Letter #15 - Week 17- The Only Basura Here is You and Vegan Ice

January 14, 2019

Hola Everyone!

It's cooled down a lot here in New York, and you can sure tell by the barren streets. We changed to nine o'clock church here this year and when we went to pick people up yesterday morning for church Hermana Jensen noted that 'The only people you see this early on a cold Sunday morning are workers, church-goers, and breakfast-getters (in their pajamas)'.

We are currently teaching 7 kids between the ages of 7-13. It has required a lot of energy and creativity, but it is so much fun. Children have lots of the Light of Christ in them, and they want so much to do good and be good. This week we painted prayer rocks with two of the kids and made their own stair steps to baptism. The only thing is that there aren't really a lot of rocks, so we found largish chunks of broken concrete for them to paint. That's New York for you. Unfortunately we can't send pictures of our cute kids, but there's a picture of us doing it with them cropped out, haha.

There is plenty of construction where we live, and there is a stretch of wooden boards that we walk by often. This week it recieved a fresh set of graffiti, the favorite of which said 'The only basura here is you'. We tried vegan ice cream this week! It was surprisingly delightful and well worth the experience.

3 Nephi 3:12-16

12 Now behold, this Lachoneus, the governor, was a just man, and could not be frightened by the demands and the threatenings of a robber; therefore he did not hearken to the epistle of Giddianhi, the governor of the robbers, but he did cause that his people should cry unto the Lord for strength against the time that the robbers should come down against them.

13 Yea, he sent a proclamation among all the people, that they should gather together their women, and their children, their flocks and their herds, and all their substance, save it were their land, unto one place.

14 And he caused that fortifications should be built round about them, and the strength thereof should be exceedingly great. And he caused that armies, both of the Nephites and of the Lamanites, or of all them who were numbered among the Nephites, should be placed as guards round about to watch them, and to guard them from the robbers day and night.

15 Yea, he said unto them: As the Lord liveth, except ye repent of all your iniquities, and cry unto the Lord, ye will in nowise be delivered out of the hands of those Gadianton robbers.

16 And so great and marvelous were the words and prophecies of Lachoneus that they did cause fear to come upon all the people; and they did exert themselves in their might to do according to the words of Lachoneus.

¡Les amo!

Hermana Prue