A couple awesome and a couple crazy things happened
this week!
First of all- we got to go to the TEMPLE!!!!! Ah
sweet relief. Best day of the past 6 months haha! I love the temple so much- the
second I walked in I felt peace and joy and a sense of calm serenity. I wanted
to just fall asleep and spend my whole day in there. I'm glad I got to go with
this zone too, so many of my friends are here! We also got lost trying to get
out of the City....so we ended up walking for an hour trying to find our bus
terminal that would take us out. We walked past some signs that said Times
Square on them, but we didn't go to the Square itself- so close! Haha And then we got in line for a bus and
learned it doesn't take cash, you have to buy tickets, so we rand back
downstairs to buy them, and then came back up to only have a 40 minute wait
until the next bus showed up. Let's just say we all got to know one another
really well! And we got lots of pics of Manhattan.
On Thursday we had the chance to help 2 different
people move. One of them being a nonmember, and the other a less active. We were
able to establish a connection with the nonmember, and she was so grateful for
our help. We were able to uplift her and her boxes lol, I'm a regular comedian,
I know. But anyways, we got our workout in that day, she lived on the 2nd floor!
I was so sore the next couple days.
A funny thing happened Friday morning: we had to run
to WalMart to pick up some medicine for S.Hall, and in the process we bumped
into a less active. We started chatting and then out of NO where I feel an arm
sling around the back of my neck across my shoulders....the less actives face
got SO scary lol! It turned out to just be my pal Billy, and don't worry, he
took his arm off right away. The less active looked at us and was like, "I was
gonna deck him in the face!" Ah. It's nice to know I've got some friends who got
my back if anything ever happens haha! But Billy's so cool! I love that kid a
lot. I want him to come back so bad, it kills me that he's going through such a
rough time right now. He reminds me a lot of some people I know from college,
gosh, I just want to be his friend and I want him to come out west. Super cool
kid.
Saturday we went to Ellis Island and had a blast! I
love going there so much!
Sunday we literally came within a foot of hitting a
deer. And the craziest thing is that we had talked about it 5 minutes before it
actually happened. It was SO scary! I thought for sure I was either going to
kill the deer, or it was going to kill us! It popped up out of the dark, like
daisies! Also, some really creepy things have been happening with our apartment
lately, and let's just say I'm super grateful for the hope and happiness of the
gospel. And I'm also glad nothing worse has happened to me, but it's still been
suuuuuuuper creepy.
I have to go, it's almost 6, but I love you all!
Sorry my email was kinda lame, we did zone sports and even did a sister activity
beforehand. Also, we played gator ball for the first time in a year...so
beautiful!
Stay Jersey Strong.
Love, Sister McAllister
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