Hello Hello my friends from a distant land!
Well Elder Faulkner is out of chinatown! He got sent up to Connecticut in elder Nears old area for his last two cycles! So now finally Elder Mok can unpack his bag! The poor guy has had to live out of his suitcase for the last three weeks! And now there are enough beds in the apartment as well, will definitely make things nicer! Elder Fan, my last comp, was transferred as well. He is going to serve in Inwood! I laughed so hard when I heard that! You would too if you knew where Inwood is and who Elder Fan is! It will be great for him! He has been in chinatown the whole time that I have been on my mission so the guy for sure needed some time out. It will be weird though I will miss them both so much.
This was really a great week! We found a lot of new investigators! We had one of our investigators bring two friends into lessons that were very interested! It was really cool because not only do we have two new people, but also this will be good for the girl that brought them along. She has never really been that interested. She is actually the sister of the very first baptism that I had in chinatown. We taught them together but one of them moved to Washington, so we never got to teach her everything that we wanted to. But when I came back from Connecticut, she came back to New York, so we started to meet with her again. She is still not very interested but I think having two friends that are interested might help her open up a little bit. It is so amazing how heavenly father works.
This week I got to go on a split with one of the Spanish elders in our zone. He is such a good guy, I really learned a lot from him. I always love going on these splits because you get to learn so much about people. The thing that really stuck out to me on our split was the charity that this elder had. When we were eating dinner, a young boy walked up to us in the restaurant and started trying to sell us candy. He was selling two airheads for five dollars. Things like this happen all the time in New York and you just kind of train yourself to not think much of it. Maybe sometimes if you have some spare change, you can do something about the situation but if not you will not think twice. Elder Adams leaned down and started talking with this little kid. He asked him what he was saving up for, what his name was, and ETC. Then at the end of the conversation he reached into his wallet, pulled out a crisp five-dollar bill and placed it into the hand of this little kid. This elder then placed one of his two air heads in front of me, then went about talking. I thought this was such a great example of being Christ like. A lot of time we are so caught up in all of the things that we have to do, that we do not slow and look around us for those people that are in need.
My new companion has an incredible knowledge of the scriptures! I think I told you last time that he is always reading and it has really paid off for him. He loves the story of Job in the Old Testament, so I asked him to share it with one of our recent converts. I really liked the way that he taught the story! I have heard this story before but I did not know all of the details. He talked about when Job says that after his trials he will be made gold. He then went on to compare us to a piece of gold that has many impurities inside. And how after they are put into a furnace all of the impurities will go away. The furnace can represent our trials. I am sure the piece of gold is not having a fun time when it is on fire. It is probably screaming and complaining saying that he cannot go on any longer. But then when he comes out the other side of the furnace he looks back and sees that his "impurities" or weaknesses are gone, he smiles and realizes that he was in the lords hands that whole time. I thought that was a really cool lesson!
Over all this was a very good week… I feel like I learned a lot! Our companionship has some big blessings coming its way and I am so excited! Things have been going so well. Even though it is really hard sometimes, whenever I look back I can always see why.
This is elder Barton still kickin live from NYC, signing off...
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