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

District! Buen día!  💣 Week here in Kingsbridge! Transfers are coming up this next week :(  First off, funny story. I was street contacting a man last week and as we were having an awesome spiritual conversation this big Bronx lady walks up and asks me to give her  $5 . I told her I didn't have any (Because we literally are broke) and she started FREAKING OUT. She just looked me in the eyes eventually and yelled, "Feed me!". I chuckled and she left but kept yelling like she was at a rodeo or something. Good thing is, the guy was awesome and is over with the other missionaries now!! :) The past few days have been some of the quickest of my life, but also some of the most valuable. I've learned a lot about respecting people's agency, and also helping them see the true and eternal benefits of the gospel. One such example was this weekend. We had a split with the assistants, and when we got back to our area, almost every lesson we had set up c...

 "finders" in harlem Good morning! We had a sweet week this week in the Bronx! Just an okay car On Saturday, I had the chance to go back to Harlem! We were doing some finding training down there, and so I went on 4 splits for 8 hours of Bus and Train contacting. We talked to probably over a hundred and fifty people, and had some really cool things happen and one of them was during my third split with a guy named mr. Mower. He is from Alabama and lived up here in New York around 30 years, and as I walked on to the bus, I saw that the seat next to him was open. I asked to sit there and he said for sure, and then I saw that this man had the DOPEST shorts I've ever seen a grandparent wear. I'll be talking to my grandparents soon about adopting his style. We started talking about how he actually bought them on accident and he ended up asking me what I'm doing here. By the end of our time together (5 min) we had his phone number and address, and ha...

Como les va! This was another solid week, and I'm still loving the time I've had in the Bronx. It's been 14 months in the city and I honestly could serve the rest of my mission here and be content.  We had a sweet lesson on Friday with one of the people that we are teaching. She hasn't been keeping a ton of commitments, specifically one about praying. We invited her multiple times to offer a prayer to know of the validity of the book of mormon, and she told us that she hadn't. As we got to talking, she ended up telling us that she already knew it was true. The book, the church, baptism; she already had received her answer. We set a baptismal date for the 6th of October. She has been going through some rough stuff, so we shared a few scriptures with her from Alma that I will expound on shortly.  First off, my studies have been life changing recently and I love it! I've set a goal to have personal study for the rest of my life cause it is li...

So these shoes are done :( Que pasa calabasas! Our P-day got switched to today just for this week, so that`s why I didnt send anything yesterday (sorry momma).  District It`s been quite an eventful week here in the Bronx, and one of my favorites of the mission so far. We`ve been having tons of lessons and lots of finding opportunities, and had 8 of the people we are teaching come to church on sunday. This area is bumpin!  Selfie with pro ball player from DR Got this kids contact info after riding his hoverboard We had a lesson this week with our boy Yanniel. He is 20 and from the domincan republic, and super cool. He had met the sisters on the bus and they had given him a book of mormon to read, and when we went by to go teach him he was never home so we ended up just dropping his record. We stopped by randomly about 2 weeks ago, and he was home! He was so hyped to see us, and said that he had been reading almost daily in the Book of Mormon. ...

 Senior couple, Brother and Sister Carter, that used to be my parents stake president when they lived in Kennewick, back in the 90's!  Small world!  We had a sweet leadership meeting on Friday with all the leaders in the mission and their companions, so there were around 100 there. We had the whole meeting focused on finding people, and we had like 8 trainings given by different missionaries. I gave one on train contacting, THE best form of talking to people 😉 it's been funny to see the difference in my perspective on talking to everyone. I remember at the beginning I literally didn't want to talk to anyone because it seemed so awkward, and now I legit don't even think twice about it 😂  We had a sweet miracle this week as well! About 3 weeks ago we walked by this guy in a park next to the church and felt to turn around and talk to him. We were able to give him a chapel tour right then, and have met with him twice a week since. He's moving ...