Hello Everyone!
Forgive the delayed post. And next week will be the same way. But I am really excited, you want to know why? Because I will be emailing home from my own personal iPad! Each missionary will be getting an iPad that they will keep for their whole mission, and return at the end of it. Each companionship will be getting an iPhone! Turns out we are one of the first missions to use Facebook, iPads, and iPhones. I am really excited, and so is everyone else. Not just to have an iPad (probably the only one I will ever get haha), but how much it is going to advance the work. For all of the return missionaries, imagine your entire area book on your iPhone and iPad. And then when you transfer areas, you will automatically be connected to the cloud of your next area and so will have all the information you will ever need for the area immediately at your fingertips, and it fits in your pocket. Usually it takes about a week, even a full transfer to get all the info, but not anymore :). Also, all the pamphlets are on the iPad and integrated with Bible Videos and Mormon Messages and General Conference clips that you can now show during a given lesson, or even as you are talking to people on the street, on the bus or in the train. Now I know what you must be thinking, with my luck with computers and all, but I will let Heavenly Father figure that one out haha. I am just excited to be apart of it, even if it is for just a month.
Oh and I totally forgot! You don't know where I am! Crazy how I have already been here for a week so me moving here seems like old news already haha. I am now serving on Staten Island in the Spanish ward (Staten Island Barrio III)! I am really happy to be here. It is a little crazy, because even though I lived on Long Island for so long, it still didn't feel like an Island. But Staten Island is small enough that it does. There are only 2 bridges connecting Staten to the rest of the world. The Verazzano connects with Brooklyn (One of the Longest bridges in the world! 2 miles long!), and then another one (I forgot the name) connects with New Jersey. The leaves hit their peak this past weekend and it has been spectacular. Staten has some pretty steep hills, which makes for frequent and dramatic vistas of Jersey and particularly Manhattan. The driving is actually kind of fun. It is full of narrow roads and NYC driving which keeps it entertaining.
I love my district. They really know how to have a good time and get things done. The Elders are trying to get me to play "Magic" on P-days. We will see if they succeed. I watched them play a couple games as they tried to teach me. When they asked how I understood it, I just shook my head and said "No Hablo Magic" haha. But its cool how they can keep it all straight.
The members here are WONDERFUL and it is so great to speak Spanish again. After about 6 months in an English Ward, I have surprised myself with how much I can speak and understand, but also funny to think of how far behind I am where I used to be! Asi es (That's how it is). But I forgot how much I love speaking and teaching in Spanish and grateful Heavenly Father chose to let me use my Spanish again.
Also, its only been a couple weeks but we have been seeing countless miracles. We didn't have any investigators at first, but the Lord is helping us and guiding us and we are finding people to teach. We also are helping a lot of Less-Actives come back to church. One woman named Maria (she is so great!) just recently started coming back to church (the week before I got here). And now she is coming to teaching appointments with us! There is nothing easy about starting over, but when we are on the Lord's errand we are entitled to His help. Something I know to be true and am really grateful for! Lesson learned this week: Instead of looking at opposition as the "op-poser" of miracles. It really is the "revealor" of them. Without the cold we wouldn't know the warm. Without the pain, we wouldn't know relief. Without opposition and adversity, it would be really difficult to see God's hand in our lives, and recognize his love and tender mercies. However crazy it sounds, a loving God allows suffering to be in the world, because without it, we could not know Joy. Thankfully there is opposition, so we can learn to enjoy life and His miracles.
I love you all! Also, I can't believe its that time, I promise I am not getting "trunky", I just need a place to live in Provo! If you are in Provo, like where you are living and are looking to sell a contract or know someone who is, send me an email and let me know! I really have no idea where anyone is anymore.
Love,
Megan
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