Elder Adam Ray Allen's adventures in the New York, New York City Mission!!

Elder Cuevas, Me and Elder Smith  Buenos días mis estimados amigos! It's been a legit week! So much has been happening and the work is flying out here, same with the time. It's crazy that I'll only be training Elder Cuevas for a few more weeks! We had some really cool stuff actually happen yesterday, when we were walking through the city. We've found that just walking and street contacting people here in Harlem is one of the best ways to find those who are ready for the gospel. We were on a trip split with Elder Smith (I'll talk more about him later) and we walked by these two Mexicans who acted like they had seen us before. We went up and started talking to them and ended up sharing the Book of Mormon with them. They shared how Jesus has helped them and we asked them why they think He atoned for them. It was so cool to be able to feel the love that He has for them and for everyone in the world. Me, Alejandro, and Elder Cuevas We were wa...

Hola mis amigos!  Another solid week here on the east side of Harlem down! We have an exciting week coming up as well! Two people are going to be baptized this Saturday that we have been teaching so I will be sure to throw in some pictures of them!  So first, just wanted to start off with a quick story that my mom probably shouldn't read 😂 So we went to our members house yesterday who lives like 10 blocks down from us on 110th st on the east side. He was telling us how like 2 days ago he was coming home and this guy runs up by the laundromat on the corner and just starts poppin off shooting at people! He hit some other guy in the leg twice but luckily that was the extent of it. But apparently the news crews and police tried to interview our member so that was pretty legit! And literally that happened in broad daylight like 10 streets down from our apartment. Crazy! Now back to spiritual stuff sorry 😂 So we had English class this last thursd...

Me and Elder Smith! Buenos Dias!  This has been an awesome week, but the past two days have been the BEST DAYS OF MY MISSION. I seriously have just loved it so much! So on Monday we went to Leadership meeting and then District Meeting and we talked alot about making this week the best week of our missions. In order to do that, we need to make each day the best day of our missions! I showed a video that the district that had some questions on the end. They were, "Is Jesús Christ proud of me?" and, "What would he say to me?"  Right after District Meeting we had a split with the zone leaders so I went to Elder Smiths area. We've been serving together for almost 6 months now and this guy is the coolest ever. We are seriously such good friends and we were talking about how we're going to hang out all the time once we're both in Provo. He heads home this cycle :( But, we went out to work and seriously everyone we stopped and talked to was eit...

 Zone conference Pic with my boy Elder Cuevas Hey everyone! New transfer here in Harlem, and about to hit 6 months out here in Manhattan! Crazy how time flies.   Zone conference Pic with elder Faison and William Smith! So to start off just want to talk about someone we are teaching named Leo. He is so awesome and had been in our records for a while and we had never been able to meet with him. 2 transfers ago we were finally able to meet up and have an awesome lesson on the restoration. Ever since then this guy has been progressing like crazy and loves the book of Mormon so much! We send him assignments to read every other day and he calls us later and tells us what he has learned and any questions that he has. He also came to conference this past weekend and kept saying after to us "Ellos saben demaciado!" or "They know so much!" It was really cool to see him recognize our prophets as the mouthpieces of God!   Conference bfast that I obviousl...