I am sitting in the Apple store in Manhattan New York right now! Can you believe it? Probably the coolest thing ever! Anyways! We are here to go to the temple so I'll journal about it and let you know next week how it was!
So this week we had a pretty slow week. Last week we only taught 9 lessons all week... Which is not the best... But on Monday we were all rejuvenated from our skyping with our families and we got right to it! We went to see a member of our ward who used to be less-active. Come to find out that she has an amazing testimony of the Book of Mormon and of this church! So we invited her to our lesson yesterday morning with Mercedes! They are both from the D.R. and basically the whole lesson my companion and I were trying and hoping that we were understanding their conversation. We didn't really get most of it.... It's ok though. We felt the spirit and hopefully Mercedes did too. But we did get a member present lesson and hopefully a friend for Mercedes out of it!
Earlier yesterday morning we taught another member in our ward and found out that she is really in need of our help because she's not reading the Book of Mormon regularly and she is lacking in testimony. So we have another meeting with her to hopefully find out more about her and how we can really help her.
After our lesson with Mercedes we found out that our member we brought with us is the Aunt of a girl we have been trying to get in contact with for months. So, with the help of this member we were able to get into this less-actives house and meet her finally! So within about 3 hours we already had a third of what we did all last week combined! It was such a miracle to find this member and know how excited she is about helping us in our work!
Last night we went to visit a potential investigator named Tomas. I don't know if I've told you about him yet but he is great. He's from Mexico and he's not a member of any specific religion but he believes in God and Jesus Christ which is awesome! When we first met him he told us that he works crazy hours and doesn't have a set schedule so we couldn't make an appointment with him. But yesterday Hermana Cole and I decided to go see if he was home, and he was! And his daughter was there as well! They both seem soo excited about our message and we got their number to give them a call when we want to see them. I hope that they are as excited as we feel like they are!
I know that this is God's work and without Him, there is nothing we couldn't do. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and a man can come closer to Christ by following its words than by any other book (Introduction to the Book of Mormon). I challenge all of you to read it every day and apply it to your lives. It is the only thing we need if we will truly follow our feelings and knowledge we gain through our reading. Words really don't even describe how amazing this book is and I know that you can all find of its power for yourselves.
Thank you all for everything that you are doing to support me and my family during this amazing time in our lives! I love you all sooo much!
Love, Hermana Bloxham :)
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| View of Manhattan from our apartment window! |
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| View from the roof in one of our areas |
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| Me and Sister Cole at Haffen Park |
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| All of these are from the subway ride into the city |
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| Me at the Apple Store in Manhattan |
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| Some basketball right on the street |
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| Sister Malderizzi and me on our split! |
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| On the subway |
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