Small Girl In A Big City: Another Week in the Bronx:)

Spiritual Highlights of this week:

We had an amazing lesson with a less active family Wednesday night! It
is a mom and her 2 little boys and one of the little boys is deaf! And
their mom wanted us to teach them how to pray, so we went through the
steps of how to pray with them- and the Spirit was so strong when we
finished and asked them to repeat the steps back to us! And I know I
was being helped in that lesson, I never had to think how to sign
something, it just came to me. The gift of tongues (the gifts of
hands?) is real!:)

Planning day! Planning takes up most of our day, but it is so worth
it! But the spiritual highlight Thursday was the conversation
Sister Quackenbush and I had during our dinner break. It was all
focused on Joseph Smith and the early days of the church, and my
testimony of Joseph Smith was strengthened so much in that
conversation! I know he was a true prophet and I know he restored the
true church back on the earth and because of that, I get to have it in
my life and I get to share it with everyone in New York!:) We are
lucky people to have this gospel!

We had a miracle on Saturday! We were on our way to a lesson when we
realized we were a lot further away than we thought and we weren't
going to make it there on time... So Sister Quackenbush called the
woman we were going to visit and told her we would be about 15 minutes
late, and I looked at her like she was crazy because there was no way
we would get there in 15-20 minutes. But she said she just felt like
she should tell her that, so we started on our way. And we had to take
2 buses and 2 trains to get there and each time we got off one, the
next was waiting right where we needed it! On one of the buses we
even missed our stop so we had to take a different train that was
closer to where we got off, but that one was there waiting too! So
what would have normally taken us 45 minutes to travel, somehow took
us only 20 and we were able to have an amazing lesson. This is God's
work, He is guiding it, and He will make things happen if they need
to!

Conference is 7 weeks people! And Sister Quackenbush and I realized
that in a lesson with a less active on Sunday because we were talking
about following the prophet and we shared a conference talk from
President Monson. And we kind of got a little excited about it... And
the cool part about it was that our excitement rubbed off on them and
they are really excited to watch conference:) This gospel is a happy
thing and if we show that to people, show our excitement for the
gospel, THEY get excited about it too! We don't need to sit and bear a
formal testimony to everyone we see, just letting how much we love the
gospel show in our actions is bearing testimony to those around us:)

Funnies:

One of our recent convert's daughters is hilarious! She is 4 and she
is quite the diva:) We had a lesson with them and she took my iPad and
I now have about 80 selfies of her haha! She also is a performer/model
and she entertained us with a rendition of One Direction's "Gotta Be
You"- it was the best:)

Sister Quackenbush and I have decided to run the stairs in our
apartment building every Saturday for our workout in the morning...
And we got to the top floor and were running up the last set of stairs
up to the fire escape. Did you know there are motion sensor fire
alarms? Neither did I.

I went on a split with Hermana Tesch yesterday and we wanted to do
something nice for our companions, so we decided to get them their
favorite treats! So we went to 2 different stores looking for birthday
cake ice cream and a small package of sour patch kids, and neither had
them! But we walked past the register and realized they had birthday
cake gum... And sour patch kids gum... So we got close enough! (Just
for future reference, birthday cake gum doesn't taste the best haha:))

Have a great week!

Hanna sent these pictures later that day. She got to go out and do "touristy" things for the day! :)