Hello!
Another good week down and another one on its way! And Happy Pioneer Day!I can't think of any general things going on, so I'll just jump right into breaking down each day...
Wednesday- Basketball in Middletown for P-day, then we had a couple sweet lessons! We started teaching a lady named Julia and her family. They're from Honduras (lots of Hondureans here. I'm going to come home making Baliadas) and they have a lawyer who is a member down in New Jersey so he referred them to us and they're great! We had a solid first lesson and we committed them to baptism! After that we had a great lesson with Meri and her husband- less actives from Honduras and Ecuador. We had a sweet, spirit filled lesson with them too and we committed them to come back to church. We saw her change from the start to finish of the lesson so that was a tender mercy!
Thursday- Weekly planning. After that we worked on the map with all of the people with whom we work, then went to a couple of lessons. Things went well with the lessons we had.
Friday- We put in some good miles on the car. We went and had lunch with Paul, who lives a little ways away in Washingtonville, then we got a phone call from the lawyer working with Julia and her family to come meet us at Pizza Hut because they had just went to court in Newburgh. We went there and ate a slice of pizza each (we were already stuffed from Paul's good food) and then we went back to their house for a lesson. After that we walked around the more sketchy parts of Newburgh trying to look of less actives- we didn't have much success, but we sure did sweat off both of our lunches. After that we traveled to a less active family that lives down in Highland Falls, where West Point is, for a dinner appointment. There were some nice views driving there, and they're a great family! We're hoping to get back there this week sometime even though it is a little ways away. After that we went back to Paul's to pick up some "Mormon Helping Hands" vests after which we did a couple look ups in Washingtonville, and then we went home.
Saturday- We used the vests as we worked for Habitat for Humanity in the morning. We put up insulation in what was going to be the crawl space of a house. We then came back, showered off, did our studies and left for some lessons. The lessons we had went well- led by the Spirit and we were able to see some progress with everybody we saw.
Sunday- We went to church and had a pretty good turn out as far as people getting there goes. Our computer in the Clerk's office isn't working, so we didn't stay after to do tithing. We went home, ate, studied, then had one good lessons and dropped by some other people's houses to set stuff up for the week to come. We were able to see the Spirit guide us as we got to one of our part member family's houses right as they got there. We then had a great lesson where they found their own needs and solutions to such needs, so that was great!
Monday- District meeting in the morning. After trying to drop by a member's house, we came back home and worked on the map and getting stuff organized there. Ideally we're going to get that map up and running so that in the afternoons in the future we can go effectively use our time and miles in the car looking up less actives with whom we can work during the afternoons. After that we had a lesson with Julia that went okay. She was kind of tired and one of her kids was being a little crazy, so it wasn't super spiritual, but Elder Lewis has pointed out to me that every lesson is a good lesson, so it was still a good lesson! Afterwards we had dinner at a member's house- a Mexican couple with a daughter who married a Domincan- the one Dominican in the branch. He asked us if we had already eaten, and we said no so then he asked us what we could cook and I joking replied "cereal" so then he brought us out a box of Chex with milk, bowls and spoons and so we ate cereal. It was pretty funny! We tried looking up a couple of people after that before heading home.
Tuesday- After studies we went over to Paul's house for lunch. We had a solid lesson with him! After that we did some service in a member's yard, after which we went and had three more solid lessons. Elder Lewis led a sweet lesson about faith with a less active family- la familia Sierra. They committed to come back to church for the first time in awhile. We then went to a part member family who gave us some great Honduran sandwiches, after which Elder Lewis lead another great lesson, this time based on Mosiah 3:19. Afterwards we went and taught Reyna, an inactive who hasn't been to church in three years. We were teaching her about the Plan of Salvation when we realized that she actually needed to be taught The Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Once again the Spirit was there and we could feel her potential to change that comes from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Today we've just done the things we need to do and we're about to head over to play some basketball in Middletown. Next week we're hoping to hitch a ride with the Hohosh's, the Senior couple that works with the West Point Branch who go down to work in the temple on Wednesdays. We'll see what works out.
-Elder Griffiths
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