Sup
Gents,
Wanna
hear something that means a lot to me? Ok, here we go. Since I've been in New
Rochelle we wake up early at 6 in the morning and go to the church to play
lightning (speed, revenge, knockout, or whatever the kids at your local
playground call it) with a bunch of other missionaries here in this area. Some
mornings I think about going to workout in the free penthouse gym that we have
at our apartment building but then I remember how fun it is to relive
elementary school memories. Elementary School >>> Real life
On Sunday
morning we woke up to freezing rain! We looked out the window of our apartment
on the 26th floor and looked out to the skyline of the city. You can see the
highway out of our window and cars were stopped and were not moving at all. The ice on the roads were so bad. We got a
call that morning from our bishop that they needed help icing the sidewalks
before church so that people wouldn't slip. I've never really experienced too
bad of freezing rain here before, so Elder Moss and I were making fun of the
cars that were stopped for being wusses. Saying that this kind of stuff
wouldn't happen if they were as hardcore as Utah Mormons and that our ancestors
crossed the plains in these conditions.
Well folks, karma is a real thing because
within 30 seconds of us leaving our apartment to walk to the church I slipped
and fell on my hiney. The ice was so slick that before I realized that I
was falling I was laying on my back looking up at the gray skies. Elder Moss
and I were basically ice skating to the church in our worn out church shoes. Us
and the other Elders in the ward, Elder Christensen and Elder Driggs salted the
sidewalks of the church. Just as fast as we put salt down, the rain would fall
and freeze over the ice. It was ridiculous. The ice would freeze over the layer
of salt we just layed! They had to delay church an hour and a half for people
to get there and they ended up canceling everything but sacrament meeting, so
people could go home. It was Radink to the hinkulious.
There is a new
senior couple coming in this mission next week that will be serving in
Chinatown. They needed help setting up the apartment and getting it all ready
for them. It was myself and Elder Moss’ task to drive the van with a bunch of
stuff down and help move in. It was us two along with two other senior couples.
After we got the apartment all nice and fancy like, we went and got some
dumprings (sometimes pronounced dumplings if you're feeling extra white) and
ate them with the other missionaries. Here I was eating some *pork dumprings
looking out the glass window with what feels like China below and Little Italy
out of the corner of my eye around the block. And it hit me, how cool it is that I get to be doing this
whole mission thing in New York City.
Believe it or not, this Halal food cart has the most 5 star reviews on Yelp than any other restaurant in the world #StreetMeat #LambOverRice |
Then today for P-day we went to the City
and saw the Freedom Tower and the September 11th Memorial. Seeing the 9/11 Memorial
was one of my favorite things I have done so far in NY. That is hallowed
ground. The best way to describe the feeling I had is there was static coursing
through my veins. I felt chills as I walked the grounds. It was a somber
feeling. I feel so privileged to be here in this world renowned place of New
York doing what I have come to love, which is living and preaching the doctrine
of Christ. This has been the coolest year of my life so far. Without a doubt
the hardest, but by far the most rewarding.
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Elder Moss and
I don't really have any investigators that meet with us. We have very little
time to proselyte. The time that we would normally spend proselyting and
finding investigators, we spend doing office duties. We also spend a lot of our time in the car
driving. Because I’m in the car driving,
I have a lot of time to think and reflect. I don't mean this in a selfish way
but I have had a lot of time to think about myself and the qualities I have
gained thus far, the qualities I still want to gain and where my testimony is
at and how much it needs to grow. I hope that when I see you people in a year
you will be able to see how much my testimony has grown of this work. I love
Christ.
Loves and
lollipops,
Elder Tyler J
Johanson
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