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

Hola!  Man this was an awesome week. We had zone conferences throughout the mission, and we got the chance to go and give a training at each one on fulfilling our purpose.  I always learn a ton from prepping these different trainings we have been giving, but this one was pretty impactful. It made me realize just how blessed we are to be serving, not only as missionaries, but in NYC! We shared many different things, but one of my favorite parts was from my main man Dan Clark. If you haven't listened to his talk "The four steps on the stairway to heaven", I highly recommend it, because it is straight fuego.  He makes a point that, "So many people spend their lives hoping to be happy, but because they only hope, they never really are."  Basically, go do something to be happy! What are you going to do about it?  That was pretty much the main message of what we shared, with a cool video we put together at the end that had some s...

  Well the week after transfers is a busy one, and this past one was filled with plenty of things to keep us running around.  Besides all of the logistical stuff that we had to get figured out, we had an awesome night with the departing missionaries at the mission home. This is one of my favorite parts of transfers. We basically eat dinner with all those missionaries going home, President and Sister Teuscher, and the senior couples and then have a bomb testimony meeting up in the living room of the Mission Home in Scarsdale. Cool fact, the mission home we use is the same one that Elder Rasband of the Quorum of the 12 used when he was a mission president here as well! For the closing hymn we sang "God Be With You Til We Meet Again," and the water works began. It was one of the coolest moments I've had since being up here in the office, and it's crazy to me that I'll be bearing my testimony in that meeting in just a few weeks. (Trying to draw these wee...

   A  picture with basically my other mother in Brentwood! We stopped by on our way out to Long Island and she made us some baleadas and pupusas, she's the best.  Buenos Dias! Well, this week was filled with computers, planning, driving, and a headache the whole time because transfers are tomorrow, but it was still awesome. Not tons of cool stories for ya this time, but I will say, my studies this past week were fuego, definitely some of the best I have had! I've been listening to a lot of BYU devotionals recently and also studying chronologically from the Book of Mormon, and it's been sweet. This past week I was in Helaman, and in chapter 10, Nephi is walking back to his home after preaching to the wicked Nephites. As he is pondering what the Lord had done for him, this council comes, "I will bless thee forever; and I will make thee mighty in word and in deed, in faith and in works, for thou shalt not ask that which is contrary t...