Malo soifua!!!
This week was
rather uneventful mainly because we had a bunch of people fall through
on their lessons or appointments with us. Probably at least one person a
day (sometimes two or three or four) would just never answer the phone,
or text and say their busy, so that's fun. We did our best to keep
finding and contacting, so that's something at least. The missionary
grind is real, and the struggle is real. But hey, I get blessed even
when the lessons don't happen, so it ain't too bad.
A
super interesting thing happened this week. We're teaching a man named
Ken as well as his five boys. His boys, those who are old enough, are
already baptized, so we're just working on getting Ken to come to
church. He's taken basically all of the lessons, he just needs to figure
out church and work, and then he can get baptized. One complication is
his wife Regina. He's not against him or her sons joining our church,
but she's content with her own, and she's never joined our lessons. I've
literally never seen or heard her before (there's always just a loud TV
in the other room whenever we're over there). The
interesting thing is that somehow she connected with the sister
missionaries on Facebook, and they've talked a little bit. She's not
suddenly wanting to be baptized, but the fact that she's talking to
missionaries is big (chatting, not lessons). She apparently told the
sisters, who told us right after, that Regina was planning on bringing
her boys to our church in two weeks!! That's super huge because they
haven't gone in months. Ken usually has work, Regina doesn't want to
come, and the boys can't drive themselves. But now apparently she's
committed to bringing them soon. Hopefully that goes well, and hopefully
we can get Ken to come too, to bring the whole family together to
church. (prayers would be much appreciated).
Today
for P-day, Elder Checketts, Elder Siu and I went to the Staten Island Ferry,
and we rode it to Manhattan and back. We're actually not supposed to
leave Staten at all on P-days haha, but we're allowed to take the ferry
as long as we come straight back. So yeah, that was a lot of fun, and I
got some good pictures.
In
other news, ELDER SIU IS GOING BACK TO HONG KONG!!! He found out less
than a week ago, and he's super excited (except for the two week quarantine
in a hotel haha). He leaves this Saturday in the morning, so Elder
Checketts and I will be by ourselves for at least a week. If we don't
get another companion next transfer, we'll be a duo until the new year.
To
explain the subject line: the misspelling of 'illegal' is from a
warning sign we saw by our laundromat (pic below). The full quote is
from a less active member we called. Elder Siu mentioned covid, and she
went off on a huge rant about how drinking and bathing in really hot
water kills covid, and then how it's Trump's fault that covid happened,
and then how it's also his fault that illegal immigrants are being sent
home (she's Liberian, and she's livid that Mexicans who "jump the fence"
are just sent home and not accepted), and then about how our "Christian
country" isn't Christian anymore because we don't accept immigrants
because, as we all know, "Jesus was an illegal immigrant." She talked
for nearly 20 minutes before we could jump back in, leave five words of
spiritual thought, and then leave as fast as we could. She seemed like a
nice enough lady; we just aren't ready yet to lose our hearing at such a
young age lol.
Anyways
the work moves forward. Sometimes it moves slowly, but it always moves.
No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, and that
includes politics, covid, and good old-fashioned New-Yorker attitude.
We've not made a whole ton of progress with our friends, but we've made
some good progress with the members, which I think is just as important.
So yeah, life here is good, and God is great.
Alofa tele lava atu outou,
Elder Hill
Photos:
- Spooky hallway in the church building
- Not mission related, but election related, and it's hilarious (cast list meme)
- It be fall here (red tree, road)
- This light shines on this painting of Christ, and I love it
- Elder Checketts got a new hat (we do actually work here, I promise)
- "Illigally"
- A few pics from the ferry ride (water, ferry, Lady Liberty)
- Someone parked behind us, and we had places to go (turned out it was the landlord, and he's pretty chill, so it's all good)
- Night pic of the city (we had to drive to Brooklyn to pic up a covid test for Elder Siu)
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