Hey Homies!

What a week out here on Long Island. We've been busy and it's been super fun! If I hadn't already mentioned this place is nothing like anything I've done on my mission.  Its like I'm new again but wow it's cool to see the other side.  So a great thing we have is our nice whip (or car for mom if she knows those terms) that gets us places on time and to more places which is super good!  Also our ward is so awesome like they are so strong and take care of us so much and really want to be involved in the work.  It's such a blessing and I hope i can be like that when I get home.

Some of the things that are different is all the white not so nice people who we meet, who are 95 percent of the time Catholic!  We had such a busy week but had a lot of time to try and find some people.  Literally there was one street of probably about 15 houses and every person was Catholic that we knocked hahaha, but we scraped a couple return appointments and a guy named Brian seems pretty interested! I'm not in my element anymore in the city having the brothers let me in their houses cause I said "what's good brother".

Quick update on our solid people tho! Silvia and Herman, the two we are teaching are super awesome.  We had an amazing lesson with them on Wednesday and I know they know the church is true.  The spirit is crazy when we are there it's the coolest thing ever and I know it's because of how awesome they are and open to us.  Please pray for them to take action on those feelings.  We also have a ton of less active who we are working with and they are coming back and it's so cool to see that like this dude named Cesaer!  Its a story for a another time but we are seeing success!

Lastly we've been grinding out the service and it's been cool to help out so many people in different ways....it just feels good to be out there doing that.  My continued challenge to all of you is to make someone happy every day.  One thing I've learned on my mission and from my mom and dad is that when you are caught up in helping others be happy and showing Christine love, you are the happiest you will ever be!

Anyways this is super long but ya do what you gotta do. Our mission merges this week and we get a new president so that should be cool to see the direction we take.  There's definitely always room for improvement!  I hope you all are doing awesome and have a great week!  Go say what's up to my dude Rocky.  lLove you take care and find joy in the journey!

Elder Imlay 

This homie named Reggie in our ward who is 82.....he's like such a bro and took us out for prime rib!

Hey squad.

Well it was a quick week since it's only been since last Wednesday but the work rolled on and it was a good week. I hope all is well back home and I love to hear some updates!  I can't believe kaler graduated atta baby.....I had bets against you so way a prove me wrong....Just kidding!  Anyway quick shout out to the fine 9 love you guys and especially Brad and Blake.....Happy 20th birthday to both of you (Brad a few days ago and Blake in a couple)!

So this week we had just one of our investigators at church, Marsen!  He's part of a part-member family and it's looking cool for him. He's a little shy and awkward but I'm loosening him up.  He's such a cool guy and progressing!  We also had 2 cool new investigators come this week from referrals! We taught a dude named Lawrence who had a room with all mirrors in it kinda weird, but the guy was way awesome and interested in reading the BoM. We showed him the connection from John 10:16 to 3rd Nephi and he's on his way.  We are seeing him again tomorrow. Also taught a guy named John who is a pastor that said he's been seeing the Book of Mormon most of his life and it was time to find out for himself what it is.  We shortly explained the restoration and it clicked and he's now studying! God definitely is preparing John and it's cool to see it.

Lastly quick update on the fam I told you about last week.  I can't spell the last name so we will leave it at that. We had an amazing lesson with them reading from 1 Nephi 3 and how God will prepare a way for them to follow him and to read the scriptures and come to church. The spirit was super strong and I have a testimony that when you are being yourself and you use your testimony and share it with others, it changes lives. I know these seems super cliche but I challenge y'all to share your testimony with someone this week, even if it's family!

Anyway I love you All! Nothing too exciting other than that. My companion is super awesome...I love elder Bennion.   It's the last week of transfers so I will let you know what happens next Week!  I am sending a couple pics. Saturday we had a BBQ and we were the grillers hahaha, which was super dope! Anyway have a great week. Go warriors!

Elder Imlay

That pasta was a Koby special!