Pace 10:4







I love babies


Anyways I've really been getting into the Christmas mood. I was able to listen to Christmas music this week without getting bullied. I can't wait until everything is decorated and there is snow! As a zone in the Bronx we are studying different aspects of Jesus Christ every day and sharing insights together! Each day a different missionary gets to pick the topic. It has been so amazing and I encourage all of you to implement that it into your families

I just took a crispy nap, crispy like poppeye's crispy chicken sammy and it really boosted my mood. 

Our friend Lisa was baptized on Saturday. She is so sweet! When we first started talking to her she was going to a different church but when we shared the message of the restoration with her she felt God's love for her so strong and it was over from there. She had been going to church for the longest time simply because she knew it was a commandment from God but she didn't know why. In our last study before her baptism she told us that this was the only place where she felt she belonged ðŸ¥º now she is like our grandma and gets us cookies! She brought a cake and soda to her own baptism ðŸ¥³

We tried out a new place to find cool new friends to teach. We went over down by yankee stadium but we were talking to someone on the train so we stayed on one extra stop. No worries tho because we could just walk back. Right when we got outside the train stop we found 3 super cool friends!!! It was such a miracle! We said a prayer of gratitude and asked which way to the stadium. A nice crossing guard lady pointed us in the right direction, just past the park and over the bridge. On our way back I thought to myself why are we walking over a bridge ðŸ¤” Then it hit me. The stop after yankee stadium goes into Manhattan ðŸ¤­ so it turns out we couldn't teach any of those cool friends we met and passed them all over to the Harlem elders ðŸ˜­

95% of my meals the past 4 months have been sandwiches and I'm not even mad about it. Just in case you were wondering

We went to the temple with one of our friends on Thursday and it was awesome! The two times I have gone to the temple have been the two times on my mission where I have felt the most joy! I also saw the first ever one-handed baptism ever. It was quite impressive

I got a haircut last Monday

Spiritual thought: Count your blessings, but also make your blessings count! I totally came up with that so don't look for that quote in a talk by Neal A Maxwell. If you would like to laminate it and put it on your fridge make sure you give me all the credit

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