Hello!
We had a great week this week! Splitting the area has been a little different. We pretty much just started working a set of four and have gradually started going off on our own to do stuff, so planning and stuff took a little more time and was a little more complicated than usually. But we've done all but maybe one pass off to the other guys, so they've got things up and running now. They are working in the north part of our area- we split the City of Newburgh in half, and so they get that and the other cities in the north. We cover the South, more sketchy part of town along with Highland Falls (Westpoint), New Windsor, Harriman and the other things down there. We're trying to pump things up in our area because Elder Lewis and I had a lot more going on in the North rather that in the South, but we're already seeing good things, so we're excited for the rest of the cycle!
We have four bikes and a car, so last Saturday, Elder Holbrook and I
decided to take the bikes into town. That sure was an experience- you realize
how many hills there really are when you're legs are the means of getting you
around. I really enjoyed the experience, though, between the exercise, but more
so the exposure we had. We saw and had the opportunity to talk to a lot of
people as we walked and biked around. We're really focusing on trying to talk
to everybody. I'm not great at that, so we've been starting off just by
offering people pass along cards with Christ on them and then going from there
and that actually has been effective. Because of our willingness to put our
fear and laziness in that aspect on the altar of sacrifice, we've been blessed
with great experiences. On Saturday, we walked by a less active's apartment to
find her with her neighbor outside talking. We talked to them, and later
returned and had a good lesson with the neighbor. Having that lesson then led
us to find another less active that we hadn't seen in a while and an
investigator that we hadn't seen in awhile either. We then were able to set up
appointments with them. Another great experience we had is that we were trying
to do a less active look up when we started talking to a man on his porch.
Turns out he had met with missionaries about thirteen years ago, had already
read The Book of Mormon twice and had a baptismal interview but things fell
through. We then invited him to meet with the missionaries again and so the
English Elders are going to start meeting with him. We've had some other good
experiences too. I know that when we as missionaries open our mouths, God
directs us through the Holy Ghost. There is no such thing as a coincidence-
just God's doings.
Things are going splendidly well! Today we're just going to do a little shopping, and then chill, so I'm excited about that. Thanks for all the support back home- hope you have a good week!
-Elder Griffiths
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