Letter #67 - Week 70: Sunsets at Sunset Park

January 20, 2020







Hola Everyone!

Breaking News: After 19 days, the Brooklyn Hermanas finding famine finally finished with Rony.

Finding Rony was a beautiful mistake. He got our number from a coworker who told him about English Class. We had also gotten a referral request for a Book of Mormon, and I got them mixed up and asked Rony if he wanted to do a video call. He agreed and we told him about what we do as missionaries and he said he would like to grow his relationship with God and learn more.

Spanish Vocab Word of the Week: concuño

The word for a brother/sister-in-law's brother or sister or spouse

We were having ward correlation and our Ward Mission Leader is learning English and so he was asking us what concuño was in English. None of us knew what it was, so he illustrated it this way:

"*serious, straight face* So if we were married *referring to Hermana Haws and himself, whose wife recently had a baby* and they were married *referring to me and Elder Rasmussen* and we were brothers *Hispanic man and white, red head Utah boy*, what would that make you two *reffering to nosotras*

At this point I'm dying laughing because of how silly the situation is, and to make it better the Elders Quorum President walks in the middle of it confused, and to set it out straight, marries us off to the Elders to make sense of it all. We decided there isn't a word for it, and we don't know how the Elders felt about it, but it's one of the more entertaining things that has happened to us in a while.

I went to a meeting in Staten Island this week, making it official that I've been in every part of the mission (the 5 boroughs, Long Island, Upstate New York, and Connecticut), except for Bermuda.


We made fancy pizza, so that was fun.

Being a missionary is good. Life is good and it's been such a wonderful experience in such a wonderful city. There is a long list of reasons that I think I came to this mission at this time in this language, and I'm sure the actual list is a lot longer. I'm grateful for all the opportunities that Heavenly Father has given me, and there is so much more ahead.

Alma 22:1-4

1 Now, as Ammon was thus teaching the people of Lamoni continually, we will return to the account of Aaron and his brethren; for after he departed from the land of Middoni he was led by the Spirit to the land of Nephi, even to the house of the king which was over all the land save it were the land of Ishmael; and he was the father of Lamoni.

2 And it came to pass that he went in unto him into the king’s palace, with his brethren, and bowed himself before the king, and said unto him: Behold, O king, we are the brethren of Ammon, whom thou hast delivered out of prison.

3 And now, O king, if thou wilt spare our lives, we will be thy servants. And the king said unto them: Arise, for I will grant unto you your lives, and I will not suffer that ye shall be my servants; but I will insist that ye shall administer unto me; for I have been somewhat troubled in mind because of the generosity and the greatness of the words of thy brother Ammon; and I desire to know the cause why he has not come up out of Middoni with thee.

4 And Aaron said unto the king: Behold, the Spirit of the Lord has called him another way; he has gone to the land of Ishmael, to teach the people of Lamoni.

¡Os Amo!

-Hermana Prue

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