Field Trip

 

There's a little bridge from Jersey to the Island. Only authorized personnel 
​can go on the bridge. And we get to go on it :)

 

 

Never gets old

Hello everyone!

So this week was by far the coldest it's been since I got here. I've started wearing fleece tights every day because if I don't, my legs are freezing and I'm miserable. It hasn't snowed yet, but people are saying it should be snowing next week. I'm just so grateful that we made it this far into November without snow. People told me that last year it was snowing on Halloween, and the rest of the winter was insanely awful. I remember seeing on the news how bad the winter was in the East Coast last year. It looks like this winter isn't going to be as bad. Thank goodness!

 

But aside from the cold, this week was pretty awesome. We had 7 new investigators! So we're super excited about that. All our other numbers this week were pretty good too. Sister Stone is a boss! She is making our numbers go way up!

 

On Wednesday we had individual interviews with President and Sister Taggart. These don't happen very often; this was the first time since I got here over 3 months ago that I had a personal interview. Right before our interviews, we found out that the Taggarts' daughter was in the middle of giving birth right at that moment. They were on the phone with her for a little bit but then they went back to the interviews. It really made me appreciate them and realize just how big of a sacrifice they are making. Sometimes I feel like I am sacrificing so much to be here, but this made me realize that they are sacrificing even more. They missed the birth of their grandchild! The interviews went well. President Taggart is an amazing man and he radiates the Spirit!

 

On Saturday we got to go to Ellis Island again! Field trip time! Haha Ellis Island is always super fun. I feel like I always take pictures of the same things while I'm there but oh well, you can never have too many selfies with the Statue of Liberty, right? It was Sister Stone's first time so of course she was super excited, and of course we ended up taking wayyy too many pictures.

 

So there's this family we've been visiting once a week since I got here. Rosalba is an inactive member, and her boyfriend Alfredo isn't a member. They live together and have two little boys. We've been working so hard with them because they have so much potential. We really want Alfredo to get baptized, but before that they first have to get married because they are living together. They always read the Book of Mormon when we leave them reading assignments, but they haven't come to church in years. Honestly I was about ready to give up on them because it seemed like they were never going to change. BUT yesterday, they showed up to church 15 minutes early! I was so shocked I just stood there for a second. I never thought I would ever see them in church, but it happened! We've talked with the ward Relief Society President about them and she really wants to get the RS together to throw them a wedding. If I can see them get married before I leave this area, that would make me so happy. Of course I want Alfredo to get baptized, but marriage is the first step for them. We are super excited!

 

Yesterday our phone randomly shut off and wouldn't turn back on. We feel pretty helpless without our phone because we have no way of calling people and scheduling/confirming appointments. Also, every Sunday night we have to send in our numbers for the week to our district leader, but we couldn't do that without our phone. So we went to the apartment of this nice old Cuban lady who lives across the hall. She's the sweetest thing ever and she let us use her phone to call our district leader and then she gave us ice cream! So it turned out alright :)

 

Have a great week!

 

<3 Hermana Harris