Mission to Manhattan (Blog)

Each Friday morning, Brian and I attend a virtual AJS (Active Job Search) Meeting. We are not the group facilitators, we just attend so that we can keep current on…

Sister Neff, the other full time Employment Services Missionary, was asked to speak in Sacrament Meeting today in the Brooklyn 4th Ward. Brian and I wanted to go and hear…

It was beautiful day, so Brian and I took a walk to the Shakespeare Garden in Central Park. The four-acre space is densely planted with trees, shrubs, flowers, and herbs…

Erica Steiner, the Northeast Regional Employment Specialist, came to New York City from Salt Lake City for meetings this week. She spent two days at the Employment Center with us…

One job seeker I'm helping--we'll call her Francine--had one bad experience with networking. Her ministering brother, when forwarding her resume to someone, did not say very flattering things about her.…

Several new entries from the last six weeks or so. By the way, my weight is staying roughly the same. The walking and no sugar are enough to offset the…

Saturday we attended the evening session of the New York New York YSA Stake Conference on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. Our Mission Leaders were the first speakers. Sister…

Friday morning we attended our weekly “Active Job Seeker” zoom meeting and then jumped on the subway to do two apartment inspections of young missionaries. The first was at the…

A few quotes that resonated. The first on shame. I've been teaching about the harm of shame for years and love how Sister Runia worded principles about it: "Shame is…

We took a 2 1/2 hour boat cruise around Manhattan. We got an up close view of the Statue of Liberty, Yankee Stadium, and the Cloisters. Ty in front of…

One World Trade Center, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the United States, the tallest…

Rooftop of our apartment building BYU vs. Alabama Sweet 16 Basketball game in Newark, NJ

Ty came to visit us in NYC and was able to spend three hours with us at the employment center. He met the other full time employment services missionary, Sister…

Brian and I spoke in the Inwood 1st Ward Sacrament meeting. We were asked to speak about hope using Elder Neil L. Anderson’s talk from the last General Conference, “The…

Yesterday we attended our Zone Conference at the Inwood Church Building. The theme of the conference was "Becoming a Lifelong Disciple of Jesus Christ." The assistants to the Mission Leaders…

Our Senior Missionary monthly potluck was a St. Patrick's Day theme! (It is only for the senior missionary couples that live in our apartment building. Our mission leaders live across…

Brian and Sister Neff and I attended two wards yesterday. The Manhattan 1st Ward and the Riverside Park Ward. Elder Robert and Sister Lorraine Hansen happened to be the speakers…

It was a clear and beautiful day to walk the Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan. The bridge is 1.3 miles long and it took us about 20 minutes to…

We rode the subway to Brooklyn, so that we could walk the Brooklyn Bridge from Brooklyn toward Manhattan. Before doing that, we took a walk along the Brooklyn Heights Promenade's…

When we were training at the MTC (Missionary Training Center) in Provo, we went to lunch with our friends and then leaders of the MTC, Kevin and Sydnee Calderwood. We…