Sister Paige Martin. Syracuse, New York Mission

 Helllllloooooo!  Last Email from New York!  It's been an amazing mission out here!  Full of ups and downs.  Full of joys and sorrows.  And so much learning!  For me, and many that I've been able to teach.  I hope I've made a difference in a few lives. I can see that Heavenly Father has made a huge impact on my life through missionary work.   I have so many emotions.  Excited to go home and start college, but sad to leave so many people I love. Either way, I don't have time to think too hard about it. We continue on with the work, right up until the last day I'm here! TUESDAY: Well we met with one our friends Wendy which was fun! She had her friend Jeramiah there who was a talker so we ended up on a few tangents, like we went from justice and mercy to Adam and Eve! And Wendy kept pulling him back!  but it was a very good lesson! We then also met with one of our member families and it went well! We made some good plans and conti...

Hello, Wonderful Week!  Hope it was for you too! TUESDAY: Well Tuesday we had a lot of lessons planned, then they all fell through so instead we did a lot of finding. We stopped by this one house and they were just letting their dogs out so we got to pet two of their dogs who were very nice! One of them stayed a boy further back and made us a bit nervous but the owner was there so it was fine! We ended up having a good conversation with her though she wasn't interested. WEDNESDAY: We met with Sister Wilkinson! And when we went we thought it would just be Sister Wilkinson, then Autumn joined us and we just read to them from The Book of Mormon together! It was awesome! And Autumn was involved and commenting which she hasn't been the past few times we've gone!  We then showed up for youth night but it ended being somewhere else so we talked to the adults instead which was good! We also had a lesson with Jodi which was good! And we talked to someone named William who I had talk...

 Well, July is over, and I come home in August, so that's weird!  I'm ready but not ready at the same time.  Here are my updates: TUESDAY: We did weekly planning! We also had a lot of lessons since but we did have a really good one with our friend Wendy! We talked about Adam and Eve and why it needed to happen! We shared 2 Nephi 2:23-25 and Wendy was like, it makes sense, interesting way to look at it!  We also met with Kara, it's been a second because she's been struggling but it went well! WEDNESDAY: We finished weekly planning and had our last district council of the transfer! We also talked to someone who other missionaries had found, and we thought she didn't know much about our church. But then in our conversation we started to think she might be a member because she seems to know a lot of the terms.  so we set up another time to meet! We then drove up to Batavia for exchanges! I taught someone named the whole plan of salvation faster then I ever have befo...

 Hello Friends and Family! TUESDAY: We had a good meeting with Jodi! We were able to explain why we believe so much in The Book of Mormon, judging by how many books are out there, why this one! We talked about the pure truth that is in it and how it was written! We also talked about how it shows how much we need Jesus Christ and why we need Jesus Christ. We then stopped someone who I had met once last summer but afterwards we were never able to get in contact with her. We'll she was outside and remembered missionaries stopping by before! We were able to set up a time to come back!  We also saw some fireworks, they were some of those ground ones that send a stream of light and poppers into the air, we also got a little bit trapped by them. And then we had a lesson with Diana and it was very interesting, we could still barely understand her and neither could our member, but we sent her The Book of Mormon! WEDNESDAY: We met with Brother Wilkinson, he is an older member in a nursi...