New ... Jersey?

A few weeks back Stephen and I went to stay with Jared and Kote in New Jersey. Part of the reason for our trip was to help Jared out and visit Kote, the other part was to make some money! How you ask would Stephen and I be making this money? By knocking doors! Summer Sales... UG. It was quite the experience... one that Stephen thinks will be very helpful for him in preparation for his mission. He repeatedly told me that it was good for him to get use to talking to total strangers and having doors shut in his face. ... Makes sense right. Although New Jersey is not quite New York.. it is very similar. The first week we were in Jersey City... GHETTO! But like I said... good practice for him. We got into an average of 5 houses every day and over the total of 2 weeks made 5 sales... doesn't sound like many but when the other ppl in the office had been there for three weeks and had yet to get one it sounds a lot better. SO... the moral of the story here is ... Stephen got in a little door to door knocking experience and is still good to go...

Stephen.. Knocking doors

The first day we were there Stephen and I ventured out on our own to find a church meeting to attend. We walked 13 blocks along the Hudson River in Hoboken and hopped on The Path, a train that connects the NYC metro system with NJ Transit. We took The Path to about 14th St & Ave. of the Americas... where we walked 3 blocks to the church. We were so proud of our selves because we found it without to much trouble and were only about 3 minutes late. However upon entering the building we were unable to locate the chapel. When we finally found a person to ask where the chapel was we were told that it was Stake Conference and that the meeting would be ending in about 15 minutes. :( GRRR.... Going to church in the city is SO MUCH EFFORT! I am grateful that the building we go to is like a 30 second drive away.

Looking thoroughly defeated after finding out it was stake conference.

Oh yeah... AND...

Today a lady from the MTC called to find out exactly how much spanish Stephen already knows. The way she did this was by asking him questions in spanish and having him respond to her questions. He told me the questions were along the lines of 'How many people are in your family?' and 'Why do you want to go on a mission?' ... at least that is what he thinks she was asking. Ha.

On a sadder note... the Swine Flu has reached the MTC :( Which means Stephen will get a curbside drop off. No long teary good byes. At least not in Provo.