Buon Giorno! (note frome Mom - Italian, not Spanish)
This past week was great! And September is already over pretty much, which
is crazy. Training calls come in a week and then shock calls in a week and a
half. You hit a year and time just starts flying...
Anyway, this week was sweet! Things are really picking up now as far as
splitting the area goes. Yesterday we were blessed to have five lessons, which
is about half the lessons we have been getting in the past couple of weeks.
Elder Holbrook and I agree that the Spirit is leading us in ways that we
haven't seen before on the mission. In celebration of that, I'm just going to
share some way cool stories that came from that.
Friday we drove down to Scarsdale to get our car checked out- it's had a
cracked bumper and plastic hanging down from the bottom since I've been there,
so that was a nice hour and a half drive. Scarsdale is beautiful though- good
contrast from Newburgh haha. After that I went on an exchange with
Elder Nelson- he came into the mission as I left Harlem- he and his trainer took
one half of the area I had when I was there. He's one of the ones that
split this area too, so we just worked with people that I had worked with last
cycle. Anyways, we came out of our last appointment and had to wait for the
other guys to come pick us up (their day with the car). There was a lady who
was sitting on the other side of the stairs that we came out of (it was a
duplex). She looked a little down, so we asked how she was doing. She said
that she was okay. We started talking- she was from Mexico, so we talked a
little about food and all that stuff- that always makes them happy, talking
about their culture. Eventually we talked about her family and how important
that they were for her. We then felt prompted to say some pretty specific words
of comfort and we read a good, God sent scripture to her. She started crying
and expressed that we were talking for God and that we had said exactly what she
needed. I hadn't felt like such an instrument in God's hands before- we both
felt the Spirit very strong. We left her with The Book of Mormon and as we
drove off, we saw her reading it. She's pretty busy, but we're going to try to
work out a good time to meet with her. We just opened our mouths and God filled
them with what we needed to say.
Sunday night, we had some things planned out after dinner. We left the
apartment after dropping the other Elders off, and we just felt as though what
we had planned wasn't right. We left the apartment just following where the
Spirit was telling us to go, taking a left here, right there, etc. We found
ourselves in Washingtonville where we tried looking a couple people up. We
still felt as though we were needed elsewhere. We started heading over to
Vails Gate where we felt as though we should visit a person whose address from
the directory did not work. Elder Holbrook was blessed with some inspiration to
use something called "Tell Me" (call in information thing- we use it know what
the weather is going to be like) to find where they lived. That worked and so
we went off! We walked in a hurry up to their apartment door and knocked. A
whole family answered, we sat down and just started testifying of how God had
sent us there. They told us that they went to a different church, but that they
recognized that God has sent us there too and they are willing to listen. We
shared a short message and set up a time to return tonight. I'm excited to see
where things go with that!
Last night, we were coming out of a less actives house when the name of
another less active came to mind. It was 8:55 so usually visiting somebody
would be a little unconventional. We decided to go with it though, and we
called him and he said come on up for a few minutes. We had found out that he
had gotten in a car crash and was going into court the next day and
so we were able to share a message with him that built his faith. It was great
and I know that God guided us right to him.
Things are going well! I'm grateful to have a part in this great work and
I know that his is the work of the Lord. Thank you for all your support in
such- hope you have a great week!
-Elder Griffiths
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