7/2/18: Todo nuevo




Hey everyone! 

So we've had the craziest week ever here in the New York City Mission. We got a new Mission President, President Teuscher. We also combined our mission with the south mission that was covering Brooklyn and Queens! Pretty wild! So I received a new companion from that side of the mission and were still up here in the Bronx! 



We had a Meet the President meeting on Saturday and it was great. He was talking to all of us and brought up a cool point that I wanted to expound upon a little bit. He said that we can trust in the Lord very easily, but having Him trust in us is the difficult part. To do so, we need to completely humble ourselves! There's an example of people humbling themselves before God in the 21st chapter of Mosiah. The Nephites in this chapter were being afflicted and burdened by the Lamanites, and were forced to work as if they were animals. They tried fighting back 3 separate times and each time were defeated and many of the Nephites were slain. After the third time, they tried something different. In verse 13 it says,
"And they did humble themselves even to the dust, subjecting themselves to the yoke of bondage, submitting themselves to be smitten, and to be driven to and fro, and burdened, according to the desires of their enemies.
14 And they did humble themselves even in the depths of humility; and they did cry mightily to God; yea, even all the day long did they cry unto their God that he would deliver them out of their afflictions."



Now all of us have times of affliction and burden. We don't always have "enemies" inflicting them upon us, but we still do have problems that occur no matter what we do. As the Nephites, we need to humble ourselves and turn to Him! 



We sometimes ask ourselves, "why?" Why does bad stuff happen to people who are trying to live the right way? In chapter 23 of Mosiah it gives us that exact answer. Verse 21 and 22 read,
"Nevertheless the Lord seeth fit 
to chasten his people; yea, he trieth their patience and their faith. Nevertheless—whosoever putteth his trust in him the same shall be lifted up at the last day."

I have seen so many people out here in New York put all of their trust in the lord. I have seen their lives blessed by doing so. One such example was yesterday, when our recent convert, Mario, received the aaornic priesthood. He has put all of his trust in the Lord and truly humbled himself to become the person he is today. He quit smoking in 3 days, was baptized, and now is returning to his family in Mexico to bring them this wonderful message that has changed his life.




Hope you all have an awesome week! Keep it real! 
Elder Adam Ray Allen
New York City Mission 
700 White Plains Rd Ste 315 Scarsdale, NY 10583

1. World Trade Center last week
2. Mario!
3. Statue of liberty from tallest point in NY!
4. Selfie in the WTC
5. NYC That's My Mission!
6. Governors island and brooklyn. 

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