June 14, 2021 Wow. I feel like a different person than I was a week ago. So many life changing experiences this week that I will never forget. First of all, Alex got baptized on Saturday! We met at Wendy's in Arizona years ago and he has been learning more and more since then. I got to join the baptism over zoom, my dad gave a wonderful talk about the Holy Ghost, and Alex shared such a powerful testimony. I am not kidding, I don't think I have ever felt the spirit more strongly in my entire life. I cried the entire time. I was so grateful. I was speechless the rest of the day. Even writing in my journal that night was tough, because I didn't have the words to describe how happy I felt. The spirit = Joy. Also, Alex just so happens to be from The Bronx, which is where I used to serve. Another little miracle is that Elder and Sister Clifford, senior couple missionaries here in NY, had to go home for the weekend to take care of a family matter. While back home, they went to TH...

 June 7, 2021  What's good email squad? This week was pretty tough, not going to lie. On Tuesday, we started moving all of our furniture into our new apartment! We LOVE our new apartment (address is 55 Nagle Avenue apt #2C... send me something if you're brave) but it was pretty tiring carrying heavy furniture up and down stairs all day in the heat and humidity. I found a super fancy (and free!) dinner table on Facebook that I picked up from the Bronx, but it turns out they lived on the 14th floor of their building and the table didn't fit in the elevator. That was fun. We got moved in for the most part, but we ran out of time. We have been on exchanges around the mission EVERY SINGLE DAY this week so we haven't even been home to finish moving in. One day, we went on 2 exchanges in the same day. Anyway, moving has been a work in progress but hopefully we can finally finish today! So we were teaching Anthony Ramos, the main actor from the new movie In The Heights, and his...

  May 31, 2021 Okay. This week was incredible! I'll keep it as brief as possible even though I could probably talk all day about this stuff. RAQUEL GOT BAPTIZED! It was amazing! She is so happy, and has made some major life adjustments in order to be worthy. She feels amazing and couldn't be happier! She texted us the morning after and said "the next time you go talk to people about Jesus, I want to come with you". So we had her join us for some lessons, and she was inviting everyone to be baptized! It was awesome! She used to be a rockstar and lived a wild entertainer lifestyle, but now she is the holiest, most PRESTIGIOUS cat-sitter in Manhattan. No joke, she has about 300 clients and visits their lofts/rich apartments regularly to take care of their cats. So cool. My friends, Jeri and Alex, who I met at work back in Arizona, and who also receive these emails (you guys rock by the way!) are meeting with missionaries! Because I helped in the process of finding and pr...

  May 24, 2021 Another wild one coming in hot.  Zone Conference was this week, and President asked Elder Money and me to give a training to the whole mission about Device Audits. Our mission has NEVER done device audits, so we had no experience. So we actually did device audits about a week in advance to get practice, and we studied the doctrine behind why we do it. It was incredible and we learned so much. We had to go to EVERY zone conference around the mission and we ended up giving our training not 1, not 2, but 12 times this week to different zones. It got a little repetitive for us, but we LOVED it every time. We were very busy traveling around the mission, setting up and teaching missionaries all week. I got to see EVERY missionary in the mission face to face within just a couple of days. It was awesome! After each zone conference, I got to go on exchanges with Zone Leaders. My favorite was with my guy Elder Wooley!!!!!!!! He is my favorite person on the whole planet an...

May 17, 2021 Week 1 of the transfer was intense! As per usual, we were super busy this week with getting brand new missionaries to their trainers, departing missionaries to the airport, planning zone conferences, President's interview schedule, accountability calls, planning 11 exchanges, rosters, transfers, moving to Manhattan, searching for/buying a new apartment for ourselves, giving not 1, but 2 trainings in a mission leadership meeting, planning our zone conference training for this upcoming week, and trying our best to do at least a little proselyting in our area. We pretty much didn't sleep this week. We ended up doing a companionship study at 12:30 AM because that was when we finally had time for it. We are working on getting to bed earlier... it's not good... But it was a blast! We are productive literally every minute of the day, which feels great. We were homeless for about 2 days. We moved out of our apartment in New Rochelle, but literally didn't have time ...

 May 10, 2021 I knew this week would be crazy, but WOW I did not expect it to go the way it did. We found out that when President Holmes gets here, the mission home and mission office will move from Scarsdale to... drum roll please... MANHATTAN! That means that I'M MOVING TO MANHATTAN TOO! AGAIN! To get settled in before the new mission president gets here, I am moving to Manhattan TOMORROW and will spend the rest of my mission there in an area called Inwood (or Washington Heights for those of you who are rusty on your New York geography). I am really excited! Literally EVERYTHING is changing and I am going to have to figure out how to do things in a whole new way. Speaking of changes, I have a new companion! I'm not supposed to share many details about what goes on during transfer planning, but it was really cool sitting in a room with President Teuscher and seeing how he relies on the spirit to decide where we serve and who we serve with. After much discussion and prayer, Eld...

 May 3, 2021 This week was super eventful!!!!!!!! I've seen lots of miracles this week! Miracles in the office are a little different than miracles in normal missionary work haha, they usually include some sort of sheet, training, or "side quest" that President sends us on. First of all, for my birthday I asked for a "that was easy" button, one of those things where you press it and it says "that was easy!". It's been SO funny slamming it after we finish lessons or something. On Wednesday I got to go to the airport to pick up some missionaries that went to Utah to sign some stuff for the visas to go to their original assignment. They were in Utah for like a couple of hours just to sign a paper and then they came back haha. They stayed at our apartment that night and it was a party! On Thursday, there was a meeting for all the new missionaries, and I got to give a training on how to effectively daily plan! As I was preparing it, I prayed to know wha...