C. Donuts? I think they were philipino because this place is super similar.
We also did a table stand, It was pretty cool. When we find somewhere where there's lots of foot traffic we get a lot of people that stop by and see what we are all about. And we also get those peoples info that want to know more so we can stop by one day and tell them more about how awesome our church is and how it's different than all the rest. On our way home we saw this super cool suburban haha. I had to get a video of it.
There is also tons of really cool art around jersey city, on the buildings and such.
Thursday we had service at the Salvation Army and we had weekly planing which takes anywhere from 3-4 hours to do so that was most our day. We met with one of our investigators that night and she has two children that were baptized like 7 years ago and she's been having the missionary lessons forever. We've been trying to figure out why she wast baptized, she said she knew all of it was true but she wants to be baptized in the river Jordan😬 so that's been kind of a curveball but we are trying to teach her that her salvation can't wait. We told her that if she would die tomorrow she wouldn't be able to be with her two children because she hasn't been baptized, sooo we asked her to think of a date to be baptized so we are waiting.
Friday we had to go to the doctor to get some blood work done for my companion and that didn't take very long but then we went to do some service at the Hoboken homeless shelter. We prepare food and serve the homeless for lunch. It's pretty fun but sometimes it's really hard to see those people who take advantage of these opportunities. People that can provide for themselves but yet they still depend on the shelter for everything else. But I'm still willing to serve even when it's hard. Like it says in the scriptures "when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God."
After service we (and the other elders that were there with us. Elder Garfield and Elder Merritt.) went to Jonny rockets for lunch. We spoiled ourselves with some big juicy burgers haha!
Later that day we met with a recent convert and she's Peruvian. Super cool lady, talks a lot! She got us two dominos pizzaz. Anyways you know what happened to those. We've been trying to get her to do family history but she's afraid that if she asks her extended family for names that they'll all get offended and stingy. All of her extended fam is catholic and they don't really like her decision to be baptized into the Mormon church. Sooo we are gonna see if she'll go to the temple to do proxy baptisms.
(FYI. Family history for Hispanics is nearly impossible because they rarely use there really name and they have like four last names and every once and a while they'll just decide to drop on of the names. Or the rest of the family only knows them by a nickname and what not. So yeah it's hard)
Right after that we went to a Dominican lady's apartment, her name is Brania. She's a member but just inactive. We see her once a week. She always makes us SO MUCH FOOD! And it's really good food and she usually makes us eat all of it, but we were so full from the pizza before that she just packed it up and sent us home with it. So that's what we've been eating for leftovers haha.
Saturday we helped a member move out of an apartment. It's only her and her son (came back early from a mission in Guatemala), and the father was deported about 4 years ago so it's kind of a tough situation. She's trying to find more work but hasn't found any luck yet:/
We also went knocking some apartments. It's not too efficient. It's kinda hard because all the Hispanics are scattered, there isn't one area where they live so we are trying to find some more. Some of the apartments are so small! The ceilings short and the doors are tiny!
Man this week I've really felt how blessed I am to have such an amazing family and friends back home in st George. Here there could be four families to a single apartment (specifically Hispanics are known for this) which is crazy! So glad that back home my dad works hard to provide for every need of the family. He's setting a good example to me. I want to work hard so that one day I can provide enough for my family to have a house and not have to cram in a apartment.
It also rained all day. It's starting to look so pretty around here! All the leaves are falling and changing colors. It's starting to get chilly! It's been it the low 60s this past week and pretty windy.
Sunday was awesome. We went to church but during church there were two guys who just walked if from off the street. They stayed for sacrament and then after we talked to them a little bit and gave them a Book of Mormon and got their info so we can stop by so that's awesome. They just want change in their lives and they felt something really good during sacrament meeting so hopefully they come again.
Today I made some French toast, it was bomb!
And then we went shopping at Walmart and went to sams club for lunch and now we are at the chapel just hangin out. There was this cool truck at sams club, I had to take a picture of it.
Well I'm doing great! Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers! Love you guys!
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