Things we are thankful for

It feels like Thanksgiving and the entire fall season went by in the blink of an eye! I am grateful to have these photos as evidence of the beautiful days and events that happened during this past transfer. In the spirit of the season here are some things we are especially grateful for.

🍁🍁 Grateful for new missionaries 🍁🍁

🍁 Grateful for wonderful companions who train the new missionaries 🍁🍁🍁

Sister McClara & Sister Park
Sister Nelson & Sister Hoe
Sister Thunhorst & Sister Van Tassell
Sister Reed, Sister Kasson, Sister Payne
Elder Steiner, Elder Filimoe’ulie, Elder Williams
Elder Stanford & Elder Webster
Elder Webb & Elder Martin
Elder Davis & Elder Holmes
Elder Vickers & Elder Goodworth
Elder Gaytan & Elder Jackson
Elder Bauer, Elder Ginez, Elder Scott
Elder Pauni & Elder Hale
Elder Gleed & Elder Waters
Elder Davis & Elder Gutierrez
Elder Hein & Elder Coray

🍁🍁 Grateful for transfers and the chance to see friends from past areas plus the chance to experience new areas & make new friends.

We are very grateful for this group of departing missionaries and the legacy of work, obedience and love they leave.

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We are grateful we could spend time with them in the temple before they returned home.

Elder Masopeh
Elder Perkins
Elder González
Elder Kang
Elder Tauteoli
Elder Piatau
Elder Ihalmo
Elder Garner
Sister Walker
Elder Miller

I love this last photo of some of our “legends” ready to return, with a few of the newer missionaries who look up to them and want to follow their examples!

🍁🍁 Grateful for Zone Conference 🍁🍁

Our focus for the zone conferences and for the entire transfer has been “The Restoration.” President Teuscher taught about the broad scope of truths and gospel doctrines that were corrected and restored through the prophet Joseph Smith. Sister Teuscher’s training was on ways we can personalize the restoration. We want the story to become less factual and more personal.

One of the beautiful and personal messages of the Restoration is that there is hope and there is healing; there is light, truth and knowledge available to us. Like Joseph Smith, we can be truth seekers and light gatherers. If the world can be restored from darkness and apostasy to truth and light then individually we can be brought from ignorance, suffering or sin to knowledge, peace and wholeness. We can be restored!

As missionaries we share the message with others that restoration is real, both as a momentous, course-correcting event for all of humanity that God himself ushered in on a beautiful spring morning in 1820, and also as an intimate and personal event that can change the course of our individual hearts, minds and lives if we let it.

You shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in
Isaiah 58:12

Missionaries practiced teaching the Restoration simply but with conviction. They tried to teach all the most important information into 2 minutes! It’s harder than it seems!

Grateful for opportunities to serve with our friends of faith in the community 🍁🍁🍁

One of the many things we love about New York City is the rich diversity of culture, religion, ethnicity and so many other ways we often categorize ourselves. We love being part of different interfaith groups and serving along side them to help in the community.

More than anything we are grateful for our Savior, Jesus Christ, for the restored gospel, the Book of Mormon and for a living prophet. We are grateful for the opportunity to share this knowledge and all the associated blessing with others!

New York, New York City Mission