Another week- boy they are going fast! We have been working with a young girl Ceara. She is 19 and has been taking the lessons and is pretty faithful in coming to meetings and the activities. Today the missionaries challenged her to baptism and she wants to be baptized on Mother's Day. We have been wondering it she liked the missionaries more than the lessons, but she does all her reading and seems pretty sure. We will see what a week or two brings.
The dear sister, Alma, has been coming up with excuses and not at home, hasn't been out to church for two weeks. This makes us very sad- she is such a golden contact. She is the center of all that goes on in their home. She has 3 married kids, neighbors and relatives always at her home. We were in hopes that she would be the force behind getting the rest of her family into the gospel, now we will have to see what is up with her. She has been so sincere, praying and had us in her home 2 or 3 times a week. We will keep our prayers going for her.
Tues. we had Bible Night again. It was a wonderful lesson taught by the Elders from the New Testament. It never fails that the Elders are so mature for their age, they handle our off-the-street (Nick) with all his off the wall questions. They do it in such a loving way. Each day we learn lessons from those fine Elders.
Wed, Maude had us over to dinner again. She is the goat lady and is a very good cook. She wants us back this coming Wed. to teach us how to make rice. We are having a rice cook off next week. She is doing Haitian rice, we have Spanish rice, Black rice, and then the judges are going to be the missionaries. I've decided to make rice pudding with Dad's famous raisins.
Thurs. was Zone Meeting. They are really uplifting. It is always fun to have a lot more Elders around. We spent the night getting ready to go to New York.
Fri. we left for New York City. There are three other senior couples going with us. We rode up with the Smuim's, (they are a couple that leave this month for home). They are very delightful and we will miss them. They drove their car along with the Halloways, who turned out to be our tour guide. They have been there many times. We stayed in Staten Island, across from Manhattan, and took the ferry over each day. The crowds were humongous, so we couldn't get to the statue of liberty or Ellis Island. We then took the red line subway to 42nd street, time square and got on tour buses to see the city. Lots of tall buildings, condos, skyscrapers etc, and the Empire State building, which we didn't go up. Of course they pointed out the homes of celebrities, among which was Oprah Winfrey, who pays $20,000.00 a month rent. We went past the temple but didn't get out. Other places we went were Queens, Brooklyn, Yankee Stadium, Bronx etc. It was a busy two days, before we returned home.
Sunday, up at 5am to go to a meeting in Jeritown. I am to coordinate a program to try to locate over 900 YSA who are missing from their wards and branches. I have no idea how to go about this. I then met the Elders who had a baptism in their last area, and wanted to go back and do it. They didn't tell me it was 125 miles away and took the rest of the day to go down and back. We then had a CES fireside with Elder Ballard, and home about 10 PM.
Got to go. Finish later. Love ya! Elder and Sister Armstrong
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