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Tender Mercies

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It has been an adventure the last couple weeks. In my last email, I talked about Isaiah, the 11  year boy who’s parents are both inactive. We have been teaching him for 3 weeks and have  been to his house everyday last week. We invited him to be baptized which he accepted. We  then had to get permission from his parents which was denied. It is sad to see this happen  were he is ready and willing and his parents refused. We are going to have to drop him from our  teaching but hope he continues to attend church.   We did find another friend who speaks French. Her name is Marie. We are using Google  Translate to teach her the Gospel and I think she will get baptized. She was already aware of  the Church from a nephew who is a member. She is very patient because the services we  provide are Spanish and English. I sat on the back row of Sacrament meeting and the second  hour using the translator the best I could. She is a sweet older lad...

Time In Manhattan

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Hello everyone, The last couple weeks have gone by quickly. There hasn’t been a lot going on. We are teaching a 10 year old son of a member right now. I think he will be getting baptized soon. We knock a few doors at apartment building but mostly street contacts. It is still all about inviting everyone to church. My last transfer, if you remember, I was opening another companionship into the same area. It has been a lot more work starting to find a whole new teaching pool. We are starting from zero and finding people is going slow but I am having some success. The weather here is starting to get colder at night, but no snow yet. This week I have Presidents interviews. That means a trip to Manhattan. I am going to spend the day just wandering around Manhattan. So far I have been to Rockefeller Plaza and the Empire State Building. I found a Lego store and Nike store, of course didn’t buy anything. The rest of the day I am going to hang out at the Manhattan temple waiting for interviews t...