So to start off the adventures, on Monday after emailing a little we went to the Brooklyn Bridge. It was so much fun to be able to see the Statue of Liberty from where we were and to see most of Manhattan. We lived life on the edge and went to the edge of our mission. It was funny. We joked and said we would be such disobedient missionaries if we were to just simply walk over this big yellow line. As well, we were talking all those people who can freely walk over this line and for us there is this invisible wall that we can't cross. Anyways overall it was fun and we took some fun pictures.
Then as most of y'all may have seen I got to see my mission grandma this week! It was so fun to see her! She is so pretty and amazing! Fun fact the last time I saw her was on the first day of my mission in New York! That seems like forever ago! We just chatted and talked as if we had known each other our whole lives! Super fun! Plus it was so cute to see her interact with the less active member and see how they became friends in like 5 minutes and they are now friends on Facebook and chatted like they had known each other forever. It was super cute! Plus it helped my Spanish because she doesn't speak very much English and is more comfortable in Spanish.
Then we went to a member's house who we call mom because she treats us like a mom. She gives us rides to church and always makes sure we have food. She checks up on us all the time and is super sweet! Anyways she is my Brooklyn mom! So we went to her house for dinner and we wanted to do an object lesson. This is were my title comes in. Hermana Castañeda had seen the elder's from back home do this trick and wanted to do it too. So what you do is you get a tea bag and dump the
contents out of the bag so now it looks like a tunnel. Then you balance it in the middle of your hand and set it on fire. Then at the last second the bag floats into the air and turns into ashes. I will attach a video of us doing it so you can see what happens. Anyways we went to do it at her house and learned the hard way that some bags don't do what we want it to do. So my lovely companion asks me to hold
the bag as she sets it on fire. It starts burning and gets closer and close to my hand and at the point it is supposed to fly upwards it just stays and keeps burning. Thankfully God gave me good reflexes I moved my hand away before anything too bad could happen but I could still feel that my hand got burned just a little. Although when we did it the second and third time it did work because we used a different type of tea bag from the first go around. My hand is good and I am living! It was just funny!
Then this week we had exchanges with her sister training leaders! We had fun just in a different area and taking in English all day which was weird. We had fun cause we had a dinner appointment with one of their members and it was funny to eat at an American home because I realize how little Americans eat compared to Hispanics. Then when we got home for the night we played tenzi until like 11:30 at night then the next morning we played it for our morning workout. We got a good workout in our forearms. Then we had a BBQ with one of our less actives which was super fun! It was a nice because it was super hot that day! It was like being home with a nice BBQ and enjoying the outdoors.
Then the last funny moment for the week is we went shopping with a less active yesterday and she took us to IHOP. She didn't know what hash browns, waffles, hot chocolate, whip cream and BLT are so we introduced her to all of that in one seating! Then we went shopping and we were looking at skirts and the member found this one skirt. Now remember she doesn't know much English. She held it up to Hermana Castañeda and she was like oh that is too big for you so she came to me. She held he skirt up to me and was like oh yes this will fit you because you are fat. My jaw hit the floor. I about died laughing! It was soooo funny!
This week I was reading in a conference that I really like. It is from April 2017 Conference in a talked called "Whatsoever He Saith unto you, Do It."
"Every day, consciously or otherwise, we all choose “whom [we] will serve.” We demonstrate our determination to serve the Lord by faithfully engaging in daily acts of devotion. The Lord promises to
direct our paths, but for Him to do that, we have to walk, trusting that He knows the way because He is “the way.” We must fill our own waterpots up to the brim. When we trust and follow Him, our lives, like water to wine, are transformed. We become something more and better than we ever otherwise could be. Trust in the Lord, and “whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.”
I love the idea that if we just do the simple and small things the big things will change. I am excited to see the change the Lord has in store for me!
Con Amor
Hermana Ashford
Picture 1-5: Brooklyn bridge and Statue of Liberty and living life on
the edge of our mission
Picture 6: pictures with less actives and investigators.
Picture 7: good lighting good pictures
Picture 8: me and my grandma
Video: burn baby burn 🔥
Picture 9: we are the same height
Picture 10-11: exchanges
Picture 12-13: 15 months tomorrow!
Picture 14: cute little children
Picture 15: city graffiti
Picture 16-17: IHOP with Jessica
Picture 18: Spread the love it is the Brooklyn way!
Then as most of y'all may have seen I got to see my mission grandma this week! It was so fun to see her! She is so pretty and amazing! Fun fact the last time I saw her was on the first day of my mission in New York! That seems like forever ago! We just chatted and talked as if we had known each other our whole lives! Super fun! Plus it was so cute to see her interact with the less active member and see how they became friends in like 5 minutes and they are now friends on Facebook and chatted like they had known each other forever. It was super cute! Plus it helped my Spanish because she doesn't speak very much English and is more comfortable in Spanish.
Then we went to a member's house who we call mom because she treats us like a mom. She gives us rides to church and always makes sure we have food. She checks up on us all the time and is super sweet! Anyways she is my Brooklyn mom! So we went to her house for dinner and we wanted to do an object lesson. This is were my title comes in. Hermana Castañeda had seen the elder's from back home do this trick and wanted to do it too. So what you do is you get a tea bag and dump the
contents out of the bag so now it looks like a tunnel. Then you balance it in the middle of your hand and set it on fire. Then at the last second the bag floats into the air and turns into ashes. I will attach a video of us doing it so you can see what happens. Anyways we went to do it at her house and learned the hard way that some bags don't do what we want it to do. So my lovely companion asks me to hold
the bag as she sets it on fire. It starts burning and gets closer and close to my hand and at the point it is supposed to fly upwards it just stays and keeps burning. Thankfully God gave me good reflexes I moved my hand away before anything too bad could happen but I could still feel that my hand got burned just a little. Although when we did it the second and third time it did work because we used a different type of tea bag from the first go around. My hand is good and I am living! It was just funny!
Then this week we had exchanges with her sister training leaders! We had fun just in a different area and taking in English all day which was weird. We had fun cause we had a dinner appointment with one of their members and it was funny to eat at an American home because I realize how little Americans eat compared to Hispanics. Then when we got home for the night we played tenzi until like 11:30 at night then the next morning we played it for our morning workout. We got a good workout in our forearms. Then we had a BBQ with one of our less actives which was super fun! It was a nice because it was super hot that day! It was like being home with a nice BBQ and enjoying the outdoors.
Then the last funny moment for the week is we went shopping with a less active yesterday and she took us to IHOP. She didn't know what hash browns, waffles, hot chocolate, whip cream and BLT are so we introduced her to all of that in one seating! Then we went shopping and we were looking at skirts and the member found this one skirt. Now remember she doesn't know much English. She held it up to Hermana Castañeda and she was like oh that is too big for you so she came to me. She held he skirt up to me and was like oh yes this will fit you because you are fat. My jaw hit the floor. I about died laughing! It was soooo funny!
This week I was reading in a conference that I really like. It is from April 2017 Conference in a talked called "Whatsoever He Saith unto you, Do It."
"Every day, consciously or otherwise, we all choose “whom [we] will serve.” We demonstrate our determination to serve the Lord by faithfully engaging in daily acts of devotion. The Lord promises to
direct our paths, but for Him to do that, we have to walk, trusting that He knows the way because He is “the way.” We must fill our own waterpots up to the brim. When we trust and follow Him, our lives, like water to wine, are transformed. We become something more and better than we ever otherwise could be. Trust in the Lord, and “whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.”
I love the idea that if we just do the simple and small things the big things will change. I am excited to see the change the Lord has in store for me!
Con Amor
Hermana Ashford
Picture 1-5: Brooklyn bridge and Statue of Liberty and living life on
the edge of our mission
Picture 6: pictures with less actives and investigators.
Picture 7: good lighting good pictures
Picture 8: me and my grandma
Video: burn baby burn 🔥
Picture 9: we are the same height
Picture 10-11: exchanges
Picture 12-13: 15 months tomorrow!
Picture 14: cute little children
Picture 15: city graffiti
Picture 16-17: IHOP with Jessica
Picture 18: Spread the love it is the Brooklyn way!
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