Dear Family,
This weekend has been so fun! This weekend was the Brooklyn Stake Conference. Because our stake is too big to fit in any building in the stake we had meet in the grand ball room of the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott. Walking in I felt like a princess. There were several beautiful chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and the chairs provided were elegant and comfortable. Our Stake President, Nelson, encouraged everyone to do missionary work. In the adult session of stake conference he had all the bishops call up each missionary by name and encouraged each of the ward members to get to know each of our names so that they would feel more comfortable introducing their friends and family to us. This inspired me to learn more of the names of the members of our ward on Staten Island. One of the Elders in our district is really great at remembering names of people and has seen a lot of success because of his ability to converse with each of them by name. There is something special associated with names.
Oh another really awesome thing... Bishop Glick, the Bishop of the Staten Island 1st ward, the ward in which I am serving, is in this video https://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/jesus-heals-a-man-born-blind?lang=eng . He is the Pharisee speaking at 4:10! Look for him, he's pretty awesome!
Transfers are this week. Sister Howard and I are both staying here in Staten Island. She will be the companion that I have had for the longest amount of time! We are so excited to see what this transfer holds and we are so excited that we will be staying together for Christmas! One of our Zone Leaders is leaving and we are all really sad about it because he was our comic relief! We are excited to see what will happen across the mission and to watch the hand of the Lord once again sweep across the New York, New York South mission. This transfer is a little sad because a lot of my friends that I have served with in Bay Shore and here are going home :(. It is a sad thing to see them go but I know in my heart that they are going to do amazing things! I can't wait to see what the future holds for each of them.
More exciting news after hours and hours of entering, we have finished converting all of our paper information to electronic!!! We are so happy to get that out of the way so that we can be out looking up those who have fallen by the way side! This took a long time but we are excited because we found a lot of names of people we haven't seen before! Hopefully we will be able to meet with them and help them to experience true happiness!
I have to say that I love Christmas here in New York. The decorations here are out of this world! People with the tiniest of yards have gigantic blow up figurines of Christmas items such as santas, nativity scenes, snoopy on a motorcycle, snowmen, Whiney the Poo, reindeer, and during Hanukkah, huge white bears holding dradels! Lights are everywhere and it feels like a winter wonderland going through some of the towns! people are hustling around trying to get everything in order before the big day! It snowed a little last night just in time for the Christmas devotional and I felt that it was the perfect ending to the day!
Thank you so much for sending my coat and some delicious hot chocolate by-the-way! They came just in time and I am so warm! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! Also we received Christmas presents from Elder Eggleston's mom! It was so cute! She wrote us each individual notes and sent stockings, candy canes, rolo's, and wrapped it all so beautifully!
Ok I'd better go! I love you all so much! Thanks again for all the letters, prayers and love!
Love,
Sister Hamblin :)
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