Ryan (top left, in hat) at a zone activity talking to New Yorkers on the street
Christmas stuff is starting to spring up around the city! There are some light fixtures on a few stretches, and even some trees in store windows and areas. Union Square has a bunch of shops that are set up there every year at this time, and it is cool to see them get set up. Vendors of all sorts of things sell their wares, and the square is always packed from what my companion tells me.
This week's highlight was definitely Sunday again. The other two ASL elders, Elders Holloway and Filoso, who live with my companion and I and work in the same branch and geographic area, had three baptisms. A deaf mother and her two hearing daughters, ages 13 and 11, entered the waters of baptism and received the gift of the Holy Ghost. What's more is that our recent convert, Ariel, who was just baptized just over a month ago, performed the baptisms! We also had a record 82 people in Sacrament meeting, the main meeting of the church block.
We still have our JW investigator with a baptismal date of the 30th of this month, and his girlfriend that we have been teaching with him has finally accepted the invitation to be baptized, though we don't have a date for her yet. We are still also focusing our efforts a lot on members who don't come to church as often or that haven't come in a long time. We are still seeing small miracles with them, but still need to exercise a lot of patience.
The work is still going forward, and I am loving every bit of it. I enjoy getting your emails and letters, and hope all is well for you. Stay warm!
Elder Ryan Turner
New York New York North Mission
American Sign Language
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