Hello everybody back home! (: Can you believe I've been gone
as long as I have?! I can't either, I will hit my 5 moth mark (almost 1/4 of
the way on my mission) on the 23rd of this month. SOOO crazy!! Time just flies,
I don't even understand how or why it does like it does, but it just... does I
guess haha.
Just want to say first, thanks to everyone who wrote me this
past week, it really means a lot. When I open my email once a week and see
names of those I know and love, it just brings a huge happiness and a knowledge
that I have people that are looking out for me, which is awesome.
So I hope everyone had a good week! My week has been good,
so so so crazy and is continually getting crazier, but it's awesome. We had our
only white ward member, and 1 of 2 in our ward to serve a mission, Hermano Jon
T. leave the Yonkers Spanish ward for Colorado. It was a sad day, in the
which we ate A LOT of food. And, speaking of food, Elder P. and I tried
this place on South Broadway called, "La Pupusa Loca" which is
Salvadorean food, and it was amazing. I decided to go out on a limb and try the
buffet. Smartest decision ever. For $7 I get unlimited food and drink for 2
hours, and it's all delicious. Whenever we don't have a dinner appointment we
are for sure headed there haha! And last comment about food. This past memorial
day, we went to Hermana Ruth's house to have a lesson, and on the way over
there we just started seeing a ton of people outside just having BBQ's, on
every street corner. Lo and behold, Hermana Ruth was having one as well, and we
just ate a ton and just chatted and didn't really even have a lesson. It was a
nice treat for memorial day.
So, now for the craziest part of the week. Either today, or
tomorrow we have to take the car in to Scarsdale to get it fixed and they say
it'll be in the shop for like a week and a half. HOLY FLIP. We're all just
going to be walking to our appointments in Yonkers just sweating real good. I
don't even know how we're goiong to walk to everything, we have so many packed
days, it's nutty.
Speaking of having a lot of stuff going on, we really do.
We've got a guy named Edwin Magdalena who came to us saying that he knows the
church is true and that he wants to be baptized and he is actually the
nephew of one of the sisters in the ward. It's pretty awesome I'm excited,
we're going to start working with him to reach that goal really soon. Also, we
have a Mario G., who's been inactive for forever saying he wants to return
to the church. We're working with him really hard as well and clearing up
anything he needs to. And we have a martin and an Andy that are reaching that
point where we will ask them to be baptized. And we also have a lot of past
investigator work that we're doing , it's all just great stuff and I'm really
excited.
Now even amongst all that I had the amazing privilege to go
to a Yankee's game this past P-Day and lemme tell ya, it was awesome. I never
thought I'd be in NY on the mission, let alone going to a Yankee's game it's sweet.
Well, that's all for now. The church is true, like, all the
way, and I want to let you all know I'm doing just fine in ghetto Yonkers.
With love and highest regards,
Elder Mitchell Buckley
