Little Neck, May 2010

We started visiting a less-active member and his wife. His wife isn't a member and they just had their first baby about 6 months ago. He is really cool but he has been less-active for quite a while. He was a very active member before, been to the temple and everything. His wife is really nice and she has started to feel more comfortable with us and more open to learn. I'm excited for them. He is really cool, but he has to work on sunday, but still comes to the 2nd our or 3rd hour of church if he gets of work in time.

I'm not sure if i told you about Junior yet...We received a media referral that requested a Missionary Visit. We went to the house to contact them and talked with him and his wife. He has been out of jail for about 6 months now. while he was in jail he became friends with another inmate. His friend told him that someday, after he was out of jail, he would send two people to his house from his church. To make a long story short, Elder Reyes and I are those two people. We taught him the first lesson and gave them a book of Mormon. He has had a really rough past, but he has been clean from drugs and alcohol for 6 months now. We have an appointment with them this week. They seem really awesome and he told us he wants to come to church.
On Wednesday of this week we were on our way to service and a member called and asked us if we could go to the hospital to give a member a blessing before his operation. We drove back to the pad and got back into our proselyting clothes and headed over to the hospital. After driving around for 45 minutes looking for a parking spot we found one and eventually got to the hospital room of the member. He is 87 years old and his wife passed away about 4 years ago. He was about to have heart surgery to put in a pace maker defibrillator. We gave him a blessing and talked to him for about and hour and a half. He seemed very nervous, but the blessing went well and I felt like the surgery would go well. We left before he went into surgery. From what I have heard, he is doing very well, we are going to go visit him asap.
On Saturday the Korean Elders had a baptism. The baptism was at the Beach. pretty cool.
We all drove over to the beach in Port Washington and the girl, Sarah, was baptized. It was cool, my first beach baptism. She has a lot of member friends going to Collage with her and she is dating a returned missionary who served in South Korea. Her boyfriend baptized her.
This transfer has really gone by very fast. We are starting week 6 already. It's definitely the fastest transfer of my mission.
Elder Ringwood from the Seventy is coming to visit our mission and talk to the members in NY this week. On Friday we have Zone Conference and a Elder Ringwood Fireside in Woodside, Queens.