Los Verdasitos Libres

Hello!

Thanks for the emails and stuff- it's good to hear from people.  Also, last Friday we received the mail that has been sent to the mission home, and so that was really great to hear from everybody that had sent me stuff- so thanks to everybody!  I'll try to respond to them as well as time allows me.

Things are going well here!  Last night we challenged one of our investigators to be baptized and she accepted.  We're planning on inviting her mom and her mom's boyfriend to do be baptized as well tonight.  Preparing somebody for baptism is hard, but with the Lord all things are possible.

We've had some pretty cool experiences and there are a lot of people that we're working with that have a ton of potential.  I'd love to talk in more depth about such things, but I don't have a lot of time, so I'll just share one cool experience.

Monday night, one of our roommates, Elder Stevens got sick, so Elder Topham "gave me the area" and his companion Elder Orellano and I go out and do some work by ourselves so that Elder Orellano didn't have to stay inside for the whole day.  Elder Orellano is an English speaking missionary that came out at the same time as I did, so we were two missionaries with two weeks experience being let loose in Manhattan.  I was excited, he was a little nervous, but we went out and went to work.  First, we went and tried street contacting (NY is such a unique place in street contacting- you pretty much just stand on a corner and try to engage people in conversation and lead it to the gospel.  Something that I want to get really good at.), then we went to a not very firm appointment and she wasn't there, so we started knocking doors in that building.  After a few doors we came to a guy whose name is Leroy who we talked with for a bit after which he let us in.  We then proceeded to teach the first discussion and had a really solid experience with him.  The spirit was strong and we committed him to reading The Book of Mormon and meeting with the missionaries.  It was really sweet!  I love teaching and helping people to come closer to Christ and can't wait to keep working.

Sorry I don't have much time.  Today we're going to a museum with the Elders that live in our apartment.  Tomorrow we've got a lunch appointment and a dinner appointment and otherwise, we're just planning on doing some hard core cleaning, so that'll be good.  Thanks once again for the support!  Have a great Thanksgiving and don't forget to offer up thanks for the great blessing of the Gospel!

-Elder Griffiths