Hello Everyone!
I apologize for
the late email. It has been a pretty crazy day, but I will get to that later.
This week has been quite nice. We have seen some awesome things happen.
Probably a highlight from early on in the week was teaching a Muslim couple. It
was quite interesting. They were very friendly and very open to listing to us.
We tracted into them, we started having a conversation and about 45 minutes
later we had a point in every lesson. We went through most of the plan of
salvation. We went all the way through
the gospel of Jesus Christ. At the end of the lesson, we gave them a Book of
Mormon and they said they would read it. The cool part of this experience was
that during the whole discussion we were all able to share what we believed in
a very non confrontational way. We all agreed that we are children of God. Because of that foundational doctrine everyone should
treat each other with respect.
Another cool
thing that happened was that we were able to go with the assistants on an
exchange. It was pretty awesome! We spent pretty much the whole afternoon
tracting. At the end of the day we had taught 4 lessons to people on their porches! It was great!
On Sunday we
had the Why I Believe fire side. It was great to feel the spirit so strong as
we listened to bear their testimony's on why they believe. The guest speaker was
Jason Hinds. He ran track for BYU. He has trained with some of the fastest people
on earth including Usain Bolt. He also has a Mormon message about him and his
mission in NYC. His story was very interesting.
Today has
been crazy!! We decided to go down to the city. We started off going to the Capital Building and went on the general tour. That was pretty cool but we
wanted to see more of it so we got in line for a specialty tour. We got our
tickets then we decided to go to Union Station for lunch because we had an hour
and a half before our tour was going to start. While at Union Station we were
looking through the shops and we see this hot sauce shop and since I like spicy
food I was drawn to it. They had hundreds of different sauces. At the very front of the store was a sign that allowed you to try a sample of the hottest sauce they had. This
stuff was called Flash Bang. It was made out of scotch bonnet peppers (third
hottest pepper in the world) and scorpion pepper (second hottest pepper in the
world). So of course being the silly missionary's we are, we all had a sample.
It was the worst decision of the day by far haha. As soon as we tried it, it was instant pain. It burned
everything form your throat to your tongue. My eyes began to sweat, my face was
dripping, and so we tried running through the train station trying to find a
place to drink water. We finally found a drinking fountain but of course, it's
the only drinking fountain in all the place that does not work. So we ran to the
bathroom and started drinking the water from the sink. It helped a little bit
but by this time I had realized that I had not had any breakfast and so by
stomach started burn super bad. It got to the point where I thought I was going to throw
up. Luckily We were sitting right next to the shop where they have the huge
cupcakes and luckily they had milk so one of the elders we were with bought me
some and that made me feel like almost instantly better. Another Elder had the same problem as me so I got him
some milk and he felt much better after that. After all that happened we got to
the capital building just in time for our tour of Statuary Hall. It was really
cool. We got a picture with Brigham Young.
Later on we
had our zone activity. We went to the home of Brother Dr. Prince for a dinner.
It was so cool. This man is probably a billionaire. He created a vaccination
that every single child needs to have so he has lots of money. I have never
seen so much money in one place. Anyway enough with that. We went had dinner
and it was really really good. After dinner we had a little fire side in his
basement. He did a very good job. He talked about how we need to own our religion and it was very well said. After that we went to his personal library.
He says it is probably the largest Church library out side the state of Utah
and I would have to agree with him on that one, it was incredible.
I am so sorry
for this late email. I hope all of you have a great week!
Byeee
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