Time is still flying. I hit my seven month
mark last week, and although I've still got a little while left, I feel
like it's just going to wiz by. We'll see though! Transfers are in a
week, so we'll see how that mixes things up.
Things are getting beautiful! Well the city still
is the city with some trees and stuff, but the weather has been great
this week! Things were chilly and then all of a sudden Monday was nice
so we all broke out our short sleeved shirts and it has been glorious.
I feel like the weather will be nice for a couple weeks and then it'll
just get hot. And hotter. But we'll enjoy it while it lasts! Another
fun thing going on- Yankees games started last week. We get on the
Subway where Yankees Stadium is (we also run over to a field right
across from the stadium to run and work out and stuff- pretty cool!) and
so I think at least twice now as we've been heading up to our chapel,
we've been bombarded by tons and tons of Yankee fans getting off going
to the game. There's one game in June that's on a Wednesday before
6:00, so I'm hoping we can go hit that up- we'll see! Oh and last week
we went to the Bronx Zoo. It was pretty cool I guess.
Anyways, the weather is nice and the work of the
Lord is going forward! Thursday and Friday were good days with some
good lessons. I don't think anything out of the ordinary happened.
Saturday and Sunday we had conference and that was great! I loved the
speakers and I just felt uplifted listening to the servants of God. We
taught a couple of lessons in between each of the sessions, so that was
good. Even with General Conference, we tied our record high for number
of lessons for our area. This week we're trying to get yet even more
lessons, and making them effective too. Monday we had a long zone
meeting to which President Morgan showed up. It was really good- talked
about planning and learned a lot of good insight about that. Better
planning has helped Elder Longmore and me to really make the most out of
the time God has blessed us with. After the training we had a couple
of lessons, but nothing too exciting. Tuesday I went on an exchange
with Elder Richards, my District Leader who lives in the same apartment
(we just pick up and switch our mattresses with the bedding and all when
we do intra-apartmental exchanges). It was great! We were pretty much
just going from lesson to lesson, being guided by the Lord to specific
people to teach them the specific lessons they needed to hear. We
dropped by one less active that Elder Longmore and I had been trying to
get in with for a little while, and he was there and let us teach a
little lesson. He started talking and the scripture that I had felt he
needed to hear went perfectly with a situation he was telling us about
that had happened two days before so it was great seeing the hands of
the Lord in that! A funny thing about that visit, though, was that he
has a pitbull named Olive and she just gets excited when people come
over, so I think I can kind of say that I got attacked by a pitbull. I
like Olive though- she's a lot fun! Anyways, yeah the exchange went
well, I learned a lot and best part was that our investigator, Rafael,
had his baptismal interview and so he's on to get baptized on Saturday!
We're excited about that, and now we're just making sure he's good to
go. Hopefully next week I'll have the opportunity to send some pictures
from that. That pretty much brings us to today. We were going to go
down and check some stuff out in Midtown (Elder Jenson, Elder Richards'
Trainee hasn't been down there yet), but Elder Richards woke up with
some back pain, so I'm chilling with him and Elder Longmore and Elder
Jenson are going down into the city. It's nice just having a break and
now having to worry about getting back in time and stuff like that. But
yep things are going well!
I think one of my favorite things about serving this
mission has been being blessed to see God's hand in the work. As
missionaries, we spend a lot of time planning, but things often times
don't go according to plan. Our plan at least. When that happens it
can be frustrating, and even depressing trying to figure out how to
handle things when everything falls through. When we look to the Lord,
however, and are able to say that we gave our best efforts, he leads us
to do the things that He intended us to do in the first place.
Sometimes it's not until the end of a long , frustrating day that we as
missionaries can see that we happened to be in the right place at the
right time with the right message, and that's how it was supposed to be.
God is involved in each and everyone of our lives and as we really
look for His influence and His blessings, and then give Him the glory
for such, we're so much better off! So look for the good, even if it
seems like it's a small little coincidence that made things a little
nice, thank God for it and you will feel more of His love in your life.
I know He loves each one of us and is cheering us on and we keep
pressing forward.
Thanks once again for all the support! I'm looking
forward to sending off a report of where I am and who I'm with next week
because things could be switched up! I'm excited to see what God's
plan is for me for the next six weeks- transfers are always exciting!
But I wish you the best of luck with the upcoming week!
-Elder Griffiths
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