New Year

Hello family, Happy New Year! This last week was pretty chill and

awesome, of course we had Christmas and everything. We went to a

temple missionary couples house, all 6 missionaries in our ward went

to their apartment. They are like on the 12th floor and they have a

nice little apartment. One thing they said to us is its amazing to be

a senior missionary because you get to choose your companion. I

thought that was funny, anyways they gave us all a $10 Wendy's gift

card! And they are just way to sweet, and they talked to us and asked

questions about our families and home and stuff. We were kind of mad,

people from our district went ice skating that day, even though we

weren't supposed to. But we will receive those extra blessings.

Friday we were supposed to weekly plan but we had lessons and

basketball with some Homies from Costco. And dinner oh yeah I also

split with one of the zone leaders, Elder Duvall.

Saturday was good, I got to lead the area and lead all the lessons.

Elder Duvall kind of just added input but allowed me to teach it all

and ask questions. What really stinks about Friday and Saturday is the

lack of companionship study we were able to have because of how busy

we have become. We had a wonderful APF which is an Area Proselyting

Focus, which is where we choose one of the areas of a companionships

and tract or do something amazing to get new people interested. It's

really awesome especially with the He is the Gift video initiative.

There was a funny experience we had while on the split, we were on the

bus and this guy is like talking to this girl that's in college. He is

asking all these deep questions and totally hitting on her. He said he

was 57 years old and she was just awkwardly laughing. Oh and later on

we were doing a less active look up, and we tried ringing ourselves in

but this guy came up and said I can let you in if you give me a

donation, because of things that have been going there, then he

changed his story saying he got stabbed in the jugular, and how he is

lucky to be alive, then he was finally just like I'm just messing with

you guys and let us in. It was pretty sketchy, but yeah, we walked a

ton that day... Like a mile probably.

Nothing crazy happened on Sunday but Monday was pretty cool. I used to

hate Monday's back home but now they are another day. We had our

district meeting, and Elder Gamble which is in our Zone leaves this

week, so we had our meeting and took some pictures with him, which I

will send. We were lucky enough to have dinner with our bishop and we

asked if anyone cuts hair, and turns out their is someone in our ward!

I also went on another split with Elder Raine from our district, and

we walked 3 miles that day. 20 blocks=1 mile.

We tracted on Tuesday, ran into a Hispanic lady, some girls, and an

atheist dude. They are teaching the atheist dude, which is totally

amazing. I also got to speak Spanish a bit to the Hispanic lady, just

simple phrases. The atheist dude wants to study religion. It seems

like all atheists study religion for some reason, but his name was

Emir. That was a pretty good night.

Yeah yesterday was New Year's Eve, and we had to be in by 7 and of

course our fridge decides to make our night interesting, making weird

noises. We got to call Santiago to come fix it, he is the repair man

dude person. He was talking about weird things in the bible. It was

super weird, it's cold here in New York and yesterday I wore a sweater

and long sleeve white shirt, and I was freezing during walking to

appointments and our zone APF.

Happy New Years, it was really fun talking to you family, and I will

be doing some shopping soon. We are almost done with our first cycle!

Next Wednesday is transfers! And a roommate is training in our

apartment so I won't be a baby anymore! I am so excited! Then in 6

more weeks I will have facebook, and be able to post spiritual stuff!

I'm ready!

Talk to you next week, oh yeah and New Year's Day in New York is so

empty because of all the people staying up and partying and the people

who have a hang over. Haha well peace out everyone!

Love,

Elder Casper