Hey Guys,
I feel so bad that I wasn't able to email you today! We just didn't plan our time very well and we got to the library and none of the computers were open:( I am doing great! Don't even worry about me at all! I hope these letters get to you soon! I miss you guys a ton and next week I'll try to send some pictures to you guys of the amazing Bronx, NY! I wish you guys could just spend one day as a "fly on the wall" of my life! It's so amazing! My Spanish has grown so much this week too! Not so much my speaking, but my understanding! There are so many accents and they are so hard to understand!
This week has been amazing! Being in the Bronx has been so great! I'm pretty sure I never want to leave! There are cars honking 24/7, sirens going off 24/7 (even if a cop car just wants to get through an intersection, he turns on his sirens!) sister Cole and I are sleeping in the front room of our apartment and that's our room, so that's great! We have two roommates who are the English side of our zone and it has been fun to get to know them too.
So day 1 in New York was so much fun! We contacted people on the streets and that is mostly in English:( But our lessons are in Spanish. We had a lesson with the Reyes family who are recently re-activated and they are so nice! They fed us some great tortillas with beans and cheese in them. The had a friend there who isn't a member so we got to teach him about the Book of Mormon and set up another appointment. 1 new investigator! The next day we had planned to go to lunch with the Spanish Elders in our zone to get to know them but we got there early so we tracted/contacted people on the street! I thought it would be a lot scarier than it is! One lady I just said "Hi, how are you?" and she stopped and said, "Why did you say hi so nicely?" I told her that we were missionaries and we just had a great message for her! She seemed so excited and wanted to learn more! She said it was so crazy to just run into us like that, it must have been fate. Then after lunch we had an appointment with Angel, which went so well! He is just struggling with one thing, but he knows it's right so we just need to be patient for him.
After that at the bus stop I just said hi again to a guy waiting with us and he asked why we were so nice. Then he saw our tags and said that he has had missionaries knock on his door recently. He also said that he has been looking for religion! So perfect! We gave him a Book of Mormon and our numbers if he had any questions.
The next day we had a lot of the same types of miracles, running into the right people who were willing to hear our short message. We got another investigator! Her name is Rosie and hopefully we are teaching her again on Friday! Besides that though it was a pretty hard rest of the day. We had our planned lessons juked (missed) and we had an appointment with the Reyes again but we didn't get in the door so we didn't teach them...
Sunday was pretty good! We had ward counsel and during that meeting we got a call from a former investigator. She said she was awake and wanted to come to church! She came!! So that was both of our first investigators at church! She even stayed for all 3 hours! That day we had at least 4 lessons planned but all of them either got juked or cancelled. So that was not good either. Sunday was just a long day! Monday was such a better day! We started the day in a district meeting that went extra long because we had our first interviews with President Morgan. He had me pray in Spanish and he was blown away by my ability to speak and couldn't believe it! I have gotten a lot of compliments on my Spanish which is so nice! All my hard work was for something!
It has been so amazing to teach real people and see them understand our message. Being a missionary is an amazing experience and I am so thankful for all of your support during my mission I love you all so much!!
Love,
Hermana Bloxham
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