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

 Elder Jensen and I Ballin outside Yankee Stadium a few weeks ago.  Como andan todos!? We had an awesome week here! It feels like just yesterday I was typing out an email; I swear the mission just keeps getting quicker and quicker.   1 year mark where I started the mission! (name on the sign)  We had an awesome split on Tuesday! I got the privilege to go back to my old area in the other side of the Bronx, and it was so great. We got to visit a few people I had taught back when I first got into the mission which was super cool. We had a sweet miracle as well as we were going to look up a person who used to investigate the church. We were walking down the stairs and opened the door for this man who had a hat on that used some selective language 😂 He said thanks and then opened the next door for us, so we started talking a little bit. We got to the corner of the block and he asked us who we were and we began to explain to him what we do as mis...

Hey everyone! Hope you've all had a great week!  This week went by way too quick, and it was filled with so many cool things.  First off, we had an amazing lesson on Friday night. We had contacted a guy on the bus a few weeks back and had never been able to meet up but we finally got an appointment. We went over for only 20 minutes and had one of the most spiritual lessons on the restoration ever. As Elder Jensen said the first vision I had another witness that it really happened, and that because God loves us he has yet again called a prophet to lead and guide the people.  That leads right in to zone conference this past week. We had it up in Scarsdale where the mission home is, and it was the most powerful one I've been to. It was the last one with president Smith, and we focused on Joseph smith's experience. As we talked about the significance of that event where he saw God the father and Jesus christ, I reflected on how it has changed my life and when I re...

 Taco bell last week with ward misión leader from Harlem!!! Como están!?  It's been a super hot and humid week here in the Bronx, but so awesome as well! Our area is bumping right now and the work is so much fun. So in Harlem Elder Cuevas and I had been teaching this guy named Leo who we gave a blessing to and he was healed from the affects of his stroke. He got baptized this past saturday!!! I was so happy to hear that and even more pumped when they sent us a picture of him in all white. That guy is so cool and that experience we shared together has changed my life forever. Yankee Stadium with the roomates!  I was on a split in another area of the Bronx this week with Elder Navarro, and we had some pretty cool stuff happen. One of the coolest things was right before we left the house. We had a goal to find 2 new people to teach, and we had the idea to pray for someone very specific to find. Elder Navarro prayed that we would be able to find someo...

Elder Jensen and I!  Buenos días! We had such a packed week here in the Bronx, but it was so awesome!  So we have to go on splits with elders here like 2 times a week so that we can get through everyone, and it is craziness. But it's pretty awesome because we get to see the whole zone and get to know the other elders super well. On Tuesday we went on a split with our roomates, and I went with Elder Kitchen who is from Caifornia. We had a few lessons fall through and were walking to our next appointment at the church, when this guy walks by and says, "Hey Elders!" He kept walking but I yelled out to him and asked if he had met with missionaries before and came back to tell us that he was actually baptized 3 years ago! He's from Chicago, and ended up moving in with an lds family there then was baptized. We took him on a chapel tour and at the end we were in the chapel and read some scriptures and then said a prayer together. He looked at us after and told ...

Hola!  We had an awesome split this week with the English elders in the East side of the Bronx. I went over to their area and as we went through the night not a ton of people were willing to talk to us. There's a recurring theme on splits that there is always some sort of miracle that happens, but it was already 8:15 and we hadn't seen anything like that. We were walking to go look someone up, and this lady with a dog was walking the other way so we began to talk to her. As we explained our role as missionaries and a scripture with her, she began to weep and told us that she had been looking for peace in her life because she was there taking care of her sick mother. She told us "I wish you were in Connecticut!" and as we told her that there were missionaries there as well she lit up and was so excited for them to pass by. Split Miracle! ✔️ We also began teaching a family this week and they are so awesome. They don't know a ton about God and religion but t...

Hola!  Another week down here in NY and there's tons of changes! We received transfer calls on Saturday night and big news, I got transferred! I'm back in the Bronx baby! It's crazy to be back but now I'm actually on the west side in a place called Kingsbridge. The cool part is that I'm now with elder jensen, who was actually my zone leader in Harlem for 2 cycles. So now we're Zone leaders here in the Bronx, and the areas of Olmstead (my first area) and this area combined so now I'll be able to go back there for splits! So hyped!  We had a full day of lessons on Monday from 10 am to the end of the night and man it was pretty tough to say goodbye to Harlem. That place will always be special to me. The things I saw there and the spirit I constantly felt helped me and changed me in ways I can't put into words.  We had mothers day calls on Sunday and they were awesome! Got to talk to the fam and being able to see them w...

Buenos Días! Getting into the heat here in Harlem and that means tons more people out and about, especially in Central Park!  We had some pretty awesome stuff happen this week. The best part was definitely on Saturday, because we got to go to the temple sealing of the Matarrita Family! It was seriously one of the coolest things ever. Seeing how happy they were to be in the temple together was life changing. That honestly is the goal right there, seeing a family get sealed for time and all eternity while out here in the mission field. It was something I will never forget and definitely will be eternally grateful for them inviting us to come and be a part of it.  That same night, we had an awesome miracle. We had one of our lessons fall through (common occurrence) and so we decided to call up a referral we had gotten from the Bronx. We called and asked him what he was up to and if he would like a chapel tour right then. He said he would call us back in 10, and when he...