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Harlem is ALIVE

 January 11, 2021 

BUENOSSS DÍAS A TODOSSSSSSS!!!!! How are you all doing? I am doing well, and my week was awesome! Hopefully you are all doing well! Let me know if I can pray for anything or anyone! Okay, here are some of the highlights from the week:


- ALEJANDRO PASSED HIS BAPTISMAL INTERVIEW! We have only been teaching him for 5 weeks and I was confident he would pass. He is SO prepared! His baptism will be this Saturday and we are all so excited! He told us he wants to be in contact with us forever and one day get our grandkids together to tell them "our story". He is the best! I wish you all could meet him because he just RADIATES joy all the time. He is just so thankful he met us and found the church!

- One of our favorite members, Hermano Herrera, invited us to go running with him one morning. We excitedly accepted, but we didn't realize what we had just gotten ourselves into. Apparently Hermano Herrera runs marathons and is an ANIMAL. We met him in Central Park at 6:45 AM. It was dark, and cold (25 degrees to be exact). When we met up, he said "So do you want to run the whole 20 miles or just 4?". And we were like... uhhh... neither! Haha we ended up running 4 miles at an insane pace without stopping and it was pretty freaking hard. I was about to die haha. 4 miles might not sound too bad, but remember, we are missionaries who spend most of our time online. We don't really get around too much anymore haha. I did the whole thing without stopping which I am really proud of! He wants to run with us every Saturday but go farther and farther every week. So please pray for us as we train ourselves to be more prepared next time.

- We made a zone record for most new people found, most people brought to church, and most people with baptismal dates all in the same week, which is amazing! Lately, I have been trying to change everyone's mentality about the work because a lot of missionaries claim that their areas are "dead", which makes no sense to me. I think they use that as an excuse to not try super hard. There is no such thing as dead areas! As the scriptures say, "faith without works is dead", and I would argue that "works without faith is dead" too. I organized a little zone meeting where we all talked about having the "faith to find". I think it worked because after that, we made the zone record for most new people found in a week! Faith brings miracles! There is a lot more energy and excitement in the zone now, and I am excited to see what else we can accomplish this transfer. Now everyone says "INWOOD IS ALIVE" or "BERMUDA IS ALIVE" or "HARLEM IS ALIVE" every time they see a miracle. There are no dead areas, but even if there were, Manhattan is NOT one of them.

- The church 2021 youth album is FIRE. I'm not just saying that because I am a missionary, it actually slaps soooo hard. We have been blasting it all week.

Okay I have already rambled for a long time, and I could probably keep going for a while but I will cut it off here. I hope everyone has a great week!! Adios!

Elder Webster

P.S. I didn't take a single picture this week! But I took hundreds last week, so I will send some of the pictures that didn't make the cut in the last email :)

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